Socialist Groups Hijack BLM Demonstration in Dundee: Response to Dundee Young Socialists.

Sound Thief responds to Dundee Young Socialists regarding the incidents at last week’s BLM demonstration in Dundee.

On Thuggery – A Brief History of a Racialised Term

When Boris Johnson condemned Black Lives Matter protesters as ‘thugs’ recently, he may or may have not fully realised the racialised significance of what he was doing. Thug – as a term – has a long colonial history which, ironically, further paints the Prime Minister as having a somewhat romanticised view of colonialism.

Socialist Groups Hijack BLM Demonstration in Dundee

It is true: an outcome of Sunday’s demonstration is that a young black woman was shouted down by an angry white man and patronised by a group of angry white ‘socialist’ men. There is no aspect of this that is not a complete failure and the opposite of what the demonstration of solidarity with people of colour is supposed to achieve

What The Fuck Just Happened?

“Regardless of what might happen, there is no question of what is happening: the American Empire is crumbling, its capitalist economy is in complete freefall, and people are fighting the security apparatus’ most brutal spawn to a grinding standstill.”