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leaders of this Pacific movement were most active in attempting to defeat the strike of the Negro and white nut-pickers. It is no accidental, therefore, that while the movement is led by certain sections of the petty-bourgeois intellectuals, that even the official Negro bourgeois reformists are attempting to flirt with the idea of darker race unity under the leadership of Japan. In this, they seek by raising the bogey of a defection of the Negro masses in case of war with Japan to win concessions from American imperialism in the furtherance of their own narrow class aims. Thus, Charles Houston, N.A.A.C.P. leader, in his speech before the Senate Committee on the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynch Bill, outlined the activities of Japanese agents among the Negro masses, seeking in this manner to "frighten" the ad-ministration into support for the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynch Bill. 

2. The counter-revolutionary essence of this movement is further seen in the fact that it is aimed against the Soviet Union and the liberation struggles of the Chinese and Korean masses.

In this, they attempt to present the Soviet Union as a white imperialistic nation and to hide the solution of the national question there as well as the role of the Soviet Union as champion of the struggles of oppressed nations against imperialism.

Here also, we see that this dangerous counter-revolutionary movement can only be successfully fought by putting forth our full program for the liberation of the Negro and colonial peoples, and through the popularization of the solution of the national question in the Soviet Union. In our fight against the reactionary leaders of this movement, we must make it absolutely clear to the Negro people that the Communist Party supports any effort on the part of the Negro masses to take advantage of difficulties

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of the American white ruling class (such as world accrue from a war situation), to strike a blow for their own liberation, for equal rights, confiscation of the land, and the right of self-determination in the Black Belt. In this we must paraphrase the slogan of the Irish revolutionaries: "Amercan imperialism's difficulties are the Negroes' opportunities." But we must convince the Negro masses that such attempts to use the difficulties of American imperialism can only be successful on the basis of our revolutionary program, i.e., of revolutionary alliance of the Negro people and white toilers under the leadership of the revolutionary working class for the overthrow of the common enemy-American imperialism, and in support of the struggles of the exploited colonial masses in China, Manchuria, Korea, the heroic struggles of the Japanese workers and peasants against Japanese imperialism, and finally for the defense of the Soviet Union, champion of the oppressed masses throughout the world. Further, we must convince the Negro masses on the basis of concrete facts that any alliance with Japanese imperialists can only mean defeat and the fastening of the imperialist yoke still tighter on the backs of the Negro peoples. For example, we must bring forward the experiences of similar alliances concluded between the imperialist powers and the bourgeoisie of oppressed nations.
For example: The liberation movement of the Arabs against Turkey, "championed" by British imperialism during the last war. The Arabs were released from the yoke of Turkey, only to fall under the yoke of British imperialism through the League of Nations. The rebellions in the German colonies, fostered by the Allies during the war, which resulted only in changing the shackles of German imperialism for those of British, French and Italian imperialism, etc., etc. 

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Transcription Notes:
"petty-bourgeois" is completed on previous page; removed unneeded page indications and hyphens in word breaks; fixed several typos. Amercan = American