J.R. Johnson

The Negro Question


“Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded” – Karl Marx

Negroes and the War

(September/October 1939)


From Socialist Appeal, Vol. III No. 66, 6 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 67, 9 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 68, 11 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 69, 13 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 70, 15 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 71, 18 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 72, 20 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 73, 26 September 1939, p. 3, Vol. III No. 74, 29 September 1939, p. 3 & Vol. III No. 75, 3 October 1939, p. 3.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.


Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part V [1]

Part VI

Part VII

Part VIII

Part IX


Note by MIA

1. Two articles were numbered “V” in the printed editions.


Last updated on 13 February 2018