The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-22
The Drift Of the Trotzky-Zinoviey Opposition

by ne single Party nucleus, it con-
tinued to represent obstinately it's
anti-Bolshevist opinions, and die not
cease its fractional work"
THE new attack of the Opposition is
thus characterized as follows:
"The Opposition has attempted to
utilize the special difficulties arising
in connection with the international
situation of the Soviet Union and
with the partial defeat of the Chinese
Revolution, has concentrated it's at
tacks upon the international policy
of the Party (China, Great Brittany
"The Opposition answers the in
creased danger of war for the Soviet
Union with declarations that directly
undermine the work of the Party
to mobilize the masses for the strug-
gle against the danger of war and
for the Strengthening of the defenses
of the Soviet State. A declaration
such as that recently made by the
! Opposition with Comrade Trotzky
and Zinoviev at the head, that Should
war really break over our heads,
every worker, every day laborer and
every poor peasant will ask the ques-
ton clearly: what sort of war, what
for, with what means and where to
a declaration such as the declaration
of Trotzky to the last session of the
Executive Committee of the Commu-
mist Party"
THE resolution of the Plenary SEES
sion of the Executive Committee
of the Communist International de-
clares;
THE actions of these leaders
(Trotzky and Vuyovitch, since Elmo
view is not a member of the Exec
utiye Committee Communist Interna
tionaD of the Opposition impede and
render more difficult the decisive
revolutionary tasks of the present
moment: mobilization of all revolt
tiOnary forces and rOusing the entire
international working class against
the imperialist war. :.
Between the policy represented by
Comrades Trotzky and Vuyovitch at
the present plenary session of the
Executive Committee Communist In
ternational, and fully endorsed by
Comrades Zinoviev and Radek, and
the policy of the Communist Inter-
national established by Lenin is a
deep and unbridgeable gulf. The
main features of this Oppositional
anti-Communist policy are:
"0) Interference with and dis
crediting the struggle of the Commu-
mist International against the menace
of the war. The Trotzkyites do not
direct their energy against the i'm
perialist instigators of the war, on
the contrary, Comrade Trotzky de-
clared that the greatest danger of
all was the Party regime Under
this slogan Comrade Trotzky propa-
gates in reality reactionary defeatism
against the cause of the proletarian
revolution. On the other hand, in
spite of repeated invitation, he has
not swerved one inch from his we'll
known anti-Leninist standpoint in re-
gard to the fundamental questions of
revolutionary tactics on the first i'm
perialist world war.
ut was just the differences then
existing between Trotzky and Lenin
(rejection of revolutionary defeat
ism, rejection of transformation of
the imperialist war into civil war, re-
lection of the slogan of fraterniza-
tion) which constituted in the world
war the dividing line between Bolshe-
vism and all the shades of social
democratic opportunism. Contrary to
| Lenin's injunction to concentrate par
ticularly on real practical work
against the menace of war, Comrade
Trotzky did not submit to the Plenary
| Session of the Executive Committee
Communist International, a single
practical proposal for the struggle
against the imperialist war He
limited himself to the demand, re-
peatedly rejected by the Communist
International, to break up the Anglo
Russian Trade Union Unity Com
nittee, which at this moment would
have only promoted the intentions of
the reformist betrayers of the Brit
ish working class"
OTHER criticisms of the Opposition
Oare as follows:
"(2) An utterly wrong estimate
of the character of the Chinese revo-
luton contrary to Lenin's doctrines,
on the tasks of Communists during a
bourgeois-democratic revolution in
backward semi-colonial countries. a..
"Comrade Trotzky who in 1923 on
the threshold of the proletarian revo-
luton, opposed the Formations of So
viets in Germany, demanded at the
plenary session of the Executive
Committee Communist international
immediate establishment of dual
power in the form of Soviets," in the
present situation in China.