It’s Still “No Comment” A brief statement on the importance of "no comment" interviews, based on the experiences of the Legal Defence & Monitoring Group. Found on Pastebin.
On Cult-like Thinking Originally from https://internationalsocialismuk.blogspot.com/2013/04/on-cult-like-thinking.html
The Origins of Collective Decision-Making by Andy Blunden A history of majority and consensus decision-making structures used by direct-democratic assemblies…
To Sir, With Love - E. R. Braithwaite (1959) An excerpt from Guyanese-born novelist E. R. Braithwaite's 'To Sir, With Love' describing his disillusionment in the mother country.
Hyperbole and horror: hijras and the British imperial state in India Onni Gust on the British criminalisation of the Indian Hijras who did not fit the white colonial…
Race, class and the state: the black experience in Britain A. Sivanandan on the political economy of post-WW2 immigration and state control in Britain.
Poverty is the new Black - A.Sivanandan Ambalavaner Sivanandan on the history of racism in Britain and its roots in slavery, colonialism and capitalism taken from the Institute of Race…
Malcolm X, Smethwick, and the influence of the African American freedom struggle on British race relations in the 1960s An essay by Joe Street detailing Macolm X's trip to Smethwick, Birmingham in the…
Obi B. Egbuna, C. L. R. James and the birth of black power in Britain: Black radicalism in Britain 1967–72 R.E.R. Bunce's essay on the political direction black British radicalism took in…
“Britain is no longer white”: James Baldwin as a witness to Postcolonial Britain An essay by Rob Waters on James Baldwin's time in and reflections on Britain.
50 Years of Equal Exploitation? 29 May marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Equal Pay Act 1970, precipitated by the Ford sewing machinists’ strike in 1968 which started in…
