A. Sivanandan
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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)
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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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IRR gifts its library to Warwick University
By A. Sivanandan
A. Sivanandan, in a speech at the launch of the Institute of Race Relations' library at Warwick University on 27 April 2006, explains how the collection (1956-2005) reflected the movements of the times - decolonisation, Black Power and globalisation.
3 May 2006 (1475 words)
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It's anti-racism that was failed, not multiculturalism that failed
By A. Sivanandan
No country in Europe could be more proud of its multicultural experiment than Britain. But, in the wake of 7 July, or rather because Blair refuses to accept that the war in Iraq could have played a part in breeding home-grown suicide bombers, multiculturalism has become the whipping boy.
12 October 2005 (911 words)
Obituary: Basker Vashee 1944-2005
A. Sivanandan pays tribute to Basker Vashee of the Transnational Institute who died on 18 July 2005.
2 August 2005 (315 words)
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Racism in the Age of Globalisation
By A. Sivanandan
Speaking at the Third Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture on 28 October 2004 organised by the National Union of Journalist's Black Members Council*, Dr. A. Sivanandan, Director of the Institute of Race Relations, examined how the two trajectories - the war on asylum and the war on terror - had converged to produce the racism/imperialism of the global era.
29 October 2004 (4446 words)
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We the (only) People
By A. Sivanandan
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 to liberate the world.
6 May 2003 (385 words)
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Globalism's imperial war
By A. Sivanandan
The war on Iraq is the opening salvo in a war to redesign the world to the needs of corporate America.
12 March 2003 (787 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.