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Jatinder Verma

the artistic director of tara arts, britain's leading asian company, jatinder verma was born in tanzania and came to england in 1968. In 1990 his unique blending of british, european and asian cultural heritages was rewarded with the time out/01 for london special drama award.
Marxism Today November 1991

Sisters And Slogans

The exception to this is when women are involved in local authority women's committees where party in-fighting often gives way to open and public discussion between labour women and women in the community and a sense of a common women's agenda. for instance: in the 'sex and violence' chapter, she talks a lot about a debate that took place at the end of the 1970s the famous 'political lesbian' argument when a group of revolutionary feminists (women who argue that male sexual power is central to male power in general) argued that to be politically 'correct' women should not only refuse to sleep with men: they should also make a political choice for women.
Marxism Today April 1987

The Commitment To Theory

perhaps we need to change the ocular language of the image in order to talk of the social and political identifications or representations of a 'people' - it is worth noting that laclau and mouffe have turned to the language of textuality and discourse, to differance and enunciative modalities, in attempting to understand the structure of hegemony.11 paul gilroy also refers to bakhtin's theory of narrative when he describes the performance of black expressive cultures as an attempt to transform the relationship between performer and crowd 'in dialogic rituals so that spectators acquire the active role of participants in collective processes which are sometimes cathartic and which may symbolize or even create a community' (my emphasis).12 such negotiations between politics and theory make it impossible to think of the place of the theoretical as a metanarrative claiming a more total form of generality. The concerns of the conference were publicized in these terms: with the major political and economic changes experienced in both the euroamerican and so-called third world since the late '70s, the issue of cultural specificity (the need to know which specific social-historical processes are at work in the generation of cultural products) and the question of how precisely social existence overdetermines cultural practices have taken on a new and crucial importance.
New Formations Number 5 Summer 1988

The Boy Who Fell To Earth

which is the real michael jackson? is there a real michael jackson? as a phenomenon of 80s' popular culture, michael jackson's stardom has attained a strange kind of hyper-reality. among some black people the apparent deracination of his identity is interpreted as more than a mere 'sell out', michael jackson: rhapsody in black and white it's seen as an expression of self-negation, a morbid desire to erase his blackness and 'become white'.
Marxism Today July 1988

Funny Money

Iewpoint public knowledge and private pay funny money in the hot, or, as the case may be, sodden months of early summer companies publish their accounts. As botswana for years was the safe deposit for the sexual secrets of white men from south africa, so men of the capitalist world use the citadels of liechtenstein or zurich to store - or in the case of monaco, squander - their money in secret.
Marxism Today August 1991

How Men Are: Speaking Of Masculinity

jackson's worries about the feminist-inspired investigation of masculinity by men as a dangerous reduplication of familiar masculinism put 'new men' - or 'new (theoretical) men' or even 'male feminists' (a story yet to be told) - in a classic double bind. Gay men's politics has provided the only established space in which men can relate progressively to other men without women (a point which can prompt feminist fears of gay male misogyny).
New Formations Number 6 Winter 1988

FRENCH PRAGMATISM

cot emphasised four main thrusts in franco-african policy: self-sustaining economic development, based first and foremost on food self-sufficiency; the importance of human rights, on a continent where abuses are widespread; an increased dialogue with non-governmental organisations, whose developmental role is non-partisan and generally untainted by the unholy scramble for contracts typical of official government 'aid'; and a gradual de-personalisation of the 'special relationship' between the metropole and the former colonies characteristic of the giscard years. it was thought in paris that mitterrand had pulled off quite a coup by getting the guinean to come; in 1958 sekou toure, jean-pierre cot alone among former colonies, said non to de gaulle's proposed francophone commonpolitical and business interests in paris and wealth.
Marxism Today February 1983

Youth in the Eighties: a dispossessed generation

White youth like black youth, skinheads in particular, are an instant target for police harassment; white youth, like black youth, have to argue continually for use of public space. It is in these groups (no longer youth section, to apply broken up by jobs and new experiences) that unemployment is interpreted and so punk graphics to a immediate political identifications are not newspaper, to reverse its socialist but 'nationalist' — after a decade of line on rock'n'roll youth unemployment only ethnically based political groups can claim to have recruited them as complex, contradictory expressions youth with any systematic success.
Marxism Today November 1981

Little And Large

That, for example, the embryonic welsh state which exists in the welsh office with its cluster of dependent quangos should be controlled by the people of wales, not by t marxism today april 1989 'if we look across the channel, we can't stop looking until we see vladivostok' the thirteenth state the abolition of internal frontier controls scheduled for 1992 will have very different meanings for the citizens of the 12 ec countries to those it will have for the 16m non-ec nationals lawfully residing in the community. For there is one glaring exception to a general trend - the separatist and authoritarian british state we live under, which marxism today april 1989 'we are in for great storms as 1992 approaches, frontiers start to dissolve and state sovereignty begins to become redundant' is offering an increasingly determined resistance to a social europe, a real parliament for europe, a disarmed europe.
Marxism Today April 1989

