The Holiday Inn Express in Greenock has been swarmed by protestors and police on Wednesday evening in the wake of Monday's stabbing attack in North Belfast.

Racist right-wing activist and pardoned January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang was arrested in Dallas on Tuesday night for making “terroristic threats.” His bail is set at $1 million. Lang was visiting Texas to stir up racial animus around the trial of Karmelo Anthony, a Black teenager who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing a white teenager at a track meet last year.

“They…

"Two innocent people were attacked purely because of the colour of their skin."

Jack McKee, 74, pushed through crowds of people throwing petrol bombs and setting homes on fire to reach two women trapped inside (Picture: Metro)

Women ‘still in their care workers’ uniform’ were dragged to safety by Belfast heroes after their home was targeted by far-right rioters.

Jack McKee, 74, pushed through crowds of people throwing petrol bombs and setting homes on fire to reach two…

In 2018, David Tyson Jr., an African American, sued Richardson Independent School District in Texas for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In the district’s 164-year history, Tyson was the only person of color ever to serve on the school board. Yet, at the time of the lawsuit, white students made up less than 30 percent of the district while Black and Hispanic students made up nearly…

The Trump administration is attacking the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—which helps maintain federal laws against workplace discrimination—for apparently violating the Constitution.

The Justice Department on Tuesday accused the EEOC of pressuring “employers to engage in race-based decisionmaking” and enforcing guidelines that “contemplate liability based on disparate effects alone,…

The swimwear brand says the employee responsible for the alleged email was immediately terminated and that the message does not

Ike White’s “Changin’ Times” spans soul, rock, pop and jazz. On its 50th anniversary, it’s finally getting its due.

In a perplexing speech Saturday commemorating the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy, France, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for European leaders to combat what he implied was a second, modern D-Day—in which European countries were being “stormed by different dangerous ideologies” accompanied by “boats and men.” The original D-Day was the Allied […]

A federal judge in Rhode Island struck down a slew of President Trump’s policies halting immigration processing and freezing out asylum-seekers, ruling that a federal agency was motivated by “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”

Following a deadly attack on a National Guard member in Washington, D.C., last November, Trump ordered an asylum…

John Doyle's claims are as confusing as they are inflammatory and untrue.

Last weekend’s UKIP anti-immigration rally in Blackpool was a flop, but the left-wing counter-protest was nothing to write home about either. Meanwhile, Reform and Restore student societies are kicking up a fuss in York universities.

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50 years ago today, 18 year-old Gurdip Singh Chaggar was murdered in a racist attack in Southall west London. The act lit a fuse for the predominantly Asian youth who created the Southall Youth Movement, which went on to fight the fascist National Front off their streets.

The post Here to fight, here to stay: The Southall Youth Movement appeared first on The Communist.

Vickrum Digwa stabbed Henry to death then falsely told police he was the victim of a racist attack

The tragic murder of Henry Nowak has shocked millions. The callous treatment of Nowak by the police has been weaponised by racist demagogues like Farage, Lowe, and Musk, to whip up division and unrest, and distract blame away from the failures of the whole system.

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The violence comes against the wishes of the victim, who said they don't want Henry Nowak's death to sow "division, hatred or tension"

Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years after being convicted of the Southampton student murder of Henry Nowak, 18, who was stabbed to death on Belmont Road in December 2025

A black and white drawing of a debate in the U.S. Senate in the middle of the 19th century, where Henry Clay is speaking.

These may be confusing and difficult times in America, but I consider myself pretty lucky. Most weekends, I get to hang out with an extraordinary group of people from around the country and see things their way. These folks are complicated, wise, and funny—and they’ve all been through a lot. There is Sammy from rural […]

A man who witnessed the shooting at the homeless shelter known as Harrison House testified the dispute started with an argument over music.

Louisiana Republicans passed a new congressional map Friday that eliminates the majority-Black district that was at the center of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the Voting Rights Act.

In a state where one in three residents are Black, the new map redraws the state’s 6th congressional district, which is currently represented by Black Democratic Representative Cleo Fields. Republicans are…

The narrative around Cynthia became so toxic that I had to tune out - I couldn't stomach the cesspits of vitriol.

A small office inside the State Department has quietly been chipping away, with little to no oversight, to enact Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda.

The Office of Remigration was created about a year ago, but it has managed to stay out of the limelight ever since. It has not appeared in the State Department’s social media feeds, and no mention of it can be found on the State Department’s…

President Trump is raising the U.S. refugee admission limit by 10,000 people—but only for white South Africans.

A signed presidential determination from May 21 obtained by Reuters declared that the U.S. will be giving white South Africans, who are mostly still benefiting from the afterlife of the apartheid system, special treatment so that they can escape the “incitement of racially motivated…

A Kentucky student denounced homophobia and racism during a speech at his 8th-grade graduation. The words rapidly went viral as he left behind the campus he called an oppressive environment.****

“Apparently, this school doesn’t know better than to give an angry gay kid a microphone,” Daniel Mattingly said in a short speech at Stuart Academy in Louisville.

The school had asked him to give a…

The incident at the beach followed an 'earlier verbal altercation'

The fallout from _Louisiana v. Callais_ has been nothing short of tragic, with terrible echoes of the past. As Reconstruction ended in 1877, states in the South either killed, expelled, or used other means to force out Black legislators. Over the last two weeks, freed from abiding by Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Southern states have rushed to redraw their district lines to ensure that…

Investigators say the accused later clarified the phrase was directed at Black people during the heated encounter. A New Jersey

Demonstrators gathered outside Ireland’s parliament after video of Yves Sakila’s final moments circulated online and fueled calls for accountability and

Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced legislation Thursday that critics say would push federally supported civics and history education deeper into the culture wars by restricting discussions of transgender identity, systemic racism, and diversity in American classrooms.

The bill, H.R. 8705, known as the “Civics and History Advancement to Restore…