Johnson–Forest Tendency

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.R. James, who had written an extensive essay on a related theme several weeks earlier. It should be noted that despite the use of the masculine pronoun throughout the article, the Correspondence group were quite sensitive to questions of gender. Thanks to Scott McLemee for providing this material. This article has been archived on libcom.org from the Red and Black Notes website.

Karl Marx and the Paris Commune - CLR James

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CLR James on Marx, the Commune and their relevance for workers in the US.

On C.L.R. James' Notes on Dialectics

A review by Raya Dunayevskaya of a work by CLR James.

Socialism or Barbarism - Raya Dunayevskaya

A short article by Raya Dunayevskaya from 1954 about the French group, Socialisme ou Barbarie.

On the Woman Question: An Orientation

Selma James delivered this report on behalf of the Johnson-Forest Tendency. Selma James was an important figure in the Johnson-Forest Tendency, a co-author of the pamphlet, A Woman’s Place, during the Correspondence period.

State capitalism and world revolution - CLR James

Marxist CLR James on state capitalism and revolution.

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.

Revolutionary answer to the Negro Problem in the USA - CLR James

A speech by CLR James at a Socialist Workers Party (US) conference in 1948.

The historical development of the Negro in the United States - CLR James

Originally circulated as an internal memorandum of the Workers Party dated 20 December 1943. Submitted as a document to the 1944 convention of the Workers Party. First published as Negroes and the Revolution: Resolution of the Minority in New International, Volume XI No.1, January 1945, pp. 13–20. Republished in Scott McLemee (ed.), C.L.R. James on the “Negro Question”, Jackson (Miss.) 1996, pp. 63–89.

Negroes and Bolshevism - CLR James

From 7 April 1947 issue of Labor Action, newspaper of the Workers Party of the United States