When C.L.R. James, a Marxist intellectual and essayist from the Caribbean island of Trinidad, died in 1989 at age 88, the Times of London lauded him as a “black Plato.” Many on the left today would ...

Grace Lee Boggs writes about her time with CLR James in the Johnson-Forest Tendency and their eventual split. James lived in the U.S. from 1938-1953 until he was deported. After his deportation, ...

Cyril Lionel Robert James was a man of paradox. The Trinidadian-born revolutionary was a lanky 6-foot-3—“lean as a pole,” with “long pianist fingers” that one could easily imagine flying across a ...

Kimathi Mohammed gives a firsthand account of C.L.R. James' influence on the League. Beyond Measure was originally written in 1973 for the first Organization and Spontaneity conference. Two years ...