James Boggs (May 27, 1919 – July 22, 1993) was an American Marxist political activist, auto worker and author.

He was married to philosopher activist Grace Lee Boggs for forty years until his death.

Born in 1919 in Marion Junction, Alabama,[1] Boggs was an African-American activist, perhaps best known for authoring The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook in 1963.

James Boggs expressed the reasons for the 1962 split in his 1963 book, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook.

It was a genuine partnership of equals, remarkable not only for its unique pairing or for its longevity, but also for its capacity to continually generate theoretical reflection and modes of activist engagement.