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These are the ideas back of the fascist plans for another World War. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact is a war pact of the leading fascist nations.

The central issue for all progressive people in face of the menace of a new world war that is being prepared by the fascist powers is human progress against reaction--democracy versus fascism. Shall civilization, centuries of human endeavor, be sacrificed to perpetuate the reign of the privileged few? Shall humanity be thrust back into barbarism in order that the forces of the entrenched greed and monopoly might continue their plunder of the people? 

The fascist war drive can be checked. But this can be done only if the democratic and peace-loving forces in all countries rally behind an effective program to protect peace and democracy.


VII. Democracy and the Colonial Peoples

The argument of Japan as unifier and champion of the darker races, rooted as it is in false race theories, holds up an entirely incorrect picture of a united white world solidly aligned in opposition to the aspirations of colored humanity for liberation.

The utter absurdity of this argument is by now apparent. Carried to its logical conclusion, it would mean that the Negro, in his fight for equality and freedom, stands alone; that opposed to his fourteen million in the United States stand a hundred million white Americans; that a united white Europe and America stand opposed to the hopes of the African and Asiatic peoples. What a hopeless picture! Obviously, no program

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for liberation of oppressed an subject nations could be based upon such a patently false premise.

Where shall the Negro and other oppressed people look for allies? Who are the natural friends of the subject and colonial peoples in the fight for national emancipation?

This is a central question for the Negro people, for colored humanity. Obviously, our allies must be sought among the forces of peace and democracy in all countries, among the opponents of imperialism and its offspring, fascism.

Today the fight against imperialism is being joined by new forces. Active support for the liberation movements of colonial and subject peoples is no longer confined to the Communist Parties and the most advanced sections of the labor movement in the imperialist countries. The recognition of the menace of fascism by ever-growing numbers within the imperialist countries has brought about a regrouping of forces, bringing the majority of the population of these countries into the movement against fascism and consequently against imperialism. The anti-imperialist sentiments which stamp the popular movement against fascism in the democratic countries result from the fact that those who sincerely fight against fascism inevitably confront sooner or later the power behind the fascist drive--reactionary finance capital. The struggle of the colonial peoples becomes an integral part of the front of democracy against the fascist warmakers. This truth has been strikingly demonstrated in the war of the Ethiopian people for their independence, against the offensive of Italian fascism.

The invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini saw alike the sympathies of the colonial peoples of Asia and Africa, the international working class, the progressive movement in the democratic countries, the underground movement within the fascist countries, the smaller nations, and, above all, the Soviet Union, openly on the side of the Ethiopian people in their struggle for independence. On the other hand, the sympathies of the 

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