By Gerald Horne

During the heyday of the U.S. and overseas hard work routine within the Thirties and Forties, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the nationwide Maritime Union (NMU), stands proud as one of many most—if no longer the most—powerful black hard work leaders within the usa. Smith’s energetic club within the Communist occasion, even though, coupled along with his daring hard work radicalism and shaky immigration prestige, introduced him lower than continuous surveillance by way of U.S. gurus, specifically throughout the purple Scare within the Nineteen Fifties. Smith used to be finally deported to his place of birth of Jamaica, the place he persisted his radical hard work and political organizing until eventually his loss of life in 1961.

Gerald Horne attracts on Smith’s existence to make insightful connections among exertions radicalism and the Civil Rights Movement—demonstrating that the profits of the latter have been propelled via the previous and undermined via anticommunism. additionally, Red Seas uncovers the little-known stories of black sailors and their contribution to the fight for hard work and civil rights, the historical past of the Communist occasion and its black participants, and the numerous dimensions of Jamaican exertions and political radicalism.

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