Impasse in Namibia

keenly aware that, just as the soweto media blackout or not, the people of uprisings followed independence in britain are being called to make a stark mozambique and angola, and similar choice — if we don't act now to support events followed zimbabwe's independence, swapo, the anc and the oppressed south africa's military withdrawal from people of southern africa, 'the south namibia would boost the liberation africa factor' will make the 'falklands struggle in south africaitself. brian wood impasse in namibia only a few weeks ago over 130 governments gathered together in paris to condemn british and other western power collusion with pretoria's intensifying military occupation of namibia; following that, no less than 30 foreign ministers flew to new york to call a halt to the british and western power diplomacy over namibia which, they argued, has become during the past four years a cynical attempt to use the united nations machinery to guarentee south africa's regional 'security' interests.
Marxism Today July 1983

ZIMBABWE IN TURMOIL

2 may 1983 marxism today focus robert mugabe zimbabwe in t u r m o i l the elimination of zapu as a political organisation must be the aim of the rampage of the fifth brigade through matabeleland, the exile of joshua nkomo, and all the preceding debilitating attacks on zapu leaders over the past year. In rapid order came desertions of former zipra guerrillas from the national army (zipra had been the zapu army) and a quick separate peace with mugabe by one group of zapu leaders.
Marxism Today May 1983

Facing Up To The Future

people and politics an alternative social and economic strategy will only succeed with a parallel democratisation of political decision-making. just as the inherited institutions of economic and social policy are ill-matched to the challenges of the new terrain, so too are britain's political structures. There is a deep social contradiction between a welfare state fashioned in 1945, for the workers, families and dependents of the old order, their housing and social needs; and the needs of workers and families in the new order in the 1990s.
Marxism Today September 1988

A Race To Exclusion

Most, like the campaign against racist laws, the joint council for the welfare of immigrants, the immigration widows campaign and the divided 23 they point to a future where reform of an unjust law and the development of non-racist policies need not be hidden in the corner of the manifesto' families campaign, involve only the immediate victims of the laws, black peoples' organisations and a handful of committed activists. ur starting point is the right of any government to define its citizenship (nationality law) and who is entitled to come into the country to live (immigration policy).
Marxism Today January 1988

The Art Of Difference

in spite of the much vaunted support for 'black art' and cultural difference in britain today, it is an indication of the continuing inability to come to terms with araeen's work and its implications concerning our 'schizophrenic cultural 59 identity' in postmodern consumer society, that this exhibition has, as yet, to find a venue to stage it in london; the illusory centre of art activity in britain. on the one hand he has been able to gain funding to publish third text: third world perspectives on contemporary art and culture (distributed by central books), a quarterly magazine; he has curated the exhibition 'essential black art' currently travelling to five regional arts centres throughout britain; and finally, has been invited to curate a major exhibition at the hayward gallery in 1989 of the history of afro-asian art in britain.
Marxism Today January 1989

Inclusive Movements/Movements for Inclusion

marie in 'making women seen and heard' i think what women were saying was, if paft was a tool to challenge the decision-making, then as well as using it on behalf of their own particular interest group they would want to use it to challenge the kind of process that makes domestic violence such a non-event on the agendas of political parties. But if the state had been really serious about getting women represented, a more democratic approach would have encompassed consultation with all the women's organisations on the basis: 'could you all get together, 141 soundings we'll resource you to take some kind of women's initiative in this new forum.
Soundings Issue 12, Summer 1999

Inclusive movements/movements for inclusion

marie in 'making women seen and heard' i think what women were saying was, if paft was a tool to challenge the decision-making, then as well as using it on behalf of their own particular interest group they would want to use it to challenge the kind of process that makes domestic violence such a non-event on the agendas of political parties. But if the state had been really serious about getting women represented, a more democratic approach would have encompassed consultation with all the women's organisations on the basis: 'could you all get together, 141 soundings we'll resource you to take some kind of women's initiative in this new forum.
Soundings soundings issue 12 summer 1999

Windrush echoes

We may arrival of the windrush with be told that 'there ain't no black in the that of the moment of first union jack', but on the football field or arrival of people from the the athletics track, there is no lack of caribbean, africa, and asia, brilliant black sportsmen and women june 1948 does stand for proud and overjoyed to play for and represent their country. she shows that fixed 'a defining "moment" was definitely enoch powell's speeches, because almost from that time on i began to feel slightly insecure: maybe not as insecure as many because obviously i've got a good education and i am a professional person, but there is no doubt that i began to think "well hang on, am i someone who is british or am i an immigrant?"' lord taylor of warwick notions of black/white difference co-exist with more inclusive syncretic forms; she shows that alongside multi-ethnicity there is still much antiracist work to do.
Soundings soundings issue 10 Autumn 1998

Windrush Echoes: Introduction

We may arrival of the windrush with be told that 'there ain't no black in the that of the moment of first union jack', but on the football field or arrival of people from the the athletics track, there is no lack of caribbean, africa, and asia, brilliant black sportsmen and women june 1948 does stand for proud and overjoyed to play for and represent their country. she shows that fixed 'a defining "moment" was definitely enoch powell's speeches, because almost from that time on i began to feel slightly insecure: maybe not as insecure as many because obviously i've got a good education and i am a professional person, but there is no doubt that i began to think "well hang on, am i someone who is british or am i an immigrant?"' lord taylor of warwick notions of black/white difference co-exist with more inclusive syncretic forms; she shows that alongside multi-ethnicity there is still much antiracist work to do.
Soundings Issue 10, Autumn 1997

