The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1932, Page 5

DEFEAT THE IMPERI- ALIST WAR PLANS Nw (Section of the Communist international) DEFEND THE UNION SOVIET DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1932 By V. KNORIN. The war in the Far East and the seizure by the Japanese of spoils, which were not allocated to them by the understanding of the im- perialists, is affecting the interests of the other imperialist powers to a great extent. Some of these im- perialist powers would agree to this seizure only on condition that Japa- nese imperialism were to open for division among the imperialist fam- ily the imaccessible territories of the Soviet Union. In this, however, they will meet with the terrific op- position of the working class of the Soviet Union. And the working class of the Soviet Union is not without asistance. “The working class of the U,S.S.R. is part of the workers of the world. ur victory was won, thanks to the assistance of the proletariat of the world to the efforts of the workers of the U.S.S.R. Without this as- sistance we would have perished jong ago.” (J. Stalin.) At present, not only has the power of the U. S. S. R. increased to a very great ex- tent, but the support of the world proletariat has increased to not a Jesser extent. . The movement of the masses 1s growing for the support of the Chi- nes people, against the division of China, against intervention in the U. S. S. R. and against “mperialist wars. For the first time in the his- tory of mankind does the proletariat yoice its active opposition to war even before the outbreak of same. For the first time in the history of mankind will there be found Lieb- knechts in every country heading strong proletarian parties, whose Supreme task it will be to transform fhe imperialist war started by their bourgeoisie into a civil war, into a war for the victorious proletarian reyolution The One MMisierhGl ei S _ His‘ory dengwi. dr such ex- ample Only in Russia. ‘s. there above tasks in 1914 and which has carried them to a victorious accom- plishment. And now, at the very start of the war by Japan in Man- churia, the Communist Party of Japan, though. considerably weaker than the Bolsheviks were in 1914-15, has advanced correct and militant Bolshevist slogans and rallies the masses under these slogans despite an unheard of police terror. It'is already a historic fact that the Communist Party of China utilized the attack on the Chinese people in order to mobilize them in struggle against the imperialist ag- gressors and in order to broaden the all-China revolutionary movement. What would have happened. in Germany at the end of the first imperialist world. war if there would The Revolutionary Struggle of the Japanese Communist Party Against Imperialist War The Communist Party of Japan has exposed the true ci aracter o! the war of the Japanese imperia.- ists against China at the very start of hostilities. The Party has been calling on the Japanese workers peasants and soldiers to struggle against the imperialist designs di- rected against the toilers of China, the U. S. S. R. and Japan. The Left Wing organizations ol workers in Japan are also conduct- ing an incessant struggle against war. The underground revolution- ary center of trade unions “Dzen- kioKiokikay” is organizing one anti-war demonstration after an- other. It is giving a _ distinctly antiwar character to. the numerous strikes, which it conducts against the attack on the economic status of the workers. Students and peasants are also beginning to actively participate in the struggle against war. The in- crease of arrests among students of institutions of higher learning and the increase of the numbers and intensity of agrarian conflicts offer an eloquent proof, What is the influence upon the Japanes: army ofthe anti-war a party which, had seb-for itself the Fiepe of the Communist. Party Commander “of. the, Red Army in and of the revolutioary trade unions of Japan. An occurrence, which took place during the recent operations around Shanghai, illustrates the crystallization of anti-war ten- dencies in the Japanese army very clearly. A Japanese aviator, sent Vv. BLUECHE (+ the War East to bombard Chinese positions, flew over the Japanese trenches and began to throw down Communist anti-war leaflets. These leaflets, printed in the Chinese and Japanese languages, called upon the Japanese soldiers to refuse to shoot down Chinese workers. Of course, this aviator was working in close contact with an organizatio: of his comrades in the flying field, who took care of the writing, printing and delivery of the leaflets. Another similar occurrence is still more characteristic. ‘The unrest among the soldiers of several of the Japanese detachments stationed around Shanghai reached such pro- portions that the soldiers of two regiments refused to fight, de- manded the cessation of hostilities and demanded to be sent home. These few incidents do not exhaust the number of anti-war demon- strations in the ranks of the Jap- anese army. We can cite here, for example, anti-war demonstrations of. soldiers. in Yoochun and Korea which were suppressed by the gov- erament- with sgyeral soldiers ex- ecuted, © 7 Historic Tasks in Fight Against Wat have been a strong, consolidated Communist Party, interwoven with the masses, a Communist Party such as now exists in-Poland, in- stead of only one Liebknecht, who himself did not sever all ideological connections with the social-demoe- racy? The Measure of Success. At times the success of the prole- tariat in its struggle against war is measured by the extent to which it was ALREADY CAPABLE of inter- fering with shipments of munitions to Japan. This, of course, is cor- rect. The strikes in Japan at the outbreak of war; the strikes in the port of Cherbourg; the anti-war demonstrations in all countries—all these are occurrences not hereto- fore witnessed in the history of mankind. These demonstrations and strikes reveal the revolutionary upsurge of the masses and their anti-war spirit. But this is far from enough. The proletariat is capable of far more serious forms of struggle against war. It is, therefore, the supreme task of the revolutionary organizations of the international proletariat to prepare the masses for an actual struggle against war and to conduct this Struggle in an organized manner. The capitalists realize what dan- ger war holds for them under pres- ent conditions. This war is an out- growth of the crisis; it is the next stage of the crisis; it is the logical outcome of the previous course of development of the crisis. By means of this war the imperialists are endeavoring to find in brute force a solution to the problems which the crisis has set before them. But at the same time they are thus creating suitable conditions for a victorious revolution. ‘The struggle against war is a struggle for the broad masses ot the working class; it is a struggle for revolution, for the overthrow of capitalism and for thewdietatorshiy of the proletariat. :