The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 6

Page Two ever, both industrial, and agricul- tural, in colonial as well as in im- perialist countries. In the USSR. the socialist in- dustrialization of the country and the socialistic transformation of agriculture have improved the ma- terial and cultural conditions of the working class and of the masses of the toilers in general, Simultane- ously with the enormous and con- tinuous increase in the number of the proletariat, unemployment has been abolished (in 1931, 2 million extra workers will be brought into industry for the first time), the transition of Soviet industry to a 7- hour day with a simultaneous 6 per cent increase in real wages in 1931, is in the main being com- pleted (during the past two years wages have increased by 12 per cent). The social insurance fund and the working and office em- ployees welfare fund have during the past two years of the Five-Year Period increased by 3.199 million roubles and in 1931 provision has been made for a further increase of 2,138 million roubles. The cre- ative enthusiasm of the masses has increased and has given rise to new forms of socialist labor (Socialist Competition, Shock Brigades, etc.). 4. In capitalist countries the de- velopment and intensification of the world economic crisis give rise to the sharp intensification of the political reaction of the governing classes both in the lands of so- called bourgeois democracy, which is a masked form of the dictator- ship of the bourgeoisie as well as in the lands of Fascism which re- presents the open, naked form of bourgeois dictatorship. In striving to secure a capitalistic way out of the crisis by lowering the standard of living of the broad masses of toilers, by increased economic and political enslavement, the bourgeo- isie is organizing terroristic fascist groups, is breaking up the labor and all other revolutionary organi- zations, is depriving the workers and the toiling peasants of the right of assembly and free press, is suppressing strikes by means of ‘DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 fer eR EN “TTR vt iN Sa TS me compulsory arbitration and violence, shooting down unemployed demon- strations and striking workers and ruthlessly suppressing the revolu- tionary peasant movements, In the USSR. the government of the working class, in uprooting the last remnants of the exploiting classes, secures the widest develop- ment of proletarian democracy and an unparalleled improvement in the political and cultural level of the most backward strata of the workers and peasants. In the elec- tions to the Soviets in 1931, 609 million toilers took part (12.8 mil- lions in the towns and 48.1 millions in the rural districts). The political activity and the creative initiative of the toiling masses is growing at a tremendous rate and finds ap- plication in the Soviets, in the trade unions, in the factory shock brigades, in the Soviet farms and collective farms where, under the leadership of the CPSU. the fra- ternal alliance is maintained be- tween the working class and the toiling peasantry in the work of socialist industrialization and col- lectivization of the countryside. 5. In the USSR., the existence ef the government of the working class implies a firm policy of peace, the establishment of fraternal re- lations with all nations, consistent struggle for complete disarmament, the union of the toilers of all na- tions inhabitating the USSR., the economic, political and cultural de- velopment of the nationalities for- merly oppressed by Czarism and the growth of the land of the pro- letarian dictatorship as the prin- cipal barrier against new imperial- ist wars. In the eapitalist countries the predatory character of the impe- rialist States as the dictatorship of a clique of financial magnates finds specially marked expression amidst the crisis in the growth of im- perialist aggression, in the strivings of the imperialists to extend their colonial possessions and “spheres of influence,” in the intensification of all forms of colonial slavery and in the striving to impose the burdens of the crisis mainly upon the weaker and dependent countries and enslaved peoples. The crisis with particular force intensifies the principal contradic- tion in the capitalist world — the struggle between Great Britain and the United States for world hege- mony which finds expression both in the pressure which American capitalism is exercising upon the British Dominions, in the imperial tariff policy of Great Britdin (the “Imperial Conference”), as well as in the increased struggles for “spheres of influence” in Latin America and China. The crisis brings out more and more acutely all the inherent con- tradictions of the Versailles sys- tem: the antagonisms between the victorious countries and the van- quished countries, primarily be- tween the imperialist clique of France, which is striving to main- tain and strengthen its military and political hegemony on the con- tinent of Europe, and the bour- geoisie of yanquished Germany, who, in trying to carry out the Young Plan, encounters the ever increasing resistance of the masses of the toilers; imperialist rivalry in the camp of the victorious coun- tries is increasing—the struggle be- ‘tween France and Italy for the Mediterranean and for the North African colonies; the antagonisms between the vassals of the prin- cipal imperialist pirates (the Bal- kans, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, etc.) are increasing. Hence the question of revising the Young Plan, of the inter-allied debts, frontiers (Polish corridor), and Germany’s fight for union with Austria (the Customs Union) and for colonial