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II.. COMUNIST PARTY CONNECTIONS_.. Y T 7 ' In. . _ 7 '
A. Data Surrounding Admission
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A biographical sketch of CLAUDIA JONES as
Communist League-personality revealed thatshe met JA1~1¥g'I92'SHIFORD, a negro Zoung._C_Q111|11IlJ;1;-ist League leader, w introduced her to the Young "
Communist League and was responsible for her Joining
the Young Comunist League. 'a Young
in 1936,
Exhibit #6: "New Masses"
I May 16; 1939
Witness to
Introduce: Librarian
Library of Con-
grass
CLAUDIA JONES became active in the Communist
Party as a recruit to the Young Comunist League ranks
in about 1936. She was active as a Young Communist
League organizer and as an officer for the Young Com-
munist League. She was considered one of the ablest
young Communists in America and was elected to theNaéional Council of the Young Communist League. Shee . su s quently became active in the Communist Party. kc1B1d92
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B. History of Comunist Party
__.A.et.1vity fa;-5:1_g_1gqs.git _i0ns Held
Subject was described as the Chairman of the
New York County Young Communist League and a member of
the National Council of the Young Comunist League as
of October, 1938.
Exhibit #7: Young Communist
League "Review"
- October, 1938
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Exhibit #8:NY 100-18676
Young Communist
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December 9, l9uC
Witness to
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CLAUDIA JONES was identified as the National
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Exhibit #9: Young Communist
League "Review"
August n, l9hl
Librarian
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Introduce:
CLAUDIA JONES was aprointed Associate Editorof the Young Communist League eview" as of February,
l9u2. She was also described as a member of the National
Council of the Young Communist League as of the above-
mentioned date.
Exhibit #10: Young Comunist
League "Review"
February 3, 19h2
Hitness to
Introduce: Librarian
Library of
- Congress
CLAUDIA JONES attended a "National War Service
Conference of the Young Comunist League held in New York
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Exhibit #11: Young Communist
League "Review"
January 26, 19h3
Witness to
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CLAUDIA JONES was elected as the editor of
the American Youth for Democracy "Spotlight," which
was first published in December, l9h3.
Exhibit #12: American Youth
for Democracy
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December, l9h3
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Exhibit #1h: "Daily Worker"
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at the 15th National Convention of the Communist Party
held December 26-31, 1950.NY 100-15676
Exhibit #16: "Political Affairs"
February, 1951
Witness to
Introduce: Librarian
Library of
Congress
III. KNOWLEDGE OF THE ILLEGAL OBJECTIVE
OF THE CONSPIRACY COMMUNIST PARTY! e L~ ~ L _ _ _ _ '_ 1>_<;':;1'**~ =1 "fever |.,
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CLAUDIA JONES is the author of an article in
the August, 19h5 issue of "Political Affairs." In this
article captioned, "Pro Convention Discussion Articles,"
CLAUDIA JONES discussed the issue before the Communist
Political Association at that time, namely, "Revisionism."
The following verbatim statements have been
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"The thesis on self determination and the
Negro people was thus presented by BRUWDER:
J "*.,,the crisis of history has taken a turn
of such character that the Negro people in the United
T States have found it possible to make their historic
decision once and for all. Their decision is for their
complete integration into the American nation as a whole,
and not for separation....
" is therefor
see theThe decision of the Negro people,
already made. It is that the Negro people do
opportunity, not as a pious aspiration for an indefi-
nite future, but as as immediate political task under
the present system df'approximating the position of
equal citizens in America. This is, in itself, an exer-
cise of self-determination by the Negro people. By
their attitude, the Negro people have exercised their
historical right of self-determination....'
"BROWDER bases his thesis, first and foremost,
on the premise that this 'decision had taken definite
form which no forseeable development could now change.
But Comrade FOSTER'S basic Marxist-Leninist analgis of
the revisionist c1asspeace policy advocated by BROWDER
is utterly upheld in this field by current developments.
Witness the vehemence with which the permanent FEPC is
being fought, and more recently the scandalous libel
and lynch spirit of Senator EASTLAND'S attack upon the
800,000 Negro troops, even before victory has been com»
pletely won, which signalize the attempts to rupture
the war»time Negro-white relations....
IfThe weight of emphasis in BROWDER'S thesis
on the 'attitude of the Negro people as the deter-
mining factor, and our acceptance of it, was a sub-
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"decision for self-determination, through integration,
and would inevitably receive freedom under the exist-
ing American system, what need to mobilize and heighten
the fight against white chauvinist ideology? What need
to mobilizeindependent and militant struggle against the
Hitler-like discriminatory practices including social
exclusion! which still beset the Negro people, despite
important gains registered especially during the last
twelve years?
"BROwDER'S harmful analysis led of necessity
to the strengthening of bourgeois nationalism among
the Negro people and to an undue reliance on Negro re-
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of an anti-fascist war of national liberation, which,
as BROWDER correctly states, fired the political
maturity of the Negro people, to root out determinedly
the white chauvinist prejudices among the American people
and among new sectionsof our own membership!, we did
not take that initiative.
IIThat Negro comrades accepted BROWDER'S oppor-
tunist thesis makes the error all the more grave, be-
cause in effect we accepted the false and bankrupt logic
of reformism as a solution to the problems of the Negro
people. Not only that, we accepted a Fleas than equal
status for the Negro people for generations to come' -
something approximating equality.
"Only by sharply dealing with this major ques-
tion shall we be able to overcome the serious errors of
this period and fully explain to the Negro people and
the white working class the source of our errors. This,
too, is the way to guarantee continued enlistment of the
strength and organic support of the Negro people ~ the
comon goal.
I have one proposal, which I believe to be
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Board of the C.P.A. That is: to set up a Commis-
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of making a basic appraisal and study of work in Negro
communities, especially presenting a factual study and
analysis of the status of the Negro people in this _
Black Belt, in industry, in consumer, industrial and
agricultural spheres, and in the trade unions."
Exhibit #17: "Political Affairs"t August, l9h5
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Introduce.
CLAUDIA JONES was the author of an article
entitled, "Negro People Are Joining The Party that&eads Struggle for Equality " which appeared in theThe Worker," April 7, 196. Excerpts from this
article are as follows
"It was this Marxist-Leninist principle that
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25 years ago...-It were the Comunists who inspired this
fight which led to organizing negro and white share
croppers in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. They
sought tirelessly to integrate the Negro worker in the
labor movement....
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and white exists in the wage struggles of labor, it is
largely because the Communists pioneered and zealously
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CLAUDIA JONES participated in a radio form
held on July 18, 19h? at 9:30 p.m. over radio station
KQU, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The subject for debate
was the question of Universal Military Training-
CLAUDIA JONES and a Mr. NATHAN ALBERT represented the
side of Commnism in this debate. The following are
verbatim statements made by Miss JONES, reflecting her
knowledge of the aims and objectives of the Communist
Party:
"My Party, the Communist Party, joins with
millions of other Americans, in fact with the majority
of people, in opposing a policy of Universal Military
Training for the nationls youth. we are opposed to
such a proposal because instead of its being a means
of promoting democracy and world peace, it would in
reality, promote unintelligible! of the country
unintelligible! and war-mongers. Defense of the
country depends not on its military might alone, but
first of all on those policies that will insure democ-
racy to all the people, decent hones, adequate educa-
tion, a high standard of living, and an active defense
of world peace and democracy.
The following statements were made by CLAUDIA
JONES and Judge GUNTHER, who opposed the views of the
subject:
Judge GUNTHER: "You are an admitted Communist, are
you not?
