The Point is to Change the World

Andaiye was a Guyanese social, political, and gender rights activist. She was an early member of the executive of the Working People's Alliance, a founding member of the women's development organisation Red Thread in Guyana in 1986 and an executive member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action. Alissa Trotz is the Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute, and Director of the undergraduate Caribbean Studies Program at New College at the University of Toronto.

FOREWORDS

Andaiye’s Radical Imagination—with Special Reference to Hern Engagement with the Working People’s Alliance - Clem Seecharan

Between Home and Street: Andaiye’s Revolutionary Vision - Robin D. G. Kelley

The Principle of Justice as a Labor of Caring - Honor Ford-Smith

Editor’s Note: On the Politics of Precision

Preface and Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

PART ONE - LEARNING LESSONS FROM PAST ORGANIZING

Section I - The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region

1. The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002]

2. The Historic Centrality of Mr. Slime: George Lamming’s Pursuit of Class Betrayal in Novels and Speeches [2003]

3. The Grenada Revolution, the Caribbean Left, and the Regional Women’s Movement: Preliminary Notes on One Journey [2010]

4. Conversations about Organizing: Revised Excerpts from an Interview with Andaiye by David Scott [2004]

Section II - Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it

5. 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian/African Relations [2008; 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz)

6. Organizing within and against Race Divides: Lessons from Guyana’s African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, Indian Political Revolutionary Associates, and the Early Working People’s Alliance [2008, 2017/2018]

7. Three Letters against Race Violence [2004, 2008]

PART TWO - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: STARTING WITH THE UNWAGED CARING WORK OF MAINLY WOMEN WE REACH ALL SECTORS

Section I - Why and How to Count Unwaged Work

8. Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women [1994]

9. Grassroots Women Learning to Count their Unwaged Work: Summary Report on a 2001–2002 Trial [2009]

10. Looking at the Legalization of Abortion from the Perspective of Women as Unwaged Carers [1993]

Section II - Breaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged

11. Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women’s Work and all Women’s Lives: A Call to Action [2000]

12. The Impact of the IMF Structural Adjustment Programme on Women’s Unwaged Work and How We Can Resist It [c.mid-1980s]

13. Housewives and Other Carers in the Guyanese Resistance of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Looking Back [2010] 134

14. Four Letters in Defense of Workers, Unwaged and Waged, and their Families [2011, 2012, 2018]

PART THREE - THE POLITICAL IN THE PERSONAL

Section I - My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power

15. The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017/2018]

16. Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992]

Section II - Women and Depression: Auto/biographies

17. Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973]

18. M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982]

Section III - Undomesticating Violence

19. Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013]

20. Three Letters against Sexual Violence against Children [2010]

21. Knife Edge: Living with Domestic and Economic Violence [2013]

22. Women as Collateral Damage in Race Violence [2002]

23. Sexual Violence is a Question of Whose Honor? [2000]

24. Sexual Abuse and the Uses of Power [2018]

25. Letter to the Police Complaints Authority on an Allegation of Rape against a Police Commissioner [2012]

PART FOUR - TOWARDS STRENGTHENING THE MOVEMENT

26. Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009]

Last Word

27. Walter Rodney’s Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People [2010]

Afterword: Andaiye and the Caribbean Radical Organizing Tradition - Anthony Bogues

Index