The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
Forces and Issues in the Coming Conference Of
the kuOnintang B. William y D2ee

cording to the Moscow Pravda of
July 25th has started propaganda for
Soviets ''in order if the struggle for
the Kuomintang fails" to prepare the
masses for the organization of So
viets to further the development of
the revolution, opposing the Soviets
as toilers' instruments to capitalist
organizations"
1t is stated further that the "para-
mount task" of the Chinese Commu-
mist Party is "to resist theoretically
the reactionaries within the Kuomin-
tang" All Kuomintang units where
Communists WELD influence" are
to be organized for resistance to the
counter-revolutionary central COM
mittee of the Kuomintang.
A DISPATCH to the New York
"A Times from hankow, dated July
IItn gives some concrete information
relative 10 recent Arguments which
have been taking place under the
pressure of the struggle and which
subsUantlaCe the convention OF the
Communist International, expressed
IN travda, that the paramount task"
OF the Communist Party is to resist
energeCicaIly the reacUionaries within
the huomlnCang.
Withdrawal from the Wuhan gov
eminent and struggle against il do
not imply abandonment OF the i'm
mediate struggle inside the kuomin-
of hn
aries and the establishment OF an
honest leadership responsible to the
worker and peasant masses in the
struggle against Imperialism and TOR
national liberation.
pECENT developments in the Kuo-
N mintang show that not only are
worker and peasant members of the
Auomintang unshakably committed
to uncompromising warfare upon I'M
perialism and its militarist allies,
but that whole section of the
leadership of Kuomintang is still
loyal to the mass liberation movement
and in open opposition to Chang Kai-
shek and his capitalist, landlord and
imperialist allies.
THESE elements, the most prom
lnent OF whom are the widow OF
GUN lat sen, Eugene Cnen, former
Aofelgn minister III the Wunan gov
ernment and Ian en- ia, COM
mandet OF the trade union battanon
Wnlcn was the core Oh the armies OIL
national liberation on UneIr north
ward drive, have aligned themselves
wien the LABOR and peasant organlza-
lions and the Communists.
MADAME Sun has issued a state
"A ment which expresses clearly the
lrreconclliable division between the
reacuonary elements of the national
lst movement, the So-called mod
crates" who are actively engaged in
suppresslng labor unions and peasant
organizations and the Communists,
and flirting with the northern mill
tarists and the imperialists, and the
lett wing.
CHANG Kai-shek, the leader of the
section of the nationalists whose
base is the capitalist and landlord
classes of China, is trying to appear
as defender of the doctrines OF Sun
Vat Sen. Nationalist generals, under
his direction or in agreement with
him on policy, have taken over the
Wuhan government by military force
and have shifted the main issue of
the movement from struggle against
Imperialism and militarism to strug
gle against the Communists and the
masses whose economic and political
demands aroused the enmity of the
Chinese capitalists and landlords.
THE main burden of the treacher
Gus song of the right wing of the
nationaHsts is that the liberation
movement must be carried on without
developing class angle-that is, the
workers and peasants must not try
to better their conditions but simply
support the general struggle for
free China"
Since the great majority of the
population - some 350,00000O - are
workers and peasants, the policy of
the right wing means nothing else
but the domination of Chinese CAPT.