Israel, US campuses, and the fragility of the coloniser

No-one in their right mind turns to the United States for moral leadership. Even so, the degradation of US public culture over recent weeks has been something to behold. The Biden administration is fully participating in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, sending every weapon Israel asks for and deploying military force to deter other countries from coming to the aid…

Islamophobia in the US is rooted in its unconditional support for Israel

Tracing the rise of Islamophobia, from the 1973 oil embargo to Trump’s election to Hamas’s attack, Arun Kundnani argues that support for Israel is central. But Americans are finally starting to see through the smokescreen of anti-Muslim propaganda. Anti-Muslim racism rests on a simple truth: to justify US foreign policy in the Middle East – in particular,…

Placards wait ahead of an anti-racism march in London, in which speakers expressed anger at the Illegal Migration Bill.

The hidden class politics of the UK’s immigration debate

Liberals preach cultural tolerance to the working classes while inflicting death-by-policy on migrants Government ministers warned of an influx of migrants overwhelming public services. Newspaper headlines declared war on imagined armies of welfare cheats invading Britain through easily penetrated borders. Plans to build accommodation centres for asylum seekers were abandoned in the face of local…

New book! What is Antiracism?

What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism

“Arun Kundnani demonstrates how racism and capitalism are indivisible parts of one global system. And unless we can see the whole, we’ll never know how to fight.” – Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams “Splendid” with “an amazing sweep.” – Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag This scintillating intellectual and political history provides…

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Jomo Kwame Sundaram: Will there be another debt crisis? Current economic challenges facing the Global South

What are the economic challenges facing the Global South post-pandemic? What role have global financial institutions like the World Bank and the IMF played in worsening the economic situation for poorer countries? And what economic alternatives might exist? In this interview, Jomo Kwame Sundaram shines a light on the effects that decades of liberalisation policy…

Sulakshana Nandi

Sulakshana Nandi: How the Indian government’s pandemic response caused more deaths

Why did the pandemic spiral out of control in India? Why did some states see many more people dying than others? The central government’s authoritarian measures, badly planned and highly restrictive lockdowns, structural inequality and many forms of discrimination drastically increased the death toll and suffering of the Indian people, argues Sulakshana Nandi in this…