Walter Rodney: A Lightning Rod of Black Working Class Power
Dissecting the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism, and the global meaning of Black Power.
Dissecting the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism, and the global meaning of Black Power.
Vijay Prashad on the importance of Walter Rodney's lectures on the Russian Revolution.Â
In this excerpt from The Groundings with My Brothers, author and educator, David Austin, reflects on Walter Rodneyâs vital text, 50 years on.Â
Walter Rodney describes the ways colonialism reversed the continent's various paths of progress in order to solidify colonial exploitation.Â
An excerpt from Walter Rodneyâs Decolonial Marxism, which exposes the âessential and uniqueâ role of slavery in the economic underdevelopment of a continent.
In this striking new forewordâextracted in full hereâAngela Davis considers the legacy of Walter Rodney and his seminal How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
Kevin Ochieng Okoth celebrates the work and legacy of radical Guyanese historian and revolutionary Walter Rodney.
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.