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MARXISM AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE:A Working BibliographyJuly 2026

Cedric J. Robinson's Black Marxism
Cedric J. Robinson's Black Marxism

Prepared by Abdul Alkalimat, with contributions from Bill Sales, James Pope, Carl Redwood, Rose Brewer, Mike Goldfield, Kolya Abramsky, Amilcar Shabazz, Kate Williams, Maurice Jackson, Hondo, Sukant Chandan, John Woodford, Timothy Johnson, August Nimtz, Roger Zwanenberg

1860s

1860s Karl Marx, Writings on the Civil War https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/us-civil-war/index.htm

1860s Karl Marx, On Slavery and the Civil War https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/internationalist/pamphlets/MARX-on-Slavery-OptV5.pdf

1862 Karl Marx, Abolitionist Demonstrations in America https://wikirouge.net/texts/en/Abolitionist_Demonstrations_in_America

1900s

1903 Eugene Debs, The Negro and the Class Struggle https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1903/031100-debs-negrointheclassstruggle.pdf

1904Eugene Debs, The Negro and His Nemesis https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1904/040100-debs-negroandhisnemesis.pdf

1910s

1912 Hubert Harrison, Socialism and the Negro https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v13n01-jul-1912-ISR-gog-ocr.pdf

1913 W.E.B. DuBois, Socialism and the Negro Problem http://www.webdubois.org/dbSocialism&NProb.html

1913 V.I. Lenin, Russians and Negroes https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/feb/00b.htm

1914V.I. Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/index.htm

1917Hubert Harrison, The Negro and the Nation https://archive.org/details/negronation00harr/page/10/mode/2up

1917Hubert Harrison, What Socialism Means to Us https://abolitionnotes.org/hubert-harrison/socialism

1917Hubert Harrison, The White War and the Colored World https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/hubert_h_harrison/10.7916/d8-xkjk-6q89

1917 V. I. Lenin, New Data on the Laws Governing the Development of Capitalism in Agriculture https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/newdev/index.htm

1917 Lenin, Statistics and Sociology https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/jan/00d.htm

1919 Program of the African Blood Brotherhood https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/other/abb/abb.html

1920s

1920 V.I. Lenin, Theses on the National and Colonial Questions https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jun/05.htm

1922 Comintern 4th Congress, Theses on the Black Question https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/4th-congress/black-question.htm

1922 Otto Huiswoud and Claude MacKay, Speeches to the 4th World Congress of the Comintern on the Negro Question https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1920/1125-huiswoudmckay-cispeeches.pdf

1922 Otto Huiswoud, Discussion on Black Liberation at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/4th-congress/black-struggle.htm

1922 Otto Huiswoud. Report on the Black Question https://johnriddell.com/2018/05/08/the-cominterns-1922-initiative-for-global-black-liberation/

1922 Communist International, Draft Theses on the Negro Question https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/4th-congress/blacks.htm

1923 Claude McKay, Soviet Russia and the Negro https://yevgeniyfiks.com/artwork/2225082-Soviet-Russia-and-the-Negro-An-Essay-by-Claude-McKay.html

1924 Nguyen-ai-Quac (Ho Chi Minh), Lynching: A Little Known Aspect of American Civilization (5 pages)

1924 Ho Chi Minh, The Klu Klux Klan (4 pages)

1925 Otto Hall, Meeting with Stalin https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdnsv1n1/StalinHall.htm

1925 William Dunne, Negroes in American Industry https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/03/19/erican-industry-by-william-f-dunne-from-workers-monthly-vol-4-nos-5-6-march-april-1925/

1928 Comintern, The 1928 and 1930 Comintern Resolutions on the Black National Question in the United States http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/CR75.html

1928 William Z Foster, White Negro Workers Must Unite https://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1928/white-negro-workers.pdf

1929Willliam Z Foster, Organize the Negro Workers https://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1929/organize-negro-workers.pdf

1929Cyril Briggs, The Negro Question in the Southern Textile Strikes https://www.marxists.org/archive/briggs/negro-so-textile.pdf

1930s

1930s James Ford, The Black Struggle Against Capitalist and Imperialist Exploitation and Oppression (32 pages)

1930s Walter T. Howard, B. D. Amis: African American Radical (A short anthology of writings and speeches) (133 pages)

1930s Leon Trotsky, On Black Nationalism, Documents on the Negro Struggle https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1940/negro1.htm

1930s The Communist Party, The Communist Position on the Negro Question: Self-Determination for the Black Belt (64 pages)

1930 James Ford, World Problems of the Negro People (24 pages)

1931 William Z Foster, Good Resolutions Versus Bad Practice in Negro Work https://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1931/good-resolutions.pdf

George Padmore, The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers (126 pages)

1931 Communist Party, Race Hatred on Trial (47 pages)

1933 League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Equality, Land, and Freedom: A Program for Negro Liberation https://ia601302.us.archive.org/26/items/EqualityLandAndFreedomAProgramForNegroLiberation/LSNR.pdf

1933 Harry Haywood, The Struggle for the Leninist Position on the Negro Question in the United States https://www.blackagendareport.com/essay-struggle-leninist-position-negro-question-united-states-harry-haywood-1933

1933 W.E.B. DuBois, Marxism and the Negro Problem http://www.webdubois.org/dbMNP.html

1933W.E.B. DuBois, Karl Marx and the Negro https://mronline.org/2024/08/05/karl-marx-and-the-negro-by-w-e-b-du-bois-from-the-crisis-vol-40-no-3-march-1933/

1935 James Ford and Harry Gannes, War in Africa: Italian Fascism Prepares to Enslave Ethiopia (31 pages)

1935 W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880 (768 pages)

1935 V.I. Lenin, Statistics and Sociology https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/jan/00d.htm

1936 James Allen, The Black Question in the United States (224 pages)

1936 James Ford and Abner Berry, The National Negro Congress: A New Phase in the Liberation Struggles of the Negro People (24 pages)

1937 Angelo Herndon, Let Me Live https://archive.org/details/letmelive00hern/page/6/mode/2up

1938 James Ford, The Negro and the Democratic Front (222)

1938 C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt https://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/a_history_of_pan_african_revolt-1.pdf

1938 C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (464 pages)

1939 J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James), The Negro Question https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1939/10/negro5.htm

1939J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James), The SWP and Negro Work https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1939/07/negro-work.htm

1939 Herbert Aptheker, Negro Slave Revolts in the United States 1526-1860 (72 pages)

1939 J. R. Johnson (C.L.R. James), The Right to Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North America https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1939/07/self-determination.htm

1939 C.L.R. James, Revolution and the Negro https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1939/12/negro-revolution.htm

1940s

1940 Ester Cooper Jackson, The Negro Women Domestic: Work in Relation to Trade Unionism https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/the-negro-woman-domestic-worker-in-relation-to-trade-unionism-1940/

