Marxists Internet Archive: Harry Haywood

Harry Haywood collage

 

Biography

 

Documents

1930

Against Bourgeois-Liberal Distortions of Leninism on the Negro Question in the United States, The Communist, August 1930

1931
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The Crisis of the Jim-Crow Nationalism of the Negro Bourgeoisie, The Communist, April 1931

The Theoretical Defenders of White Chauvinism in the Labor Movement, The Communist, June 1931

Lessons of the Miners' Strike and Tasks of the N.M.U. Among Negro Miners, The Daily Worker, October 6, 1931

Lessons of the Miners' Strike and Tasks of the N.M.U. Among Negro Miners, Part II, The Daily Worker, October 7, 1931

The Tasks of Revolutionary Workers in the Mobilization of the Negro Masses Against the War Danger, The Daily Worker, December 19, 1931

1932

For a Sharper Struggle Against Reformism The Daily Worker, January 19, 1932

The N.A.A.C.P. – Assistant Hangman Labor Defender, February 1932

Lynching, A Weapon of of National Oppression (with Milton Howard) (Pamphlet, 1932)

The N.A.A.C.P. Prepares New Betrayals of the Negro Masses, The Daily Worker, May 28, 1932

The N.A.A.C.P. Prepares New Betrayals of the Negro Masses, Part II, The Daily Worker, May 30, 1932

Scottsboro and Beyond Labor Defender, June 1932

The Scottsboro Decision. Victory of Revolutionary Struggle Over Reformist Betrayal The Communist, December 1932

1933

Lenin and Negro Question in the United States, Daily Worker, January 14, 1933

Scottsboro Issue Creates Rank and File Opposition at N.A.A.C.P. Convention. Harry Haywood, Negro Communist Leader, Tells of Meet, Daily Worker, July 11, 1933

The New Deal of Lynch Terror in Alabama, Daily Worker, September 1, 1933

The Struggle for the Leninist Position on the Negro Question in the United States

1934

Anti-Lynching

Congress Anti-Lynch Bill Calls Mass Meetings "Mobs", Daily Worker, February 17, 1934

Anti-Lynching Bill in Congress Is Silent on Death Penalty, Daily Worker, February 20, 1934

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Must Clarify the Negro Question in the Pre-Convention Discussion. Comrade Haywood Draws Lessons from the XIII ECCI Plenum for Our Work Among the Negroes, Daily Worker, March 10, 1934

Overcome Lagging in Negro Work, Smash Remnants of White-Chauvinism, Daily Worker, March 15, 1934

The Road to Negro Liberation, Report to the Eighth Convention of the CPUSA, April 2-8, 1934

Haywood New Sec'y League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Daily Worker, April 26, 1934

The South Comes North in Detroit's Own Scottsboro Case, An Address Delivered in Detroit, May 22, 1934

Negro Misleaders in Detroit, Harlem Liberator, June 9, 1934

Negro Workers Will Play Great Role in Coming Struggle of American Labor, Daily Worker, June 21, 1934

The Crawford Case and the N.A.A.C.P., Daily Worker, July 9, 1934

Crawford Case A Classic of N.A.A.C.P. Treachery, Daily Worker, July 10, 1934

N.A.A.C.P. Leadership in Lynchers' Camp, Daily Worker, July 11, 1934

Herndon is Symbol of New Fearless Negro Leader, Says Harry Haywood , Daily Worker, July 26, 1934

Japanese War Lords Try to Tie Negroes to Kite of Their Own Robber War Plans

How Mr. Jones, Negro Editor, Proposes to 'Save' Liberia. Reveals Link Between Padmore, Renegade, and W.N. Jones, Daily Worker, August 31, 1934

U.S. Imperialism's Slave Rule Aided by Jones' Liberia Plan, Daily Worker, September 1, 1934

Jones, Padmore, Schuyler – Lackeys of U.S. Imperialism, Daily Worker, September 3, 1934

George Schuyler – Judas in Modern Dress, Negro Liberator, September 22, 1934

George Schuyler – Judas in Modern Dress (continued), Negro Liberator, October 6, 1934

Scottsboro – The 20th Century Dred Scott Case Draws Sharp and Clear Lines of Class Struggle, Daily Worker, November 30, 1934

1935

Scottsboro Verdict Affects the Basic Rights of Negroes, Daily Worker, January 13, 1935

Harry Haywood Discusses Problems of Building Labor Party Among the Negro Masses of Chicago, Daily Worker, December 12, 1935

1936

Steuben Challenge Shows Changed Methods in Party Activities , Daily Worker, February 10, 1936

Self-Government – Struggle for Equality of Negro People, Daily Worker, August 3, 1936

1946

Toward a Program of Agrarian Reforms for the Black Belt, Political Affairs, September 1946

Toward a Program of Agrarian Reforms for the Black Belt, Part II, Political Affairs, October 1946

1948

Negro Liberation (book)

The Negro Nation (Chapter 7 of the book Negro Liberation)

1952

A Mighty Weapon in the Fight Against Genocide, [review of We Charge Genocide] Political Affairs, January 1952

1958

For A Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question

Letter from Harry Haywood to the POC

1964

The Crisis of Negro Reformism and the Growth Of Nationalism (with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall) [from an unpublished manuscript, "Towards a Revolutionary Program for Negro Freedom"]

The Two Epochs of Nation-Development: Is Black Nationalism a Form of Classical Nationalism? (with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall) [from an unpublished manuscript, "Towards a Revolutionary Program for Negro Freedom"]

Is the Black Bourgeoisie the Leader of the Black Liberation Movement? (with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall) [from an unpublished manuscript, "Towards a Revolutionary Program for Negro Freedom"]

The Nation of Islam: An Estimate (with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall) [from an unpublished manuscript, "Towards a Revolutionary Program for Negro Freedom"]

1976

The Degeneration of the CPUSA in the 1950s

Harry Haywood Honored. 78 Years of Struggle Hailed The Call, Vol. 4, No. 7, April 1976

Statement by Harry Haywood: "Unite to Build the New Party"

Harry Haywood's Speech at Congress: "We Have Taken First Step on a Long March"

1977

Harry Haywood’s Speech at [CPML] Congress: ’We Have Taken First Step on a Long March’

1978

Black Bolshevik, Auto-biography of an Afro-American Communist

Trotsky's Day in Court (Chapter 6 of the book Black Bolshevik

My Life as a Bundist [review of Black Bolshevik] Revolution, December 1978

1979

RCP’s racist attack on Harry Haywood by Sherman Miller [reply to "My Life as a Bundist"]

Black Power and the Fight for Socialism

Harry Haywood: ’We Blacks owe a lot to Stalin’

1981

Reformist work or Revolutionary work – Harry Haywood Remarks prepared for the Second [CPML] Congress, May 23, 1981

1984

China and its Supporters Were Wrong About USSR

1985

’Black Bolshevik’ Harry Haywood Dies at 87 by Frances M. Beal

 


 

Further reading: Harry Haywood Archive from The Marxist-Leninist (off site)