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

Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbeans most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through essays, speeches, letters and journal entries, Andaiyes 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 Peoples Alliance, the meaning and impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiyes 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, 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.