Catching History on the Wing (a speech)
Speech to conference of IRR 1 November 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of its (original) formation. History tells us where we came from and where we are at. …
State racism
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 …
Race, Terror and Civil Society
White racial superiority is back on the agenda – in the guise, this time, not of a super-race but of a super-nation, a super-people, a chosen people on a mission …
Racism in the Age of Globalisation – Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
Racism in the Age of Globalisation October 29, 2004 — Comment Speaking at the Third Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture on 28 October 2004 organised by the National Union of Journalist’s …
Deadly Silence
One death is a death too many. Foreword to Deadly Silence- IRR 2004 One death is a death too many. Too many of us* have died without cause, since …
Catching History on the Wing: A. Sivanandan as Activist, Teacher and Rebel
Lou Kushnick and Paul Grant interviewers for Against the Odds:scholars who challenged racism in the 20th century My grandfather was one of the smallest of smallholders in the arid …
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 …
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 …
The Black politics of health
Address by A. Sivanandan to the King’s Fund’s Consultation for Black health workers following the NHS and Community Care Act (1990), which began the dismantling of the National Health Service. …
Racism 1992
UK commentary Racism 1992 A shorter version of this article appeared in New Statesman & Society (4 November 1988). The full article was published in Race & Class, 30/3, January …