A. Sivanandan
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Professor John Rex 1925-2011
By A. Sivanandan
A tribute from A. Sivanandan, director Institute of Race Relations.
5 January 2012 (147 words)
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The violence of the violated
By A. Sivanandan
The director of the Institute of Race Relations comments on the recent riots.
16 August 2011 (314 words)
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Fallacies and policies: the 'Fear and HOPE' report
By A. Sivanandan
The director of the IRR takes issue with fundamental positions on racism and nationalism in Searchlight Educational Trust's recent report.
7 April 2011 (789 words)
Basil Davidson 1914-2010
To mark the sad death of Basil Davidson, a long-time member of the IRR and member of Race & Class Editorial Committee, we reproduce below the editorial in the 1994 special issue of the journal.
12 July 2010 (621 words)
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Ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka
By A. Sivanandan
The Institute of Race Relations' director explains the roots of ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka in a speech to 'Marxism 2009'.
9 July 2009 (3096 words)
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Catching History on the Wing
By A. Sivanandan
Below we reproduce the speech by the IRR's director, A. Sivanandan, at the IRR's fiftieth celebration conference on 1 November 2008.
6 November 2008 (1834 words)
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Nativism vs integration
By A. Sivanandan
IRR director contextualises the new report, Islamophobia, integration and civil rights in Europe at its launch on 14 May.
15 May 2008 (810 words)
John Berger: truth-sayer in an age of lies
A. Sivanandan welcomes John Berger, who read from a work in progress From A to X (love letters written to a political prisoner serving a life sentence) at an event on 4 October, entitled Against the Great Defeat of the World, to mark thirty-five years since the conception of IRR's journal, Race & Class.
11 October 2007 (780 words)
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Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror
By A. Sivanandan
Below we reproduce the keynote address to the conference on Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror (held on 16 September at Conway Hall) by A. Sivanandan, director of the Institute of Race Relations.
18 September 2006 (2413 words)
interview
Britain's shame: from multiculturalism to nativism
As every step that Blair takes to 'cohere' the nation is at the expense of ethnic minorities, and Muslims in particular, IRR News talked to A. Sivanandan about how he saw the integration debate.
22 May 2006 (1723 words)
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A. Sivanandan is a political activist, writer, founding editor of Race & Class and the director of the Institute of Race Relations.