Chris Braithwaite

Mariner, Renegade, and Castaway

• Author(s): Christian Høgsbjerg,
• Publisher: On Our Own Authority ! Publishing.
• Pages: 100
• ISBN_10: 0990641864
  ISBN_13: 9780990641865
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Political , History / World , Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations , Social Science / Black Studies (Global) ,

Description:... Chris Braithwaite (aka �Chris Jones�) was a black Barbadian seafarer who became a leading organiser of colonial seafarers in inter-war Britain. He played a critical role in the Pan-Africanist and wider anti-colonial movement alongside figures such as C.L.R. James and George Padmore. Christian H�gsbjerg recovers Braithwaite�s long overlooked life as a black radical and political trade-unionist, and suggests his determined struggle for working class unity in the face of racism and austerity retains relevance for us today.