Henry Winston

Henry Winston ( born April 2, 1911 in Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi; † 13 December 1986 in the Soviet Union) (also known as Winnie ) was an American politician of the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ). Winston has long been behind Gus Hall deputy chairman of the CPUSA; His death sparked a debate in 1986 about his successor, because African Americans wanted to see again within the party an African American in this position while Hall favored another candidate.

Life

Henry Winston grew together with five siblings first in Hattiesburg, after 1925 then in Kansas City (Missouri ) to. After finishing school, Winston, was also due to the triggered by the global economic crisis, low demand for labor, unemployed. 1933 Winston first appeared in a communist organization, the Young Communist League. This served as the youth organization of the CPUSA. Since 1936 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA and thus until his death one of the leading representatives of this party. Furthermore Winston was active in the anti -imperialist movement.

Works

• Life begins with freedom, 1937, New York:. New Age Publishers.
• . Character building and education in the spirit of socialism, 1939, New York: New Age Publishers.
• Old Jim Crow has got to go, 1941, New York: New age publishers.
• The challenge of U.S. neocolonialism, 1964, Prague: Peace and Socialism Publishers.
• Build the Communist Party, the party of the working class. Report to the 19th National Convention, Communist Party, USA, April 30-May 4, 1969, 1969, New York:. New Outlook Publishers.
• Strategy for a Black Agenda; a critique of new theories of liberation in the United States and Africa, 1973, New York:. Publishers International. ISBN 0717804038th The strategy of the liberation struggle of African Americans: a Critical examination of new theories d liberation struggle in d USA & Africa, 1975, Berlin: Dietz.