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William Z. Foster points out that the Program of the Communist International declares for: The recognition of the right of all nations, irre- spective of race, to complete self-determination, that is, self-determination inclusive of the right to State separation. (Toward Soviet America, p. 304) Foster then applies this principle of self-determina- tion and State separation (or secession from the United States) to the Negro population in the Black Belt, in the following statement: Accordingly, the right of self-determination will apply to Negroes in the American Soviet system. In the ‘cn.called Black Belt of the South, where the Negroes are in the majority, they will have the fultest right to govern themselves and also such white mi- norities as may live in the section. (ibid, p. 304) Confiscation The program of the Communist Party calls for the confiscation of the property of the white people in the se-cafied Black Belt. According to William Z, Foster, wittig in fas book entitled Toward Soviet America: In u Soviet system, the Negro will have the most Joos wv cats economically, politically, social- ly... He will have ample jand, confiscated from +. mec! white landlords . . . Socialism will mean tue iirst real freedom for the Negro. He is beginning ca reaize this, hence his mass tuming to the Com- "> 1 party for leadership, and the consequent ‘2. dlarm of the capitalists and big landowners at ‘hs ging unity of white and black toilers. (p io. ce 1 no doubt about the Communist program of confiscution. But, after 40 years of Communist agi- iation, inere is no evidence of the “mass turning” of Negroes io the Communist Party—a fact which Wil- liam #4. Foster knows very well now, and which he knew very well when he wrote about it. Communist Aim: Racial Amalgamation in qhei: dranker moments, Communist leaders in the - & +o, have stated bluntly that one of their aims + ‘++ shont racial amalgamation. Thus, William ‘1. cor present head of the Communist Party in Areriea, declared in his book entitled Toward Soviet Ate ica: {ie American Soviet will, of course, abolish all rt. .ctons upon racial intermarriage . .. The revo- tation #i only basten this process of integration, aiccady proceeding throughout the world with in- creasing tempo, (p. 305-306) Kremlin's Guidance and Control “oa. % Enster ig frank in asserting that Lenin in sore of the Communist Party’s line on agitation among Negroes. In his pook, The Negro People in Americn History, published in 1954, Foster The American Communist Party got its eventual scientific understanding of the Negro question in the United States from the writings and personal counsel of Lenin. This was one of the many basic services to the American labor movement rendered by the Communist International, but it was not to be realized until 1929. (p. 454) It has already been shown that the representative of the Communist International, John Pepper, dictated the line of the American Communists on the so-called Negro question. On Penetrating Non-Communist Organizations In addition to building their own Party-controlled organizations, the Communist Party has from the be- ginning pursued a policy of sending its members into non-Communist organizations. Their own word for this type of activity is “penetration.” The Communist ob- jectives in penetrating other groups are varied. In some instances, the goal of penetration is outright control. Tn other instances, the objective is to disseminate and gain support for the views of the Party apparatus out- side the immediate circle of Communists or, in other words, to win fellow travelers on specific issues. In yet other and rarer cases, the aim of penetration is to destroy the organization which is penetrated. At times, the Communist Party directives have frank- ly set forth the tactics of penetration, without the slightest attempt at secrecy and subtlety. Thus, a re- port to the Plenum of the Communist Party in 1935 records some successes in penetration. Excerpts from this report were published in the Party Organizer of March, 1935, under the title of “How to Penetrate the Negto Organizations.” The first excerpt gives an illu- minating example of the tactics of Communist penetra- tion. It reads as follows: We have some excellent experiences in New York. In Queens we have been able, just on one issue, and maybe this is the secret of it, to get together over 60 various Organizations of the Negro people on the question of discrimination in the hospital in Queens. We have the Alpha Benevolent Association, the American League Against War and Fascism, the Amity Baptist Church, Arrawat Democratic Club, Bayside City League, N.A.A.C.P., etc., about 70 or- £anizations that have come together and conducted a struggle in Queens for the right of Negroes in the hosiptals in the City of New York. (p. 20) The tactic of concentrating on “one issue” in order to penetrate non-Communist Negro organizations was a} Irthar sess 44 urther illustrated in the second excerpt of the report 9