Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9, 1929 Thesis on the International Situation and the Current Tasks ot the Comintern coup d’etat in Afghanistan with the I into the street about two hundred In order to create a more firm guar- The Plenum of the E.C.C.I. states participation of England, etc.) and thousand workers. The Party has antee for the carrying out of the that the course of events after the by the systematic provocation of j not receded one step before reac- decisions of the C. 1., the Plenum Sixth World Congress has fully and conflicts with the U. S. S. R. through Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern tion, and has not allowed the bour- instructs the Presidium to take steps completely confirmed the analysis attacks on the Soviet diplomatic rep- geoisie provoke it to an towards strengthening the apparatus fascist “compulsory arbitration” in the of to armed of the world economic and political resentatives. The attack of the Chi- ploitation; self-exposure so- uprising which, under the given sit- of the ECCI by drawing in new, Italy and other countries, the bour- openly . situation given by the Sixth Con- nese counter-revolutionist on the cial democracy that under- uation, would have led to isolation growing Party workers from the geoisie, aided by social democracy takes steps together gress as well as the correctness of Soviet consulate in Harbin, an attack STATEMENT BY THE POLITICAL with the bour- and to the revolutionary vanguard sections and by cleansing itself of : and the reformist trade union bu- geoisie against the working the line mapped out by it for the provoked by the imperialist powers; class being hurled hack. The May Days opportunist elements. reaucracy, is carrying out with the SECRETARIAT OF THE E. C. C. I. and carries out a social fascist pol- international Communist movement. the brazen breach of treaty relations in Berlin are a turning point in leadership of ECCI greatest brutality a system of icy; the growth of the influence of Under the the Despite the prophesies of with the U.S.S.R.; the seizure of the the class struggle of Germany and on the basis of its Open Letter, social shameless robbery and enslavement, The Tenth Plenum of Executive among the working and democracy and of the right and Chinese Eastern Railroad by the the Committee of the Communist Communism they accelerate the tempo of the the Party of Germany a system of barbarous oppression of just masses to adopt the methods of a Communist conciliationist in unison | Chinese militarist; the mass arrests International has been concluded. The following questions were revolutionary rise of the German has ideologically and politically de- elements the working class. As a consequence on the more active struggle against the ; and violence against the Soviet Agenda: labor movement. Not only it group of Brand- with it, the stabilization of capital- of capitalist rationalization, we have bourgeoisie. The offensive of capi- was feated the renegade not workers and employees represent, on 1. The international situation and the tasks of the Communist not a defeat of the German prole- and has completely ism has only not become firm, i a gigantic growth of unemployment tal already up against in- ler-Thalheimer the part of international finance International. Reporters: Comrades comes tariat, as defeatists but, on the contrary, it is being 1 (12-13 million of unemployed in the Kuusinen and Manuilsky. all the and the undermined its influence among the ! capital, a direct provocation of war creased power of resistance of the renegades more and more shaken. Ever more main capitalist countries). 2. The economic struggles and the tasks of the Communist Par- working class. The class battles, of Communism assert, workers. The Communist Party of cleatiy being confirmed cor- i against the Soviet Union. ties. Reporters: Comrades Lozovsky. but on the contrary, it demonstrated Czechoslovakia has, is the The ruin of the middle strata, the Thalmann and from being offensive on the part of with the active by this preparation new impe- the successfulness of the battle tac- participation ECCI, quickly <, rectness of the estimation the All for decrease in the number of officials 3. The International Day Against Imperialist War (August Ist). the bourgeoisie, begin to be trans- of the Sixth Congress wars are being tics of of of the present, the rialist carried out ir. the capitalist states, all this Reporter: Comrade Barbe. formed into counter-offensive fights the Communist Party which overcome the base attempts Hais t ird period of post capitalism with the active aid and all-around mercilessly fought against all lag- and Company split the Red Trad-* | war swells the ranks of the city poor. The discussion of the reports was actively participated in by and partly into direct offensive bat- to A 3 period of its growing general participation of the “socialist par- I gard tendencies in its own ranks. Union Movement in Czechoslovakia The situation of the main representatives of all the important Communist Parties. tles of the proletariat. Movements I /risfe, of an accelerated sharpening ties,” whose “left” wing plays the mass of The political significance of the ac- and has emerged stronger ideologi- (he peasantry only