The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Work Among the Negro Masses.

g. The building and the work of the Party
cannot be effective without serious change
in its attitude and practices in regard to the
work among the Negro masses and the trans,
formation of passivity and underestimate
into active defense and leadership of the strug
giles of the Negro masses The Party must b
made to express in energetic action it's consci
BUSINESS that revolutionary struggle of tn
American workers for power is impossible
without revolutionary unity of the Negro ano
white proetariat. To achieve this unity and &c
win for Communist leadership also the masses
of Negro workers, the Party must root out all
traces of formal approach to Negro work
The Party program for Negro work must be-
come living guide Cor the widest activity
anlone, the Negro and white masses and particl-
patton in the struggles of the Negro masses.
The influence of white chauvnsm is still
fet in the Party and has recently manifested
itself in st. Louis Opposition in the fraction
TO correct Boshevik line on Negro work.;
Detroit, (opportunist reluctance in fraction to
struggle against white chauvinism) Chicago
lithuanian fraction). In many instances
there has been opportunist failure to expose
such manifestations. Also wrong, however. is
the tendency, displayed by some Negro COM
rades (Which they have since corrected more
or less completely to surrender to the propa-
ganda of the Negro bourgeoisie and petty bour-
geos intellectuals of race-hatred directed
against all whites without distinction of class.
Protest against the special oppression to
which Negroes are subjected must take the
form of intensive political campaigns and mass
organization to fight against lynching. Negro
workers and farmers prosecuted on the basis OF
race discrimination must be accepted and treat
ed as class-struggle victims The Party must
carry on an uncompromising political strug
gle against all discriminatory laws, such as
laws legalizing disfranchisement, segregation,
laws against inter-marrage, etc.
Slogan of Self Determination.
o. The Party must organize a most in
tensive struggle around the demand of social
and political equality for Negroes, which is still
the main demand of our Party in its work
among Negroes. At the same time the Party
must openly and unreservedly fight for the
right of Negroes for national self determine
ton in the South, where Negroes comprise
majority of the population. Self determination
for the Negro masses is the logical continuation
and highest expression of the struggle for equal
rights (socal equality. AS the Negro liberia
ton movement develops it will, in the territories
and states with majority of Negro population,
take more and more the form of struggle
against the rule of the white bourgeoisie, for
self-determination. Therefore, in its every day
struggles for the concrete issues of social equal
ity, against lynching, against all race discrim
inatory laws, the Party must Systematically adj
vance the demand for the right of the Negroes
for self-determination. This demand must be
popuarized among the working masses of the
whole country to win these workers for the
of |ho op1o 81 he
%. Special propaganda must be carried on
among the Negro masses on the question of i'm
perialist war, making full use of the victimiza-
ton of the Negro masses both in the colonies
and in the United States by the imperialist