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the target of foreign imperialist
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attack by HITLER, the Finnish attack
involving foreign imperialism--no
loss a person that HERBERT HOOVER
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the Soviet Union--the threats from
Japan, the Japanese militarists, in
addition to sixty nations, including
the United States, which attacked the
Soviet Union-
Exhibit #15: Transcript of
Radio Address,
Station KQV,
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CLAUDIA JONES was the subject for a picket
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carried out by the Department f Justice againstCLAUDIA JONES and lxmiamlgmtmu. Pickets carried
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CLAUDIA JONES was the principal speaker at
a May Day Rally sponsored by the Communist Party of
Les Angeles on May S 19MB, which was held at theEmbassy Auditorium, 6&7 South Grand Avenue, Los
Angeles, California. Approximately 1700 persons at-
tende this rally. The Chairman of the rally wasNEP7§g-;»RKS, .Ch='>ai1:'men cor - E120 L9a.e:aeLe§..Qsae_sz£@..eeYau2:. }Bt P&PtY- CWI " "j "' j h
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States The subject reportedly stated that negroes in
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spoke favorably of the plan of civil disobedience of
negroes in the next draft for military service. She
quoted WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, National Chairman of the
Party, as stating, "The Communist rarty will refuse to
comply with this measure" referring to military train-
ing and servicdL
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ing her arrest for deportation and ridiculed the fact
that she was charged by the Government with advocating
the overthrow of the Government by force and violence.
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as a concentration camp. She reportedly completed her
speech by referring to the "valiant, democratic, freedom-
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A report of CLLUDIA JONES activities in
recruiting new members to the Party was set forth in
an article in the "Daily Washer," June h, l9h8, byStaff correspondent I-.RNo1f15}<sRooc. The title of this
article is "Out on Bail, She Signs 5? New GP Members."
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up to the front of the hall and signed up for the
Party,I she said.
"Her teur took her to Seattle and Taccma,
Washington; Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, Oakland,
Contra Costa, Los Angeles and San Diego, California;
Phoenix, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Denver,
Colorado. She spoke to more than 7,500 people at
public meetings in these cities,,.,
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1,000 people jammed her rally, the climax of a long
campaign which recently son an FEPC erainance for the
state. The greatest applause at this meeting, as at
all the others, came when Miss JONES declared that the
Comunist Party would never register if the Mundt Bill
was passed, and that it would continue its struggle
to free America from wall Street."
Exhibit #19: "Dai1"Worker"June L, l9QB
Librarian
New York Public
LibraryWitness to
Introduce:
A report by the Chairman of the National
Wbmcn's Commission, ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, on the
activities of tho Secretary of the Commission, CLAUDIA
JONES, was set forth in an article in the "Daily Worker
June 30, 19%, In this article, Miss stated the
following concerning the activities of the subject:
"She spoke at a whole series of May Day cele-
brations along the coast, at women's conferences, at
meetings of the Negro Commission of the Party, and for
the Civil Rights Congress--in fact she reorganized one
chapter of C.R;C. in San Francisco, and set up three
new ones in San Diego, Salt Lake City, and Denver. SheI
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Altogether, since the National
Women's Commissio of the Party has been reconstituted,
and especially since February, 19M? when CLAUDIA JONES
became our efficient and capable Secretary, we have set
up 12 commissions in various districts, to work among
WOITIGIIQ Q I Q"She reorganized the Women's Commission in
San Mateo County.
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Party possesses today. It is a privilege and a pleasure
to work with her and a satisfaction to see the splendid
example she sets for Gomunists and other women.
Exhibit #20: "Daily Worker"
June 30, l9h8
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CLAUDIA JONES is the author of an article in
the " The Worker," September h, l9u9. This article
was entitled, "We Seek Full Equality for Women." Due
to the nature of the statements made by subject in this
article, the major portion of it is being set forth
verbatim.
"We Seek Full Equalityfbr Women
"Taking up the struggle
of the Suffragists, the
Comunists have set new
tasks, new objectives
in the fight for a new
status for women. The
special value of Foster's
contribution.
"By CLAUDIA JONES, Secretary, Comunist Party's National
Women's Commission.
I1The leading role of the Communist Party in the
struggle to emancipate women from male oppression, is one
of the proud contributions which our Party of Marxism-
Leninism, the Comunist Party, U.S.n., celebrates on its
thirtieth anniversary.
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women, the placing of woman in the
family, as the 'proletariat' of the
the role of 'bourgeoisie.'
"Hence, Marxist-Leninistsmodern bourgeois
man, who assumes
fight to free wean
of household drudgery, they fight to win equality for
women in all spheres; they recognize that one cannot
adequately deal with the woman question or win women
for progressive participation unless one takes up the
special problems, needs and aspirations of women--as
WOITIOHQ
"It is this basic principle that has governed
the theory and practice of the Communist Party fbr the
last three decades.
"As a result, our Party has chalked up a
proud record of struggle for the rights of woman.
American literature has been enhanced by the works of
Marxists who investigated the status of women in the
U.S. in the '3O's. Its record is symbolized in the
lives of such outstanding women Comunists as ELLA REEVE
BLOOB and ANITA WHITNEY and others who are associated
with the fight for women's suffrage, for the rights of
the Negro people, for working class emancipation.
"Our Party and its leadership helped stimulate
the organisation of women in the trade unions and helped
aotivize the wives of workers in the great labor organ-
izing drives; built heusowives' councils to fight against
the high cost of living; taught women through the boycott
and other militant actions how to fight for the needs oi
the family; helped to train and mold women Communist
leaders on all levels, working class women inspired by
the convictions and ideals of their class--the working
class.
"A pioneer in the fight for the organization
of working class women, our Party was the first to demon-J_ ' 'i
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"triply-oppressed status of Negro women is a barometer
of the status of all wcmon and that the fight for the41---|-| _.___._.___r_ _._--|.|1.: 4':-Ii, 3....-I _._.-,1.-.1 .-..-..._.-.l-!4-- A-F -I-I-..-.11.1.1.1. UUUIIUHILU, PD.1...l.Lr.LL.»¬.i..|.. LLILU. UUULLLJ. ULlLLl';l-J..l.uJ UJ. ULLU
Negro woman is in the vital self-interest of white
workers, in the vital interest of the fight to realize
equality for all wnmen.
"But it remained for the contribution of
WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, National Chairman of our Party, to
sharpen the thinking of the American Communist Party
on the woman question. Comrade FOSTER projected in a
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and its vanguard Party to fight the obstacles to women's
equality, evidenced in many anti-woman prejudices, in
the prevalent ideology of male superiority fostered by
the menopolists imbibed by working class men.
"The essence of FOSTER'S contribution is that
it is necessary to win the masses of American women for
the over-all struggle against imperialist war and fas-
cism by paying special attention to their problems and _
by developing special struggles for their economic, polit
ical, and social needs. Basing himself upon the Marxist-
Leninist tenet that the inequality of women is inherently
connected with the exploitation of the working class,
FOSTER called on the Party and the working class to
master the Marxist-Loninist theory of the woman question,
to improve our practical work on this question, and to
correct former errors, errors of commission and omission
with regard to this fundamental question.
"Foster's special contribution lies in his
unique expose of the mask placed on the status of women
in every sphere in the U.S. by American imperialism.
Comrade FOSTER exposed the bourgeois lie that women
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"Any underestimation of the need for a per-
sistent ideological struggle against all manifestations
of masculine superiority must therefore be rooted out.
If biology is falsely utilized by the bourgeois ideol-
egists to perpetuate their false notions about women,
Communists and progressives must fare boldly intoishe
biological sciences and enhance our ideological struggle
against bourgeois ideas and practices of male superior-
ity.
"In order to meet the tasks projected for a
deeper understanding and mastery of the Marxist-Lenin-
ist approach to the woman question a special Party
Commission on Theoretical Aspects of Work among Women
was established.
"Reflecting the great hunger for theory on
question on the part of Communists aid pro-
was the one day Conference en Marxism and
Question held under the auspices of the
Jefferson school of Social Science held in June of this
year. Nearly 600 women and men attended. Indicative,
-too, of how the Party is meeting its tasks in this
sphere are the numerous cadre schools which have been
held to facilitate the training of women for mass work
among women and the training of Communist men on the
woman question.the woman
gressives
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which, under the leadership and guidance of the Party
district organizations, give attention to work among
women in the Party and in the mass organizations. It
is necessary to utilize the 30th anniversary of our
Party to strengthen our mass and Party work and to
turn the face of the entire Party toward this question.
"This is necessary, first, because without
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"indications in varied ways, that they oppose the
Atlantic Pact, and are fearful of the implications of
tho arms pact.
