Communities of Resistance
Author | : A. Sivanandan |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1990-12-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 086091514X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780860915140 |
Rating | : 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: ‘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.