Black America
An Introduction to ‘Black America:the street and the campus’ a special issue of Race & Class ( 35/1, July 1993) Black America is in ferment. There is rebellion afoot. But, …
Class struggle
Millwall and After
First published in New Statesman. 15 October 1993. On 13 September 1993, the fascist British National Party ( BNP) won its first ever election victory, when Derek Beackon was elected …
A vision for Labour?
This piece was offered to and turned down by the Guardian, on the basis that it was too elegiac of the Labour Party. A vision for Labour? The Left …
Racism: the road from Germany
An expanded version of a talk given by A. Sivanandan to the PDS ‘Europäischer Kongress gegen Rassismus’, Berlin, 13-15 November 1992. Race & Class (34/3, January 1993) So much I …
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, …
Englishman (Chris Searle tribute)
Introduction to ‘Chris Searle: the great includer’ a special issue of Race & Class, 51/2, October 2009. When I was a wild colonial boy growing up in Ceylon and attending …
Racism 1992
UK commentary Racism 1992 A shorter version of this article appeared in New Statesman & Society (4 November 1988). The full article was published in Race & Class, 30/3, January …
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 …
Britain’s Gulags
First published in New Socialist (November 1985) also in Race & Class 27/3, Winter 1986. Racism is as English as Shakespeare and as old as slavery – and the British …
Staying Power (book review)
Staying Power: the history of black people in Britain By PETER FRYER (London, Pluto Press, 1984). 632 pp. £9.95 paper If black people insist that no white man or woman …