On Lived Theory – an interview
Interview with AVERY F. GORDON Avery Gordon: You and the staff took over the Institute of Race Relations in 1972 after a protracted struggle with its Council of Management. First …
Transformation
The Market State vs The Good Society
The market state is antithetical to the good society. The market has always been with us. But what has changed in the last three decades is the relationship between the …
Catching History on the Wing (a speech)
Speech to conference of IRR 1 November 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of its (original) formation. History tells us where we came from and where we are at. …
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 …
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 …
The Sociology of the Damned (book review)
A REVIEW OF RACIAL TENSIONS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY by Ernest Queener Campbell (Venderbilt University Press 1972) It is the function of knowledge not merely to apprehend reality, but to change …
The World and China (book review)
The World and China, 1922-1972 By JOHN GITTINGS (London, Eyre Methuen, 1974). 303pp. £5.25 Nowhere is the suspicion of Chinese ‘opportunism’ so rife as in her foreign policy – and …
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 …