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“There is a strategic impasse on the left on the issue of race”

Mamadou Ba — 2025-11-05T10:30:09Z

“There must be a willingness not to instrumentalise struggles. The left has become accustomed to looking at the movement as an obstacle. The anti-racist movement is one of the essential devices that the left has to combat inequality. The anti-racist movement must not be an appendage, but a force.” Mamadou Ba, leader of SOS Racismo.

- Features / Portugal, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Racism and Islamophobia

“Don't ask me to be calm because I'm tired of your requests. How long will you keep saying I'm the same as those who want to kill me?”

Mamadou Ba — 2020-08-19T07:39:24Z

“How long will they accuse me of being responsible for the racism I'm a victim of? How long will they keep saying I'm the same as those who rape me and want to kill me? How long will they keep asking me to wait while they kill or threaten to kill a part of me? Until when? (...) The only decency I expect from those who insist on denying or relativizing racism is that they have the intelligence and courage to kill racism before it kills us.”

- IV547 - August 2020 / Portugal, Far Right, Anti-racism and Islamophobia

Migration: break the cycle of death, restore dignity and defend freedom of movement

Mamadou Ba — 2016-04-01T07:42:42Z

This report was made to the February/March 2016 meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The list of demands with which it ends were incorporated into the statement adopted at that meeting available here Internationalism from below against Fortress Europe.

- IV495 - April 2016 / Europe, Migration, European Union, Anti-racism and Islamophobia