The nephew of C.L.R. James, who inspired his radical politics, a powerful writer and broadcaster, we have lost a great champion of justice. Here he is facing down Fiona Armstrong's culpable ignorance:
Alongside figures like Tariq Ali, his co-editor on Bandung File, he was one of a generation of organic intellectuals on the left, characterised by a thoughtfulness born out of struggle and rooted in communities. The present moment, characterised as it is by a growth in racism and the fragmentation of organised resistance, would be an apt one for revisiting his life and writings and learning from them.
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