This documentary DVD directed by Horace Ove. John La Rose discusses his life story from radicalism, the anti colonial fight and union struggles in his native Trinidad through to the music and arts of Carnival , Calypso and Steelpan . His organisational activism in the UK with the Black Education Movement, ESN and streaming to campaigns against police malpractice and brutality. Insights in to politics in Britain. The founding of New Beacon Books the first Black publishing house and specialist bookseller in Britain and the influential . Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) with Andrew Salkey (Jamaica) and Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) . We hear from John La Rose as chair of the New Cross Massacre Action Committee and the tremendous Black People’s Day of Action following the New Cross Fire in 1981. Finally he talks about politics and culture as a base for activism and the founding of the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books and its global impact between 1982 and 1995 and in 1991 the ideas behind the formation of the GPI archive. This DVD is essential to mark some of the key points in British history and the struggles for social justice.

Director ; Horace Ove

Produced by ; Red Box