Taking stock
Taking Stock – a speech to a conference organised by Newham Monitoring Project in 1988 You have heard what Ian Macdonald had to say about the investigation in Burnage, and …
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The Making of the Black Working Class (book review)
The making of the black working class in Britain By RON RAMDIN (Aldershot, Gower, 1987). 626pp. £35.00 Any post-war history of black people in Britain has got to be a …
Towards a black librarianship
Talk to African-Caribbean Library Association July 1987 My librarianship is a little bit rusty. Or rather it is the craft of my trade that has got rusty. I am no …
Race, class and Brent
Published in Race & Class 29/1, Summer 1987 Increasingly, over the past year, the Tory government (supported by its satraps in the gutter press) has given up even …
Introduction: ‘Policing Against Black People’
‘…the public image of the policeman has changed from that of the citizen in uniform to the paramilitary riot controller behind whom lurks the shadow of the soldier.’ Professor Terence …
Lowest of the Low
An Introduction to Lowest of the Low by Gunter Wallraff (Methuen 1988) There is a massive sea-change going on within society as it moves from an industrial to a technological …
Racism in the Arts in Britain: struggle for Black Arts
First published in Race & Class 28/1, Summer 1986 and including a speech at the Africa Centre given 8 May 1986 During the last year the field of Black Arts …
Britain’s Gulags
First published in New Socialist (November 1985) also in Race & Class 27/3, Winter 1986. Racism is as English as Shakespeare and as old as slavery – and the British …
RAT and the degradation of black struggle
Published in Race & Class 26/4, Spring 1985 (original footnotes are within text) There is a class war going on within Marxism as to who – in the period of …
Challenging racism: strategies for the ’80s
This is a revised version of a talk given on 12 March 1983 at the Greater London Council Ethnic Minorities Unit Consultation on Challenging Racism. First published in Race & …