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Black Power There has been surprisingly little analysis in Britain of the events in Washington leading up to both houses of Congress overriding the president's veto of the sanctions bill. The great model

Black Hair/Style Politics

once did; just as the Afro, popularized in the United States in the period of Black Power, has been displaced through the 1970s by a new range of black hair-styles, of which the curly…1960s when the Afro hair-style emerged as a symbol of Black Pride and Black Power. However, by regarding one's hair-style as directly 'expressive' of one's political awareness this sort of argument…imperial struggles of emergent Third World nations. And at one level, this 'other' political orientation of Black Power announced itself in the language of clothes. The Black Panthers' 'urban guerrilla' attire - polo-necks, leather jackets

Women in The Mainstream

and I came into mainstream politics through black politics and the black power movement in America. I became involved in forming pressure groups. And then I joined the Labour Party…union, politics is about power and about change. I came into the Labour Party via the black power movement which was about breaking into the power structure. I n e z To me the sense…Gaynor: i came into mainstream politics through black politics and the black power move¬ ment in America.'

FOREIGN NEWS

Down in the Old Bailey cells, prison officers call it “the Black Power Trial”, and talk about the Nine as “the Black Power Mob”. Even the Times o f November…headlined its court report the “Black Power Case”

ARTS

thinking of making a film on our people, man, an if you start coming all this Black Power business, he am might not go through with it. Z. Ye mother ass, yer mother…brother too. SUE. Oh. P. Oh. (Talking to C. aside) Is he one of the Black Power Mob? C. (loudly) Why don’t you ask him yerself? Z. Ask me what, what he want…know? C. He wants to know if you are one of the Black Power Mob. Z. Ha. Ha. Yer man, I turn on to Black Power, that’s my bag, that’s my thing, like

Home News

Pulley said that he didn’t like Critchlow and that Critchlow had “had relations with the Black Power movement.” Radford Howe, defending himself, crossexamined Pulley. Pulley agreed that he had said that anyone who went…Rogers on the stand. Howe questioned Rogers about his assertions that Howe was involved in “ the Black Power movement.” Roger s identified his source for this as “information I 'v e received” but admitted that…know, Mr Howe, when you see m e you put your hand up in a salute — Black Power. Howe: You didn’t put that in your statement. I suggest to you, officer, that I ignore

Foreign News:

South African type o f oppression: “The (Black) Movement here is not just on a Black Power level, not just talking about Black people freeing themselves. It’s getting much more sophisticated, something that

Hidden struggles

1960s, and led to the alienation of many black women from organisations such as RAAS, and Black Power groups in Britain, as well as the Black Panthers and SNCC in the US. Black women

Hidden Struggles: Black Women's Activism and Black Masculinity in the Shadow of the Windrush

1960s, and led to the alienation of many black women from organisations such as RAAS, and Black Power groups in Britain, as well as the Black Panthers and SNCC in the US. Black women

I Want The Black One: Is There A Place For Afro-American Culture In Commodity Culture?

Susan Willis I WANT THE BLACK ONE:

Apartheid's Crumbling Bastions

shift of position in the section of the African community, led by Steve Biko, which advocated black power and black consciousness in the late 1970s, and rejected collaboration with other ethnic

King's Radical Legacy

considering the exigencies of black power and the black liberation movement - particularly the militant legacy of Malcolm X - King's shift is understandable

Whites Drift Right

elections will also be held on september 6 for the 80 no prospect of change for the blacks with no votes in the squatter camps (mdm) has not called for a boycott of the white elections as such, but some white liberals, to the distress of the dp, have announced their intention to stay away from the polls. the conservatives, already the official opposition party, hope to double their 22 seats and then start inviting defections from the ne aware of this possibility, the democratic party (dp) believes the np will then have to approach it for a pact.

