The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

more than goo votes, the opposition continues to
claim that these bankrupt philistnes represent the
only genuinely revolutionary "Lennlst organi-
zaton as distinct from the "defeneratc' Communist
International
While employing Maslow and Sourarine as the
megaphone cf the ultraIeft and right apostates OF
Communism abroad, the Opposition within the T. 5
S. R. continues with growing persistence and grow
ing effrontery to scatter deliberate lies concerning
the leadership Of the Comintern and the CPSU tbl
The Opposition spreads deliberate and consciously
lying assertions to the effect that the Central Conn
mittee Of the CPSU CO. intends to abandon the
monopoly OF foreign trade; it consciously spreads
deliberate SANDER concerning the position OF the Cen
trail Committee the question OF foreign debts
concerning alleged concessions to the kulak con-
corning a policy Of the Cominern in China Not
outstanding. the resolution Of the August Plenum
VI the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) to which
the Opposition undertook to subordinate ltsef-con
corning the opening of discussion one month prior
to the 18th Congress- the Opposition demands that
the discussion be opened immediately and in every
way tries to force an immediate discussion in viola
ton of Party decisions.
The discovery few days ago of u secret printing
office Of the opposition demonstrates with eXcep-
tional caarnes how far the opposition has diverged
from the Party and the Comintern. simultaneously,
it became revealed that in organizing this printing
office, The Opposition did not hesitate to employ the
services Of nonParty people bourgeois ntellectuals,
connected with shady and politically suspicious and
dVOWeQN aNIl-S0ELGt Clements mus CONSCIOUSLY or
unCOnsciously, the Opposition is becoming not only
deologicaly bat also organzationaly the centre of
crystaliZation Of all those strata hostile to the pro-
letariat which find the regime Of the proletaran
dictatorship irksome and VINO strive to overthrow it.
Called to account at a meeting Of the Presidum of
the ECCI held on September 9th, Comrades Trot-
sky and Yuyovitch made declarations which in them
selves represent long steps AWAY from the Comm
tern and AWAY from Leninsm, towards Maslow
and towards Souvarine In answer to the charges
Of malicously violating Party discipline, Comrade
Trotsky openly declared that the discipline of the
Bolshevist Party is not obligatory for him. In his
written speech he stated Bureaucratic discipline
based false line Of policy is not an instrument
for consolidating, but instrument for disorganiz
ing and disrupting the Party" 1t goes without say
ing that Comrade TrOtsky refuses to submit to pro-
etarian discipline appreciated and characterized
Therefore, it does not stand in need OF the defense
Of Comrades Serebriakov Preobta zhensky and Shar-
ov, who, they themselves admitted, were the or
ganizers of the ant-Party printing office. Comrade
Trotsky squarely declared at the Presidum of the
ECCI that 'Serebriakov, Preobrazhensky and Sharov
in their policy stand two heads above those who
screen their crimes behind Party discipline" People
who organize illegal printing offices against the
Party with the aid of bourgeois intellectuals are
proclaimed to stand politically two heads higher
than those who on the instructions Of the Party
fight in defense of its unity, who guard the eemen-
tary principles of its discipline without which the
Party and the Comintern as military organizations
Of the working class cannot exist.
Such attitude towards Party discipline is of
course connected with definite attitude towards the
Party and the Comntern. Neither the Party nor the
Comintern as such figured in Comrade Trotsky's
speech supreme organs Of the revolutionary pro-
letarat The world organizations of the revolution
airy proletarat the Comintern and its leading sec
tion--the CPSU, is described in unison with the
whole yellow bourgeois press as a crowd senselessy
and durbly following various leaders. At the pres
ent time" said Comrade Trotsky in his speech mot
a single organization discusses or decides. They
merely carry out. Even the Presdium of the COMM
tern is not exception"
In his declaration made at the August Plenum the
Opposition abandoned its theory Of the so-called
''Thermidor" This, however, did not prevent Com
rade Trotsky from once again uttering malodorous
phrases like "the Thermdor course and "Bonapar-
fist forgeries" Moreover. the leading bodies of the
Comintern and the CPSU (b) were directly charged
with being "usurpers" "The authority Of the Pres
idum (of the ECCI)," said Comrade Trotsky "lasts
for only one year The arbitrary prolongation of
this authority is usurpation" above all the ques-
tons is the question Of the organzationa self-pres-
Z ervation of the Stain Bukhariu group"
In thus estimating the presently acting leading
organs of the Communist movement and in this way
trying to explain their open refusal to submit to
Party discipline Comrades Trotsky and Vuyovitch
warned beforehand that they win not regard the
18th Party Congress and the 9Th Congress of the
Comintern being authoritative 10 them to any
degree. "The apparatus" declared CoInrade Trot-
sky, "is preparing a congress of their own pre-
minarily appointed workers who must authorize
the upper stratum of the apparatus to conduct this
work in the future"
The Presidium of the ECCI does not regard it as
necessary to deal again in detail with the renegade
political arguments, repeatedly condemned by the
Party and the Comnteln sccial-democratic devia-
TONS which Comrade Trotsky and Vuyovitch tried
to develop But the Presidum Of the hCCI cannot
ignore The contcmptuous references to the organza
tons of the Communist proetariat voting crowd.
1t cannot ignore the proclamation of dsrupting
Party discipline the highest virtue. 1t cannot
ignore the open justification and promise further
to continue the practice Of organizing. secret anti
Party printing offices