The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-08

no mandate from the workers whom
they pretend to serve-but whom they
they strive to betray-to confer with
the enemy. Their action in this strike
dramatizes the entire right-wing lead
ership of the whole labor movement.
When the time of decisive struggles
arrive and they have to choose be-
tween plungins into the struggle on
the side of the workers or going over
to the side of the capitalists they in
variably do the latter and become the
final bulwark of the enemy.
The right-wing leaders, like the
Milwaukee Leader, fastened to deny
the political character of the struggle
and assured Baldwin and the British
ruling class that they had no intention
of wagering a political struggle, even
at this time, when the government is
preparing to try to crush by force of
arms the strike in case Thomas and
Macdonald and Bevin do not succeed
in their efforts to betray it.
A T this time, when these agents of
"A the bourgeoisie are engaged in
their greatest treachery, they must
be unmasked before the workers of
England and expelled from their places
and the leadership of the movement
must pass into the hands of the most
resolute section of the working class
1t is true that a revolution can only
be led by revolutionists. And the gen
eral strike may be made the starting
point for revolution. But in order for
it to travel that road it must rapidly
advance from success to success, must
constantly initiate new and more
audacious attacks, must always be on
the offensive and ruthlessly hurl its
entire forces directly against the state
power of the capitalist class.
A general strike alone that confines
itself to the Economic" struggle, |
folded-arms policy wherein the gov
eminent pretends to remain neutral
as in Italy in 1920, can at bes
hope to reach a compromise will
the enemy, for the reason that i
soon assumes the nature of a starva
ton contest between the working clasI
and the capitalist class, with the cap
italists in legal control of the fooC
supplies of the nation. To break thru
this legality requires a struggl,
against the government itself, which
with its laws, give sanction to tn,
armed forces to defend private proI
erty in food supplies. The industrie
cannot be seized and held withou
challenging the legal ownership of tn
capitalist class.
OUCH a movement can only be cal
~ ried forward by a revolutionar
leadership. In Britain the genera
strike can only develop into revolutio
If the Communists can take the leat
unseat the Thomas. the Macdonald
the Bevens, and openly challenge II
government thru striving to break II
power Of the armed forces OF tn
state, by melting mutiny in the ranl
! of the army, and enlisting In
, mutineers in the ranks OF the revol,
|. tionists in order to launch and insu
|, rectionary assault upon the loyt
|. forces of the government.
The general strike can be the star
ing point for such a development a
,, It gets the workers out of the indu
! tries and into the streets. But TO b,
,, come revolutionary n must be unds
, fearless revolutionary leadership, this
, drives forward with irresistRble fore
TO the conquest OF state power an
establishes government OF the DIT,
|, letariat which disarms the bourgeoisi,
arms the proletariat. crushes IN
whole bureaucratic apparatus OF ca,
italism and combines in a revolution
ary state the Legislative and executiv
functions that enable It 70 urroot IN
, last vestiges OF oapitaiist .class power