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'Y 100-18676 . ; tat hal 4 AA ea our Party, be a nowerful lever for brincing forvuard ne ie a ot hh + ee ee es a re Newre workers = men and women « as the leading forces of the Negro's people liberation movement, for cementing Negro and white unity in the struggle against Wall Street imperialism, and for the rooting tne Party among the most exploited and oppressed sections of the working class and its allies. "In our Party clubs, we must conduct an intensive discussion of the role of the Nesro women, ao as to equip our Party membership with clear understanding ror undertaking the necessary struggles in the shops and communities. We must end the practice, in waich many Necro women who join our Party, and who, in their churches, conmunities, and fraternal groups are leaders of masses, with an invaluable mass experience to give our farty, suddenly find themselves viewed in our cluvs, not as leaders, but as people who have 'to set their feet wet! orsanizationally. We must end their failure to create an atmosphere in our clubs in which new recruits == in this case Negro women -«- are confronted with the ‘silent treatment’ or with attempts to ‘blueprint' tiem into a pattern, In addition to the white chauvinist implications in such approaches, these practices confuse the basic needed for Marxist-Leninist understanding which our Party gives to all workers, and which entrances their political understanding with chauvinist disdain for the organizational talents of new Negro members, or for the necessity to promote them into leadersnip. q + "To win the Negro women for full participation in the anti-fascist, anti-imperialist coalition, to bring her wilitancy and participation to even preater helgehts in the current and future struggles against all Street imperialism, progressives must acquire political consciousness as regards ner special onopressed status, Rates ats Ay "It 1s thie consciousness, accelerated by struggles, that will convince increasing thousands that - 276