The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-23
Theses adopted at the Plenum of the
E. C. c. l. on May 20, 1927.

Theses adopted at the Plenum of the
E. C. c. /. on May 20, 1927.
The VII. Enlarged Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Commu-
mist International held in December
last year, warned the international
working class of the danger OF war.
The events which have taken place in
China and Great Britain since that
time have wholly and completely con-
firmed the forecasts made by the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International. The concentra-
ton Of troops in China, the lombard
ment of Chinese cities by interna-
tional capitalism, already mark the
opening of the war against the toll
ing masses of China who are fighting
for their emancipation. The raid on
the Soviet Embassy in Picking made
by Chang Tso-lin, at the instigation
OF London, and with the support of
the diplomatic representatives of all
the capitalist governments, and the
raid on the Soviet Union Trade Dele
cation in London and the consequent
breaking off of relations between
Great Britain and the Soviet Union
are criminal acts calculated to pro-
woke war.
Now more than ever before is it
necessary for the masses of the work.
ers of all countries to exercise vigil
ance. Communists of all countries
must close up their ranks and
mobilize all their forces in the face
of the war which has already begun
in China and the war which is being
prepared against the Soviet Union.
Capitalist Antagonisms and War.
/. With the world war of 1914
1918 there opened for the masses of
the toilers of all countries a period
of cruel wars of determination, of I'M
bridled and ruthless plumber of col
onial countries and violent outrages
against the working class. Ten mil
lion killed, nineteen million disabled
and crippled, an enormous expenditure
of economic resources, the economic
inter-connections of world economy
shattered for years, depreciating cur
rency, impoverishment of the masses
of the people, growth of internal re-
action in all countries throughout the
world, a raging capitalist offensive
against the working class, the Bal
kanization of Europe, and the intensi-
fication since the world war of capt.
talist antagonisms,-suc are the re-
suits of the war of 1914-1918.
2. The conclusion of the war was
Immediately followed by period of
"little wars" for the regulation of
frontiers; the struggle between Ger
many and Poland for Upper Silesia,
the armed occupation of Fiume by the
Italian Fascists, the Greco-Turkish
war for Smyrna, military collisions be-
tween Balkan States. The establish
ment of proletarian dictatorship in
Hungary brought about the attack
on it by the capitalist States
Czec o-Slovakia and Roumania.
simultaneously Herewith the capital
list world modified its forces for the
purpose of crushing the proletarian
revolution in Soviet Russia. The in
tervention commenced in 191S-1919
and developed into" the war of Po-
land against Soviet Russia. This was
followed by the occupation of the
Ruhr and which was relieved by the
colonial expedition of France against
the Riff rebellion in Morocco. The
French imperialist war against the
Druses marked the close Of the de-
cade following the conclusion of the
great war of 1914-1918. The whole
of the period following the great war
has been period of imperialist
struggles and partial wars which are
but the prelude to a fresh period Of
great wars.