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Fanon's nuanced analysis of colonisation as spatial organisation is important to understanding our 'postcolonial' time. Colonial spatial organisation relies on everyday racism, which is thus both a lived ideology and an alienating spatial relation. Colonial violence and domination are inscribed int…

We had nearly the same number of immigrants twenty years ago. But they had another name then: they were called migrant workers or just plain workers. Today's immigrant is first a worker who has lost his second name, who has lost the political form of his identity and of his otherness, the form of a…

[...] Bases of traditional Conservative power, such as the fabled entrepeneur, are sacrificed to the exigencies of the corporate multinational, to Tesco and Costa, and to the rationales of the market. [...] Neoliberalism is first and foremost an ideology of enterprise, and all objects come under it…

What is instead necessary is a far more difficult task: to reject the assumption that movements against racial oppression can be effectively understood in terms of the category of identity. When the ruling class encourages us to reduce the struggle against racial oppression to the ultimately indivi…