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#EricLevy has passed on at the age of 94. A Maoist communist, supporter of black liberation, former member of Black Unity & Freedom Party. We met him March 2020, he knew #ClaudiaJones personally and talks about her support for Mao here. #Vietnam #Korea #Mao #Stalin #Kruschev
Here #EricLecy continues to talk about his former comrade #ClaudiaJones and her comradeship with #PaulRobeson, Eric explains the meaning of the ‘African spiritual’ songs of Paul Robeson and Robeson’s attitude towards the USSR.
#EricLevy continues to talk about #PaulRobeson here, emphasising the importance of his songs and encouraging young people to listen carefully to the meaning of his songs. He explains after the Second World War there was a the turn to repression of McCarthyism.
Today, we honor the late Trinidadian-born communist & feminist revolutionary, Claudia Jones (1915 - 1964).
Jones joined the Communist Party in the US (CPUSA) in 1936 and by the mid-1940s was the Negro Affairs Editor of The Daily Worker, the official publication of CPUSA.
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Jones joined the Communist Party in the US (CPUSA) in 1936 and by the mid-1940s was the Negro Affairs Editor of The Daily Worker, the official publication of CPUSA.
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Harassed by the U.S. government for close to 15 years, she was deported to Britain in 1955. Three years later, Jones founded and served as editor of the West Indian Gazette, a publication that played a key role in developing and sustaining the Caribbean diaspora in London.
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Jones's organizing and community-building often served as the basis for her countless op-eds and articles challenging anti-Black racism across the Diaspora.
“Imperialism is the root cause of racialism,” she once wrote.
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“Imperialism is the root cause of racialism,” she once wrote.
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Today is the born day of Claudia Jones, communist, intellectual and journalist who founded the West Indian Gazette, the first Black newspaper in Britain. and the Notting Hill Carnival. (Photo: Getty)
#ClaudiaJones was born in #Trinidad, moved to the US as a child, was arrested and jailed several times for her activism and communist politics and deported to Britain.Some articles about her fight for the rights of Black women and the Black working class essence.com/black-history-…
Read #ClaudiaJones’ An End to the Neglect of their Negro Woman thenewbridgeproject.com/wp-content/upl
Today is the born day of Claudia Jones, communist, intellectual and journalist who founded the West Indian Gazette, the first Black newspaper in Britain. and the Notting Hill Carnival. (Photo: Getty)
Carole Boyce Davies’ biography Left of Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones is essential reading and a reminder of how long Black women have been intersectional in their feminism.
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In this essay, literary scholar Carole Boyce Davies critiques Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism through the lens of Black left feminism, questioning the neglect of Black women intellectuals, including #ClaudiaJones, in Marxist/left scholarship
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