The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-14

China has been fixed for April. The congress
will meet at a momentous time.
The Seventh Plenum of the Executive Committee
of the Communist International in its resolution on
the Chinese question declared that the Chinese revo-
luton has everything that is effectively needed to
skip over the capitalist stage of development From
this point of view the present stage of development
of the Chinese revolution must be regarded as
critical. The general line of the further develop
ment Of the Chinese revolution-the question as to
whether it will be a capitalist or non-captast de-
velOpmentis being decided just at the present mo-
ment.
The movement for national freedom has been VIC
torious in half of China The southern Nationalist
government is already the government Of a powerful
state with population Of 200 millions. The ques-
ton to how this state and its should
be organized, what social forces it should rely
what should be the role of the working class and
the Communist Party in the organization of the
state, now confronts us in all its magnitude.
In this Journal in article on the ''Regrouping
Of Forces in the Chinese Revolutions it was stated
that since the Seventh Plenum of the E. c. C. 1.
class friction in the towns and villages had inten-
sified considerably during the further development
Of the workers and peasants movement, particu-
larly in Human and Hupeh owing to the increased
pressure of the imperialists and the increasing men
ace of open Intervention. Both these factors drive
the right wing of the movement along the lines of
concessions to and compromise with the imperialsts
The events in China are developing with rapid
ity which is characteristic of great revolution In
the short period since the publication of the article
already mentioned the events in China have brought
forward new facts which bear witness to further
class differentiation within the national movement
The problem of organizing the internal forces of the
Chinese revolution thus becomes at the present time
one of vast Importance.
The problem Of problems in the Chinese revolution
at the present time is the situation in the Kuomn-
tang, the further development of the Kuomintang
as party at the head of the Southern Chinese State
The development of the Kuomintang reveals GER
tain symptoms from the point of view of the in
terests of the Chinese revolution.
The Kuomintang is still party of leaders At
the time of the Seventh Plenum of the E. C. c. l.
the KuOmintang had 100000 members. This is a
considerable number for political party But it
must be borne in mind that these 100000 were not
drawn into the everyday organization activities
of the party. They were heard of only during con-
crosses and conferences at all of which the repre-
sentatves of the left tendencies were predominant
The majority of the Executive Committee of the
Kuomintang also consists of left elements, but the
predominant Importance of the left elements in the
party is not clearly expressed in the composition
and policy of the Nationalist government In the
Nationalist government power is in the hands of the
centre and the latter in most display decisive
right tendencies.
This is even pronounced in the provincial
governments of South China Prior to the change
Of government of March Goth, 1926 the left ee-
ments IN the Kuomintang predominated in the Ma
tonalist government. But in the city of Canton
and IN Kwantung province, j. e. the territory which
was completely in the hands of the Nationalist gov
eminent, the government was and actually is at
the present time in the hands primarily of the CEN
trist and right elements Of the Kuomintang The
Communists did not participate in the government;
they were under the absolutely incorrect impression
that they could not participate in government of
the Kuomintang.'
The Right Wing.
The right elements in the Kuomintang comprise
in their ranks prominent statesmen, representatives
of the bourgeoise of China, etc. According to their
past, present and their social and political connec-
tons, the right elements Of the Kuomntang are in
eined to compromise with the imperiasts; they