C L R James

C. L. R. James was born in Trinidad in 1901 and moved to England in 1932. He was a leading Marxist theorist, a founder of the Pan-African movement, a cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian , and the author of numerous books, including the influential history of the Haitian slave rebellion, The Black Jacobins . From 1938 to 1953 he lived in the United States, where he wrote, lectured, and organized for the Socialist Worker's Party and cofounded the Johnson-Forest Tendency, a Marxist...See more

C. L. R. James was born in Trinidad in 1901 and moved to England in 1932. He was a leading Marxist theorist, a founder of the Pan-African movement, a cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian , and the author of numerous books, including the influential history of the Haitian slave rebellion, The Black Jacobins . From 1938 to 1953 he lived in the United States, where he wrote, lectured, and organized for the Socialist Worker's Party and cofounded the Johnson-Forest Tendency, a Marxist group. Arrested for "passport violations," James was confined on Ellis Island, where he wrote Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways . Deported from the United States, he spent the rest of his life in England and Trinidad. See less