The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-25
Fight Against Garveyisrn
By FRED ELLIS

of his followers are sincere in believing that
the establishing of Africa as a home to pro-
tect Negro workers, would bring freedom. This
is not true. If the Negro masses did overthrow
the imperialists who at present occupy Africa
what would be the result? The establishment
of a proletarian dictatorship as in the Soviet
Union? No! But the establishing of a ma
ton such as Liberia or Cuba. These republics
are directly dominated by American imperial
ism. The masses are bitterly exploited to sup
port the American bankers and industrialists,
who have connived with the treacherous home
leaders to acquire large tracts of land thereby
robbing the natives. In return the natives
must Wora on these lands at starvation wages
In Cuba the native misleaders have agreed
With the American imperialists to hunt down
and kill all those who attempt to organize the
peasants into militant organizations such as
the Communists.
The most severe oppression just as sharp as
now, if not sharper, would come and the Negro
workers would awaken to find themselves
forced to fight against newly formed Negro
bourgeojsie. Garveysm is retreat away from
the struggle for liberty of the Negro masses.
1t proposes to find way to compromise with
the imperialists. 1t is reactionary and not re-
voutionary and has given up the fight for the
national aspiration of the Negro masses. Lib
erty cannot come through such channels, it can
only come through struggle To quote Marx:
Labor in the white skin cannot free itself as
long as labor in the black skin is branded"
This means that the uniting of the exploited
Negro and white workers to fight against their
common enemy, the capitalist class, is the only
solution for liberty. Not one section of labor
can free itself as long as another section re-
mains in chains. You must figfx also to free
YOUR brother worker
Garveyism breaches hatred of white work
ers by Negro workers. 1t teaches the sepa-
rate division of the working class To an
tagonize Negro workers against white work.
ers is wrong. An educational and enlighten-
ment campaign must be waged among the
Negro and white workers to teach them soil
darty. The ignorant white workers must be
taught that they must unite with the exploit
ed black workers to break the chains of CAPT.
talist exploitation. They must be taught that
the hatred which they have for one another
is created by the bosses policy to perpetuate
the enslaving of the exploited masses.
The slogan put forth by our Party of Self
Determination for the oppressed Negro masses
in Africa, Southern U. S. A, the colonial
countries, ETC., should be popularized among
the Garveyites. This slogan is an immediate
demand upon the imperialist nations for the
Negro masses to set up their own government
wherever they form the majority of the popu-
lation. An outstanding example where the
oppressed minorities under the building of So
cialism have their own government is the
Soviet Union The masses of Negro and white
workers must join the Communist Party and
the revolutionary Trade Union Unity League
and fight shoulder to shoulder for the COM
plete emancipation of the entire working class.