Walter Rodney’s assassination marked the early 1980s wave of political violence

Evidence

Political violence, torture, and assassinations seemed to proliferate in the early 1980s; the casualties included the great Guyanese historian Walter Rodney, an intellectual Robinson would certainly situate squarely within the Black Radical Tradition. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 27

Categorization

• XREF: Walter Rodney’s murder connects to the broader literature on Caribbean radical historiography and decolonial scholarship.