Malcolm X Black Liberation & the Road to Workers Power.

"Don't start with Blacks as an oppressed nationality. Start with the vanguard place and weight of workers who are Black in broad proletarian-led social and political struggles in the United States. From the Civil War to today, the record is mind-boggling. It's the strength and resilience, not the oppression, that bowls you over."-Jack Barnes

Malcolm X emerged from the the Black liberation struggle that opened in the mid-1950s as its outstanding single leader. He insisted that colossal movement was part of a worldwide clash "between those who want freedom, justice, and equality and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation."

Drawing lessons from a century and a half of struggle, this book helps us understand why it is the revolutionary conquest of power by the working class that will make possible the final battle for Black freedom-and open the way to a world based not on exploitation, violence, and racism but human solidarity. A socialist world.

Includes four photo sections and over 130 photographs and drawings, author's introduction, index, glossary.