The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-05-07

A Crisis unprecedented IN the MS
tory of modern industry is upon us,
The wheels of industry are steadily
slowing down. Millions of workers
are being thrown on to the streets
to starve. Not a single capitalist
government can see way in which
to deal with the situation. Each and
everyone of them are trusting to
luck and waiting for the economic
forces to beat out a solution to the
terrible tangle into which humanity
is driven. "Victory" and it's "Peace"
are the most dismal failures history
can record. The war got beyond the
control of the nations. The conse-
quences of the war are equally over
whelming.
The imperialists have shattered
Western and Central Europe to frag-
ments, competing groups, which are
either victims or tools of the great
powers. The economic unity so ne
cessary to Europe and the world at
large is, under the present circum-
stances, an impossibility. Imperial
ism rides rough-shod hither and
thither, all to no avail. The mountains
of debt do not dissolve, the markets
do not expand, the workers of Rus
sia refuse to be beaten, and within
the contracted arena of capitalism
the mad gambling of financiers con-
trasts with the rumbling of great
multitudes of workers on the move
towards the revolutionary struggle
for power.
Afraid Of this mighty army, and
panic stricken with the prospect of
losing their hold upon the worlds
resources, the governments of capital
ism drop their masks, and in spite
of all their democratic jargon make
machine guns and terrorism their
final arbiters. From every country
under capitalism come appeals for
aid, protests against oppression OF
the workers, news of the banning of
trade unions, the persecution of re-
volutionists and the insistent ag-
gressive application of the dictator
ship of capital. The class war is in
full swing, and any approach to the
problems before us without a clear
recognition of that fact is doomed
to produce futile results. 1t is for
us to recognize our position in this
worldwide class war and take the
measure of the tasks before us as
the vanguard of the British Working
Class movement.
OF the three great imperialist
powers Of the West-Great Britain,
France, America-Great Britain has
certainly a record unparalleled for
hypocrisy and grab. With unctuous
righteousness, she colonized and con-
quered for the good of the world
In the name of "liberty", law and
order, she has robbed, plundered and
murdered the peoples of Ireland
Egypt and India, brought under her
domination of the Middle East, the
border States Of Russia, and nc
greater enemy of the Workers Re.
volution exists than she. We in Bri.
tain are at the centre of the counter,
revolutionary forces making wal
upon the world revolution. Upon the
working class of Britain, the most
powerfully organized working clas:
in the world, rests the tremendous
responsibility Of its preservation.
World Trend Toward Revolution.
The external situation is such tha
we can safely say that the centr,
Of the World Revolution ii. e., Rus
sia) is secure. So great and mag
nificent has been the fight of tn
Russian workers and so keenly hay,
the workers in the Western
countries felt the significance of tn
struggle they were waging that to
day no capitalist government cal
raise q reliable army To marc