Books, Works & Articles

“The Meaning of Philosophy”, in The Royalian, magazine of Queen’s Royal College, Port of Spain, 1920s.

“La Divina Pastora”, in Saturday Review, 15 October 1927; reprinted in Best Short Stories, ed. E.J. O’Brien, London, 1928, in Stories from the Caribbean, ed. Andrew Salkey, London, 1965, in West Indian Narrative, ed. Kenneth Ramchand, Nelson, London, 1966, in Caribbean Prose, and in Spheres.

“Triumph”, in Trinidad, vol. 1, no. 1, Christmas 1929; reprinted in Island Voices, Liveright, New York, 1930, in Salkey, Stories from the Caribbean, op. cit. 1965, in R.W. Sander (ed) From Trinidad: an Anthology of Early West Indian Writing, London, 1978, and in Future.

“Tribute to Lord Harris”, The Times, 29 March 1932.

“The greatest of all bowlers: an impressionist sketch of S.F. Barnes”, Manchester Guardian, 1 September 1932, reprinted in Cricket.

“Barbados and the Barbadians”, 2 parts, Port of Spain Gazette, 20 and 22 March 1932.

“A visit to the Science and Art Museums”, Port of Spain Gazette, 22 May 1932.

“London: First Impressions”, 6 parts, Port of Spain Gazette, 21 and 22 June, 27 July, 4, 11, 28 August 1932.

“The Negro Question”, a column by J.R. Johnson in Socialist Appeal, 26 November 1938.

“Self-Determination for the American Negroes”, “A Negro Organization” and “Plans for the Negro Organization” (discussions with Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico, 4/5/11 April 1939), in Internal Bulletin, Socialist Workers Party, no. 9. June 1939. Reprinted in Documents on the Negro Struggle, Pioneer Publishers, New York, 1962, in Leon Trotsky on Black Nationalism and Self-Determination, 2nd edition, Pathfinder Press, New York, 1978 (1st edition Merit Publishers, 1967), and in Rendezvous.

“Preliminary Notes on the Negro Question”, Socialist Workers Party’s Internal Bulletin, No. 9, June 1939.

“Notes Following the Discussions”, Socialist Workers Party’s Internal Bulletin, No. 9, June 1939.

“Return of a wanderer: comparisons between 1938 and 1953”, Manchester Guardian, 7 October 1953, reprinted in Cricket.

“Popular Art and the Cultural Tradition”, translation of talk sponsored by Congress of Cultural Freedom, Preuves, March 1954; reprinted Third Text, spring 1989.

“Britain’s New Monthlies”, Saturday Review, Feb/March 1954.

Cricket reports in the Manchester Guardian, 1954: May 3, 7, 8, 10*, 11*, 12*, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28; June 7, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25; July 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. (* reprinted in Cricket.)

“Every Cook Can Govern: A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece, and Negro Americans and American Politics”(reprinted from Correspondence, vol. 2, no. 12), Correspondence Publishing Co., Detroit, June 1956, 24pp.; reprinted in Future.

Debate with John Arlott, “In the opinion of this house, neither toss, weather nor wicket were decisive elements in the defeat of Australia last season”, 12 March, 1957, reprinted in Newsletter of the Cricket Society, no. 48 (3) and in Cricket.

“Cricket and Contemporary life”, The Cricketer, vol. 28, no. 5, June 1957 (appears in Beyond A Boundary).

FACING REALITY (authorship originally given as J.R. Johnson with Grace C. Lee and Pierre Chaulieu), Correspondence, Detroit, 1958; republished by Facing Reality, later by Bewick Editions, Detroit 1974, 174 pp.; extracts in Radical America James Anthology, May 1970, “The Workers’ Councils in Hungary” in Future, and “New Society: New People” in Rendezvous.