Basic Documents on the Black Struggle - CLR James Rare collection of readings by C.L.R. James recommended to members of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the early 1970s.
Silences on the suppression of workers self-emancipation: historical problems with CLR James's interpretation of V.I. Lenin Matthew Quest, writing for Insurgent Notes, details CLR James' treatment of Lenin…
The C.L.R. James Reader - C.L.R. James, Edited and Introduced by Anna Grimshaw Published by Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Prepared in collaboration with James in his final year,…
Spheres of existence - C.L.R. James The second in a series of out of print anthologies by C.L.R. James. Published by Allison & Busby, 1980.
Beyond Measure: C.L.R. James Influence on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - Kimathi Mohammed Kimathi Mohammed gives a firsthand account of C.L.R. James' influence on the League…
The future in the present - C.L.R. James The first in a series of out of print anthologies by C.L.R. James. Published by Allison & Busby, 1977.
80th Birthday Lectures - C.L.R. James Edited by Margaret Busby and Darcus Howe. Published by Race Today 1984. A collection of transcripts, including the question and answer sessions…
Striving for Clarity and Influence: The Political Legacy of CLR James - Selma James The best introduction to CLR James and related organizations. Selma James joined the Johnson-Forest…
Thinking and Acting Dialectically: C.L.R. James, The American Years - Grace Lee Boggs Grace Lee Boggs writes about her time with CLR James in the Johnson-Forest Tendency and their…
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution CLR James' collection of essays on Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution.
Introduction to the philosophy of marxism: part one - R.S. Baghavan, foreword by CLR James Out of print introduction to Marxist philosophy by R.S. Baghavan of Socialist…
Notes on Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism I recently read Cedric J. Robinson's Black Marxism, the Making of the Black Radical Tradition, here's some quick notes.
New Introduction to Facing Reality 1970 - Kimathi Mohammed New introduction to 1970 Edition of CLR James's Facing Reality by Kimathi Mohammed. James…
Notes on dialectics - C.L.R. James C.L.R. James out of print major work written in 1948 and circulated within the Johnson Forest Tendency. James continued to recommend it as…
C.L.R. James: Organizing in the U.S.A., 1938-1953 - Grace Lee Boggs Grace Lee Boggs on her formidable years with the Johnson-Forest Tendency and CLR James. From a…
At the rendezvous of victory - C.L.R. James Published by Allison & Busby, 1984. This was the third and final in a series of anthologies published during James’ lifetime by publishers…
Black Sansculottes and Ambitious Marionettes: Cedric J. Robinson, CLR James and the Critique of Political Leadership - Alberto Toscano Leadership can serve as a privileged prism to revisit, in this theoretical homage…
From DuBois to Fanon - C.L.R. James (1970) Text of a talk given by James on the trajectory from W.E.B. Du Bois to Franz Fanon.
A History of Pan-African Revolt A survey of revolt across the African world by C.LR. James, first published in 1938.
A New Notion This book contains two essays. The first is Every Cook Can Govern by C.L.R. James. The second is The Invading Socialist Society, by James and Raya Dunayevskaya.
Lectures on the Black Jacobins The Black Jacobins - how I came to write this book and what is in the book, what did I think was in the book when I wrote it and what do I find…
Radical America #04.04: CLR James CLR James issue of Radical America, a left wing magazine established by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Karl Marx and the Paris Commune - CLR James CLR James on Marx, the Commune and their relevance for workers in the US.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution - C.L.R. James This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794…
Facing reality - CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs Writing in collaboration with Cornelius Castoriadis and Grace Lee, James examines the practical process of social revolution in the modern world.
On Workers Culture - CLR James The following article is an extract from an unsigned editorial in the newspaper Correspondence, December 12 1953. It may have been written by C.L…
The Legacy of CLR James - Red and Black Notes The following article was written for an on-line discussion of CLR James' book Facing Reality. It was been edited for publication by Red and…
Review of Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs - Red and Black Notes Review of Living For Chang by Grace Lee Boggs.
An African “Homeland” for the Jewish Refugees? - CLR James Written in 1938 while he was still a Trotskyist, CLR James writes about the plan to create a Jewish…
Tags: tagging your articles guide A short guide to tagging and categorising articles posted to libcom.org.
What's My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals Grant Farred looks at Muhammad Ali, C. L. R. James, Stuart Hall, and Bob Marley
Free For All: The nine year old leader - C.L.R. James James discusses a 1981 riot in Manchester, northern England.
Glaberman, Martin: 1918 - 2001 - Obituary by Red and Black Notes Red & Black Notes was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Martin Glaberman on December 17,…
Open Marxism - further reading guide libcom's guide to further reading around the Open Marxism school, which drew on anarchist criticism of the state.
The Coal Miners’ General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S. Written by Andy Philips with a foreword by Raya Dunayevska this gives an overview…
C. L. R. James′s Caribbean Drawing upon James's observations of his own life as revealed to interviewers and close friends, this volume provides an examination of James's…
Negroes and Bolshevism - CLR James From 7 April 1947 issue of Labor Action, newspaper of the Workers Party of the United States
Walter Rodney and the Question of Power A talk by CLR James' given six months after the assassination of Walter Rodney, with introduction by the Race Today Collective.
The Correspondence Booklet (1954) The 1954 pamphlet "The Correspondence Booklet: Selections From a Paper That is Written, Edited and Circulated by Its Readers."
