The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1924, Page 5

SPECIAL MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT “The idea becomes power when it pene- trates the masses.” —Karl Marx. ' THE DAILY WORKER. May 10, 1924. f SECOND SECTION This magazine supple- ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily Worker, The Fifth Congress of the C. I. The Further Tactics of the Comin-|tantamount to liquidatorism from the By GREGORY ZINOVIEV, tern. This question will undoubtedly | “left.” Chairman, Communist International. |be discussed in close connection with Important Controversial Problems The opening of the Fifth Congress |@n0ther point “ the ges ee pak ye at ge bsg pote bas 54 < : ily 4 orld Economic Situation. he Fifth |tant of the work of the forthcoming OF ae, Decent, sateEnnnonet . ae |Congress must sum up the application |Congress will be to investigate con- been fixed for the 5th of June, 1924. | or the tactics of the United Fron: dur-|troversial questions and fundamental More than 18 months have passed jing the preceding years. It is quite|problems which at the present mo- since the Fourth Congress, and a num- belaas now that these tactics will again}ment are engaging the vafious sec- ber of questions are waiting for set-|pe subject to considerable criticism. |tions of the Comintern, In this the tlement. | We must close our eyes to the fact |chief parties of the Comintern will be- Program. .The Fifth Congress has that in the practical application ‘of /come closely acquainted with each to finally confirm the program of the these tactics they have been more other, and in this way a single Inter- Communist International. The first than once distorted in the direction national Communist Party will be draft of the program was published of opportunism. Nevertheless, when /forged. There have been many sharp at the time of the Fourth Congress. 'the summary is made; the balance will \disGussions and controversial ques- During the five years of its existence |be in our favor. The tacti¢s of the tions among our principal parties in a number of documents of a funda-j|united front. remain the correct tac-;the interval between ‘the Fourth and thental character have accumulated tics for the whole epoch. It is neces- Fifth Congresses. Sometimes - these in the archives of the Comintern, such |Sary only that measures of precaution }questions have been regarded as a as Lenin’s thesis on dictatorship and be taken to prevent their distortion | “crisis in the Comintern.” As a mat- democracy, the resolutions of the Sec-|and we must learn to give them the ‘ter of fact there has never been any ond Congress and the role of the Com- concrete form demanded by the condi- \crisis. Communist parties are built munist Party in revolution, the reso- tions prevailing in any given country. up with tremendous difficulties. One lution on the national and agrarian 'Opportunist dangers to the right, as|might say that the most powerful sec- questions, etc., which represent the before, are the chief dangers that tion of the Comintern—the Russian chief component parts of the program. threaten the Comintern, but it will be {Communist Party—in the course of its We have, as it were, the bricks; the possible to conduct these dangers only |25 years of existence, has been in a task ahead is to build a symmetrical if we resolutely repel “Left Wing In-' state of one long continual crisis. As structure out of these bricks. fantilism.” The Comintern is living a matter of fact this “crisis” indicates To draw up a document like the pro- ‘and acting in the trough of two waves |the gradual hammering out of a real gram of the Comintern, especially of world proletarian revolution. One |Steel-like Communist Party. Who now when our chief architect, Lenin, wave has passed; the other wave has |imagines that the building up of the is no more, is a difficult task, but fur- not yet arisen. Countries like Ger- | Communist Party can proceed as eas- ther postponement is impossible. The many are living thru a period between :ily as taking a drive along the broad Fifth Congress niust carry it out. The two revolutions. In such a period, |asphalted streets of a European city? Congress will have to indorse the pro- |Communists are inevitably called up-|Any one who does so shows that he grams ofthe largest of the sections'on ‘to fight simultaneously against completely fails to understand what of the Comintern, who should hasten liquidatorism from the right and “left” ,2 Communist Party is, In the main, to finish their preparatory work. | Phrasemongering, which frequently is'during this period the principal