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civil rights of the meriean people, the outstanding
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loaders of our Party before a jury having a majority
of women.
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women, without building the progressive organizations
of women, such as the Congress of American Women,
Womonis Division of the Progressive Party, the Negro
women's organizations, etc., and without organizing
special struggles for the demands of women, we cannot
win the women against the reactionary influences of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the bourgeois ideologists.ll
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woman question, organizing masses of American women, and
focusing attention primarily on the problems and needs
of working class women, our Party can help usher in a
new status for American women.
"To achieve that end, we must win the women
to an ever-active fight against imperialist war and
fascism. For, in the words of the great DIMITROFF,
in his famous report, Tho United Front against Fascism':
"'while fascism exacts most from youth it
enslaves women with particular ruthlessness and synieism,
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women workers an teilers fight shoulder to shoulder
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working class front and the anti-fascist people's front.
' "In the sprit of the anti-fascist here of
Leipzig, lot us redcdicato ourselves to the fight fer
the complete equality of women."
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parade and appeared on the reviewing stand at UnionSquare and was introduced to the people in the audienceas one of the leaders in the Comunist Party. BT¢_ §j!
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CLAUDIA JONES, in a featured article in the
" The Worker," entitled, "Half the World," in the
May 21, 1950 issue, is critical of the President of
the United States and the Government concerning the
recent announcement made that the United States would
produce the hydrogen bomb.. She charged that billions
of dollars were being spat for armaments in this
country to destroy lives. She said that this money
could be spent on health programs, and stated that the
action of the Government was in contempt of the children
of this country.
Exhibit #22: "the Ibrker"
May 21, 1950
Witness to -
Introduce: Librarian
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The subject was the author of an article in
"The Worker" of July 16, 1950, in which she was sharply
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review the work of the Communist Party in what she
charged was the fight for freedom for the American
people, and freedom and equality for the negro people.
She said that she was part of a mass struggle for human
freedom. She criticized the delay in deportation pro- '
eeedings and charged that the Justice Department had
deliberately used unconstitutional means to held the
alien Communists on Ellis Island and to prevent their
freedom.
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which appeared in
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the 15th National u
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the February, 1951 issue of "Political
noted on the first page of this issue
contained therein would pertain to
Convention of the Communist Party,
and that "this special,enlarged issue is devoted to
reports, speeches, and greetings of the 15th National
Convention of the Cmmmust Party, USA, held in New
York City on December 28-31, 1950." The article pre-
pared by the subject was entitled, "For the Unity of
Ubmen in the Cause of Peace!"
The following excerpts are taken from this
article:
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of our country
the Resolution
meaning to thegrowing surge for peace among the women
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that Ithe fight for peace has a special
women of the country' and that without
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as they become aware that lynching by court martial and
wanton shooting of Negro troops in Korea merge with the
growth of terrorizatien of Negro veterans at home, as
witnessed in the brutal police lynching of the Negroveteran, JOHN DERRICK. '
"Life is cheap to the brass hats these days.
Recently, the Daily Worker carried a
Peking dateline, in which the chairman
Red Cross stated that one-third of the
by Macarthurls troops were children, astory with a
of the Peking
people killed
d forty fiven .-
percent were women! Children at play, women washing
on the river banks, and peasants working in the fields
have been the targets of bombing and strafing by the
American armed forces whose so-called 'po1ico action
was to bring 'freedom' to the unhappy! Korean people!
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these barbarous atrocities, U.S. imperialism plans to
use the sons of American mothers as blue chips in
their vicious plot of world conquest, fascism, war and
death. Over the radio, Gen. Lucius Clay, the protector
of Ilse Koch, and Gen. Mark Clark speak bluntly. Thus
did Clark declare: *...in the international poker game
we're playing today...we need more blue chips; blue
chips are boys with guns in their hands.
"...But that is not all. New new economic
hardshipsface the 18 million women workers. TRUMAN'S
dictatorial National Emergency Decree carries with it
a throat to draft women for total war production,
Reminiscent of the bestial Nazi attitude toward women,
Big Business, in their profit-mad quest for new sources
of cheap labor power and resources, seek to emulate the
Nazis who likewise drafted 'madchen in uniform! by the
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"of peace and social progress, in the struggle to ward
off attacks on the living standards of their families,
and in defense of the democratic and civil rights of
the people, American women are daily giving their _
answer. They reflect the new moods and express the new
possibilities for stepping the warmakors. More and
more the women are acquiring the consciousness that
they will really be to blame if they fail to speak up
in defense of their children and their country. That
is why they have raised the mass slogans of the cam
of peace to end the war in Korea and to bring our boys
home.
"...Ameriean women have begun to expose
futility and immorality of the A-bomb as a weapon
solve problems between nations. That is why they
beginning to join their voices with that of their
wrathful anti-fascist sisters the world over whose
role for peace cannot be ever-estimated.
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How can we most effectively reach the overwhelming
majority of women to act for peace? How can we help
to convert desire for peace into organization and
struggle? How can we help to anchor a wemen92s peace
movement, embracing a majority of women, to a working-
class base which will guarantee it consistency,
principle and militancy?
"Yet, we do not find full agreement on the
to organize women, as women, in the peace
camp. In numerous pro-Convention discussions, in our
National women's Comission, particularly, we have
been involved in discussions about the necessity for
such a distinct women's peace movement. We all agreed
that this perspective must be fully registered and
fought for at our 15th National Convention, since itnecessity
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cussions, wc found that full clarity did not exist among
our women cadres on the character of such a movement.
How did this shew itself?NY 100-186T6
Two tendencies emerged in our di80uBSiOnB-
First was the tendency which argued that, since an
outstanding weakness of the past was the failure to
build united-front movements among working class and
Negro women, it was new necessary to limit ourselves
to the organization of a working-class women's peace
movement. Clearly such a tendency is wrong. It fails
to understand the full concept of our Party's united-
front peace policy which is to create a movement based
on the working class in unity with all other peace-loving
peoples. It reflects a lack of faith in the working-
class women themselves who can and will lead all strata
of the women in their struggle for peace. This tendency
has 'left'-sectarian implications. For to defeat the
warmakers, it is necessary to unite all sections of the
women under the leadership of the working women, as
it is necessary to unite its broad allies under the
leadership of the working class.
"Second was the tendency to see the need of
bringing into being a peace movement embracing all women.
Such comrades argued that the broad masses of women in
our land, because of their oppressed social status in I
present-day society, because of their role as mothers,
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considerable discussion, our National Women's Commission
correctly stressed tho primacy of the working-class
orientation while recognizing the new opportunities
which exist to create a broad women's peace movement
among non-working class wemen in every community, and
on all levels. Major attention must be given to organ-
izing the millions of workers wives in basic industry,
the millions of working-class housewives in industrial
cities, the millions of working-class and Negro women
who can be won on the peace issue and around the struggle
for their burning demands.NY 100-18676
...Impel1ing these developments is the
leadership of the world camp of peace, democracy and
Socialism by a workers! state--the Socialist Soviet
Union, which has exemplified in life its concern for
the well-being and full equality of women and full .
protection of children in all spheres. The word»shakin3
examples of free Soviet womanhood, the new freedoms
achieved by the liberated woman in the lands of the
European Democracies who move toward Socialism, the
historic strides--as a result of the Chinese Peopleis
Reve1ution~-in the elimination of the feudal bondage
formerly experienced by millions of downtrodden women
of China--all are decisive contributing factors ex-
plaining why there new exists a powerful international
anti-fascist, anti-imperialist women's movement.
"American women bear a heavy responsibility
to the millions of our anti-fascist sisters in the
world camp of peace, precisely because the threat to
world peace stems from the imperialists of our land.
The repeated appeals to American women from the em-
battled mothers of Greece, Franco Spain and the
Marshal1Plan-saddled countries are staunch reminders
Of the responsibilities women in the United States-
bear to the world struggle for peace and anti-fascism.
