Tribute to John Berger
It would be silly of me to introduce John to you because you all know him in one or another of his manifestations – storyteller, essayist, novelist, scriptwriter, poet, critic, …
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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 …
IRR submission to Chakrabarti Inquiry into Labour and antisemitism
1. Introduction: The intense publicity in the run-up to the formation of this independent inquiry ensures that its findings will also be subject to intense public scrutiny. Despite the seriousness …
On Lived Theory – an interview
Interview with AVERY F. GORDON Avery Gordon: You and the staff took over the Institute of Race Relations in 1972 after a protracted struggle with its Council of Management. First …
Tribute to Jan Carew
Once in a while, a man or a woman comes along who epitomises the best of the worst of times – and shines out like a beacon to signal us …
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 …
Gaza (a poem)
That’s where the library stood And here the infant school, On that tree she carved his name Ahmed Hussain Al-Rashid Rasul. That’s now his liver on the tree And his …
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 …
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. …
Foreword to IRR report: ‘They are children too’
There is no such thing as your children and my children. Children are children are children. They are the measure of our possibilities; how we treat them is the measure …