Tribute to Jonathan Jackson
On 13 January 1970, three black prisoners in Soledad Prison, California, were shot dead by a white guard. Three days later, 45 minutes after these killings were declared to be …
Black Struggle
Black Suicide (book review)
Under title ‘Moral Atonement’ this was review of Black Suicide by Herbert Hendin was published in New Society 23 April 1970. “Grief,” wrote a Harlem boy, “is a gigantic snake …
The Politics of Existence
Originally published in the US magazine The Liberator and republished in Politics and Society, 1971. I have written this piece with great trepidation I am not, in the literal …
Race the revolutionary experience
Speech to the World Council of Churches Consultation on Racism held in London 19-24 May 1969 which was to set up its Programme to Combat Racism, which was later published …
Soul on Ice (book review)
Soul on Ice. By ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (London, Jonathan Cape, 1969). xv + 210 pp. 35s. Life is a renewal, an assertion, a continual yea-saying. It holds out no new truths, …
Ghetto Rebellion to Black Liberation (book review)
Ghetto Rebellion to Black Liberation byClaude .M Lightfoot (International Publishers, 18s 6d., 192pp) Claude Lightfoot is one of the Communist Party’s old faithfuls. He joined the party in 1931, …
Revolt of the Natives
Published in Twentieth Century October 1968 If, as Marx has pointed out, each epoch needs to be examined in terms of categories suitable to it, the category relevant to …
Black Power – The Politics of Liberation (book review)
Black Power-The Politics of Liberation in America. By STOKELY CARMICHAEL and CHARLES V. HAMILTON (London, Jonathan Cape, 1968). xiv+ 198 pp. 30s. Chaos or Community. By MARTIN LUTHER KING (London, …
Campaign Against Racial Discrimination C.A.R.D
A discussion about the philosophical debates/splits within the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination. Liberalism no longer affords a sinecure. It cannot grow old in office. It must pass on, like adolescence, …