culture and politics

Riot and Revolution: The Politics of an Inner City

Article in Revolutionary Socialism Winter 1981-2  

People, Poetry and Politics – the Novels of Don Bannister

Chapter in Scheer, Jorn, W and Sewell, Kenneth W (eds.) (2006) Creative Construing – Personal Constructions in the Arts, Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag ‘You don’t have to have read James to be a Jamesian’. Preliminary notes on the relationship between the work of CLR James and some of the radical black, anti-racist and left movements in the [...]

The Leeds West Indian Carnival

Since the early 1970s I have taken an active part in the Leeds West Indian Carnival, which I regard as the most important cultural festival in Leeds.  I was commissioned by West Yorkshire Archive Service to write a short history of the Carnival, which is available from the archives, or may be downloaded here: ‘A [...]

‘Love and Dread in Modern Times’

‘Love and Dread in Modern Times’, Article in Emergency, No. 2 (1984)