Thoughts on Prison
(Following the Attica prison riot 1971.) The white prisoner believes he is innocent of crime, the black prisoner knows he is. For you do not punish a man for breaking …
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The Passing of the King
Published in Race Today April 1971 There is no set-back in history except that we make it so. Tonight the black world weeps that their king has passed away. …
The Politics of Language
Originally published in the Ceylon Daily News 9.7.1970 Language can be the key not only to cultural identity but also to the maintenance of privilege. The Tamils of Ceylon …
The Politics of Existence
Originally published in the US magazine The Liberator and republished in Politics and Society, 1971. I have written this piece with great trepidation I am not, in the literal …
A farewell to liberalism
Published in the IRR Newsletter 22 March 1969 Michael Young expresses the liberal creed quite succinctly when, in commenting on the Report of the Kerner Commission[1], he refers to liberalism …
Revolt of the Natives
Published in Twentieth Century October 1968 If, as Marx has pointed out, each epoch needs to be examined in terms of categories suitable to it, the category relevant to …
Campaign Against Racial Discrimination C.A.R.D
A discussion about the philosophical debates/splits within the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination. Liberalism no longer affords a sinecure. It cannot grow old in office. It must pass on, like adolescence, …