Militant civil rights campaigns such as those which took place in the 1960's in America with leaders such as Martin Luther King succeeded in gaining basic civil rights for black and in forcing the dismantling of the worst forms of institutional racism. It involved mass civil disobedience and voter registration campaigns. However, the leaders of the movement were middle class with no concept of the need for working class unity. Although many very worthwhile reforms were won, racism remained very mush part of American society. Another more radical strategy associated with Malcolm X was that of black nationalism and black separatism.
Racism is defined as endemic to white so like that of the unemployed in the fifties.
The Irish National Organisiation of the Unemployed is entirely dominated by Union hacks, poverty pimps, CV tripers and time servers. We should not be entirely pessemistic. We know that things can change quick, fast and in a hurry. Versus the X case and the climbdown it caused is ample proof of this. We can't afford to throw up our hands and give up on activism.