Australian Left Review

Article Title

Briefings: Raymond Williams

Authors

Colin Mercer

Abstract

The pre-eminent British socialist intellectual Raymond Williams, who died in February, deserves a full retrospective which, unfortunately, time and space will not allow here. As the editors of Politics anci Letters ( 1979) (a series of interviews with him conducted in 1977-8 by New Left Review) noted, he occupied "a unique position among socialist writers in the English speaking world today."