Anti-Racism

I have contributed this short article to Black History Month activities where I work.

Poems of the Harlem Renaissance
- recommended by Janine Booth

Janine addresses the protest in support of Osime Brown outside the Home Office on Friday 4 September - includes the poems Free Osime Brown and Bearing Down.

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• published in Solidarity 564

British courts’ application of ‘joint enterprise’ is unjust, and criminalises black and working-class youth.

Published in Solidarity 562:

Published in Solidarity 562:

"When the looting starts,
the shooting starts."

But when did the executing start?
When did the racist recruiting start?

And when will the prosecuting start?

That will be when the suits will start
elocuting and refuting parts,
disputing and diluting parts

Computing charts
and polluting hearts

This is the full text of the interview. A shortened version was published in Solidarity 555.

Watch the video of this interview here.

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I am Rhoda Dakar. I've been a professional musician for 40 years.

Janine Booth interviews musician Rhoda Dakar, who talks about Two-Tone, policing, the centrality of class and much much more! Read the full text of the interview here.

Rhoda was in The Bodysnatchers and The Special AKA, and performed in "Free Nelson Mandela"

Rhoda Dakar's latest single is Stand Together.