Blood in my eye by George Jackson (book review)
Published in New Society 4 May 1972 Sower and seed George Jackson, Blood in my Eye. Cape £1.95 If Soledad Brother charted George Jackson’s journey to self-discovery and revolutionary …
Decade: 1970
Thoughts on Prison
(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 …
Soledad Brother: the prison letters of George Jackson (book review)
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 …
A rap on race (book review)
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 …
The Passing of the King
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. …
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 …
From Gandhi to Guevara (book review)
Review of From Gandhi to Guevara: the polemics of revolt by C.R.Hensman, ’An African elephant cannot stumble’, complained Malcolm X, ’without falling on a white man with a shovel.’ The …
The Politics of Language
Originally published in the Ceylon Daily News 9.7.1970 Language can be the key not only to cultural identity but also to the maintenance of privilege. The Tamils of Ceylon …
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 …