1941 C.L.R. James, Imperialism in Africa https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1941/06/imperialism-africa.htm

1942Elizabeth Lawson, History of the American Negro People: Study Outline (101 pages)

1944 Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxism and the Negro Problem: A discussion article https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1944/marxism-negro-q/1.html

1947 Benjamin Davis, The Path of Negro Liberation (22 pages)

1947 New Century Publishers, The Communist Position on the Negro Question (61 pages)

1948 C.L.R. James, The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in US https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1948/07/meyer.htm

1948 Harry Haywood, Negro Liberation (245)

1948 Oliverf Cox, Caste, Class and Race (662 pages)

1948 William Bohannan, A Letter to American Negroes https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/swp-us/pamphlets/1948-letter-to-american-negroes.pdf

1949Claudia Jones, An End to the Neglect of the Problem of Negro Women https://libcom.org/article/end-neglect-problems-negro-woman

1949 Claudia Jones, We Seek Full Equality for Women https://viewpointmag.com/2015/02/21/we-seek-full-equality-for-women/

1950s

1950 Paul Robeson, Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs (15 pages)

1950 Marvel Cooke and Ella Baker, The Bronx Slave Market https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/the-bronx-slave-market-1950/

1951 Henry Winston, What it means to be a communist https://www.marxists.org/archive/winston/1951/02/what-it-means-be-communist.htm

1951 William Patterson, ed, We Charge Genocide: The Crime pof Government Against the Negro People (240)

1951 Howard Fast, Peekskill USA: Inside the Infamous 1949 Riots (127 pages)

1952 Richard O. Boyer, Pettis Perry: The Story of a Working Class Leader (24 pages)

1952 Pettis Perry, White Chauvinism and the Struggle for Peace (22 pages)

1953 W.E.B. DuBois, Stalin and American Negroes https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b214-i052

1953Howard Selsam, The Negro People in the United States: Facts for all Americans (32 pages)

1954 Herbert Aptheker, The Negro People in American History (608 pages) https://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1954/foster-history-negro-america.pdf

1954 Claudia Jones, Ben Davis: Fighter for Freedom (48 pages)

1954 Gus Hall, Marxism and Negro Liberation https://www.crmvet.org/docs/5105_cpusa_marxism-negro.pdf

1956 Herbert Aptheker, Negro History: Its Lessons for Our Time (21 pages)

1956 Benjamin Davis, The Negro People on the March (48 pages)

1956 FBI, The Communist Party and the Negro (57 pages) https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/online-documents/civil-rights-eisenhower-administration/1956-10-communist-party-and-the-negro.pdf

1957 Harry Haywood, For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question (38 pages, reprinted in 1975 by the October League)

1957 Socialist Workers Party, The Class-Struggle Road to Negro Equality https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/swp-us/pamphlets/

1958 Paul Robeson, Here I Stand (128 pages) https://www.beacon.org/Here-I-Stand-P2183.aspx

1960s

1961 W.E.B. DuBois, Letter applying for membership to the Communist Party https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b153-i071

1961 Frantz Fanon, The Pitfalls of National Consciousness https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htm19

1962 Harold Cruse, Revolutionary Nationalism and the Afro-American https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power!/SugahData/Essays/Cruse.S.pdf

1963 James E Jackson, 3 Brave Men: Tell How Freedom Comes to an Old South City – Nashville, Tenn. (27 pages)

1963 James Boggs, Pages from a Negro Workers Notebook (93 pages)

1963 Raya Dunayevskaya and Charles Denby, American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard (41 pages)

1963 Mao Tse-Tung, Statement Supporting the American Negroes In Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm

1963 James Jackson, The View From Here: Commentaries on Peace and Freedom (210 pages)

1963 Fred Halstead, Communist Party Head Smears Black Muslims. The Militant, August 5.

1964 Samir Amin, Class Struggle in Africa https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/arg/amin-class-struggle.pdf

1965 Bill McAdoo, Notes on Black liberation (40 pages)

1965 Harold Cruse, George Breitman, and Clifton DeBerry Marxism and the Negro Struggle

1965 Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/neo-colonialism/index.htm

1966 Bill McAdoo, Pre-Civil War Black Nationalism (31 pages)

1966 Robert Williams, Speech in China https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33p.htm

1966 Jack O’Dell, Colonialism and the Negro American Experience https://tinyurl.com/mvx54e6s

1966 Harry Haywood with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Is the Black Bourgeoisie the Leader of the Black Liberation Movement https://www.marxists.org/archive/haywood/1964/black-bourgeoisie.pdf

1967 William Patterson, Ben Davis: Crusader for Negro Freedom and Socialism (48 pages)

1967 Jack O’Dell, A Special Variety of Colonialism https://tinyurl.com/m5z945f3

1967 James Jackson, U.S. Negroes in Battle: From Little Rock to Watts (148 pages)

1967 The Communist Party, Unite for Peace. Negro Freedom, Labor’s Advance, Socialism (120 pages)

1967 George Breitman, The Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary (192 pages)

1967 James Forman, Liberation will come from a Black thing (15 pages)

1968 Revolutionary Age, Revolutionary Integration: The dialectics of Black liberation (64 pages)

1968 I I Potekhin, African Problems (142 pages)

1968 Mao Tse-Tung, Statement in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression https://tinyurl.com/5n8uj44n

\1968 Claude Lightfoot, Ghetto Rebellion to Black A. Liberation (192 pages)

1969 James Forman, Control, Conflict, and Change: The Underlying Concepts of the Black Manifesto (51 pages)

1969 Benjamin Davis, Communist Councilman Fron Harlem: Notes Written in a Federal Penitentiary (218 pages)

1969 James Boggs, Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party (40 pages)

1969 Amilcar Cabral, The Strugg7le in Guinea https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/arg/struggle-guinea.pdf

1970s

1970s The New Voice, Defeat the “National Question” Line in the U.S. and Unite to Fight Racism (55 pages)

1970 League of Revolutionary Black Workers, General Policy Statement and Labor Program https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300490014-4.pdf

1970 The Staff of Black Star Publishing, ed., The Political Thought of James Forman (190 pages)

1970 Claude M. Lightfoot, Black America and the World Revolution (94 pages)

1970 George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson https://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/soledadbro.html

