FINAL WARNING: Domestic Tampering
and connect them with the struggles of national minorities and
colonial peoples of all the world and thereby the cause of world
revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
In 1925, a dozen Blacks were recruited for propaganda training in
Russia. That same year, the American Negro Labor Congress was
established. In 1930, they changed their name to the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights. They merged with the United Negro
Congress when it was founded in 1936, in Washington, D.C. By 1940,
communists made up two-thirds of its membership. In 1947, they
united with the Civil Rights Congress, a communist front group.
In a 1928 pamphlet by John Pepper (alias for Joseph Pogany) called
American Negro Problems, a move was being made by Stalin to
ferment revolution and stir the Blacks into creating a separate
Republic for the Negro. Another pamphlet put out by the New York
Communist Party in 1935, called The Negroes in a Soviet America,
urged the Blacks to rise up and form a Soviet State in the South by
applying for admission to the Comintern. It contained a firm pledge
that a revolt would be supported by all American communists and
liberals. On page 48, it said that the Soviet Government would give the
Blacks more benefits than they would give to the Whites, and “any act
of discrimination or prejudice against the Negro would become a crime
under the revolutionary law.”
In The Communist Party: A Manual On Organization by J. Peters, he
writes:
“The other important ally of the American proletariat is their mass
of 13,000,000 Negro people in their struggle against national
oppression. The Communist Party, as the revolutionary party of
the proletariat, is the only party which is courageously and
resolutely carrying on a struggle against the double exploitation
and national oppression of the Negro people, becoming intense
with the developing crisis, can win over the great masses of the
Negro people as allies of the Proletariat against the American
bourgeosie.”
In James Cannon’s America’s Road to Socialism, he says that the
Negroes “will play a great and decisive role in the revolution ... And