CLR James

CLR James —‘The coming revolution will be black and white’
Features

CLR James —‘The coming revolution will be black and white’

Black people’s resistance was key to abolishing slavery and ending feudalism—and it will be key to winning socialism.
27 July 2020
Obituaries

Staying human in the belly of the beast

Grace Lee Boggs, who died last month, was an important figure on the US left. Working with CLR James and others she helped to rescue revolutionary socialism from the dead weight of Stalinism, as well as becoming a notable activist in the Civil Rights movement, writes Christian Høgsbjerg.
02 November 2015
Checking racism out of the library - an experiment in activism
Features

Checking racism out of the library – an experiment in activism

A new book, Celebrating CLR James in Hackney, recalls grassroots campaigns against racism in east London and reprints documents and interviews
14 April 2015
Reviews & Culture

CLR James in Imperial Britain

When Cyril Lionel Robert (CLR) James died in May 1989, he was a seemingly marginal and inconsequential figure. His death in a tiny flat in Brixton, south London, appeared symbolic. Supposedly “socialist” regimes were collapsing all across Eastern Europe. As James was taking his final breath, protests were erupting in Tiananmen Square against the tyranny...
04 June 2014
News Image
Features

How Marxist historian CLR James understood racism and revolutions

The Trinidadian Marxist CLR James broke new ground in the study of racism and revolutions, says Christian Hogsbjerg
22 October 2013
News Image
News

CLR James library victory

There were celebrations last week after Hackney council agreed to leave the CLR James Library in east London with its original name.
12 October 2010
News Image
News

Campaign to keep name of Hackney’s CLR James library

The CLR James Library in east London, named after the late, great Trinidadian Marxist historian CLR James, is under threat.
28 September 2010
Win a CLR James cricket T-shirt
Reviews & Culture

Win a CLR James cricket T-shirt

CLR James was a Marxist, anti-imperialist, pioneer of Pan-Africanism and author of one of the finest books ever written on cricket.
18 August 2009
News Image
News

Success of conference celebrating CLR James

More than 90 people attended a dayschool to celebrate the legacy of CLR James in central London last Saturday.
05 February 2008
Books on the fight against the slave trade
Features

Books on the fight against the slave trade

Books on the fight against the slave trade
24 March 2007
Pierre Broué, 1929–2005
Obituaries

Pierre Broué, 1929–2005

The Marxist historian Pierre Broué will never achieve the status of posthumous fashionability now awarded to CLR James, nor will he ever be widely as feted as Eric Hobsbawm among literati and opinion former circles.
13 August 2005