Claude McKay

Content by or about Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (September 15, 1890 – May 22, 1948), a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a contributor to Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers' Dreadnought and member of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 6 No. 47 - 14 February 1920)

Including: Bolsheviks vs Czech soldiers in Siberia, Italian railway strike, Daily Herald is Labour…

The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 6 No. 46 - 7 February 1920)

Including: Labour party and Russia, conditions of Russian soldiers in France, class struggle in…

The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 6 No. 45 - 31 January 1920)

Including: Supplement on the first meeting of the Third International in Europe, Claude McKay on the…

The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 6 No. 24- 6 September 1919)

Including: Swiss Socialist Party joins Third International, Alexander Kolchak kills Bolshevik…

Radical London & The Workers Dreadnought in the early 1920s - Claude McKay

Arriving in London from the US in 1919, West Indian writer McKay describes in these excerpts from…