such as the Lodz general strike, most hideous role by covering up not has not im- The Plenum decided to relieve Comrades Bukharin, Gitlow, Serra tion of the Berlin proletariat con- cally politically of the strug- /of the fundamental outer and inner proved, but, the contrary, the revealing a high degree of class and out contradictions of imperialism in- these preparations with pacifist j on and Humbert-Droz of their duties as members of the Presidium of the sists in having defeated the attempt gle with liquidationism. Under the pauperization of the middle and poor Executive of the Communist consciousness and a revolutionary evitably leading to imperialist wars ; phrases. Committee International. of the bourgeoisie and social democ- leadership of the ECCI the American peasantry has considerably grown. activity on the part of its partici- to the greatest class conflicts, to a At The Plenum excluded Jilek (Czechoslovakia). Lovcstone (United i racy to deprive the working class Communist Party is successfully 2. the same time the hopes of The situation of these strata of the * pants; battles like those in the Ruhr period of the unfolding of a new bourgeoisie States), and Spector (Canada) from the E. C. C. I. of its May Day; in having forced liquidating the unprincipled faction- the for a capitalist de- village population is becoming still where the offensive of a triple al- up-grade movement in generation The Plenum extended the Presidium of adding the German bourgeoisie and its so- alism and the demoralizing influ- of the Soviet Union, for worse in consequence of the growing the E. C. C. I. by liance in the form of the capitalist Prevolutionarythe principal capitalist countries, to to it Comrades Garlandi (Italy), Gottwald cial democracy to capitulate before ence of the opportunist lead- its gradual subjection to the capi- agrarian crisis and the growth of (Czechoslovakia), Randolf state, the employers and the re- faction great anti-imperialist in (United States), (Soviet Union). the onslaught of the working class ers (Lovestone, Pepper) over the revolutions talist world and for its being trans- reaction in all the countries The and Gussev In addition, the Plenum formist bureaucracy, met with a the colonial countries. formed, in promoted Comrade Lenski (Poland), who had hitherto been as regards the question of prohib- Party cadres. this way, into a colony bankruptcy of the famous "prosper- a candi- stalwart and decisive resistance on capital, proven date of the Presidium, membership iting demonstrations; in finding its Sharpening of international have ity” slogan proclaimed by to of the Presidium, and elected the part of the working also A strengthening of the struggle I. of Fundamental Con- the Amer- Comrade Americo (South America) class; reflection in the struggle the futile. Despite the greatest diffi- ican bourgeoisie is becoming Ledo member of the Presidium large scale successes like the suc- for against the right deviations is also traditions of Capitalism. ever and Comrade (Czechoslovakia) streets in other countries; in having culties (the technical and economic more apparent. To Eu- Reimann candidate of the Presidium. cess of the Communist Party at the necessary in the Communist Parties withstand aroused in countries the pro- 1. During the ten years that have backwardness inherited from the ropean competition, the American Moscow, July 20, 1929. elections to the shop and factory other of the colonial countries where the past, the extremely low' level letarian masses, who in mass dem- passed after the end of the world of bourgeoisie conducts a planned of- The Political Secretariat of the E. C. C. I. committees in Germany show the opportunist elements are the con- peasant hostile capi- onstrations expressed their solidar- ductors of war, the bourgeoisie, with the direct economy, the fensive against the standards of liv- oncoming of a new revolutionary bourgeois and petty- encirclement) ity with the German proletariat. In bourgeois and active aid of the parties of the talist the U. S. S. R., ing the American working tide. The reparations burden leads influence to the prole- of class, so far as this place Second International, has been sys- under the leadership of the Com- thus swelling the ranks spreading in India. The heroic strike .workers’ press (Rote Fahne); it in Germany to a rapid increase of action took tariat, and are hampering its class of the un- under where the fighting tematically deceiving the toilers munist Party of the Soviet Union, employed (over unemploy- of the Bombay proletariat; the jcloses revolutionary mass organi- the class struggle, expressing it- conditions struggle. developed 3,000,000 character of the May Day demon- with the legend that the war of has a victorious offensive ed in the U. S. A.). The struggle of the toiling masses jzations; it prepares the ban on the self, on the one hand, in a merciless Fully and completely approving against the elements of concilia- strations strikes in countries 1914-1918 was the “last’’ war, that capitalist tors’ conception of softening inner against the Simon commission; the Communist Party of Germany, and offensive of the employers; on the and the decisions of the Presidium of city securing other than Germany (Poland, now. after