CLR James

Content by about Trinidadian Marxist historian, activist and cricket aficionado, CLR James.

CLR James

CLR James

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"Facing Reality" 45 years later - Loren Goldner

Facing Reality 45 Years Later: Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu. From Insurgent Notes #27, May 2025.

C.L.R. James’s “Critical Support” of Fidel Castro’s Cuba

Matthew Quest in Insurgent Notes #12, April 2016.

CLR James addressing a rally in Trafalgar Square in 1935

CLR James’s Disputes on Labor’s Self-Emancipation and the Political Economy of Colonial Freedom

The “Not so Bright” Protégées and the Comrades that “Never Quarreled”: CLR James’s…

C.L.R. James’s conflicted intellectual legacies on Mao Tse Tung’s China

An article by Matthew Quest in Insurgent Notes #8.

Book review: C.L.R. James "A History of Pan-African Revolt" (1939,1969)

By Matthew Quest, from Insurgent Notes #6.

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Falling Wall Book Review #2 (1974)

Second edition of the journal of Falling Wall Press with book reviews etc.

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C.L.R. James and the Fate of Marxism - Cornelius Castoriadis

A lecture delivered under the auspices of the C.L.R. James Society, the Africana Studies Department,…

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The Atlantic Slave-Trade - CLR James & William Gorman

Johnson-Forest Tendency member William Gorman and C.L.R. James on the Atlantic slave trade. [This…

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Beyond Measure: C.L.R. James Inﬂuence on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - Kimathi Mohammed

Kimathi Mohammed gives a firsthand account of C.L.R. James' influence on the League…

1940's - Grace Lee Boggs with C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya.

On Marx's Essays from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts - CLR James

[The three essays by Karl Marx to which this was an introduction in 1947 were "Alienated Labour", …

George Jackson

George Jackson - CLR James

[This short article, appraising George Jackson and establishing the links between his generation and that of people such as Du Bois and James…

Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson: Black Star - CLR James

[This memoir of a man whom James has described as “one of the most remarkable men of the century” was first published in Black World in November…