CLR James Archives • International Socialism

In the belly of the beast

Posted on 4th April 2016 by Camilla

A review of Christian Høgsbjerg, C L R James in Imperial Britain (Duke University Press, 2014), £16.99 In these days of intense state and media racism, any book that offers a deeper understanding of the role of anti-racist and black… Continue Reading →

CLR James and the Black Jacobins

Posted on 23rd April 2010 by ISJ

Aimé Césaire, the late, great Martinican poet and activist, once noted that it was in Haiti that the “colonial problem” was first posed in all its complexity.1 In 1492 the tropical Caribbean island was “discovered” for the Spanish Empire by… Continue Reading →