00:00Nobody else contemplates the working class but the working class.
00:27Nobody else is. Somebody else read out.
00:31Read out something for which you fight.
00:38He was black, he was from the Caribbean, and he was also a Marxist.
00:46He was not the historian who spent his entire life in the archive.
00:52Walter Rodney stood up for a Caribbean nationalism, but also for a black consciousness.
01:02Very active in Pan-African affairs, connected with liberation movement.
01:07His idea was very much at the forefront of the radical decolonization struggles during the 60s and into the 70s.
01:17Walter went out into the community and organized for radical change.
01:23When he came back to Guyana, there was great expectations upon his arrival in 74.
01:29It was quite clear that a new leadership element was required.
01:36People actually loved him. People from all races.
01:39When Rodney had to speak, there was silence as though he was God.
01:43Dr. Walter Rodney could have been mentioned in the same breath with Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
01:51Walter was killed in the prime of his life. He was 38 years old.
02:04The government saw Walter as dangerous.
02:10He was charismatic. He was intelligent. He was able to bring people together.
02:14Security agencies, whether in London, whether in the US, whether in the Caribbean, all knew how dangerous he was.
02:23So the surveillance file started on Rodney very early on.
02:27This is part of the way the Caribbean in the Cold War functioned.
02:33It was obvious why they had to murder him.
02:37He would have brought about a fundamental change.
02:42Change.
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