A previously unpublished collection of Rodney’s essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era

Editorial Note
Introduction
Part 1: Marxist Theory and Mass Action
1. A Brief Tribute to Amilcar Cabral
2. Masses in Action
3. Marxism and African Liberation
4. Marxism as a Third World Ideology
5. Labour as a Conceptual Framework for Pan-African Studies
6. The Angolan Question
Part 2: Development and Underdevelopment
7. The Historical Roots of African Underdevelopment
8. Problems of Third World Development
9. Slavery and Underdevelopment
Part 3: Their Pedagogy and Ours
10. The British Colonialist School of African Historiography and the Question of African Independence
11. Education in Colonial Africa
12. Education in Africa and Contemporary Tanzania
Part 4: Building Socialism
13. Tanzanian Ujamaa and Scientific Socialism
14. Class Contradictions in Tanzania
15. Transition
16. Decolonization

In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed twentieth-century Jamaica’s most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney was assassinated.