The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-06
( BY n. FOKIN,

the coming decisive cOH1llcIS VI
the World Revolution the move
ment of the majority of the popu-
lation of the world, which will
first be directed along the lines OF
national liberation, will be turned
against capitalism and imperialism
and will perhaps play much
greater revolutionary role than we
may expect"
(Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. (
XIX, p. "a, Russian Edition,l
The II. International and its imi-
tator, the Young Socialist lnterna-
tional, both of which are thoroughly
imbued with bourgeois theology,
never appreciated and do not appre-
ciate now the full importance OF the
colonial problem and the significance
of the national revolutionary move
ment of the Eastern countries IN the
course of the world proletarian
struggles.
The treacherous role of the II. In
ternational and the Young Socialist
( International are becoming clear
now, when the expansion of the full
! blooded United States of America
and the restoration of the productive
forces of the West European I'M
periahst countries have again raised
in full scope the problem of markets
and raw materials, i. e., the colonial
problem. The leaders of the Socialist
International (Vandervelde, Mac
Donald, Bauer, RenaudeD are the
trumpets and defenders of the i'm
perialist aspirations of the bourge-
oisie. Now, when attempts are be-
ing made to solve the colonial
problem by the usual imperialist
methods accompanied by intensive
ornaments, clashing of sabres, open
intervention (China, U. S. S. R.,
Latin America, etc., which consti-
tutes an inevitable menace of new
world wars, to refrain from an ener-
getic revolutionary struggle against
the imperialist policies of ones own
government means to be an open
advocate of the bourgeoisie. Not to
act openly by modelling the prole-
tartan masses in support of the revo-
lutionary movement in the East,
which paralyses the temporary sta
bilization and menaces the very
foundations of the capitalist order,
means to abandon the struggle for
Socialism. Such is actually the policy
of the Socialist Youth international.
r.
Whereas the Young Communist In
ternational organizes the revolution
airy movement of the youth of Eu-
rope, America, the colonial and semi
1colonial countries, giving them or
ganizational and moral support, the
/ Socialist Youth International, under
the cover of pacifist phrases, main
tains silence in its daily agitation
propaganda regarding the questions
of anti-imperialist struggle and sup
port to the nations of Asia and
Africa in their struggle against i'm
! perialism. By doing so it demon
strates the national limitation of it's
/ sections and thus becomes effectively
the troubadour of imperialism. 1t is
not surprising, therefore, that the
Socialist Youth International has not
a single section in the East. In con
tradistinction to the Socialist Youth
international, the Y. C. l. is not
merely a European International, y
but real international organization
representing the young proletariat of
the West as well as the revolutionary
proletarians and mi-proletarians of
the colonial and semi-colonial coun-
tries of Asia, Africa and America.
On the occasion of the twentieth
anniversary of the Young Socialist
international, and the eighth anniver-
sary of the foundation of the Y. C. l.,
there is not a single Eastern country
without the Y. C. ]. fighting detach-
ments and where thousands of young
revolutionaries do not rally to its
banner.
If no one knows of the existence of
the Y. c. |. or knows only from the
experience of the imperialist activi-
ties Of its leaders of the type of Van
dervelde, Macdonald, Renadel, ETC.,
whom the Chinese coolies, the slaves
of the Congo, the fellaheens of Egypt,
the bedouins of Morocco, recall with
curses and with gnashing of teeth,
the Y. c. l. is hailed and greeted in
the struggle for life and death of the
young revolutionaries of the East.
The Indian terrorist student groups
who shed their blood in the struggles
of the country, send their represent
tatives to the Y. C. /. with a request
ITO teach them how to fight success
fully against their oppressors."
The revolutionary students of Chi
ma advanced at their congress, the
question of the theological leadersip
of the Y C. l. in the student move
ment, condemning their policy of the
II. International in respect of China
In the remote villages, situated thou
sands of miles away from the indus
trial and cultural centres of China
the student propagandiSts write on