The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-11

lines the tasks before the Com
s munist Parties In England, Ger
many, France, Italy and other re-
Voiutionary countries. Thru his en-
tire report to the Fifth Communist
international Congress Is seen the
program Of eo-ordlnatIng the revo-
Iutlonary movement Of the world
into a unified, Irresistible body.
CHAPTER x.
Concrete Tasks Of Principal Parties.
The English Party.
L NOW come to the final chapter:
| the concrete tasks of the most i'm
portant parties. And here agree
with the German Party in its view
that each separate party must be CIV
en- its own concrete directions. That
will be the most important work of
this congress.
Politically, the most important sec
ton Of the Communist International,
at present, is not the German, nor
the Russian, but the English section.
Here we are faced by remarkable sit
uations: a party Of only three to four
thousand members, Yields far wider
influence than would appear from
these figures. For in England we are
dealing with a different tradition.
MacDonald's party is not much
stronger than ours. Their weekly
paper the New Leader" has a cir
culation of $4,000; we have circu-
lation of $4,000. The tradition of a
mass party is not known in England.
Max Beer is quite right when he
says that old Keir Hardie looked up
on the movement as a means Of in
fiuencing individual leaders. To form
a mass party in England is the chief
task of the entire present period. The
conditions are there. But the English
Party shows signs of great weak
ness. For instance, it does not dare
to criticise Macdonald.
Now with regard to this, one must
candidly admit that great masses of
the English workers are still attached
to Macdonald and speak Of him with
affection.
Like Kerensky.
have the feeling that it is the
same situation as we had in Russia
during the first month Of Kerensky's
goEernment. Nobody could say a
word against Kerensky. One had to
criticise him indirectly; first for an
hour to dilate on how Kerensky was
a good fellow and almost a great
man, and then delioately limiting that
he too makes mistakes. In England
we have the same state Of affairs.
The workers are still attracted to
Macdonald; they are still full Of illu-
sions and he has the advantage that
he has not a majority In Parliament.
This enables him to say to the work
ers: 81 should like to do much more,
but l have not a majority; the next
elections, when we have a majority,
we will soon show the stuff we are
made of. We shall come forward and
like lions we will make the forests
ring"
The situation, therefore, is not so
simple. The Macdonald Government
is still on rising wave of popularity.
But if we wait passively until the tide
turns, then we shall have no need
of a Communist Party. The Social
Democracy will go bankrupt anyhow.
We are there to hasten the process.
That is the reason why our party in
Lngland must already resolutely fight
Macdonald now in order that the
masses when they at length realize
MacDonald's true character they win
know that we, the Communists, told
them the truth long ago.
Need Of British Daily.
In the year 1921 Lenin fought
against Wynkoop and other 'lefts" OF
that time, over the question of com
munists joining the Labor Party. But
in the year 1924 we are face to face
with a new situation. A Labor
Government exists, and Mac Donald is
in power Therefore our little group
of communists must follow it's his
toric path. They must first become a
mass party; and secondly begin to
recruit workers into the Party and
found a daily paper. When one talks
to the English comrades about this
they say that this is asking them to
woar hat that is far too big for
their head, and they worry about how
this hat will fit them. Thirdly we
must more thoroughly permeate the
rank and file of the trade-unions in
order to form a left-wing movement
there. Fourthly. more attention must
be paid to the youth. Until quite re.
Gently, there was no Young Commu.
mist movement at all in England, and
II is even now only at its beginning
Fifth, the colonial question must be
attacked with audacity such as be.
flts Bolsheviks. Sixth, digressions to
the right must be combatted where
ever they are met with; election cam
paigns must be conducted differently
tho lines proposed by Rosmer must
not be followed; in their propaganda
they must be prepared even for a