The Hungarian revolution highlighted the obvious racism in France and Western Europe. Whilst hardly anyone in the French Left had flinched at the butchering of Algerians, tens of thousands of communists, in France and Western Europe, now tore up their party cards and left the Communist Party in response to the brutal Soviet repression of the workers revolution in Budapest.
Category: black history month
Black History Month
October is Black History Month here in the UK and as such I wanted to share some of the books I’ve read this year, fiction and nonfiction, as well as the books I’ll be reading this month.