The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-23
The Position of the Chinese Revolution

The question is why? Is it possibly because those
at the head of the Kuomintang vacillate? And the
of the members of the Kuomintang-is that
of account? Since when has the attitude towards
mass organization been determined by what hap
pens at its very summit?
All the forces of the Liberal nter-revolution
at the present moment concentrated driving
the Communists out of the Kuomintang and
rounding them. All the forces of the counter-revou-
ton piping to the same tune. 1t is a well-known
fact that the influence of the Communist Party in
the Kuomintang is steadily growing. 1t is a matter
of common knowledge that the inferior organizations
of the Kuomntang, especially the worker and peas
ant organizations under the leadership of the
Communists. 1t is known that the very reason why
Chang Kai-shek and his clique fight against Wuhan
is that they regard the left Kuomintang an
"agency" of the Communists. Finally, it is we'll
known that the slogan of the arrest and execution
of Borodn, the slogan of the removal of the Com
munists from the Wuhan government and from the
c. G. of the Kuomntang Chang Kai-shek's slo-
gans. And at time like this it is suggested that
ourselves fulfil the wishes of these gentlemen from
the revolutionary" standpoint
We must not let ourselves in for such tactics
We must strengthen still more work in the Kuo-
mintang, must cleanse it from the bourgeois ele-
mens and the renegades of every species To secede
voluntarily, however, just when the bloc of our
opponents demands it, would indeed be strange tao
tics.
At the conference between Chang Kai-shek and
Feng when they met at Sui Chou platform about
on the following lines was passed.
1.-Wuhan shall acknowledge it's mistakes"
1.-THE Communists shall be excluded from
the Kuomintang.
3.-Borodin shall be dismissed
4.-The "high contracting parties" shall or
ganize a campaign in common against Peking
Chang Kai-shek's 'informers" are prepared to
accept this plan IVAN Chin-wei is not among Them
he takes firmer stand than the others) Those who
are in opposition to us however steering straight
for this platform"
Instead of dealing in detail with such navities we
must see to it that position in the Kuomintang
is reinforced. We must maintain our position in
the national government by throwing overheard and
unmasking the "informers" Whilst freeing our
selves from ballast and organizing the "real left"
from above must fight round our banner
And it we do not succeed? If our opponent gains
the upper hand at the present moment? This NAV
happen. 1t is possible that the central government
may, in certain circumstances, be disrupted by it's
internal dissensions and that it may be impossible
to organize truly Jacobn cleft" But we must
tight our way along such path. We must fight
still more vaantly for positions in the Kuo-
mintang, to maintain and consolidate them, when
the overwhelming majority of it's members are under
the influence of the Communists. The Kuomintang
will perish unless it follows the path of giving rein
to the agrarian revolution. The Communist Party
Is not interested in that it is interested in con-
solldating its influence in these organizations in
developing it rapidly and turning into powerful
party with workers and peasants it's foundation,
into organ of the democratic pebeian revolution
This possibility exists and it would be senseess to
forego it now.
Let the despairing sceptcs croak over the success
achieved by the traitors The Marxists-Leninists
know that the elementary forces of the Chinese re-
volution which have been aroused cannot but break
their way through to victory, however imposing be
the obstacles placed in their way by the bourgeois
counter-revoution, however many revolutionaries
feudal reaction may execute, however huge be the
guns with which the foreign troops of occupation
fire on Chinese towns.