C L R James Archive
1901 - 1989
“this independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.”.
Revolutionary Answer, 1948
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Biography
Works:
Dialectical Materialism & the Fate of Humanity
Articles on Marxism, Revolution and Black History
Intervening in Abyssinia
New Leader, October 1935.
“Civilising” the “Blacks”; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
New Leader, May 1936.
Trotskyism
Controversy, October 1937.
Six Questions to Trotskyists – And Their Answers
Controversy, February-March 1938.
The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the US
SWP New York Convention Resolutions, July 1939.
The SWP and Negro Work
SWP New York Convention Resolutions 1939.
Revolution and the Negro
New International, December 1939.
Native Son and Revolution
New International, May 1940.
On the History of the Left Opposition
Discussion with Trotsky from Fourth International, January 1941.
Resolution on the Russian Question
Resolution submitted by C.L.R. James to the 1941 convention of the Workers Party of the United States
Letter on the nature of the Russian economy
New International, April 1942.
The Way Out for Europe
New International, April 1943.
Socialism and the National Question
New International, October 1943.
In the American Tradition
New International, November 1943.
Negroes in the Civil War
The Lesson of Germany
The Historical Development of the Negro in the United States
Workers Party document, 1943.
In the International Tradition
New International, January 1944.
The American People in ‘One World’
New International, July 1944.
The Course of the War
New International, August 1944.
The French Rats and the Sinking Ship
New International, September 1944.
Which Way for PAC
New International, December 1944.
Germany and European Civilization
New International, November 1944.
Reconversion
New International, March 1945.
The Lesson of Germany
New International, May 1945.
From the Master-Slave Dialectic to Revolt in Capitalist Production
Extract from a polemic by C L R James, against the IKD, 1946
Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution: A Discussion Article on the Thesis of the IKD
New International, January 1946
On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
March 1946 Article from Labor Action
The Program of the Minority
Minority document for Workers Party convention, May 1946, with Dunayevskaya et al.
After Ten Years
An assessment of Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed, ten years on, 1946.
Negroes and Bolshevism
April 1947 Article from Labor Action
Trotskyism in the United States, 1940-1947. Balance Sheet.
Published by the Workers Party and the Johnson-Forest tendency.
The Invading Socialist Society
With Raya Dunayevskaya, published by the Johnson-Forest tendency.
The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
Speech at Socialist Workers Party conference in 1948, stimulated by his 1939 discussions with Trotsky.
Henry Luce and Karl Marx
March-April 1948 Article from Fourth International
Winston Churchill – Tory War-dog
February 1949 Article from Fourth International
“The Talented Tenth”: Negro Leadership and Civil Rights, Road Ahead in Negro Struggle
2 articles on the problems of the Civil Rights struggle from Fourth International, April 1949.
Cromwell and the Levellers, Ancestors of the Proletariat
2 articles on the English Revolution of 1649 from Fourth International, 1949.
Price of Imperialism to the People
From Fourth International, August 1949.
Stalinism and Negro History, Herbert Aptheker’s Distortions
2 articles on Stalinism from Fourth International, November and December 1949.
Two Young American Writers
Book review in Fourth International, March-April 1950
State Capitalism and World Revolution
Written in 1950 in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya.
On the Woman Question: An Orientation
A discussion held on September 3rd, 1951
Every Cook can Govern
A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece, 1956
Marxism and the Intellectuals
Pamphlet published with Martin Glaberman, 1962
Indomitable Rebel
Review of The Prophet Outcast, Trotsky: 1929-40 by Isaac Deutscher, 1963
Lenin and the Vanguard Party
Controversy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 1963
Revolutionary Creativity
Review of two books on Russian Marxism, 1964
On The Vanguard
Speech at a Conference of Oilfield Workers Trade Union in Trinidad, October 1965
Black Power
Talk in London in 1967.
Interview with Ken Ramchand in San Fernando
Trinidad & Tobago, September 5th, 1980
Interview with British Trotskyists
South London, November 16th, 1986
Further reading:
George Rawick Archive
Raya Dunayevskaya Archive
George Padmore Archive
Lenin’s Annotations on Hegel’s Logic
Frantz Fanon Archive
The C.L.R. James Institute [off-site link]
Archive maintained by Andy Blunden.