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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929 Page Three THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION AND TASKS OF THE COMMUNISTS (NOTE—Today the Daily Worker prints the second instalment of the theses of the 6th World Congress of the Communist International on “The International Situation and the Tasks of the Communists.” This Congress was held in Moscow from the middle of July until the beginning of September. Publication of these theses will continue until completed. In previ ous issues the Daily Worker has published the 6th Congress theses on the war danger and the tasks of the Communists arising from it—EDITOR). II. Inter-State Relations and the Problems of So-Called “Foreign Politics” 7. The relations between capitalist States and the U. S. S. R.; the *ttitude of imperialism towards China and the relations between Europe, —principally Great Britain—and the United States, represent in general, the basis of international relationships in the present period. The growth of Germany and the re-grouping of States resulting from it, represents one of the principal factors in the change of inter-State relationships in Europe. U. S. ECONOMIC CENTER OF WORLD 8. The transference of the world’s economic center to the United States of America and the increase in the latter’s imperialist aggres- siveness resulting therefrom, must be regarded as an important factor in the modern development of canitalism generally. As the permanent creditor of Europe, the United States represents the lever of Central European revival; at. the same time, however, she is strengthening her own position in almost all parts of the globe. As a result of the squeezing out of British capital, South America is gradually becoming an enormous “sphere of influence” of the United States, who suppresses all resistance on the American Continent with blood and iron (Nicaragua, etc.); Canada and even Australia are more and more gravitating towards so-called “economic cooperation” in which the hegemony of the United States is assured beforehand. All over the world, the United States is developing extensive plans to secure possession of the most important sources of raw materials, to weaken Great Britain’s position by destroying her monopoly in oil and rubber, and her raw cotton base in Egypt, the Sudan, etc. In Africa, the United States is develoning extensive plans directed | towards undermining the power of Great Britain in the cotton-growing industry; in China in conflict with Japan and England, she holds the stronger position and while screening herself for the time being be- hind the principle of the “oven door,” she is, in fact, taking part in the partition of China. Thus, North American imperialism is more and more passing from the policy of so-called “peaceful penetration” to the policy of direct military. colonial occunation. ANGLO-AMERICAN RIVALRY. 9. The rapid expansion of the United States inevitably brings her | interests into conflict with the interests of decaying, but still ex- tremely powerful, British imperialism. The antagonisms between the Dollar Republic, with her ranid rate of development and relatively small colonial possessions, and the declining British colonial Empire, with its gigantic colonial monopoly, represents the pivot of interna- tional antagonisms in the present reriod, and it is precisely here that the complications of fpture struggles for a redistribution of the colonial | STATEMENT OF THE N. E. C The National Executive Committee endorses without reservations } the letter of the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth Inter- rational and is proceeding to carry out its directions, The National Executive Committee accepts the criticisms of cer- tain shortcomings in the practical work of the League contained in the letter, and the proposals for overcoming these unsatisfactory sit- uations. The letter states its criticisms in a sharp form in order to focus the attention of the entire League, the National Executive Committee, and the entire membership to these shortcomings in our youth work, in order to create the conditions for their rapid elimina- tion. Altho the basic shortcomings were recognized by the NEC even prior to this letter and pointed out to the membership in the resolu- tion of the February Plenum, the NEC states that the criticism and | the elimination of the errors was not carried thru with sufficient energy. At the same time, the NEC wishes to point out that the CY1 recognizes and has recognized in the past, that the general develop- ment of the League is upward, particularly since the last convention, and that general progress is being made in our activities. In its May letter the CYI declared, “The Executive Committee, having reviewed your activity during the last period, takes note of the general progress made particularly since the last convention,” In the same letter, speaking of the mining campaign, the main campaign of the League, the CYI declares, “The EC marks with satis- faction, the successes of our League in drawing in the youth into the general struggle of the miners, pointing out, however, that the League commenced its work among the miners rather late, and with insuffi- cient intensity on the part of all League organizations.” Dealing with the unification of the League, the letter states, “We are glad to record that the League has established unity and the loyalty of the leading groups during the convention and thus created the necessary atmos- phere for practical work in the center and the districts.” Regarding | anti-military work, the letter said, “Taking note of your improvement in your anti-military work, we refer you to our special letter on this question.” 