The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-02
By JOHN PEPPER

" ASSASH HIS place, ana de-
clared that Bombacci is no longer
worthy of the confidence of the PARTY
and of the working class.
The Communist Party of Bulgaria
expelled the Communist deputy, DR..
Nlkola Sakarof from the PARTY and
called upon him to resign his place.
These two recent events within the
Communist international bring up
again the question of Parliamentar-
ism. The opponents of participation
IN the bourgeois parliaments will try
again to ind arguments against the
tactics OF the Communist Interna-
tional. They will tell how Bombacci
behaved as lackey in parliament and
not as a revolutionary, that at the
occasion of the discussion on trade
relations between Italy and Russia,
ne praised Mussolini and forgot ali
proletarian pride. The opponents of
participation in parliaments will tell
with anger how Nikola Sakaroff in the
parliament of the counter revolution
IN Bulgaria showed himself a rene
gade, that he slandered shamefully
the heroic September uprising of the
Bulgarian workers and peasants.
One swallow doesn't make a sum-
mer. One or two renegades do not
make a winter, do not necessitate the
revision of the tactics Of the Com
munist International.
New Communist Experiences
The Communist International has
always made sharp division between
opportunist parliamentarism and re-
evolutionary parliamentarism. It cri-
ticized the opportunist parliamentar-
ism Of the Social Democrats and at
the same time it built up the tactic of
revolutionary parliamentarism. Lenin
and the Russian Bolsheviki were the
first party which exposed and showed
their contempt for the practice Of
opportunist parliamentarism but at
the same time they waged the first
fight against all Syndicalist. /. w. w.
and so-called left Communist ele-
ments which rejected parliamentarisn
as matter of principle.
The situation in the Communist In
ternational today is such that all the
great Communist parties participate
in the various election fights and in
the various parliaments. The Ger
man, the French, the Cheko- Sloyak.
the Italian, the Bulgarian, the Polish
Communist Parties-legal or illegal.
and the countries which are at greatly
varying stages of development all
have their Communist fractions in
parliament. The French Communists
have proven that they have under
stood how to use their places in parlia-
ment against imperialism and the
Ruhr invasion for practical anti-mili-
tarism. The Polish Communist frac-
ton in parliament has become one of
tht most important legal expressions
of the illegal party. The German
the moment of dissolution of the Com
munist Party issued its declaration in
the Reichstag, the real revolutionary
slogan: "The Communist Reichstag
fraction calls upon the workers to pre-
pare for the decisive struggle. The
uprising Of the working class is the
only deed that can save the German
people. In the struggle against mill
tary dictatorship we will prepare the
armed uprising, and the victory of the
proletarian dictatorship"
The various Congresses of the Com
munist International and the implac-
able fight of Lenin in his various
writings against revolutionary phrase
and for evolutionary realism have
clarified theoretically the question of
parliamentarism. The practice of.
the various Communist parties proves
that revolutionary parliamentarism
is possible and that Dombal in Po-
land, Paul Froelich in Germany, Mar
eel Cachin in France, in their fight in
parliament have become the real fol-
lowers of the parliamentary activity
Of Karl Liebknecht and the Bolshe-
Wiki fraction in the Russian Duma.
Individual comrades such as Bonn
bacci in Italy or Sakaroff in Bulgaria
can fall victims to parliamentary
cretinism. But the Communist In
ternational and its most important