The Black Liberation Struggle, The Black Workers Congress, and Proletarian Revolution.

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First edition. A major programmatic statement in 1974 by the Black Workers Congress, a Marxist-Leninist formation that emerged in the early 1970s out of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

Issued in the wake of the group’s founding in 1971, the well-illustrated text outlines the organization’s view of the Black liberation movement, its relationship to the U.S. working class, and its role within an international proletarian struggle. Topics include U.S. imperialism, the “national question,” strategy for revolution, trade unionism, the woman question, and the student and youth movements.

The work situates Black liberation within Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung thought and insists on the need for a new Communist Party in the United States. The introduction underscores the burden of “super-exploitation and dual oppression” faced by African Americans and appeals to “advance Blacks” to join in the struggle.

The Black Workers Congress collapsed a year after this publication was issued; it remains as an important artifact of radical Black Marxist thought in the 1970s. Scarce in commerce.

Price: $350.00