No person in the United States can deny that Black liberation remains a pressing issue today. The unrest in Baltimore, Ferguson, etc. underscores the persistent social ills in the USA that Blacks have been unable to escape. The task of attempting to address these grievances within a revolutionary tradition is also|however less well-known|not a new phenomenon. Radical groupings within the USA have grappled with how to emancipate American Blacks from their oppression even prior to the Russian Revolution, although the Bolsheviks' attempt to export revolution around the globe unquestionably accelerated these efforts. It is this history which we present in the current volume, through primary sources.

Communist Research Cluster announces the release of the latest volume of our Communist Interventions reader series: Revolutionary Feminism. Featuring Marxist, anarchist, and other revolutionary feminist theoretical debates from the late 19th century to 1984, Revolutionary Feminism offers a foundation for thinking through capitalism and gender today. Table of contents: 1\. Engels 2\. Second International 3\. Anarchism 4\. Russian Revolution 5\. American Communist Party 6\. Women’s Liberation 7\. Gay Liberation 8\. Socialist Feminism 9\. Sexual Violence 10\. Black Feminism 11\. Biological Reproduction 12\. Wages for Housework 13\. Materialist Feminism 14\. Domestic Labor 15\. Sexuality 16\. Dual Systems 17\. Social Reproduction