1970 James Boggs, Racism and the Class Struggle https://tinyurl.com/5n7dnpe6

1970 Radical America, American Labor History: Race and Ethnicity in the Working Class (48 pages)

1970 James Forman, "Twenty enemy Forces" https://codoc.mayfirst.info/private-file-link/twenty-enemies-by-james-forman

1970 Ernie Mkalimoto, Revolutionary Nationalism and the Class Struggle (31 pages)

1970 The Progressive Labor Party, Black Liberation, (75 pages)

1971 Mark Naison, Marxism and Black Radicalism in America: The Communist Party Experience (23 pages)

1971 Lerumo, Fifty Fighting Years: The South African Communist Party 1921 – 1971 (216)

1971 William Patterson, The Man Who Cried Genocide: An Autobiography (223 pages)

1971 Harold Baron, The Demand for Black Labor (46 pages)

1972 Young Workers Liberation League, Draft Resolutions for the Second National Convention (65 pages)

1972 Nelson Peery, The Negro National Colonial Question https://redstarpublishers.org/Peery.pdf

1972 Hosea Hudson, Black Worker in the Deep South (144 pages)

1972 George Jackson, Blood in My Eye https://archive.org/details/george-jackson-blood-in-my-eye/page/n15/mode/2up

1972 Angela Davis, Reflections on the Black Women’s Role in the Community of Slaves https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC46_scans/46.RoleBlackWomenSlavery.pdf

1972Earl Ofari, Marxism-Leninism: The Key to Black Liberation https://www.jstor.org/stable/41163496

1972 Georgia Communist League, Black Liberation Struggle: A Revolutionary Force (12 pages)

1972 Revolutionary Union, Red Papers 5: National Liberation and Proletarian Revolution in the U.S. (77 pages)

1972 Proletarian Cause Journal, Bill Epton The Struggle of Black People (65 pages)

1972 Roscoe Proctor, Black Workers and the Class Struggle (37 pages)

1972 Claude Lightfoot, Racism and Human Survival: Lessons of Nazi Germany for Todays World (287)

1972 Roger Zwanenberg, The Agricultural History of Kenya to 1939 https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Agricultural-History-Kenya-Zwanenberg-Roger-Nairobi/3183563967/bd

1973 Henry Winston, Strategy for a Black Agenda (323 pages)

1973 Issa Shivji, The Silent Class Struggle https://www.academia.edu/44221962/The_Silent_Class_Struggle?email_work_card=view-paper

1973 New Marxist Forum, A Journal for Debate and Theory for Marxists-Leninists, (98 pages)

1973 Abdul Alkalimat and Nelson Johnson, Toward the Ideological Unity of the African Liberation Support Committee (80 pages)

1973 Yuri Popov, Marxist Political Economy as Applies to the African Scene (144 pages)

1973 Clarence J. Munford, The Fallacy of Lumpen Ideology https://tinyurl.com/44894ewf

1973 Kwame Nkrumah, Revolutionary Path https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/kwame_nkrumah_revolutionary_pathbook4me.org_.pdf

1973 Stokely Carmichael, Marxism-Leninism and Nkrumahism (3 pages)

1974 Political Affairs, Special Issue on Afro-American History (65 pages)

1974 Earl Ofari, Black Activists and 19th Century Radicalism https://www.jstor.org/stable/41066300?seq=1

1974 Philip Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619-1973 (489 pages)

1974 Abdul Alkalimat, A Scientific Approach to Black Liberation (28 pages)

1974 Walter Rodney, Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean and America https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/works/internationalclassstruggle.htm

1974 James Jackson, Revolutionary Tracings in World Politics and Black Liberation (263 pages)

1974 Revolutionary Union, Red Papers 6: Build the Leadership of the Proletariat and Its Party (136)

1974 October League, For Working Class Unity and Black Liberation (23 pages)

1974 Admiral Kilpatrick, The Struggle Against Revisionism (41 pages)

1975 Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit: I do mind dying https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Detroit-I-Do-Mind-Dying-A-Study-in-Urban-Revolution-Dan-Georgakas-Marvin-Surkin.pdf

1975 Peoples College, Year to Pull the Covers Off Imperialism http://alkalimat.org/yptcoi/

1975 Walter Rodney, Marxism and African Liberation https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/works/marxismandafrica.htm

1975 Roger Zwanenberg, Colonial Capitalism and Labour in Kenya 1919-1939. East African Literature Bureau

1975 Roger Zwanenberg, An Economic History of Kenya and Uganda, 1800-1970 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-02442-1

1975 The Revolutionary Workers League, Principles of Unity (46 pages)

1975 Harry Chang, Critique of the Black Nation Thesis (32 pages)

1975 Clarence J. Munford, Imperialism and Thirds World Economics https://tinyurl.com/3sy3yzsw

1975 Victor Perlo, Economics of racism U.S.A: Roots of Black inequality (280 pages)

1975 Communist Workers Group (Marxist-Leninist), Our Tasks on the National Question: Against Nationalist Deviations in Our Movement (130 pages)

1975 Brian Bunting, Moses Kotane: South African Revolutionary: A Political Biography (309 pages)

1976 Philadelphia Workers Organizing Committee, Black Liberation Today: against dogmatism on the national question

1976 October League, The Struggle for Black Liberation and Socialist Revolution (80 pages)

1976 Congress of African People, Revolutionary Review: The Black Nation Thesis https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/cap-black-nation.htm

1976 Carl Davidson, In Defense of the Right to Self-Determination (85 pages)

1976 Ken Lawrence, Karl Marx on American Slavery https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/sojournertruth/marxslavery.pdf

1976 Jarvis Tyner, New Forms of Racism (14 pages)

1976 Nelson Peery, A Critique of the Comintern Position on the Negro Question (20 pages)

1976 Ernest Thompson and Mindy Thompson, Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power (211 pages)

1976 Michael Lowy, Marxists and the National Question https://newleftreview.org/issues/i96/articles/michael-lowy-marxists-and-the-national-question

1977 Henry Winston, Class, Race and Black Liberation (242 pages)

1977 Philip Foner, American Socialism and Black Americans: From the Age of Jackson to World War II (462 pages)

1977 Wadada Nabudere, Imperialism, The Social Sciences, and The National Question (69 pages)

1977 Jams Geschwender, Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (250 pages)

1977 Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective, History https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/ac-prc.pdf

1977 Amiri Baraka, What should student do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQc0JeSDNk

1978 Mindy Thompson, The National Negro Labor Council: A History (94 pages)

1978 Horace Davis, Toward a Marxist Theory of Nationalism https://archive.org/details/towardmarxistthe0000davi

1978 Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist https://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/Harry-Haywood-Black-Bolshevik.pdf

1978 Hollis Lynch, Black Amerian Radicals and he Liberation of Africa: The Council on African Affairs, 1937-1955 (71 pages)

1978 Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, Minorities and Whites, Unite to Smash The Bakke Decision (12 pages)

1978 Charles Denby, Indignant Heart: A Black Workers Journal (295)

1978 Clarence J. Munford, Production Relations, Class and Black Liberation: A Marxist Perspective in Afro-American Studies https://archive.org/details/productionrelati0000munf/page/n7/mode/2up

1979 Amiri Baraka, The Black Nation: The Position of the Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M) (68 pages)

1979 Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South (400 pages)

1980s

1980s Communist Workers Party, The Afro-American National Question https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/cwp-afro-american-2/index.htm