Germany has been van- and village, thus a de- contradictions in the capitalist street demonstrations and fights; organizes the suppression of the other, in the form of mass actions the ECCI concern’- ~r the American coun- France, Bombay) was more pro- cisive preponderance of the socialist — quished and disarmed, a stable peace tries and of the possibility of organ- the growing agrarian movement, working class by fascist methods. of the proletariat. The double bur- question, the decisions concerning ought to be established forms of economy over the capitalist all this nounced than in the past years, it the German question, the Let- among the izing the internal market while an- bespeaks the fact that India Such is the road of German coa- den resting upon the German prole- Open capitalist (the elements. The powerful sweep of testifies to a tendency of the eco- the states League of Na- archy prevails in the foreign mar- is becoming one of the most impor- social democracy towards tariat reparation payments and ter to German Communist as mass collectivization of agriculture litionist nomic movement of the proletarian Party, tions an “instrument of peace”; ket alone, is refuted by the entire tant battle-grounds of colonial revo- social Such is the the increased pressure of the home the decisions of the Presi- on the basis of raising its technical fascism. outcome masses to grow into the highest of ECCI innumerable bourgeois “disarma- development of capitalism during the lutions. The open betrayal by the of the largest party of the Second bourgeoisie on the working class—- dium the concerning the ment” projects; level; the building of collective Indian forms of revolutionary struggles. Czechoslovakian the hypocritically last years and in reality signifies bourgeoisie of the cause of jInternational being in power. hasten the maturing of the revolu- .question, the pacifist Kellogg pact; Young farms, of machine and tractor cen- national independence (the The of the E. C. C. 1., ex- of the ECCI the capitulation before reformist ideol- decision All the policies tionary crisis in Germany. The Plenum Plenum considers as in- plan as a method of ters; finally the impetuous growth of the of the “Labor” pressing its solidarity with the he- compatible belonging to a “peacefully ogy. national congress of the Party, in strike wave is rising everywhere; with Com- solving” the reparation problem of socialist industry—all this creates particularly the last roic proletariat of Berlin, the munist Party defense by some and Side by side with policy Suaradgists concerning dominion years, in France a strike of miners, tex- cou- the other imperialist the new forms—production—forms—- the of rights India), j have showed that MacDon- rageous of its contradictions that economically throttling the work- for and its active aid ald’s tile workers, dock workers, postal defenders of the barricades members of the opinions of grown after of the bond (smytchka) ties government will follow the right have the war). In re- that to- ing goes in the bloody suppression of the employees; in the U. S. A., a strike of Neukoeln and Wedding, states the deviations condemned by gether peasantry class there on the growth j road of German social democracy ality it has been shown that never the and the work- of political striking workers, expose the of textile workers where the strug- its full agreement with the tactical the Comintern as an anti-Party since ing class, the reaction: Faseisization of in power. It will carry out capi- the end of the war of 1914- thus strengthening the state apparatus counter-revolutionary character of gle of the masses reached the point line of the German Communist trend deeply hostile to the interest main positions of proletarian of the bourgeoi- ! talist rationalization with a brutal 1918 has the menace of a new world dicta- growth the Indian bourgeoisie. This means of armed bloody clashes between the Party followed during the Berlin of the proletarian revolutionary torship. sie; of repressions and white hand, suppressing every kind of imperialist war been as acute as at The enthusiasm of the pro- that the independence of India, the workers and the police; tremendous events. movement. engaged building up terror; Fascist coups d’etat with the strike movement. It will strangle present. The wild struggle for letariat in so- aid improvement of the situation of the strike movement in Australia; At the same time the Plenum cialism now of world capital (Jugoslavia); the national revolutionary move- IV. The Comintern and the Current markets, for sources of raw mate- finds an ever more pow- working class, the solving of the strikes South states that conciliationism which mass arrests of workers (France, ment in the colonial countries, in in America (Argen- rials, for export of capital and for erful expression in the spread of so- agrarian problem can be conquered Brazil, Uruguay, Tasks of the Communist Parties. made its appearance as cowardly Poland, etc.); closing of revolution- the first place, in It will tine, Paraguay, spheres of its investment inevitably cialist emulation tending to increase only by the revolutionary struggle India. opportunism covering up open liqui- ary organizations (closing of the conduct an aggressive