


Muhammad Ali – An Intellectual?
“Me, an intellectual?” I remember the summer of 1994 as an especially heady moment in my life, not least because work on my […]

Shifty Records: History from Below
“Men make their own history,” the Marxist philosopher CLR James wrote in his seminal work about the Haitian Revolution of 1791, The Black Jacobins. A punk-ish observation that thumps like an Ian Herman beat from the slaves of San Domingo, through the Abstract school of art of the early 1900s, the suffragette and civil […]