Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Beginnings: The Politics of the Word

2 Cultural Revolutionaries

3 Activist Work and the Workings of Activism

4 Slow Builder and Consolidator: A Life History of John La Rose

5 'Life Experience with Britain'

6 Radical Lifework

Appendix I: New Beacon Publications, 1966 - 1999

Appendix II: Scope of the George Padmore Institute's Archive

Appendix III: Activist Network centred around New Beacon

Bibliography