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Communist international Anniversary Edition The DAILY WORKER Join the Workers (Commun- I Raises the Standard for ist) Party During the a Workers* and Farm- Seventh Year! THE ■stored as Second-class matter September 21, I*2l, at the (Mice at Chicago, Illinois under the Aot of March 3, 1871. Forward to ers* Government DAILY Mat WORKER. Communism! In Chicago, hy mall, SB.OO per year. 290 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOHKER Vol. 11. No. 45. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside Chicago, by mall, $6.00 per year. THURSDAY, MARCH 1925 PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, lIL Price 3 Cents FORIpD TO WORLD VICTORY! Respond to Call of Communist 1 1— ■■ i ' International '<■» ■ GALL FOR FIRST WORLD ‘ MANKIND IS THROWING CONGRESS OF COMMUNIST Russian Workers and Peasants Take One-Sixth of the Earth OFF g I __ SLAVERY IN ITS INTERNATIONAL ISSUED .. LAST SURVIVING FORM .-(From the Call for the First By VLADIMIR ILYTCH World Congress of the Communist LENIN Intrenatlonal.) Third (Communist) Intern* THEtlonal has garnered • • • the fruN of the labors of the (toolaL "T"HE undersigned parties or or- Seoond let) International, casting off the r* * ganizations are of the opinion fuse of Ita opportunist, tooial-oha* that the first congress of the new vlnlstlc, bourgeois and lower middle* Revolutionary International must class tendencies, and haa set eus to be convened without achieve the dictatorship of Mm fall. In the proletariat. period of war and revolution it has not only become evident The International union of parttag that the directing the old socialist and social-democratic most movement In the world, nomoly, parties, and with them the Second the movement of the proletariat to (socialist) International, are bank- throw off yoke rupt and that the Intermediate ele- the pf capitalism, has the ments of the old social-democracy Inestimable advantage of resting upon basis of unprecedent- (the so-called “center”) are totally a ed solidity; on a number unfit for revolutionary actions, but of Soviet Republics position the idea of a truly revolutionary who are In a to bring about on an International assumed concrete international scale, the dictatorship prol- form. The rapid progress of world of the victory oapltollsm. revolution, with its problems, etariat and over new The Importance the danger threatening this revolu- of tho Third (Communist) tion from the capitalist states, International In the history Is, which organize themselves against world’s that It was the put the revolution under the hypocritic- first to Into life the greatest of all Marx's principles, the principle al device “people’s union,” the at- summarising the process tempts of the parties of the social of the de- velopment traitors to come to an understand- of socialism and the la- bor movement, and expressed In the ing, and having “amnestied” each words, dictatorship prol- other, to help their governments the of the and bourgeoisies to deceive once etariat more the working class, and finally, These words have now been trans- lated Into all tho languages of mo- the accumulated revolutionary ex* dern Europe, nay, Into every Isng perience and internationalization of uage under the A new in the trend of revolution induce us to sun. era history begun. take upon ourselves the initiative the world’s has Man- kind Is throwing off slavery In ita for placing upon the agenda the Surviving form: the slavery of discussion of the convocation of an last wage under capitalism. international congrr*' revolution- earners Mankind to throwing off Its yoke, ary proletarian parties. , and It to, for the first time in Its i v existence, achieving real freedom. was in spirit and under the guidance of Vladimir llytch Lenin, the world’s land surface away from capitalist rule, and inaugurating the IT founder of the Communist International, that the Russian workers Proletarian Dictatorship that is bridging the transition period leading to and peasants seized power on November 7, 1917, taking one-sixth of the Communism. Russia is building for the Communist society* FIRST SHOTS OF WORLD Soviet Rule—A Pillar of Power WAR ALSO HERALDS OF “A World to Gain” THIRDJNTERNATIONAL By GREGORY ZINOVIEV President, Communist International Is known as early as 1914, when ITthe first shots were fired in the fields of the imperialist war, the central committee of our (Russian Bolshevik) Party, inspired by Le- nin, advanced the watchword of creating a Third International. The five years from 1914-1919 may prop- erly be called the embryonic period of the Communist International. These five years saw the first groups of Communist adherents gathering together. During the Zimmerwald conference, a Zlmmer- wald left was formed, which was .the first organized nucleus of the future Communist International. Finally, there broke out the great proletar- ian revolution In our country. When In May, 1918, the Bolshevik Party in Russia, having already possession of the state power, decided to change its name to the Russian Communist Party, and a>few months later when the German Bpartaciats also changed their name to the Communist Party of Germany, It became evident to every revolu- tionary that the Third (Communist) International had been born. Communist Parties have been born in the majority of countries. This is the greatest event In recent political history. The preamble of the Comintern's hlstoryl is nearing its end. We are about to witness the real history of the Communist proletarian struggle for the over- throw of capitalism jid the set- ting up of an Internejnoal Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The great work is waiting for Its doers, for all of us. To work then in the spirit of Lenin’s precede. THE light of the New Day—COMMUNlSM—shines resplendant over all the Union of Soviet * Republics. The growing power of the Communist International is loosening the capital- ist chains on the limbs of the THE Bolshevik triumph ih Sovhst oppressed masses everywhere. Under the banners of the Com- Russia established the Soviet power that daily grows in munist International the workers will win 1 strength. The guiding in of tho world their final emancipation. That is the \ hand Soviet Russia today it the Russian Communist Party, the challenge of World Communism to World Capitalism. That is the Russian section of the Communist challenge of the Communist International. International that it *lll make good with the World Proletarian .Victory!.