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last year against the international fraternization of
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the high principles of proletarian internationalism. In
great measure, our meeting of that responsibility de-
pends on the support given by labor-progressives, led
by our vanguard party, the Communist Party, to the i
emerging women's peace movcment= Through such support,
the struggle for the equality of women will merge with
the general class struggle of the working class which
understands the needs and demands of the masses of women.
Support to the peace struggles of women in our country
will thereby also help to bring in line with world _
developments, based on American experience a new advance
in women*s status in our country.
"@@@Comrados, I have singled out three main
questions in this sub-report flowing out of the splendid
report of Comrade Hall, namely; 1! the necessity to .
develop, strengthen and build a distinct womenis peace
movement; 2! the rooting of that movement among working
women and the wives of uarkers; and 3! the special neces-
sity to bring the fight for peace to the Negro women.
"...To help transform womenls peace sentiment
into a mighty-organized movement for peace, security,
equality and defense of children, means we must change
our Partyls methods of work and approaches to our own
women cadre.
In his report, Comrade Hall stated that:
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tendencies in our ranks is the speed with which we re-
leased the bulk of our loading women comrades after
World War II-and our slowness to correct this error.
The new level of work achieved by our women comrades,
and the new currents stirring among the masses of women,
must be reflected in our Party's new level of under-
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"What is necessary to achieve this new level
of understanding in work among women? It means, first
of all, recognizing and applying the Loninist concept
that Comunist women must 92themselves be part of the
mass movement of ween. It means the virtual release
of dozens and dozens of our wamen comrades for work among
women for peace and to struggle for women's special
demands. '
"In many Party sections a consciousness exists
that in order to make it possible for women to partici-
pate generally in Party activities, the obstacles to
women's full participation must be recognized. Party
cadres hero understand that because under capitalism,
care of children is more than often the sole responsi-
bility of women, and not viewed as a social responsibil-
ity, as is the case under Socialism, it is necessary to
provide baby sitters to help release women for general
Party work. But examination shows that this practice,
because of its costliness, is not widespread. Nor is
the same approach taken to release Party women cadre for
work among the masses of ween. Coupled with this a
general underestimation of work among women is expressed
in the practice of taking practically all of our women
comrades out of their natural habitat thus robbing them
of their mass contacts in P.T.A's and women's organiza-
tions while they funetion as general Party actives.
"I propose that this Convention instruct our
incoming leadership and National Educational Department
to launch such a camaign starting on International
Women's Day, March 8, 1951. I.W.D. should be the occasion
for widespread tribute to the role and potentialities of
the masses of women, and to inculcate an understanding of
the MarxistLeninist approach to women in society, as a
duty and responsibility of all Gomunist men and women.
One such contribution to this end is the forthcoming
volume on the woman question a collection of the writings
of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin! which.wdll be published
by International Publishers in January, and which should
receive wide circulation and study.
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"Proper use of the Women's Page of The
Worker, under the leadership of Peggy Dennis, now
widely road; the organization of friends and readers
of The Herker' to make this page the Vd1iC10 of ex-
change of experiences in the peace and general women's
movement, can make this page the avenue to increas-
ing the circulation of the press among the masses of
women, particularly among Negro and working-class women
.92"Tho Draft Resolutions's failure to deal
adequately with the woman question, overcome new with
Comrade Hall's report, consists in the fact that it
failed not only to deal adequately with women's role
-but with her oppression--the crux of the question.
It is true that the widespread and justifiable criti-
cism by many of our women comrades ofthe Resolutionls
weakness was due to their failure to find a corros-
ponding estimate of work among women on all Party levels.
They saw therefore the struggle for women's equality
solely as an inner Party matter, isolated as too many
of them are from thelaroad ferment of women for peace.
Where women, despite obstacles, plunged ahead, and did
not fall into the Ibattlo of the sexes bourgeois-
feminist moods, there recognition of women's full role
and contribution to the fight for peace was swiftest.
This should point up a great fact: namely, that it is
the movement of the women themselves for peace that has
forced a new awareness upon our Party and labor-progros
sive forces everywhere today, A real tribute for this
approach goes to Comrade Foster who told us that
women must fight for their own liberation, and to
women Communist anti-fascist leaders in the international
women's movement.
The attention and agreement of the entire
Party organization must be won to the solution of,
and collective application to these problems. Over-
coming of these weaknesses will release the collective
talents of our wonderful women fighters to work, write,
sing and fight for women's liberation; and they will
want to do it not as second-class citizens, but as
contributors to Party policy and mass work in our clubs
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of an improved attitude in the Party toward the pro-
motion of women in leadership are seen in many parts
of the country. We have the advancement to the State
Comittee at the recent New York Party Convention of/{such comrades as Li ates, Johnnie umpkin and Mercado:
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Eduea ion Director, of omen Goa ist veterans likeDerayéipshitz and Rosgxgaron, and that of Marthgztonoas Dastrict 0rganiZer,-f New Jersey; so also h;_eemerging Negro women leaders like Maryédams, thesple d young Party women cadre like eaniefriffithandgggéy; the inspiring role of the foremostwoman
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liberation of women in a Socialist society, where the
basis of women's exploitation is eliminated, exploita-
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Convention of our Party te honor the Jane nigginses whosedaily work is a measure of their desire 5% master Marxist-
Leninist theory, to participate in winning a glorious
future.
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"them to fight for their demands, will fuse the women's
peace movement under the leadership of the working class,
and will thereby help to change the relationship of
forces in our land in such a way as to make for a new
anti-fascist, anti-imperialist people's coalition, ad-
vancing through this struggle to Socialism."
In this issue of "Political Affairs," it was
reported that CLAUDIA JONES had been elected to the
Alternate National Comittoe of the Comunist Party
at the 15th National Convention of the Party which was
held December 28-31, 1950.
Exhibit #16:
witness to
Introduce:"Political Affairs
February, 1951
Librarian
Library of
Congress
CLAUDIA JONES was the author of an article
in the March, 1951 issue of "Political Affairs" en-
titled, "FOSTER'S Political and Theoretic Guidance to
Our Work Among women." It was noted on Page 1 of this
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",..In the tradition of all great Communist
thinkers, recognizing that the fight against women's
inequalities is connected with the fight against cap-
italist property relations, FOSTER was the first in
our Party to call for a sharp turn in what he character-
ized as a widespread underestimation and general
neglect of work among women. Typical of his unflag-
ging interest in all phases of our Party's theoretical
and practical work, despite his busy schedule and ill
health, was his emphatic statement in his basic article,
On Improving the Party's Work Among Homen.'
"'One of the gravest weaknesses of the Cem-
munist movement in the various capitalist countries,
including our own, is its relative failure to win the
active support of the decisive masses of women. It is
a fact that we dare not ignore that the forces of re-
action still have a strong hold on wemankind, includ-
ing proletarian women....This shortcoming of the
Communist Parties becomes even more manifest today in
view of the huge and increasing part that women are
taking in all walks of life; This shortcoming must be
quickly overcome, inasmuch as the parties spearheading
the drive to fascism and war hold the affiliation of
large masses of women, Obviously, therefore, a drastic
improvement in their work among women is very much on the
order of business for the Communist Parties of the
capitalist world, especially our Party here in the
United States.
"FOSTER'S personal attention and interest in
the work of the National Women's Commission was invalu-
able to whatever progress was made in our work. It
was his discussions with us, prior to finalization of
the aforementioned article, that helped to lend confi-
denco to our Commission to fight for such an approach
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- FOSTER'S political and theoretical centri-
butions lod to a new appreciation of the tasks in our
work among women throughout the Party. Indicative of
this is the new awareness of the importance of woon's
work registered at our recent 15th National Convention.
In all main reports at the National Convention, as in
numerous state conventions, a new stress was given to
this work particularly as a result of the unprecedented
upsurge of peace sentiment among the masses of women
and their significant actions for peace. Representing
a sharp change in the extent of their participation,
in comparison with our last Party Convention, our
Negro and white women comrades who attended this Con-
vention reflected in rich experiences their growing
ties with masses and in general, the political growth
of our women cadres. Particularly outstanding were
the contributions of Negro women comrades, especially
from the South.
