Category: Anti-Racism
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What is BDS?
Palestinian human rights lawyer, Jonathan Kuttab, explains the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign. Watch video »
A Critique of the Alt-Right’s ‘Cultural Marxism’: A Conspiracy Theory for Inter-sectional Hate
In this video, Dr. Tanner Mirrlees explores the history, content and political uses of the alt-right’s “cultural Marxist” conspiracy theory to contextualize Jordan Peterson’s slippery usage of the phrases “neo-Marxism,” “postmodern Marxism,” and sometimes, “cultural Marxism.” Watch video »
Why Canadian Prisoners Are Participating in the U.S. Prison Strike
Much of the U.S. prison system’s distinguishing features — massive racial disparities, the exploitation of prisoners’ labour by private firms, overcrowding, brutality, and much more — are the same in Canada. Keep reading »
Palestine Solidarity and Freedom of Speech w/ William Robinson
Episode 5: Expressing solidarity with Palestine and criticizing the state of Israel can be a challenge. To explore this challenge, we talk to William Robinson about his recent book We Will Not be Silenced. Listen to audio »
Trudeau Government Acknowledges Nazi Genocide Against Roma
More then 50 people of all ages joined in Toronto August 2, 2018, in an international day of remembrance and recognition of the Romani Holocaust (Porajmos) in Europe. They heard … Keep reading »
Sneak Peak: The Sex Ed Controversy in Ontario w/ Sadia Khan
Toronto-based community organizer Sadia Khan reflects on her experience as a public-school teacher and activist to underline the importance of updating the sex-ed curriculum. Listen to audio »
Why did minorities vote for Doug Ford? w/ Sadia Khan
Episode 4: Why would minorities support a hard-right politician? We talk to Toronto-based community organizer Sadia Khan to find out. Listen to audio »
Africa’s Black Star: The Rise and Fall of Kwame Nkrumah
The film covers Nkrumah’s phenomenal rise to power, Africa’s independence movement, his successes and losses, the internal and external enemies, the 1966 coup and the continuation of his legacy in Ghana and Africa. Watch video »
The Lessons of the World Cup for our Victim Culture
That we are living in an age of victim culture is well-exemplified by an article recently published by the CBC suggesting that minorities “feel apprehensive about heading into the wild … Keep reading »
Israel’s New Basic Law and the Making of the Apartheid State
The Socialist Project (SP) joins Israeli, Palestinian, and international civil society organizations in condemning the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” which recently passed the … Keep reading »
Border Capitalism, Disrupted
Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone Through to the back of the cremation grounds where the fields of sugarcane begin, Ko Soe and I coast our bicycles to … Keep reading »
Hassan Diab: Nothing Less Than a Public Inquiry Will Do
He has been compared to Alfred Dreyfus, the iconic 19th-century French victim of false accusation and racism. The entire spectrum of the Canadian press has covered his unfolding story since … Keep reading »