Taking stock
Taking Stock – a speech to a conference organised by Newham Monitoring Project in 1988 You have heard what Ian Macdonald had to say about the investigation in Burnage, and …
State racism
Britain’s Gulags
First published in New Socialist (November 1985) also in Race & Class 27/3, Winter 1986. Racism is as English as Shakespeare and as old as slavery – and the British …
RAT and the degradation of black struggle
Published in Race & Class 26/4, Spring 1985 (original footnotes are within text) There is a class war going on within Marxism as to who – in the period of …
Challenging racism: strategies for the ’80s
This is a revised version of a talk given on 12 March 1983 at the Greater London Council Ethnic Minorities Unit Consultation on Challenging Racism. First published in Race & …
Sri Lanka: Racism and the politics of underdevelopment
Published in Race & Class 21/1, Summer 1984 There have been no race riots in Sri Lanka since independence. What there has been is a series of increasingly virulent pogroms …
From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
First published in ‘Rebellion and repression’, a special issue of Race & Class, 23/2&3, Autumn 1981 On 25 June 1940 Udham Singh was hanged. At a meeting of the Royal …
Cheerleaders and ombudsmen: the sociology of race relations in Britain (with Jenny Bourne)
Written with Jenny Bourne, published in Race & Class, 21/4, Spring 1980. There is a dangerous sociology abroad – a sociology of race relations, that is – and dangerous …
From immigration control to ‘induced repatriation’
First published in Race & Class 20/1, Summer 1978. In various issues of Race & Class – but particularly in ‘Race, class and the state’ (Vol. XVII, no. 4) – …
The politics of black resistance: the Spaghetti House Siege
Edited versions of speech by A. Sivanandan (who spoke alongside Rogr Lofters of BUFP) published in Afras Review 1977 THE SPAGHETTI HOUSE SIEGE INTRODUCTION Very early on Sunday morning, September …
Race, class and the state: the black experience in Britain
Published in Race & Class 17/4, Spring 1976. Race, class and the state: the black experience in Britain For Wesley Dick — poet and prisoner In some answer to his …