Thoughts, writings and speeches of A.SIVANANDAN, 1923−2018
*This is a development and reformulation of a paper originally given at the Three Worlds or One Conference, Berlin, June 1979. Published first in Race & Class, 21/2, Autumn 1979. …
Published by the National Council for Civil Liberties in Rights Vol 3. mo 3 Jan/Feb 1979 with Jenny Bourne (includes foot notes in text) No community should have to defend …
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) – …
Published in Race & Class 20/4, Spring 1979 There have been two deaths in the family, within the space of two years: Orlando, and now Malcolm, both killed while …
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 …
First published in Race & Class, 19/2, Autumn 1977 It is the last week of July and in Colombo the Vel Festival is on. It is a Hindu festival, a …
First published in Race & Class, 19/1, Summer 1977 Two recent events have further elucidated the strategies of the state vis-à-vis the black community and, more especially, the black section …
Written in 1972, originally published as ‘Alien Gods’ in ed. Bhikhu Parekh, Colour, cultures and consciousness: immigrant intellectuals in Britain (Allen and Unwin, 1974), reprinted in Race & Class, …
Speech at public meeting ‘Letelier challenges Pinochet from the Grave’ November 1976 I met Orlando for the first time earlier this year when he walked into the offices of the …
Editorial to ‘The US and the Arab World’, a special issue of Race & Class, 17/3, Winter 1976. Unlike the Jewish and Black diasporas before it, the Palestinian diaspora …