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 …
Black Struggle
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 …
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 & …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
From immigration control to ‘induced repatriation’
First published in Race & Class 20/1, Summer 1978. In various issues of Race & Class – but particularly in ‘Race, class and the state’ (Vol. XVII, no. 4) – …
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 …