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7 —_— 7 ne ee 0 oe, _ BS a dt « It, must be borne in mind that the gains referred to were fought’ #00. | for conscioubly by the Negro people and the advanced win-the-war forces in* 4 the labor movement, The very fact that each such gain was an incentive to ~.*>" press for new and greater ones should have shown us the temper of the Negro, ~*~ people, and should, likewise, have made us draw far different conclusions... - than those we did, It was this conscious indignation and organized fight” that forced changes from on top; théy were not granted willingly, but were | the "Logic' of such protests, That we spoke of the realization of some of ~. these war-time gains as a ‘military necessity' only, was in many cases - ©. closer to a true estimte than we realized, insofar as the commitment of“. -- bourgeois class forces was concerned. But that concept led to a weakening - of the struggle for Negro rights; for we failed to criticize sharply the - liberal-bourgeois policies of the Roosevelt Administration (as in regards .— . to Jim Crow practices in the armed forces) and tended to. ‘put a wet blanket! ‘ . On those win-the-war forces whogggressively sought to press the demands for .. ' Negro rights. oo " _ The trends for strugtle among the Negro people were not fully) > evaluated by the C.P.A., or, when they were, the full conclusions were not drawn. In fact, many times as a result of an all too formal national unity policy in the day-to-day struggle for the special needs of the Negro people,. . We ignored and glossed over the deep concern of the Negro people for their “° _ postwar statug atti the shape of the postwar world, This concern was ime af stanced in the Double V slogan (Victory abroad and Victory at home} raised . in 1941 in the Negro press. While not applicable at all stages of that . . period, it was indicative of the instinctive anti=fascist, anti~imperialist . .. sentiments of the Negro people. In the very pamphlet under discussion, - ~~ in reprints from the Negro Digest debate, 'Have the Commmnists Given Up the. - Struggle for Negro Rights?! leading comrades, Ford, Davis and Patterson, :~ reflected, although to an insufficient degree, the deep postwar concern of . the Negro people, The historic struggle of the Communists for Negro rights and the profound trust of the Negro people in our uncompromising fight are likewise evident inthe question posed in that debate, despite its heavy load of Red-baiting opponents, The record negative vote of the Negro Digest _ readers shows this to be a fact beyond any doubt, oa of ere a _™ . .. To heighten the fight for Negro rights becomes more important" ee BR, tae bree GER Gs - _ rs rn Cay int ; 4 : wee oe Fee cee eee oe ee ee tte ae mae err ig ete gm cet eg ag a ™