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The history of black liberation struggles has been characterized by a fundamental diff of opinion between Marxists & others of similar views who have seen oppression of black people as primarily a class question, & black nat'lists who have seen the black struggle as primarily a racial struggle transcending class diff's. C.L.R. James, a black Marxist from Trinidad, has had a long history of struggle in Europe, the West Indies & North America, both in Trotskyite & small independent Marxist org's, & in black nat'list causes. He has consistently viewed the race question as subsidiary to class though nevertheless of great, though not fundamental, importance. The struggles of black people have an independent validity & yet are linked, in his view, to white proletarian emancipation. James' actions have usually been consistent with his ideas. His views are similar to the discussions he had with Leon Trotsky in the 1930's, in the Socialist Workers Party in the US re his att to the Black Power phenomenon of the 1960's, & elsewhere. Whereas many other black Marxists have proven unable to reconcile their Marxist affiliations with the pull of black nat'lism, James seems to have been less affected by this problem. AA.

chapter 1 Original Peoples -- chapter 2 The Coming of Columbus -- chapter 3 The Northern European Challenge to Spain -- chapter 4 The Africans: Long Night of Enslavement -- chapter 5 The Enslaved and the Manumitted: Human Beings in Savage Surroundings -- chapter 6 The Big Fight Back: Resistance, Marronage, Proto-States -- chapter 7 The Big Fight Back: Suriname and Jamaica -- chapter 8 The Big Fight Back: From Rebellion to Haitian Revolution -- chapter 9 Emancipation: Help From Europe, Final Push From the Enslaved -- chapter 10 After Emancipation: Obstacles and Progress -- chapter 11 Immigration in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- chapter 12 The Caribbean and Africa Through the Early Twentieth Century -- chapter 13 The United States and the Caribbean to World War II -- chapter 14 Twentieth Century to World War II: Turbulent Times -- chapter 15 World War II to Century's End -- chapter 16 Prognosis.