THE HELIOS BIBLIOS HOUR: Nosotras venceremos /We shall overcome /Marxist

The film then tries to connect our civil rights movement to Communist revolutions in Algeria, Cuba, and China and the film claims that the same strategies used to produce Communist regimes in those places were being used in the U.S. –so it’s all part of a sinister conspiracy to create a Negro Soviet Republic. However, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover testified in 1960 that the Communist Party USA discarded its “Negro Soviet Republic” strategy at its 17th National Convention in 1959! QUOTING FROM FBI FILE DOCUMENT ABOUT THIS CONVENTION: "The Negro resolution adopted by the convention discarded the party's historic position advocating 'self-determination' meaning that Negroes should be given the right to form a separate nation in the Southern States…The 1959 convention resolution hence represents a party admission that its position concerning Negroes is bankrupt. Time itself has shown that the party is not interested in the welfare of the Negro, but only in using him as a tool to advance party interests." [J. Edgar Hoover: An Analysis of the 17th National Convention of the Communist Party USA; On February 28, 1966, Patterson stated in his speech at Attleboro MA that the civil rights movement was part of a conspiracy starting in the 1930’s. He told his audience that NAACP, CORE and MLK Jr. were all “under the leadership of the American Communist Party” What started in 1917 Russia, became a global revolution, taking root in countries as far-flung as China and Korea to Sudan, Cuba and Nicaragua.