1980 Bill Epton, Electoral Politics and Its Problems and Prospects (33 pages)

1980 Editorial Board of United Struggle Press, Blacks and the National Question (75 pages)

1981 Sojourner Truth Organization, Fighting the Klan (100 pages)

1981 Comrades in the Bay Area, Critique of the Conference on Racism and National Oppression (30 pages)

1981 Theoretical Review, Paul Costello Racism and Black Oppression (37 pages) https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/theoretical-review/tr-racism.pdf

1981 Line of March Editorial Board, The OCIC’s Phony War Against White Chauvinism and the Demise of the Fusion Line (48 pages)

1981 Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, Build the Black Liberation Movement https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/rwh-blm.htm

1981 Harry Quinn, RWH Position on the National Question: Black Liberation A Just Struggle in Its Own Right https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/rwh-bl.htm

1981 W. Jean-Pierre, Black Liberation in the 1980s: Black Marists Meet in Detroit https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/black-mls-meet.htm

1981 Angela Davis, Woman, Race and Class (288 pages)

1981 Amiti Baraka, RWH on the Black Liberation Movement: Wrong Again https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/baraka-rwh.htm

1981 Line of March. Racial Oppression and National Oppression: Their Particuliarities and their Intersection Working Paper I, Parts I and II https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/lom-race-1.pdf

1981 Line of March, The Communist Movement’s Relationship to the Struggle Against Racism Working Paper 2, Section I: Overall Theoretical Framework https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/lom-race-2.pdf

1981 A. M. Babu, African Socialism or Socialist Africa? (174 pages)

1982 Amiri Baraka, Nationalism, Self Determination and Socialist Revolution https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/lrs-baraka.htm

1982 Revolutionary Political Organization (M-L), Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective and with the participation of the Red Dawn Collective, In Defense of the Right of Political Succession for the Afro-American Nation. Papers and Resolutions from the School on the Afro-American National Question https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/acpr-school.pdf

1982 Forward Motion, Building the Black United Front https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/pul-buf.htm

1982 August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Communist Unions and the Black Communist: The Casse of the Transport Workers Union (32 pages)

1982 Michael Burawoy and Theda Skocpol, eds., Marxist Inquiries: Studies of Labor, Class, and States (330 pages)

1983 Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (487 pages)

1983 Spartacist, Black History and the Class Struggle (16 pages)

1983 Amiri Baraka, Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Theory: Its Relation and Application to the Third World and African Americans https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/lrs-baraka-2.htm

1983, The Bolshevik League, The Importance off the Black National Question and the Struggle Against National Chauvinism https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/bl-introduction.htm

1983 Ferruccio Gambino, W. E. B. DuBois and the Proletariat in Black Reconstruction https://libcom.org/article/w-e-b-du-bois-and-proletariat-black-reconstruction-ferruccio-gambino

1983 Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem during the Depression (355 pages)

1983 Philip Foner, Black Socialist Peacher (357 pages)

1983 Adam Fairclough, Was Martin Luther King A Marxist? https://www.jstor.org/stable/4288462

1984 Workers’ Herald, In Defense of Marxism-Leninism on the Afro-American National Question (15 pages)

1984 Worker’s Advocate, On the Black National Question, and the Right to Self-determination https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/mlp-self-det.htm

1984 August Nimtz, Marxism and the Black Struggle: The ‘Class v. Race’ Debate Revisited (15 pages)

1985 Claude M. Lightfoot, Chicago Slums to World Politics: Autobiography (226)

1985 Worker’s Advocate, Resolution on, the black national question https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/mlp-bnq.htm

1985 Gus Hall, Fighting Racism: Unity for Equality, Justice, Trade Unionism, Democracy, and Peace (299 pages)

1985 Spartacist, Black History and the Class Struggle No. 3: Massacre of Philly Move (31 pages)

1985 Robert Ivanov, Blacks in United States History (269 pages)

1986 Maxwell Stanford, Revolutionary Action Movement: A Case Study https://tinyurl.com/yvz3r2dc

1986 Clarence J. Munford, Slavery in the French Caribbean 1625-1715: A Marxist Analysis file:///C:/Users/abdul/Downloads/munford-1986-slavery-in-the-french-caribbean-1625-1715-a-marxist-analysis.pdf

1986 James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid: Memoirs of a Black American in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1938 (221 pages)

1987 Philip Foner and James Allen, editors, American Communism and Black Americans: A Documentary History 1919-1929 (235 pages)

1987 Paul Buhle, Marxism in the USA: From 1870 to the Present Day (299 pages)

1987 Daryl Russell Grigsby, For the People: Black Socialists in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean (395 pages)

1988 Ben Turok (ed.), Witness from the Frontline: Aggression and Resistance in Southern Africa (168 pages)

1988 W. Burghardt Turner and Joyce Turner, eds., Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem: Collected Writings 1920-1972 (324 pages)

1988 Gerald Horne, Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress 1946-1956 (458 pages)

1988 Cornel West, “Black Radicalism and the Marxist Tradition” file:///C:/Users/abdul/Downloads/htmlb,+MR-040-04-1988-08_5-2.pdf

1988 Abdul Alkalimat, Black Marxism in the White Academy: The Contours and Contradictions of an Emerging School of Black Thought

1989 Revolutionary Communist Party, Cold Truth, Liberating Truth: How This System Has Always Oppressed Black People, and How All Oppression Can Finally Be Ended (36 pages)

1990s

1990 National Committee for Independent Political Action, Racism and the Struggle Against It (24 pages)

1990 Spartacist, Black History and the Class Struggle No. 7: Glory – Black Soldiers Fight for Freedom (39 pages)

1990 Abdul Alkalimat, Malcolm X and Some Ideological Considerations https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/s2_p1.rm

1990 Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression https://files.libcom.org/files/Hammer%20and%20hoe%20Alabama%20Communists%20during%20the%20Great%20Depression.pdf

1991 Cornel West, The Ethic al Dimension of Marxist Thought (220 pages)

1991 N. Jackson, Fighting White Supremacy: A Poison in the Labor Movement (50 pages)

1991 Freedom Road, Unity Statement on National Oppression, National Liberation and, Socialist Revolution https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/fr-u2006nity-nat.pdf

1991 Philip Foner, American Communism and Black Americans: A Documentary History 1930-1934 (213 pages)

1991 Spartacist, Black History and the Class Struggle No. 8: South Africa and Permanent Revolution (47 pages)

1992 James Jackson, The Bold, Bad ‘60s (133 pages)

1992 Nelson Peery, African American Liberation and Revolution in the United States (22 pages)

1992 Alex Callinicos, Race and Class https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/callinicos/1992/xx/race-class.html

1993 Melvin Leiman, The Political Economy of Racism (421 pages)

1993 Woodford McClellan, Africans and Black Americans in the Comintern Schools, 1925-1934 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/219551.pdf

