Foreword to IRR report: ‘They are children too’
There is no such thing as your children and my children. Children are children are children. They are the measure of our possibilities; how we treat them is the measure …
Migration
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 …
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 …
Reclaiming the struggle
Reclaiming the struggle One year after the publication of the influential Macpherson Report into the police’s handling of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence and the wider lessons …
Casualties of Globalism
First published in CARF, 57 August-September 2000, later in Race & Class as ‘Refugees from globalism’ (42/3, January 2001.) The high priests of globalisation meeting at the International Monetary …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Institutionalised racism on a pan-European basis
Editorial to ‘Europe: variations on a theme of racism’ special issue of Race & Class ( 32/3 January 1991) ‘The problem for an open Europe’, predicted this journal in …