The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-03
BY v. koLARov.

ON December II, 1925, the case of
~ the central committee of the Bull
garian Communist Party was examin-
ed in the Sofia appeal court, the
charge being that of preparing, de-
claring and leading the September
armed rising. For reasons of proceed
ure, the case was postponed to an
other date.
To the White Guard government
and the whole Bulgarian bourgeoisie
supporting it in the struggle against
the Communist Party and the revo.
lutionary movement in the country
the moral significance of this trial
now is that by means of infiicting
sentence on the central committee, it
must justify the provocative policy of
the propertied class power which led
to the September events
Of all those charged, only Comrade
Kabaktchieff is in the hands of Gust
ice" The man, who for years has
been the teacher and leader of the
Bulgarian workers, must rot for many
more years in white guard exile and
is subjected every day to the threat
of being shot.
Comrade Kabaktchieff is valuable
hostage in the hands of Zankov bands.
Their swords continuously drawn
above his head, these bands necessari-
ly threaten the life of one of the front
line fighters of not only the Bulgar-
ian Communist Party, but of the
whole Communist International.
Kabaktchieff, who, in spite of his
AZ years has completely preserved his
youthful faith in the inevitability and
proximity of the victorious interna-
tional revolution with stoical firmness
and unshakable spirit has already for
two and half years tolerated in pris-
on the heavy trials to which are sub.
jected the fighters in the Communist
Party.
Edited Teachers Organ.
Entering the ranks of the fighters
against the capitalist social order aft
err thoro study of the principles Of
scientific socialism, he has preserved
his learning for theoretical deepening
Of problems of the labor movement
right up to the present day. No soon
er had he left the high school when
he became the ideologist of the So
cialist left in the Teachers Union
and edited its organ. Progressive
teachers are to large degree indebt-
ed to Kabaktchieff in that from the
early days of the movement he went
hand in hand with the proletariat and
actively participated in the revolution
airy struggle of the latter.
The student years in France and
Switzerland, enabled Kabaktchieff to
deepen and extend his theoretical
knowledge and to study directly the
socialist movement in the west. It
was here that he was being nodded
into a future proletarian leader, who
understood the significance of the
theory of scientific socialism for cor
rect leadership of the labor move.
ment and at the same time was per.
meated with the conviction that Marx
ism can be inspired and well-assimilat.
ed only by means of active participa-
ton in the proletarian struggle.
Edits Party Papers.
lie did not experience any attrac-
ton whatsoever for his profession as
lawyer, which he took up after leav-
ing the university. He left this pro.
fession at the first invitation OF the
central committee of the party to join
the editorial board of the party or.
gan Rabotnitchesh vestnik Labor
Herald). During the period that he
was assistant editor, and from 1910
as editor, he directed the central
party organ right up to the time of
It's prohibition by the government in
September, 1923.