Struggle for black housing
A speech to the Federation of Black Housing Associations Ninth annual conference in October 1992 (published in Black Housing, Oct/Nov 1992) The theme of this conference is about developing ourselves …
Black Struggle
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Taking stock
Taking Stock – a speech to a conference organised by Newham Monitoring Project in 1988 You have heard what Ian Macdonald had to say about the investigation in Burnage, and …
The Making of the Black Working Class (book review)
The making of the black working class in Britain By RON RAMDIN (Aldershot, Gower, 1987). 626pp. £35.00 Any post-war history of black people in Britain has got to be a …
Introduction: ‘Policing Against Black People’
‘…the public image of the policeman has changed from that of the citizen in uniform to the paramilitary riot controller behind whom lurks the shadow of the soldier.’ Professor Terence …