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 …
Identity
IRR submission to Chakrabarti Inquiry into Labour and antisemitism
1. Introduction: The intense publicity in the run-up to the formation of this independent inquiry ensures that its findings will also be subject to intense public scrutiny. Despite the seriousness …
Freedom of Speech is Not an Absolute (interview)
Freedom of speech is not an absolute – an interview Yohan Shanmugaratnam: What is your analysis of the controversy surrounding the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad? What do you regard …
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 …
La trahison des clercs*
*Edited version of a talk given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 18 May 1995. Global capitalism has been let loose on the world. Racism and poverty are locked …
Fighting our fundamentalisms
Fighting our fundamentalisms: an interview with A. Sivanandan At a time when people are becoming entrenched in their particularistic politics, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism ( CA RF) asked …
Letter to God
This was part of a special Christmas supplement of ‘Letters to God’ commissioned by the New Statesman in 1991. Dear God, I have had trouble with you ever since I …
The heart is where the battle is (interview)
An interview by Quintin Hoare, Malcolm Imrie and Jenny Bourne for the book Communities of Resistance: black struggles for socialism (Verso 1990) How did British politics and culture first …
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 …
RAT and the degradation of black struggle
Published in Race & Class 26/4, Spring 1985 (original footnotes are within text) There is a class war going on within Marxism as to who – in the period of …