possessions and for the abolition of the restriction on arm- aments are becoming more and more acute. Hence the new sys- tem of military and political alli- ances, the furious increase of new armaments cloaked by the “dis- armament” conferences of the League of Nations, the increase in military expenditure which absorbs from one-third to one-half of the State Budgets, the re-eauipment of the navies (the London Conference) the growth of military aviation, the preparations for chemical warfare, the mechanization of the armies and the building up of the capital- ist armies from reliable class cadres. Hence the growth of imperialist op- pression in the colonies and the oppression of a number of nations in Europe by the bourgeoisie of the dominant nations in Poland, CzechoSlovakia, Yugoslavia, Ruma- nia, Greece, Italy, France (Alsace- Lorraine). The imperialist policy of the bourgeois dictatorship. by intensi- fying all the contradictions of the world imperialist system and by creating everywhere hotbeds of new military conflicts, is inevitably leading to new and monstrous im- perialist wars. While not in the least removing the antagonisms be- tween the various imperialists the imperialist policy of the bourgeois dictatorship implies feverish pre- paration for military intervention in the USSR., for a downright im- perialist and counter-revolutionary war for the enslavement of the peoples of the Soviet Union and for the restoration of capitalism. 6. The development of the class Struggle amidst the further devel- opment of the world economic crisis confronts the broad masses of the toilers with the decisive alter- natives: either dictatorship of the bourgeoisie—or the dictatorship of the proletariat; either economic and political slavery or—to put an end to capitalist exploitation and oppression; either colonial oppres- sion and imperialist war or—peace and fraternity between nations; either capitalist anarchy and crises or—the socialist system which eli- minates anarchy and crises. The growth of the antagonisms between the capitalist world and the socialist world, between the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the dictatorship of the proletariat extremely intensifies the danger of military intervention against the USSR. The intensification of the class struggle in the capitalist ee ny countries, the striving of the bour- geoisie to find a way out of the crisis at the expense of the USSR., their dread of victorious socialism, the collapse of the tactics based on the expectations of the capital- istic degeneration of the USSR. and on support of the moribund coun- ter-revolutionary classes (the ku- laks, the urban NEP bourgeoisie) impels the world bourgeoisie to adopt the tactics of striking from without by means of economic blockade and military intervention, The trials of the “Industrial Par- ty” and the Mensheyvik “All-Union Bureau” which revealed the exist- ence of a wide internationally con- spiracy against the USSR. led by French imperialism which is squeez~ ing the last ounce out of the na- tions enslaved by the Versailles system, which is supporting and organizing the fascist regime in Europe and which is playing the role of the gendarme of Europe formerly played by Czarist Russia have shown that the imperialists, with the aid of the Second Inter- national, prepared for the spring of 1930 and are now preparing a counter-revolutionary war against the USSR. and for this purpose are utilizing the vassals of French and British imperialism — Poland, Rumania and Finland. For the purpose of active preparation for intervention in 1930, Hoover set up a special organization camouflaged by the name of Federal Farm Board and headed by Col. Legge, director of supplies for the allied armies during the imperialist war, to supply provisions to the inter- ventionist armies. The same pur- pose of preparing for intervention was pursued and is being pursued by the agrarian conferences, the “disarmament” conferences, the Pan-Europe conference, by the anti-Soviet campaigns against “re- ligious persecution” led by the Pope of Rome and representatives of other religious denominations, the campaign against Soviet “dump- ing” and against “forced labor’ in the USSR. Ii. THE INTENSIFICATION OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE, THE REVOLUTIONARY UPSURGE AND THE GROWTH OF THE PREREQUSITES OF A REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS IN A NUMBER OF CAPITALIST COUNTRIES. 1. The further intensification of ell the fundamental contradictions of capitalism as a result of the economic crisis which affects prim- arily the weakest links of the cap- italist system, the growing discon- tent of the broad masses of the people, ‘the growth of Communism and the growing prestige of the Jand of the Proletarian Dictator- ship give rise on the one hand to the more open application by the bourgeoisie of the apparatus of vio- lence and of its dictatorship, and on the other hand, to the growth of the revolutionary upsurge and to the growth in a number of coun- tries of the pre-requisites of a revo- lutionary crisis. Growing organically out of so- ealled bourgeois democracy—which 4s the masked form of the dictator- ship of the bourgeoisie, Fascism— which is the naked form of the bourgeois dictatorship, sharpens all the methods of suppressing and enslaving the toilers peculiar to the capitalist system and inseparable from the whole system of kourge- cis dictatorship. The fascist regime, which is inter-woven with the rem- nants of bourgeois democracy, is set up and consolidated on the road of smashing up the class organizations of the proletariat, suppressing the Communist Parties, creating special military