Review:Race and Class

Racism remains one of the main features of the advanced capitalist societies. It is institutionalised in the sytematic discrimination which black people experience in jobs, housing and the education system, and the harassment they suffer at the hands of police and immigration authorities.

Modern racism, with its rhetoric of cultural difference and usually tacit appeal to older notions of natural inferiority, in any case arises in the conditions of industrial capitalism. Capitalism in its fully developed form rests on the exploitation of free wage labour.

Fighting racism, however, depends on understanding its causes. This is essential if the hold of racism on white workers is to be broken. Racism, as we have seen appeals to white workers because it offers an imaginary solution to the real problems like poverty, unemplyoment,exploitation,they confront.

Therefore, the direct struggle against racism must be linked to agitation around social and economic issues which shows that racism isn´t the solution, that the class struggle uniting workers of all colours and ethnic backgrounds, offers the only effective way of improving their lives.

Socialist Revolution

Revolutionary Socialist are committed to building a non-racial party of black and white workers which understands that racism can only be finally removed through the overthrow of capitalist system.

To be continued……..

Onyango Okeyo.