CLR James

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

CLR James

CLR James

CLR James

The Old World and the New - CLR James

[This is the text of the speech given by James at a celebration organised to mark his seventieth birthday on 4 January 1971 at Ladbroke Grove in…

Sansculottes

Black Sansculottes - CLR James

This article originally appeared in Newsletter, published by the Institute of Race Relations in London, in October 1964, four months after…

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

C.L.R. James: Organizing in the U.S.A., 1938-1953 - Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs on her formidable years with the Johnson-Forest Tendency and CLR James. From a…

Grace Lee Boggs

Thinking and Acting Dialectically: C.L.R. James, The American Years - Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs writes about her time with CLR James in the Johnson-Forest Tendency and their…

George Padmore

George Padmore: Black Marxist Revolutionary — A Memoir - CLR James

James has frequently said: "George Padmore in my view is one of the greatest politicians of the…

Selma James and CLR James

Striving for Clarity and Influence: The Political Legacy of CLR James - Selma James

The best introduction to CLR James and related organizations. Selma James joined the Johnson-Forest…

Down With Starvation Wages in South-East Missouri - CLR James

An early example of worker writing compiled by CLR James in 1942.

Cover of 'Artie Cuts Out', the top is red, the middle is white and the bottom is block. Contains a hand drawn image of three students and state "Artie Cuts Out, by Arthur Bowman as told to Paul Wallis" and under that states "Illustrated by Angela Terrano"

Artie Cuts Out - 1953

This is a 1953 pamphlet published by the Correspondence chapter in New York City. 'Artie Cuts Out' was an influential piece of inquiry with a…

From DuBois to Fanon - C.L.R. James (1970)

Text of a talk given by James on the trajectory from W.E.B. Du Bois to Franz Fanon.

The Correspondence Booklet (1954)

The 1954 pamphlet "The Correspondence Booklet: Selections From a Paper That is Written, Edited and Circulated by Its Readers."

The C.L.R. James Reader - C.L.R. James, Edited and Introduced by Anna Grimshaw

Published by Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Prepared in collaboration with James in his final year,…

Basic Documents on the Black Struggle - CLR James

Rare collection of readings by C.L.R. James recommended to members of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the early 1970s.