The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
By RALBERTO ROsCHEZ.

district. Inc moment the order was
given to return to the barracks was
the signal for General Hector Ignacio
Armada to order contingents to fol-
low him, Instead of marching to the
barracks he steered them to the road
leading to the State of Puebla.
The action of General Armada
obeyed the plans Of Generals Gomez
and Serrano, who having lost all hope
in the political campaign decided to
abandon the struggle on the political
field in favor of the armed struggle
for power.
Before going into detail it is neces-
sary to give a brief review of the
events leading up to the present re-
volt in order to better understand the
final aims of Generals Gomez and
Serrano.
Presidential Campaign.
Almost two years before the next
presidential elections of Mexico July
1929 began the preparations for NOM
nations. After much political bicker-
ing three candidates emerged: Gen
eral Alvaro Obregon; Arnulfo Gomez
and Francisco Serrano. The political
field was thus divided into two sec
tons: Gomez and Serrano represent
ing the reaction and Oregon the ma
tive bourgeoisie and the petty-bour-
geoisie. The first two candidates
during their entire political campaign
hid behind the principle of mo re-
election"-with which slogan they
tried to win the sympathy of the
masses of workers and peasants
throughout the country, but without
success.
The Communist Party Stand.
The Communist Party of Mexico
after carefully studying the situation
issued manifesto supporting the
candidacy of Oregon, based on the
following considerations:
To treat the question of the presi-
Dental succession from the point of
view of reelection or no-re-election"
is as absurd as to treat the present
situation as struggle of principles
instead of struggle Of classes.
Every political struggle is a strug-
gle for power of one class or another,
or of determined faction within a
certain class. For that reason the
present struggle between Generals
Gomez, Serrano and Obregon is a
struggle of classes, a struggle to de-
fend certain economic interests.
Class Forces In Struggle.
Upon close analysis of the social
forces of Mexico one can establish
the following division:
In the first place stands the rural
aristocracy or, let US say, the large
landowners allied with the clergy
and foreign capital, principally Eng
fish capital, American and Spanish
and part of the national bour-
geoisie.
In the second place, are the ele-
ments of the national bourgeoisie and
the petty bourgeoisie, the wealthy
ranchers and some of the "progres-
sive" elements among the land
owners; the small property owners,
public employees, the group of intel
lectuals and the labor aristocracy
which shares its power with the petty
bourgeoisie.
In the third place stands the pro-
letarian class, the workers in indus
try, in the factories and mills, the
huge mass of peasants without lands
and the poems in the fields.
The struggle for the presidential
succession is a struggle between the
above mentioned classes and between
various groups in those same classes.
The relation of the forces within those
classes will determine the victory or
defeat of the present struggle.
The triumph of the past social
revolution in Mexico-of the liberal
elements against the conservative
elements was made possible only
through the alliance of the petty
bourgeoisie with the large masses of
workers and peasants. Without the
help Of the masses of peasants the
reaction would long ago have over
thrown the power Of the bourgeoisie;
and would have instituted a conserv-
alive regime.
Alliance Against Reaction.
We are therefore justified in main
tanning that the alliance between the
national bourgeoisie and the petty
bourgoisie and the proletarian class
| constitute the dominant force in the
country; sufficiently strong to suffo-
cate any attempt at reactionary die
tatorship
This, however, does not signify that
the interests Of the national bour-
geoisie and the proletarian class are
the same. On the contrary it is OBJ
Yious the proletariat has interests
Numerically opposed to those Of the
bourgeois.e, and its alliance with the
bourgeoif % is a temporary affair
compelled by the force which even to-
day the reaction is still able to com
mand; and by the present weakness
of the proletariat, Dis-united and
decentralized, the Mexican proletariat
has not yet been able to build =
strong organization, nor one unified