Self-Determination: An Examination of the Question and Its Application to the African-American People

116 pp. CONTENTS: DEFINING SELF-DETERMINATION INTRODUCTION: What is meant by self-determination; Independence; Federation; Self-determination for subjugated nations; A brief comparison of capitalism and socialism; Autonomy under capitalism; Autonomy under socialism; What is a nation; Explanation of definition; Why does the thesis accept this definition; The application of the thesis' definition of self determination to the African-American people; Summation and conclusion; Footnotes, chapter one; EXAMINING THE HISTORY OF SELF-DETERMINATION PRIOR TO WORLD WAR II: THE RUSSIAN MODEL: How was self-determination of a nation treated in the U.S.S.R; A Historical Development of the U.S.S.R; Conditions in Tsarist Russia; Organized Revolt Against the Oppressive Conditions in Tsarist Russia; February 1917 Revolution; Kerensky Government and the Right of Self-Determination; October 1917 Revolution and the right of Self-Determination; Leon Trotsky, the Socialist Workers Party, the 4th International, and the Question of self-determination; Summation and conclusion; HISTORY AND POLITICS OF THE BLACK BELT THESIS FROM 1928 UNTIL 1945: Resolution of the sixth congress of the communist international on the african-american people; 1930 resolution of the communist international on the African American oppressed nation in the black belt; background to the 1930 resolution; Explanation of the resolution, the struggle for equal rights; Right of Self-determination in the black belt; Scottsboro Defense Campaign and the National Negro Congress (NNC); First liquidation of the black belt thesis by the communist part USA; Communist International is dissolved; Twelfth convention of the CPUSA; Summation and conclusion; VARIOUS POSITIONS ON THE BLACK BELT THESIS AFTER WORLD WAR II: National question in the communist party USA from World War II until 1959; American exceptionalism; Earl Browder and American exceptionalism; Jacques Duclos; 17th National Convention of the Communist Party USA; Categories of Various post World War II positions on the Black Belt thesis; Summation and conclusion; WHICH WAY FOR THE BLACK BELT THESIS: Position of this thesis on the Black Belt question; Contribution of this Thesis; Summation and conclusion.