The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
BY EARL 3. RRowpER.


4 meeting at Scarborough, adopted
a resolution pIedeng opposition to
5ritist Imperialism and favoring the
right Of seIf-deterniination for all peo-
pies within the empire even to the
point Of complete separation"
When the cables brot the above
news last Saturday, few people real
lied at first glance. that this is prob
ably the greatest political event since
the Russian revolution.
: British imperialism is central pill
lar-of the capitalist system of the
4 world.
The British labor movement has
hitherto been central pillar of the
empire.
When the Macdonald labor gov
eminent" was in office it continued
all the traditional policies Of imper-
ialism, threatening, falling and kill
ing the Hindus, exploiting and humili-
ating the Chinese, bombing the ma
tiyes or Iraq, etc. 1t was SO imper-
ialistic that every imperialist move
of the Baldwin government since then
has been specifically justified" by
reference to labor party precedent.
And now, almost without warning,
this fundamental support Of imperial
ism is withdrawn by the Trade Union
Congress, by the overwhelming vote
of 3,OS2,OOO to 10000.
A Reputation of Mac Donaldism.
THIS is much more than repudia-
1 tienSof Ramsay Macdonald. 1t is
{ much more than rejection Of J. H,
Thomas, ct al 1t is departure from,
a distinct rupture with, MacDonaldism
the whole theory and practice of
the Second International, of the EN-
pire Socialists" of the reformists and
traitors of the proletariat of all lands.
Well may the bourgeois press
scream in alarm. "'British organized
labor has surrendered to Bolshevism,"
is the judgment of the most conserva-
tive circles in England, according to
wireless dispatch to the New York
Times from London.
The British bourgeoisie is astound-
ed. 1t weeps copious tears, alternat-
ing with stormy threats, while it
points out that. "the. program laid
down by the Scarborough Trade
Union Congress is Numerically OPP
posed to the official program of the
British labor party"
Moscow won the battle Of Scar
: borough; will she win the battle Of
Liverpool?" queries the New York
Times correspondent, calling attention
to the october conference of the la
Dor party at Liverpool.
This is the key to the current
events of the next few weeks. Mac
Donald, fresh from his long visit with
the king at BaImoral castle, is going
to make a last desperate struggle for
king and empire at Liverpool, with
the able assistance Of the entire capt.
talist press.
The London Morning Post charges
the congress with Having bowed so
slavishly to Moscow as even to al
low Zinoviev to write the resolution"
No doubt Zinoviev has written many
things of that nature. but the formula
against which the Morning Post RACES
-''self-determination even to the
point of separation."-is that Of Via
dimir Ilyitch I.enin. The British
trades unions, in repudiating MacDon-
aldism, are adopting Leninism.
The Revolutionary Forces.
WHAT has brot about this tremen-
w dous change? Surely not just the
able propaganda of Harry Pollitt, Tom
Mann, and the Minority Movement.
effective as that has been. The ex-
PLANTATION Is that the British empire
is no longer able TO bride and cor
rupt the workers by giving sections
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