Claudia Jones was a Trinidadian-born communist, journalist, and organizer whose theory and practice placed Black working women at the center of the struggle for liberation. Born in Port of Spain in 1915, she moved with her family to Harlem as a child and grew up in poverty, with tuberculosis that damaged her health for life. Moved by the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, she joined the Young Communist League in the 1930s. She rose to become one of the Communist Party's leading figures, writing and editing for its press and leading its work among women.

In her 1949 essay "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!" Jones argued that Black women faced a triple oppression as workers, as Black people, and as women. Because they stood at the point where all three met, she argued, their liberation was the key to the freedom of all. The essay anticipated much of later Black feminist thought. For her ideas and organizing, the US government arrested her repeatedly. Convicted under the Smith Act, she served time in a federal prison and was deported to Britain in 1955.

In London she continued the fight. She founded the West Indian Gazette, one of the first Black newspapers in Britain, and organized against racism and colonialism. After the racist riots in Notting Hill in 1958, she organized a Caribbean carnival in 1959 to affirm the culture and dignity of the Black community, an event remembered as a forerunner of the Notting Hill Carnival. She believed that a people's art is the genesis of their freedom. Jones died in 1964 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery, beside the grave of Karl Marx. Her legacy is that of a revolutionary who joined theory, organizing, and cultural work in the fight for a free world.

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