Organising where it is needed

Overall, american union workers earn 32 per cent more than non-union workers; but african american union members make 45 per cent more than african american non-members and latino union workers earn 54 per cent more than their non-union counterparts.8 although low-wage workers lack a savings cushion if dismissed during a union fight, a minimum wage job is also the easiest to find. Not only does the union have to develop new and appropriate strategies to organise and represent immigrant groups who are traditionally under-represented in the ranks of union membership and union staff; the union also has to become enough of a fighting movement to win the formation of the new union branches for immigrant workers, and to deal with the new members' painful and pressing workplace problems.
Soundings soundings issue 14 Spring 2000

Organising Where it is Needed: First Generation Immigrant Workers in North America

Overall, american union workers earn 32 per cent more than non-union workers; but african american union members make 45 per cent more than african american non-members and latino union workers earn 54 per cent more than their non-union counterparts.8 although low-wage workers lack a savings cushion if dismissed during a union fight, a minimum wage job is also the easiest to find. Not only does the union have to develop new and appropriate strategies to organise and represent immigrant groups who are traditionally under-represented in the ranks of union membership and union staff; the union also has to become enough of a fighting movement to win the formation of the new union branches for immigrant workers, and to deal with the new members' painful and pressing workplace problems.
Soundings Issue 14, Spring 2000

SPECIAL FEATURE

You satisfy people’s needs to see issues like the angry brigade or the class nature of justice discussed in a bright and provocative way, but at the same time, just when yo u ’ve been allowed to make them think about these things, in your guardian article or in the standard, you assure them that there is no credible revolutionary ideology. culture in britain and in the widest sense o f the word: written, visual, lived; culture in terms of people's beliefs in things like fairness, justice, the attitudes to violence; all these things have a profound political importance, and obviously this is ingrained in people.
7 Days Wednesday 8 December, 1971 Vol 1, No 7,

Politics and pyramids

Has not the miners' strike shown her the mistake she made in her book, wigan pier revisited, where she portrays the num as incapable of rising above economism and male chauvinism? and in the very week her article appeared the women machinists at fords, many of them black, were also belying her pessimism concerning the inherent limitation of the labour movement - 'the men's movement' as she insists on calling it - by leading a vital struggle for equal pay, and obliging their male union leaders to choose whether or not to support them. Can she really suppose that i am in league with the white male power holders in the labour movement, or that kinnock feels 'wonderful' about the support for benn, scargill and livingstone in the wider movement?
Marxism Today January 1985

LIFE

we spoke to dr. j. boyson, headmaster of highbury grove 'school, who told us that he certainly did not support the aims of the group, but was “not thinking of taking disciplinary action at the moment” t h e a m a z in g pro fesso r cook a certain professor cook, newly appointed dean of the school of health and life sciences at the university of wales, has produced his own solution to the problems of class conflict in britain. “at my first t he paddington day clinic: what the patients think patients at the paddington day clinic have a drink at the local and continue their talk.
7 Days Wednesday 26 January 1972 No 13

C.L.R. James A genuine twentieth century hero?

Rather, the contradictory movement often manifests itself as a decisive shift from quantity to quality; or, as james says in notes on dialectics, 'lear lear leap'4 my own perspective on james's life and work was transfomied by editing his letters to constance webb for publication.5 although his fifteen years in the united states are recognised to have been critical for the development of his thought, james's extraordinarily passionate and intense correspondence with a young american woman has until recently been regarded as a minor source supplementing the publications on politics which make up the 'official' history of the period. Many of the key questions which james and his group were pursuing found expression in the middle phase of the webb correspondence; and the writing itself conveys the excitement of discovery as the collective work of the johnson-forest tendency moves towards a final consolidation.0 n ot only does james, as an author, seek to create a progressive narrative of this political process in his letters to webb; but it is one of manifestly heroic dimensions.
Soundings soundings issue 3 Summer 1996

C.L. R. James : A Genuine Twentieth Century Hero?

Rather, the contradictory movement often manifests itself as a decisive shift from quantity to quality; or, as james says in notes on dialectics, 'lear lear leap'4 my own perspective on james's life and work was transfomied by editing his letters to constance webb for publication.5 although his fifteen years in the united states are recognised to have been critical for the development of his thought, james's extraordinarily passionate and intense correspondence with a young american woman has until recently been regarded as a minor source supplementing the publications on politics which make up the 'official' history of the period. Many of the key questions which james and his group were pursuing found expression in the middle phase of the webb correspondence; and the writing itself conveys the excitement of discovery as the collective work of the johnson-forest tendency moves towards a final consolidation.0 n ot only does james, as an author, seek to create a progressive narrative of this political process in his letters to webb; but it is one of manifestly heroic dimensions.
Soundings Issue 3, Summer 1996