3. The American delegation to the Fifth Congress of the Com- munist Youth International listed the League’s achievements as follows: (a) The beginning of a real struggle against the war danger, 9 DELAWARE LAW. {iselmentnionc ‘Hackmen Union Grows; Issues First Number of the “Taxi Unionist” (and not only of the colonial) world are maturing. Anglo-American “co-operation” has qhanged into fierce Anglo-American rivalry, which widens the prospects of a gigantic conflict of forces, 10. The influence of American capital in Europe made itself most strongly felt in the economie recovery of Germany. From a State which had sunk to the lowest depths of economic ruin, Germany has again risen to great heights with the aid of systematic credits from the United States. This also has caused the elevation of Germany’s polit- ical role. The growth of monopolistic capitalism in Germany, on the one hand accelerates the process of breaking up the Versailles Treaty and on the other hand, causes Germany to adopt a more definitely “Western” (i. e. imperialistic and anti-Soviet) orientation. While in the days of her economic, political and national humiliation Germany sought an agreement with the proletarian State, the only State that was opposed to her imperialist enslavement, the tendencies of German neo-imperialism that have arisen are forcing the German bourgeoisie more and more towards an anti-Soviet position. PLOTS AGAINST U.S. S. R. Il. This fact must in its turn inevitably change the grouping of the European States. The prevalence of a whole series of internal European antagonisms (primarily Franco-Italian, in the Balkans and in North Africa), on the background of the general instability of re- lationships, leads to a continuous regrouping of the Powers. However, through the kaleidoscopic changes in the groupings there runs a fundamental tendency, the tendency of combating the Soviet Union. The innumerable treaties and agreements concluded between a number of minor and major States (Poland, Rumania, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the “Russian Border States,” etc.) directed against the U.S. S.R. and concluded at the dictation of London and Paris, express this tendency to an increasingly marked degree. many’s attitude, to a certain extent, marks the completion of a definite stage of this process, which is a nrocess of preparation by the counter- revolutionary imperialist bloc for a war against the U.S. S. R. WAR ON CHINESE REVOLUTION. 12. The struggle for markets and for spheres for the investment of capital is not only pregnant with wars against the U. S. S. R. and with wars among the imperialists themselves; it has already re: ed in a great war of intervention for the partition of the enormous Chinese market. In China, where the imperialists are simultaneously confronted with an object of exploitation and a revolutionary movement, which is undermining the domination of capitalist principles, the establishment of general imperialist blocs is most highly probable. Therefore, simultaneously with a bloc of imperialist States against the U. S. S. R. we have a general counter-revolutionary, militarist intervention against the forces of the Chinese Revolution. At the same time, however, this joint struggle against the Chinese Revolution develops a profound antagonism of interests within the im- perialist bloc, primarily an antagonism between the predatory and openly annexationist imperialism of Japan and the tremendous power of American imperialism, which, in the present stage of development, cloaks herself in the false toga of pacifism. Thus, the imperialist war actually being waged against the Chinese people may develop into a gigantic conflict between the imperialists. OF THE YOUNG WORKERS the beginning of workin the armed force: elimination of pacifist errors, {b) Participation in important mass conflicts, the coal mining strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Colorado; the textile strike; assisting in the formation of new unions in the basic industries and drawing the young workers into those unions. (ce) A series of youth conferences was organized; a nation-wide relief campaign among the youth was carried on. (d) Some successes in our orientation toward the basic industries. (e) The establishment of nine district schools for the training of League functionaries, (f) Active participation in the election campaign. (g) Considerable increase in membership, (h) The development and growth of the Young Pioneer move- ment and its participation in mass struggles. 