1993 Spartacist, Black History and the Class Struggle No. 10, Malcolm X: The Man, the Myth, the Struggle (47 pages)

1993 Gerald Horne, Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party (460 pages)

1993 Rosemari Mealy, Fidel & Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting (90 pages)

1993 Nelson Peery, Entering an Epoch of Social Revolution (50 pages)

1994 Black Workers League, Black Workers Taking the Lead in the South (61 pages)

1994 Black Workers League, Struggles for National Liberation From South Africa to the US (41 pages)

1994 Nelson Peery. Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary (338 pages)

1994 Spartacist, Black History and the Class Struggle No. 11, Stgop he Klan for a Workers America (47 pages)

1996 Victor Perlo, Economics of Racism II, U. S. A.: The Roots of Inequality, USA (320 pages)

1997 Roger Horowitz, “Negro and White, Unite and Fight”: AS Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking 1930 – 1990 (373 pages)

1998 Theman Ray Taylor, Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood: Another Radical View of Race and Class During the 1920s (203 pages, PhD dissertation)

1998 Theodore Kornweibel, “Seeing Red”: Federal Campaign against Black Militancy, 1919-1925 (248 pages)

1998 Rupert Lewis, Walter Rodney’s Intellectual and Political Thought (296 pages)

1998 Mark Solomon, The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans 1917-1936 https://archive.org/details/crywasunitycommu0000solo

1999 Bill Mullen, Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics 1935-46 (242 pages)

1999 William Maxwell, New Negro, Old Left: African American Writing and Communism Between the World Wars (272 pages)

1999 Robin Kelley and Betsy Esch, Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution https://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/souls/vol1no4/vol1num4art1.pdf

1999 Timothy Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power (402 pages)

2000s

2001 Cedric Robinson, An Anthropology of Marxism (171 pages)

2002 Nelson Peery, The Future is Up To Us (152 pages)

2002 Kate Baldwin, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red (352 pages)

2003 Charles Mills, From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (284 pages)

2003 August H. Nimtz, Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The ‘Absolute Democracy’ or ‘Defiled Republic’ (Lexington Books) (299 pages)

2003 Max Shachtman and Christopher Phelps, Race and Revolution (London: Verso)

2004 Richard Fraser and Tom Boot, Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of Black Liberation https://socialism.com/educationalresources/revolutionary-integration-marxist-analysis-black-liberation-richard-fraser-tom-boot/

2006 Freedom Road, The Third International, and the struggle for a correct line on the African American National Question https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/fr-bnq.pdf

2006 Ahmed Shawki, Black Liberation and Socialism (295 pages)

2007 Nelson Peery, Black Radical, The Education of an American Revolutionary (2242 pages)

2007 Anthony Monteiro, W. E. B. Du Bois and the Study of Black Humanity: A Rediscovery https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021934705286129

2007 Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (412 pages)

2007 Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford Jr.), We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975 (332)

2007 Gary Holcomb, Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem (288 pages)

2008 Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism and communism: the Comintern, the ‘Negro Question’ and the First International Conference of Negro Workers, Hamburg 1930 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17528630802393711

2008 Carole Boyce Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (311 pages)

2008 Bruce Kuklick, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine (171 pages)

2008 Babacar Camara, Marxist Theory, Black/African Specificities and Racism (146 pages)

2008 Workers International League, USA: Black Struggle and Socialist Revolution https://marxist.com/black-struggle-and-socialist-revolution.htm

2008 Joy Carew, Blacks, Reds, and Russian Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise (273 pages)

2008 Walter T Howard, Black Communists speak on Scottsboro: a documentary history https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9632/

2009 Jeffrey Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (600 pages)

2009 Fitzroy Baptiste and Rupert Lewis, eds., Caribbean Reasonings: George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary (279 pages)

2009 Jack Barnes, Malcolm X, Black Liberation & the Road to Workers Power (New York: Pathfinder Press) (434 pages)

2010s

2010 Tracy Flemming, Black Marxism, Creative Intellectuals and, Culture: The 1930s https://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol3no9/3.9BlackMarxism.pdf

2010 Hakim Adi, The Comintern and Black Workers in Britain and France 1919–37 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02619288.2010.484249

2011 Stephen Ward, ed., Pages From A Black Radical’s Notebook: A James Boggs Reader (401 pages)

2011 Eric McDuffie. Sojourning for Freedom: black women, American communism, and the making of black left feminism https://www.dukeupress.edu/sojourning-for-freedom

2011 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race, class and Marxism https://socialistworker.org/2011/01/04/race-class-and-marxism

2011 Minkah Makalani, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London 1917-1939 (328 pages)

2011 Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein , Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (310 pages)

2011 John Riddell, Black liberation and the Communist International https://johnriddell.com/2011/09/11/black-liberation-and-the-communist-international/

2011 Paul Buhle, The Jack O’Dell Story https://monthlyreview.org/2011/05/01/the-jack-odell-story/

2011 Robin Blackburn, An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln https://tinyurl.com/33pvmbz9

2012 Erik Gellman, Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights (368 pages)John Riddell

2012 Nikki Taylor, America's First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813140773/americas-first-black-socialist/

2012 J.A. Zumoff, “The American Communist Party and the ‘Negro Question’ from the Founding of the Party to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism

2012 Beverly Tomek, The Communist International and the Dilemma of the American “Negro Problem”: Limitations of the Black Belt Self-Determination Thesis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/wusa.12004

2012 Michael Hamlim, A Black Revolutionary’s Life in Labor: Black Workers Power in Detroit (158)

2012 Michael Staudenmaier, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization 1969 – 1986 (387 pages)

2013 Walter T, Howard, We Shall Be Free! Black Communist Protest in Seven Voices (208 pages)

2013 Gerald Horne, Black Revolutionary, William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle (320 pages)

2013 Esteban Morales Domínguez, Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality https://monthlyreview.org/9781583673201/

2013 Michael Dawson, Blacks In and Out of the Left (231 pages)

2013 Adolph Reed, Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Adolph%20Reed%20-%20Marx%2C%20Race%2C%20and%20Neoliberalism.pdf

2013 Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora 1919-1939 (494 pages)

2013 Malik Simba, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: An Interpretive History from the Colonial Background to the Ascendency of Barack Obama https://www.amazon.com/Black-Marxism-American-Constitutionalism-Background/dp/1524918733

2013 Anthony Monteiro, For Black Left Unity and Ideological Clarity (8 pages)

2013 Nikki Taylor, America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter Clark (308 pages)

2013 Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (373 pages)

2014 Charles R. Holm, Black Radicals and Marxist Internationalism: From the IWMA to the Fourth International, 1864-1948 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=historydiss

2014 Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (348 pages) https://nyupress.org/9781479806898/the-counter-revolution-of-1776/

2014 David Goldberg, "The ‘Unquenchable Spark’ of General Gordon Baker Jr." https://inthesetimes.com/article/general-gordon-baker-jr-memorial

