Race & Class radio interviews Phil Scraton on the Hillsborough disaster and the struggle for justice on the subject of his article for the October 2013 issue of Race & Class, 'The legacy of Hillsborough: liberating truth, challenging power'.

Race & Class Phil Scraton interview

Race & Class radio - Chris Searle discusses the revolutionary poet Peter Blackman.

Race & Class radio - Chris Searle

Harmit Athwal and Jon Burnett discuss the IRR's recent report 'Investigated or ignored?' on race related deaths since the 1999 Macpherson Report. (From on the July-Sept 2014 issue of R&C.)

Race & Class radio  - Investigated or ignored?

R&C Radio - Kashmir conflict

Eddie Bruce-Jones speaks about police brutality against non-white Germans, examining a series of controversial deaths in custody and arguing for the need to identify patterns of institutional racism. 

German policing at the intersection

Victoria Brittain considers the legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa's struggle against the ecological destruction of his homelands wrought by Shell.

Ken Saro-Wiwa: a hero for our times

Robbie McVeigh argues that, with demographic change in Northern Ireland, racist violence has become one of the principal manifestations of unionist unease. The state's reaction to racism has been to tolerate a level of acceptable violence. People of colour and migrant workers in NI, he argues, have been 'living the peace process in reverse'.

Racist violence and British nationalism in Northern Ireland

Maryam Griffin examines transportation politics and the Freedom Rides in Palestine in the context of a strategic shift in which Palestinian resistance has de-prioritised leader-centered negotiations in favour of grassroots mobilisation that directly appeals to international civil society.

Freedom rides in Palestine

Race & Class editorial collective member Arun Kundnani talks to journalist Anand Gopal and filmmaker Madiha Tahir about US empire in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan under Trump, and the US Left’s response.

US empire under Trump

With the inauguration of president Biden, the mainstream media are anxious to convince us that it’s business as usual in the US. The assault on the capitol building on 6 January does not  necessarily expose the faultlines running through a deeply divided country, but with the inauguration of president Biden, the mainstream media are anxious to convince us that it’s business as usual in the US. The assault on the capitol building on 6 January does not  necessarily expose the faultlines running through a deeply divided country, but Nancy Murray and Avery Gordon, two prominent political analysts of the US scene, question the narrative of  ‘healing’ that Biden promises. QAnon conspiracy theorists and more worryingly, military-trained armed militia have made it clear that, like Trump, they do not accept the legitimacy of last year’s election. The chaos convulsing the United States looks set to continue.

Nancy Murray is an Editorial Committee member of Race & Class and for 25 years was director of education at the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Avery Gordon is an Editorial Committee member of Race & Class. Her most recent book is The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Fordham University Press)

This conversation was recorded on Monday 18th January, two days before the inauguration of US president Joe Biden.

Is Biden wrong to say this is NOT America?

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