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"Detailed analysis of impact of Caribbean Basin Initiative and CaribCan preferences on the Caribbean through 1989"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

A discussion of the role of slavery in the history of capitalist & precapitalist societies from a Marxist perspective, with focus on the transition from slavery to emancipation, spanning close to 100 years, in the development of the Jamaican LF. Though the Emancipation Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1883, the newly emancipated were reluctant to return to the plantations to labor for wages. Only when land availability relative to population began to decline (around the turn of the century) did more classical features become dominant among the direct producers. It is argued that, despite the variations in immediate relations of exploitation involved in slave labor, peasant agriculture, & wage labor, the capitalist mode of production predominated throughout this transition. Marxist interpretations are critically assessed, & the historical experiences of Jamaican workers in the postemancipation period are evaluated as a means of illustrating the validity of the approach. Modified AA

Theorizing Anti-Racism presents insightful essays that engage both Marxist thought and postcolonial and critical race theory with a focus on clarification and points of convergence.

Many Left organizations pride themselves on their commitment to women's liberation, and socialist feminism is a real and important current of Left praxis. Nonetheless, there is also a long history that demonstrates a remarkable persistence of sexist practices within socialist organizations. This article suggests that sexist practices, as well as feminist analyses of and responses to sexism, have been epistemologically minimized, dismissed, distorted and ultimately forgotten, enabling a normalization of patriarchal hegemony on the Left, and producing what the late Charles Mills termed an "epistemology of ignorance." To demonstrate this, the article draws on three case studies, spanning recent and distant history of socialist organizing: the crisis of the International Socialist Tendency and Socialist Workers' Party UK (2010-13); the founding period of the International Socialists in Canada (1975-6); and the Bolshevik-Menshevik division in Tsarist Russia (1902-3). The argument is based on extensive original research including four decades of personal archives from socialist and feminist praxis.