2014 Howard Johnson, A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club (191 pages)

2015 David Beasley, A Life in Red: A Story of Forbidden Love, The Great Depression, and the Communist Fight for a Black National in the Deep South (172 pages)

2015 Sara Rzeszutek Haviland, James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813166254/james-and-esther-cooper-jackson/

2015 James Zeigler, Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism (252 pages)

2015 Anthony Monteiro, Race and Empire: W.E.B. Du Bois and the US State https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00064246.2007.11413396

2015 Ben Turok, Changing the Color of Capital: essays in politics and economics https://search.worldcat.org/title/927400540

2015 Robeson Taj Frazier, Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle https://tinyurl.com/mtx8vhrm

2015 Stephen C Ferguson, Philosophy of African American Studies: Nothing Left of Blackness (290 pages)

2015 Shaun Arendse , Marxism, Racism & the Class Struggle https://marxistworkersparty.org.za/?page_id=264

2016 Kevin B. Anderson, Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies (344 pages)

2016 Adam Mayer, Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria https://www.plutobooks.com/product/naija-marxisms/

2016 Olive Vassell and Todd Burroughs, No Common Ground Left: Freedomways, Black Communists vs Black Nationalism/Pan-Africanism (12 pages)

2017 Keith Gilyard , Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice (328 pages)

2017 Stuart Hall, The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (256 pages)

2017 Peter James Hudson, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (360 pages)

2017 Denise Lynn, The Marxist Proposition, Claudia Jones, and Black Nationalism https://www.aaihs.org/the-marxist-proposition-claudia-jones-and-black-nationalism/

2018 Paul Heideman (editor), Class Struggle and the Color Line, American Socialism and the Race Question, 1900-1930 (472 pages)

2018 Walter Rodney, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World, eds., Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin (London: Verso) (258 pages)

2018 Ornette D. Clennon, The Polemics of C.L.R. James and Contemporary Black Activism https://www.academia.edu/22549031/The_Polemics_of_CLR_James_and_Contemporary_Black_Activism

2018 Malik Simba, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Black Lives Matter

2018 Marcello Pablito , Revolution and Black Struggle: Marxism as a Weapon Against Racism and Capitalism https://www.leftvoice.org/revolution-and-black-struggle-marxism-as-a-weapon-against-racism-and-capitalism/

2018 Socialist Alternative, Marxism and the Fight for Black Freedom https://www.socialistalternative.org/marxism-fight-black-freedom/marxism-fight-black-freedom/

2019 Wadi’h Halabi,Marxism, four U.S. national questions, and the inequality of 30,000-to-one https://www.cpusa.org/article/marxism-four-u-s-national-questions-and-the-inequality-of-30000-to-one/

2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly, W.E.B. DuBois in the Tradition of Radical Blackness: Radicalism, Repression, and Mutual Comradeship, 1930-1960

2019 Frank Chapman, The Damned Don’t Cry (246 pages)

2019 Cedric J. Robinson, On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance https://www.plutobooks.com/product/cedric-j-robinson/

2019 Cedric Robinson, An Anthropology of Marxism https://www.plutobooks.com/product/an-anthropology-of-marxism/

2019 Charles Post, Marxism and the Race Problem https://marxistsociology.org/2019/01/marxism-and-the-race-problem/

2019 Denise Lynn, Du Bois and the Jefferson School of Social Science https://marxistsociology.org/2019/10/du-bois-and-the-jefferson-school/

2019 Charisse Burden-Shelly and Gerald Horne, W.E.B. DuBois: A Life in American History (272 pages)

2019 Mary Stanton, Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party 1930-1950 (248 pages)

2019 Matt Swagle, When Communism Became Black: Pan-Africanism and anti-colonialism in the Communist International https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/40161/when-communism-became-black

2019 Rose M. Brewer, Fanon, Black Lives, and Revolutionary Black Feminism: 21st Century Considerations DOI: 10.1163/9789004409200_005

2019 David R. Roediger , Class, Race, and Marxism (208 pages)

2020s

2020 Jeffrey Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality 1918-1927 (1000 pages)

2020 John Foster, Hannah Hollerman, and Brett Clark, “Marx and Slavery” https://monthlyreview.org/articles/marx-and-slavery/

2020 Joe Pateman, V. I. Lenin on the ‘Black Question’ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03017605.2019.1706786

2020 Ian Szabo , The African Blood Brotherhood and the Origins of Black Communism in the United States https://cosmonautmag.com/2020/02/the-african-blood-brotherhood-and-the-origins-of-black-communism-in-the-united-states/

2020 Kate Dossett, Radical Black Theater in the New Deal (358 pages)

2020 Anthony Monteiro, The revolutionary legacy of Malcolm X https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/anthony-monteiro/

2020 Matthew Wills, Why Black Women Joined the Communist Party https://daily.jstor.org/why-african-american-women-joined-the-communist-party/

2020 Review of African Political Economy, Karl Marx’s Debt to People of African Descent https://roape.net/2020/10/21/karl-marxs-debt-to-people-of-african-descent/

2020 Julia Wallace and Jimena Vergara , Black Liberation and the Early Communist Movement https://www.leftvoice.org/black-liberation-and-the-early-communist-movement/

2020 Toure Reed, Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism (224 pages)

2020 Dick J. Reavis, The Life and Death of Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the Communist Party’s First African American Member https://jacobin.com/2020/04/lovett-fort-whiteman-black-communist-party

2020 Nikolay A. Dobronravin, The Comintern, “Negro Self-Determination” and Black Revolutions in the Caribbean file:///C:/Users/abdul/Downloads/19464-Texto%20do%20artigo-67419-1-10-20200928.pdf

2020 Alliance Marxist-Leninist, The Theory of the ‘Black Nation’ in the U.S.A. https://espressostalinist.com/2020/10/06/alliance-marxist-leninist-the-theory-of-the-black-nation-in-the-u-s-a/

2020 Kevin B. Anderson, Kieran Durkin, Heather A. Brown, eds., Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation https://tinyurl.com/2uke363m

2021 Robin Kelley, Why Black Marxism, why now? https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/why-black-marxism-why-now/

2021 Joshua Myers, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=cedric-robinson-the-time-of-the-black-radical-tradition--9781509537914

2021 Abdul Alkalimat, Capitalism: What it is and how to fight it (59 pages)

2021 Daniel Candee , From the Volga to the Mississippi: African Americans and the Soviet Experiment https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1936&context=stu_hon_theses

2021 Abdul Alkalimat, Fighting Capitalism: Four Lessons, http://alkalimat.org/fightingcapitalism/

2021 Joe Pateman, Mao Zedong, China and Black Liberation http://marxism.cass.cn/en/ScholarsProfiles/202401/t20240104_5724572.shtml

