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 …
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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, …
Englishman (Chris Searle tribute)
Introduction to ‘Chris Searle: the great includer’ a special issue of Race & Class, 51/2, October 2009. When I was a wild colonial boy growing up in Ceylon and attending …
The heart is where the battle is (interview)
An interview by Quintin Hoare, Malcolm Imrie and Jenny Bourne for the book Communities of Resistance: black struggles for socialism (Verso 1990) How did British politics and culture first …
The enigma of the colonised: reflections on Naipaul’s arrival
A review article of ‘The Enigma of arrival’ by V.S. Naipaul in Race & Class 32/1 July 1990 I never liked Naipaul. I could never read him without a sense …
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 …
Left, Right and Burnage: no such thing as anti-racist ideology
First published in New Statesman, 27 May 1988. Later in Race &Class 30/1, July 1988 On 17 September 1986, 13-year-old Ahmed Ullah was stabbed to death at Burnage High School, …
Racism 1992
UK commentary Racism 1992 A shorter version of this article appeared in New Statesman & Society (4 November 1988). The full article was published in Race & Class, 30/3, January …