Ambalavaner Sivanandan

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Ambalavaner Sivanandan is the current director of the Institute of Race Relations a London-based independent educational charity. This is best known for its quarterly journal Race and Class, which, in the 1970s was one of the key academic journals in the British New Left and was extremely important in terms of developing an indigenous British anti-racist movement. Dr Sivandandan has also written numerous books on race, in a Marxist vein. He has been highly critical of some trends in modern leftism, such as the New Times movement pioneered by Marxism Today, and Postmodernism. He has also written novels and short stories.