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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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