The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-30
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE End CONGRESS OF THE 3rd COM
MuNIST NTERNATIQNAI: Moscow 1920
18th Installmsnt.)
DISCUSSION OF COLONIAL AND Ma
TIONAL POLICY.
(Petrograd Pravda, July 80, 1920.)
SPEECH OF CoMRADE SuLTAN-zADE.

and national policy were continued.
SPEECH OF COMRADE SULTAN-ZADE.
In the name of the Persian Communist
party spoke Comrade Sultan-Zade, who cal
led attention to the fact that the experiences
of the Russian proletariat in Kirgizia, Tur-
kestan, and other regions quite undeveloped
in capitalistic sense, have proven that the
Soviet authority can be organized even in
the absence of developed industrial prole-
tariat This can be said even more definitely
with respect to Persia, Egypt, and India,
and with respect to those colonies where all
the aspects of social differentiation and all
political tendencies are represented.
Comrade Sultan-Za emphasizes the fact
that the social revolution in India and Per-
sia has broad and solid base in the prole-
tariat, and in the semiproletariat organized
there by English trade capital by destroying
the native carpet and textile industries.
,"The countries of the Orient are passing
through period of mass pauperization, as
sociated with the period of the first accu-
mutation of capital. Yearly over ten million
persons are transferred from Asiatic colo
nies, while the peasantry carries on its
shoulders the burden of landlords, clergy,
capitalists, bureaucrats, and brigands IN
general
Answering Comrade Roy the delegate
from India, Comrade Sultan-Zade says that
the social revolution will not come from the
Orient and will not free Europe; but, on he
other hand, the Communist International
must come to the assistance of the toiling
masses of the Orient in order to facilitate
for them the process of social revolution
The Situation in China.
Comrade Lau gives an outline of the situa'
ton in China. The Versailles Conference not
only gave nothing to China but sanctioned
the seizure by Japan of three Chinese Pro-
vinces. The Chinese masses answered by
boycotting Japanese goods and by increasing
the struggle against the Northern Govern
ment.
Socialist parties in China are winning
countries are not unanimous, since some are as
sociated with the world markets and capital whit
others are associated with the national market
and capital All these circumstances greatly facill
tate the development of social revolution in tn
Orient and Persia where already in 1905 the Sovie
of Peasant Deputies-Anjumani- organized.
Moscow Izvestia, July 20, 1920.)
~ Further, he points out that the experience o
the National Democratic movement in the Orien
confirms the policy of assisting preferably the toll
ing masses through the intermediary Of q Com
munist Party, rather than by supporting indefinit
and unsuitable political organizations of petit
bourgeois character
Comrade Grazadei speaks on the role OF tn
Soviet Russian Republic for the development .
social revolution, and expresses the opinion the
its struggle against world capital at the preser
moment should be considered synonymous with I'll
struggle of the III International, just as the d.
feat of the Paris Commune at its time represente
the defeat Of the International AS for the sma
nations, in his opinion they did not carry on 9
imperialistic p0cy during the war, since they wei
powerless. After the war they can not carry on Q
imperiastic policy because they are themselves Il
object of the imperialistc maneuvers of the larg
pirates. This last fact represents the full measu
of their role in the history of the social strugg
on world scale. Moscow Izvestia, July 29)