Tag: racism

Sitting on a balcony in Marseille

Arena Online

Grazyna Zajdow

7 Jul 2023

The police shooting has reminded the French of the basic racist nature of their society that is so entrenched and pervasive it seems reductive to blame the problem on racist police - it isn’t racist police, it is a society that is divided in every way by race.

The ‘China Threat’: Can we escape the historical legacy of anti-Chinese racism?

Marilyn Lake

29 Jun 2023

The ‘Chinese threat narrative’, as it has recently been labelled, was constitutive of Australian nationhood.

Subverting the Grievances of Anti-Racism and the attack on Diane Abbott MP

Arena Online

Gavin Lewis

15 Jun 2023

The evils of the slavery and colonialism gravy-train—of which apartheid Israel is the only latest manifestation—are absented from history and the Western racist-imperialist agenda can be spun as a giant white saviour narrative.

Post-WWII Film and the Rejection of Western Imperialism

Arena Online

Gavin Lewis

5 Apr 2023

Here the strict, demarcations, brutalities and abuses of a military prison, represent the structures of western class and race oppression – three years after Lawrence of Arabia the racism depicted, is even more overt.

White Sculpture, White Race?

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Augustus Firestone

23 Sep 2022

Today, neo-Nazis’s use of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture seems to be ignorant of the fact that the sculpture they are appropriating depicted the very ethnicities they hate. As most ancient sculpture was painted, those ethnicities were once plain to see.

Time Travel Through Unfinished Business

Arena Quarterly no. 8

Kathleen Mary Fallon

Dec 2021

A story.

Editorial, Arena no. 6: Borders and Grounded Community

Arena Quarterly no. 6

Guy Rundle

Jun 2021

…there is the absolute obligation to our citizens that there is somewhere on earth whose care for them is absolute.

Stand in Solidarity with Ken Loach: against the Israel lobby’s smear campaign

Arena Online

Gavin Lewis

4 Mar 2021

… in February 2021 the Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford, Judith Buchanan, apologised to Jewish students for offering a speaking invitation to Loach, who is one of its alumni, a veteran film-maker, a globally respected human rights activist, and a champion of socialist human solidarity.

‘The Aboriginal Gulag’: The Northern Territory’s Criminal Legal System

Arena Online

John B. Lawrence SC

22 Oct 2020

It is no longer an overworked, under-resourced and at times chaotic legal system. It is now not fit for purpose and has become a depraved jailing machine consuming Aboriginal men, women and children at an ever-increasing rate.

Erasing Culture: The Attack on Critical Education

Arena Online

Jasmin Pfefferkorn

15 Oct 2020

Continuing education and suitable funding for educational initiatives are crucial because racism is not only historical—it is both contemporary and dynamic.

The Old Social Virus: Racism and Social Distancing of Ethnic Minorities

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Hariz Halilovich, Tuba Boz, Masoud Kianpour, Robert Nelson

21 Jul 2020

Eventually, we trust, the virulence of the pandemic will recede, and the social-distancing measures associated with it will ease too. But what will happen to those disadvantaged groups whose public life is threatened not by an easily transferable, invisible freak virus but rather the older tenacious social contagion called racism?

Abolishing the police is the first step to a new society

Arena Online

Karin Zhu

30 Jun 2020

The police are responsible for stopping previous movements to reimagine or change the world. To imagine a new society—which is more important than ever as climate change looms—we need to first remove the barrier that is stopping movements from gaining momentum.