A. Sivanandan (1928-2018) is regarded as one of the leading Black political thinkers in the UK. He was Director Emeritus of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of the revered journal Race and Class. He is the author of countless classics, including Catching History on the Wing (Pluto, 2008) and A Different Hunger (Pluto, 1991). He contributed the foreword to A Suitable Enemy (Pluto, 2009).

• Foreword by Colin PrescodIntroduction: Unity of struggleI The personal and the political1. The liberation of the black intellectual2. The hokum of New Times3. La trahison des clercsII State racism and resistance4. Race, class and the state: the political economy of immigration5. From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain6. RAT and the degradation of black struggle7. Race, terror and civil society+ addendumIII Globalisation and displacement8. Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicon age9. New circuits of imperialism10. A Black perspective on the Gulf war11. Poverty is the new blackBibliography of writings by A. Sivanandan Index

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