Communities of Resistance

Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism

• Author(s): A. Sivanandan,
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 1788732561
  ISBN_13: 9781788732567
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies , Political Science / Civil Rights , Political Science / History & Theory ,

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.