The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-12
The Communist international, The War
Danger and the Role of American Imperialism

W OrkerS tCOmmunlSt) FartleS OF the
whole world must employ are decided
upon. | will not of coutse read to
you here this thesis of the Comintern.
| will call your attention to the fact
that the Comintern instructions deal
in point after point, covering differ
ent phases, but centering upon this
theme of defense, and yet again de-
tense, of the Chinese revolution.
Just word about the Opposition
in the Russian party which became a
very prominent feature of the last
Plenum. You know from our Party
press, / suppose, that there was at
the very beginning an effort by
Comrades Trotsky and Bujovitch to
have Zinoviev seated as member of
the Executive, after Zinoviev had re-
signed from all of his responsibilities
in the Comintern This resulted in q
struggle call it struggle in spite
of the fact that there was no danger
of its going the wrong way, because
it had only one vote on the opposing
side. But it was a struggle in which
all Of the activities of the Opposition
in the Russian party were exposed in
their CHASTITY qualities. Trotsky and
Buiovich openly showed themselves
in spreading propaganda in the Plen-
I'm as they and their supporters were
already spreading it in the All-Union
Communist Party-the propaganda
which in the first place was calculated
to undermine the confidence of the
Russian workers in the building of
Socialism in Russia, and actually to
undermine the working class, conf
dence in the Socialist character of the
Soviet Union. There We're documents
spread by Trotsky and Bujovich which
made the most scurrilous attacks up
on the leadership of the Russian
party, upon the Comintern also and
upon the. character of the Soviet
Union. This sort of propaganda was
accompanied by efforts to organize,
not only within the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, a separate or
ganization opposed to the party, but
even an international organization
against the Comintern, against the
Russian Bolshevik leadership. This
would have been an organization
which by its very nature would have
worked toward breaking the conf
dence or attempting to break the con-
fidence of the workers throughout
the world in the Soviet Union, in our
revolutionary state,-just at the time
of the war danger which first of all
demands that this morale of the world
working class be kept at the highest
And this opposition made disgrace
full exhibition of it's support to the So
cial democratic and petty bourgeois
anarchist riff raft who are carrying
on the work Of the bourgeoisie Of at
tempting to break down the confidenc
of the workers in the proletarian sid
of the Fvor4d war, thereby -helping t.
make possible the mobilization of the
massesl for war against the Soviet
Union and the Chinese revolution.
The Irotsky opposition declared
plainly and openly that the greatest
/ dangerAmind you, at this moment of
war danger, II that the greatest
danger before the revolutionary
movement was the inner line of the
Russian party leadership. The inner
party regime is the greatest danger,
said Trotsky. 1t showed that they
were on the fringe of a break with
the Communist International. On the
fringe of trek" of the weaker ele-
ments outside Of the ranks of the
Communist party and the Communist
International. The only vote in sup
port of Trotsky was that at the al
ready discredited Bujovich. The Com
intern with the exception unanimously
adopted the policy coDdemning and
analyzing and ideologically destroy
ing the opposition. In addition to
that it raised the question Of the ex-
pulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from
the Central Committee if their con-
, duct in the future 4were not of a diff
ferent sort. Since then they have
made a declaration which has, if ]
am rightly informed, settled the mat
ter at the present time with their re-
naming in the party and again
promising to obey the discipline OF
the party which they have so often
flouted.
ITO Be Continued)