Negro Liberation

A major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood, now in a new edition featuring a foreword by Dr. Rebecca Hall and an introduction by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly.

In 1948, Harry Haywood, a leading member of the Communist Party USA, published Negro Liberation, a pathbreaking book that lays out his argument that the Black Belt South constitutes a distinct nation and an internal colony of U.S. imperialism. Applying a Marxist-Leninist lens to questions of nationalism, colonialism, and land distribution, Haywood lays out the dire stakes of Jim Crow violence and oppression and critiques the emptiness and insufficiency of liberal solutions. Along the way, he makes a powerful case for Black self-determination.

Framed by Rebecca Hall's moving meditation on her father's legacy and Charisse Burden-Stelly's clear-eyed case for how Haywood reveals the contradiction between ruling-class politics and Black liberation today, this new edition of Negro Liberation is a must-read for anyone fighting against oppression.

About the author

Harry Haywood (1898-1985) was a leading member of the Communist Party of the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Harry Haywood, Haywood Harry
• Assisted by: Charisse Burden-Stelly (Introduction), Hall Rebecca (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.01.2026
• EAN: 9798888904633
• ISBN: 979-8-88890-463-3
• Illustrations: No
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Politics & government, Trade Unions, Political Economy, Politics and government, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Industrial arbitration & negotiation, Industrial arbitration and negotiation, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements