The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
Zinoviev Is Recalled
as Member of the
Russian Politbureau
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groups condemned by the party, in
citing these miserable fragments Of
groups striving to division to start to
work against the party and its unity.
The growing factionalism Of the new
opposition led it to play the two-party
game, having aggravated extremely
the anti-Leninist tendency of the OPP
position: doubt of the forces Of the
proletariat and pessimism as to soci-
alist reconstruction in general and So
cialist industry in particular, the tend
ency to destroy the union of the pro-
letariat and peasantry (middle peas
ants), namely the exclusion of the
principle which is, according to Lenin,
"the supreme principle of the prole-
tartan Dictatorship" the tendency to
support ultra-left deviations in our
party, an obvious approach to men
shevism; the tendency toward an in
ternational bloc with the ultra-left OF
the Korsch type and the ultra-right
Of the Souvarine type which, after ex-
clusion from the Communist Interna-
tional, made attacks upon the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics under the
preteXt that there had been a peasant
'kulak" degeneration in our party
The new opposition makes no concrete
proposals, and operates presumably
on left phrases covering an opportun-
istic idea, and passes over to absO-
lutely inadmissible methods of strug-
gle leading to division.
The fractional activity of the opposi-
ton did not remain within the limits
of the Communist Party Of the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics, but made
attempts to involve in the struggle
the apparatus of the executive com
mittee of the Communist Information
al, disseminating the views Of the oppo.
sition to the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union.
1t should be noted that the first at
tempt of the new opposition to pass
into secret factional struggle was mani
tested in the actions OF workers at.
tached to the executive committee of
the Communist International who
were directly connected with Zinoviev
and with factional groups of various
sections Of the Communist Interna,
tional (the case of Guralski, vuio-
vitch).
The resolution emphasizes that the
party lays responsibility for the fac
tional struggle upon all members OIL
the party who participated therein,
holding Zinoviev, however, as leader
Of the opposition at the fourteenth
party congress, politically responsible
to the party for the disrupting strug-
gle, as his partisans participated ac-
lively in factional operations, utiliz-
ing the apparatus of the executive
committee Of the Comintern which is
directly headed by Zinoviev, while the
latter did nothing to condemn their
activity and did not try to separate
himself from them.
In view of the above the Plenum ex-
cluded Zinoviev from membership in
the political bureau and, having re-
called Lashevich from the post of as
sistant president of the revolutionary
council and having excluded him from
membership in the central committee,
expressed a severe reprimand against
him with the warning that should he
attempt to continue fractional work he
will be expelled from the party. The
resolution states that the work of the
opposition has hitherto met with NO
support in any part Of the organlza
ton, but that further development,
OF fractional activity could create dan
ger OF division. The Plenum appeals
to all party members to support unity
solidarity and the maintenance OF Boil
shevist discipline.
The Plenum further adopted resoln.
tons in regard to grain provision ana
the construction Of dwellings.