Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka

It’s difficult to talk dispassionately about what is going on in my country, when the horror of what the government is doing to a civilian Tamil population – already shelled …

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Casualties of Globalism

First published in CARF, 57 August-September 2000, later in Race & Class as ‘Refugees from globalism’ (42/3, January 2001.)   The high priests of globalisation meeting at the International Monetary …

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European Racism

Originally published as the Introduction to  ‘Europe:the wages of racism’, a special issue of Race & Class edited by Liz Fekete in July 1997.   Racism today is not so …

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Millwall and After

First published in New Statesman. 15 October 1993. On 13 September 1993, the fascist British National Party ( BNP) won its first ever election victory, when Derek Beackon was elected …

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A vision for Labour?

This piece was offered to and turned down by the Guardian, on the basis that it was too elegiac of the Labour Party.   A vision for Labour? The Left …

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Xenophobia doesn’t exist

Xenophobia There is no such thing as xenophobia. Xenophobia is a western construct which came into being during the capitalist phase of ‘western civilisation’. You fear  strangers  because you are …

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Letter to God

This was part of a special Christmas supplement of ‘Letters to God’ commissioned by the  New Statesman in 1991. Dear God, I have had trouble with you ever since I …

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