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Reading Lists:
The following reading lists by George Jackson and the Communist Research Cluster (via libcom.org) are not to be viewed as propaganda menus, but as texts to inform and understand the histories of the Black Radical Tradition and the resistance movements against the assault on Black liberation. While they are not comprehensive lists, we invite all radical thinkers to treat them as primers, tools, and important knowledge for radical thinking, being, and doing. All readings from the Communist Research Cluster list are available free online in PDF HERE.
To Be Free
by Herbert Aptheker
Africa: The Way Ahead
by Jack Woddis
The Empire of Oil
by Harvey O’Connor
A History of Pan-African Revolt
by C. L. R. James
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. DuBois
Revolutionary Priest
by Camilo Torres
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
Myth of Black Capitalism
by Earl Ofari
Class Struggle in Africa
by Kwame Nkrumah
Capital
by Karl Marx
The Modern Prince and Other Writings
by Antonio Gramsci
Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance
by Naseer Hasan Aruri
Some Changes
by June Jordan
All readings FREE and available online in PDF version:
https://libcom.org/files/The%20Black%20Radical%20Tradition_0.pdf
Black Reconstruction
W.E.B. Du Bois
What Socialism Means to Us
Hubert Harrison
An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself
Marcus Garvey
Program of the African Blood Brotherhood - The African Blood Brotherhood Report on the Negro Question
Claude McKay
Application for Membership in the Communist Party
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Negro Nation
Harry Haywood
An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!
Claudia Jones
The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in US
C.L.R. James
Revolutionary Nationalism and the Afro-American
Harold Cruse
Is the Black Bourgeoisie the Leader of the Black Liberation Movement?
Harry Haywood with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
The American Revolution
James Boggs
Message to Grassroots
Malcolm X
The 12-Point Program of RAM
Revolutionary Action Movement
Speech in Beijing
Robert F. Williams
Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Beyond Vietnam
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness
Frantz Fanon
The Correct Handling of a Revolution
Huey P. Newton
Power Anywhere Where There's People
Fred Hampton
On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party
Eldridge Cleaver
On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver ...
Huey P. Newton
Prison Letters
George Jackson
White Blindspot
Noel Ignatin
Without a Science of Navigation We Cannot Sail in Stormy Seas
Noel Ignatin
Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing
James Forman
General Program (Here’s Where We’re Coming From)
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
From Repression to Revolution
Ken Cockrel
Black Women's Manifesto; Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female
Frances M. Beal
Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves
Angela Davis
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Combahee River Collective
Negro National Colonial Question
Communist League
Critique of the Black Nation Thesis
Racism Research Project
Revolutionary Review: The Black Nation Thesis
Congress of African People
National Liberation of Puerto Rico and the Responsibilities of the U.S. Proletariat
Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization
Revolution, the National Question and Asian Americans
I Wor Kuen
Chicano Liberation and Proletarian Revolution
August Twenty-Ninth Movement