Beyond State Watching
This is the text of a talk given to the ‘Statewatching the new Europe’ Conference, London, 27 March 1993. State-watching Europe is a futile business – unless you are going …
Type: Speech
The Black politics of health
Address by A. Sivanandan to the King’s Fund’s Consultation for Black health workers following the NHS and Community Care Act (1990), which began the dismantling of the National Health Service. …
Struggle for black housing
A speech to the Federation of Black Housing Associations Ninth annual conference in October 1992 (published in Black Housing, Oct/Nov 1992) The theme of this conference is about developing ourselves …
500 years since Columbus
Address to international conference in Liverpool, 15 August 1992 1. Here, in this city, today, this city built on the slave trade, on the blood and bones of black …
Refounding the Left
Talk to Socialist Society AGM 21.3.1992 Refounding the Left. Is there a role for a new party? I am not sure that we are not asking the wrong question here. …
A Black Perspective on the War
Speech given at Black People Against the War in the Gulf meeting , 5 April 1991, Race & Class (32/4 April 1991) This is not our war, this is …
Institutionalised racism on a pan-European basis
Editorial to ‘Europe: variations on a theme of racism’ special issue of Race & Class ( 32/3 January 1991) ‘The problem for an open Europe’, predicted this journal in …
Address to 10th national congress of AZAPO
The Speech to the Azanian People’s Organisation Congress ‘Defend the people, resist neo-colonialism – advance socialism’, 22 December 1990, Langa, Cape Town; Race & Class, 33/2, October 1991) Comrades, friends, …
Taking stock
Taking Stock – a speech to a conference organised by Newham Monitoring Project in 1988 You have heard what Ian Macdonald had to say about the investigation in Burnage, and …
Towards a black librarianship
Talk to African-Caribbean Library Association July 1987 My librarianship is a little bit rusty. Or rather it is the craft of my trade that has got rusty. I am no …