Gaza (a poem)

That’s where the library stood And here the infant school, On that tree she carved his name Ahmed Hussain Al-Rashid Rasul. That’s now his liver on the tree And his …

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Communications of Resistance

Speech given at the ‘Voices Across Frontiers’ conference of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) in May 1996 I don’t know what I am doing here. I know …

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Heresies and prophecies (interview)

Heresies and prophecies: the social and political fall-out of the technological revolution: an interview* * Chapter from Jim Davis, Thomas Hirschl and Michael Stack (eds), Cutting Edge: technology; information capitalism …

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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, …

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Beyond State Watching

This is the text of a talk given to the ‘Statewatching the new Europe’ Conference, London, 27 March 1993. State-watching Europe is a futile business – unless you are going …

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Xenophobia doesn’t exist

Xenophobia There is no such thing as xenophobia. Xenophobia is a western construct which came into being during the capitalist phase of ‘western civilisation’. You fear  strangers  because you are …

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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 …

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