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the hearts of the Tunisian people, a great love toward the democratic republic of France."

An idea of how the People's Front of France has benefited the colonial peoples, in spite of the desperate resistance from reactionary circles in France and their colonial henchmen, is contained in the following Associated Press dispatch of March 6, 1938:

"The French Mayors of eleven Algerian towns resigned today in protest against approval by the Chamber of Deputies electoral committee in Paris of a bill which would give the right to vote to thousands of Algerian natives."

It is the People's Front majority in the French Chamber of Deputies which, in line with its whole policy of fighting fascism and defending democracy to the peoples of the French colonies.

Let us not forget that not only has French imperialism not been overthrown, but on the contrary it is still strong, and is desperately opposing the fulfillment of the People's Front program. Finance capital, enemy of both the French masses and the colonial people, still dominates the economic life of the country, and continues, through its tools in the governmental apparatus, to dictate to a large measure the colonial policy of France, and influences its domestic policy. At this very moment the reactionary imperialist circles in France, in conspiracy with Hitler and the British Tories, have succeeded in ousting temporarily the People's Front as the party of government, substituting for it the government of Daladier, which, even more than the vacillating Blum government, has in foreign affairs become a tail to the British Tory kite.

But the People's Front is not defeated. Supported by the wide masses of Communist and Socialist workers, by the trade unions, and the majority of the French people generally, it

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still lies and grows, and will yet prove the undoing of the traitorous pro-fascist elements of French moneyed interests.

This democratic front, despite its weaknesses and shortcomings, was the one force that in 1934 stopped fascism and saved democracy in France. The profound implication of this accomplishment for the colonial peoples of France becomes clear, when the issue is faced! What would a fascist-dominated France mean to the peoples of  Morocco, Algiers, Senegal, Indo-China, etc.? Clearly, it would mean regimes of the type installed in Ethiopia, Korea, and Manchuria by Italy and Japan.

Maurice Thorez, leader of the Communist Party, in his report before the recent Congress of the Party in France, vividly outlined the shortcomings and tasks of the People's Front government, and demanded the "establishment of the rights of colonial peoples in North Africa, Indo-China, etc." He re-stated the Communist position on the right of self-determination, the right of independence of colonial peoples, and pledged his Party to work to "create the conditions of a free and friendly union between French and colonial peoples."

The Indian National Congress too has been especially active in support of Ethiopia. Great mass meetings were held in defense of Ethiopia in 1935-36, greetings were sent to Spain, an Indian medical corps has been sent to China, etc. The Chinese Soviets, now amalgamated with the Chinese National Government for defense against Japan, sent greetings to Ethiopia and Spain in 1936. Ethiopians, Chinese, and Japanese anti-fascists have fought in the International Brigades in Spain for democracy and the independence of peoples. Ahmed-din-Josef* of heroic memory, an Ethiopian machine-gunner, died fighting in the Garibaldi Battalion, the battalion of Italian anti-fascist

* Negro Worker, June, 1937, p.2.

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