4. While pointing out these achievements, the delegation at the same time emphasized numerous shortcomings which had to be over- come in order that the League might proceed on the road to a mass organization. The shortcomings already emphasized at that time by the dele- gation were: (a) The League is still very small and is still more or less iso- lated from the masses of the young workers. {b) Bad social composition, only 50 per cent of the membership consisting of young workers in industry. (c) Partial defeat in the mining campaign, due to inability to mobilize entire League in this campaign. (d) Underestimation, in the ranks of the League, of the war danger, existence of general remnants of pacifism and pacifist mis- and the struggle for the takes in some districts. (e) Very few shop nuclei. (£) Very little, almost no Negro work. | (g) Many fields of activity not yet star ted; opponents, agrarian, | ete. (h) Insufficient contact with and no assistance to revolutionary youth movement in American colonies and Latin America, 5. The NEC declares that the League can only advance on the road to becoming a mass revolutionary youth organization in the United States thru overcoming the shortcomings in our youth work SILK MILL TIED Castrillon, Leader of Colombia Fruit Strike, The change in Ger- | LEAGUE WW. The State Power of the Bourgeoisie and) the Re-Grouping of Class Forces 13. In the great majority of capitalist countries at the present time, the politics of the bourgeoisie are determined by two main tasks: ‘st, further to increase “competitive nower,” i. e. further to develop capitalist rationalization, and second, to prepare for war. From the social-class standpoint, bourgeois polities lead, on the one hand, to in- | creased pressure unon the working class and to an increase in the rate | | of exploitation. On the other hand, they lead to the employmert of | “compensation” methods of economic and political corruption, of which | social democracy is more and more becoming the conscious vehicle. 14, The centralization of capital and the absorption, through the medium of the banking system, of large-landed property into the general | finance capitalist organizations, heln more and more to consolidate the combined forces of the big exploiters, whose organizations are becoming directly erafted on to the organs of State Power. . While the system known as war State capitalism, to a considerable degree, represented a system of “siege economics,” which was “abolished” at, the conclusion of the war, the growth of State capitalist tendencies on the other hand, which at the present time is based on the growth of productive forces and the ranid centralization of industry, is objectively a pre-requisite for military economic mobilization for future conflicts. The shifting in the weight of the productive forces in the direction of the chemical industry, which is of first-class importance in modern warfare, still further enhances the sienificance of this fact. POLITICAL STRIKES. This evolution in the relationshins between the State power ate capitalist organizations, the concentration of all the bour. geois forces in the bourgeois State, gives rise, in all capitalist countries, to a reactionary evolution of the whole of the so-called “bourgeois State | system.” 'This evolution, which is the characteristic expression of the | | present critical period of capitalism, finds expression politically in the | general of bourgeois democracy and of bourgeois parliamentarism, and leaves a specific impress upon all the economic conflicts between capital and labor, causing them to become extraordinarily acute. Every strike of any magnitude brings the workers into conflict with trustified capitalist giants, which have become merged with the t State power. Consequently, every such strike assumes a e., a general class character. The development of every such therefore, lead to its assuming an “anti-State” charact It is precisely this state of affairs that compels the bourgeois and State to’ resort to complex methods of economically and politically cor- rupting definite sections of the working class itself and its political and industrial organizatio The grafting of the upner stratum of the reformist trade unions and “reformist parties” on to the employers’ organizations and the bourgeois State, the appointment of workers to official positions in the State and in capitalist organizations, the theory and practice of ‘in. | dustrial democracy,” “industrial peace,” ete—all these are preventa- tive measures directed against the development of the class struggle. GROWING ACUTENESS OF CLASS STRUGGLE. 16. Simultandously, the imperialist, States more and more de- velop weapons and methods of repression against the revolutionar detachments of the proletariat and particularly against the Communist | listed above, and the additional ones contained in the letter of the , ECCYI. In its campaign to eradicate the League’s shortcomings and to correct its errors, the NEC will exercise the severest self-criticism. No factional efforts should be permitted to stand in the way of the exercize of self-criticism, without which the correction of errors be- comes a hollow gesture. At the same time the NEC wishes to emphasize that self-criticism implies, primarily, criticism of the errors committed by oneself, and not by some one else. Self-criticism is a necessary corollary to criti- cism generally, The NEC invites all sections of the League to live up to this proper procedure. The NEC recognizes the failure of the League to criticize a number of Right errors committed by the entire Party, at the time when they were committed (open letter to the so- cialist party, conditional support of Panken in the elections, pacifist campaign in connection with the Nicaragua invasion), which have since been recognized and corrected by the Party and League. 