sec- SOVIET DELEGATES IN LONDON AT THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN PARLEY--BIGGEST OF YEAR Delegates to the Anglo-Russian con- ference in front of the foreign office in London. Left to right (in front): Preobrozhensky, Tomsky, Rakov- sky, Khidgr-Alieff, Koututoff and Radchinko, and, below, Mile. Os- tronmova (left) and Mme. Malstoff. Brod , - aa Two Women In Delegation The biggest treaty conference of| bring about peaceful relations in the the year was convened when repre- ew Keel PORE yy Sov de e delegates of Russia were Chris- chinko. mega * welt esae ngs ei tian Rakovsky, charge d'affaires in| Women were in the Russian party, English government met in London|rondon and chief negotiator; Preo-;and two of them loaned valuable aid to negotiate a trade treaty, and in the|brozhensky, assistant commissar ofjto the parley. They were Mlle. Os- words of Premier. MacDonald of|finanee; Tomsky, chairman of the ,tronmova and Mme, Malstroff, secre- Britain, “to liquidate the past and|Soviet Trade Union; Khidgr-Alieff, taries to the delegation. 1 the Turkestan delegate, and Koutu- toff, of Textile Workers’ Union, and tions of the Comintern have become Strengthened and now _ represent a more homogeneous vanguard of the proletariat than was the case at the time of the Fourth Congress. The Ex- ecutive Committee of the Comintern is now putting forward seven sections to be dealt with: Russia, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, England, United States and Japan, Russia. The Congress will here re- port on the present economic position of the Soviet Union and will again summarize the experiences of NEP. |The Congress wil also deal with the jresults of the discussion within the |Russian Communist Party and give its decisive opinion on it. Germany. The Congress will give its estimation on the controversies within the German Communist Party connected with the October action of the German proletariat. The Con- gress will undoubtedly estimate the opportunist deviations of the German Communist Party as was given by the Executive Committee of the Comin- tern, and will also as regOlutely op- pose the ultra “left” wing in the par- ty which, as a matter of fact, is of a non-Bolshevist tefidency, and repel the iactical excesses from which the majority of the German Communist Party are by nd means free. Italy. The Congress will undoubt- edly resolve in favor of the immediate fusion of the Communists with ‘he Third: Internationalists (Fusionists); and kelp the Italian Communist Party to commence a more determined fight against Fascism and _ Social-Democ- racy. Bulgaria. The Congress will have to give its estimation of the great events with which the Bulgarian Communist Party has had to deal. The errors committed by the major- ity of the Bulgarian Communist Party in June, 1923, have now been admitted by that majority. The Congress will jhave to assist the Bulgarian Com- munist Party in making good its losses, and carry out the historical mission imposed upon it by the prog- ress of revolutionary events as speed- ily as possible. : ; Great Britain. For the first time in |the history of the British labor move- ment the conditions have been created for the establishment of a mass Com- jmunist Party in Great Britain. In | this sense, what is taking place in the British labor movement at the pres- ent time, is ef even greater impor- tance than the events in Germany. The Congress will have to do” all it can to help to realize the existing possibilities and to convert the pres- ent Communist Party of Great Britain into a real mass party. United States. The American Workers Party is becoming a mass party. The question is confronting it now of its attitude towards the rising petty-bourgeois Third Party and its at- titude towards the farmers. The Con- gress will give full attention to the new problems of the American labor movement, and help the American party to handle the great historical tasks which confront it. Japan. The Japanese labor move- ment is only just coming to the front. The cruel persecution to which the Japanese Communists have been sub- jected hitherto has prevented them from forming a mass Communist Par- ty in. Japan. With the participation of the Japanese Communists, a mass workers’ and peasants’ party is being formed. The Congress will have to deal in detail with the question of the Japanese labor movement. The question of the Trade Unions once ‘again occupies an important place in the work of the Fifth Con- gress, The more the influence of the Communists in the trade union move- ment grows, the more furious do the (Continued on Page 7.)