"FOSTER'S contributions to our Party's under-
standing of the woman question likewise helped to com-
bat blatant male-supremacist attitudes in our Party and
progressive circles. More than over-caution, however,
is still prevalent among many men comrades when this
question arises, in relation to their own weaknesses.
This situation has, however, led to a growing self-
critieism of many of our male comrades and Party leader
ships as regards the woman question. An important
derivative of FOSTER'S contribution was his help in
alloying the passivity of many of our women comrades,
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"One need only refer within the confines
of this article to the impassioned cry of mothers and
wives who are increasingly questioning the involvement
of American boys in the aggressive Korean adventure.
Ono can only mention their growing demands to end the
Korean war, to bring the boys home, and their alarm at
the use of the nation's schools for terror-striking
survival drills! to which young children are subjected.
"...We know that emancipation of woman is
possible only under Socialism. A guide for the Party
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equality in the fullest sense of the word. It docs
away completely with many of the disgusting bourgeois
sex distortions and inhibitions and makes
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and women. Heman has to face special oppression in
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"real equality to woman. The Soviet woman is truly a
new human being. She has learned altogether new ca-
pacities and rights and has amazed the wold with her
ability to do superlatively well anything she turns
her hand to. The tremendous added power that emanci-
pated woman gives to the Soviet economy and political
life is one of Soeialism's greatest advantages over
capitalism. The Soviet woman is incomparably the freest
woman in the world. If anyone wants to know whether
Socialism cultivates personality and individuality, a
powerful answer is found in the progress made by Soviet
woman.
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to understand that FOSTER'S bright Socialist vision is
in their own fundamental interests and that of the
family- For equal rights in the Socialist U.S.S.R.
are not Just formal legal rights, which under bourgeois
democracy, are, at best, only extended on paper, but
are denied in reality by the very nature of capitalist
exploitation. Under Socialism, full enjoyment of equal
rights by women is guaranteed by the very nature of a
society in which classes and exploitation are abolished.
"Our Party can pay no greater tribute to our
beloved Comrade FOSTER on the occasion of his 70th
birthday than by helping to further an understanding of
its tasks in relation to work among women. Utilization
of Comrade FOSTER'S profound writings to deepen the
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Exhibit #25: "Political
Affairs"
March, 1951
Witness to
Introduce: Librarian
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Congress
The subject, in her colum, "Half tho World,"
which appeared in "The Worker, April 22, 1951, wrote
in criticism of the action of the Government in the
Korean conflict. The following is taken from this
column:
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the firm refusal of the British, French and others to
go along with any further spreading of the Korean con-
flict. But the other side of the coin is that the
Truman administration, which committed the nation to
war in Korea, has yet to change its ereintation on
the war in Korea itself, Only if Naenrthur1s removal
is followed by a policy of negotiation which will re-
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Exhibit #5 :. The Worker"
April 22, 1951
Witness to
Introduce: Librarian
New York Public
Library
CLAUDIA JONES was observed taking an active
participation in the 1951 ay Day activities which
were sponsored by the United May Day Committee and
held in New York on May 1, 1951. The subject appeared
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Witness:
The Centennial Celebration of Marxism andthe 26th Anniversary of the Communist Party were cele-
brated by the Communist Party at a mass r ll . - a y hold at
Madison Square Garden, New York City, on September 16,19h?, under the auspices of the New York State Committee
of the Communist Party, Madison Square Garden was deco-. rated with Communist slogans, "Build the Communist Party
New," "End Terrorism to Jews and Admit To Palestine and
U.S. DP's," "Repeal the Taft-Hartley Slave Law."
CLLUDIA JONES was the Chairman of this rally.A pageant depicting 100 years of Marxism was presented
on the program. Apprexinot 1 1 _=. e y h,OOO persons attendedthis mass rally,
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CLAUDIA JONES was interviewed on January 19,
l9h5 when apprehended on a warrant issued by the Immie
gration and Naturalization Service, charging that she
entered this country at New York on the 9th day of
February, 192h, and has been found in the United States
in violation of the immigration laws thereof, and is
subject to be taken in custody and deported, pursuant
to the provisions of the Act of October 16, 1918, as
amended, in that she is found to have been, after entry,
a member of the following class, set forth in section
one of said act:
An alien who believes in, advocates and teaches
the overthrow, by force or violence, of the Government
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Subject was the author of an article whichappeared in "Political Affairs," August, 19h8. Thisarticle appeared under the Section, "Pre-Convention
Discussion," and was entitled, "For New Approaches to
92 Our Work Among Women." The following is quoted from
this article;
"Tho Draft Resolution places as the centraltask before our Party the building of the People's anti-
monopoly and peaco coalition against American imperialism.It likewise stresses the imperative need for the people's
coalition, and particularly the working class, to fightaggressively on those issues which can win the supportof every section of the population that can add solidity,
numbers, and strength to tho battle against Americanimperialism." '
"Political Affairs"
August, l9h8Exhibit #28:
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were on the topic, "Un-American Committee and the Negro
People." In the first article, the subject accused the
House Un-American Activities Comittee for calling before
it spokesmen of the Negro people to impugn all the Negro
people in this country. She stated that never before in
the history of the Nation has the loyalty of a whole
people been so attacked. She stated that the
were timed at a strategic moment for American
ist reaction. She stated:
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significant highlight in the testimony of BENJAMEN J.
DAVIS, Gommunist leader and Councilman from the city
of New York. CLAUDIA JONES said that DAVIS utilized
the "weapon of MarxismrLeninism to throw light on the
forces responsible for the national oppression of the
Negro people--the capitalist class itself."
In_tho Daily Worker of August 2, l9h9, the
second article in a series of three appeared on "Un-
American Committee and the Negro People." In this
article the subject stated that, "It is more than a
passing coincidence that at the Un-American Committee
loyalty hearings on Communism and the e re, theNe reformist leaders--such as LESIEE§E%ANGEH,I§ABLE___
S. JOHNSO to nothing of the miscra 1e stoe i eons P Sas MA1NINg8¤HHSON! were not powerful enough or
convincing one in their views on this subject. This,
despite the American beurgeoisic's all-out efforts to
control the Negro press through ads, or to meagerly give
crumbs from its profit-laden tables for the support of
such institutions as the reformists may lead."
She stated, The ever-present virus of Iwhite
supremacy, intensified national oppression, and the
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of August Y 19h9
series of articles
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uu words of the national chairman of the eemmunis
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democratic forces, the Soviet Union, were upon them
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CLAUDIA JONES was the author of an
article entitled "International women's Day and
the Struggle for Peace" which appeared in the
March, 1950 issue of "Political Affairs". The
following is quoted from this article:
"On International Women's Day this
year, millions of women in the world-wide camp of
peace headed by the mighty land of Socialism will
muster their united forces to make March 8, 1950,
a day of demonstrative struggle for peace, freedom
and women's rights.
In our own land, there will be over
fifty celebrations. On New Ycrkls Lower East Side,
original site of this historic American-born day
of struggle for equal rights for women, and in
major industrial states, such as Illinois, Ohio,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut, broad united-front meetings of
women for peace will be held. 'Save the Peace!
Halt Production of the A-Bomb1' Negotiate with
the Soviet Union to Outlaw Atomic Weapons! --
these. are the n! hC"!4Y|.=: of unmnm -1n 1'1nn TT_.Q A- n-----..--1 --- v -.-.--.- ._-_.-En»-4.-.1 92-Ig -n-r;.u92.-1-4, -I-Am u4.+92.- 92aI-Ii¢-I-Q vdn
International Women's Day.
"The Struggle For Peace
The special significance of this .
holiday this year, its particular meaning for
labor, progessives, and Gomunists, and for
American working women generally, is to be found
in the widespread condemnation, among numerous
sections of the American people, of Truman*s
cold-blooded order to produce the hydrogen bomb and
to inaugurate a suicidal atomic and hydrogen
weapon race.ll
"Not to the liking of the imperialist
ideologists of the American Century is the
growing indication by millions of American women
of their opposition to war, their.ardent desire
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"The widespread peace sentiments, parti-
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must be organized and given direction and effective,
militant expression. This is necessary, since the
monopolist rulers are doing everything possible to
deceive the people and to paralyze their will to
fight for peace. Particularly insidious agents of
the warmakors are the Social-Democratic and reformist
labor leaders, the reactionary Roman Catholic hier-
archy, and the American agents of the fascist Tito
gang of imperialist spies, whose main task is to
confuse, split and undermine the peace camp.
