"To portray the limits of those necessities and the realization, complete or partial, of all possibilities, that is the true business of the historian." Happy birthday #CLRJames!
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"Great [people] make history, but only such history as it is possible for them to make. Their freedom of achievement is limited by the necessities of their environment." Happy birthday #CLRJames!
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#Trinidadian journalist, historian, & #Marxist/#Trotskyist theorist #CLRJames was born #ThisDayInHistory in 1901. In seminal 1938 work #TheBlackJacobins he said of future history, "it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity."
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Honoring C.L.R James - historian, revolutionary, intellectual giant, a pan-Africanist and cultural critic who connected the dots between history, politics, and culture, inspiring many. His legacy reminds us that history and culture are powerful tools in struggle for justice. #BlackHistory #CLRJames
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A month from today, I will be giving at talk in Dublin, Ireland titled "CLR James, Irish Question, and Black Liberation Struggle." A preview of a section from my forthcoming book "Reading Struggles." Can't wait and mroe details as it approaches. #CLRJames
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How does cricket reflect the struggles of colonialism and identity? C.L.R. James’s "Beyond A Boundary" reveals the game’s deeper cultural and political role. Dive into this insightful review!
yayaver.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
#CricketCulture #ColonialHistory #CLRJames #BlackHistory #BookLovers
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I first taught this class 10 years ago @ Hunter. It was incredible because of the student body.
•Pagoda — #PatriciaPowell
• What Noise Against the Cane — Desiree Bailey
• A Small Place — #JamaicaKincaid
• The Black Jacobins — #CLRJames
• Dub — #MichaelVeal
• Dancehall: A Reader
🔊🔊🇯🇲
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Cover of Black Spartacus, showing a profile of Toussaint Louverture.
1/3 Finally finished #BLACKSPARTACUS, the magnificent biography of #ToussaintLouverture by #SudhirHazareesingh. The detail it goes into is remarkable showing his (occasionally contradictory) revolutionary development. If you only read one book #CLRJames’ #BLACKJACOBINS is still it, but to fully…
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#CLRJames #BlackJacobins
#Blacksky #Booksky
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Paperback – (1989) by C.L.R. James
A powerful and impassioned historical the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803.
#1 Best Seller
in #Haiti & #Caribbean.
www.amazon.com/Black-Jacobi...
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"These are the slogans under which the working-class movement and the colonial peoples will safeguard the precious beginning in Russia, put an end to imperialist barbarity, and once more give some hope in living to all overshadowed humanity." #CLRJames, #WorldRevolution
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"It is a sea of blood and strife that faces us all, and shrinking from it only makes it worse. Turn the imperialist war into civil war. Abolish capitalism. Build international Socialism." #CLRJames, #WorldRevolution
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"Correspondence—To recognize, to repory and to serve the New Society" a paper by the Correspondence Publishing Committee (1951-1962). #GraceLeeBoggs #RayaDunayevskaya #JimmyBoggs #MartyGlaberman #CLRJames
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Image of a young C.L.R. James with the quote: The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
Today in #LaborHistory 5/19/1989: #CLRJames died. #Trinidad, #Marxist historian & journalist. #Author of The Black Jacobins (1938) about #revolution in #Haiti, many articles & essays on #class & #race.
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Painting of Toussaint in a double-breasted great coat, with brass buttons and epaulets, and a 3-cornered hat.
Today in #LaborHistory 5/6/1794: #ToussaintL'Ouverture launched Haitian #revolution, ending #slavery & creating world's 1st black republic. US refused to recognize #Haiti for 70. #France extracted millions in restitution. Read #BlackJacobins, by #CLRJames
#boukman #books #author #writer
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Posthumous 1813 painting of Louverture, in a double-breasted blue officer’s coat, with brass buttons and gold epaulets on the shoulders, and a three-cornered hat. By Alexandre-François-Louis, comte de Girardin - allposters.com, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46545226
Today In #LaborHistory 4/7/1804: Haitian general #ToussaintLouverture died. Led slave #revolt against #France & #revolution making #Haiti the world's 1st black republic For more, read “Black Jacobins,” by #CLRJames.
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Despite his contributions to African history and the history of the African diaspora, the Afro-Trinidadian Marxist C. L. R. James is not respected as a founder of African Studies. Why? roape.net/2025/02/26/a...
#CLRJames #Africanstudies
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Accrington CC supporters settle in for the 1976 Worsley Cup Final against hosts Rawtenstall CC. Ultimately disappointed, they were among 4,000 or more to attend on the day and contribute towards a record gate of £1,451.20.
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If #CLRJames' famous question: “what do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”, sought to challenge English cricket’s elitist historical orthodoxy, he failed in his task.
Given this failure, what is the authentic story of English cricket from the people’s perspective? #historyfrombelow
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I found this interesting from the late #CLRJames www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
We'd need to be a #Republic by then
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Nice surprise to see film historian Charles Barr in this doco on Alec Guinness.
Sent me a dvd of the classic #CLRJames doco he worked on in days before YouTube.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ea...
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#blackhistorymonth #the1619project #caste #isabelwilkerson #nikolehannahjones #stampedfromthebeginning #ibramxkendi #wearetheleaderswehavebeenlookingfor #eddiesglaudejr #themessage #tanehisicoates #theblackjacobins #clrjames #thefirstandlastkingofhaiti #marlenedaut #halfamerican
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L'Anticapitaliste📣 Recontextualiser les Jacobins noirs: La réédition des Jacobins noirs de C. L. R. James par les éditions d’Amsterdam en 2018 rend possible de revoir les Antilles et Amériques noires dans la période… 📣NPA-A #JacobinsNoirs #CLRJAMES #Histoire #RévolutionFrançaise #Antilles
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1901, #Marxist author #CLRJames was born in #Trinidad. Known for books on the #HaitianRevolution and #PanAfrican revolt, here is one of his on #DirectDemocracy, since so many people falsely believe Marxism requires #bureaucracy.
www.marxists.org/archive/jame...
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Indeed. Sadly ironic that the ‘suits’ running the game exemplify #CLRJames maxim: ‘what do they know of cricket, who only #cricket know?’.
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A Microcosm of the World: C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite: The complete, unaired 1976 BBC interview:
#StuartHall #BlackSky #Books #NYB #CLRJames #PhoebeBraithwaite #Read #Bluesky #Writers #Academia #Academic
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
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Ein knallrotes Buch mit rein typografischem Cover steht auf einem Holztisch: »C.L.R. James: Die schwarzen Jakobiner. Toussaint Louverture und die Haitianische Revolution«, herausgegeben von Philipp Dorestal und Çiğdem Inan
Packend geschildert, klassenanalytisch klug und ein Korrektiv eurozentrischer Geschichtsschreibung, das Schwarze Geschichte sichtbar macht: #CLRJames »Die schwarzen Jakobiner« zur #HaitianischeRevolution, die in der Nacht zum 23. August 1791 begann. Must-Read: dietzberlin.de/produkt/c-l-...
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“Though not even the genius of James could have predicted the #celebrity presidency of Donald #Trump, it is almost impossible to read American Civilization faithfully in our times and not find a forewarning.” aeon.co/essays/c-l-r... #CLRJames
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‘The great masses of the American people no longer fear power,’ wrote James near the end of the manuscript. ‘They are ready to allocate today power to anyone who seems ready to do their bidding.’ aeon.co/essays/c-l-r... #CLRJames
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