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Claudia Jones made a way out of no way
LYNNE WALSH reports on a meeting celebrating the huge contribution black communist Claudia Jones made to the struggle for socialism and racial equality in the US and in Britain
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THERE IS a Caribbean saying that could sum up the life and trailblazing work of Claudia Jones: making a way out of no way.
Scholars have interpreted the proverb as a rallying cry for resilience and creativity. There’s a feminist take on it, too, which celebrates women who have crafted lives of great meaning from limited opportunities.
This was one theme of Jones’s life, though there were many, all to be found in the new book from David Horsley, The Political Life and Times of Claudia Jones.
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