"Hence, a fundamental condition for
rallying the masses of American women into the peace
camp is to free them from the influence of the
agents of imperialism and to arouse their sense of
internationalism with millions upon millions of their
sisters the world over; to protest the repressive
and death-dealing measures carried through against
the countless women victims by wall Street's puppets
iiarshallized Italy: in fascist Greece and Spain;
to link them in solidarity with the anti-imperialist
women united 80 million strong in S9 lands in the
Women's International Democratic Federation, who
are in the front ranks of the struggle for peace and
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"The opportunist degeneration of the _
leadership of the Second International inevitably
reduced the struggle for the emancipation of women
to a paper resolution. Interested only in catching
votes, the Socialist parties paid attention to the
woman question only during elections-
"Women Under Socialism
"Complete emancipation of women is
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October Socialist Revolution that for the firsttime in history, women were fullyemancipated and
guaranteed their full social equality in every phase
of life,
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equal rights with men in all spheres of
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life New Soviet Constitution, Article 122.!
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human exploitation are abolished. In bourgeois
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best a programmatic demand to be fought for, and
constant struggle is necessary to defend even those
rights that are enacted into law.
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"Marxism-Leninsm rejects as fallacious
all petty-bourgeois equalitarian notions. Equal
rights under Socialism do not mean that women do
not have special protection and social care necessitated
by their special function child bearing, etc.! and
special needs which do not apply to men.
"Comrade Foster's Contribution
"The Communist Party of the U.S.A. has
many positive achievements to record during the
last 30 years in the field of struggle for women's
rights and in promoting the participation of women
in the struggle against war and fascism-
"Outstanding was the recent participation
of Party women and of the women comrades who are
wives of the 12 indicted leaders of our Party in
the mass Struggle to win the first round in the
'Foley Square thought-control trial. And in the
continuing struggle against the frame-up of our
Party leaders we must involve ever larger masses
of women.
"Under Comrade Foster's initiative and
contributions to the deepening of our theoretical
understanding of the wnman question, a new political
appreciation of our tasks is developing in the
Party. Party Commissions on Work Among Women are
functioning in the larger districts and in smaller .
ones. International Women's Day will mark a high
point in ideological and political mobilization
and in organizational steps to intensify our united-
front activities among wamen, particularly around the
peace struggle. As a further contribution to that
end, a well-rouded theoretical-ideological outline
on the position of Marxism-Leninism on the woman
question is being prepared.
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"Comrade Foster called for theoretical
mastery of the woman question as vitally necessary to
combat the numerous anti-woman prejudices prevalent in
our capitalist society, and the whole eystemrof male
superiority ideas which continue to pla? Beh an
important part in woman's subjugation.
"Progressive and Comm ist men must become un
vanguard fighters against male supremacist ideas and
for equal rights for women. Too often we observe
in the expression and practice of labor=progressive,
and even some Communist, men glib talk about women
Ias allies but no commensurate effort to combat
male supremacy notions which hamper woman's ability
to struggle for peace and security. Too many labor-
progressive men, not excluding some Communists,
resist the full participation of women, avow bourgeois
equalavoid
shuntitarian' notions as regards women, tend to
full discussion of the woman question and
the problem aside with peremptory decisions=
what the promotion of a sound theoretical understanding
of this question would achieve for our Party is shown
by the initial results of the cadre training schools
and seminars on the woman question, many of whose
students have begun seriously to tackle male supre-
macist notions in relation to the major tasks of the
movement and in relation to their own attitudes.
"The manifestation of bourgeois feminism
in the progressive women's movement and also in our
Party is a direct result of the prevalence of male
superiority ideas and shows the need for our women
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be combatted by women labor-progressives and in the
first place by women Communists. Key participants
in the fight against these ideologies, and in the
fight to enlist the masses of women for the pro-peace
struggle, must.be the advanced trade-union women and
women Communists on all levels of Party leadership.
All Communist women must, as Lenin said, 'themselves
become part of the mass movement, taking responsibility
for the liberation of women.
"We must guarantee that women cadres
end isolation from the masses of women, by assigning
these cadres to tasks of work among women, on a
mass and Party basis, Ihe Women's Commissions of
the Party must be strengthened, All Party depart-
ments and Commissions must deal more consistently
with these questions, putting an end to the false
concept that work among women represents second-
class citizenship in our Party. A key responsi-
bility of all Women's Commissions is increased
attention and support to the growing movements
of youth.
"we must gauge our Party's work among
women by our effectiveness in giving 1eaders1ip
and guidance to our cadres in mass work, with a
view to concentrating among working-class women
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"Experience shows that a major area
of our work should and must be in the field of
education, where monopoly reaction and the Roman
Catholic hierarchy concentrate in a policy of
inculcating militarist, racist, pro-fascist
ideology in the minds of our children; of victimizing
progressive teachers, of conducting witch-hunts,
etc. Where good work has been carried on in this
sphere, victories have been non, as in the deieat
of reactionary legislative measures directed at
progressive teachers, In developing struggles to
alleviate the frightful conditions of schooling,
particularly in Negro, Puerto Rican, Mexican and
other working-class communities, Communist and pro-
gressive women have an important task to perform
and an opportunity for developing an exceedingly
broad united front for successful endeavor.
"By connecting the struggle against the
seemingly little issues of crowded schoolrooms,
unsanitary conditions, lack of child care facilities,
etc., with the issues of reactionary content of
teaching--racism, jingoism, etc;--the political
consciousness of the parent masses can be raised
to the understanding of the interconnection between
the demand for lunch for a hungry child and the
demand of the people for economic security; be-
tween the campaign for the dismissal of a Negro-
hating, anti-Semitic Mae Quinn from the school
system and the fight of the people for democratic
rights; between the protest against a jingoistio
school text and the broadIight of the people for
pea-C60
"In keeping with the spirit of International
Women's Day, tremendous tasks fall upon our Partys
The mobilization of the masses of Americans,
together with the enlisting and activation of
women cadres, for heightened struggles for peace"
and for the special needs of oppressed uamanhood,
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"movement among the women as such, we must draw
the masses of women into the impending 1950
election campaign and thereby, on the basis of
their experiences in the struggle, help raise
their political consciousness to the understanding
of the bipartisan demagogy and the hollowness of
Truman's tall promises. Large masses of women
can thus be brought to a full break with the two-
party system of monopoly capital
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this development, with our Party
vanguard task, advanced sectionsand to adherence
tho course of
performing its
among the working-
class women will attain the level of Socialist
consciousness and will, as recruited Communists,
carry on their struggle among the broad masses of
women upon the scientific conviction that the final
guarantee of peace, bread and freedom, and the full
emancipation of subjected womankind, will be
achieved only in a Socialist America,"
Exhibit #31 = Political
Affairs",
March, 1950
Witness to
Introduce:Librarian,
Library of
Congress
. The subject was the author of an article
entitled, "Women Crusade for Peace" which appeared
in the "Worker", March 12, 1950. In this article
the subject reviewed the activities of women's peace
organizations, who, in connection with the Inter-
national Women's Day celebration, organized women's
organizations in various parts of the United States
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equal pay for equal work, more schools, recreational
facilities, housing, jobs and adequate security
covering the entire period of employment, an end
to Jimcrow and for an FEPC with jobs in it; for
wiping out discrimination against Negro women in
jobs, the arts and professions; for lower prices
and strict control of rents. It should he an
occasion to rouse and organize the working class
women and housewives. It should be considered a
key task by labor-progressive men and women
everywhere.
"It is particularly urgent to draw large
masses of women, actively into the important
1950 elections, and, as an important task in the
struggle for peace, to expose the Truman demagogy;
Large masses of women can be brought into the
third party movement, thus speeding its growth
into a genuine, people's anti-monopoly, anti-war
movement, based upon the working class.
