Henry Winston

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Winston 1963 on the VI. Party congress of the SED in Berlin with a greeting from the CPUSA

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

Life

Henry Winston grew up with five siblings first in Hattiesburg, then after 1925 in Kansas City ( Missouri ). After graduating from school, Winston was unemployed , also because of the low demand for labor caused by the global economic crisis . In 1933 Winston first joined a communist organization, the Young Communist League . This served as the youth organization of the CPUSA. From 1936 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA and thus one of the leading representatives of this party until his death. Winston was also 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 US 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: International Publishers.
    • On the strategy of the liberation struggle of the Afro-Americans: a critical examination of new theories d. Liberation struggle in d. USA & in Africa. 1975, Berlin: Dietz.
  • Class, race, and black liberation. 1977, New York: International Publishers.
  • Julio Luelmo , Henry Winston: Eurocomunismo y Estado o la desintegración del PCE y la ruptura con el movimiento comunista internacional. 1978, Madrid: Akal.
  • Gus Hall : Karl Marx: beacon for our times. New York: International Publishers, 1983. (Foreword by Henry Winston).

Web links

Commons : Henry Winston  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview of Political Affairs ( Memento of November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) with Jarvis Tyner (English) Retrieved on January 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Winston's biography. ( Memento of May 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 15, 2010
  3. ↑ Manning Marable , Leith Mullings (ed.): Let nobody turn us around . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2000, ISBN 0-8476-8345-1 , pp. 503 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Winston, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winnie, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattiesburg , Forrest County, Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1986
Place of death Soviet Union