The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-22

lefts lead Communism away from the
masses and the rights lead the
masses away from real Communism.
Both must be fought energetically and
in the past we have done this. The
speaker then mentioned various ul.
tralefts who had left the Comintern,
for instance, Gorter and Pannekoek
and a number of German K. A. P. work
ers who were honest fighters and it
has been worth white to attempt to
convince them. These were made of
different stuff than Katz. Schumacher
was once again different. We have
still rather generous collection of
ultraleft elements inside the Comm
tern and. hope that they will mot lead
us but permit themselves to be taught
On the right we had also a great num-
Der of people who left usa for in
stance, Levi, Frossard, 1Friesland,
Hoeglund, Tranmael, etc. Amongst
them were very capable people.
don't intend to speak about people
like Bubnik who simply sold them
selves. Some rights still remain in
side the Comintern and of these some
are developing into real and honest
Communists. Those comrades are
worthy Of remark who left us but
later found their way back to the
Comintern like Serrati. We fought
very strongly against him but when
we observed the first signs that he
was honestly beginning to see his mis-
takes, the Comintern and the Italian
party did everything in order to make
his return possible. Many ultralefts,
Italian and German comrades, have
come back and it is the task of the
Comintern to make the return of such
comrades as even as possible. All
forces which we can bring into the
line of the Comintern must be utilized
for our struggle.
THE enlarged executive fought
L against the rights in France, Cze-
cho-Slovakia, Norway, and PARTLY also
in Germany and against the ultra-left
in Italy, Poland, Norway, and above
all in Germany. The Cominterp re-
jected the attempts of certain German
ultra-left and French rights to shift
their own mistakes onto the central
committee, and in this the Comintern
was correct. The speaker condemned
attempted to utilize the bitterness of
opinion inside the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union for petty fraction
al purposes.
The attempt to represent the exc
cutive as tho it only fought against
the right or only fought against the
left, has been brought to thought by
the sessions of the enlarged execu-
tive. We have proved that the Comm
tern struggles. mercilessly against the
Ultra-left, but that at the same time
it makes no concessions to the right.
The Comintern remains and will con-
tinue to remain on the basis Of Len
inism.
THERE were still pessimistic ten
denotes in the commissions, but We
must effectively record thesfact that
the parties are strengthening, that
their forces have become better.
Altho the parties are still weak in
forces, it must be said that, the poll
bical level Of the average comrade is
rising, that the social composition of
the parties has improved and that
many comrades have developed to
leadership from working class cir
cles.
l believe that our decisions are abb
solutely correct. The blows delivered
against the Ruth Fischer group and
similar groups and also the rather
heavy blows against the French right
we're completely justified. Politics
are embodied in persons and for this
reason it is impossible to fight against
errors without hitting people here and
there.
In a number of parties we have
achieved important successes. In the
/ past year the British and the Italian
parties have made tremendous prog
ress. This is also true of the German
party despite the great difficulties.
The c. p. of Germany was successful
in coming out of its isolation and at
least to a certain extent in, breaking
down the wall between the, social de-
mocratic and Communist :. workers.
The circulation of the organ of the
Red Front Fighter League has increas-
ed by 10000 in the last two months.
The membership of the Red Women
and Girls League is steadily growing
Taken singly these are small matters,
but altogether they show that we are
on the way to the masses. The French
party has also been successful in its
efforts to reach the masses.,t
THE Comintern cannot dQ wonders.
But nevertheless it was able to as
sist various parties to overcome their
internal crises. After the Paris Com
mune It needed a decade for the So
cialist movement to stand on its feet
once again. In Italy, however, where
the victory OF fascism was certainly
as great a defeat for the working
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