![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his journalism, such sympathies were more explicit: in the run-up to the 1983 election, Rushdie had penned for the New Statesman a bitter condemnation of the “strait-laced Victorian values” and “thin-lipped jingoism” of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative party. His novels’ engagement with colonialism, migration, race and diaspora implied his sympathy with such politics. Rushdie’s appearance at this fundraiser was typical of his longstanding association with the anti-imperialist left. The winner of the signed copy was Caroline Benn, wife of Tony. The event was no gathering of the literary elites but instead organised by sociologist, and soon-to-be editor of the socialist magazine Red Pepper, Hilary Wainwright, to raise funds for the third annual socialist conference in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. In January 1989, two weeks before Ayatollah Khomeini issued the fatwa that sent him into hiding and ultimately led to his stabbing in Chautauqua, New York earlier this month, Salman Rushdie was auctioning a signed copy of The Satanic Verses at a small fundraiser in Highgate. ![]()
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