Communities of Resistance

Speech to Communities of Resistance Conference, Hackney Town Hall, 11 November 1989. The wall has fallen. The Eastern bloc is dissolving into the West. There’s freedom for Hungarians, Czechoslovakians, Poles, …

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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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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 …

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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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Race, class and Brent

Published in Race & Class 29/1, Summer 1987     Increasingly, over the past year, the Tory government (supported by its satraps in the gutter press) has given up even …

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Lowest of the Low

An Introduction to Lowest of the Low by Gunter Wallraff (Methuen 1988) There is a massive sea-change going on within society as it moves from an industrial to a technological …

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