{"id":1201,"date":"2021-06-12T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2025-01-04T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:52:54","slug":"the-communist-party-of-great-britain-and-anti-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"The Communist Party of Great Britain and Anti-Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Speaker <strong>Dr Evan Smith<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>2pm, 18th September.<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9VIMXEgUtMg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><em>British Communism and the Politics of Race<\/em>\u00a0explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organizations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The book examines the balancing act that the Communist Party negotiated in its anti-racist work, between making appeals to the labour movement to get involved in the fight against racism and working with Britain&#8217;s ethnic minority communities, who often felt let down by the trade unions and the Labour Party. Transitioning from a class-based outlook to an embrace of the new social movements of the 1960s\u201370s, the CPGB played an important role in the anti-racist struggle, but by the 1980s, it was eclipsed by more radical and diverse activist organizations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZAsdumuqTIqGNKYTBI8Ye-HUxVgQ_qqHoYl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZAsdumuqTIqGNKYTBI8Ye-HUxVgQ_qqHoYl<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Dr Evan Smith 2pm, 18th September. British Communism and the Politics of Race\u00a0explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members-publications","category-past-shs-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}