Colombia); the strike of the long- 8. The oncoming of the new ris- leads to a war among the mightiest the productivity of labor, to increase of the workers and peasant masses imperialist dationism, has recently sunk in all Red Front Fighters Organization in war policy, in the first place against shoremen, the strike and lock out ing tide of the revolutionary prole- imperialist nations for the purpose the industrial output; in the inten- under the leadership prole- questions Germany); shooting of strike of the R., in the Ruhr, the four months’ long tarian movement, and the coming to fundamental of the Com- of widening their economic terri- sified struggle against bureaucrat- down tariat in struggle the U. S. S. while covering this munist movement to the demonstrations (India, U. S. A., Ber- the against Eng- up strike of the textile workers in Ger- power of social-democracy in Ger- positions tory at the ism, in the cleansing of the state ap- lish with pacifist phraseology. No of the expense of one another, lin); of imperialism, the Indian feudal many; a general strike in Lodz and many and England, place before the Right and inside the Comin- to paratus from alien to the assassinations revolutionists negotiations, not even temporary a war for a new re-division of the elements court lords, and nationqj capital. The a strike of agricultural es- tern has taken upon itself the role Soviet by sentence and without court; agreements between workers in Comintern and its sections with world. power, etc. tasks of the Indian revolution can Poland; a general of the right elements. After the long, cruel terms of imprisonment government and America, will do strike in Greece; pecial sharpness the task of deci- War is being actively prepared by The five-year plan of socialist be achieved only in the struggle for agricultural expulsion of the Right liquidation- (Italy, Balkan States, Poland, etc.); away with the inevitable armed a tremendous strike of sively strengthening the struggle the League of Nations which is an construction, adopted with a view of a revolutionary-democratic dictator- gen- ists it became a center of attraction raging white terror against the conflict between the U. S. A. and workers in Czecho-Slovakia; a against social-democracy, particular- instrument of Anglo-French impe- further carrying into life the rapid ship of the proletariat and the pea- for all the Right elements the workers’ and peasants’ movement England, but they will be a stage eral strike of tobacco workers in ly against its “left” wing as the inside rialism. By rejecting the plan of tempo of industrialization of the santry under the banner of the So- Bulgaria; Communist Parties, mouthpiece for (in Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Vene- in preparing this conflict, just as a powerful revolutionary most dangerous enemy of Commu- the U.S.S.R. concerning a real gen- U. S. S. R.; of developing the pro- viets. wave India; a all defeatist moods and opportunist zuela and other countries of Latin- in their time the attempts at strike in new revival nism in the ranks of the labor move- eral disarmament, the League of duction of means of production to were views. In view of this the Ameriea). Simultaneously with the growing agreement between the imperialist of the strike struggle in China. ment and the chief brake upon the Plenum Nations exposed itself as an instru- the highest maximum possible; of There is almost no of the ECCI demands (a) that Under conditions where the im- revolutionary wave in India, their powers on the eve of the world war country in the growth of 'the fighting activity of the ment for the preparation of war. decisively strengthening the social- world where the first months of conciliators should openly and de- perialist grow and spreads again a struggle in the col- of 1914-18. The illusion that the the laboring masses. In connection Under the hypocritical mask of “re- ist section in urban and rural eco- contradictions cisively cut themselves off from the the class struggle sharper, onies and dependent countries assumption of power by govern- 1929 have not gone far ahead com- with this It has become the central nunciation of war” there is in reality nomy at the expense of the capitalist becomes the with Right deviationists; (b) that they fascism is becoming a more and against the foreign oppressors ment of the “Labor” Party means pared the previous years either task of the Comintern in the realm bidden in the Kellog pact an attempt elements; of raising agriculture to a as should conduct, not in words but in more widespread method of bour- (Morocco, Congo, countries of Latin- the assumption of power by the regards the number of strikes of inner Party policy to struggle ff1 American imperialism to secure substantially higher level which is or as regards the number deeds, an active struggle against the geois-domination. A special form America, etc). Under conditions working class, an illusion wide- of strik- against opportunism which is a con- Tor itself the right and the possi- connected with drawing millions of Right deviation; (c) they of fascism in countries with strong where the wave of the revolutionary spread among the English workers, ers. This strike movement has re- ductor of bourgeois influence to