John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace – reshaping US politics and inspiring movements worldwide
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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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