Tag Archives: racism

Editorial of the Socialist 1336 The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London on 13 September sounds a warning that the workers’ movement must urgently respond to. Police estimate that 110,000 took to the streets in the largest-ever demonstration called by far-right racist Tommy Robinson. Those that attended,  who went far beyond the still small numbers in the organised far right, ...

After over a week of horrific violent racist and Islamophobic attacks, huge numbers took to the streets in counter-protests. Millions of Black and Asian people, especially Muslims, have been living in fear. That is the desired effect of the hardcore far-right agitators stoking violence and intimidation. In Cardiff and Swansea over 500 have turned out to anti-racism protests last weekend. ...

By Mark Evans, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party On 8 July, a protest was called in Llanelli by the far-right group Patriotic Alternative (PA), supposedly for ‘boots on the ground’. Only a handful of PA members turned up. Socialist Party members played a central role in the counter protest against PA, organised by Swansea Trades Council, alongside Carmarthenshire County Unison ...

On Saturday March 25th, hundreds of anti-fascist protesters gathered in Llantwit Major, opposing the far-right Patriotic Alternative who were spreading poisonous propaganda against Ukrainian refugees being housed in the area and had organised a ‘rally’ in Llantwit. Anti-fascists were made up of seasoned campaigners as well as workers from the community who didn’t want racist propaganda being spread around their ...

By Joe Fathallah The BBC Wales documentary ‘Death of Two Black Men: Police in the Spotlight’, shines a light on the horrific deaths of Mohamud Hassan and Mouayed Bashir, immediately after contact with South Wales Police. Mohamud Hassan, of Somali origin, was arrested at his home in Cardiff on 8 January 2021, and released without charge the following morning. His ...

By John Williams ‘A Killing in Tiger Bay’ is an in-depth, three-part documentary telling the story of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British criminal history – ‘the Cardiff Three’. These three men were falsely convicted of murder, although initially five men were charged, with two also spending time in jail. Lynette White was a Grangetown resident who ...

By Cammilla Mngaza Siyanda Mngaza is currently serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for defending herself against a racially motivated hate crime. Siyanda worked for the South Wales Fire Service in human resources – recruiting fire fighters. She had never been in trouble before. In May 2019, at a campsite in Brecon she was attacked, without provocation, by a family group ...

Br Ross Saunders Protesters marched in Cardiff on Sunday as part the wave of international solidarity for Jacob Blake which swept around the world after Blake was shot in the back by Police in Wisconsin on the 23rd August.The protest also highlighted the case of Mercy Baguma, a Ugandan asylum seeker who was found dead in Glasgow next to her baby, ...

By Iby Yassin The global Black Lives Matter movement has empowered many BAME people to speak up about the struggles they face, and to seek equality in a system that disadvantages us. One of the most basic outcomes of equality is representation – to see yourself and those that share your skin colour and culture in all aspects of public ...

The protests against police violence and structural racism across the US, also condemned similar injustices in the U.K