The colour line is the poverty line
The Colour Line is the Poverty Line Based on an Interview for ‘Hate thy neighbour: the dividing lines of race and culture‘ in the Mindfield Series edited by Susan Greenberg …
Anti-colonialism
Black and Third World – One Struggle?
Speech delivered at Sheffield University at a conference on imperialism in October 1995 This is most encouraging – a full house – on race and class and black struggle? A …
Africa be my metaphor
And, for a time, it looked as though – with Nkrumah and Nyrere, Cabral and Machel and Mondlane, Lumumba and Sankara – it looked as though that dream of a …
Basil Davidson tribute
A tribute to Basil Davidson in a special issue of Race & Class ( 36/2,October 1994) When Race & Class was breech-birthed from Race, in the palace revolution that …
Hilary Arnott Tribute
Speech at memorial for Hilary Arnott at Friends House, NW1 on 31 January 1995 (Race & Class 36/4, April 1995) Thank you for letting me remember Hilary with you. …
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 …
Xenophobia doesn’t exist
Xenophobia There is no such thing as xenophobia. Xenophobia is a western construct which came into being during the capitalist phase of ‘western civilisation’. You fear strangers because you are …
Our Passports on our Faces: Racism and Refugees
Address to the British Refugee Council 7 November 1991 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am only too conscious that I am speaking to an audience who are probably …
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 …
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, …