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Today we are waging a difficult fight in the United States. But our entire history consists of long battles, waged in defense of our democratic tradition. Jefferson, lincoln, Roosevelt -—-~- they all fought against reactionary forces in our country. This fight must bring us permanent, positive results, just as it is doing for the entire world. One of the problems that is confronting America today is the so-called Negro problem. Even this problem is connected with the fight for peace and progress, not only in America but throughout the world. JI would like to stress that the Negro mreahiiam 42 anlw ana nhoaesn af tha Inhae nnskhi am. W4 weteefidse nar rr et be le ae wink a? hee paoeow we Wiles BAe ve i Te st sae Ve he he Fe ree cent of the Negroes in America and other countries are laborers. The emancipation fight of the Negroes is closely connected with the fight of the labor class, because discrimination against Negroes is a desire to insure cheap labor. That is why the majority of the Negroes --~-- except those few who are in the service of the inperi- alists and are enacting in Negro society the same role that the rightist union leaders are enacting in the entire labor movement ---- is in the camp for peace and progress. Ask the Negro workers from the cotton plantations in Alabama, the sugar cane plantations in Louisiana, the tobacco districts of the South, the banana plantations of the West Indies, the African peasants who have been deprived of land in South Africa, and ask all the Negro inhabitants of the African continent if they want to fight for peace and cooperation with the Soviet Union and national democratic countries. Ask them whether they desire friend- ship with the Soviet Union, where the definition "backward colored n2tions" is just a hallow sound, where former colonial nations with~ in the Soviet structure were able during one generation to rise to an incredible level of cultural and economic development. Ask the Negroes whether they want to join these forces of peace, or if they will allow themselves to be hurled into the abyss of a new war in the interests of those who are denying them the elementary rights of citizenship. Ask them if they desire to join the modern slave dealers, or whether they desire to fight for peace and progress. Obviously they will fight for peace and progress. The imperialists are gazing at Africa The imperialists are tuming their rapacious stares more frequently and more regularly on the African continent. In their search for cheap labor and crude iron, they are seeking new bases in Africa and the West Indies, after their ignominious defeat in China. American capital is striving to stretch its control over South Africa just as it did over the Philippines. Financial. occu- pation and capitalistic control -—-- this is their way of building a colonial empire.