The Market State vs The Good Society
The market state is antithetical to the good society. The market has always been with us. But what has changed in the last three decades is the relationship between the …
Type: Key Work
Poverty is the new black
Racism has always been an instrument of discrimination. And discrimination has always been a tool of exploitation. Racism, in that sense, has always been rooted in the economic compulsions of …
Fighting our fundamentalisms
Fighting our fundamentalisms: an interview with A. Sivanandan At a time when people are becoming entrenched in their particularistic politics, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism ( CA RF) asked …
Racism: the road from Germany
An expanded version of a talk given by A. Sivanandan to the PDS ‘Europäischer Kongress gegen Rassismus’, Berlin, 13-15 November 1992. Race & Class (34/3, January 1993) So much I …
Our Passports on our Faces: Racism and Refugees
Address to the British Refugee Council 7 November 1991 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am only too conscious that I am speaking to an audience who are probably …
All that melts into air is solid: the hokum of New Times
Published in Race & Class 31/3, January 1990 (original footnotes appear here within the text) Dedicated to those friends with whom, out of a different loyalty, I must now …
Communities of Resistance
Speech to Communities of Resistance Conference, Hackney Town Hall, 11 November 1989. The wall has fallen. The Eastern bloc is dissolving into the West. There’s freedom for Hungarians, Czechoslovakians, Poles, …
New circuits of imperialism
First published in Race & Class, 30/4, April 1989 Imperialism is still the highest stage of capitalism – only, the circuits of imperialism have changed with the changes wrought …
RAT and the degradation of black struggle
Published in Race & Class 26/4, Spring 1985 (original footnotes are within text) There is a class war going on within Marxism as to who – in the period of …
Challenging racism: strategies for the ’80s
This is a revised version of a talk given on 12 March 1983 at the Greater London Council Ethnic Minorities Unit Consultation on Challenging Racism. First published in Race & …