ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the extent to which the titanic Caribbean intellectual understood the geopolitical contexts out of which France used Senegalese tirailleurs and peasants as means of saving its declining empire between the post-World War I period and the beginning of World War II. It shows that George Padmore's accurate depictions of France's colonialist and fascist views and policies toward blacks of Senegal during the interwar years. Both Padmore and LeonTrotsky developed an attraction to Russia's compassionate attitudes toward the poor and oppressed classes and races of the world. France's fascist domination of tirailleurs is also perceptible in the section of The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers in which Padmore further condemns the nation's status of a classical Western imperial force. As Padmore's writings suggest, French colonialism was a fascist system in which Senegalese people suffered from forced labor, physical abuses, and other oppressions. As Padmore's narrative suggests, these ideologies contradicted France's claims of extending cosmopolitanism to Africans.
