The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
1914 Spectre:-1925--A World Army

Communist International just as en-
envy nations try to aid the rise to
power of friendly parties in the gov
eminent of rivals, marks a new and
important phase in the development
of the world revolution.
XAIHEN the American capitalist
wv press champions Trotsky
against zinoviey we have in this an
announcement of its new strategy
and confession of it's knowledge of !,
force inside of capitalism which it
feels will rend it to bits unless it can
be brought under bourgeois domina-
ton.
From a collection of revolutionary
committees in 1919 to which world
capitalism paid attention only be-
cause of the Russian revolution, the
Communist International under the
guidance Of Lenin,. until his death and
since then of his teachings, has
grown until it is no longer a ghost at
the feast that caused capitalism to
glance uneasily over it's shoulder. The
ghost of 1S47 is now flesh and blood,
it is not just ga spectre that haunts
Europe, the spectre of Communism"
but living, sturdy army of millions
of Communist workers, with powerful
units in every country, reaching out
and taking a resistless power that is
built of the hands and brains of my
RAIDS of oppressed toilers of all races
| white yellow and black.
N T what speed will the revolution
n travel now that capitalism adj
mits that the struggle is joined?
| We hope it will be at lightning
| speed, but we know the merciless
manner in which capitalism will try
to crush it. We know that as capital
ism becomes increasingly unstable
and imperialist war threatens the
working class the tempo of the revo-
luton will be accelerated. We do
not know what day or year the geo.
metrical progression of the revolu.
ton will find it victor but this we de-
know:
That it is not necessary to change
! l a word or line in the declaration
of the Third Congress held four years
ago:
whether the revolutionary move
ment in the near future is going to
proceed at rapid or protracted
rate, the Communist Party must,
in either case, be the PARTY OF
ACTION. This party stands at the
head of the struggling masses. Il
must firmly and clearly formulate
its slogans and must expose and
sweep aside all equiVocaI slogans of
the social-democrats, which always
tend towards compromise. What
ever the turns in the course of the
struggle, the Communists should al
ways strive to fortify the contested
positions, to get the masses used to
active maneuvering, to equip them
with new methods calculated to
lead to an open conflict with the
enemy forces. Taking advantage
Of every breathing space offered IN
order to appreciate the experiences
of the preceding phase of the strug-
gle, the Communist Party should
strive to deepen and widen the class
conflicts, to combine them national
Iy and Internationally by unity of
goal and practical activity, and In
this way, at the head of the probe
tariat, shatter all reslsranee 10 ITS
dictatorship and the social revoIu-
tion."
THESE statements have stood the
i test of four terrible years. World
capitalism has not.
Be the development of the world
revolution fast or slow, the path of
the Communist Parties has been
clearly blazed and their tasks defined.
The path may be longer and rough
er in America than elsewhere, but the
tasks and the goal are the same.
1.-THE Workers (Communist) Party
1 on the sixth anniversary or the
Communist International can say that
it understands and carries out its rev.
dictionary mission to the best of its
ability. 1t bears the heavy burden of
organizing and leading the most back
ward working class in the capitalist
world for the conquest of power in
the strongest capitalist nation. 1t &C
cepts this responsibility and believes
that with Leninism as its watchword
and the Communist International as
its leader it can and will plant the
crimson banner of a government of
workers and farmers-a dictatorship
OF the working class-on the shatter.
ed battlements of American capital
ism-from whose ruins will rise the
new Communist society where "he
who does not work, neither shall he
eat" shall drive the oilers either to
labor or disgrace.