Communities of Resistance

Sivanandan,A

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Author
Sivanandan,A
Publish Date
10/01/2019
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
VERSOB
Subtitle
Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
Number of Pages
272
ISBN-10
1788732561
ISBN-13
9781788732567
citemno
253023
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9781788732567

Description

"There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won." Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance.

The left itself is under scrutiny here—from a black perspective. A series of powerful interventions covers many of the issues which have confronted radical politics in the 1980s: inner-city uprisings, the demand for black sections in the Labour Party, local government anti-racism, the move to a common European market. This collection included incisive critiques of contemporary Marxism: "All that Melts into Air is Solid: The Hokum of New Times" of post-colonial development, and of the Eurocentric assessment of imperialism.