6. Altho on some questions, the League did criticize Party errors, such as in connection with the Lindbergh campaign, this in no way reduces the seriousness of the mistakes above enumerated. The NEC wishes to point out that the entire Party and not any one section of | it made these mistakes, and that the League as a whole shared them. The Communist International declared regarding these errors, “The Political Secretariat is of the opinion that the charge against the ma- jority of the Central Committee of the Party of representing a Right e, is unfounded.” The Communist Youth International, in dealing with this question of the struggle against the Right danger in the American Communist movement, warned that, “Not one of the groups can claim the title ‘real Left’ or accuse the other of being ‘Right.’ So- called Right errors were committed by all the groups. The Right danger is the main danger in the American Party.” The NEC will very vigorously combat all Right errors, regardless of the source from which they arise, both in the Party and in the League. 7. The Comintern at the Sixth Congress declared that the main danger confronting all Parties was the Right danger. On an inter- | national scale, the Right danger arises from the stabilization of capi- ON COMMUNIST YOUTH INTERNATIONAL LETTER an" Party, the only Party that organizes and leads the revolutionary work- ing class struggle against imperialist wars and growing exploitation, These measures are also part and parcel of the war preparations of the imperialist States. At the same time, however, they reflect the general acuteness of class antagonisms and particularly the intensification of all forms end methods of the class struggle, as expressed in the increasing application of fascist methods of oppression by the bourgeoisie, These measures include: the Trade Union Act in Great Britain; Paul Boncour’s military law; a number of so-called “defence of the Realm Acts,” for example in the Balkans; the acts of rep ion against the Communists in France; the wrecking of the trade unions and the terror against the Communists in Italy; terror in Japan; terror in Poland; the mass e ution of Com- munists, revolutionary workers and the peasants in ina, and the acts of repression perpetrated against revolutionaries in the colonies generally; the attempt to dissolve the Red Front Fighters in Germany, ete., etc, In a number of countries where the Communist Parties are still legal, the bourgeoisie is striving with the of the social democrats to drive them underground. ring the masses to a state of fighting pre t any at- tempt on the part of the bourgeoisie to r become im- mediate tasks. INCRE 17. Simultaneou has already recovered from the is growing and assuming extremely the contradictions of capitalist ste unemployment, the incr i ISTANCE OF WORKERS, tance of the working class—which deft the preceding period iverse forms. The development of ation, rationalization, growth of upon the ndard of living of” 2, ete., inevitably t ats 0 ver the ele and widen general process of the “working « pean countries continues further; the in upon the mass of the workers wa abandon these to join the social democra the Communist Parties; the I militant elements of the wor' and coming over to the Con and more relying uvon t ferring its social basis from the working c! The influence working class are srrov period and the general e: ination of wing to the Left” in 1ence of purely bourgeois section of the workers while another section foins in the process of more 1 democrats cy is more 1 is therefore tran to the petty bourgeoisie. nist Parties among the z of the stabilization eat defensive oe al deme nass struggles. These in- clude primari ke wave in mber of countries (Germany, France, Czechcslovakia, etc.); the uprising of the Viennese proletariat: the demonstrations aga‘>st the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti; the movement in favor of the U. S. R., ete, Taus, notwithstanding the counte geoisie and social democracy, the repre capitalist stabilization and the cause an ideological different ures taken by the bour- uction of the contradictions of acuteness of the class struggle tion and growth of the revolutionary forces in the ranks of the worki ement to the strengthening of the position of Communism in the ir tional labor movement. (To Be Continued) talism and the existence of powerful social-democratic parties, still having a strong hold on large sections of the working class. This Right danger is crystallized in resistance to the mobilization of the Party for participation in the struggles of the workers, which are tak- ing place in the process of the radic ion of large sections of the workers, particularly the unskilled and unorganized. In the United States, where we have a radicalization of certain sections of the working class in the basic industries, together with a continuation of the