Englishman (Chris Searle tribute)
Introduction to ‘Chris Searle: the great includer’ a special issue of Race & Class, 51/2, October 2009. When I was a wild colonial boy growing up in Ceylon and attending …
Anti-colonialism
The heart is where the battle is (interview)
An interview by Quintin Hoare, Malcolm Imrie and Jenny Bourne for the book Communities of Resistance: black struggles for socialism (Verso 1990) How did British politics and culture first …
The enigma of the colonised: reflections on Naipaul’s arrival
A review article of ‘The Enigma of arrival’ by V.S. Naipaul in Race & Class 32/1 July 1990 I never liked Naipaul. I could never read him without a sense …
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. …
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 …
The politics of black resistance: the Spaghetti House Siege
Edited versions of speech by A. Sivanandan (who spoke alongside Rogr Lofters of BUFP) published in Afras Review 1977 THE SPAGHETTI HOUSE SIEGE INTRODUCTION Very early on Sunday morning, September …
The Liberation of the Black Intellectual [Alien Gods]
Written in 1972, originally published as ‘Alien Gods’ in ed. Bhikhu Parekh, Colour, cultures and consciousness: immigrant intellectuals in Britain (Allen and Unwin, 1974), reprinted in Race & Class, …
Race, class and the state: the black experience in Britain
Published in Race & Class 17/4, Spring 1976. Race, class and the state: the black experience in Britain For Wesley Dick — poet and prisoner In some answer to his …
Imperial Britain in South-east Asia (Book review)
Imperial Britain in South-east Asia By NICHOLAS TARLING (Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1975). 299pp. Cloth £10 (illustrated) To read this book is really a quite astonishing experience, because here …