The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
The Chinese Workers and Peasants Now Fight as Glass;

conflict the Nationalist Party will tragedy is
only that the lives of workers have been sacrificed in
the struggle but the conflict itself inevitable is the
revolution which produced it.
The middle class all history played the role of hang
of the working class It pirates of democracy cries
often struggles under the slogan of democracy but
always when the insist the defense of their interests
finds first desert them and then to attempt to
crush them
The middle class group Kuomntang represented by
Chang KaShek have everything in with the capitalist
and middle class democratic elements in the mperast countries
except recognition of themselves by the powers the
ment of China This group claims all the people
China and in this it shows its historical position
Said Marx in his Eighteenth Brumaire":
But the democrat because he represents the petty bour
geosea transitional class in which the interests of two classes
simultaneously bunted-aogates to himself position of
superiority to class conflicts Democrats admit that they
faced by privileged class but they think that they themselves
conjunction with the of the nation constitute the people
What they represent the right the people, what interests
them is the popular interest Consequently when struggle
impending they for studying the interests and
attitudes of the various classes for carefully reckoning the
forces their disposal They need merely give the signal
the opprssors If should turn out that their interests
inadequate and that their supposed power is mpoten they
ascrbe their defeat the activities of perncious sohsts who
have spread dsunon and have split the ndvb people into
number of mutually hostile factions Whatever happens,
the forth unspod after the most shameful de
feat just as ne was baeess innocent before ne entered the
battle. :.
The determination of the mperiasts to hold Shanghai at
all terrific blow to the Chinese middle class which,
type had underesmated the resistance of world i'm
periasm had fallen for the propaganda of the impeasts
that they ready recognize stable which
represented the Chinese people"
The rise of the labor movement its class consciousness and
mancy pointed to by the mperaists obstacle to
recognition of purely Nationalist government The Chinese
middle class has turned upon the working class and has thereby
endangered the whole antimperast movement without secu
ing guarantees for its special interests from the i'm
perialist powers.
repeatedly be conquered China without nationalist
ton of the land and the principal for
instance The of the mperiasts cannot be broken by
purely military methods The workers and peasanry must be
organized and that part of the program which improves their
conditions at once be put into practice
The middle class leadership of the Kuomntang finds itself
conflict with its social kindred if it yields the demand of
the which in this instance the strongest weapon
against Imperialism chooses to defend the interests of the
middle class which opposed to those of the and
becomes ally of Imperialism far their interests coin
cde They do coincide in that both to their priv
eges in the increasing consciousness organization and of
the workers and peasants
Said Lenin Theses the Second Congress
munist International
in the dependent countries
which every day farther from each
other One the bourgeois democratic Nationalist government
with program political independence the bourgeois
ORDER the other the action of the poor peasants and
workers for their liberation from all sorts of exploitation The
endeavor control the latter and often succeed
certain extent but the Communist international must struggle
against such control and help to develop class consciousness
the working of the colonies The first step towards
luton in the colonies must be the overthrow OF foreign CAPT
talsm
The Chinese liberation has developed rapidly
its struggle against imperialism that the parallel development
of the workers and peasant obscurd 1t
however, that the Russian
which wish compromise with capitalism at the
the Masses will longer be tolerated by the conscious work
and peasants leaders.
Far from the split in the Kuominang being tragedy 1T
the Of all guarantees that Imperialism and its allies in
China movement of tremendous andower hav
its base the of oers and preparing Its forces Tor
struggle against all forms of oppression.
That this movement would not follow Chang KaiShek into
the of compromise with Imperialism is an earnest OF the
soundness of its revolutionary
Without ceasng their demand for withdrawal of all mper-
ia China the American working class must now
organizations their wosded struggle against Imperialism and
native reaction the first call their sympathy and sup