The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
By T. LOAF.

WHEN we started these articles we
" thought of presenting in rather
brief space the dangerous plot hatch
ed by Great Britain, with connivance
of other capitalist powers, against
the very existence of the Soviet
Union. We conferred our attention up
on the recent session Of the League
Council because at that moment the
British tories directed most of their
efforts for an attack upon the Soviet
Republic and also because there We're
focused there the many bitter an
tagonisms of the imperialist powers
among themselves.
DUT in the course of writing this by
= now lengthy estimate two circum-
stances changed considerably the
character as we'll as the length of
this articles: One, the new facts and
developments in connection with the
danger of war upon the Workers Re-
public that had to be drawn in and
more or less adequately explained;
two, the fact that our linking up of
the attack upon the Soviet Union with
antagonisms among the imperialist
powers was likely to create some mis-
understanding or even confusion in
the minds of the readers of The
DAILY WORKER. We decided there
fore to clear some questions before
presenting more fully the present in
ternational situation and the source
of danger to the Soviet Union.
WHEREIN lies the difficulty for the
" clear understanding of the pres
ent situation and the possibility of
confusion? Let us consider.
On the one hand we notice clearly
how the imperiaist powers are step
by step uniting upon a program of
isolating the Soviet Republic, of
bringing an ever stronger pressure
upon her in order to break through
the present political and economic or
der of the U. S. S. R., which inter
feres with their plans of capitalist
postwar restoration. Such program,
even tho outwardly not hostile, means
actually a method of "boring from
within" aiming at changing the
Workers Republic into a peasant
democracy dependent for its existence
upon the industrial machinery of the
capitalist world.
MOREOVER we see one of the capt.
AVA talist powers, Great Britain, in
this case the most important one,
embarking upon a program of open
hostilities and of concerted war at
tack upon the Soviet Union. We see
Britain preparing herself and her vas
sails for such an attack and making
all efforts to gather around this pro-
gram all the other imperialist pow
ers.
IN the other hand we see the sharp
v differences among the imperialist
powers themselves assuming some
times a distinctly threatening char
acter: France against Italy, Italy
against Jugo-Slavia, Germany against
Poland, United States against Great
Britain and so on. To be sure, Will
sons 'idealism" has not brought about
the promised "open covenants" be-
tween the imperialist robber diplo-
mats Of the world, but the cynicism
of the capitalist journalism left in
the wake of the world war, that
speaks now without any particular
fuss Of the most hideous plans of the
capitalist governments, permits
clearer insight into these Vaccinations
at the time when they are being
Matched.
MOREOVER, only the semi-stabilized
AVE- situation of the postwar CAPT
talist world can account for such
speeches as the recent speech of Mus
solini compared to which the most
warlike speeches of the worst militia
rists and imperialists before the
world war sound like pacifist SER
mons. And it would be absolutely
wrong to ascribe it to the paranoic
state of mind of the Italian ruling
clown: the speech contains actually
VIZ ehOAuoAiIllG III PStIclIl program
of Italy which the latter will be pur-
suing until the whole thing will ex-
plode.
THUS we see how the campaign
against the Soviet Union, which is
assuming now an absolutely deter
mined and dangerous character and
which, moreover, is coupled with an
attack of the capitalists of the world
upon the labor organizations and la
Dor standards throughout the world,
is parallel by ever growing antagon-
isms among the imperialist powers
misunderstanding now a point Of
marked tension
AND whatever may be the next de-
"A velopements in the struggle Of the
Chinese masses against the imperial
list oppression and for their own so
cial liberation, there can be no doubt
that the course Of the Chinese Revo-
luton will present all the time a