From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured in its articles and pamphlets contributions from some of the leading writers and activists of the time: C. L. R. James, Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Rodney, Bobby Sands, Farrukh Dhondy and Mala Sen and many more.
Here to Stay, Here to Fight, draws together many of these key articles and extracts into an impressive collection - the first book-length anthology of its kind - rescuing many contributions from the obscurity of inaccessible archives.
Framing the original contributions, there is a general introduction, which provides an overview of Race Today's 15-year history, section introductions providing context for each extract, written by writers and activists associated with the Collective, and a concluding section exploring the legacy of Race Today in contemporary social movements and debates around race, gender and class.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Leila Hassan, Robin Bunce and Paul Field
1. Race Today and British Politics
2. Black Youth in Revolt
3. Sex, Race and Class
4. Asian Communities, Asian Workers and Race Today
I: THE ASIAN SELF DEFENCE MOVEMENT
II: TIGER STRIKES: BHAG AND THE STRUGGLE FOR HOUSING
III ASIAN WORKERS FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
5. Challenging British (In)Justice
6. Creation For Liberation: Race Today and Culture
7. For Black and Third World Liberation
8. Legacies
Notes on Contributors
Index