the that bility of being the final judge de- | peasants into the work of socialist played should without reservation to social-democratic parties is social- labor movement is rising in the will be dissipated by the imperialist vealed the active role 5n working class, and against social- submit ciding the date of the new war. The construction; of considerably raising by unorganized all the decisions of the fascism which even more frequently mother-countries, and the USSR is and anti-working class policy of them the masses democratic tendencies inside of the Comintern feverish growth of armaments in the the material and cultural standards fighting and of its sections and should carry serves the bourgeoisie as a means strengthened, the revolutionary MacDonald’s government. Only now whose mood often leaves Communist movement. Without countries of imperialism, and the of the proletariat and of the toiling behind them out actively. of paralyzing the activity of the movements in the will grow will a rapid differentiation far the workers organized in cleansing the Communist Parties Non-fullfilment formation of new military and po- masses of the Tillage,—are the colonies political of any one of stipulations masses in struggle against stronger and with a more rapid among the reformist trade unions. both of overt and covert opportunist these will litical alliances (England and greatest achievement not only of their the the masses, and their with- place whosoever the regime of fascist tempo than heretofore, drawing elements, the Communist Parties breaks them out- France, England and Japan, France toiling masses of the U. S. S. R., dictatorship. By thus bring- from the brargeois “La- There take place a number of side the ranks all this system nig collapse cannot successfully move ahead on of the Communist In- r.nd Poland, etc.), once more testify but also of the monstrous of politi- nearer the of the entire bor” Party, begin. The more de- solidarity strikes and strikes of pro- entire international cal and economic the road of solving the new prob- ternational. r to the fact of the approach of a proletariat. The successful oppression, sup- capitalist system. j cisively the Communist Party of test against the reactionary perse- The realiza- ported by lems placed before them by the Plenum of the ECCI considers new imperialist war more grandiose tion of this international social demo- England will eradicate all remnants cutions of workers. Simultaneously great plan, as already cracy, 11. The sharpening class struggle in this that without putting these decisions and destructive begun, strengthens the bourgeoisie attempts to Parties of the Second In- of right and opportunist deviations there is going on (in a number of »iore even than the the socialist liquidate new stage of the proletarian into effect, without destroying the war of 1914-1918. the revolutionary class ternational in Power. ¦in its own ranks and carry out a countries) a growth of revolution- move- foundations of proletarian dictator- ment. Right and the “Left” (Trotzlcyite) The new regulation of ship, its movement of the proletariat Jfor | correct Bolshevik policy, sharpening ary spirit among the oppressed na- the repara- increases defensive power 6. The liquidationists, without a < many years to come. But here, too, incapacity of the bour- , the struggle of workers against and the peasant masses The significance of this new stage decisive tions problem through the Young and, consequently, strengthens the geoisie the tionalities overcoming of conciliatism it im- plan its labors are doomed to failure. to find away out of the the “Labor” government, the sooner expressing themselves some in relation to the Communist Par- is by no means signifies, as the fighting position of the world pro- sharpening in possible to fulfill the tasks of letarian The growing fighting activity of outer and inner contra- will the working masses of Eng- countries in the form of mass ac- ties consists in its having helped, tho pacifists assert, a weakening of the revolutionary movement. tse necessity preparing Comintern and its sections during imperialist the working class, the oncoming dictions; of land realize that only the policy of tions and armed clashes (participa- in the course of the spreading class contradictions; on the The successful movement of the U. of imperialist wars; the new rising tide, the the new tide of new and of se- the English Communist Party, the tion of the peasants in the May battles, to uncover the rotten, op- tasks contrary it leads to a further sharp- S. S. R. along the road of socialism rising revolutionary of a struggle against the war proletarian curing the rear byway of a maxi- policy of “class against class,” as Day portunist elements that have played ening of the conflicts in the camp of is the most important factor under- movement signalize the demonstrations; strikes and danger and of defending mum oppression on the working proclaimed during a strikebreaking role in these the USSR, the imperialists (the Anglo-Ameri- mining capitalist stabilization and inevitable collapse of this regime the last elections, revolutionary actions of the village bat- struggle against class as an “escape” from the sit- only of a social demo- can struggle for the