Racial Violence and the Brexit State

Foreword to IRR report ‘Racial violence and the Brexit state’ Whatever else Brexit means or does not mean; it certainly means racism. Born of the fortuitous circumstances, lacking programme or …

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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 …

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What’s the point of experience?

Interview with A. Sivanandan and Jenny Bourne, conducted by Alice Nutter, for The Magazine of No Value “I am always guided by a famous thing that Camus said,” explains Sivanandan …

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Racism: the road from Germany

An expanded version of a talk given by A. Sivanandan to the PDS ‘Europäischer Kongress gegen Rassismus’, Berlin, 13-15 November 1992. Race & Class (34/3, January 1993) So much I …

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Xenophobia doesn’t exist

Xenophobia There is no such thing as xenophobia. Xenophobia is a western construct which came into being during the capitalist phase of ‘western civilisation’. You fear  strangers  because you are …

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