American Citizens for Justice forms after the Vincent Chin case

The Bradford Twelve were acquitted after a trial arising from preparations to defend their community against an anticipated racist attack. Their defence campaign argued that the unused petrol bombs...

Chinese American Vincent Chin died four days after being beaten in the Detroit area. His attackers connected him with resentment over Japanese competition in the automobile industry. The killing and...

Ruth First was killed by a letter bomb at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. The South African security operation targeted a researcher and activist whose work connected apartheid, labour...

Around two thousand people marched in Brisbane for Aboriginal land rights ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Activists used international attention on the sporting event to expose dispossession and...

At a Transvaal Anti-South African Indian Council conference in Johannesburg, Allan Boesak called for a united front against government constitutional proposals. The initiative opposed reforms that...

The United Democratic Front was launched at Rocklands in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. It brought together organizations opposing apartheid's constitutional reforms and racial divisions. Community...

A twentieth-anniversary mobilization returned to Washington under demands for jobs, peace and freedom. Civil-rights and labour participants carried banners linking the unfinished promises of the...

Young people from the Lyon suburb of Les Minguettes and antiracist allies began a march from Marseille. They protested racist killings, expulsions and unequal access to rights. The march challenged...

The March for Equality and Against Racism reached Paris, where a large demonstration welcomed participants. A delegation was received at the Élysée Palace. The arrival made young people from...

Mary Manning refused to handle South African produce at a Dunnes Stores checkout in Dublin, following her union's boycott instruction. Suspension and solidarity action began a prolonged strike by a...