Chris Searle

Chris Searle (born 1944) is a British educationalist, poet, anti-racist activist and socialist.

Chris Searle was born in Romford, Essex, in 1944. A young cricketer for England, and a graduate of Leeds University, he became a schoolteacher and has taught in the Caribbean and was also involved in the Stepney School strike of 1971 in the borough of Tower Hamlets. Dismissed when he published a book of his pupils' poems, he was re-instated after his pupils went on strike in protest. He has written widely on cricket, language, jazz, race and social justice, and has taught in Canada, England, Tobago, Mozambique and Grenada. His 1973 work The Forsaken Lover: White Words and Black People won the Martin Luther King Prize. He has been associated with the Institute of Race Relations since the 1970s and is on the editorial board of Race & Class. He writes a weekly column on jazz for the Morning Star.

According to John Berger: "At his best Searle's compassion, anger and sense of historical morality as a storyteller are reminiscent of the early Gorki. I can see no other writer in Britain with whom to compare him."

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