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passed and England, that powerful
country, has passed thru political
crisis. The elections will follow and
the labor party, which is the govern
ing party, goes into the fight with the
slogan: The whole treaty with the
Soviet Union without deletions. You
see how history is working for US.
Our comrades sometimes say that
the world revolution is proceeding too
slowly and question whether the
Comintern is not. responsible for the
slow rate of advance, am ready, to
admit that the revolutionizing of the
West could proceed more rapidly. In
fact the Comintern could and ought
to work more energetically. But COM
rades, one can say without hesitation
that if you take the period Of nine
months which has just elapsed, we
can hardly complain Of slowness. In
these nine months we have witnessed
how the Second International has sue
ceeded to the government in num-
Der of countries and, under symptoms
of the revolutionizing Of the workers,
have been turned out again.
The Demoeratic-Paeifist Era is Only
a Historical Episode.
1t has been said of late that an
epoch or era of democratic pacifism
had arrived: in England a, menshe-
visit government; in France a govern
ment of the "left bloc" actively sup
ported by socialists; in Denmark a
social democratic government; in Bel
GUM a labor government is expected
any day; in Jugo-Slavia the Davidoyic
cabinet, etc. In one word, an epoch of
democratic pacifism. Some comrades
jumped to the conclusion that this
will retard the proletarian world revo-
luton for years; that a prolonged
peaceful period of capitalism has set
in and that therefore change of tao
tics is necessary. If we faithfully des-
cribe the events which are proceeding
in Europe we must say, and the Fifth
bourgeoisie is attempting by means
of the mensheviki to introduce a new
sort of government because they can
no longer govern with the old methods
of terror and brutality. They were
compelled to don the mask of paci-
fism and of democracy, and for the
second time after the war to invite
representatives of the Second Inter
national to take the reigns of govern
ment. The Fifth Congress of the
Comintern had, as result of an
analysis of the situation which had
arisen, come to the conclusion that
this epoch will not last long, that it
is masquerade Of the bourgeoisie
and is not sign Of its strength but
Of its weakness.
Every change Of epoch-from fas-
cism to pacifsm, from democracy to
white dictatorship and vice versa
shakes the foundation Of the bour-
geois world. The democratic pacifist
era will pass by and the revolution
will come. And it is our task to ex.
pose those who disguise themselves;
" NOpAf OAA thO hAfAoho anu " AC4udAu
incorporating Bolsheviki to the end.
Hence the slogan: Bolshevizing our
parties!
What do we see now? If MacDon-
aid has to go and Lloyd and Curzon
take his place, where then will the
notorious ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS era be-?
There will be nothing left of it.
The Position of Herriot Is No Better
In the France of Herriot, pacifsm is
likewise fading away before it has
reached full bloom. We have just had
a visit from Marty. He has told us
of the feeling prevailing in France.
There is no longer any magic in the
idea of the left bloc, which a few
months ago quite turned the heads
of the population. During the cleo
ton campaign Herriot, in order to gain
the votes of the civil servants. prom