The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-30

CONTINUED From Last Issue)
This is the sixth installment of the
Theses on the war danger adopted
at the Plenum of the Executive Com
mite of the Communist International
on May 20, 1927. It gives the official
Communist viewpoint on this impor-
tant question.
IS. The so-called ultra Left
groups have played no small part in
the work of demoralizing the prole-
tariat. While in the campaign against
the Soviet Union the social democrats
were an echo of the bourgeoisie, the
ultra-lefts were an echo Of the social
democrats. Now when the prepara-
tion of an attack on the Soviet Union
| is becoming self-evident, when the
| professional house-breakers from
Scotland Yard are raiding the prem
Uses of the Soviet representatives. in
london, the objective meaning and
significance of "ultra-left" treachery
is perfectly clear. In the light of the
anti-Soviet campaign, this treachery
! appears as one of the elements in
tended to disorganize the Soviet rear
IN the event of war. In as far as this
1 fraction endeavors to assume an in
ternational character. it constitutes an
clement in disorganizing the struggle
Of the Connintern against war.
10. The attitude of the Second In
ternational on the Chinese question
was no less treacherous than it's at
titude towards the Soviet Union The
Second International did not move a
finger to prevent the concentration
! Of foreign troops in China. It's lead
ers are cynically and impudently for
the war in China. If such a leader
in the Second International as Thomas
disagreed at will with the policy of
! his government in regard to the Chi
nese question, it was only in the sense
that the government was not sending
enough troops and should send more
Another leader of the Second Interna-
tional, Macdonald, declares that the
protection of British interests in
China demands the presence of an
adequate armed force in the settle
ment." The Second international
openly supports the Chinese Gallifet
Chang Kai-shek. after the Shanghai
shootings (see Hamburger Echo" OF
April 10, 1920. The efforts of the
Chinese proletariat to secure hege-
mony over the national revolutionary
movement are meeting with fierce OPP
position on the part of the entire in
ternational social democracy.
20. No less criminal and Infamous
is the attitude TO the war question
Of the so-called cleft" section of social
democracy lotto Bauer, Paul Levi
and others).
(a).-This wing of social democracy
is Disgusting its criminal passivity in
regard to the war, which has already
begun in China, by talk about the
peril of imperialist wars in general
| (b).-Together with Hilferding they
keep alive the extremely dangerous
illusion that imperialism itself is not
dangerous, that it only becomes dan
gerous if accompanied by reaction
austrian social democratic organ
"Kampf").
(c).-In their campaign against the
Soviet Union they use the same
poisonous weapons as the right wing
Of the social democrats.
This wing of social democracy is
the most dangerous because of its
leaders are Disgusting the standpoint
of the right social democrats with
cleft" phraseology, because they al
ways save at the critical moment the
right social democrats and the bour-
geoisie, and by misleading the work
ers help the bourgeoisie to carry out
it's plans.
RI. The Communist Parties in their
struggle against imperialist interven-
ton in revolutionary China and their
struggle for peace with the Soviet
Union, cannot renounce the united
front tactics. On the contrary. In
this struggle the widest possible APP
plication of the united front tactics
| is a necessary condition both in the
interests of the mobilization of the
broad masses OF the workers, peas
ants and oppressed nations and also
in the interest of exposing pacifist