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Introduction:The dialect of liberation: the Congress of Black Writers at 50--and beyond /David Austin --The psychology of subjection: race relations in the United States of America /Alvin Poussaint --The Haitian Revolution and the history of slave revolt /C. L. R. James --The fathers of the modern revolt: Marcus Garvey and the origins of Black Power /Robert Hill --African history in the service of the Black Liberation /Walter Rodney --The civilizations of ancient Africa /Richard B. Moore --Black history in the Americas /Richard B. Moore --Race in Britain and the way out /Richard Small --Moving against the system: new directions for the black struggle /Harry Edwards --Frantz Fanon and the Third World /James Forman --Black Power in the USA /Stokely Carmichael --A black woman speaks out /Barbara Jones --You don't play with revolution: an interview with C. L. R. James /Michael Smith --On the banning of Walter Rodney from Jamaica /C. L. R. Jamesat Montreal rally --Letter to C. L. R. James from Rosie Douglas, June 9, 1968 --Letter to Rosie Douglas from C. L. R. James, June 27, 1968.

Drawing on Walter Rodney's lesser-known texts and speeches alongside his How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), this essay demonstrates how Rodney applied Marx's dialectical materialism to the study of slavery and colonialism in relation to labor in Africa and the Americas. It offers a critical response to the Brazilian theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva's notion of the "racial dialectic," which suggests that Marxism—and particularly the universal conception of human freedom embedded in Marx's conception of the labor theory of value, primitive accumulation, and labor-time—is incapable of addressing the socioeconomic realities of slavery and colonialism. Rodney's oeuvre provides an expansive engagement with Marx's methodology applied to the realities of slavery and colonialism and contemporary political struggles on the African continent and in the Americas.

Rounding out a discussion of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness, the author engages in a dialogue with his respondents about the significance of the congress. This essay assesses the legacy of the 1968 congress as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also contends that race has been overdetermined in ways that have historically understated the centrality of black labor to the emergence of modern capitalism, to anticapitalist struggle, and to the movement for universal freedom and a more broadly defined socialism. The essay concludes by asserting that black radical politics pose a challenge to the color- and colonial-blindness of the conventional Left while at the same time reimaging what freedom can mean in the present.

The official narratives that Canada tells itself about its history and identity facilitate the contemporary exercise of power, determining who is to be regarded as fully belonging and who is alien. While race is excised from these national narratives, it has in fact been central to the formation of Canadian nationhood. The image of the respectable, peaceful, multiculturalism-loving Canadian citizen, descendant of the two founding nations, France and Britain, goes hand in hand with its opposites: the Indigenous 'Indian', the Black, the immigrant newcomer and the refugee. This article examines the historical and contemporary variants of these images and the narratives constructed around them, arguing that Canada's history of colonial violence, slavery and racism has been marginalised through their circulation, and that their continued invocation in public debates on crime, terrorism and immigration is a crucial factor in the perpetuation of racial exclusion. The particular ways in which Québec has conceived its relationship to English Canada add an interesting dimension to this discussion: in the 1960s, Quebecers saw in the political struggles of Africans and African Americans a metaphor for their own identity. But Québec's own version of a founding national narrative is a tale of innocence and victimhood that conveniently omits the colonisation of Indigenous peoples, the practice of slavery and racial exclusion.

In this wide-ranging interview, the renowned development economist Kari Polanyi Levitt reflects on the nature of social transformation in the English-speaking Caribbean and the cultural conditions that would facilitate it. Describing her long-standing collaboration with Lloyd Best and the innovative work on Caribbean economies that they undertook, she indicates both the continuities with the past and the more recent obstacles to the achievement of social and economic justice thrown up by globalisation. In this, she shows how concepts and understanding of what development means have shifted, from a process that, despite shortcomings, entailed some notion of public betterment to one in which the dictates of neoliberalism are paramount — with disastrous social effects.

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Human Service Organizations; 3. Stakeholder Constituencies; 4. Organizational Structure and Program Design; 5. Service Delivery Networks; 6. The User/Consumer Constituency; 7. Organized Professions and Human Service Organizations; 8. Legitimators and Funders; 9. The Human Service Executive; 10. Boards of Directors and Advisory Committees; 11. Accountability; 12. Dealing with Change; References; Index.

This report on progress deals with the development of research resources within the field of social work since the 1991 report of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Task Force on social work research. This report on progress describes the NIMH investment in research development, other national research development initiatives, research dissemination, research publications, research conferences, and research development in social work education programs. Significant research domains are identified; the status of doctoral education is analyzed; and major sources of current funding for social work research are identified. A second section of the report includes a series of recommendations for future action to support future research initiatives within social work.