Introduction. C.L.R. James and revolutionary Marxism / Paul Le Blanc -- pt. 1. Remembering C.L.R. James -- C.L.R. James--thinker, writer, revolutionary / Charles van Gelderen -- C.L.R. James : a recollection / Martin Glaberman -- Nello / John Bracey -- Marxism in the USA / Paul Buhle -- pt. 2. Writings for the Trotskyist press (1939-1949) -- Revolution and the Negro -- Native son and revolution : a review of Native son / by Richard Wright -- Trotsky's place in history -- Imperialism in Africa -- To and from the Finland Station : a review of To the Finland Station / by Edmund Wilson -- In the American tradition : the working-class movement in perspective -- In the international tradition : tasks ahead for American labor -- The American people in "one world" : an essay in dialectical materialism -- The revolutionary answer to the Negro problem in the United States -- Stalinism and Negro history -- Afterword : American civilization and world revolution : C.L.R. James in the United States, 1938-1953 and beyond / Scott McLemee.