Andrew Sage

And you had the Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or JEWEL, which was founded by Howard University economics student, Unison Whiteman.

They were also joined by Bernard Cord, an economics lecturer at UB St.

Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago.

So at first, in terms of their politics, they really wanted popular assemblies and that sort of thing.

But actually, let me get into the background of the Caribbean left.

You see, in the 1950s, there was an upheaval.

You know, radicals had been shifting from the sort of Stalinism that had become popular in the post-World War II era towards a more critical sort of Trotskyism or Maoism.

C.L.R.

James and George Padmore, both based in London, were already advocating independence for Africa and the Caribbean, rejecting the Stalinist idea that liberation should wait until after World War II.

C.L.R.

James is an interesting figure politically to me because while he was ostensibly a Trotskyist, he was in many ways unorthodox in his approach to those politics.

Yeah, C.L.R.

James' book, I'm trying to remember if it's called Beyond A Boundary or Beyond The Boundary.

Beyond The Boundary.

Yeah, it's a great book.

It's the only book about cricket that I've ever read, and thus the only one that I've ever enjoyed.

As such, I've always had a really soft spot for him.

As someone who did sports for a living and academia for a living, I saw a really positive example of the role that both of those can play in liberation struggles in his writing.

It's one I'd encourage everyone to read if you're looking for a book.

His writing is very readable, his historical writing, which I, at the time of my life when I was in grad school, I very much appreciated someone who wrote something that wasn't like...