The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1932, Page 5

IN TWO SECTIONS TWO) (SECTION (Section of the Communist International) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1932 DEMONSTRATE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR APRIL 6 TWO CAMPS~TWO CLASSES APS » IMPERIALIS ome Problems in the Fight Against the Developing World War cannot be considered, however, as®Forward of March 20th, which de-s, Japan leads the military action in, i By EARL BROWDER capitalist world, trying to find a way out of the crisis, is moving ever faster to military action —to the “solution” of this crisis by war. The war which has already begun in the Far East will in the process of its development inevit- ably involve the entire world. The struggle against war is the first problem of the day for all workers and especially, therefore, for our Communist Party. Each new phase in the spreading of the military areas is not always possible to see in all its details in advance. The main outlines of the war front, however, are clear. The war is, in the first place, a mob- ilization of all the forces of im- perialism against the Soviet Union, against Soviet China and for the ’ partitioning of China at the cost of @ greatly intensified exploitation of the Chinese people, against the col- onial revolution throughout the world, for the further colonia enslavement of the dependent and oppressed peoples and working-class movement in the imperialist coun- tries. Against the U. S. S. R. against the Chinese People The developing war is in the first place a war of imperialism against the proletarian revolution, against the new world of socialism which has its stronghoid in the U.S.S.R. Simultaneously the war becomes inevitable as an instrument for the armed redivision of the world as a result of the growing contradictions within the imperialist camp. Here is taking place a regrouping and shifting of forces, which is not com- pleted and by no means rigid and set, reflecting the depth of the crisis and the resulting growing contradictions. Therefore, it is im- possible to clearly see the final alignment between the imperialist powers, which will assume a def- inite character in the course of the development of the war itself. The principal immediate moving force of war against the Soviet Union—France and her vassal states in Europe in alliance with Japan in the East—is at the same time one of the decisive factors in the process of regrouping of the im- perialist powers, trying to use and play upon the fundamental an- tagonism between the United States and British imperialism dnd their principal and common _hostiilty against the Soviet Union. The firece struggle that is taking place belveen the imperialists as well as the contradictions within | the various camps of imperialism a@ factor deluying the war against the Soviet Union and the partition- ing of China, The point has been reached where the main effort is being made by the imperialists to find a solution first of all by com- mon hostile actions and war against the Soviet Union. Tremendous war mobilization, including the “preparation” of the so-called pub- lic opinion is now taking place for this purpose. -Every lie factory against the Soviet Union is busily pouring forth its poison to prepare various sections of the population of the imperialist countries for the war and to mobilize them in its sup- port. Socialists Play War Games of their Masters Above all, do the parties of the Second International carry out the war game of their imperialist mas- ters in deceiving the masses and involving them in a world slaugh- ter. The social democracy in Ger- many, under the leadership of the monarchist Hindenburg, is definitely throwing all of its forces in the scale of capitulation to the French im- perialist war plans and the complete entry into the anti-Soviet front. The British Labor Party is carry- ing through by means of its fake opposition a policy of complete sup- port and solidarity in deeds with the Baldwin-MacDonald govern- ment, above all on all questions of foreign policy. The Japanese Socialists openly endorse the Japanese imperialist aggressions in Manchuria and China as those who “carry forward civili- zation.” Although the American Socialists are not yet a governmental factor like the German and British parties of the Second International, al- ready they are increasingly becom- ing a part.of the whole imperialist state system. Morris Hillquit, the- oretical leader of the Socialist Party of America, publically appears as the attorney for the former Czarist oil capitalists demanding the return of the Baku oil fields to their capitalist “owners.” Norman Tho- mas, the “mass” leader of American Socialism, covers the imperialist aggression against the Soviet Union with pacifist phrases, while publicly solidarizing himself with each spe- cific manouver of Hoover and with the League of Nations—one of the chief pacifist masks for war pre- parations. Abramovitch, one of the leaders of the Second International and big brother of Norman Thomas, writes openly in the whole Socialist press inciting to war against the Soviet Union. A typical example is his article published in the New York scribes the Soviet Union as the “red imperialist” aggressor, which has brought about the beginnings of war in Manchuria, and justifying wars against the Soviet Union as a war of “democracy” against “dic- tatorship.” He repeats the classic capitalist lie that the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1929 by the militarist tools of world im- perialism was an effort for “re- volutionary justice,” instead of the first war move in the East of the imperialists, especially American imperialism. It is no accident that it was only the next day that was printed Trotsky’s article, syndicated throughout the capitalist press, which contained his special coun- ter-revolutionary contribution to war preparations in the assurance to the world that Japan will “not decide to take directly aggressive action against the U. 8. S. R.,” that such a move “cannot be a first line plan” of Japan, precisely at the moment when the main concen- tration of Japanese military forces is on the Siberian border in Korea and Manchuria. It becomes more clear every day