The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14

Sion OF capitalism ana lmperldllBms
that the workers and peasants Of
Europe and Of the Americas are also
the victims Of imperialism; that the
struggle against imperialism is not
the struggle of any one people, but
of all the peoples of the world; that
in India and China, in Persia and
Turkey, in Egypt and Morocco, the
oppressed colored colonial peoples
are struggling heroically against
their imperialist exploiters; that
thees peoples are rising against the
same evils that the Negroes are
rising against-racial oppression
and discrimination, and intensified
industrial exploitation; that these
people strive for political, Industrial
and social liberation and equality.
"The Communist International,
which represents the revolutionary
workers and peasants of the whole
world in the struggle to break the
power of Imperialism, is not simply
the organization of the enslaved
white workers of Europe and Ameri-
ca, but equally the organization of
the oppressed colored peoples of the
world, and feels it to be its duty
to encourage and support the in
ternational organization of the col
ored people in their struggle against
the common enemy"
An international Struggle.
The Workers Party of America
calls your attention to the fact that
the struggle against the Ku Klux Khan
which murders and tortures the Negro
in this country, is part Of this world
wide fight.
The terrorizing of the Negro in
America is not simply local matter,
to be dealt with opportunistically, but
it is a part of the worldwide effort
to degrade the Negro and to establish
the principle" that he is inferior. y
Any surrender to or Cancellation with
the Khan here will only serve to de-
moralize and discourage the fight
against race and class oppression
thruout the world.
In faraway India, the dark-skinned
man who has been touched with the
aspiration for freedom will learn with
sorrow of your concession to the en-
envy of all colored races and op-
pressed classes. In the colonies of
Africa, where the beaten and tortured
black laborer has begun at last to dare
to look the white man in the face and
to say, 81 am your equal" the news
that an important Negro organization
has agreed not to contend against the
which denies the equality
of the Negro in America will come as
a shock that cannot be Offset by any
hope that the same Negro organiza
ton will successfully fight the com
bined British, French, Italian, Spanish
Belgian and American armies and ma
vies for equality or supremacy in
Africa.
The pride and courage of the brave
black people now struggling for liber
alton in Haiti and the other island re
publics and colonies will not be in
creased by learning that the Universal
Negro Improvement Association has
decided not to fight for the equality Of
the Negro in the United States against
the degraded and criminal Khan organ
ization.
The hundreds of millions of Chinese
and other yellow and brown peoples
of Asia are struggling now to destroy
the huge lie of white superiority
over darker peoples. Their courage
will not be improved by learning that
you will not openly contest the claim
of white supremacy" in this country
OF twelve million Negroes.
This is an international fight. The
Ku Klux Khan is the American phase
of an international issue. Any failure
to combat the Ku Klux Khan in Ameri
ca is a surrender of one sector Of {
worldwide battle front, bringing in
Jury to all concerned in the struggle
for liberation.
Don't Demoraize the Fight.
We are fully aware that the bes
members of your organization know
perfectly well that the Khan is nj
friend of the Negro, but that it burns
hangs, tortures and terrorizes Negro
men, women and children. In the de
bate Mr.. Sheriff., even in supporting
the resolutions, pointed out that tn
Khan is no friend of the Negro, ant
that to state otherwise would be boil
untrue and cowardly.
We know furthermore that no mat
ter what position this convention ma.
take on the subject, the American Ne
gro will have to fight the Khan. TIT
members of your organization, espe
cially, who are almost entirely OF tn
working class, will have to fight thu
Khan, which is not only against Ne
groes, but also against the working
class. Our objection is not that you
members will not fight the Khan, bu
that your failure to declare program
for fighting IL will tend to demoraliz'
tho fiOhf against fha Klan