Making the Revolution Global shows how black radicals transformed
socialist politics in Britain in the years before decolonisation.
African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals, such as Amy Ashwood
Garvey, C.L.R. James, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah and George
Padmore, came to Britain during the 1930s and 1940s and intervened
in debates about capitalism, imperialism, fascism and war. They
consistently argued that any path towards international socialism
must have colonial liberation at its heart. Although their ideas
were met with opposition from many on the British Left, they
convinced significant sections of the movement of the revolutionary
potential of colonised peoples. By centring the entanglements
between black radicals and the wider British socialist movement,
Theo Williams casts new light on responses to the 1935 Italian
invasion of Ethiopia, the 1945 Fifth Pan-African Congress, and a
wealth of other events and phenomena. In doing so, he showcases a
revolutionary tradition that, as illustrated by the global Black
Lives Matter demonstrations of 2020, is still relevant today.
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