State Is Your Enemy, The: Essays on Kurdish Liberation and Black Justice (KAIROS): Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice: 3 - Softcover

James Kelman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629639680 ISBN 13: 9781629639680

Publisher: Pm Press, 2023

Synopsis

Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State is Your Enemy lay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants, asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed of 'a lower order.' Drawing parallels between atrocities committed against the Kurds by the Turkish State, and the racist police brutality, and government sanctioned murders in the UK, James Kelman shatters the myth of Western exceptionalism, revealing the universality of terror campaigns levied against the most vulnerable, and calling on a global citizenship to stand in solidarity with victims of oppression. Kelman's case against the Turkish and British governments is not just a litany of murders, or an impassioned plea - it is a cool-headed take down of the State and an essential primer for revolutionaries.

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About the Author

James Kelman was born in Glasgow, June 1946, and left school in 1961. He travelled and worked various jobs, and while living in London began to write. In 1994 he won the Booker Prize for How Late It Was, How Late. His novel A Disaffection, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. In 1998 Kelman was awarded the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. His 2008 novel Kieron Smith, Boy won the Saltire Society's Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. He lives in Glasgow with his wife Marie, who has supported his work since 1969.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pm Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629639680
• ISBN 13: 9781629639680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192