Under his editorship, Race & Class – a journal for Black and Third World Liberation – became the leading international English-language journal on racism and imperialism, attracting to its editorial board Orlando Letelier, Eqbal Ahmad, Malcolm Caldwell, John Berger, Basil Davidson, Thomas Hodgkin, Jan Carew, Manning Marable among others.
People that soon were awarded fellowship in those early days are, amongst others, novelist John Berger, John Gittings, Richard Gott, Ernst Utrecht, and Ambalavaner Sivanandan