Gaza (a poem)
That’s where the library stood And here the infant school, On that tree she carved his name Ahmed Hussain Al-Rashid Rasul. That’s now his liver on the tree And his …
Decade: 2000
Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka
It’s difficult to talk dispassionately about what is going on in my country, when the horror of what the government is doing to a civilian Tamil population – already shelled …
Catching History on the Wing (a speech)
Speech to conference of IRR 1 November 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of its (original) formation. History tells us where we came from and where we are at. …
Foreword to IRR report: ‘They are children too’
There is no such thing as your children and my children. Children are children are children. They are the measure of our possibilities; how we treat them is the measure …
Freedom of Speech is Not an Absolute (interview)
Freedom of speech is not an absolute – an interview Yohan Shanmugaratnam: What is your analysis of the controversy surrounding the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad? What do you regard …
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 …
Cedric Robinson tribute
Tribute in special issue of Race & Class (guest editor Darryl Thomas) October 2005. History, philosophy, rhetoric are claimed to be the very foundations of western scholarship: from them …
Asian Youth Movements: here to stay, here to fight
Racism never stands still. It is never of a piece. It changes its shape, its inscape, its function with changes in the economic system, the social forces that the system …
Racism in the Age of Globalisation – Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture
Racism in the Age of Globalisation October 29, 2004 — Comment Speaking at the Third Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture on 28 October 2004 organised by the National Union of Journalist’s …
Deadly Silence
One death is a death too many. Foreword to Deadly Silence- IRR 2004 One death is a death too many. Too many of us* have died without cause, since …