Mondoweiss published a modified version of the talk I gave on the relationship between Zionism and fascism as understood from the perspective of the Black Radical Tradition for the Riverway to the Sea webinar, ‘Is Zionism fascist? What will judges think?’ The video and slides from my talk are available…
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I was invited by Franck Magennis and Fahad Ansari of Riverway to the Sea to contribute to an event held on December 9 2025, ‘Is Zionism fascist? What will judges think? Here are the slides from my short presentation which focused on how the Black radical tradition helps us to…
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I published an article in Black Agenda Report based on the talk I gave to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the publication of Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition by Cedric J. Robinson. I hope to share a redcording of the event at which I was honoured…
Comments closedOn Monday June 20 I was interviewed by Raymond Grenfell on Indymedia on RTR FM (Perth) about the assassination of Jo Cox, the far right and racism in Britain and Australia. You can listen again here. I tried to talk about how mainstream politics nurtures the environment in which Jo…
Comments closedNick Griffin was right about one thing: Churchill would have felt at home in the BNP.
The appearance of Nick Griffin, leader of the British Nartional Party, on BBC Question Time on October 22, 2009 has led to massive debate across the UK. Those in favour of freedom of speech advocated for Griffin to be allowed on the programme in the interests of exposing him. Those opposing said that there should be no platform for fascists and that Griffin and the BNP would only benefit from the publicity, no matter what was actually debated. I agree with the latter position and have always done so. Rare words of sense were written by Gary Younge in the Guardian reminding us that the other panelists, in particular Jack Straw, as the representative of New Labour is as guilty (if not more so) of encouraging racism in Britain as Griffin, especially considering Straw’s incendiary 2007 remarks on the niqab and the direct link between this and rising Islamophobia.
The panelists on Question Time were literally falling over themselves to show themselves to be tolerant and non-racist in the face of Griffin’s blatant racism. However, the mechanisms they chose to do this by resorted to the tried and tested recourse to patriotism (critiqued by Paul Gilroy in There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack with regards the Anti-Nazi Leagues in 1987).
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