Let the keynote of these celebrations be:
Hail International Women's Day, the Day of Unity
of the Forces of American Women for Peace, Demo-
cracy and Social Progressi"
Exhibit #32:
Witness to
IntroducesThe "Worker",
March 12, 1950
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The following is quoted from this article
"Recently in Detroit, and Flint, Mich.,
I had the opportunity to meet with trade union
women and wives of auto workers celebrating
International women's Days Concerned as were these
women with the struggle for peace, there was as
yet no evidence of organized activity to win their
sisters for the organized peace struggle.
"Great stress was placed by a discussion
by a woman UAW worker on the necessity to clarify
the masses of working women, who want peace, on the
source of the war danger. This concern was so
great that she hesitated to launch a peace ballet
as ween in dozens of cities are doing, for fear
that so many people might be involved who have
different opinions as to the source of war,
"In these cities, where peace ballot
activities are involving thousands of women,
progressive and Comunist women particularly, also
share concern as to the source of war. But they
are impressed with the knowledge that we cannot
clarify responsibility for the war danger if we
are isolated from the masses of women.
"As in Boston, Philadelphia, and the newly
formed N. Y, East Side Women Volunteers for Peace,
progressive women recognize, that only by organized
united front, grass-roots activity of women of
various political opinions is it possible for the
great mass of women to express their will for H a
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April 2, 1950
Witness to
Introduce: Librarian,
New York
Public Library
The February, 1951 issue of "Political
Affairs", according to the iirst pag oi this issue.was a "special enlarged issue devoted to reports, '
speeches and greetings of the 15th National Con-
vention of the Communist Party, USA, held in New
York City on
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the Unity ofDecember 28, 31, 1950".
was noted that in this issue CLAUDIAauthor of a report entitled? "For
Women in the Cause of Peace.
is stated on page one of this issue It
that this report by the subject was one of several
reports submitted to the delegates of the 15th
National Convention of the Communist Party. In
this report the subject reviewed at great length
the necessity for unity of women in the Comunist
Party and the crusade for peace.
The following is Quoted from this article
as it pertains to the subject's activity in
organizational work in the party:
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" a collection of the writings of Marx, Engels
Lenin and Stalin! which will be published by
International Publishers in January, and which
should receive wide circulation and study.
_ "Proper use of the Women's Page of
' e Worker, under the leadership of Egggy,¥pgEn1§, now widely read; the organization of friends
and readers of The Worker to make this page
the vehicle of exchange of experiences in the peace
and general women's movement, can make this page
the avenue to increasing the circulation of the
press among the masses of women, particularly
among Negro and working-class women-
"The Dret Resolution's failure to deal
adequately with the woman question, overcome
now with Comrade Hall's report, consists in the
fact that it failed not only to deal adequately
with women's role -- but with her oppression --
the crux of the question. It is true that the
widespread and justifiable criticism by many of
our women comrades of the Resolution's weakness
was due to their failure to find a corresponding
estimate of work among women on all Party levels,
They saw therefore the struggle for women's
equality solely as an inner Party matter, isolated,
as too many of them are from the broad ferment
of women for peace, Where women, despite obstacles,
plunged ahead, and did not fall into the battle .
of the sexes bourgeois-feminist moods, there
recognition of w:men's full role and contribution
to the fight for peace was swiftest. This should
point up a great fact: namely, that it is the
movement of the women themselves for peace that
has forced a new awareness upon our Party and labor-
progressive forces everywhere today. A real
tribute for this approach goes to Comrade Foster
who told us that women must fight for their own
liberation, and to women Comunist anti-fascist
leaders in the international women's movement.
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The attention and agreement of the
entire Party organization must be won to the
solution cf, and collective application to these
problems. Overcoming of these weaknesses will
release the collective talents of our wonderful
women comrades touork,92write, sing and fight
for women's liberation; and they will want to do
it not as second-class citizens but as contribu-
tors to Party policy and mass work in our clubs
and groups.
"It is time our Party recognize the
precious capital it has in its women cadres.
Important indications of an improved attitude
in the Party toward the promotion of women in
leadership are seen in maiy parts of the coutry-
We have the advancement to the State Gemittee
at the recent ew York Party Convention of such
comrades as Lil Gates, Johnnie Lumpkin and Mercedes
Arroya; the splendid leadership of such women
comrades as Vickie Lawrence and Anne Garfield
in work among women in cw York and New England;
the recent elevation o Comrade Mollie Lieber
West to the post of linois organizational
secretary; of Grac illman to a similar position
in Indiana and of ade Vi to a leading post
in a Southern Party district. We have comrades
like Rose Gaulden in the leadership in Philadelphia's
hth Ward, of Dorothy Healy and Bernadette Doyle
in key positions in California, of Betty Gannett
as our National Education Director, of w>men
Communist veterans like Dora Lipshitz and Rose
Baron, and that of Martha Stone as District -
Organizer of New Jersey, We also have emerging
Negro women loaders like Mary Adams, the splendid
vonng Party women cadre like Jeanie Griffith and Judy;
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of our Party, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and of the
great women veterans like Mother Bloor and
Anita Whitney. There are other women cadres too
numerous to mention.
"Inspired and steeled by the powerful
science of Marxism-Leninism, which holds the key
to the ultimate liberation of women in a Socialist
society, where the basis of women's exploitation
is eliminated, expolitation of man by man abolished,
and the true equality of the sexes achieved, let
us resolve at this 15th National Convention ofour Party to honor the JaneYHig5inses whose
daily work is a measure of their desire to master
Marxist-Leninist theory, to participate in winning
a glorious future.
"In this struggle, Communist women, by
their leadership among the masses of women, and
learning from them to fight for their demands,
will fuse the women's peace movement under the
leadership of the working class, and will thereby
help to change the relationship of forces in our
land in such a way as to make for a new anti-
fascist, anti-imperialist people's coalition,
advancing through this struggle to-Socialism."
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The subject was the author of an article which
appeared in the "Daily Worker" February 13 1951.The following statement appeared at the beginning of
this article:
& ____ -- ___ - - _-_-_ we - __- Tho yruuuudiugs uf the recent lpth ational
Convention of the Gomunist Party are now being pub-
lished in pamphlet and book form. Because the Daily
Worker considers these proceedings of the greatest
importance to the American people, and particularly -
to the workers, both Communist and non-Communist, we
are printing sections of the major Convention reports."
A review of this article reveals that in _
substance the subject has again set forth the report
she made before the 15th National Convention. This
report also appeared in the February, 1951 issue of A
Political Affairs",
"Daily Worker",
February 13, 1951
N witness to
Introduce: Librarian,
New York Public
Library
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the March, 1951 issue of "Political Affairs". It
was noted on the first page of this issue of "Political
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"our work. It was his discussions with us, prior
to finalization of the aforementioned article,
that helped to lend confidence to our Commission
to fight for such an approach in our Party. In
over nine Party districts, conferences on work
among women, participated in by district leadership
followed; and there was a general improvement in
the organization of classes on the woman's question
by state educational departments as well as its
integration in general Party schools.
"THE URGENT FIGHT FOR THE NEEDS OF WOMEN WORKERS
"It becomes ever more urgent therefore
for our Party to heed the sound political and
theoretical advices of Comrade Foster as we go
forward to improve our work among women. Parti-
cularly important is the need to fight for the
needs of women workers and to root all our united-
front activities among working-class and Negro
women, as we go forward in our work to win women
in the struggle for peace, democratic rights,
and economic security,
"Our Party can pay no greater tribute
to our beloved Comrade Foster on the occasion of
his 70th birthday than by helping to further an
understanding of its tasks in relation to work
among women. Utilization of Comrade Foster's
profound writings to deepen the theoretical under-
standing of our Party and to strengthen it in its
practical tasks should be a major objective as
we prepare to celebrate International Women's
Day, on March 8. Our application to the tasks
set us by Comrade Foster for theoretical work,
in the spirit of persistence, until it is accomplished
should be another of our resolves,
"In the course of this development,
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"advice, our Party, as it performs its vanguard
tasks especially in relation to work among the
broad masses of women, will help advanced sections
of Negro and white working women to attain the
level of Socialist consciousness. Armed by
Foster's towering leadership of our Party, they
will win millions of women to the scientific
conviction that the final guarantee of peace, bread
and freedom and the full emancipation of oppressed
womanhood will be achieved only in a Socialist
America," '
Exhibit #25: "Political
, Affairs",
March, 1951
Witness to
Introduce: Librarian,
Library of
Congresa
In February, 19h? a National Women's
Commission of the Comunist Party was established.
