The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1925, Page 8

Sessions of (Continued from last issue.) Moscow, April 4.—(By Mail.) p % today’s session of the Enlarged Executive: Committee of the Com- munist. International.Comrade Gussev read the joint decision of the Central Commission of Control and the Inter- national Control Commission in the matters of Brandler, Thalheimer, Ra- dek, Edda Baum, Felix Wolf, Walcher and Moeller. After an enumeration of the facts, the decision reads as fol- lows: “On the basis of the facts enume- rated above, the Central Commission of Control considers the existence of organized factions in the German Com- munist Party as established. There exists a faction consisting of a few groups within the party as well as of a group of members of the Central Committee of Russia (Brandler, Thal- heimer, Radek, and others); these groups conduct factional work on the basis. of a political platform as ex- pressed im a series of articles and documents (Brandler, Thalheimer and Radek—the anonymous authors of dif- ferent circulars). “In view of the above facts, in view of the difficulties under which the German Communist Party has to work at present, and in view of the ex- tremely hostile attitude manifested by the party mémbership against Brand- ler and Thalheimer, the Central Com- mission of Control is of the opinion that the German Communist Party was justified in its demand that Brand- ler and Thalheimer be expelled from the Communist Party of Russia. The German Communist Party was also justified in its demand that Com- rades Radek, Felix Wolf, Heinz Moel- ler and Walcher be checked by the party in their factional activities with- in the German Communist Party. “DUT, whereas the Central Commis- sion of Control desired to liqui- date the factional groups in the Com- munist Party of Germany in as pain- less a manner as possible, and in “ofdér’"té “Rive Comrades Brandler, hatheimer and.Radek a chance to prove by deeds that they were really willing to abide by the declarations they made at the session of the en- tral Commission of Control to the ef- fect that they would carry on no fac- tional work, the Central Commission of Control considers it possible to confine itself to the following deci- sions: “1. To censure severely and to warn Comrades Brandler, Thalheimer, Radek, Felix Wolf, Heinz Moeller and Edda Baum, for their systematic fac- tional activities and flagrant breach of party discipline. “2. To forbid Comrades Brandler, Thalheimer, Radek, Felix Wolf, Heinz Moeller and Edda Baum to interfere in any way with the work of the Ger- man Communist Party. “3. The Central Commission of Control warns these comrades that vany further factional activities -on their part, or interference with the work of the Communist Party of Ger- many, will cause their immediate ex- puision from the Communist Party of “4, The Central Commission of Con- trol considers the participation of Brandler, Thalheimer and Radek in the work of the Comintern as inadmis- sible. “5. The Central Commission of Control considers it necessary for the central committee of the Communist Party of Germany to start an exten- sive campaign within the party, for the purpbse of elucidating the political significance of these decisions to all party members.” This decision was greeted with a storm of applause, and was adopted unanimously. ‘& STATEMENT by Brandler, Thal- Enlarged Executive of the C. L acute dissolution, which would rouse the social democratic masses against their leaders, and enable us, thru a temporary coalition with the left. so- cial democratic elements, to conquer intermediate positions in the struggle for the dictatorship. The. rapid stab- ilization .of capitalism. in.. western Europe strengthens the social democ- racy, and makes it necessary that the entire front of the Comintern be sharply turned against the social de- mocracy, and turns the slogan for a workers’ government into @ pure agi- tational slogan. + hear what conditions the new revolutionary wave will Tise, and what tactics it will require of the Comintern, cannot at present be fore- seen. The undersigned (of this state- ment) felt, in the year just past, that the mass character of the Communist parties was endangered by the oppo- sition of the German party to partial, transitional demands, and by the or- ganizational policy of the German. party, which eliminated many valu- able proletarian elements from the party because they wanted to save the party from the fate of a revolutionary sect, The theses of Comrade Zinoviey show that the executive of the Com- intern see threatening dangers. Re gardless of the fact that the theses contain unjustified allegations on the policy of the undersigned, the latter declare that the theses correspond to their own views and are therefore ac- cepted by them. They express their satisfaction with the fact that the ex- ecutive of the Comintern calls atten- tion of the parties that Bolsheviza- tion requires a careful adaptation to the concrete conditions existing in each country, and that the Bolsheviza- tion of the parties can only be