move to the Right of the labor aristocracy, the Right danger finds expression in a wrong attitude towards the so. cialist party and labor party, skepticism regarding the possibility of organizing the unorganized, defeatism in connection with the mining and textile situation, pacifism and underestimation of the war danger, capitulation before difficulties and enemies, wrong attitude toward che Comintern and its decisions, ete. All these are summarized in the false belief that in the present period it is not possible to develop a revolutionary movement of the working class and to buifa the Workers (Communist) Party. Trotsky- ism, which on an international scale h degenerated to Menshevism, and is the most comprehens ystem of social-democracy seeking to cover itself with Left phrases; which makes its reappearance in the American Party already in this last stage, therefore is the sharpest expression of this Right danger and serves as the rallying point for all Right wing elements, both inside the Party and outside. The National ecutive Committee of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League will conduct a vigorous struggle against all expres- iliac ee the Right danger and against Trotskyism, whose adherents lave become open renegades, endeavoring t, roy disrupt the Comintern. = ote Seey ee The Communist youth, which in the past, on an international scale, has already demonstrated its loyalty to the principles of Leninism, has always fought in the front ranks against all deviations from the Leninist line, against all enemies of the Comintern, must at ~ ent time in the United States live up to this glorious tradition the NEC calls upon the membership of the entire League to unite on the basis of the Comintern line, in a struggle against the Right danger, against Trotskyism, for the Party, for a revolutionary movement, : (To be concluded tomorrow) as OLD SEAMAN DROWNED. | EDGARTOWN, Mass., Jan. 17 |(UP).—Thomas Nielson, 70, a mar- “The principal instrument in the imperialist disarmament farce is social democracy, which sows iner for 55 years and survivor of more than his share of shipwrecks, among the masses illusions about the possibility of disarmament and | Captured; DeathLooms abolishing war without overthrow- The Taxi Chauffeurs Union of CALLED VICIOUS Can Sterilize Workers Under Statute Continued from Page One defectives from all powers to pro- create.” This Delaware law can be used as one of the most vicious weapons of the capitalists against the workers. Through the words “survival of the fittest,” the law can be construed as an underhand method of dispos- ing of all enemies of the capitalist state, who can easily be framed up as “moral defectives.” The “con- sent. of relatives” phrase in the law can be dropped summarily, or used unscrupulously for the acquisition of false and concocted witnesses for the disposal of militant workers who, by their radical activities have ? : by Bertram Wolfe $ .05. th j. |Son Ave., Bronx, will siffice, it says. NOW BEING PRODUCED AT || £x-. | ®y Bertram Wolfe ..... Coe ee cette a et : ; ere e hatred of the authori. Th: union meets on the first and A New Pamphlet _ THE PROVINCETOWN PLAY- Americans in Santo Domingo— ey Nikita Is Crowned “Emperor of Russia” PARIS, Jan. 17.—Nikita Roman- off trizd very hard to look like the \Greater New York, though but re- cently established, has already grown sufficiently in strength to be able to lissue a regular union organ. A few days ago the first number of the |“Taxi-Unionist” made its appear- /ance, | Active union members made a | thorough distribution of the paper in the gathering places of the hack- men, who received it with real en- thusiasm, ) The issue is mainly devoted to an jappeal to the workers to join the union, which is the only way the workers can better their conditions |and do away with the many evils they are compelled to suffer because of lack of organization. Workers are called upon to cut out the application blank and apply for membership. Even a letter to Charles Kroll, secretary, 1996 Glea- 8 p.m. Non-members can also at- tend these meetings. UP IN STRIKE N. T. W. Leads 8-Hour Day Struggle Continued from Page One | this q nilding had announced the ten |hour day. The other bosses are ex- pected to follow suit. The workers will, at the meeting, take up the question of a joint fight against the longer work day and to safeguard the 8-hour day. The meeting will be held tomorrow noon in the hall at Madison and 12th Aves. *. * ° Open Forum Sundays. The N. T. W. also announces the start of regular open forum lectures each Sunday evening at 7 p. m. in the union headquarters, 219 Pater- son St. LATIN AMERICA by Bertram D. Wolfe—se The oppressed colonial peoples in revolt against Jan. 17 (U.P). — Federal soldiers Jan. 16 (U.P).—Federal soldiers today discovered Alberto Castril- lon, Communist leader in the re- cent banana zone strike, in a jun- gle near Cienaga. Castrillon, who was reported to have been killed in one of the engagements be- tween strikers and troops some weeks ago, will be tried by court- martial, since a state of siege is still in force. SUBSCRIBE NOW TO The Communist and The Communist International a> Each $2.00 per year Comb. 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