Paul Buhle is the writer of the authorized biography C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary, the editor of C. L. R. James: His Life and Work, and coeditor with Paget Henry of C. L. R. James’s Caribbean.
C. L. R. James spent his life crossing the boundary lines of race and class, from the colonial Caribbean to Britain and the United States. The world is finally starting to catch up with his pioneering works of Marxist history.
C. L. R. James was one of the twentieth century’s intellectual giants. During a life of intense political engagement, he wrote classic books about the struggle against slavery and the social history of sport, never flinching in his socialist commitment.
The crisis of capitalism is currently opening wide. But it didn’t come out of nowhere.
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
The 1960s magazine that kept alive the history of the US left and provided the intellectual material for its future.
A review of Ben Katchor’s Hand-Drying in America.