The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-22
Declaration of the Communist
Party of China

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Kuomintang removing Chang Kai-
shek from the command of the Ma
tionalist revolutionary armies, ex-
pelling him from the party and order
ing his arrest.
Chang Kai-shek has become an
open enemy of the National revolu-
Jon and has allied himself with re-
action. He has become a tool Of i'm
perialism. Therefore he cannot be toll
Grated in the ranks of the revolution
airy party of the people, he cannot
be trusted with the command Of the
Nationalist revolutionary army. A
traitor to the revolution, he deserves
the highest punishment at the hands
Of the Nationalist government,
against which he revolted and which
ne seeks to overthrow. The working
class will theoretically support the
Kuomintang and the Nationalist gov
eminent to purge themselves of all
reactionary elements and to defeat the
enemies of the National revolution.
Chinese Capitalists.
The conflict inside the Kuomintang
that has resulted in this drastic, but
very necessary action against Chang
Kai-shek has a deep social basis. 1t
was not an individual that revolted
against party authority, and turned
against the revolution, Chang Kai-
shek and his clique are the spokes-
men of a social element inside and
outside the Kuomintang. Ever since
It's reorganization, the Kuomintang
became the revolutionary party of
the oppressed and exploited masses.
Nevertheless, bourgeois and even re-
dictionary feudalistic elements re-
NAMED inside the party. All along,
.hese elements sought to divert the
Kuomintang from the path of revolu-
;ionary democracy. An inner strug-
gle went on to decide the very vital
question: whether the KuOmintang
should be a class party or peoples
,arty-whether its program and pol
cies should be determined according
20 the interests of the upper classes
big bourgeoisie and feudals) or of
he oppressed and exploited majority
IF the nation. This struggle is the
social background of the crisis that
became acute inside the Kuomintang
IS the revolution developed rapidly as
4 result of the north expedition.
BY the coup d'etat of March 20, the
bourgeois and feudalistic elements in
side the Kuomintang overthrow the
evolutionary democratic power in
Canton. To do this they had even re-
sorted to such base methods as in
iividual assassination (of Lao Chung
,ai). They captured power and
planned to lead the revolution accord
ne to the interests of their class. To
secure their power they began to de-
;troy mass organizations which stood
,ehind the revolutionary wing of the
Kuomintang (attacks upon labor and
peasant movements, dissolution of the
Canton City Committee, etc.
While the masses supported and
made great sacrifices for the north
expedition, as a means Of developing
he revolution, the bourgeois and feu-
ial elements inside the Kuomintang
ooked upon it as the road to greater
bower. But the victorious march of
he Nationalist army raised such ire
nendous forces of revolution as were
alarming to the reactionary bourgeois
and feudalistic wings Of the Kuomin-
.ang. 1t became apparent that the
success of the north expedition threat
sned to undo the coup d'etat of March
20. The masses challenged the feudal-
bourgeois leadership and supported
he revolutionary wing Of the Kuo-
nintang overthrow on March 20. The
struggle for power became sharp be-
tween the feudal-bourgeois right wing
and the revolutionary democratic left
wing Of the Kuomintang.
Role of Peasants.
The northern expedition greatly ex-
banded the power of the Nationalist
government. By reaching the Yangtze
Valley the Nationalist forces threat
ened the main citadels of imperialism
It became self-evident that imperial
ism would not yield any vital posi-
tions without an open armed strug-
gle. While negotiating with the Ma
tionalist government on the question
Of concessions, imperialism prepared
for Intervention. To be able to meet
the united forces Of imperialism anC
its tool, native militarism, the Ma
lionalist government must have the
conscious and whole-hearted support
of the masses whose power and sacri
flee are the only guarantee for the
revolution. In other words, Nation
alist China must establish revolu
tionary democratic power. This mean
that the national revolution shoult
primarily be an agrarian revolution
Eighty per cent Of the Chinese popu
lation being peasantry, a revolution
airy democratic power cannot be es
tablished except through an agrarial
revolution. The French peasantr.
supported Napoleon for 20 years be
cause Of the agrarian reforms mad
by the great revolution. In China