<DIV><p><I>You Don&rsquo;t Play With Revolution</I> collects seven never-before-published lectures by Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered during his stay in Montréal in 1967-1968. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of James&rsquo; knowledge and interest.</p> <p>Little information exists in print on the critical period James spent working with West Indian intellectuals and students in Canada in the late 1960s; this collection highlights the themes we have come to associate with James&rsquo; critical project and situates them in a new light. Readers just beginning to delve into James&rsquo; work will find this collection accessible and engaging, an ideal introduction to a complex and multi-faceted body of scholarship. Editor David Austin has also included two seminal interviews produced with James during his stay in Canada, and a series of letters James exchanged with the West Indian university students who made these lectures possible.</p> <p><I>You Don&rsquo;t Play With Revolution</I> also includes an introduction by Robert A. Hill, co-founder of the C.L.R. James Study Circle and historical advisor to the new James archive at Columbia University.</p> <p><B>C.L.R. James</B> (1901-1989) was born in Trinidad and was a prominent anti-colonial scholar and cultural critic throughout his life. With Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya, he helped define and popularize the autonomist Marxist tradition in the United States and Canada.</p> <p><B>David Austin</B> is founder and trustee of the Alfie Roberts Institute, an independent research institute based in Montréal.</p></DIV>