He sees the main strategic orientation as uniting the fight of that multi-national proletariat with the revolutionary struggle of oppressed nationalities, African-Americans and Chicanos in particular.

In 1927, his efforts paid off and the Congress was invited to attend the congress of oppressed nationalities in Brussels in Belgium.

Baraheni's concentration was on three major themes: 1)the unhampered transmission of thought; 2)equal rights for oppressed nationalities in Iran and; 3)equal rights for women with men.

"Whenever I read in the papers about oppressed nationalities, I think of him."

Marxist historiography has made contributions to the history of the working class, oppressed nationalities, and the methodology of history from below.

The organization consisted of groups representing different oppressed nationalities.

Ford considered the question of whether American blacks constituted an "oppressed nationality" to be a largely academic matter, in view of the exceedingly limited contact which the Communist Party had with the black community.

Finland was not an obvious candidate for the status of an oppressed nationality.

Trotsky later noted 'these russified non-Russians who opposed their abstract internationalism to the real needs of the oppressed nationalities.

He was an uncompromising opponent of slavery, an enthusiastic supporter of oppressed nationalities, an eager advocate of political reforms in the interest of the people, and a cordial supporter of liberal measures generally.