Re-Launching The Caribbean’s New World Journal Amilcar Sanatan June 26, 2017 A version of this commentary was published in Stabroek News, July 10, 2017: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2017/features/in-the-diaspora/07/10/ re-launching-caribbeans-new-world-journal/ By the late 1950s, the Caribbean and the Third World were places of high intellectual and political excitement. Political leadership in the Caribbean was occupied by the likes of Norman Manley, Eric Williams, Cheddi Jagan and de- bates about the British West Indies Federation initiated popular conversation on West Indian nationhood. Intellectually, CLR James from Trinidad and Tobago emerged as a major Marxist theorist in the West. Culturally, a distinct West Indian literature emerged and sporting excellence by the West Indies cricket team helped bolster a regional consciousness. Internationally, Africa expanded their political horizon, socialist Cuba was an inspiration and “the ghost of Mar- cus Garvey” (Girvan 2010, 3) enriched the racial pride of the black Caribbean masses. While these events unfolded, the Faculty of Social Sciences was being established at The UWI in Jamaica. It was against this backdrop, students at the University were articulating their political aspirations. By 1960/61, pro- gressive faculty and students at the Mona Campus established the West Indian 1