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Race/class politics: the Liberator/, 1929-1934

School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Brighton, Sussex

During the Depression years of the early 1930s, the American Communist Party attracted significant numbers of black activists, writers and workers to its ranks. The black-led Communist paper the Liberator was both the mouthpiece and rallying point for this movement. The type of race-class politics it forged was groundbreaking at the time, but it has been consistently misunderstood and misconstrued by later historians, often writing from a ‘cold war’ perspective. Here, the development of the Liberator’s politics is closely analysed and placed in a historical context that allows its significance for black radicalism and black struggle to emerge.

Key Words: anti-racism • black • Communism • CPUSA • Depression • racism

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