Malcolm X had long been an uncompromising opponent of imperialist oppression, exploitation, and degradation. During the last year of his life, he also became an outspoken opponent of capitalism. Malcolm’s last year illustrates how, in the imperialist epoch, revolutionary leadership of the highest political capacity, courage, and integrity converges with communism. That truth has even greater weight today as billions around the world, in city and countryside, from China to Brazil, are being hurtled into the modern class struggle by the violent expansion of world capitalism.
Also includes:
- The Clintons’ Antilabor Legacy: Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis
- The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class
- Setting the Record Straight on Fascism and World War II: Building a World Federation of Democratic Youth that Fights Imperialism and War
Also available in Spanish (ISBN: 9781604880069), French (ISBN:9781604880137)
“The articles...review the antilabor record of the Clinton administration as connected to the 2008 world financial crisis and describe the last year of Malcolm X's life as one in which he moved towards revolutionary internationalism and socialism.”
—Research Book News
Jack Barnes (1940– ) is national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. He joined the SWP in May 1961 and has been a member of the party’s National Committee since 1963 and a national officer since 1968.
Since the mid-1970s Barnes has led the political course of the SWP and its sister parties worldwide to build communist parties whose members and leaders in their large majority are workers and unionists organizing workers to forge and strengthen trade unions and lead the working class and its allies toward a successful socialist revolution.
Barnes is a contributing editor of New International magazine and author of numerous books and articles on revolutionary working-class politics and the communist movement.
His writings include:
Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? (2016)
The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party (2019)
Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power (2009)
The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record: Why Washington Fears Working People (2016)
“The Stewardship of Nature Also Falls to the Working Class: In Defense of Land and Labor,” in
New International no. 14 (2008, coauthor)
Cuba and the Coming American Revolution (2007)
Their Trotsky and Ours (2002)
“US Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War” in
New International no. 11 (1998)
Steve Clark (1948– ), a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee since 1977, is editorial director of Pathfinder Press and managing editor of New International magazine.
Active from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s in the fight to halt the US war in Vietnam, Clark joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1970 and Socialist Workers Party in 1971. He is a leader of the party’s work in solidarity with the socialist revolution in Cuba. He was editor of the Young Socialist magazine (1974–75) and YSA national secretary (1975). He edited the Militant newsweekly (1977–80, 2011–12) and the socialist news magazine Intercontinental Press (1981–84).
Clark is the editor of Malcolm X Talks to Young People and other collections of speeches and writings by Malcolm X, and author of the introductions to Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? and The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record, both by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes. In July 1980 Clark interviewed Maurice Bishop, central leader of the workers and farmers government in the Caribbean island of Grenada, for the Militant and is editor of Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979–83 and author of “The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop” in New International No.6.
Among Clark’s other articles in New International are “Farming, Science, and the Working Classes” and “The Politics of Economics: Che Guevara and Marxist Continuity,” co-authored with Jack Barnes.
