In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continent, and the Caribbean.
In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People\'s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney was assassinated..
His deportation catalyzed twentieth-century Jamaica\'s most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale.
In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power.
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continent, and the Caribbean
