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 …
Anti-colonialism
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Eqbal Ahmad – obituary
Eqbal was a multitude of men — scholar, activist, political analyst, teacher, diplomat, visionary — but, above all, a foot-soldier in the army of peoples everywhere. Others have written about …