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The political life and times of Claudia Jones
Author and historian DAVID HORSLEY introduces his new book, launched this week, on a communist legend and hero of the anti-racism struggle

CLAUDIA JONES has been claimed by different organisations and individuals and even the British state, which used her image on a postage stamp. 

The stamp read: “Claudia Jones, Feminist, Political Activist, Journalist.” 

She was indeed all of those but she was also a fighter against racism, colonialism, imperialism, for unity of a multiracial working class and, above all, a communist. 

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