The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-22


CONCERNING this newspaper of
" the expelled German group, Buk-
HARM says:
"Their newspaper, which has be-
come the organ of our Opposition at
the present time, dishes up every
morsel of gossip or Islander in circu-
lation against our Party and the
Comintern. These good people will
presently arrive at a slogan of So
viets without Communists They
have already published an article on
war in which they state that, unless
the present leaders of the Comintern
change their political and eorganiza-
tory course radically at the last mo-
ment, they will play the same role
as the leaders of the Second Inter
national at the beginning of the
great war. 1.-THE Flag of Commu-
nism,' No. 12.)"
pledges and promises have little
meaning for the Trotzky-Zinoviev
Opposition. In spite of their agree
ment of Oct. 9th, 1926, the Central
Control Commission of the Commu-
mist Party of the Soviet Union points
out that fractional literature has
been printed and distributed, there is
the organization of openly fractional
declarations like that of the 'S4' with
unparalleled slanderous accusations
against the Party, the attitude of
Trotzky in the Executive Committee
of the Communist International, the
speech of Zinoviev on May 9th in a
non-Party meeting appealing to the
workers outside the Party against
the Party, which was condemned by
the Executive Committee of the Com
munist International as crassly frac-
tional and which violated all the ira
ditions of the Party of the Bolshe-
viks and violated elementary Party
discipline. Finally, Comrade Trotzky
made unbelievable accusatio n S
against the Party in the session of
the Presidium of the Control Con-
troll Commission on account of alleged
Thermidorism."
THE latest affront of the Trotzky-
Zinoviev Opposition against the
Party is described by the Central
Control Commission as follows:
"Altho the question of Comrade
Zinoviev's attitude had been placed
before the Central Control Commission
for examination, altho the Executive
Committee Communist International
had condemned the attitude of Com
rade Trotzky as openly fractional, on
June 9th, during the days of the Bit
terest attacks of British imperialism
upon the Soviet Union, Trotzky and
Zinoviev took part in the demonstra-
ton arranged by the opposition at
the railroad station under the pre-
tense of seeing off Smilga. At the
moment of open war preparations of
Great Britain, the breaking off of
diplomatic relations, the assassina-
ton of Voikov, which clearly showed
the transition of the imperialists to
terrorist means against the Soviet
Union, Comrade Trotzky addressed a
demonstration consisting not only of
the members of the Opposition drawn
there by the fractional apparatus, but
also of the normal public at the sta
ton"
THUS the role of the Opposition
has been consistently one of Civ
ing aid and comfort to the enemies
of the Soviet Union and the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union,
thus hampering the struggle for the
building up of Socialism. The Cen
trail Control Commission points this
out in part as follows:
I'm 1928 when the party was fight
ing against the difficulties caused by
the opening of the scissors Trotsky
and the 49, attempted to utilize the
difficulties which had arisen for frac-
tional purposes and published a dec
laration that the country had been
brought to the brink of destruction
by the policy of the Party. The XIV
Congress of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union unanimously
pointed out that the New Opposition
(Zinoviev and others) had left the
feminist position by denying the So
cialist character of our industry, un-
der-estimating the role of the middle
peasantry and demanding freedom of
action for fractions and groupings
within the Party.
in the spring and summer of 1926
the block of the New Opposition with
Trotzky was formed, the New OPP
position with Zinoviev at the head
definitely going over to the ideologi-
cal position of Trotzkyism. In the
summer of 1926 the Opposition went
so far in its ceaseless attacks upon
the Party that it formally founded a
fractional organization, illegal or
CARNATIONS with illegal mass meet
ings in the woods cease of Lashevitch
and others). Defeated upon all
points by the experiences in the prac-
teal work of building up Socialism,
the Opposition definitely entered the
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