Thoughts, writings and speeches of A.SIVANANDAN, 1923−2018
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 …
Tribute in special issue of Race & Class (guest editor Darryl Thomas) October 2005. History, philosophy, rhetoric are claimed to be the very foundations of western scholarship: from them …
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 …
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 …
A tribute to Basil Davidson in a special issue of Race & Class ( 36/2,October 1994) When Race & Class was breech-birthed from Race, in the palace revolution that …
Speech at memorial for Hilary Arnott at Friends House, NW1 on 31 January 1995 (Race & Class 36/4, April 1995) Thank you for letting me remember Hilary with you. …
This piece was offered to and turned down by the Guardian, on the basis that it was too elegiac of the Labour Party. A vision for Labour? The Left …
Talk to Socialist Society AGM 21.3.1992 Refounding the Left. Is there a role for a new party? I am not sure that we are not asking the wrong question here. …
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 …
Published in Race & Class 31/3, January 1990 (original footnotes appear here within the text) Dedicated to those friends with whom, out of a different loyalty, I must now …