The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-13
THE QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION

wingers with Imperialism against the
Chinese revolution.
The coup d'Etat of Chang Kai-shek
means that from now on in South
China there will be two camps, two
governments, two armies and two
centres-the centre of the revelation
in Wuhan and the centre of the
counter-revolution in Marking.
The coup d'Etat of Chang Kai-
shek means that the revolution has
entered into the second stage of its
development, that a change has taken
place from the revolution of ma
tional united front of all classes to
a revolution Of the millions, the
masses, the workers and peasants,
that the agrarian revolution has COM
menced which will increase the in
tensity of the struggle against the
imperialists, against the landed
gentry, against the feudal land
owners, against the militarists and
against the counter-revolutionary
grouping around Chang Kai-shek.
This means that the struggle be-
tween the two possibilities of the
revolution, between the supporters of
further development of the revolu-
ton and the supporters of liquida-
ton will intensity from day to day.
This struggle will occupy the whole
of the present period of the revolu-
ton.
This means that the revolutionary
Kuomingtang in Wuhan will be trans
formed into an organ of the revolu-
tionary-democratic dictatorship of
the proletariat and the peasantry by
decisive struggle against militarism
and imperialism whilst the counter
revolutionary group of Chang Kai-
shek in Marking by separating itself
from the workers and peasants and
seeking rapproachement with the
imperialists, will finally share the
fate of the militarists.
1t follows from this, however, that
the policy of maintaining the unity
of the Kuomingtang and of isolating
the right-wingers inside the Kuoming-
tang and utilizing them for the pur-
poses of the revolution, is no longer
in accord with the new tasks of the
revolution. This old policy must be
replaced by a new one, the policy of
driving the right-wingers out of the
kuOmingtang, of fighting them to
the end, by the policy of concentra-
ting the whole power in the country
ir the hands of the revolutionary
KuOmingtang, the KuOmingtang
without right wing elements, that is
KuOmingtang formed from bloc
between the left-wing elements and
the communists.
From this it follows that the policy
of working closely with the left-wing
of the Kuomingtang inside the Kuo-
mingtang becomes particularly
significant and necessary in this
stage of affairs, that this co-opera-
ton, the alliance of the workers and
peasants which is being formed, will
reflect itself outside the Kuoming-
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work the victory of the revolution is
impossible.
1t follows further, that the chief
source of strength Of the revolutionary
Kuomingtang is to be found in a
continued development of the revolu-
tionary movement Of the workers and
peasants and the strengthening Of
their mass organizations, the revolu-
tionary peasant committees, tn e
workers trade unions and the other
mass organizations as the preparatory
elements for the Soviets of the fu-
ture, that the chief guarantee for the
victory of the revolution is the
growth of the revolutionary activity
of the millions of toilers and that
the best and most important weapon
against the conference.-the is the
arming Of the workers and peasants.
From all this it follows finally, that
tie Communist Party whilst fighting
in the same ranks with the revolu-
tionary Kuomingtang members, must
preserve its independence more than
ever as necessary condition for en-
surfing the hegemony of the prolc-
tariat in the bourgeois-democratic
revolution.