The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
BY JAMES w. FORD

George Padmore, who has been
expelled from the Communist Party,
has broadcast statement which is
bitter attack against our Party
and upon its program. This letter
Mr.. Padmore has placed in the
hands of hundreds of avowed enc
mics of the Party and the Negro
people.
The Communist Party is not sur
prised at the accusations of Mr..
Padmore. We expect calumny and
SANDER from our enemies; it is one
of the gauges of the effectiveness
of our work We answer Mr.. Pad
more's statements, because we know
that his attack will be seized on
by every enemy of the liberation
struggle, will be received with the
greatest joy by the white lynchers.
the Klansmen, the whole white rul-
ing class, and will be used by them
to try to drive the Negro masses
away from the Communist Party
What better weapon can the white
ruling class ask, than such docu-
ment as this from the hands Of Mr.
Padmore, slandering and vilifying
the organization which they hate
and fear because it stands fearlessly
for the freedom of the Negro people?
So that the Negro people and the
white working class may know the
truth, we repeat once more the
reasons for the expulsion of George
Padmore from the Communist
Party:
II PadmOre was on intimate
terms with well-known spies and
police agents within the ranks of
the Party and other working class
organizations. Although repeated
ly informed of the fact that these
associates of his were spies against
the workers, he nevertheless re-
fused to break with them.
p PadmOre's political views and
activities around the question of
Liberia were in direction calcu-
lated to further enSlave and de-
grade the already down. trodden
masses of that country. Instead
of being the 1ast stronghold of
Negro freedom" as Mr.. Padmore
says, Liberia is in actual fact a
vassal state Of American imperial
ism. In this rape of Liberia, Har-
vey Firestone and other American
capitalists have found their best
allies and servants in the Liberian
government officials. The govern
ment of Liberia, puppet of Wall
Street, has been nothing more nor
less than local policeman, slave
driver, Iand-thief and recruiter of
forced labor for American impe-
rialism. Mr.. Padmore has rejected
completely the Communist policy
that Liberia and its native people
must be freed in the process of
bitter struggle against foreign i'm
perialism and against those native
forces which support imperialism.
81 Mr.. Padmore has likewise re-
Jected one of the fundamental
principles of Communism - that
the white working class and the
oppressed colonial peoples and
nations are natural allies in the
struggle against the common OPP
pressor, the ruling class. He claims
that white and black can never
understand one another. Thus he
follows the policy of the ruling
class, to whom the fear of unity
between white slave and black
slave is one perpetual nightmare.
Mr.. Padmore accepts, in effect,
the idea of the white ruling class
that between black and white
there is an inherent and lasting
antagonism.
In order to conceal his own de-
sertion, his own treachery, Mr.
Padmore charges the Communis
Party and the Communist Interna.
tional with desertion of the Negro
liberation struggle and treachery tx
the Negro people. Is it possible tina
the Communist Party can desert Thu
struggle for Negro liberation, as MI
Padmore charges? The fact is tina
the Communist Party can grow anc
conquer-and every true Communis
knows this-only if it gives the mos
complete support to the Liberation
struggle of the Negro people. Tn,
struggle for the liberation Of tn,