american negro problems was published in 1928 by joseph ogany using the alias john pepper and carrying the official communist line for american. >> the workers communist party of america in its fight against imperialism must recognize clearly the tremendous revolutionary possibilities of a liberation movement of the negro people. the black belt of the south, with its starving and poverty i negropert -- povertized agricultural working masses, with its jim crow laws, its semi-people status and political system still bearing the earmarks of the time of slavery constitutes virtually a colony within the body of the united states of america. the workers communist party of america puts forward correctly as its central slogan, abolition of the entire system of racist discrimination. full racial, social and political equality for the negro people. it is necessary to supplement the political inequality of the negroes with their struggle for the right of national self-determination. self-determination means the right to establish their own state, direct their own government -- to erect their own