Transnational communism across the Americas / edited by Marc Becker, Margaret M. Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob A. Zumoff

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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: From the National to the Transnational -- The National and the International in Latin American Communism -- Part I: Bolshevism and the Americas (1917-1943) -- 1. The Comintern, the Communist Party of Mexico, and the "Sandino Case": The History of a Failed Alliance, 1927-1930 -- The Beginnings of the Pro-Sandinista Campaign -- The Formation of the MAFUENIC and Its First Tasks -- The Mexican Government Speaks Out -- The Crisis and Rupture of Relations between the PCM and Sandino -- Final Considerations -- 2. Black Caribbean Migrants and the Labor Movement and Communists in the Greater Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s -- Communists and the Negro Question in the United States -- The African Blood Brotherhood -- Communists and Antillanos in Panama and Costa Rica -- Antillanos in Costa Rica -- The 1934 Banana Workers' Strike and West Indians -- The Comintern, CPUSA, and Caribbean Bureau -- El Mundo Obrero and the Negro Question -- 3. The "Negro Question" in Cuba, 1928-1936 -- The Negro Question in Cuba -- Defense of the Scottsboro Nine -- The "Faja Negra" -- Defense of Antillano Workers -- Dawn of the Popular Front -- Conclusion -- 4. Semicolonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1927-1936 -- Visitors to the Future -- Classifying Latin America -- Dilemmas of the Third Period -- A "Forge for Cadres"? -- The Hair's-Breadth Universe -- Conclusion -- 5. A Relationship Forged in Exile: Luís Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party, 1927-1935 -- New Paths in the 1920s -- The May Manifesto -- The Knight of Hope in Moscow -- The Seventh World Congress, the ANL, and the 1935 Revolt -- Conclusion: Imprisoned but on the Rise.

6. A Political and Transnational Ménage à Trois: The Communist Party USA, the Puerto Rican Communist Party, and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, 1934-1945 -- From Conflict to Collaboration: Nationalists and Communists -- Pueblos Hispanos -- Political Differences Persist -- Part II: Latin American Communism in the Cold-War Frame (1945-1989) -- 7. Latin America and the Communist World in the Early 1950s: The Networks of Soviet Pacifism and Latin American Anti-Imperialism -- An Aristocratic Communist -- The World Peace Movement and Cold War Culture Battles -- China, the Pacific, and Latin American Anti-Imperialism -- The Crisis of Communist Pacifism -- 8. Breaking the Silence: Communist Women, Transnationalism, and the Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca, 1947-1954 -- The Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo -- The Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca -- Conclusion -- 9. Transnational Youth and Student Groups in the 1950s -- World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) -- International Union of Students (IUS) -- Youth and Student Festivals -- 10. Our Vietnamese Compañeros: How Salvadoran Guerrillas Adapted the "People's War" Strategy -- Prolonged Popular War in Global Context -- Vietnam and the Worker-Peasant Alliance -- Active, Direct, Conscious Participation -- Popular War in the 1980s -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Remapping the Past -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.