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Claudia Jones

About

Claudia Jones, née Claudia Vera Cumberbatch, was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". Due to the political persecution of Communists in the US, she was deported in 1955 and subsequently lived in the United Kingdom. Upon arriving in the UK, she immediately joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and would remain a member for the rest of her life. She then founded Britain's first major black newspaper, the West Indian Gazette, in 1958, and played a central role in founding the Notting Hill Carnival, the second-largest annual carnival in the world.

Books

The Proletarian's Pocketbook
The Proletarian's Pocketbook
Karl Marx, James Baldwin, Malala Yousafzai, Toni Morrison, Friedrich Engels , Frederick Douglass, Harsha Walia, Paulo Freire, Frida Kahlo, Audre Lorde, Arundhati Roy, Fidel Castro, Aimé Césaire, Angela Y. Davis, Kuwasi Balagoon, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Mumia Abu-Jamal , Sundiata Acoli, John Africa, Samir Amin , Toni Cade Bambara , Willie Baptist , Amiri Baraka , Maurice Bishop, James and Grace Lee Boggs , Bertolt Brecht , Safiya Bukhari , Amilcar Cabral , Berta Caceres , Combahee River Collective , Dialego , Dimitrov , DMX , W.E.B. Du Bois , Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Zhou Enlai , Frantz Fanon , Kiran Fatima , Silvia Federici , Les Feinberg , Clara Fraser , Anuradha Ghandy, Nikki Giovanni , Antonio Gramsci , Che Guevara , Fred Hampton , Kathleen Hanna , Harry Haywood , Ho Chi Min , bell hooks , Enver Hoxha , Dolores Ibarruri , Kim Il-Sung , George Jackson , Jonathan Jackson , Marsha P. Johnson, Claudia Jones , Ghasson Kanafani , Leila Khaled , Martin Luther King, Jr. , Alexandra Kollantai, L.A. Research Group , Vladimir Lenin , Rosa Luxemburg , Nelson Mandela , Mao Tse-Tung , Manning Marable , Sub Marcos , José Mariátegui , Carlos Marighella , Bob Marley , Charu Mazumdar, Chico Mendes , Evo Morales , Fred Moten , Huey P. Newton , Kwame Nkrumah , Julius Nyerere , Nyurba Lola Olufemi , Michael Parenti , Leonard Peltier , Rashid , The Red Nation , Paul Robeson , Walter Rodney , J. Sakai , Thomas Sankara , Lucia Sánchez Saornil , Bobby Seale , Chief Seattle , Assata Shakur , Tupac Shakur , Nina Simone , Bhagat Singh , Joseph Stalin , Sukarno , Doris Tijeriino , Sèkou Tourè , Kwame Ture , Dhoruba Bin Wahad , Lilla Watson , Malcolm X , Xi Jinping