On this day in 1961, cotton plantation workers in the Baixa de Cassanje region of Angola protested for better working conditions, an act which escalated into a period of open rebellion and war against Portuguese colonizers.
Image: Transporting Cotonang Equipment through flooded areas of the Baixa 1968 [journals.openedition.org]
CLR James, born on this day in 1901, was a Trinidadian historian and journalist whose works include "The Black Jacobins", a history of the Haitian Revolution, and "World Revolution", detailing the rise and fall of the Communist International.