Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of a Black Communist Claudia Jones

Because of her own ill health, her mother's death at the age of thirty-seven due to menial labor, and her own work as a laundry and factory worker, Jones became radicalized and according to Carole Boyce Davies, Jones drew the connections between her lower/working class background, structural racism, and injustice. [...] she looks at how Jones dismissal by the British communists led her to not only align herself with the West Indian and Asian populations but to reformulate her conception of communism.