Book Club Commune

The curtains close on Lovestone and the Rightists in this chapter of Black Bolshevik

In this episode Haywood is deep in the debates of the 6th Congress of the Comintern, where the fighting against right opportunism is in full force

In this chapter Haywood is deep in debates leading up to the 6th convention of the Comintern to determine if self-determination is applicable to the Black community in the US

In this episode, Haywood is off to the Lenin school to deepen his revolutionary education.

In this episode, Haywood witnesses the struggle within the Soviet Union for the correct line between Trotsky's Permanent Revolution and Stalin's Socialism in one Country. Oh and Haywood goes on vacation to Crimea.

Haywood and others travel to Moscow to become trained revolutionaries in this chapter of Black Bolshevik!

Haywood joins the The CPUSA, and immediately faces factionalism and the struggle of the Party to connect to Black workers

In this chapter Haywood explores various explanations and solutions to the racist problems he and other Black people faced at the time, from assimilation and the NAACP, to Garveyism and the Back to Africa Movement, and Socialism

We're off to France to fight in World War 1, but unfortunately the long arm of Jim Crow follows Haywood across the ocean in Chapter 2 of Black Bolshevik "A Black Regiment in World War One"

The first episode of my series on Harry Haywood's Autobiography "Black Bolshevik", where we get into the Prologue and Chapter 1 "A Child of Slaves"