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The children born prior to 1863 were slaves. And today? Now they are "free". They are no longer slaves, for slaverny (slavery) is no they are "free". They are no longer slaves, for slavery is no Guiana is "free". Free, without clothing. Free, but in rags. Just a "nigger".
We remember the 16 million florins, Holland gave the white slave barons as indemnity for the emancipated slaves. These millions were given to the Bakras (whites) as a reward for the inhuman deeds they committed against the Negro slaves - our forefathers. But to the slaves and today to the "free" Negroes not a penny. Their only reward today is unemployment, misery and starvation.
Only through organization and stuggle (struggle) can the workers of Dutch Guiana succeed in bettering their living conditions and effectively fight against the exploitation and slavery imposed upon them by the Dutch colonial rulers.
Only trough (through) solidarity and joint struggle between the workers of the capitalist countries and the colonial toilers can an effective blow be dealt to the common enemy - Imperialism.
Workers, organize and fight against exploitation, unemployment and starvation! Close ranks in struggle for the emancipation of the colonial toilers! Demand the independence of Dutch Guiana!

The above described conditions of hunger and poverty in Dutch Guiana gave rise to great unemployed demonstrations and strikes about a year ago. The reply of the colonial parasites to this mass protest against unemployment was the killing and wounding of a number of defenceless workers. Capitalist terror then came into full swing, making illegal workers organizations, prohibiting meetings and making press criticism of the Imperialist robbers a crime. The writer of this article, a native of Dutch Guiana, who took a leading part in the struggles and demonstrations of the workers was arrested, deported to Holland and forbidden to return to the colony. - Ed.

Imperialist rule means poverty, hunger and slavery!
Organize and fight for land, freedom and bread!


Stop the Disruptive tactics of the Negro "Leaders"
by Helen Davis

Just as the bosses set up a line between white workers and Negro workers, between both Negro and white native American and foreign born workers, between women and men workers, between young and old workers and even hatred being encouraged between mental and manual labor in order to divide the working class, so we see the agents of the boss represented in the persons of Robert L. Vann, Editor of the Pittsburgh Courier and Special Assist. Atty. general of the U.S. and Myles Paige, lawyer attempting to split the ranks of the thousands of West Indian and American Negro workers in the U.S.
Mr. Vann tells those militant West Indians in the U.S. who are sacrificing their very lives so as to rid both the American and West Indian Negro toilers of such parasites as the Vanns and others of their kind that "if you West Indians don't like how we do things in this country, you should go back were (where) you came from... we are good and tired of you. There should de (be) a law deporting the wholelot (whole lot) of you".
This vicious attack is followed by a Resolution supported by Miles Paige, a staunch Republican lackey, wich (which) was passed at a meeting of te (the) North Harlem Community Council recently. The Resolution urges a Federal Law which would deport all foreign born residents who do not become naturalized within 5 years after arriving in the U.S.
The Vanns wish to divert the attention of the American Negro toilers who are joining hands with the West Indian workers to make the U.S. a better place for Negro workers to live in, who are resisting the attacks of the repression program - NRA. They wish to hide the real enemy of the American Negroes - the capitalists and their hired agents - by stirring up anti-West Indian feelings among the American born workers.
Mr. Vann wishes to forget that some of the concessions wrung from the ruling class for American Negroes was due to the fearless militancy of some of these same West Indians he would like to see deported. These men are still today in the front ranks of the battle for Negro rights.
These boss agents feel their influence over the Negro masses slipping. They feel that when they will come to the Negro toilers - both foreign born and native and in sugary words tell them to go forth to slaughter other workers so that the bosses can keep on being rich, that these workers will be solid in demanding the right of the Negro people to freedom - no lynchings





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