The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1927, Page 7

a, a eee ee eae lee eS. 8 wee ee ee ‘eoa ann rr RT oN rs OoO Hr SO > Buy linet + THE DAILY WORKER. ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927 In the Wake of the News’ - HOSE who have seen Lenin’s body ia the maw seoleum in the Red Square can tell you that he looks like a healthy child asleep and there fs even the suggestion of i twinkle in his eyes and a smile om his lips. A spiritualist would immediately jump » to the conclusion that Lenin is inclined to laugh his head off at the troubles which beset the imperialist pewers all over the world. Of course this would be mensense, nevertheless were # possible for Lenin t step over to the headquarters of the Communist International on the other side of the Kremtim he would chuckle audibly, as he read reports of the situation in China, the upsurge of sentiment in Latin America against United States aggression, the comtinued vigor of the sentiment for independence in the Philippime Islands, the slumbering revok fa India and Egypt, the bitter clashes between the im perilist powers over a division of the hot, betbweem Great Britain and the United States, Great Britain amd France and to a lesser degree between Maly and Great Britain, between Italy and France, between the United States and Europe as a whole; and be tween the United States and Japan, betweem the United States and France, etc. * e+ 8 @ ig true that the capitalist system ts met as grog gy today as it was a few years after the war but its pulse is low and its temperature ts mounting dangerously. Only the United States of all the cap- ftalist powers retains a healthy economic system, but let no one think that American capitalism will escape the fate that is overcoming the same econom- fc system im other countries. Crisis follows crisis im quick succession in Europe. The military estab- lUshments are becoming a greater drain than ever on their resources and armaments mean only one thing, and that is war. The capitalists know that amother war will be a Waterloo for them but they cam no more avoid this fate than a person can avoid death. *_ * ¢ * 1H two outstanding events of the year in the revolutionary struggle against capitalism have been the British general strike and the miners’ shackled England's ability to exert any considerable strength against the Chinese who have been amusing them- selves kicking British soldiers all over the scenery, much to the indignation of the British settlers who true that British soldiers, confronted with troops of industrial nations like Germany proved that they could run as well ag the rest, which is nothing to their discredit since there is ao glory im being brave fighting for capitalism. On the other hand the British working<clags have proven them selves to be among the best soldiers of the inter national army of labor ag they showed by the bub dog tenacity which they held out for nine not collect taxes and practically rule the country outside of allowing a puppet government to rule im Peking until the rise to power of ithe Cantonese, who are now pushing forward on the way to the unifica tion of China, . r 8 3 ee N this great turning point in the life of China the people of that down-trodden country had only one power to look te for a friendly hand: ‘the great power of the workers and peasants of the 1 troops will be in Peking and there will be noth lef to the foreign powers except their base, granting that Chang-Tvo-Lin survives the revag tutionary whirlwind, : Hiv i ! i : i e way of its greater consolidation. Hven + z 3