Staying Power (book review)
Staying Power: the history of black people in Britain By PETER FRYER (London, Pluto Press, 1984). 632 pp. £9.95 paper If black people insist that no white man or woman …
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Sri Lanka: Racism and the politics of underdevelopment
Published in Race & Class 21/1, Summer 1984 There have been no race riots in Sri Lanka since independence. What there has been is a series of increasingly virulent pogroms …
Kenya Editorial
The editorial to ‘Kenya: the politics of repression’, a special issue of Race & Class 24/3, Winter 1983. Wherever imperialism sets foot there’s devastation, immiseration, deracination – and revolt. …
Hand on the Sun (book review)
By TARIQ MEHMOOD (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1983). 156pp. This is the first authentic novel of the Asian experience in Britain – written in the taut, tense style in which that experience …
Capitalism, the highest stage of imperialism? Warren and the Third World
A book review of Imperialism: pioneer of capitalism By BILL WARREN (London, New Left Books, 1980). 274pp. £3.95 published in Race & Class 24/2, Summer 1982. Imperialism, says Warren, is …
From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
First published in ‘Rebellion and repression’, a special issue of Race & Class, 23/2&3, Autumn 1981 On 25 June 1940 Udham Singh was hanged. At a meeting of the Royal …
Race, caste and class in South Africa
First published in Race & Class, 22/3, Winter 1981 Race, class and caste in South Africa – an open letter to No Sizwe Dear Comrade, I read your book on …
White man, listen
Written in response to happening such as the New Cross fire an the Black People’s Day of Action Listen, white man – listen to what black people are saying …
Cheerleaders and ombudsmen: the sociology of race relations in Britain (with Jenny Bourne)
Written with Jenny Bourne, published in Race & Class, 21/4, Spring 1980. There is a dangerous sociology abroad – a sociology of race relations, that is – and dangerous …
Paul Robeson Speaks(Review of Philip Foner’s book)
Paul Robeson Speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974 Edited, with introduction and notes, by PHILIP S. FONER (Quartet Books, London 1978). 623pp. £9.50. In a remote village in the north …