*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
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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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