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'- r · ' Price $2.25 1 Order from W 0 R K E,R S : LIBRA R'Y. PUB Ll SHE R S \ \I, 1 P. 0. Box 148, StationeD, Ne1~ '(ork, N.Y. VOL. XX, No. 7 JULY, 1941 ~fHE COMMUNIST A MAGAZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM-LENINISM PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.A. EDITOR: EARL BROWDER CONTENTS Support the U.S.S.R. in Its Fight Against Statement of the Com- the Nazi War munist Party, U.S.A. 579 Yankee Imperialism Grabs for the Western Hemisphere WilHam Z. Foster . 581 Browder's Contribution Toward Develop­ ing a Progressive Trade Unionism . Jack Johnstone 599 Professor Logan Is Ready for a Third World War!. 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HE armed assault by German The Soviet Union adopted and pur­ T fascism and its satellites against sued a consistent policy of neutrality the Soviet Union is an unprovoked toward both sides in the imperialist criminal attack upon the greatest war, a policy based upon rendering champion of peace, freedom and na­ aid to those nations that were wag­ tional independence-the land of ing a just struggle for national in­ socialism. This military aggression dependence and liberty. It aids the by the fascist rulers of Germany is Chinese people as it aided the also an attack upon the people of Spanish Republic. It liberated the Germany. It is an attack likewise peoples of the Western Ukraine, upon the peoples of the United White Russia, Bessarabia, and the States and of the entire world. Baltic states. It fought against the With the fullest support of all its extension and prolongation of the people, the Soviet Government is war. Thus it served the best inter- now waging a struggle not only in ests of the working class and peo­ defense of its socialist land but also ples of the entire world. in defense of the most vital interests The reactionaries and imperialists of the peoples in all countries. It is of both sides have opposed and con­ waging a just struggle for the cause spired against the peace and neu­ of the freedom of all nations and trality of the Soviet Union. They peoples. sought to drag the Soviet Union into Since its inception the Soviet the imperialist war. Union has consistently and courage­ Now the rulers of fascist Ger- ously fought for peace among the many, in their desperate struggle nations, for preventing war and with their imperialist rivals in Eng­ checking aggression. When the Mu­ land and the United States, and in nich conspirators secured the upper mortal fear of the oppressed masses hand in the ruling circles of the in Germany and in all the countries capitalist countries they destroyed ravaged and enslaved by Germany, existing possibilities for collective have seen fit to lay their criminal security, thereby making the second hands upon the Soviet Union. imperialist world war inevitable. Hitler is calling upon his friends 579 580 SUPPORT THE U.S.S.R. and supporters in all the capitalist ers, toiling farmers, the Negro countries to join hands in war masses, the middle classes-all those against the Soviet Union, in war who hate fascism and oppression against the working people and op­ and cherish peace and liberty, will pressed masses throughout the see in the cause of the Soviet Union world. The rulers of fascist Ger­ and its peoples the cause of all ad­ many are dangling before the impe­ vanced and progressive mankind. rialists of all countries, especially in They should defeat every attempt at England and the United States, the a new Munich conspiracy. They vision of a new Munich, a new con­ should strive for active friendship spiracy to redivide the world at the and fraternal solidarity with the expense of the peoples of all nations, peoples of the Soviet Union. to crush the Soviet Union, to ex­ terminate democracy in Europe and Down with the criminal war of to strengthen reaction throughout German fascism against the Sooiet the world. This was the message Union! Hess brouiht to England. The For full StUpport and cooperation friends of fascism in the United with the Soviet Union in its strug­ States and England are reaching out gle against Hitlerism! for this reactionary vision. The Against all those reactionaries of Scripps-Howard press, just before eveTy stripe who seek in any manner the attack of Hitler began, cynically to aid Hitler's attack against the declared, "That's one war we could Soviet Union! really favor.... " This is likewise For a people's peace based upon the position of the Social-Demo­ the liberation and independence of cratic lickspittles of big capital, who all nations! have long been demanding war WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Chairman against the Soviet Union. ROBERT MINOR, Acting Secretary The American people--the work- Communist Party, U.S.A. YANKEE IMPERIALISM GRABS FOR THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE BY WILLIAM Z. FOSTER The United States and the to the Soviet borders and is fighting World War for world hegemony. The French, Dutch and Belgian empires have HE present war constitutes a been decapitated and their rich col­ T violent redivision of the world onies exposed to imperialist sharks among the great imperialist pow- on the rampage. The British empire ers. The main motive power behind is fighting for its life, with its back the savage struggle for markets, to the wall. raw materials, colonies and strate- United States imperialism is up to its eyes in this bloody and ruthless gic positions is the ever-deepening struggle for empire. It is already in general crisis of the obsolete and the war economically, financially rotting world capitalist system. As- and diplomatically, and its Wall sertions that either group of the Street government is now watching warring powers is fighting for de- for a favorable opportunity to vio­ mocracy and civilization are an in- late the will to peace of the Amer­ sult to the people's intelligence.