BOLSHEVISM FOR NEGROES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17469, 1 June 1922, Page 3

BOLSHEVISM FOR NEGROES.

COMMUNIST MISSIONARIES. (MOM our owh correspondent.} LONDON, April 21

, According to the April number of the "Communist Review," a new negro organisation, called the "African Blood of Brotherhood," is to be set u pto overthrow the white bourgeois in various parts of the world. The programme opens by stating that "a race without a programme is like a ship at sea without a rudder," an<j this programme is "offered for the consideration of other negro organisations and of the race in general." One of its objects is to discover "who our enemies are j and to make common cause with all forces and movements that are working against our enemies." The most important of these forces and movements with which the negroes should ally themselves is Soviet itusaia, because "Soviet Russia is opposing the Imperialist robbers who have partitioned our Motherland and subjugated our kindred," and because "Soviet .Russia is feared by those Imperialist nations and by all the capitalist plunderbunds of the earth, from whose covetousness and murderous inhumanity we at present suffer in many lands." Tliere follows a long account of what is described as the white man's enslavement of the natives of Africa, and a description of modern industrial enterprise and development in "our Mother land, Africa." "With the introduction of- industrial equioment, the African has learned to wield the whits man's machines, his guns, his methods, and witli tht possession of this knowledge has grown a new hope and determination to achieve his freedom and become the master of his own Motherland. . . .

The home Governments of the plantercapitalists are weakening day by day, and are trembling under tnc menace of tho Proletarian revolution.' The oppressed, colonies and small nations are in constant rebellion, as witness th r Irish, Turks, Persians, Indians, Arabs. Egyptians, etc." It is pointed out that the interior of Africa has yet been barely touched by "'predatory capitalism," and the tribes ol the interior could bo organised "under the leadership 6f the more able and developed negroes in the coast district," and it is proposed to do this, and to "bring all negro organisations in each of the African countries into a world-wide Negro Federation." Labour organisations are to be form ed among the negro workers, and ''no opportunity shouTd bo lost for propagandising the native soldiers in tlit 'colonial armies,' and for organising secretly a great Pan-African army in the same way as the Sinn Fein built uj; the Irish army under the very nuse ot England. Modern arms "must oe smuggled into Africa, men sent intc Africa in the guise of missionaries, etc. to establish relations with the Senussi. the various tribes of the interior, and to study the topography of the country. The Senussi already havi ; an 'army in existence,' a fact that is keiping European capitalist statesmen awake o' nights." The next section of this negro programme deals with conditions in America. "Tho American negro by virtue of being a part of the pomiiation of a great empire, has acquired certain knowledge in tho waging of modern warfare, tho operation of industries, etc. This country is the base for easy eontnet with the whole world, and the United States is destined, until the negro race is liberated, to become tho centre of the negro world movement. It is in this country especially that the negro must be strong. It is from hero that most of the leaders and pioneers who will carry tho message across tho world will go forth."