The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 8

race Four ist Parties in the imperialist coun- tries to the revolutionary ‘move- ments for liberation in the colonies and semi-colonies and in the weak participation of the Communist Parties in the dominant nations in the revolutionary movements for liberation of the oppressed nations ig Europe. f) In the opportunist or sectarian underestimation and neglect of the exceptionally important work in the reformist unions; in the in- adequate work in the factories, particularly in the big enterprises and decisive industries; the weak political life of the factory nuclei. ee. | @) In the general weakness of organizational work and the con- tinued weak organizational conso- jidation of the political influence of the Communist -Parties and in the intolerable passivity in stem- woing the fluctuation ‘of the Party rmembership. . h) In the mechanical application of general directives, without cen- eretizing them for the given coun- try and for the given case of the class struggle. Wherever the Communists failed io display adequate activity in the fight against the Right danger within the Party, where they’ ap- plied the #ctics of “class against class” in a stereotyped way irre- spective of the ievel of the Com- yaunist movement and failed to coneretize the applieation of these tactics to the special conditions prevailing in the country, where they completely identified Social Fascism with Fascism and the So- ial Fascist upper stratum with the rank and file Social Democratic masses of workers, the Communists have weakened their independent Jeadership of class struggles and , the aggressive character of their | Hight against Social-Democracy and | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 as a consequence, allowed the lat- ter to play off their manoeuvres of fictitious struggle against Fas- cism (Austria, Poland) and to de- ceive the masses who follow it. portunities for drawing into the struggles the bread masses of work- ing men and working women, the unemployed, the working — class youth, office employees and other semi-proletarian strata. This, simultaneously with the careful appraisal of the general situation, calls for an exact estima- tion of the situation and the rela- tion of forces in the various bran- ches of industry and in each’ en- terprise, the estimation of all the peculiar features in conditions of the various strata of the working class and the application of cor- responding concrete method of struggle: economic strikes, short protest strikes, revolutionary de- monstrations, mass political strikes, ete. This calls for a determined struggle against the Right danger, against every manifestation of op- portunism of dragging at the tail, pagsivity and sectarianism. The fight for the majority of the working class as a condition for en- suring the dictatorship of the pro- letariat must be conducted by the Communist Parties at the present stage along the following main lines: 3. Entirely approving the gen- eral line and the work of the Pre- sidium of the E.C.C.I. in correet- ing the above mentioned weaknes- ses and shortcomings in the work of the Sections of the C.I., the XI. Plenum considers it necessary to concentrate the attention of the Communist. Parties upon the fol- lowing iundamental immediate tasks which arise from the new situation in the revolutionary class struggle. : Ke The printipal task that now con- fronts ail the Communist Parties is to win the majority of the work- ing class as an essential condition for victory over the bourgeoisie and for preparing the working class for the decisive battles for the dicta- torship of the preletariat. The suc- cessful fulfiment of this principal task is closely linked up with the consolidation of the independent revolutionary trade union move- ment, with the transformation, in the process of mass proletarian movements, of the revolutionary trade union oppositions and of the | independent ~ revolutionary trade unions into genuinely mass organi- zations capable indeed of preparing for and leading the economic bat- tles of the proletariat and of be- coming the principal transmission belts between the Communist Par- ties and the broad masses of the workers. 1. The fight against the capital- ist offensive and the organization of a broad counter offensive of the proletariat: against wage cuts, for wage increases, against mass dis- missals, for the 7-hour day without reduction of wages, for social in- surance at the expense of the em- ployers and the State, for imme- diate relief for the uhemployed. ~ 2. The fight agaimst the bour- geois dictatorship in all its forms: against victimization by employers and police terror, for the liberty of revolutionary workers’ organiza- tions, free press, free speech, right of assembly, for the Immediate dis- The uneven development of the crisis and of the revolutionary up- surge demands from each Com~ munist Party, im preparing for mass actions, the concrete applica- ion @f such forms of the united front from below as will create op- , solution of Fascist organizations, for disarming the latter and the arming of the workers, for defense against Fascist attacks, against im- perialist terror in the colonies, pro- paganda, organizational prepara- tion and carrying through of mass political strikes as a means of struggle of the- working class against the political reaction of the bourgeois dictatorship in all its forms, the organization of mass self-defense corps on a_ factory basis. 3. Fight against imperialist war and military intervention in the U. S.S.R.: exposure of the preparations for military intervention: by the im- perialist governments, fight against intervention in the Soviet Districts of China, the Communist Parties to take timely organizational measures for the event of their having to go underground, intensification of anti-militarist work, intensification of work among working class youth. For the purpese of winning the masses ‘of the peasantry and of strengthening the leading role of, the proletariat in’ the rural dis-/} tricts, the Communist Partics must render every support to lead and organize the struggle of the toiling peasantry against the burden of taxation, foreed labor, rent and in- debtedness, and link this movement with the struggle against the land- lords, for the confiscation of the land without compensation, against the rule of the bourgeoisie—for a Soviet Government. The Plenum of the E.C.C.I. notes the inadequate work of the Com- munist Parties in regard to the struggle against the imminent dan- ger of military intervention and imposes upon all the Sections of the Comintern the duty of carry- ing on a most active struggle of defense of the Soviet Union,. Neen eee —————————— a against imperialist war, for peace, and untiringly to expose the des- picable pacifist manoeuvres of the Second Social Fascist International — the most active instigator and organizer of counter-revolutionary wars against, the USSR. In preparing and developing ail forms of revolutionary action it is absolutely necessary to carry on a fierce consistent and all-round struggle against the Social Demo- cratic and Reformist leaders. Con- sistent work must be simultaneously carried on for winning over the So- cial Democratic workers and mem- bers of the reformist unions, on the basis of the tactics of the united front from below. ' ‘ In exposing the manoeuvres of Social Democracy, in contrasting its “Left” phrases with its treacherous _ : deeds, the Sections of the cr @ must, on the basis ef a concrete platferm of every-day demands ex- pose in a manner intelligible to the - masses every single act of treachery -on the part of Social Demoeracy and organize a joint struggle with the Social Democratic workers against the capitalist offensive, against war.and the Fascist reac- tion. Only by conducting a persistent, Systematic and daily struggle, only by really fighting for the everyday interests of the workers and util- izing every display of protest of the masses of the workers, however F small, against exploitation and fas- cist reaction, will the Communist Parties be able to achieve the broad united front from »elow, defeat Social-Democracy, create revolu- tionary mass trade unions, or revo- lutionary trade union. oppositions, win the majority of the working class and lead the working class to the decisive batties for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat. eee } Licentbael pp tian