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 and hope for the future. That's why the Communists are growing strong and invincible around the world.

COMMUNISTS ARE HERE, TOO

But what of the United States—our own country, which is the headquarters of the most powerful capitalist class in the world today—a bold, ruthless, reactionary, predatory, imperialist class of profiteers and exploiters? What of our American monopoly capitalist class—the sixty families who own and control the economic life of our country—who are hated and feared by the people of Europe and Asia and in every neighboring country of the Western Hemisphere? We, the American Communist Party, fight their rule here at home and abroad. The Communists are anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly, and for curbing the trusts here, as elsewhere.

The whole sordid and contemptible story of American monopoly capital's participation in the launching of Nazism and Fascism, of its secret relations with Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, of its ties with European cartels and of its present attempts to salvage the wreckage of European capitalism—is yet to be fully told. The disgraceful sale of American guns and airplanes to Franco and the refusal of Great Britain and the U.S.A. to sever diplomatic and economic relations with fascist Spain causes the Spanish people to cry out in despair: "Are the British and the Americans going to take Hitler's and Mussolini's place as allies of Franco to crush the Spanish people?" The murder by Franco of Spanish anti-fascists who were in the French Resistance aroused all France to demand: "Cut all relations with Franco!" While fascism exists in Spain and we fail to come to the aid of Republican Spain, we are cultivating a seed-bed of fascism.

War mongering raises its ugly head in our own country. "We'll have to fight the Soviet Union!" is heard. Not fascist Franco, but our brave ally, the Soviet Union, is the object of attack here.

In our foreign policy—at the United Nations Conference, the American delegation did not merely passively support Britain's bullying Bevin who insulted the Soviet Union when she defended the rights of the "little peoples" of the world 7