Manifesto of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U
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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, .TUNE 5, 1929 Page Three Manifesto of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. existing unions, tion of this from the general crisis of world capitalism; 2) methods of intrigues clearly bearing the imprint of petty bourgeois the new unions and to increase the work in the in TO ALL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTY UNITS! crisis and the RILU, in Underestimation of the swing to the Left of the masses; 3) Underes- politiciandom.” the application of the strike policy strategy of campaign against effects of capitalist ra- TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE C. P. OF THE U. S. A.! timation of the struggle against social reformism; 4) Underestima- opening up a broad the for unemployment social insurance, tion of the struggle against the Right danger—in fact, tended tc The Address and the Immediate Tasks. tionalization and insurance and TO ALL REVOLUTIONARY OF THE U. S.! struggling shorter workday, the creating of new shop WORKERS permeate th i Party in every phase of its work. in for the The Address of the Communist International to the membership shop papers, in recruiting new cadres of workers, es- The address of the Executive of nuclei and Committee the Communist In- This theory inevitably led to impeding the responsiveness of the of the American Party was arrived at after a thorough-going discus- pecially the industrial youth, the widening of the agitation and organ- by ternational followed the unanimous endorsement of the Political Party to the growing mood of the masses for struggle, to blurring sion by the n.ost authoritative leaders of the Communist International izational work in the big plants in the main branches of industry and Bureau and the enthusiastic response of the broad of strata the Party the revolutionary perspective of the Party, seeing in the struggles together with a large and representative delegation from the Party among the Negroes. membership opens up a new period in the life of the Party and marks of the masses isolated events rather than a general trend of the American question was due convention. The treatment accorded the In the direction of giving immediate attention towards the de- an important stage in the Bolshevization of the Communist Party masses to the Left. Such a theoiy would have the effect of causing not only of immediate conditions existing within to the seriousness the velopment of broad demonstrations on International Red Day, of the United States of America. The address of the Communist the Party to lag behind the masses and thus deprive the Party of its Party, but by the need for the application of the line of the mass the also August Ist, Party intensify manifold its activity in the International puts an end to all factionalism that has been poisoning leading role of the mass struggles and doom them to isolation and Sixth Congress States of the must World in the United America. Anniversary of the Party for years, sapping its influence amongst the militant work- defeat instead of broadening, deepening, and giving revolutionary struggle against the war danger. The Tenth the ers and undermining the revolutionary authority of its leadership. content to these struggles. The Address of the Communist International is a powerful wea- Party, September Ist, must be utilized for a campaign to be begun pon for the Bolshevization of our Party. It is a decisive measure to immediately for the building of the Party, for the raising of the membership responded The readiness with which the Party has The events in the United States since the Sixth World Congr'ess correct the deviations of the Party away from the line of the Sixth ideological level of the Party, for sharpening the struggle against already very to the address, shows that the Comintern understood have more and more proven the correctness of the decisions of the Congress enumerated in the Open Letter. Reformism and for increasing the influence of the Party among the clearly conditions and of the Party and has provided a firm and growth of the new problems Sixth World Congress. The establishment masses. Intensive efforts must be made to make the coming confer- upon Party can overcome difficulties unions, growing of The heart of the Address is contained in the sweeping condemna- basis which the its and trans- revolutionary the response to the idea the creation ence of the TUEL a great service in the direction of building a new possible propaganda organiza- co-ordinating tion of the factional struggle that was threatening to destroy the form itself in the shortest time from a of a new trade union center the new unions with the trade union center. tion into a mass Communist Party; and further demonstrates that Left wing in the existing unions, the entrance of new masses into [ Communist Party as a mass revolutionary organization of the Amer- part | ican W'orking class. The factional struggle which has been going on the Communist Party of the U. S. A. is an integral of the Com- struggle with unparalleled militancy and vigor (New Bedford, Eliza- The Fight Against AH Opposition to the C. I. munist International. bethton. Gastonia, shoe, food workers), resistance to wage cuts among in the present unhampered form for the past six years, has not only miners, number sporadic strikes, the street been serious because factionalism has placed the interests of the fac- Do the enemies of the working class and of our Party, the the the growth in the of The Party will fight mercilessly against all opposition to the May Day, of the election vote in a tions above those of Party, class and the international working class renegades and social democratic lackeys, jeer at the severe criticisms demonstrations on the increase Address, no matter from what quarter it comes, no matter what form local elections, on the one hand; and the other hand movement led by the Comintern, but because its unprincipled char- by the Communist International of our errors? We answer that the number of on it takes, whether openly rejecting the decisions or covertly sabotaging cunning maneuvers of to deceive the masses acter has led to the real danger of “the political disintegration of the Communist Party, the Party of Lenin this country, is a section of the the reformists them under a cloak of formal loyalty. in (Muste movement), the ever closer collaboration of the reformists leading cadres of the Party, endangering the entire work of the » the World Party, the Communist International, the leader of the emphatically with the employers and the state (A. F. of L. Executive Council and Party organization.” The Central Committee condemns the course fol- struggles of the revolutionary proletariat of the entire world: that lowed by some of the delegates in Moscow, led by Comrades Love- West Point, Green and the launching of the Pensacola; the A. F. of polluted Party organization we are proud of the fact that in the solution of our difficultproblems Factionalism has the entire and its Wolfe, they L. treachery in the textile strikes in the South) confirm the correct- stone, Gitlow and when openly declared to the Presidium we have the assistance of the best representatives of the revolu- poison has seeped into the lowest ranks of the Party. It has stifled of the Comintern that “unable to accept this letter, to ness of the line of "the Sixth World Congress for the United States they were tionary proletariat of every country in our common struggle against healthy Communist thought and has hindered the revolutionary edu- assume responsibility before the Party membership for the execution as well as Europe. world imperialism. Unlike the hypocritical reformists and opportun- cation of the masses of the Party membership. It has been the worst • of this Letter (the Address), to inevitble irreparable Factionalism diverted the energies of indorse the ists, the Party of Lenin does not stifle differences nor conceal its breeder of opportunism. has damage that the line of this Letter (the Address) is bound to bring Weakening the Struggle Against the proletarian against errors from the toiling masses, but takes up the criticism of the Com- Obscuring and the Party from the conflict of class class to a to our Party”—or when they stated that the Address would “pro- devastating group against group. intern in the spirit of Lenin’s teachings: “That the attitude of a Right Danger. internecine warfare of mote demoralization, disintegration, and chaos in the Party.” political party towards its own mistakes is one of the surest tests of (Majority Declaration of May 14.) its seriousness and of its ability to fulfillits duties towards its class The struggle against the Right danger as the main danger For Bolshevization Against the Right Danger. and towards the laboring masses.” Through frank and merciless criti- threatening our Party was from the very outset weakened by con- The membership of our Party will agree with the Executive Com- cism the fighting capacities of the revolutionary Party are strength- fusing the struggle against the Right danger with the struggle The decisions of the Comintern for the American Party are the mittee of the Communist International “that only opportunists want fight against ened and the Party is enabled to fulfill its revolutionary duties to against Trotskyism on the part of the Majority, while the devia- result of the general process of Bolshevization of the various sections to the Communist International.” Those that undertake the proletariat. tions from the line of the Sixth Conress were also strengthened by which is taking place through the resolute actions of the Executive to fight the decisions of the Comintern (as Comrade Gitlow defiantly the fact that the Minority did not carry on a proper struggle against Committee of the Communist International.