The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21

CuClNe committee OF Jne WOIhSTS
(Communist) Party.
The statement in full reads as fol-
lows:
Statement of the Central Committee
of the Workers COMMUNIST Party
of America.
The Central Executive Committee
of the Workers (Communist) Party
endorses fully and completely the eX-
pulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviev from
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. This action is dictated by the
most vital interests of the workers
and peasants of the Soviet Union as
well ac the toiling masses the world
over.
The Trotsky-Zinoviev opposition
has long ago over-stepped the bounds
Of the permissible in a Communist,
feminist Party. The actions CT the
opposition have long ago reached the
point Of actually encouraging the enc
mics of the working class. Now the
opposition has come to the stage
where it is organizing new party,
joining hands with non-working class
elements, enemies of the Soviet
Union, becoming the rallying center
for capitalist opposition to the Soviet
power generally.
Was Final Step.
The unprincipled public attack
upon the Party and the government
of the Soviet Union at the tenth an
niversary demonstrations arranged
to celebrate ten years of achievement
and victory in the building of social
ism was but the final step in long
chain Of events which followed an OBJ
jective logic of their own, leading
farther and farther away from the
Party line and from Party loyalty.
Beginning with the attempt of
Trotsky and his adherents to under
mine Leninism and substitute for it
his particular brand of ultra-revolu-
tionary phrases masking petty-bour-
geois opportunist tendencies, the OPP
position has moved from that to the
formation of an unprincipled bloc of
all elements in opposition to the Com
munist Party, plotting with the op-
position in the Communist Interna-
tional and with renegades from Com
munism, on an international scale,
then to open defiance of the Party,
violation of pledges, counter-demon-
strations against the celebration of
the tenth anniversary, and thus to
open attacks on the Party.
Opposite of Leninism.
Trotskyism is not Leninism. 1t is
the negation of the feminist revolu-
tionary theory and practice, which
alone guided the toiling masses of
Russia to success and victory. 1t was
only by abandoning his own theories,
by accepting the theory of Lenin, ard
by joining the Party of Lenin, the
Bolshevist Party of Russia, in 1917,
that Trotsky's efforts in the past con-
tributed to the struggle and victory
of the toiling masses.
Now, however, when Trotsky and
the Trotskyites have reverted to the
policies of Trotskyism as against
those of Leninism; when the Trot-
skyite opposition, joined by Zinoviev
and Kamenev, is undermining and
vainly attempting to split the Party
which Lenin led to victory and which
is now leading the masses of the Sow
let Urion to socialism, now the eff
forts Of Trotsky and Zinoviev have
become detrimental to the working
class and a source of qualification
and joy to the enemies of the toiling
masses. For Trotsky and Zinoviev
today there is no room in a Bolshevik,
Communist Party.
NOn-Proletarian Attitude.
For nearly ii years (1003-1917)
Lenin and the Bolshevist Party of
Russia have been fighting the fall
lacies of Trotskyism. For IA years,
until Trotsky tacitly admitted defeat
and joined the Bolshevik Party, in
IhS oplliiS VI IJlf, IeUIH ana the dU-
herents Of Leninism were combating
mercilessly the -proletarian atti-
tudes of Trotsllyism. These were the
support of the Mensheviks against
the Bolsheviks; the refusal to accept
the alliance between the workers and
peasants led by the revolutionary
working class; the alliance which
proved the basic condition for the
success of. the revolutionary move
ment; lack Of faith in the victory of
the proletarian revolution and the
victory Of socialism in Russia, this
being the basis of the Trotskyite
theory of permanent revolutions; bit
ter opposition to the efforts of Lenin
and the Bolsheviks to build a CEN
tralized revolutionary working class
Party; rejection Of the only correct
Bolshevik slogan of "Civil War
Against Imperialist War" proposing
instead during the late imperialist
war the petty-bourgeois pacifist slo-
gan of "a democratic peace without