Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century
fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building
collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete
materialist analysis of the conditions of Black workers, these women
argued that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by
overthrowing capitalism.
The first collection of its kind, Organize, Fight, Win brings
together three decades of Black Communist women's political writings.
In doing so, it highlights the link between Communism and Black
liberation. Likewise, it makes clear how Black women fundamentally
shaped, and were shaped by, Communist praxis in the twentieth
century.
Organize, Fight, Win includes writings from card-carrying
Communists like Dorothy Burnham, Williana Burroughs, Grace P.
Campbell, Alice Childress, Marvel Cooke, Esther Cooper Jackson,
Thelma Dale Perkins, Vicki Garvin, Yvonne Gregory, Claudia Jones,
Maude White Katz, and Louise Thompson Patterson, and writings by
those who organized alongside the Communist Party, like Ella Baker,
Charlotta Bass, Thyra Edwards, Lorraine Hansberry, and Dorothy
Hunton.