The Caribbean Carnival – Yearning for Freedom
MF The Caribbean Carnival – Yearning for Freedom This article is my latest effort to think about the Caribbean form of carnival as I’ve experienced it over nearly 50 years, mainly in Leeds, and occasionally in Trinidad. It emphasises the regenerative, satirical and playful elements of carnival, utilising the work of the great Russian […]
Sensuous materialism – – an emotionally charged type of marxism
Sensuous materialism The Transformation page, admirably edited by Michael Edwards for the impressive openDemocracy website, kindly published my journalistic effort (linked above) to promote an idea I had for promoting a version of Marxism which has, I think, been deeply buried. It came to me in the late 2010s while writing the concluding chapters of […]
David Oluwale – was he a secular martyr?
417414_1_En_9_Chapter_OnlinePDF (publishers’ proof of my chapter on David Oluwale) I’m Secretary to the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) and I spend a lot of my time reminding all those who are interested of the fate of a man who stowed away on a ship leaving Lagos in 1949, and who was killed by two policemen […]
Five global challenges: how might Hizmet respond?
Hizmet, the social movement inspired by the neo-Sufi thinker Fetullah Gülen, is currently being dismembered by the autocratic president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He accuses Gülen of ordering a coup attempt on 15th July 2016, saying it was was led by Hizmet members in the army. This is strenuously denied by Gülen and Hizmet, […]