The daily worker., 1924-07-25

Olner lot many years TO come. Inc
Labor Party has become too strong,
and the power OF the bourgeoisie has
been too much shaken for it not to be
a governmental factor. One can say
definitely the international Social
Democracy has become the "Third
Party" of the bourgeoisie: the Third
Party, as the party of democracy" is
spoken of in America. But the Eur
opean Social Democracy, as we know
it, is really, effectively speaking,
nothing but a Third Party of the
world bourgeoisie at the present time.
Therefore l believe that the British
Labor Party will probably appear in
still other government combinations.
Its participation in governments will
not be passing phase; but the long
er it governs, the more will the illu-
sions prevailing among the British
workers diminish.
Thus, for us, the new international
situation was not unexpected. Illu-
sions will arise among many Social
Democratic workers. Loebe probably
expressed that was in the minds of
many social democratic workers.
Moreover, 1t is possible, that the
British Labor Government will come
to the rescue of the German Social
Democrats by putting them back into
the saddle for a time. Thus illusions
will unavoidably rise. The task of the
Fifth World Congress is to decide
how to approach the social democratic
and non-party workers-particular in
two most important countries, Great
Britain and France,-to make them
see clearly what is taking place in
Europe, that the "pacifsts" are like
a "soporific" to put them to sleep.
The Experts Report contains a mum.
ber of concealed, cruel demands, but
the German working class has not
yet spoken, and the international
working class also will have its say.
Though they may not have the
strength, in the immediate future, to
Illustrate these demands, it is never
theless our duty to make it clear to
the workers, right now, how this mat
ter will end and that we, the commun-
lists, will emphasize our standpoint
more clearly than we have done hi
therto. We must change our methods
of agitation because we are facing a
new situation; for instance; the ques-
ton of disarmament.
The War Menace
Has not the moment arrived when
we communists must bring up Fried
rich Engels question: "Can Europe
disarm?" Must we not say: 'In Great
Britain a Labor Government, a Gov
ernment of the Second International,
is at the helm; in Russia a Soviet
Government, a government of the
Third International, is in power, the
Cossacks are no longer there, Rus
sian Czarism has disappeared. There
is the Labor Government in Great
Britain; a Left bloc in France, where
the socialists are making part of the
Government. A pacifst-democratic era
has begun in America; in Austria and
in Belgium you are very strong. You
do not wish for war. Therefore please
tell us-why do you not disarm?"
We know very well that they will
not only evade this question, but that
in Great Britain and in France and
everywhere they support ornaments.
| have taken this as an example in
order to prove that we have reached
a situation in which we must expect
the outbreak of a new series OF wars,
and we must take proper measures.
Problem Of Power on the Order Of
the Day
That, roughly speaking, is the in
ternational situation. believe, never
theless, that in spite of the normal,
"Paciist" period, that in the most
important countries OF bourgeois Eur
ope the problem Of power has now
arisen. | will soon explain what l
mean by that.
Comrades, 1t IL claimed that the