UPCOMING: Negro Liberation, by Harry Haywood, foreword by Dr. Rebecca Hall

My father released Negro Liberation in 1948. In 2026, this book will be re-released by Haymarket Press.

My dad wrote Negro Liberation fifteen years before I was born. I was with him when he died at eighty-seven, on my twenty-second birthday. That was forty years ago. I am writing this foreword while at a hot springs in Northern California, trying to recover and reset my nervous system after the 2024 election and the failure of liberalism. Join me on my prodigal daughter character arc. Watch out. The path is slippery. My father spent his whole life developing a revolutionary position on the Negro question. He was obsessed. He knew that liberalism would fail and needed to articulate an alternative. Without this revolutionary position, fascism prevails. He fought fascism his whole life. I decided to bring this book back into print when young people I work with were regularly citing Negro Liberation. I needed to understand why folks were drawing on a book written in 1948. What did they see in it that I couldn’t? I became determined to know.