sharpening the general crisis capi- of unheard of exploitation of and is the correct one, that only poor and the agricultural laborers tles. Therewith was corroborated cracy reparations of uation created; the impossibility to and particularly against its bank, violence against the toilers, a re- this policy aids the liberation of in Western Ukraine and Poland; a the correctness of the Sixth Con- the Franco-German antagon- talism. carry out these the “left”wing, of preparing the Com- ism); at gime which international social tasks with broad masses of the workers from peasant movement against taxes in gress of the Comintern when it the same time it increases 3. The attempts of the bourgeoi- means of the bourgeoisie alone munist Parties and the working the danger of a financial democracy cynically proclaimed as parliamentary-pacifist illusions and Greece; agrarian movements in Ru- pointed out that the main danger blockade, sie to establish “industrial peace” without the aid of the social dem- class for the coming revolutionary which means also of an the era of the “democracy in flower” j shows the real road towards the vic- mania; peasant unrest in some lo- in the Communist Parties is at pres- intervention in the chief capitalist countries have ocratic parties; finally, the need of battles, of selecting the true revo- against the U.S.S.R. consequence and of capitalism growing into “So- of the working class. calities of Jugoslavia and Italy; ent the Right opportunist deviation. in also proven futile. Under circum- covering up such a policy Jtory lutionary leaders of the working of Germany being cialism.” with the The Plenum of the E. C. C. I. strikes of agricultural workers in 9. The Plenum of the ECCI increasingly stances where the broadest masses flag of democracy and pacifism, class capable courageously and un- drawn into the front of the population 4. Neither has the bourgeoisie states that the present formation of Czecho-Slovakia, Holland, France, states with satisfaction that the in- anti- of the are becoming im- have brought about the necessity flinchingly to lead the proletariat military policies imperial- succeeded suppressing of governments by the most important etc.). fluence of the Comintern has grown Soviet of poverished, there looms before the in the revo- open cooperation between the bour- into the struggle for overthrowing ism. The “small” wars that are lutionary movement in the | parties of the Second International during the past time, that its sec- bourgeoisie in an ever sharpen form colonies. geoisie and the parties of the Sec- In the face of a far developed pro- capitalism and establishing the dic- being fought in The antagonism |in circumstance of an approaching tions have become stronger, organ- the colonial and the insoluble problem of markets, a between im- ond International. Hence the earn- cess of employers’ organizations tatorship of the proletariat. semi-eolonial countries (in China the problem perialism and the colonial world ap- i war and the growing miseries of izationally and ideologically; that becoming more acute not ing into power of the social de- and reformist trade union apparatus struggle Huansiists and Nanking, Feng-Hue only pears ever sharper in the the working class, creates conditions they have cleansed themselves of op- 10. The against liquida- due to the growth of the pro- most im- mocracy in Germany and of the | becoming one with the bourgeois tionism, Riang) behind which is hidden portant colonial and for the deepest crisis of social de- portunist elements (Brandler, Hais, and against the concilia- the duction apparatus, but also to the semi-colonial “Labor” Party in England. The po- state; under conditions where the tionist growing Anglo-American rivalry, prices countries. After the temporary mocracy within the proletarian Lovestone). The cries of the Right attitude towards it, acquire? high established by monopoly de- litical mission of MacDonald’s and class contradictions in the present particular are an great feat of the , masses. This crisis finds its ex- renegades about the degeneration of importance as, regards the overture to the war be- trusts and cartels, to the barbed revolutionary movement Mueller's governments consists in period have become extraordinarily tween the L T. S. A. and England for wire tariff of the workers and peasants in pression in the quickening of the the Comintern, cries taken up by carrying out by the Communist barriers, to the industrial putting into effect the plans of the sharpened, the economic strikes in world hegemony. After the development China, the Chinese bourgeoisie, process of radicalization of the the philistine conciliators, only prove Parties of the task of winning the Paris of the economically bourgeoisie both internally (maxi- many cases grow into mass politi- conference the reparations whose economic most broad working masses. It inevita- how vei-y necessary it was to cleanse majority of the working class. By problem backward countries, to the general interests are mum pressure on the working class; cal strikes (Lodz, Bombay). All this looms more sharply than before, it closely linked up with the bly leads social democracy to a loss the Communist movement in order weakening the struggle against so- instability