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Beyond a Boundary

Hutchinson

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade.\nIn this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. L. R. James brilliantly illuminates these epoch-making events. He explores the appalling economic realities of the Caribbean economy, the roots of the world's only successful slave revolt and the utterly extraordinary former slave - Toussaint L'Ouverture - who led them. Explicitly written as part of the fight to end colonialism in Africa, The Black Jacobins put the slaves themselves centre stage, boldly forging their own destiny against nearly impossible odds. It remains one of the essential texts for understanding the Caribbean - and the region's inextricable links with Europe, Africa and the Americas.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Classics

The black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

History

Cyriel Lionel Robert James

Americas

Allison Busby

Black Jacobins, The: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Spheres of Existence: Selected writings

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Lawrence Hill Books

Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya &amp; Grace Lee, this is another pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and reclamation of Marx, from the West Indian scholar and activist. This edition includes the original introduction from Martin Glaberman, a new introduction from Paul Buhle, and one from the author himself. "Two generations ago, CLR James and a small circle of collaborators set forth a revolutionary critique of industrial civilization. Their vision possessed a striking originality. So insular was the political context of their theoretical breakthroughs, however, and so thoroughly did their optimistic expectations for working class activity defy trends away from class and social issues to the so-called 'End Of Ideology', that the documents of the signal effort never reached public view. Happily, times have changed. Readers have discovered much, even after all these years, to challenge Marxist (or any other) orthodoxy. They will never find a more succinct version of James' general conclusions that State Capitalism and World Revolution. In this slim volume, James and his comrades successfully predict the future course of Marxism." [Paul Buhle, from his Introduction] "When one looks back over the last 20 years to those men who were most far-sighted, who first began to tease out the muddle of ideology in our times, who were at the same time Marxists with a hard theoretical basis, and close students of society, humanists with a tremendous response to and understanding of human culture, Comrade James is one of the first one thinks of." [E P Thompson]

State Capitalism and World Revolution (Revolutionary Classics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Raya Dunayevskaya

Politics & Government

Charles H Kerr Pub Co

Writing in collaboration with Cornelius Castoriadis and Grace Lee, James examines the practical process of social revolution in the modern world. Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers’ revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the wildcat strikes of U.S. workers (against Capital and the union bureaucracies), James and his co-authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans and anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality, first published in 1958 by Marty Glaberman, rejected modern society’s mania for “conquering nature,” and welcomed women’s struggles “for new relations between the sexes.” A true masterpiece, and still one of the finest expositions of workers’ self-emancipation around. This new 21st-century edition includes a new introduction by James’s longtime friend, John H Bracey, situating the book in its 1950s/60s context, and accentuating its continued relevance in our time. “Springing forth from the utopian flames of self-emancipation kindled by the workers councils of the Hungarian Revolution, this pivotal book offers a socialist indictment of the miserabilism of state capitalism and calls for the ongoing rejection of both vanguardism and the bureaucratic rationalism of state power.” [Ron Sakolsky]

Facing Reality

Charles H. Kerr

A survey of Negro rebellion as seen by a famous black activist.

History of Negro Revolt

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Research Associates School Times Publications

Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901 – 1989), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of subaltern studies, and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature. His work is often associated with Caribbean and Afro-nationalism, though James himself contended that the "either-or" was a false dichotomy, and that Caribbean peoples were indebted to European as much as African cultural traditions. A tireless political activist, James's writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles.

World Revolution, 1917-1936

Prism Key Press

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