Freedom of Speech is Not an Absolute (interview)
Freedom of speech is not an absolute – an interview Yohan Shanmugaratnam: What is your analysis of the controversy surrounding the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad? What do you regard …
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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 …
Cedric Robinson tribute
Tribute in special issue of Race & Class (guest editor Darryl Thomas) October 2005. History, philosophy, rhetoric are claimed to be the very foundations of western scholarship: from them …
Asian Youth Movements: here to stay, here to fight
Racism never stands still. It is never of a piece. It changes its shape, its inscape, its function with changes in the economic system, the social forces that the system …
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 …
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 …
What’s the point of experience?
Interview with A. Sivanandan and Jenny Bourne, conducted by Alice Nutter, for The Magazine of No Value “I am always guided by a famous thing that Camus said,” explains Sivanandan …
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 …
Catching History on the Wing: A. Sivanandan as Activist, Teacher and Rebel
Lou Kushnick and Paul Grant interviewers for Against the Odds:scholars who challenged racism in the 20th century My grandfather was one of the smallest of smallholders in the arid …
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 …