Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

The following is the text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queen's College, New York, USA in 1975. Along with Cheddi Jagan's article, "Pragmatism and rightist opportunism," it was published in the pamphlet 1986 pamphlet, Yes to Marxism! by the...

“George Jackson: Black Revolutionary”

“George Jackson: Black Revolutionary”

Editor's note The following article was written by Walter Rodney for a 1971 issue of Maji Maji, the quarterly journal of the youth wing of the Tanganyika African National Union. The text is held at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia, under the...

Walter Rodney: A people’s professor

Walter Rodney: A people’s professor

Introduction In a recent book on the ongoing relevance of Walter Rodney’s work, Karim F. Hirji notes that, “as with scores of progressive intellectuals and activists of the past, the prevailing ideology functions to relegate Rodney into the deepest, almost...