Thoughts, writings and speeches of A.SIVANANDAN, 1923−2018
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, …
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 …
Editorial in Race Today, August 1973 Britain, as George Lamming once remarked, is a blotting paper society. It absorbs and dissipates discontent, dissidence, revolt; it even puts them to profit. …
GRASSROOTS is a black journal – which means that, in a society in which the black voice has been stifled, it articulates the aspirations, the fears, the hopes and despair …
Published in RACE 14/4, July 1973, encorporating ‘Anatomy of racism:the British variant’ in Race Today, July 1972. NOTES TOWARDS A DEFINITION Racism, in the sense of an explicit and …
Book review on Police Power and Black People by Derek Humphry (Penguin 1972) Vic Turner, Bernie Steer and their fellow dockers are having a hard time trying to persuade the …
(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 …
Ghetto of the mind Book review published in New Society April 1971 America is insane. An 18 year old robs a petrol station of $70 and ends up in …
Published as ‘Bucking the burden’ in New Society 22 July 1971. A Rap on Race by Margaret Mead and James Baldwin Three rounds of conversation, stretching over seven and a …
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. …