The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
An Open Letter to NEGRO World"

ton, in short, without struggle against the In
periaIst oppressors and by actual support and
strengthening Of the very capitalist system res
ponsible for the murderous oppression and
frightful exploitation OF the Negro People.
Garvey Refor1nists and Kluxers See Eye to Eye
Your position that a Negro State in the BLACK
Belt" would be jin-crow nationaIsm clearly
reveals that like the white ku kluxers, the Gar
vey refornists are unable to conceive Of the
right OF a black majority in the territory under
question to rule where there is white minority.
Like all apologists for and defenders of i'm
perialism, you see nothing wrong in handful
Of white landowners maintaining q murderous
policy of white supremacy and suppression over
q Negro majority, but majority rule by this Ne
gro majority is quite beyond your servile con-
ceptions. You Immediately shout lin crow ma
tionalisml' On this question, the position OF
the world Communist movement (Which for
your information, is composed of revolutionary
workers and peasants of all countries and races
acting together IN complete equality is crystal
clear, and is as follows:
C. 1. Program Clear Cut and Correct
TT would not be right of self-determination
in our sense of the word if the Negroes in the
Black Belt had the right of determination only
in cases which concerned exclusively the Me-
groes and did not affect the whites, because
the most important cases arising here are bound
to affect the Negroes as well as the whites.
First of all, true right of self-determination
means that the Negro majority and not the white
minority in the entire territory of the admin
istratiyely united Black Belt exercises the right
of administering governmental, legislative and
judicial authority. At the present time all this
power here is concentrated in the hands Of the
white bourgeoisie and landlords. 1t is they who
appoint all officials, it is they who dispose OF
public property it is they who determine the
taxes 1t is they who govern and make the
laws Therefore, the overthrow of this class rule
in the Black Belt is Internationally necessary in
the struggle for the Negroes right of self-deter-
nlination This, however, means at the same
time the overthrow Of the yoke of American i'm
perialsm in the Black Belt on which the forces
of the local white bourgeosie depend. Only in
this way, only if the Negro population Of the
Black Belt wins its freedom from American i'm
perialsm even to the point of deciding itself
the relations between its country and other gov
ernments, especially the United States, will it
win real and complete DIFFERENTIATION"
Correctness Affirmed by Scottsboro, Camp Hill
The correctness of the Communist demand for
the right of State unity of the Negro major
tiles in the Black Belt is amply demonstrated
by the existence of an outrageous system of
robbery of the Negro choppers and poor farmers
in that section, by the vicious lynching terror
Qegal and extra-1egaD with which the bosses
meet the efforts of the Negro masses to organize
against robbery and starvation, of which Scots
boro and Camp Hill are cases in point. And
to make this demand for State unity a reality
and not paper demand we also raise the de-
mand for the confiscation of the land of the
monopolists for the Negro and white workers
who till the land
To win the white masses to support of these
demands and of the struggles of the Negro
masses is one of the major tasks of the Com
munist Party of the US.A--a task which it is
vigorously and with increasing success carry
ing out.
(Signed) Cyril Briggs.