of the situation in the finance exertion of a double pressure over forces the working masses to link cial being a point where the chief colonies, capital of the various imperialist of influence over broad working to forestall the corrupting work of democracy, by over-estimating contra- etc. The attempts of the the working class in Germany in up the economic struggle with the forces dictions of the dominating capital- bourgeoisie to (USA, England, Japan), masses and thereby creates favora- the opportunist elements and to its and by diminishing the circumnavigate this countries connection reparations; ra- political struggle, with the struggle , ist powers crossing with the ble guarantee role of the Communist Party, those are each other—- decisive contradiction by means of and who was in alliance with the in England) conditions for the Communist against the entire capitalist sys- a true Bolshevization of a problem sharp- feudal reaction, proved absolutely tionalization and in the Parties to conquer of elements break the struggle of the connected with the carrying out a broad capitalist ra- realm of foreign policy (prepara- | the majority tem. The bourgeoisie employs the Communist Parties. The most ening of the struggle bankrupt as far as the the working important results of this Bolsheviza- Party for the winning of a majority among the im- tionalization, has remained futile. defending in- new wars op- class. against the strikers all the repres- perialist powers dependence tions of and increased I of the working class and they pre- groups and for mar- The carrying out of rationalization of China is concerned, pression The Plenum of the E. C. C. I. sive means of the capitalist state tion are already apparent in a num- of the colonies). ber vent the workers, who are on the kets, for sources of raw material still further deepens this contradic- and it has in practice passed over makes it the duty of all the sec- (arrests, victimization, shooting). of Communist Parties, in the Germany first place way from social-democracy to and for capital export. The inter- tion. By increasing the production into the camp of the imperialist en- In we have the latest j tions of the- Communist Interna- This calls forth and will still in Germany, France and the emies experience more Poland: Their Communist movement, from making national linking un of the monopoly capacities of its industrial apparatus, of this independence. of the strongest party to strengthen their struggle call forth strikes of protest, strikes cleansing themselves of the Second International, tional of the opportunists has the last step in the direction of combinations of finance capital (in- by squeezing out millions of hands The present inner war in China the so- against international social democ- of solidarity, which assume a very increased the fighting capacity Communism. The Plenum of ternational cartels, financing com- from the industrial process, by still among three militarist cliques that cial democratic party, in power. racy as the most important buttress pronounced political character. This of the Communist the Parties and brought them ECCI, in noting this strikebreaking nanies. the Young plan of a suner- further sharpening competition in are the instruments of the various Through their own experience the of capitalism. poses before the Communist Parties nearer to carrying out the task of leading role of the right opportunist ele- bark for reparations) not only fails jthe world market, capitalist ration- imperialist governments shows Cerman working masses are out- The Plenum of the E. C. C. I. the problem of a political mass the economic and political struggle ments, appeals to all the sections to lessen the menace of war; on the ialiVation leads to a sharpening of the clearly that the interests of the growing their illusions concerning proposes that particular attention strike as a decisive problem for the of the proletariat; forces of the Communist International to contrary, it strengthens that men- j social conflicts. Resting with all its ruling cliques of China are funda- social democracy. Social democracy be given to the struggle against next period. The application of the new have ace bv come to the fore, forces took concentrate all their forces on the , creating prerequisites for the I weight on the working class, it low- mentally opposed to the interests of proved to be a party which, after the “left” wing of social democracy, instrument of a mass political strike that political shape and grew in condi- task of winning a majority of the transformation of the approaching I ers its standard of living and, by the national unification of China. assuming power, strangled strikes which halts the process of disinte- will help the Communist Parties to v tions of increasing activity of the working class. The Plenum of the ‘ar into a world war. a war fought lengthening the workday and intro- The unification of China and its with the rope of compulsory arbi- gration of social democracy by bring more unity into the atom- working class and in the struggle ECCI emphasizes that before the for a new redivision of the world. ducing the belt system, it makes liberation from under the yoke of tration, helped capital to carry out spreading illusions