ABSTRACT
In Trinidad in the 1940s and 1950s, La Rose became involved in workers' rights movements, becoming General Secretary of the West Indian Independence Party. Having settled in London in 1961, La Rose was an active member of Britain's black community in the early 1960s, founding N e w Beacon Books in 1966 and co-founding, with Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Andrew Salkey, the Car ibbean Artists ' M o v e m e n t later the same year. His debut volume of poetry Foundations (1966) was the first book published by New Beacon; he has since published another volume and worked on several critical books, as well as editing the New Beacon Review. He also worked on the first academic study of calypso with Raymond Quevedo (Calypsonian Attilla the Hun). La Rose was Chairman of the Institute of Race Relations in the period 1972-3, and of Towards Racial Injustice, the campaign journal of which was Race Today. He has taken an active role in the establishment of the Black Parents Movement (1975) and European Action for Racial Equality and Social Justice (1990) and in 1991 became Chairperson for the Board of Trustees of the New Beacon Educational Trust. He is the Director of the Internat ional Book Fair o f Radical Black and Third World B o o k s
La Rose, J. (1991) Eyelets of Truth within Me, London: New Beacon Books.
