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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Heresies and prophecies (interview)

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 …

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A vision for Labour?

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 …

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Refounding 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. …

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New circuits of imperialism

First published in Race & Class, 30/4, April 1989   Imperialism is still the highest stage of capitalism – only, the circuits of imperialism have changed with the changes wrought …

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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 …

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Towards a black librarianship

Talk to African-Caribbean Library Association July 1987 My librarianship is a little bit rusty. Or rather it is the craft of my trade that has got rusty. I am no …

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