Clr james a political biography samples

Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist (–)

"Cyril James" redirects here. For the Canadian academic, see Frank Cyril James.

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January &#;– 31 May ),^[1] who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.

R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, Trotskyist activist and Marxist writer. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of Marxism, and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature.^[2] A tireless political activist, James is the author of the work World Revolution outlining the history of the Communist International, which stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and in he wrote on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins.^[3]

Characterised by one literary critic as an "anti-Stalinistdialectician",^[4] James was known for his autodidactism, for his occasional playwriting and fiction