Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics

by Trevor Carter, Jean Coussins

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1986

Reviews

[Martin Moriarty · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The assumption of a natural alliance between the organised working class and black people, although traditionally held by people in both groups, has borne fruit only in a limited and sporadic way; in general, the past three or four decades have seen little involvement by the labour and trade union movement in the main concerns of black people. And the extent to which black people have participated in the key struggles of trade unionism, for example, has largely been either ignored (such as in the health workers’ dispute) or glorified as if it marked a great new dawning of consciousness on the part of black people, rather than white people’s perception of black people (such as in the Grunwick dispute).”