Tribute to John Berger
It would be silly of me to introduce John to you because you all know him in one or another of his manifestations – storyteller, essayist, novelist, scriptwriter, poet, critic, …
Class struggle
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
European Racism
Originally published as the Introduction to ‘Europe:the wages of racism’, a special issue of Race & Class edited by Liz Fekete in July 1997. Racism today is not so …
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 …