The daily worker., 1927-04-09

is becoming hostile to the Kuomintang without how
ever, officially leaving the national revolutionary
organizations We above what complex sys-
tenn of pretence hypocrisy and provocation the inn
perialists are employing in order to link up with
these bourgeois elements An order with their aid to
break up the revolution from within. To this must
be added the wavering, the individualism and the
personal frictons which the representatives of the
pettybourgeois intelligentsa, who subjectively
revolutionary but who have not been sufficiently
hardened in the mass struggle, inevitably bring in
to the movement.
This complicated regrouping Of forces on the
theatre of the civil is taking place in the sight
of the powerful imperialist enemy, who are past
masters in the arts of cunning and will stick at
nothing in their effort to utilize every symptom of
weakness and every mistaken step taken by the
masses of toilers in revolt In these circumstances
the young proetarat of China, which has only just
grown up out of the severe battles, the most con-
sciousy organized and the only class capable of ac-
tually leading the movement, is obliged to conduct
most complicated war of manoeuvres.
THE fulflment of this task and the preservation
of the mighty revolutionary front, in spite of
the inevitable deserton of the big bourgeoisie is
facilitated by the fact that the movement is spon-
taneously sweeping in millions of the masses of the
peasantFy, who bring with them burning hatred of
the imperialsts and their agents. and are imbued
with the determination to march to the end with the
proetariat at the present stage of the revolution
However, the rapidly growing peasant movement
while increasing the reserves of the proletarat inn
poses at the same time upon the latter the very
complicated task of organizing the movement for
the purpose of directing the peasant revolts and
outbreaks on to conscious class road.
The Chinese proletariat will only fulfil this task
if it takes advantage of the experience of the inter-
national struggle as a whole If the revolutionary
movement of China were to become isolated from
the international proletariat and from the principal
fortress of the proletarat revolution-the Soviet
Union-ths would dsarm the revolution This fact
explains the fresh outbreak of the campaign of
hatred against the u. S. S. r. initiated by the
Baldwin government as a result Of the defeat of
British Imperialism in China This explains the
feverish efforts being made by the reformst leaders
to erect wall of mutual misunderstanding and es-
arrangement between the toilers of China and the
proetariat in capitalist countries. But the reply
which Eugene Chen sent in the name of the Canton
government to the Joint National Council of the
Labor Party and the T. u C. shows that Mac
Donaldson is powerless, that the ties between the
Chinese revolution and the proletarat of all coun-
tries will be strengthened in joint revolutionary
struggle
The slogan, "Hands off China" merely for1nr-
lated part of the duties that the Chinese revolu-
tion imposes upon the international proeariat The
other part isjoint revolutionary struggle AGAINST
the common class enemy.