The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

SoIAAHdb0 luc STABILITY Ol LAo pACSSnb
left wing in the trade unions and in
the labor party, one must recognize
their weak sides. / recognized the
great significance of the close rela-
tions with the English left for the
struggle against the danger of war,
against reformism, etc. We should,
however, not leave the possibility Of
vascillation on its part out of consid-
Grafton. Our fundamental basis in
England is the Communist Party and
the minority movement following it.
We can in any case look towards the
future of the English working class
movement which for the first time
since the days of Chartism is beconl-
ing a revolutionary mass movement,
with confidence. For the first time the
Comintern has succeeded in gaining
foothold jim England.
DROCEEDING to France, Zinoviev
4 stressed the significance of the re-
cent anti-war strike. This strike altho
many mistakes were made, proved the
great political weight Of the French
party. 1t is true, however, that hav-
ing regard to the very favorable situa-
ton, the financial crisis, the Morocco
crisis, the pacifist spirit amongst the
peasants, the increasing burden Of
debts and the treacherous attitude of
the socialists, these successes might
have been greater, the right group
with Rosmer, Souyarine and Loriot at
its head was disturbing influence
and played strike breaking renegade
role in the anti-war strike. In carry
ing out the tactic of the united front,
the French party is still making many
mistakes, for instance by putting up
the slogan of the determination and
the calling back of the troops to the
reformist leaders and non-party work
ers as a consideration for a united
front. But the attitude of the right
group is a thousand times more erron-
eous.
A FTER most difficult crisis in the
"A leadership, the Communist Party
of Germany is beginning to overcome
its difficulties successfully. The cri-
ses which have taken place in the
leadership of the German Communist
Party from Paul Levi to Scholem are
| closely connected not so much with
the mistakes in the leadership of the
German Communisto5P Party and the
Comintern, as with the crises in the
development of the German revolu-
ton. zinoviev asked and answered in
the negative the question as to
whether the executive committee of
the Communist International made
mistake in 1924 wheniit left the power
of the party in the hands of Maslov
and Ruth Fischer.
Zinoviev pointed out that at the be-
ginning of 1924 the danger of a split
had come very closer and that at the
same time new sections of workers in
Hamburg, Berlin, and the Rhur dis
| trict came forward which had no face
in the old leadership. The executive
! committee of the Communist Interna-
tional knew the weak sides of the
Ruth Fischer-Maslov intellectual
group which possesses a few positive
advantages and which was able to
make great capital from the mistakes
Of its opponents. We knew that Mas
Low and Ruth Fischer could not be re-
garded as firm Bolsheviks, but never
theless we agreed with the transfer
ence of power as a further leadership
of the party from the right was out of
the question.
DROCEEDING to the mistakes made
- in the trade union question, Zino-
view stressed the fact that the strug-
gle against the participation in the
trade unions, did not merely proceed
from Maslov and Ruth Fischer, but
that the slogan: Abandon the Trade
Unions!" was the result of mass sug-
gestion upon the whole revolutionary
working class of Germany.
This spirit was not only caused by
the mistakes of Maslov and Fischer
but by the whole development of the
German revolution and by the reac-
ton following the October defeat. We
had to consider this spirit. If we had
insisted theoretically upon our de-
mand, that would have made a split
and the collapse of the German Com
munist Party. For this reason the
executive committee of the Commun-
list international considered the tran
sition of power to the left to be the
solution involving the least friction.
Our calculation was correct, for a
nucleus of sound Bplshevist elements
formed itself inside the left. When
the incapacity of the left leadership
in face of the difficulties caused by
the Dawes plan in Germany showed
itself, the executive committee of the
Communist International undertook
new grouping in the leadership of the
German Communist Party and helped
1t TO take correct Bolshevist line.
The tactic Of the executive committee
OF the Communist Internal. letter fav-
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