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 …
Refugees
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 …
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 …
Black and Third World – One Struggle?
Speech delivered at Sheffield University at a conference on imperialism in October 1995 This is most encouraging – a full house – on race and class and black struggle? A …
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 …
Our Passports on our Faces: Racism and Refugees
Address to the British Refugee Council 7 November 1991 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am only too conscious that I am speaking to an audience who are probably …
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 …