The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05
Against Imperialist War

The Communist International has called upon
all its sections and affiliations to observe the tenth
anniversary of the beginning of the World War
with a week of demonstrations against capitalist
war, against Imperialism and against the treach
cry of the misleaders of labor the socialists and
trade union bureaucrats. This week of mobilizing
the minds of the workers against the next world
slaughter will begin July 9th and end August 4th
1t should be participated in especially by the
workers of America.
The next world war is coming swiftly upon us
And this time it is the capitalist class of the
United States that will take the initiative, and
that is today pushing its pawns about over the
chessboard of the world in maneuvres for position
in this coming war. The experts report on repara-
tions is the assertion by American capitalism of
hegemony over Europe, which will have to be
sealed with the blood of American workers; the
studied affronts to Japan merely to give notice
that American capitalism is preparing to assert
its hegemony over the Far East which will also
find a warbaptism necessary.
The American ruling class has no illusions
about the coming wars for the conquest of the
world. Already they are beginning to mobilize the
masses for the first battles. Remember how, in
1916, Wall Street modified a nation that passion
ately wished to keep out of the world slaughter,
and slowly but surely pushed it in recall the 'pre
indictments put across under cover of a fake
pacifsm Today the same process is being begun
on larger scale.
Such is the meaning of the proposed "mobiliza
ton" to be carried out by the war department in
September, when all the patriots" are to demon
strate their preparedness to defend their
ca-=z try. It is the old preparedness demonstra
tons" that ushered the United States into the
world war; all oyer again but this time with the
q. s. in the center of the world maelstrom. Where
in 19161917 it presaged the slaughter of only some
few hundred thousand American workingclass
youth, in 1924 the preparations for a world war
mean the desolation of the earth, the destruction
of millions of men, women and children, not only
in far-away Europe-but in America.
In the putting of this warmania the
capitalists of America make use of devious means.
And one of these is the pseudo-pacifism of the
churches, the pettybourgeois peace societies, and
the socialpeace propaganda of the trade union
bureaucrats Under cover of the demand for peace,
these agents of capitalism suck away the working
class militancy; they demand peace-between
capital and labor.
But this social peace means, above ALL to deliver
the working class helpless into imperialist war.
Nothing can stop the slaughter of the wars of
capitalism, except the class war of the workers
for the overthrow of capitalist government, and the
establishment OF the workers, government Inc
cry of the imperialiss for between nations can
only be answered by the cry of the workers for
the war between the classes. The imperialist war
must be turned into the civil war, through which
The power of the exploiting class shall be broken.
This is the meaning of the week of demonstra-
tons on the tenth anniversary of the world war.
Let every worker prepare to spread the message
Against the imperialist war-the class war!
Against the experts report on reparations-the
rebuilding of the world by workers governments !!
Against the capitalist dictatOrship-the proletar-
ian dictatorship