Racial Violence and the Brexit State

Foreword to IRR report ‘Racial violence and the Brexit state’ Whatever else Brexit means or does not mean; it certainly means racism. Born of the fortuitous circumstances, lacking programme or …

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Deadly Silence

One death is a death too many. Foreword to Deadly Silence- IRR 2004   One death is a death too many. Too many of us* have died without cause, since …

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Australia

Introduction  to ‘Aboriginal Australia: land, law and culture’ a special issue of Race & Class edited by  Peter Poynton ( 35/4, April 1994) Australia is two societies: one multicultural, the …

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Black America

An Introduction to ‘Black America:the street and the campus’ a special issue of Race & Class ( 35/1, July 1993) Black America is in ferment. There is rebellion afoot. But, …

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Racism 1992

UK commentary Racism 1992  A shorter version of this article appeared in New Statesman & Society (4 November 1988). The full article was published in Race & Class, 30/3, January …

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Lowest of the Low

An Introduction to Lowest of the Low by Gunter Wallraff (Methuen 1988) There is a massive sea-change going on within society as it moves from an industrial to a technological …

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Kenya Editorial

The editorial to ‘Kenya: the politics of repression’, a special issue of Race & Class 24/3, Winter 1983.   Wherever imperialism sets foot there’s devastation, immiseration, deracination – and revolt. …

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Palestine – editorial

Editorial to ‘The US and the Arab World’, a special issue of Race & Class, 17/3, Winter 1976.   Unlike the Jewish and Black diasporas before it, the Palestinian diaspora …

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