Struggle for black housing
A speech to the Federation of Black Housing Associations Ninth annual conference in October 1992 (published in Black Housing, Oct/Nov 1992) The theme of this conference is about developing ourselves …
Decade: 1990
500 years since Columbus
Address to international conference in Liverpool, 15 August 1992 1. Here, in this city, today, this city built on the slave trade, on the blood and bones of black …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Letter to God
This was part of a special Christmas supplement of ‘Letters to God’ commissioned by the New Statesman in 1991. Dear God, I have had trouble with you ever since I …
Our Passports on our Faces: Racism and Refugees
Address to the British Refugee Council 7 November 1991 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am only too conscious that I am speaking to an audience who are probably …
A Black Perspective on the War
Speech given at Black People Against the War in the Gulf meeting , 5 April 1991, Race & Class (32/4 April 1991) This is not our war, this is …
Institutionalised racism on a pan-European basis
Editorial to ‘Europe: variations on a theme of racism’ special issue of Race & Class ( 32/3 January 1991) ‘The problem for an open Europe’, predicted this journal in …
Address to 10th national congress of AZAPO
The Speech to the Azanian People’s Organisation Congress ‘Defend the people, resist neo-colonialism – advance socialism’, 22 December 1990, Langa, Cape Town; Race & Class, 33/2, October 1991) Comrades, friends, …