Red International and Black Caribbean

Margaret Stevens

Description

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*



This is the history of the black radicals who organised as Communists between the two imperialist wars of the twentieth century. It explores the political roots of a dozen organisations and parties in New York City, Mexico and the Black Caribbean, including the Anti-Imperialist League, and the American Negro Labour Congress and the Haiti Patriotic League, and reveals a history of myriad connections and shared struggle across the continent.



This book reclaims the centrality of class consciousness and political solidarity amongst these black radicals, who are too often represented as separate from the international Communist movement which emerged after the Russian Revolution in 1917. Instead, it describes the inner workings of the ‘Red International’ in relation to struggles against racial and colonial oppression. It introduces a cast of radical characters including Richard Moore, Otto Huiswoud, Navares Sager, Grace Campbell, Rose Pastor Stokes and Wilfred Domingo.



Challenging the ‘great men’ narrative, Margaret Stevens emphasises the role of women in their capacity as laborers; the struggles of peasants of colour; and of black workers in and around Communist parties.
List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Bolshevism in Caribbean Context

1. The Dark World of 1919

2. Hands Off Haiti!

3. El Dorado Sees Red

Part II: Two Steps Forward

4. Every Country Has a Scottsboro

5. The ‘Black Belt’ Turned South and Eastward

Part III: Race, Nation and the Uneven Development of the Popular Front

6. The Temperament of the Age

7. Good Neighbors and Popular Fronts

8. Of ‘Dogs, Hogs and Haitians’

Notes

Index

Sujets

• Minority Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Political Parties
• Political Process
• Political Ideologies
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Histoire
• Revolutions
• USA
• Georges Padmore
• Harlem Español
• Internacional Comunista
• Haití
• México
• Communism
• Revolutionary
• International Labor Defense
• American Negro Labor Congress
• Interwar period
• Daily Worker
• East Harlem
• Communist Party USA
• Workers' Party
• Comintern
• General officer
• Americas
• Revolution
• Political party
• Jamaica
• Haiti
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• George Padmore
• Scottsboro Boys
• General
• États-Unis
• Mexico
• Cuba
• History
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Black Belt
• Communisme
• Trinidad
• Marcus Garvey
• AFL
• Spanish Harlem
• Harlem
• Internationale communiste
• CIO
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786801647
• Langue: English

Extrait

Red International and Black Caribbean

Black Critique Series editor: Anthony Bogues

This series concerns radical black thought and politics, both historical and contemporary. The volumes explore and interrogate the ways in which radical black thinkers, activists and artists have formulated political, social and artistic ideas and practices. The series includes critical texts on the present conjuncture facing Africa and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, North America, Europe and other parts of the world.

The main objective of the series is to produce a bo dy of work which challenges conventional critical theory and foregrounds a radical tradition oftentimes marginalized.

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