Written by Black CP leaders and intellectuals in 1938 to challenge the increasing popularity of Imperial Japan as a non-white counter to European and US imperialism among Black Americans and others in the late 1930s. The example of Japanese imperialism barbarous assault on China was central to this arguments. Largely written by Cyril Briggs after discussions through the Harlem Section of the Communist Party and Negro Commission of the National Committee. Other contributors include Theodore Bassett, AW Berry, James W Ford, and Harry Haywood.

Is Japan the Champion of the Colored Races? The Negro’s Stake In Democracy. Workers Library Publishers, New York. August, 1938.

Contents: Introduction, Japan’s Real Aims in Asia, Behind the Scenes in Japan, Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis and the Race Myth, Japan and the Soviet Union -Two Policies Toward China, The Real Liberators of China, The Enemy Is Fascism, Democracy and the Colonial Peoples, The Negro’s Stake in Democracy. 48 pages

Workers Library Publishers replaced Daily Workers Publishers as the main pamphlet printing house of the Communist Party in 1927. International Publishers was originally meant to translate works into English, but became the CP’s main book publisher.

PDF of full pamphlet: http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A5358/datastream/OBJ/download/Is_Japan_the_champion_of_the_colored_races__The_Negro_s_stake_in_democracy.pdf