The most important lesson we learn after reading Left of Karl Marx is that black women’s writings are fundamental to our discussions on black diasporic formation and political radicalism. “Davies conducted extensive ethnographic and archival research to write Left of Karl Marx and her work successfully situates this Caribbean black radical intellectual and activist within a history of black radical thought. much like Claudia Jones, Davies reminds us that the history of twentieth-century Britain is indeed a history that encompasses the Caribbean, the Atlantic and the African Diaspora.” - Kennetta Hammond Perry, Twentieth Century British History “Carole Boyce Davies offers a critical intervention for understanding how the life and work of black communist, activist and intellectual, Claudia Jones illuminates the interlocking trans-Atlantic histories of leftist politics, feminism, anti-colonialism and black internationalism in the twentieth century. “hat Boyce Davies offers to her readers with this book, is a masterful piece of scholarship, made accessible by the author’s skilful presentation of facts, narrative and analysis.” - Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy, European Journal of Women's Studies “t is a must-have for activists and academics alike.” - Brittany Shoot, Feminist Review Now that this difficult work has been done, it is our job to engage it.” - Rashad Shabazz, Wagadu Carol Boyce Davies has done a service to Black Studies and Women and Gender Studies by resurrecting this champion of justice. Overall, Left of Karl Marx is a fascinating study of a political figure that deserves recognition. “ Left of Karl Marx by Carol Boyce Davies is an engaging and long over due scholarly treatment of the life of one of most important and yet obscure Black radicals-Claudia Jones. Left of Karl Marx establishes Jones as a significant figure within Caribbean intellectual traditions, black U.S. Looking at the contents of the FBI file on Jones, Boyce Davies contrasts Jones’s own narration of her life with the federal government’s. Boyce Davies examines Jones’s thought and journalism, her political and community organizing, and poetry that the activist wrote while she was imprisoned. There she founded The West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News and the Caribbean Carnival, an annual London festival that continues today as the Notting Hill Carnival. prison before being deported and given asylum by Great Britain in 1955. government intensified its efforts to prosecute communists, Jones was arrested several times. In the early 1950s, she wrote a well-known column, “Half the World,” for the Daily Worker. A talented writer and speaker, she traveled throughout the United States lecturing and organizing. She was active in the Communist Party from her early twenties onward. In 1924, she moved to New York, where she lived for the next thirty years. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx-a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to incorporate gender and race in her political critique and activism.Ĭlaudia Cumberbatch Jones was born in Trinidad. In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.
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