This Commission was established by the party to
coordinate the party's activities in the work
among women. From the very beginning of the
establishment of this committee, CLAUDIA JONESL
has been the Secretary of the National Women's
Comission. It has been her duty to work with
the Chairman of this comittee, ELIZABETH GURLEY
FLYNN, and to make trips in connection with the
organization of this comission to the various
Communist Party districts throughout the United
States. She has been responsible for establishing
women's comissions in several districts of the
Comunist Party.
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CLAUDIA JONES WHEN A MEMBER CF THE
NATIONAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY,
Use 945-19u8!c cNY 100-18676
bl579K Witness:
In the September, l9h§, issue of "Political
Affairs," there is set forth a statement concerning the
"resolution of the National'Convention of the Communist
Party, USA, adonted July 25- l9h§=" The fellewinv excerhts
have been takenrfrom this resolution as set forthcin this
article:
"This revision of Marxist-Leninist theory regarding
the role of monopoly capital led to other erroneous conclusions,
such as to utopian economic perspectives and the possibility
of achieving the national liberation of the colonial and
dependent countries through arrangements between the great
powers, It also led to tendencies to obscure the class
nature of bourgeois democracy, to false concepts of social
evolution, to revision of the fundamental laws of the class
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"Furthermore, the dissolution of the Communist
Party and the formation of the Communist Political Association
were part and parcel of our revisionist errors, and did in
fact constitute the liquidation of the independent and
vanguard role of the Communist movement. As a consequence,
our base among the industrial workers was seriously weakened.
This further resulted in a general weakening of Communist
activities and in adversely affecting the role and policies
» of other Marxist parties in the Western Hemisphere. Far
from aiding the carrying out of such correct policy as
support for ROCSEVTLT'S rc-election, the dissolution of
the Communist Party weakened the democratic coalition
because it weakened the initiative, strength and contributions
of the Comunist vanguard.
"A flagrant expression of this liquidation was
the abolition of the Communist organization in the South
through its transformation into non-Communist, anti-fascist
organizations. This action undermined the foundation for
consistent and effective struggle for the needs and aspirations
of the masses of the South, especially the Negro people.
This glaring example of the logical outcome of our revisionist
errors reveals the direction in which our policy was leading.
The dissolution of the Communist Party of America and
the formation of the C.P.A. was in fact the liquidation of
the independent Marxist Party of the working class.
"The correction of our revisionist errors demands
the immediate reconstitution of the Communist Party and
guaranteeing the re-establishment of the Marxist content
of its program, policies and activities.
"The incoming Notional Committee and Board, by
example, and with the active assistance of the membership,
must undertake an ideological and organizational struggle
to root out all vestiges of bureaucracy, and be constantly
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Exhibit #35: "Political Affairs"
September, l9h5
Witness to
Introduce: Librarian
Library of Congress
CLAUDIA JONES was the author of "a discussion
article" entitled, "On the Right to SclfDeterninatien for
the Negro People in the Black Belt." This article appeared
in the January, l9a6, issue of "Political Affairs." The
following are excerpts from this article by the subject:
"We Communists adhere to the fundamental belief
that complete and lasting equality of imperialist oppressed
nations and peoples can be guaranteed only with the establish-
ment of Socialism. The aim of Socialism is not only to
abolish the present division of mankind into small states,
not only to bring nations closer to each other, but ulti-
mately to merge them. But we have never ignored the historical
process necessary to the achievement of that goal. Nor can
we 'postpone' the question of national liberation until
Socialism is established or speak solely in general nebulous
phrases about national liberation. We must have a clear and
precisely formulated political program to guide our work in
the achievement of that goal. For we know that mankind can
achieve the inevitable merging of nations, only by passing
through the transition period of complete liberation of all
the oppressed nations, i.e., their freedom to secede.'
LENIH, Selected Works, Vol. V. International Publishers,
p. 271.5
"As Leninists, we are distinguished from the
reactionary Social-Democrats in that we reject, even if it
is under the name of 'internationalism,* any denial of the
right of national self-determination to the oppressed
peoples. For true internationalism, that is Marxism-Leninism,
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is nothing more or less than the nationalism of their own
respective imperialist rulers, while the national program
of LEHIN is an essential part of internationalism. Any
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oppressing nation best fight against national oppress1on--
especially by their 'own' bourgeoisie--once they understand
that arch is the road to realize their own freedom. It is
based on the Marxist proposition that 'no nation can be
free if it oppresses other nations.
"Clearly then, those who impute to the Negro
main responsibility for 'accepting' or 'rejccting'
, ple of self-determination ignore tis tenet: they
base their conclusions on the subjective factor, instead
of the objective and historical conditions of oppression of
the Negro people in the Black Belt.people the
the nrinci
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that the Negro people shy away from this concept with ab-
horrence? Definitely not! It is, of course, quite a
different matter if we speak of the Negro people as not
being fully conscious of this concept in our terms. But
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"which the poll-taxers and feudal landowners, by dividing
Negro and white, continue their oppression of the Negro
people. They abhor the ideology of white supremacy which
flouts the basic tenets of our Gonstitution, as the
counterpart of HITLER'S *aryan supremacy. They abhor any
idea which holds out the perspective, not of full freedom
and equality, but of something less then these things. And
the slogan of self-determination expresses precisely these
aspirations in the most complete sense.
"To argue that the Negro people don't want self-
determination,' is unwittingly to give sanction to the
po1l=taxers and feudal landowners in the South to continue
exploiting the Negro people and poor whites on the basis
that this is what the Negroes want; it is to argue against
a conscious fight by white American workers to help achieve
the objective conditions in which the Negro people can
freely make their own choice. It is to blunt the struggle
for national liberation, to have at best, a bourgeois-
liberal approach.
"SELF-DETERMINATIQN--
A GUIDING PRINCIPLE
"It is my opinion that we again must raise the
right of self-determination for the Negro people in the Black
Belt, not as a slogan of immediate action, but essentially
as a programmatic demand. It might perhaps be argued that,
raised in this manner, the slogan is academic and should
therefore not be raised at all. Such criticism fails to
take into account the difference between a slogan advanced
as an issue on the order of the day and a guiding principle."
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- The February, l9hT, issue of "Political Affairs"
contains an article entitled, "Resolutions on the Question
of Negro Rights and Self-Determination," which, it was
stated, was "adopted by the National Comittce, Communist
Party, USA, at its December 3-S, l9h6, meeting." The
following excerpts are from this article:
"As always, the Communist Party stands firmly
in the forefront of the struggle for full economic, social
and political equality for the Negro people.
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concerned with gaining equal right s throughout the country,
which includes in the South the struggle for attaining
representative government and land
history shows Reconstruction! the
full and equal Negro participation
government also moves in the directionreform. As our bwn _
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in State and Federal
of various forms
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their white allies, in the Black Belt areas where they
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Witness to
Introduceé"Political Affairs"
February, 19H?
Librarian
Library of Congress
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created for the masses of our people to recognize, on
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reorganization of society along Socialist lines. . .we shall
aim to convince the broad masses that the eventual elimination
of the profit system and the establishment of Socialism in
the United States will usher in a new and higher type of
and a free
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progressroad to unlimited and stable social
will end exploitation of man by ITl9.l'l
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society without oppression and exploitation."
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Exhibit #38:July Z0, lvb.
"Political Affairs"
September, 19h?
Witness to
Introduce:Librarian
Library of Congress
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contains a "Draft Resolution for the National Convention,
C,P.U;S.A., To Be Held August 3-6, 19h8, Submitted by the
National Committee." The following excerpts have been
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