In this speech, Haywood breaks some new ground in his discussion of the question of regional autonomy as a solution to the Afro-American national question, both in the Deep South and in the major urban concentrations of Blacks in the North and West. His autobiography, Black Bolshevik, was recently published by Liberator Press. He studied at the Lenin School in Moscow in the 1920s, worked for the Communist International in developing its theoretical views on the national question, and served in the leadership of the Communist Party, U.S.A., until he was expelled by the revisionist Gus Hall clique in 1959. Haywood, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), is an internationally known authority on the subject. The central theme of the speech is the relationship between Black Power, the right of self-determination and the struggle for socialism. Sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Afro-American Studies Department, the event drew more than 300 people, who received Haywood enthusiastically and gave him a standing ovation at the end of his talk. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above.įollowing is the text of a major speech given by Harry Haywood at Howard University in October 1978. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work as well as make derivative and commercial works.

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Black power and the black masses