FOR NEGROES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 125, 30 May 1922, Page 7

FOR NEGROES

COMMUNIST MISSIONARIES

PROPOSED PAN-AFRICAN ARMY

(WOM OOR- OWN CORRBSrOSDBNT.) < , I LONDON, 21st April. According to the April number of the Communist Review, a new negro organisation, called the '-'African Blood of Brotherhood," is to be set up to overthrow the white bourgeois in various parts'of'tho "world. ■'■■'

The programme opens by stating that "a race without a programme is like a ship at sea without a rudder," and 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; 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 Russia,' 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 Capital- plunder-bunds of the earth from whose covetousness and murderous inhumanity we at present suffer in many lands." . "OPPRESSED COLONIES." There foll|ws 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 developments in "our Motherland, Africa." "With the introduction of industrial equipment, the African has learned to wield the white man's machines, his guns, his methods, and with the pos- i session of this knowledge has grown a j new hope and determination to achieve his freedom and become the master of his own motherland. -.- . . The home j Governments of the planter-capitalists are weakening day by day, and are trembling under the menace of the 'proletarian'revolutioii. The oppressed colonies and small nations are in constant rebellion, as witness. the Irish, Turks, Persians, Indians, Arabs, • Egyptians, etc" x . It iB pointed out that the interior of Africa has yet been barely touched by "predatory Capitalism," and the tribes of the interior could be organised "under the1 leadership of 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 worldwide negro federation." SINN FEIN METHODS. Labour organisation are to: be found among tho negro workers, and "no'- op-, portunity should be lost for propagandising the native soldiers in the 'coloi' nial armies,' and for organising secretly a great Pan-African army in tod same way as the Sinn Fein built up the Irish Army under the very nose of England. Modern arms must be smuggled jhto Africa, men sent into Africa in the guise of missionaries, etc., to establish relations with the. Senussi, the various tribes of tho interior, and-to study the topography of the country. The Senussi already have an* 'army in existence,' a: fact that is keeping European Capitalist statesmen awake o' nights."

The next section of this negro programme deals with conditions in America. "The American negro, by virtue of ( being a part of the population of a great empire, has acquired certain knowledge in the waging of modern: warfare, the operation of industries, etc. This country is the base for easy contact 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 here that most of the leaders and pioneers who will carry the message across the world will go forth."