A Camden Black History Month event

CLR James as a  Political Leader
 - A Personal View - 

 Friday 1 November 2002 7pm
Crossroads Women's Centre
230a Kentish Town Rd, London NW5
Kentish Town tube
Wheelchair accessible

Video showing of the speech given by Selma James, CLR James' widow, at the 2001 CLR James Centenary Conference in Trinidad & Tobago. Focuses on life in the path-breaking socialist organisation CLR founded, including how it encouraged an independent voice for women and for Black people. 

CLR James, distinguished historian, cricket writer and political leader, is widely known for "The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution", and for his work for colonial independence beginning in the 1930s. This event highlights this Trinidadian's less acknowledged but innovative and unique political work with grassroots people in the 40s and 50s in the United States. Selma James was CLR's close colleague for over 30 years. Trained in politics by him, she is herself a distinguished organiser and writer, founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike. 

Organised by Women in Dialogue
Email: centre@crossroadswomen.net
Tel/minicom: 020 7482 2496  
Fax: 020 72094761

The event aims to bring together diverse communities to be better informed about our shared hidden history, and the people who shaped it. This is urgent in a climate where people of colour internationally face unprecedented wars and threats of war, grinding poverty and environmental devastation. We start with women whose work for change is most hidden and most basic to survival. 

 CLR James (1901-1989) lived and worked in Camden during 1933-38 and 1953-57.

Event part funded by Camden Council.