‘Negroes as An Oppressed National Minority’ by Jos. Prokopec and ‘Draft Program for the Negro Farmers in the Southern States’ linked to online texts below.

The Communist. Vol. 9 No. 3. March, 1930.

Contents: Notes of the Month, The Growing World Offensive Against Capitalism by Wm. Z. Foster, International Women’s Day by Rachel Holtman, The Rising Revolutionary Wave and Trotsky Liquidation in China by R. Doonping, Plenum of Women Workers’ Committee of the R.I.L.U. Comrade Losovsky’s Report, The Political Background of the London Conference by Leon Platt, Economic Crisis and the Third Period by Earl Browder, Negroes as An Oppressed National Minority by Jos. Prokopec, Draft Program for the Negro Farmers in the Southern States, “The Era of Partners” by Joseph Zack, Resolution of the Sixth Session of E.C. of the Profintern by M. Alpi, The Struggle for the World Steel Markets by Harry Gannes, U.S. Agriculture and Tasks of the Communist Party, U.S.A., Book Reviews.

There were a number of journals with this name in the history of the movement. This ‘The Communist’ was the main theoretical journal of the Communist Party from 1927 until 1944. Its origins lie with the folding of The Liberator, Soviet Russia Pictorial, and Labor Herald together into Workers Monthly as the new unified Communist Party’s official cultural and discussion magazine in November, 1924. Workers Monthly became The Communist in March ,1927 and was also published monthly. The Communist contains the most thorough archive of the Communist Party’s positions and thinking during its run. The New Masses became the main cultural vehicle for the CP and the Communist, though it began with with more vibrancy and discussion, became increasingly an organ of Comintern and CP program. Over its run the tagline went from “A Theoretical Magazine for the Discussion of Revolutionary Problems” to “A Magazine of the Theory and Practice of Marxism-Leninism” to “A Marxist Magazine Devoted to Advancement of Democratic Thought and Action.” The aesthetic of the journal also changed dramatically over its years. Editors included Earl Browder, Alex Bittelman, Max Bedacht, and Bertram D. Wolfe.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v09n03-mar-1930-communist.pdf