Through considering how the lives and work of two Caribbean journalists and thinkers, the
Martinican Black feminist Paulette Nardal, and the Trinidadian communist George Padmore,
interacted, intertwined, and overlapped, this thesis seeks to understand the broader intersections
of Black feminist and Black radical histories of emerging Caribbean nationalisms, at the crucial
point of change, the birth of the modern Caribbean which the 1930s represented. In tracing the
narratives Caribbean people created about three key events; the Italian aggression toward
Ethiopia, the Caribbean Labour Rebellions, and the demand from Nazi Germany that ‘her
colonies’ ought to be returned, principally published in newspapers owned, edited by, and
destined for Caribbean and African people, this thesis contributes to histories of the Black Radical
Tradition, Black Feminism, Black Europe, the Caribbean and the radical Black press. Connecting
and uncovering histories of male and female activists, based in the region and in the diaspora, and
from French and English–speaking colonies, the project repositions political thinkers and actors
better and lesser known, and with a diverse range of tendencies, rarely treated together, as one
collective of Caribbean radicals of the early twentieth century.