attained thru a free discussion within the lim- its of the young Communist parties, and thru the policy of inner-party democracy which alone permits of the selection of the leaders from the most reliable and experienced elements. The undersigned. point ou! to ) this end it is necessary to reinstate more than fifty expelled workers. This would put an end to all factional activities. within the Communist Party of Germany, and would effect the real unity of the party. At no time was the unity of the Comintern as urgent as it is at Present. The parties must be devel- oped and a synthesis of the Jeader- ship effected—a synthesis of those leaders who matured in the conflicts with and within the social-democracy, with the younger elements who came to Communism during the struggles of 1919, and who represent the senti- ments of the young generation which grew up after the war. —— MANUILSKY then read the answer of the Russian delega- tion to the above statement. The an- swer is to the effect that Radek, Brandler and Thalheimer were most responsible for the social democratic tendencies in the tactics of the Com- munist Party of Germany, which have caused so much damage to the Ger- man revolutionary movement in 1923. The Radek-Brandler-Thalheimer group attempted to turn the revolutionary united front tactic into a tactic of Coalition with the social democrats. The banal Saxon parliamentary farce revealed the complete political bank- ruptcy of these three comrades. The Thirteenth Congress of the Rus- sian Party declared unanimously that Radek’s policy had nothing in com- mon with the policy of the Commun- ist Party of Russia. The Frankfort Congress of the German Communist Party condemned the policy of Brand- the workers’ government ag historic- ally finished just because the period of steep decline of capitalism is at an end. * They still hold to their belief that if the revolutionary situation becomes more acute their old tactics will again become necessary. The form of their declaration shows that they still fully defend the tactic of a coalition with the social democrats, and that they are getting farther away from -Bol- shevism and nearer to menshevism. During the Fifth Congress, Radek, Brandler and Thalheimer persisted in their anti-Communist attitude. MEDIATELY after the Fifth Con- gress, Thalheimer and Kreibich expressed their anti-Communist at- titude still more strongly. The en- tire activity of these comrades during the interval between the Fifth Con- gress and the Enlarged Executive was wholly directed against the policy of the Fifth Congress. The statement of Radek, Braridler and Thalheimer, to the effect that last year they were worried over the mass character of the Communist Par- ties, cannot be taken seriously. The Comintern which was created under the direct leadership of Lenin, and which has remained loyal to Lenin- ism, has from its very inception, up till now, been guided by the policy of creating and preserving mass par- ties. gp difference between the policy of the Comintern and that of Ra- dek, Brandler and Thalheimer is, that the Comintern is always striving to create and preserve real Communist, Bolshevist mass parties, whereas Ra- dek, Brandler and Thalheimer are pur- suing.a semi-menshevist “mass-party” policy. Revolutionary words in the mouths of these comrades sound like the similar declaration made by Paul Levi. The position taken up by these comrades in the Trotsky discussion was just as politically insincere as their present one. In Russia, Radek directly supported Trotskyism. By making ambiguous statements on the “rejection” of Trotskysm, Brandler and Thalheimer hoped to get an op- portunity of attacking the Communist Party of Germany. Some light is thrown on the declaration of this group, by the fact that their state- ment was made at the time when the Central Commission of Control of the Communist Party of Russia was in- vestigating the factional, splitting ac- tivities of these three comrades, com- ing to the conclusion that Radek, - Brandler and Thalheimer deserved to be expelled from the Communist Party of Russia and from the Comin- tern. For these reasons thé Comin- tern cannot take their declaration se- - tiously. The plenum looks upon this politically insincere declaration as upon a tactical maneuver peculiar to social democratic leaders, and direct- ed against the policy of the Fifth Con- gress. Hence the plenum refuses to take this declaration into considera- tion. : This answer was adopted unanim- ously with stormy applause, (To be Continued) ¥ ¢, pe! A NOTICE TO EVERYBODY! ey It’s About the— NE could say, without any question, that it is about a very fine issue of the best working class magazine ever issued in this country. The May number of The Workers Monthly is all of that. with a splendid cover Beginning that breathes full promise on this May Day, and thru a most interesting article from Russia by William Z. Foster, thru other features of world events and Communist activity, it is an issue on which it is well worth giving notice to everybody. 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