The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 10

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 eee ‘s preparing an anti-Soviet war un- der French commanders. The Hungarian Social Democrats are demanding a change in Hun- garian foreign policy in the direc- tion of an alliance with French im- perialism, and the Bulgarian So- cial Democrats are doing the same in their country. The Danish Social Democratic Government has made the shipping channels—the Belts and the Sound —accessible to the French navy for penetration into the Baltic sea. The Swedish Social “Democrats are representatives of Swedish military contractors for spreading inventions about the “aggressive designs” of the USSR against the Scandinavian countries, for the purpose of concealing the supply of arms to the countries bordering on the USSR. The Trial of the Russian Men- sheviki who were working, as Van- dervelde declared, in “close contact” with the Second International, and whose work the Second Interna- tional was ‘closely watching,” re- vealed that the Second Interna- tional, jointly with the French General Staff and the Russian white guard emigrant organization in Paris (Torgprom), organized the Russian mensheviki as an agency for wrecking work with the aim of preparing for military intervention. The emigrant organization of the Russian Mensheviki, the so-called Foreign Delegation of the Menshe- viki, are directly supported by the Second International as a wrecking agency for creating an .economic crisis in and preparing for armed intervention against the USSR. The menshevist organization in the US SR was closely connected with the bourgeois organization of wreckers and spies, the so-called “Industrial Party,” and through the latter with the French General Staff. The trial demonstrated with great clearness that the verbal declarations made by the Second International against intervention are nothing more nor less than a mask to decelye the workers and to cdnceal the real ins terventionist policy of the Second International. For, as the menshe- viki, Gromann and Sukhanow de- clared: “It is impossible to prepare war against the USSR without hid- ing these preparations from the proletarian masses.” Ill. THE TASKS OF THE COMMUNISTS IN EIGHT AGAINST THE PREPARATIONS FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION. The fact that, in spite of ig feverish preparations made by in- ternational imperialism and the social-democratic parties of the Second International, war has not broken out is due to the antagon- isms in the camp of the imperial- ists and particularly to the grow- ing readiness of the proletarian masses in the capitalist and colo- nial countries to support the pro- letarian dictatorship in the USSR and to the consistent policy of peace pursued by the Worker and Peasant Government of the USSR. In spite of the slanderous cam- paigns of the bourgeoisie and the social-democratic parties regarding the policy of the CPSU—the enor- mous achievements of the worker and peasant masses in the USSR more and more win the sympathy of the toiling masses of the im- perialist and colonial countries to- wards the USSR. The number of workers and peasants who are pre- pared to defend the USSR actively and revolutionarily as their only fatherland, is undoubtedly growing and far exceeds the political sphere of influence of the Communist Par- ties. It is beyond doubt also that the work of the Comintern in de- ‘ense of the USSR has become one Decision of the XI. Plenum of the E.C.C.I. On the Ac- of the most important factors for the preservation of peace, a factor which caused the postponement of the imperialist slaugnter. Nevertheless it must be stated that the intensity of the struggle against the danger of war and against the danger of intervention in the USSR, does not at all cor- respond to the intensity with wnich the imperialists are preparing for war against the USSR. The agita- tion against the war danger is not carried on-»systematically, and in many cases only from campaign to campaign. The- fundamental weakness of the work of the Com- munists in the fight against the danger of an intervention war is that the concrete measures being taken in preparation for war in parliamentary commissions, in the imperialist armies and in the war industry are not sufficiently ex- posed to the masses. The Commun- ist Parties have not yet learned how to explain to the masses suf- ficiently clearly the connection that exists between the war preparations of the imperialists an dthe growth of the exploitation and suppression of the oppressed masses. They eee . that social democracy is the bul-; wark of imperialism in the prepar- ation for counter-revolutionary war against the USSR. The XI Plenum of the ECCI most emphatically emphasizes: that the activity of the Communist Parties in-capitalist countries in the strug- gle against the war danger, de- pends upon the activity of every single Communist, and will deter- mine whether the sympathy which the broad masses of workers, the toiling peasants and the nations oppressed by the capitalist_-coun- tries feel towards the U.S.S.R. will be converted into an active revo- lutionary struggle against prepara- tions for war and the danger of a war of intervention against the U.S. S.R. The duty of every Commun- ist Party, of every Communist, is to expose the Social Democrats as the agents of the imperialist bour- geoisie in the preparation for mil- itary intervention against the work- ing class of the U.S.S.R.; to ex- pose their hypocritical pacifism as an organic and integral part of these war preparations, and to win the masses away from them. It is the duty of every Commun- have not yet learned how to expose; ist to expose the fact, that the by concrete illustrations the fect (ciegaha of the bourgeoisie and so- | militarist work of the Communist ws cial pacifists about “disarmament” reconciliation of nations, reconcil- ing ex-enemy nations are not slogans for reconciling nations and securing peace, but a screen to eonceal the front being organized against the U.S.S.R. The XI. Plenum of the ECCI calls the attention of all Sections of the CI to the insufficient popu- larization of the teachings of Lenin on war, and particularly to the de- cisions of the VI. Congress of the Cc. I. on the methods of struggle against the war danger and the danger of military intervention against the U.S.S.R. The slogan of converting imperialist war into civil war against the bourgeoisie at home must be popularized by means of oral and written propaganda among the-broad masses of the people. The slogan of converting the war against the toilers of the U.S.S.R. into a war against the bourgeoisie at home must become the most popular slogan among the vast masses of the workers in the capitalist countries. The XI. Plenum of the ECCl emphasise the imperative necessity for a determined change in the di- rection of intensifying the anti- Parties, and especially of the Young Communist League, as an integral part of the” struggle against the danger of war and the menace of intervention. : ae The XI Plenum of the ECCI re- minds all Communists of the in- structions of the II Congress laid down by Lenin: “The duty of spreading Come munist ideas includes the special necessity of persistent systematic propaganda among the _ troops, Wherever this agitation 1s prohi- bited by exceptional laws, it must be carried on illegally. Refusal to carry out such work is tantamount to the betrayal of revolutionary duty and is incompatible with mem- bership in the III International.” (Thesis on the conditions of ad- mittance int othe Ci, adopted by the II Congress of the CI). The XI. Plenum of the ECCI calls upon all Communists, upon all the workers and toilers of all countries to fight against the dan- ger of war and to fight against the menace of military interven- tion, to defend the land of the first dictatorship of the proletariat, the fatherland of the proletariat of all countries, ceptance of the Communist Parties of Indo-China, Iceland and Cyprus into the Comm. International The XI Plenum of the ECCI resolves: The Communist Party of Indo-China, which has hitherto been a Section of the C.P. of France, is recognized as an independent section of the CL The Communist Party of Iceland, which decided at its I. Congres@ in November-December, 1930, to join the C.I., is accepted into the C.1. The Communist Party of Cyprus, according to the decision of tha CC CP of Cyprus to join the CT. is accepted into the CL This decision to~be presented to the VIL. Congress of the C.L for confirmation: aod ON IAT AE SIRE A