2021Eugene Gogol, Marxism and Black Liberation: The Work of Raya Dunayevskaya https://www.aaihs.org/marxism-and-black-liberation-the-work-of-raya-dunayevskaya/

2021 Frank Chapman, Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism (180 pages)

2021 David Featherstone (Editor), Christian Høgsbjerg (Editor), The Red and the Black: the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic https://search.worldcat.org/title/1286793493

2021 Vanessa Wills, Africana Marxism, https://historyofphilosophy.net/africana-marxism-wills

2022 Winston James, Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (464 pages)

2022 Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, Black Communist Women's Political Writing (336 pages) https://tinyurl.com/mrxcwvtw

2022 Charisse Burden-Stelly Jodi Dean, How Black Communist Women Remade Class Struggle https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/before-hotlaborsummer/

2022 Kevin Anderson, Revisiting Marx on Race, Capitalism, and Revolution https://monthlyreview.org/2022/03/01/revisiting-marx-on-race-capitalism-and-revolution/

2022 Walter L. Gordon, The Saga of Loren Miller: From Colored Communist to Civil Rights Champion (312 pages)

2022 Michael Burawoy , The Making of Black Marxism: The Complementary Perspectives of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Du%20Bois/The%20Making%20of%20Black%20Marxism.pdf

2022 Abdul Alkalimat, Dialectics of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement (266 pages)

2022 Gregory Slack, Marx, Race, Black Radicalism, and Racial Justice https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4973/

2022 Zeyu Chen and D. L. Jacobs, Tomorrow is today: An interview with Anthony Monteiro https://platypus1917.org/2022/02/01/tomorrow-is-today-an-interview-with-anthony-monteiro/

2022 Adolph Reed, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (160 pages)

2022 Cedric Johnson, The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now (208 pages)

2022 David Grundy, ‘Hard Facts’: Amiri Baraka and, Marxism-Leninism in the 1970s https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/cap-hard-facts.pdf

2023 Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (315 pages)

2023 Carole Boyce-Davies, Claudia Jones Was a Giant in the Struggle Against Oppression https://jacobin.com/2023/02/claudia-jones-communist-theory-black-feminism-internationalism

2023 Michael Zweig, Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism (231 pages)

2023 Aaron Major, Du Bois’s Marxism and the Political Economy of Race https://marxistsociology.org/2023/01/du-boiss-marxism-and-the-political-economy-of-race/

2023 Neville Alexander, Against Racial Capitalism, Selected Writings https://www.plutobooks.com/product/against-racial-capitalism/

2023 Gregory Slack, “Did Marx Defend Black Slavery? On Jamaica and Labour in Black Skin” https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/did-marx-defend-black-slavery/

2023 Kevin Ochieng Okoth, Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (160 pages)

2023 Cathy Bergin,‘Something real’: Black Bolshevism and the, Comintern, Twentieth Century Communism https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/40855376/Bergin_Black_Bolshevisem_and_the_Comintern._revised_002_.pdf

2023 Biodun Jeyifo, Generations of the Nigerian and African Left – History and Historicity https://socialistlibraryandarchives.org/generations-of-the-nigerian-and-african-left-history-and-historicity/

2023 Black Belt Study Group, The Black Belt Thesis: A Reader https://1804books.com/collections/books/products/the-black-belt-thesis-reader

2023 Melissa Ford, A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression (242 pages)

2023 Khwezi Mabasa, Chris Hani’s Black Marxism https://africasacountry.com/2023/05/chris-hanis-black-marxism

2023 Arun Kundnani, What is Anti racism? And Why It Means Anti Capitalism (297 pages)

2023 Wulf Hund, Marx and Haiti: Note on a Blank Space https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/4918

2024 1894 Books, A Fighting Dream: The Political Writings of Claudia Jones (314 pages)

2024 Melissa Ford, Their Example will Inspire Us: Five Black Communist Women (210 pages)

2024 August H. Nimtz and Kyle Edwards, The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time (Brill) (417 pages)

2024 Timothy Messer-Kruse, The Patriots Dilemma: White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America https://www.plutobooks.com/product/the-patriots-dilemma/

2025 Marcel Paret and Zachary Levenson, Communists and Black liberation movements: divergent trajectories in the United States and South Africa, 1939–1969 https://academic.oup.com/sf/article/103/4/1374/7954237

2025David McNally, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History https://www.ucpress.edu/books/slavery-and-capitalism/hardcover

2025W. A. Domingo, Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica,The Revolutionary Life and Selected Writings of W. A. Domingo https://www.plutobooks.com/product/red-and-black-in-harlem-and-jamaica/

2025 John Bellamy Foster, Imperialism and White Settler Colonialism in Marxist Theory https://monthlyreview.org/2025/02/01/imperialism-and-white-settler-colonialism-in-marxist-theory/

2025 Antoni Górny, The Vanguard and the Lumpen: The Transatlantic Marxism of the Black Panther Party https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/24497

2025 Jeff Goodwin, How Black Marxists have Understood Racial Oppression https://jacobin.com/2025/02/black-marxists-du-bois-king/

2025 Augustus Wood, Class Warfare in Atlanta (360 pages)

2025 Bernard E. Harcourt, Marx’s Capital and Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism with Cornel West https://the1313.law.columbia.edu/2025/03/09/bernard-e-harcourt-marxs-capital-and-cedric-robinsons-black-marxism-with-cornel-west/

2025 Roger Zwanenberg, Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction Over 500 years, from 1500 to the Present Day https://www.wealthandpower.org.uk/

2026 August Nimtz, Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique (Monthly Review, 160 pages)

2026 Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott, Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374284/motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries/

2026 Jared Ball, ed., Why Black Marxism Discourages Marxism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEw7WFSxfqE

2026 Salvador Rangel and William Robinson, eds, The Antinomies of Black Marxism: Critique of Racial Capitalism Paradigm (Routledge, 1290 pages)

2027 Margaret Kimberley, The Presidents and Black America: A True History of Power, Policy, and White Supremacy https://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Black-America-History-Supremacy/dp/158642470X

WEBSITES

Hakim Adi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055lweZ5W_I

African Blood Brotherhood https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/other/abb/abb.html

The African Communist Journal https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/ac

African Communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African_communists

African Liberation Support Committee https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/erol/ncm-2/index.htm#alsc

The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/paigc/index.htm

African American Communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_communists

African American Intellectual History Society, Black Communist Reding List https://www.aaihs.org/the-blackcommunistreadinglist/

African American Marxists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_Marxists

Afro-American National Question and Racism https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/index.htm#aanq

Afro-Marxist https://www.youtube.com/@AfroMarxist

Neville Alexander https://www.marxists.org/archive/alexander/index.htm

Abdul Alkalimat https://alkalimat.org/

Bob Avakian https://revcom.us/en/a/665/bob-avakian-for-the-liberation-of-black-people-en.html

American Negro Labor Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Negro_Labor_Congress

