Negro Liberation

Harry Haywood

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN: 9798888904848
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Preface to the 1948 edition
• chapter I. The Problem
• chapter II. The Plantation—Instrument of Oppression
• chapter III. Big Business and the Plantation
• chapter IV. The Shadow of the Plantation
• chapter V. “Liberal Remedies”
• chapter VI. Land and Freedom
• chapter VII. The Negro Nation
• chapter VIII. The Negro Liberation Movement
• Appendix
• Notes
• Index
• About Haymarket Books