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| Memorandum for Mr, Belmont RE; ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL COMMITTEE { "International Press Correspondence” is cited as "the organ of the Communist Internationale” on page 103 of the "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications” issuéd by the HCUA dated 1/2/57. In 1930 the name of the ANLC was changed to the LSNR because ANLC was toonarrow in its approach and for the period of its existence was almost completely isolated from the basic masses of the Negro people. The LSNR ceased to exist in 1936. ; Review of Johnson's file (Bufile 100-55627) does not reflect 1nformation that he was a member of the ANLC. However, in view of the fact he was active in work among the Negroes for the CP, in all probability he was a member. His membership would have been short-lived inasmuch as he claimed he joined the organization in 1930, the same year the organization became defunct. Item Two of Johnson's Testimony: Regarding this item of Johnson's testimony, it is noted he testified he was sent to 4 secret training school by the CP in New York City. _ Johnson's file reflects that in 1932 he was sent by the CP to a CP school in New York for three months; however, his file does not describe this school as a "secret training school,” The Sixth World Congress of the Communist Internationale was held in Moscow, Russia, in 1928. This Congress adopted in October, 1928, a resolution defining the Negro people of the United States as an "oppressed race" and promulgated "full social and political equality for the Negroes” as the central slogan of the CP on this issue. It directed the CP, USA, . to "come out openly and unreservedly for the right of Negroes to national self-determination in the Southern States. In addition, the resolution called for a "strong Negro revolutionary movement in the USA" which would be in a position "to influence and direct the revolutionary movement in all those parts of the world where the Negroes are oppressed by imperialism.” The Communist Internationale issued a supplemental resolution in October, 1930, which stated that: “In the South...the main communist slogan must be: The Right of Self-Determination of the Negroes in the Black Belt." It set forth the "three basic demands to be kept in mind in the Black Belt: (a) Confiscation of the landed property of the white landowners and capitalists for the benefit of the Negro farmers; (b) establishment of the state unity of the Black Belt; and (c) right of self-determination.”