The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye

The Point is to Change the World : Selected Writings of Andaiye will be published in paperback in Spring of 2020. Published by Black Critique Series, Pluto Press, The Point is to Change the World, is edited by Alissa Trotz of CSN, who began the Groundings in Diaspora series.

Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection.

Through essays, letters and journal entries, Andaiye's thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class and power are profoundly articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working People's Alliance, the meaning and impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution, her thirty year journey with cancer. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye's acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people.

Featuring forewords by Clem Seecharan, Robin DG Kelley and Honor Ford-Smith, and with an afterword by series editor Anthony Bogues, these texts will become vital tools in our own struggles to 'overturn the power relations which are embedded in every unequal facet of our lives'.

Rest in Power, AA.
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