The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-14
CuyYentEUentS
By T. ]. o'FLAHERrY.

THE British government is deter
i mined to break off diplomatic and
commercial relations with the Soviet
Union. This is a policy of despera-
ton and the situation confronting the
empire is a desperate one. The two
main reasons why Great Britain has
become the chief antagonist Of the
Soviet Union are: the slumbering re-
sentiment towards British rule on the
part Of the peoples of India and
Egypt, which is liable to burst into
activity at any moment and the re-
volt of the 400,000,000 Chinese work
ers and peasants against foreign im-
perialism, the chief sufferer from the
revolt being England which has
exercised practical sovereignty over
large sections of China.
THE natural corollary of this con-
dition, resulting as it has in con-
siderable loss of trade, is the grow
ing rehabilitation of the British
working class movement, due to the
decline Of British Imperialism and the
progressive inability on the part OF
the capitalists to buy off favored
section of the workers at the expense
of surplus profits from their colonial
coolies. In this social panorama the
robber empire sees the artistic brush
of the Soviet Union and well it may.
For the Soviet Union, thru its gov
eminent based on the emancipation
workers and peasants has set the
blood of the worlds slave classes
tingling with a desire for freedom
and if the Communist International
never issued a proclamation the red
star shining in Moscow would still
inspire the victims of imperialism
everywhere to new struggles against
their oppressors.
JUHEN the French revolution plan
W ted the revolutionary boot on the
neck of the feudal order in France
there were repercussions from that
act in very quarter of the world
where the people were under the
yoke Of native or foreign oppression.
Those were the days when the Irish
rebels sang: ooh, the French are on
the Say" and when the toiling pea
SAINTS of Europe heard with JOY the
tramp of the marching armies of
revolutionary France. And tory
England then filled the people of
the world with lurid tales of French
atrocities, and with armed force and
the corruptipg power of her gold she
made war on that revolution as she
is today on the Russian revolution.
Britain did not then stop at assassin
alton, and more than one leader of
the French revolution died with
British-purchased dagger in his
back.
ENGLAND tried to organize the
- world against the French revolu-
ton and succeeded in finally defeat
ing Napoleon but only after Napoleon
betrayed the revolution. However it
was written in the stars that the
death-knell of the feudal order was
sounded, despite the treachery of in
dividuals even tho the Paris masses
who bore the brunt of the initial
smash against the corrupt feudal
government reaped little Of the adj
vantages from the revolution. The
feudal order did not go down every
where at once. Indeed some of its
trappings are to be seen in Bucking-
ham Palace today tho there is little
left outside of the uniforms.
GREAT Britain is leaving no stone
" unturned to organize an interna-
tional capitalist bloc against the
Soviet Union just as she did against
revolutionary France. But it is
written in the heavens that the So
Wet idea is bound to win. Further
more, the base of the Soviet form of
government is wide and as healthy
as the French cradle of the bour-
geois system which supplanted feud-
alism. And also the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union renders
that great expanse of territory a
sterile field for Napoleon.
n
IN a few days the forged docu-
j tnents planted by the Scotland
Yard detectives will begin to appear
in the New York Times and other
capitalist sheets that have plenty of
room for all the news that suits
the plans and conspiracies of the
ruling classes. And our capitalist
editors will ring the changes on all
the hoary old arguments against
recognition Of the Soviet Union by
the United States adding as further
proof for non-recognition the dis
coverv of the latest hatch IF forged