Catching History on the Wing (a speech)
Speech to conference of IRR 1 November 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of its (original) formation. History tells us where we came from and where we are at. …
Type: Speech
Race, Terror and Civil Society
White racial superiority is back on the agenda – in the guise, this time, not of a super-race but of a super-nation, a super-people, a chosen people on a mission …
Racism in the Age of Globalisation – Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
Racism in the Age of Globalisation October 29, 2004 — Comment Speaking at the Third Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture on 28 October 2004 organised by the National Union of Journalist’s …
Reclaiming the struggle
Reclaiming the struggle One year after the publication of the influential Macpherson Report into the police’s handling of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence and the wider lessons …
Communications of Resistance
Speech given at the ‘Voices Across Frontiers’ conference of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) in May 1996 I don’t know what I am doing here. I know …
Black and Third World – One Struggle?
Speech delivered at Sheffield University at a conference on imperialism in October 1995 This is most encouraging – a full house – on race and class and black struggle? A …
La trahison des clercs*
*Edited version of a talk given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 18 May 1995. Global capitalism has been let loose on the world. Racism and poverty are locked …
Africa be my metaphor
And, for a time, it looked as though – with Nkrumah and Nyrere, Cabral and Machel and Mondlane, Lumumba and Sankara – it looked as though that dream of a …
Fighting Racism: the way forward
Talk to a conference organised by the Newham Monitoring Project, November 1994 around the case of the ‘Tower Hamlets 9’. 1. Once again, like in the mid-’70s, our communities …
The Role of the Educator in Social Work
Speech to social workers’ conference in 1993 When Shama asked me to come and speak to you here today, my first reaction was to take flight. What could I …