Racism in the Arts in Britain: struggle for Black Arts
First published in Race & Class 28/1, Summer 1986 and including a speech at the Africa Centre given 8 May 1986 During the last year the field of Black Arts …
Decade: 1980
Britain’s Gulags
First published in New Socialist (November 1985) also in Race & Class 27/3, Winter 1986. Racism is as English as Shakespeare and as old as slavery – and the British …
RAT and the degradation of black struggle
Published in Race & Class 26/4, Spring 1985 (original footnotes are within text) There is a class war going on within Marxism as to who – in the period of …
Challenging racism: strategies for the ’80s
This is a revised version of a talk given on 12 March 1983 at the Greater London Council Ethnic Minorities Unit Consultation on Challenging Racism. First published in Race & …
Staying Power (book review)
Staying Power: the history of black people in Britain By PETER FRYER (London, Pluto Press, 1984). 632 pp. £9.95 paper If black people insist that no white man or woman …
Sri Lanka: Racism and the politics of underdevelopment
Published in Race & Class 21/1, Summer 1984 There have been no race riots in Sri Lanka since independence. What there has been is a series of increasingly virulent pogroms …
Kenya Editorial
The editorial to ‘Kenya: the politics of repression’, a special issue of Race & Class 24/3, Winter 1983. Wherever imperialism sets foot there’s devastation, immiseration, deracination – and revolt. …
Hand on the Sun (book review)
By TARIQ MEHMOOD (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1983). 156pp. This is the first authentic novel of the Asian experience in Britain – written in the taut, tense style in which that experience …
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 …
From Resistance to Rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain
First published in ‘Rebellion and repression’, a special issue of Race & Class, 23/2&3, Autumn 1981 On 25 June 1940 Udham Singh was hanged. At a meeting of the Royal …