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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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 …

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Fighting Racism: the way forward

  Talk  to a conference organised by the Newham Monitoring Project, November  1994 around the case of the ‘Tower Hamlets  9’. 1. Once again, like in the mid-’70s, our communities …

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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 …

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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 …

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Orlando Letelier

Speech at public meeting ‘Letelier challenges Pinochet from the Grave’ November 1976 I met Orlando for the first time earlier this year when he walked into the offices of the …

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