We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.

This poem was read before the 8th Annual CPUSA Convention, held April 1934 in Cleveland, and appeared in the Daily Worker , though Langston Hughes probably wrote it for a rally in defense of the Scotsboro Boys