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 …
Decade: 1960
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, …
A farewell to liberalism
Published in the IRR Newsletter 22 March 1969 Michael Young expresses the liberal creed quite succinctly when, in commenting on the Report of the Kerner Commission[1], he refers to liberalism …
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, …
Vicious Circle (Book review)
Vicious Circle. By WILFRED WOOD and JOHN DOWNING (London, S.P.C.K., 1968). 88 pp. 6s. The Closed Race Relations in Britain Today. By DICK PIXLEY (London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1968). 140 pp. …
Home: social essays (book review)
Home: social essays by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) It was ’endless questioning’ Baldwin tells us that ’gave him himself’- and himself, he ultimately found, was American, no narrower than that. …
James Baldwin Review
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone. By JAMES BALDWIN (London, Michael Joseph, 1968). 407 pp. 35s. The Furious Passage of James Baldwin. By FERN MARJA ECKMAN (London, Michael …
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, …