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think. On the tenth anniversary of the war, the social-democrats are or- ganizing a travesty of a fight for (Editor’s Note—War and imperial- ism are important issues in this Class War Against Imperialist War jalists. If the revolutionary peril were; talist countries with the Soviet Union imminent, it would drive them into a|can, nay even must be violated at a military intervention on a very large| given moment by new interventions. campaign. The capitalist parties are for it, we are against it. To- gether with the Communist Interna- tional we shall continue to expose the bloody nature of imperialism, and to call upon the workers to fight capitalism to the finish. As part of our campaign we herewith publish the fifth section of the Anti-War Manifesto issued by the Communist International. ” om CJ Vv. F we ask ourselves once more what prevents the workers and peasants even now from rising against the mil- itarism which is crushing them, the inevitable answer is—international social democracy, the mensheviks, the Second International and bureaucracy of the Amsterdam T'rade Union Fed- eration. This is the chief lesson of the imperialist war. Such are the de- ductions from the events of the last decade. We, the workers organized in the Communist International, declare this to the whole world. We want to be heard by the workers of all countries. We want our voices to reach every working man and working woman in town and country. We want to sound the revolutionary alarm in the hearts of the oppressed, we want to tell them the bourgeoisie is preparing a new war, and the social democrats are demoralizing you in order to betray you. Working men and women! Take heed, think and take counsel among yourselves. A few weeks ago in Vi- enna, the leaders of the Amsterdam Trade Union Internatioiial discussed with the leaders of the Second Inter- national the question of the war peril. “The organization, which is headed by Jouhaux, Grassmann, MacDonald, Ebert, Noske, Vandervelde and Co., was compelled to concentrate its at- tention on the question of war, only because the war peril again confronts us. And the whole world was given to understand that these gentlemen Promised to make war on war by every means at their disposal, includ- ing the general strike. Will you really allow yourselves to be deceived by this contemptible force in which the same actors perform before you for the second time the same treacherous part? Do you not remember that at the Basle International Congress in 1912, they made even more solemn pledges than now not to shrink before any means to prevent war, and that very soon after this congress they became the most ardent and trusted supporters of the belligerent bour- geoisie. In the post-war period they served capitalism in the capacity of Ministers or loyal members of parlia- ment or patriotic trade-union leaders. They have prevented and now prevent even purely economic strikes. They vote war credits. And after that, they pledge themselves to make war on war! Is it likely that Ramsay Mac- Donald, who with the workers’ money constructs tanks and aeroplanes at the bidding of his bourgeoisie, will call a strike as soon as the bour- geoisie decides to set these aeroplane tanks and cruisers into motion. Is it likely that Vandervelde, who helped his king to carry on the war and who affixed his signature to the Versailles Peace Treaty, will call upon the Bel- gian workers to rise when the Belgian bourgeoisie will deem it necessary to plunge into war for the vindication of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty? Is it likely that Blum and peace, a protest against the peril of war, which will be nothing but a farce. They want to divert your attention, to lull you into security, so as to be able to tie you hand and foot and throw you to the moloch of militarism. Do not believe them, expose them. Confront them at every meeting with the question: will they want to fight against war, why do they vote war credits and for the bourgeois govern- ment, and ‘why do they support the capitalist state? The experiences of the last ten years must not be lost. During that ;period we had occasion. to watch pa- cifists, both socialists and bourgeois, ‘in all parts of the world. There is jnothing to choose: between them. Did ‘we not have the example of American pacifists, who during the first part of the war, shed pious tears @ver the ,bloodthirsty evil doers of Europe, and | subsequently helped Wilson to deal the jfinal blow at Europe, in order to en- able capitatist America to get fat and strong at its expense? Did not we see |the French pacifists, radicals and so- |ctalists at work in the Masonic lodges | preaching the brotherhood of man, land after August 4, 1924, preaching the dismemberment of Germany. |Have we not had enuf of German so- cialists like Kautsky, Hilferding and others of that ilk who during peace time are waiting for war with tears in their eyes, and during war time are hoping for peace. These cowards even clutched at Wilson, just as they are clutching now at the mildly im- perialist notes of Ramsay MacDonald who is practicing his pacifism on the backs’ of the people of Germany. To- gether with the French bourgeois pa- cifist Herriot, MacDonald has re-intro- duced Entente control over the dis- armament of Germany, while continu- ing at the same time to strengthen and increase the armament of Great Britain. Pacifists for peace during peace time; but in war time they give whole hearted support to their govern- ments. On an inernational scale they crawl before the strong and mighty and help them to crush the weak. So- cialist pacifists have been completely demoralized by this decade of wars and revolutionary convulsions. There is nothing left of their former naivete. Today they are sharp business men closely. connected with the ruling fi- nancial and military clique of every country; they are deliberately using pacifist phraseology for the deception of simpletons. Today the main pacifist field of ac- tion is opposition to revolution, and particularly to the Red Army. Pa- cifists are against revolutionary vio- lence, rebellions and civil war. But the bourgeoisie is armed, and the working class is not. By fighting against the arming of the workers, pa- cifists support capitalist militarism, and thereby pave the path for future wars. All the more disgusting ‘are their references to humanity and cul- ture. When pacifists are confronted with the accusation that they sup- port the militarism of their respective bourgeoisie, they invariably refer to the Red Army. They mean to infer that the existence of the Red Army, which was created by the workers of Russia for defence against imperial- ism, is a justification for the arfma- ments of the capitalist states for the purpose of annexations and for crush- ing the revolution. Pacifists remained silent when the armed force of France, Great Birtain, the U. 8, A. and other countries occupied Odessa, Jouhaux, the leaders of patriotic so-| Murmansk, Archangel and Vladivo- cialism.and trade-unionism in France, stok, But they were very indignant scale. 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