Obi B. Egbuna, C. L. R. James and the birth of black power in Britain: Black radicalism in Britain 1967–72 R.E.R. Bunce's essay on the political direction black British radicalism took in…
International Council Correspondence Volume 3, Number 9-10 The Volume 3, Number 9-10 (October 1937) issue of International Council Correspondence.
George Jackson - CLR James [This short article, appraising George Jackson and establishing the links between his generation and that of people such as Du Bois and James…
Radical America #05.05: Italy 1969-1970 Issue of Radical America from September-October 1971, predominantly about the mass struggles in Italy in the previous two years.
A libertarian Marxist tendency map This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the…
The Black Jacobins Reader The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.
Interview with Martin Glaberman Marty Glaberman discusses his many years of political experience as a factory worker, comrade of CLR James and, in later years, an academic.
To nonsubscribers of Radical America A poster by the American section of the Situationist International critiquing the translation of "Society of the Spectacle" produced by Radical…
Black Revolutionaries in the US: Communist Interventions, vol. 2 Second volume of the Communist Interventions series, collecting debates between Black…
In Defense of “socialist” Identity Politics For the genuine progressive socialists who are opposed to all types of oppression, current outspoken hostility towards identity politics needs to…
Silencing America’s Radical History: Where Do We Go From Here? James Frey and Jocelyn Cohn critique a panel held at the progressive New School University where…
Artie Cuts Out - 1953 This is a 1953 pamphlet published by the Correspondence chapter in New York City. 'Artie Cuts Out' was an influential piece of inquiry with a…
The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas Written by CLR James, this is from the Socialist Workers Party New York Convention Resolutions, 11 July 1939.
State capitalism and world revolution - CLR James Marxist CLR James on state capitalism and revolution.
C.L.R. James and the Fate of Marxism - Cornelius Castoriadis A lecture delivered under the auspices of the C.L.R. James Society, the Africana Studies Department,…
The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods Investigation by Russell Maroon Shoatz into the methods of organisation used by maroons in Suriname…
From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community - George Rawick George Rawick was a member of CLR James's Facing Reality group in the 1960s. From Sundown to Sunup…
Down With Starvation Wages in South-East Missouri - CLR James An early example of worker writing compiled by CLR James in 1942.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination This history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora throughout the twentieth century begins with the premise that the…
Haitian inspiration: On the bicentenary of Haiti’s independence First published in Radical Philosophy this short essay by Peter Hallward explores the power and…
Hungary 1956: reading guide Libcom.org's reading guide to the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Communist dictatorship which saw a general strike declared and workers'…
Transnational radicals: labour dissent and political activism in Detroit and Turin (1950–1970) - Nicola Pizzolato Investigates the entangled histories of radical auto-workers in Detroit and Turin…
A very brief history of racism - Workers Solidarity Movement A quick look at the origins of racism in modern society from its roots in the justification of…
6 underrated Marxists who don't get enough love It's a sad fact that many of the most radical Marxists, whose participation in working class struggle and ideas challenged not only capitalist…
Punching out and other writings - Martin Glaberman, edited by Staughton Lynd A great collection of the writings of former-auto worker Martin Glaberman, edited and introduced by…
Everything you ever wanted to know about tankies, but were afraid to ask One of the stranger developments of the past five years has been the resurrection of the word tankie…
Ludu Daw Ahmar - Burmese Selma James This article profiles a remarkable socialist feminist from Burma who advocated for wages for housework and a form of feminism resembling social…
Libertarian Marxism's Relation to Anarchism - Wayne Price The current world-wide revival of anarchism is premised on the decline of Marxism. Yet there remains…
Paul Robeson: Black Star - CLR James [This memoir of a man whom James has described as “one of the most remarkable men of the century” was first published in Black World in November…
Anarchy in the Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution saw two competing tendencies: a revolutionary, decentralized "hydra" and a centralized, vacillating "dragon". With…
World revolution or “building socialism”? Critical remarks on Kontra Klasa’s ‘Notes on the transition to communism’ A critique of Croat communist group Kontra Klasa's article 'Notes on the transition to communism' from a left-communist standpoint. Originally published in Intransigence, March 26, 2019.
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
The Gold Coast Revolution George Padmore's analysis of the independence movement on the Gold Coast against British rule, leading to the founding of Ghana under the…
Falling Wall Book Review #2 (1974) Second edition of the journal of Falling Wall Press with book reviews etc.
The search for a useable past: an interview with Paul Buhle on Radical America An interview of Paul Buhle, the founder of the radical journal, Radical America.
Black Sansculottes - CLR James This article originally appeared in Newsletter, published by the Institute of Race Relations in London, in October 1964, four months after…
Libertarian Communist #7 (Winter 1979/1980) Issue #7 of Libertarian Communist. With articles on mass unemployment, the need for a mass anti-cuts campaign, the Labour Party and Labour left…
Slaves and Proletarians: The Debate Continues Martin Glaberman responds to Noel Ignatiev on the question of whether slaves are proletarians.
The black radical tradition A massive PDF compilation of writings about black radical and revolutionary movements in the US in the 20th century. This same reader is…
Negro Revolution Through Revolutionary Socialism - CLR James Transcribed for the first time. CLR James recommended reading for militants in Detroit in 1970s…
The Old World and the New - CLR James [This is the text of the speech given by James at a celebration organised to mark his seventieth birthday on 4 January 1971 at Ladbroke Grove in…
On Marx's Essays from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts - CLR James [The three essays by Karl Marx to which this was an introduction in 1947 were "Alienated Labour", …
Walter Reuther, "social unionist" - Martin Glaberman Martin Glaberman's review of 'The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor'.
