Claudia Jones understood the only way to combat and overcome was through the unity of migrants and the working class. On the eve of her deportation to Britain in December 1955 she wrote the above ...

Communist leader Claudia Jones at the National Communist Headquarters in New York, 26th January 1948. She holds a copy of William Z Foster’s book Pages from a Worker’s Life. (Hulton Archive ...

One of the writers that appears frequently in this book is Claudia Jones. Jones was born Claudia Vera Cumberbatch in Trinidad, but changed her surname to Jones when she became a political activist.

What got Communist Davis’ dander up was the arrest in Harlem one night last week of Claudia Jones, 32, nee Claudia Vera Cumberbatch, known also as Mrs. Scholnick (for her ex-husband).

This was not least because, as Claudia Jones put it, Black women were the “real active forces—the organizers and the workers” in the institutions and organizations that were central to the economic, ...

As Carole Boyce Davies, author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, wrote on what would have been Jones’s 100th birthday, in 2015, “Communism provided ...

A BLUE plaque will honour the Windrush generation and mark the spot where the first British Caribbean carnival took place. Camden Council and the Nubian Jak Community Trust (NJCT) will unveil the ...

Claudia Jones. University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney discussed how states "bullied" writers during the Cold War, using the case study of Claudia Jones.

Claudia, who had been expelled from America for being a communist, organised the event to celebrate Caribbean culture. Televised by the BBC, the carnival brochure declared that, "A people's art is ...