to the effect that ized economic activities of the work- time, against opportunism; Bolshevik dis- new rising tide of the revolutionary At the same notwithstand- labor exhausting to the last possi- imperialism are inseparably bound lock outs and to liquidate the con- | this wing is in opposition to the ing class, to carry out a broad mo- ing cipline has grown in proletarian movement, it is the cen- i* the rivalry and the hitter strug- ble degree. All the social conquests up with an agrarian revolution and quests of the working class (8 hour , policy of the leading social demo- bilization of the proletarian masses conditions gle where inner Party democracy tra! task of the Party inside- of the ihwerialist eamp, of the working hardly won by with the of all the rem- workday, social insurance, ocratic bodies, whereas reality it in all ways to enrich their political is be- Communist class annihilation etc.). By in coming more to win the majority of working the fundamental world contradiction decades of struggles, particularly nants of feudalism. supports in all possible ways the experience, bringing them fully developed; the the building an armed cruiser as well face to leading cadres of the class. This task presupposes the between the caoitnlist world and the during the revolutionary of The realization of these as by adopting policy of social fascism. face with the direct struggle for Communist wave funda- its new militarist Parties have become proletarianized. winning by the Communist Parties U.S.S.R., as the two economic and 1918-1920, are either being abolished mental tasks of the bourgeois-demo- program breaks with all the the dictatorship of the proletariat. that 111. Oncoming of a Rising The Plenum notes the consolidation of a leading role in the move- political systems opposed to each or placed under of cratic revolution, however, remnants of New labor threat abolish- can be pre-war traditions of 7. Against the background of of the ment, i.e., leadership in other in prinrinle, is becoming ever ment (8 hour workday, social insur- achieved only on the basis of a socialism, social Tide of Revolutionary Proletarian Communist Parties on the all the ac- new democracy prepares spreading strike battles and the new basis of the political tions of the working eco- ”'. powerful , Movement. and tactical class, in more sharpen l ance. unemployment aid, labor leg- rise of the workers and war. The leading cadres of social revolutionary nomic , tide, the action of the line of the Sixth Congress. strikes, street An attack ‘he imperialists on ; islation, trade union rights, right peasants revolution with the The demonstrations, to work- democracy and of the reformist G. What is new after tho Sixtli Berlin proletariat on May First as- Plenum of the ECCI states that the shop and factory committees, which the U.S.S.R. is the main danger. strike). In some countries the ing class at its head. This rise, for in socio- trade unions, carrying out the World Congress, is the sharply out- sumes the greatest significance. leadership of the Comintern in the is necessary in orde” thus secure This is testified to bv the new at- , political conquests of the proletariat which conditions are undoubtedly orders the to of bourgeoisie, now lined radicalization of the interna- This action showed not only the person of the Political Secretariat the leadership of the tempts at creating and enlarging the are being liquidated with the of ripening, cannot fail to to the threaten working class, Communist aid lead the German tional working class and the oncom- fighting initiative of the German and the Presidium has correctly put Parties in the of anti-Soviet military bloc, by the fe- social democracy under the hypocri- creation organs of decisive battles the of Soviets as the through the mouth of Weis, with an ing of the new rising tide of revo- proletariat, but also the power of into effect the line of the proletariat. verish arminv of the states adjoin- tical mascot "new reforms” (social revolutionary - open decisions democratic dictator- fascist dictatorship. Social lutionary proletarian movement. the influence of the German Com- of the Sixth Congress, has The Communist ing the U.S.S.R. (reorganization of insurance and housing laws ship of the proletariat and democracy reacted Parties will be in the pea- prohibits May First dem- The worsening of the situation of munist Party which, notwithstand- in time the most important poli- able to approach the Rumanian Army; mad rush In France). Under the banner “in- santry. to the carrying out cf onstrations. It shoots down un- the working class, coupled with a ing the ban put on the demonstra- tical events, and has successfully of this central only arming Poland with the aid of the dustrial peace” in England, “eco- At the prfsent pow£r- task in the pro- momenf a armed workers during a May First strengthening of the pressure over tion by Zoergiebel and the reform- conducted the struggle against cess of great class French general staff; reactionary democracy” Germany, fu 1 revolutionary I the battles of tha nomic in the movement is demonstration. It shuts down the it and the growth of ex- was lead capitalist ' ist trade unions, able to Right deviation and conciliationism. Coontinued on Page Si*