terroristic tions— irrespective of whether it abolishes or preserves parliamentary forms. Striving to weaken the revolu- of lying anti-capitalist phraseology, the fascists, in the pay of finance capital (Hitler), utilize the discon- tent of the masses in order to strengthen the bourgeois dictator- ship and to ruthlessly suppress the working class. = The recent growth of fascism has been possible only because of the support given to it by international Social-Democracty throughout the whole post-war period of the dic- tatorship of the bourgeoisie ir- respective of the form it has as- sumed, By drawing a contrast be- tween the “democratic” forms of the bourgeoisie and fascism, Social- Democracy lulls the vigilance of the masses in the fight against the growing political reaction and fas- cism, conceals the counier-revolu- tionary character of bourgeois de- mocracy as a form of the dictator- ship of the bourgeoisie and thus Serves as an active factor and pace- maker for the fascization of the capitalist State. The successful struggle against fascism demands that the Com- munist Parties shall mobilize the masses on the basis of a united front from below against all forms of the bourgeois dictatorship, against all the reactionary mea- sures it adopts to pave the way to. the open fascist dictatorship. The struggle demands the speedy and determined rectification of the mistakes that have been committed which, in the main, can be formu- lated as the Liberal contrasting of Fascism to bourgeois democracy and of the parliamentary forms of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie to its openly fascist form, which is @ reflection of the Social-Demo- cratic influences in the Communis' 2. Since the February Enlarged Presidium of the E. C. C. I. there has been a further increase in the revo) - Mpsurge = resulting from the sharp reduction in the | Standard of living of the working class, the monstrous development of unemployment, the ruination of the office workers and urban petty- bourgeoisie, the mass robbery of the peasantry, the extreme impoverish- ment of the colonies and the grow- ing revolutionizing role of the VU. S.SR. The growing revolutionary up- surge found expression in: a) The further intensification of the strike struggle and the unes- ployed movement: b) The development and strength- ening of Soviets and of the Red Army over a considerable territory in China; ‘ ©) In the growth of the reyolu- tionary movement in the colonies; da) The development of the revo- lutionary peasant movement; e) In the growth of the political f) In the sharp intensification of oppositional ferment within so- cial-democracy; g) In the growth of an opposi- E g tensification of the economic crisis, there is taking place a rapid in- crease in the prerequisites for a revolutionary crisis in Spain, where this process is rendered particularly deep as a result of the existence of considerable remnants of feudalism. In a number of the biggest colo- nies and semi-coloniés (China, In- dia) where—owing to the close in- ter-lockimg of the economic crisis and the agrarian crisis, the inten- sification of imperialist and feudal- usurer exploitation and the mon- strous ruination of the masses—the Masses are rising in millions for the national revolutionary struggle against the whole imperialist-colo- nial system, the elements of a pro- found revolutionary crisis are rapid- ly maturing. Growing out of the general crisis of capitalism and of the present economic crisis, developing on the basis of the revolutionary upsurge of the masses, these elements of the revolutionary crisis are linked up with the intensification of the volutionary activity, with the shat- tering of the whole international and internal system of capitalist revolutionary forces of the prolee tariat (50 per cent increase in the membership of the Communist Par- ty, the growth of the revolutionary, mass organizations); in the com- mencing break-up of the mass basis of Social Democracy; in the launch- ing of a mass struggle against the introduction of the Fascist dicta- torship; the driving back of the Fascist movement by means of @ program of the social and national liberation of the toiling masses; the winning of new strata of the ex- ploited for the proletarian revolue tion under the slogan of People’s Revolution; in the growing uneasi- ness of the governing classes, which is accompanied by political re- groupings of the bourgeoisie: in the growing discontent of the broad masses with the yoke of the Ver- sailles system and of the Young Plan. The successful struggle against Fascism in Germany calls for the timely exposure of the Bruening Government which is in- troducing the Fascist dictatorship. The economic crisis in Germany is leading to an extreme intensifica- tion of the class struggles and to growing political conflicts which accelerate the ripening of pre- requisites of a revolutionary crisis. In Poland, where the industrial and agrarian crisis is leading to the collapse of the whole of economic life, where half of the proletariat is unemployed, where the peasantry are being ruined at an accelerated rate—the pre-requisites of the revo- lutionary crisis find expression in: the intensification of the revolu- tionary struggle in town and coun- try (the militant demonstrations of the unemployed, the struggle against distraint for taxes, forced labor in road-making, etc.), the intensifica- tion- of the struggle of the oppres« sed nationalities (Western Ukrairie), the ferment in the lower ranks of the Social-Fascists and Fascist Parties, in the increasing shrinkage of the mass basis’ofthePilsudsky~ | ites and their transmission belts with the masses, for example, the