The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
American Labor and the Chinese Revolution
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.


national, in facing "The War
Danger" GROWTH, out of the develop
ing imperialist attack against the So
Wet Union and the intervention
against the Chinese Revolution, is
to rally all its sections, in more than
go countries for the growing struggle
This becomes very apparent in the
study of the declarations adopted on
these two questions at the Plenum of
the Executive Committee of the Com
munist International
The immediate problem of our
Workers (Communist) Party becomes
the application of 1.-THE resolutions
adopted on these two problems to the
actual situation in the United States.
THE COmintern resolution on the
Chinese question says:
'"The executive committee of the
Comintern imposes upon all sections
the obligation actively to support the
Chinese revolution and to put up an
active fight against intervention in
China by mobilizing the masses, or
ganizing the resistance of the masses
to the despatch of troops, arms, etc,
etc.
THE executive committee of the
Comintern imposes upon all its sec
tiOns the obligation to explain to the
broad masses of the proletariat and
the toilers generally the international
meaning and significance of the Chi
nese Revolution, the connection be-
tween counter-revolutionary inter
vention in China and the preparations
being made for new wars and with
the domestic crusade against the
working class"
WHILE this domestic crusade"
" takes the form of the anti-trade
union bill in Great Britain; the Mob
ilization Laws in France, and the
Fascist terror in Italy, we have in
the United States the declaration of
the Supreme Court that the vicious
anti-criminal syndicalism laws are
Constitutional" the attack launched
against The DAILY WORKER, CEN
trail organ of the Workers (Commu-
MISTY Party and other Communist
publications, the very evident inten-
ton to bring Sacco and Vanzetti in
the electric chair, support by the
courts of -picketing DEGREES and
other assaults against trade union
activities, especially during strikes.
THE statement of the Comintern
then continues to analyze the for
ces that make up the counter-revolu-
tionary bloc. 1t points out that the
Chinese bourgeoisie is not the great
est danger to the revolution but
rather the forces of international i'm
perialism. In this array American
imperialism appears in the fore
ground. Thus the Comintern de-
clares:
"The Executive Committee of the
Communist International places on
record that the series of bourgeois
counter-revolutionary coups (Shang-
hal, Marking, Canton, ETC., etc.
represent partial defeats of the Chi
nese Revolution and real acquisition
of strength by the counter revolu-
tionary bloc.
"The Executive Committee of the
Communist International, however,
regards the view as incorrect that
these defeats menace the fate of the
revolution as whole.
"This view is wrong for the rea-
son that it considers the Chinese
bourgeoisie as the greatest danger to
the revolution. The combined forces
of Chang Kai-shek would have been
crushed by the victorious revolution
airy armies, however, but nos the
principal strongholds Of the counter
revolution been supported by the
forces of international imperialism,
which employees all methods and has
its own agency among the vaccilating
elements of the national revolutionary
front.
"The Executive Committee of the