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His goal was to connect the political philosophy of the Communist Party with the issues of race. In 1926, he joined other African American Communists and travelled to the Soviet Union to study the effect of Communism on racial issues found in the United States. His work there resulted in his selection to be the head of the Communist Party's Negro Department. The party platform changed by the late 1930s and began to stray away from advocating for African American self-determination. As the party's platform changed over time, Haywood lost his stance within the party.