Walter Rodney: a Lightning Rod of Black Working Class Power
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Walter Rodney and the Russian Revolution
Vijay Prashad on the importance of Walter Rodney's lectures on the Russian Revolution.
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The Groundings With My Brothers at Fifty
In this excerpt from The Groundings with My Brothers, author and educator, David Austin, reflects on Walter Rodney’s vital text, 50 years on.
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Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa
Walter Rodney describes the ways colonialism reversed the continent's various paths of progress in order to solidify colonial exploitation.
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Walter Rodney’s Marxist approach to African underdevelopment
An excerpt from Walter Rodney’s Decolonial Marxism, which exposes the ‘essential and unique’ role of slavery in the economic underdevelopment of a continent.
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Walter Rodney's legacy: by Angela Davis
In this striking new foreword—extracted in full here—Angela Davis considers the legacy of Walter Rodney and his seminal How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
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Walter Rodney: Pan-Afrikanism, Marxism and the Next Generation
Kevin Ochieng Okoth celebrates the work and legacy of radical Guyanese historian and revolutionary Walter Rodney.
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Walter Rodney and the Question of Power: C.L.R James
Walter Rodney, the great Marxist historian and activist, was killed on June 13th 1980 by a bomb in his native Guyana. In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.