Black Sections

IQBAL WAHHAB and MARC WADSWORTH Black Sections It was most timely of Marxism

Journey To Pretoria interview with Jonathan Steele

now the resistance on the side of the people is being sustained by a combination of factors: the mood of confidence in the ultimate outcome, to which i've alluded; the mass organised forces which have emerged on the ground at community level, and regionally and nationally in powerful mass organisations such as the south african congress of trade unions (sactu) and the united democratic front (udf); the increased strength of the anc presence, including the anc political underground; and the escalation in the recent period of armed blows which have had an enormous inspirational impact on the people, particularly the youth. What is the role of the party, given that many other liberation movements have been successful without the need for a separate party? 'there's an army of thousands ready to respond and act in all the main black areas in the towns and villages' the answer in one sentence is because there is a need in south africa to work for the ultimate achievement of a socialist south africa.

Metisse Narratives

years to reconcile that. Because of what happened in the 1970s in terms of the Black Power movement, especially in this country, if you weren't black like ebony then you just didn't have

Metisse Narratives

years to reconcile that. Because of what happened in the 1970s in terms of the Black Power movement, especially in this country, if you weren't black like ebony then you just didn't have

Abortion Newsreel Review

(abse) politics of abortion apart from the immediate necessity to defeat restrictive legislations (and aside from the internal politics of nac) feminists see the issue of abortion necessarily in terms of the separation of sex from reproduction and the control of women over their own fertility, particularly as these relate to working-class women. Is this likely to engage the support of people who are not yet committed to the campaign? within the film, opposition to the issue of abortion is focussed onto spuc and its supporters, but there are many other people who are neither spuc-ites nor revolutionary socialists and who remain disturbed by the demand for free abortion.

Apartheid's deepening crisis

what has not changed thus, while it is necessary to recognise the importance of the changed conditions of the struggles of the black workers — the new possibilities for the organisation of black workers and the space for trade union struggles and the further differentiation, in terms of skills, of the black working class — at the same time it is of the utmost importance to place these changes in the context of the expansion of the apparatuses of coercion and the accompanying intensification of repression of black people, the application and further development of the measures of control of urban blacks, and of rural-urban migration of blacks workers, the deprivation of blacks (mainly workers) of south african citizenship, the continued elaboration (albeit with changes) of laws applying specifically to black workers and so on. the basis of the argument that there has been a major restructuring of white classes is that the economic interests of afrikaner capital and its former allies among the afrikaner people are now so divergent that, in the common interests of all fractions of monopoly capital, afrikaner capital's former allies must be abandoned — this is necessary because the 'reforms' that monopoly capital requires (a skilled, stable, black labour force etc) contradicts the interests of the white subordinate classes and can only be secured for the blacks at the expense of the white workers.

In praise of gender confusion

We need to extend the by-now conventional insight that gender confusion lies behind gender certainty to see that gender certainty lies behind gender confusion. Soundings issue 2 spring 1996 in praise of gender confusion andrew samuels not being certain of your gender is less of a problem than being too certain, argues jungian analyst andrew samuels most people are wary now of anyone who seems too settled and sure in their gender identity and gender role.

In Praise of Gender Confusion

We need to extend the by-now conventional insight that gender confusion lies behind gender certainty to see that gender certainty lies behind gender confusion. Soundings issue 2 spring 1996 in praise of gender confusion andrew samuels not being certain of your gender is less of a problem than being too certain, argues jungian analyst andrew samuels most people are wary now of anyone who seems too settled and sure in their gender identity and gender role.

Black Sections: Radical Demand…or Distraction? (A roundtable discussion)

Englishmen standing at the doors of the cinema checking tickets, he said 'this is the real black power. You yourselves mobilised, and now these Englishmen are working as employees of black organisations.' We must have

The Quality of Mersey

having possibly the oldest black community in Europe. They drew their inspiration in the 70s from black power, but as Eugene's ancestry demonstrates, Africa is a long way away. They now see themselves

Garvey's World Vision

Garvey's world vision this year is the centenary of the birth of marcus garvey, the black leader whose significance in the history of the struggle for freedom, both in the african continent and in the diaspora, would be difficult to over-estimate. as black youth in the caribbean, america, england, brazil, australia and elsewhere find themselves on the fringes of their world, excluded by racism and poverty, a fresh grappling with garvey's ideas and his vision will show that failure is not endemic to the race and that success is within reach.

This Sporting Nation

Blackness in portraits such as ‘Louise De Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth’ in the main collection. ‘Black Power’ (February - June 1998) was a collection of twenty-four portraits of contemporary Black Britons by Donald MacLellan. While