that the forces released by the crisis are rushing the imperialists into a new world war. The argu- ment that the “fear of revolution” will restrain the imperialist war makers in the mouths of the social fascists, who are the henchmen of the revolution, becomes one of the most insidious weapons in their hands to dampen the workers’ alert- ness and readiness to struggle to prevent the carrying through of mass revolutionary actions. All with the main purpose of dissipating the fighting enétgy of the workers with the plea that there is no danger of war. Only to the degree that the workers in large masses actually arouse themselves to struggle and organize this struggle against each and every stage in the preparation and the development of war can the “fear of revolution” really in- fluence the actions of world im- perialism and in preparing the workers for their great historical mission of transforming imperialist war into civil war. Every argument which tends to quiet down the anger of the workers and their struggle in the stages of preparation of the war and during the war is a direct help to the imperialist war pro- gram. The Social Fascists are especially clever in their distortion of revolu- tionary slogans for counter revolu- tionary purposes. They have a spe- cial department for this purpose which is led by the renegades from Communism, the ‘Trotskyites and Brandlerites. At the moment when the first steps of war against the Soviet Union, these “revolutionary” gentlemen rush forward with the slogan, “Don’t fight against. Jap- anese imperialism, leave that for the Japanese workers. We must only fight against American im- perialism.” Only! It is not merely confusion on the part of these cap- italist agents which is behind such agitation. They, who disarm the American proletariat in its battle with the American capitalists un- derstand quite well their function, which is to preyent the workers from fighting against imperialist war in a concrete form in any of its phases and to deliver them helpless to the American war lords. Japanese Imperialism Executioner for World Imperialism In the past months of Japanese imperialism’s mass slaughter of Chinese men, women and children, of Japanese imperialism’s moves towards Siberia, it is no accident that all of the pacifists and “So- cialists” who for years have been trying to lull the watchfulness of the workers by the assertion that boycott can prevent an imperialis: war suddenly become the bitterest enemise of the boycott movement, which is an expression of the grow- ing indignation of the population and the means of mobilizing the broadest sections against Japanese imperialist, the executioner for and spearhead of world imperialism. The Communist Party Leads Struggles Against War The real expression of the mass anger against bloody Japanese im- perialism was that given under the leadership of the Communist Party in the meetings and demonstrations that have taken place throughout the country, especially in Chicago and Washington. It is further no accident that this struggle against the immediate imperialist aggres- sors, Japanese Imperialism, resulted in especially vicious and bloody suppression of these demonstrations by American police with the pro- fuse thanks and appreciation of Japanese ambassador and counsels. Precisely because the Communist Party is leading the American working-class in the struggle against American imperialism, that is is playing a leading role in organizing the mass movement against Japan- ese imperialism, which at this mo- ment is ALREADY waging war against the Chinese people and openly moving against the workers’ fatherland. The same purpose of paralyzing the mass revolutionary activity for the defense of the Chinese people and the Soviet Union has the coune ter-revolutionary theory of Weise bord and his little clique that of raising by the Communists the demand for American imperialist war ships under the direction of Hoover to convey American cap- italist ammunitions to the Soviet Union in China for a revolutionary war. It must be clear to the American workers that, however sharp the Struggle between American and Japanese imperialism, and how Many manouvers there may be, especially the manouvers of Amere ican imperialism to help by all means the further development of the war in the East as the prelude of the general world war (and the possibility and necessity of utilizing all contradictions in their various shades between the imperiale ists in each stage of their de velopment), that all of this must take place within the limitations of the fundamental irreconcilable. con- tradiction, the main contradiction between the two worlds, the world of decaying capitalism on the one hand and the world of rising so- cialist construction in the Sevwiet Union on the other. The revolutionary workers must everywhere make use of the con- centrated work of the Anti-War Week, culminating April 6th, the anniversary of America’s entry into the World War of 1914-1918, to really rouse the millon masses to the fact that war is already begun, a war which will involve the en- tire world. We must sharply ex- pose the slanderous lies of the parties of the Second International who are the most dangerous agents of the war makers among the toil- ing masses. We must arouse the hatred and the resentment of the masses against bloody Japanese im- perialism and strengthen the pao~- letarian solidarity with the growing heroic revolutionary movement in Japan and organize the struggle against American imperialism’s participation in the rape of Chima and the preparations of the war against the Soviet Union.. We must arouse and organize the vigilance of the workers in the war and transport industries to actively pre- vent the shipment of ammunitions of war to Japanese imperialism and to demand the withdrawal of all imperialist armed forces from China. The Anti-War Week must be not the climax but merely the beginning of an even broader mass mobiliza- tion of the struggle against war. After April 6th comes the mobili- zation of May Day, international labor day which will be an even greater day of struggle against im- perialist war. ~_—-—- U.S. Entered *he Las: War April 6-- Make This a Day of Fight Against Imperialist War} Oo Om we Aw s