James S. Allen [Jim Allen] [Sol Auerbach]

1906-1986

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James S. "Jim" Allen (born Sol Auerbach) (1906-1986) was an American Communist historian, journalist, and activist. In the early 1930s he was an editor of the Labor Defender, official organ of the International Labor Defense and, for a brief period, of the newspaper The Southern Worker. During these years he was considered one of the party's foremost experts on the African American national question. The Comintern sent him on two missions to the Philippines, first in 1936 and again in 1938. In later years, he was a leading CP functionary, member of the Central Committee, and head of the Party’s publishing house, International Publishers.

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Organizing in the Depression South. A Communist Memoir, James S. Allen
James S. Allen and Communist Organization of the Depression South in the 1930s, Jonathan Dale Harwood

Works:

1927: "Taxi, Mister?", The Nation, March 9, 1927
1927: Taxi Drivers Get Low Pay; Forced to Serve Same Low Characters, Daily Worker, March 22, 1927

1928: The University of Pennsylvania in Power Trusts' Pay, Daily Worker, June 6, 1928
1928: Plan Auerbach Protest Meet, Daily Worker, June 7, 1928
1928: Youth Protests New Dismissal of Instructor, Daily Worker, June 13, 1928
1928: Auerbach is Hailed as Aid in Struggle, Daily Worker, June 21, 1928
1928: University of Penna. Fires a Teacher, Part I; Part II, Daily Worker, June 27 and 28, 1928
1928: Most Enthusiastic Textile Convention, Daily Worker, October 1, 1928

1930: What Do We Stand For?, Southern Worker, August 16, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, August 16, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, August 30, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, September 6, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, September 13, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, September 27, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, October 4, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, October 25, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, November 1, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, November 8, 1930
1930: Voices from the South. "Murmurs of Protest, Soon Storm of Revolt", Labor Defender, November 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, November 15, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, November 22, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, December 6, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, December 13, 1930
1930: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, December 27, 1930

1931: America Has Its Chain Gangs, Labor Defender, January 1931
1931: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, January 3, 1931
1931: Solidarity - North and South, Daily Worker, January 15, 1931
1931: The Reds Say..., Southern Worker, January 31, 1931
1931: Some Rural Aspects of the Struggle for the Right of Self-Determination, The Communist, March 1931
1931: Workers Hail Paris Commune, Southern Worker, March 21, 1931
1931: Farm Workers Getting as Low as 15c a day - Organize, Fight!, Southern Worker, June 27, 1931
1931: A War for Bread, [armed struggle in Tallapoosa County] Daily Worker, July 22, 1931
1931: Introduction to the pamphlet Race Hatred on Trial
1931: Excerpts of Allen's Speech to the XIIIth Plenum, CPUSA , August 1931

1932: The American Negro
1932: Awakening in the Cotton Belt
1932: Negro Liberation
1932: The Socialist Party Denies Existence of the Black Belt. By Their Words and Deeds the S.P. Misleaders Uphold Oppression of the Negro People, Daily Worker, November 9, 1932
1932: Socialist Party "Theoreticians" Justify Slavery of Negroes, Daily Worker, November 11, 1932
1932: Only Path to Liberation of Negro Masses, [review of Negro Liberation] Milton Howard, Daily Worker, November 18, 1932
1932: Distorters of the Revolutionary Heritage of the American Proletariat. The Traditions of Civil War and Reconstruction, The Communist, December 1932
1932: Camp Hill Slaughter in July 1931, Did Not Stop Struggles, Daily Worker, December 21, 1932

1933: Prologue to the Liberation of the Negro People, The Communist, February 1933
1933: Dixie - Where a Nation is Chained to the Soil, Labor Defender, February 1933
1933: Smash the Scottsboro Lynch Verdict
1933: The Scottsboro Struggle, The Communist, May 1933
1933: The Power Station in Harlem; Negro Education in America since the Civil War Days, Daily Worker, September 13, 1933

1934: Lenin and the American Negro, The Communist, January 1934
1934: The Black Belt: Area of Negro Majority, The Communist, June 1934
1934: C.P. Birthday Marks Growth of Struggles of the Negro Masses, Daily Worker, October 6, 1934
1934: New Attack on the Scottsboro Defense, New Masses, November 6, 1934
1934: Sharecropping as a Remnant of Chattel Slavery, The Communist, December 1934
1934: Struggle for Negro Civil Rights Spurred by Scottsboro Case, Daily Worker, December 20, 1934

1935: Which Way Out for the Negro? The Communist Way Out, The Crisis, May 1935
1935: The Negroes in a Soviet America, [with James W. Ford]

1936: The Negro Question in the United States [book]
1936: A Contribution to the Popularization of the Leninist Position on the Negro Question, [review of The Negro Question in the United States] A.W. Berry, The Communist, June 1936
1936: Our Oppressed Nation, [review of The Negro Question in the United States] James W. Ford, New Masses, June 16, 1936

1937: Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy, 1865-1876
1937: Marx and Engels on the Civil War, New Masses, December 14, 1937

1938: Negro Liberation [revised edition of 1932 original]

1946: The Negro Question (A Discussion Article), Political Affairs, November 1946
1946: The Negro Question: The Negro People as a Nation (A Discussion Article), Political Affairs, December 1946
1946: Remarks [excerpts] in discussion of the Negro question at the plenary meeting of the National Committee of tbe CPUSA, held in New York, December 3-5, 1946 [from the pamphlet The Communist Position on the Negro Question]

1956: Some New Data Toward Understanding the Position of Negroes in the U.S. Today, 16th National Convention Discussion Bulletin, No. 2, November 27, 1956