Herbert Aptheker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Aptheker

Abdul Muhammad Babu https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_A1R.html#Abdulrahman_Mohamed_Babu

General Baker https://alkalimat.org/abdulslist/#_Toc80114433

Willie Baptist https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_index.html#Willie_Baptist

Ajamu Baraka https://hoodcommunist.org/author/a-baraka/

Debbie Amis Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Amis_Bell

Abner Berry https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_A1R.html#Abner_Berry

Maurice Bishop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bishop

Black Agenda Report https://www.blackagendareport.com/

Black Communists (Internet Archive) https://archive.org/search?query=black+communists

black leftist, marxist, socialist, communist study guide (essays) https://anotherworldarchives.org/black-marxism/essays

Black Liberation and the Cuban Revolution https://www.brothermalcolm.net/2002/mx_1990/documents.htm

Black Liberation History Archive https://www.marxists.org/history/black-liberation/index.htm

Black Liberation Theoreticians https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_index.html

Black Nation https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/black-nation/index.htm

Black Panther Party https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/index.htm

Black Workers Congress https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/erol/ncm-3/index.htm#bwcsplits

Carl Bloice https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_A1R.html#Carl_Bloice

Cyril Briggs https://www.marxists.org/archive/briggs/index.htm

James Boggs https://monthlyreview.org/james-boggs-the-american-revolution-pages-from-a-negro-workers-notebook-black-agenda-report-excerpts-chapter-6/

Grace Lee Boggs https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/boggs/index.htm

Paul Boutelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boutelle

Charisse Burden-Stelly https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/

Louis Burnham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_E._Burnham

Amilcar Cabral https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/index.htm

Peter H. Clark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Clark

The Comintern https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/data/144682716

The Communist (Black Workers Congess Newspaper) https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/erol/periodicals/cGlen Ford ommunist-bwc/index.htm

Communist Party USA and African Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA_and_African_Americans

The Crusader 1918 – 1922 https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/crusader/index.htm

Harold Cruse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Cruse

Angela Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

Ben Davis discussed by Gerald Horne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVmbQBOLCTA

Carl Dix, Revolutionary Community Party https://revcom.us/a/carldix/cd4.htm

Raya Dunayevskaya https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/index.htm

Bill Epton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Epton

Eritrea https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/erol/eritrea/index.htm

Ethiopia https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/erol/ethiopia/index.htm

Frantz Fanon https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/index.htm

Bill Fletcher https://billfletcherjr.com/

Ishmael Flory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_Flory

Glen Ford https://blackagendareport.com/glen-fords-irreplaceable-journalism

James Ford https://www.marxists.org/archive/ford/index.htm

James Forman https://www.marxists.org/archive/forman/index.htm

Freedomways https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/freedomways-27953514/?so=item_title_str_asc

Vicki Garvin https://tinyurl.com/4pust9p3

Martin Glaberman https://www.marxists.org/archive/glaberman/index.htm

Daryl Grigsby, For the People: Black Socialists in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean https://archive.org/details/forpeopleblackso00grig

Eugene Gordon https://www.umasspress.com/9781625348685/the-making-of-a-black-communist/

Gurdian Forums https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/erol/ncm-2/index.htm#grdforum

Fred Hampton https://www.marxists.org/archive/hampton/index.htm

Hampton Institute https://www.hamptonthink.org/black-liberation

Chris Hani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hani

Harry Haywood https://www.marxists.org/archive/haywood/index.htm

Hubert Harrison https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/hubert_h_harrison

Larry Homes https://www.workers.org/author/larry-holmes/

Gerald Horne https://www.c-span.org/person/gerald-c-horne/30306/

Hosea Hudson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosea_Hudson

Hood Communists https://hoodcommunist.org/

Alpheus Hunton https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_A1R.html#Alpheus_Hunton

Otto Huiswoud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Huiswoud

Ikwezi: A Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/periodicals/ikwezi/index.htm

International Socialist Review https://isreview.org/topic/race-and-class/

Ester Jackson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Cooper_Jackson

James Jackson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Jackson

Maurice Jackson Pamphlet Collection (Smithsonian) https://transcription.si.edu/project/13024

C.L.R. James Jack https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/index.htm

Claudia Jones https://www.marxists.org/archive/jones-claudia/index.htm

Moses Kotane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Kotane

John LaRose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_La_Rose#

League of Revolutionary Black Workers https://revolutionaryblackworkers.org/

Claude Lightfoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lightfoot

Bernard Magubane https://africanactivist.msu.edu/record/210-849-19771/

Marx Memorial Library https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/special-collections-and-subject-guides/black-history-and-anti-racism

Marxism and Anti-Imperialism is Africa https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/index.htm

Marxist Internet Archive and Black Liberation https://www.marxists.org/history/black-liberation/index.htm

Govan Mbeki https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/mbeki/index.htm

Claude McKay https://www.marxists.org/archive/mckay/index.htm

Charlene Mitchell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlene_Mitchell

Daryl “Waistline” Mitchell https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_index.html#Daryl_Waistline_Mitchell

Eduardo C. Mondlane https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/mondlane/index.htm

Anthony Monteiro https://blackagendareport.com/author/Anthony%20Monteiro

Saladin Muhammad https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_index.html#Saladin_Muhammad

The Negro Worker – A Comintern Publication, 1928-37 https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/negro-worker/table.htm

Huey Newton https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/index.htm

Kwame Nkrumah https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/index.htm

August Nimtz https://turtleroad.org/2019/10/11/august-nimtz-geography-of-a-black-communist/

Julius Nyerere https://www.juliusnyerere.org/

Jack O’Dell https://www.alkalimat.org/abdulslist/#_Toc80114412

George Padmore https://www.marxists.org/archive/padmore/index.htm

William Patterson https://tinyurl.com/yy6n7xc5

Louise Thompson Patterson https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_A1R.html#Louise_Thompson_Patterson

Nelson Peery https://peoplestribune.org/nelson-peery/

Philadelphia Saturday Free School https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3I8dxbIGEjLRjbZ_nn995w

Revolutionary Action Movement https://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=129

Revolutionary Communist League – Congress of African People https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/erol/ncm-3/index.htm#cap

Robert Rhodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3BjcYILfvQ

Harold Rogers https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_index.html#Harold_Steven_Rogers

Thomas Sankara https://www.marxists.org/archive/sankara/index.htm

Jerome Scott https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_index.html#Jerome_Scott

Socialist Library and Archives https://socialistlibraryandarchives.org/about/

South African Communist Party https://www.sacp.org.za/ https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/sacp/index.htm

Jarvis Tyner https://www.cpusa.org/authors/jarvis-tyner/

Lovett Fort-Whiteman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovett_Fort-Whiteman

Henry Winston https://www.alkalimat.org/brothermalcolm/soldiers_A1R.html#Henry_Winston

W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._Du_Bois_Clubs_of_America

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