The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
By {. H. BROWN.

world supremacy. First, there was
Great Britain, a tremendous factor yet,
despite a gradual weakening since pre-
war days. Secondly, the U. s. A., the
greatest imperialist rival of Britain
and which, after the war, is perhaps
the most powerful Of all imperialist
powers. And last but not least, and
deeply feared by both America and
Britain, is the o. S. S. r.
There are two great struggles TAX
ing place before our eyes-the fight
for world supremacy between Great
Britain and America and the fight for
world supremacy between these coun-
tries and the Soviet Union. 1t is of
the struggle between Britain and the
Soviet Union l wish to treat in this
article.
GREAT BRITAIN is the center Of a
~ world empire-a center Of vast
colonial exploitation. British imper-
ialism is the forerunner Of all other
5' imperialisms. Whilst half the present
d capitalist world was still sleeping in
3 its feudal bed, British capitalism was
rapidly at work annexing for its own
sole use vast areas containing almost
unlimited sources of raw materials
and cheap labor power. At the out
break of the world war in 1914, she
had largely developed these areas, and
a most formidable world imperialist
force was the result.
The Soviet Union is also a world
center. Not for colonial exploitation
and oppression, but for those forces
which fight against world imperialism.
1t is also a growing factor in the
world economic battle. In both these
activities economic and political it is
brot into conflict with British imper-
ialism. We have not far to seek to
find expression of this conflict and
which, on examination reveals that it
is life and death struggle.
TAKE first Of ali the period immedi-
10 4, ately after the Russian revolution
the Intervention period. During the
a days when the revolution was men
aced by successive military counter
revolutionary attacks, we find that the
British government made direct at
tacks and supported KoIchak, Denkin
and Wrangel to the extent Of 100 mil
lion pounds of ready money. In addi-
ton all the surplus stores from the
European battlefront was handed
over to these brigands.. That was
deemed to be fair price to keep the
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hands of a Communist government
Quite early the British bourgeoisie an
ticipated what would be the result IL
the peasant masses near the northern
frontier of India, saw the contrast be-
tween Soviet policy to the peasants
and the policy of British Imperialism.
1881 Then later we see the conflict ex-
pressing itself in the refusal of the
British bourgeoisie to agree to the
opening of normal trade relations with
Russia
Baldwin, Chamberlain Take a Hand.
liver since the Baldwin administra-
IL ton in Britain assumed executive
power the keynote of its foreign pol
ern and central European states
against the U. S. S. r.
The reason for this is not far to
seek. British Imperialism, weakened
by the tremendous material loss DUR
ing the European war; faced with
more serious competition and loss Of
markets in all parts of the world: bur-
adened by an over capitalized and
WORKOUT industrial system at home;
is Keeling under an economic crisis
never before equalled in its intensity
and fraught with such grave dangers
of complete breakup of the whole
system.
In order to wage successful sco-
nomic warfare against its formidable
world competitors, and to save its priv
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