The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-28

The question of rebellion must be
put openly to the masses.
The rebellion must be based on
the rising revolutionary temper of
the entire working population, par
ticularly of the semi-proletarians
ard poor peasantry.
Work in Army.
Persistent and intensified work
must be conducted for the purpose
of disintegrating the bourgeois
armies, which work, at the moment
of the uprising, will assume the
character Of struggle for the
army.
Activities for organizing rebellion
and military preparations must both
occupy prominent place in the
work among the proletarian masses
and among the toilers in the colo
MES and semi-colonies.
The time for launching the rebel
lion will be determined by the state
Of maturity of the objective and
subjective prerequisites for it. The
time can be fixed definitely only il
the closest contact exists between
the Party and the masses of the
revolutionary proletariat.
Art of Rebellion.
O In regard to carrying cut the
rebellion. The rule must be: no
playing with rebellion. The rebel
lion once launched must be vigor-
ously prosecuted until the enemy is
utterly crushed. Hesitation and
lack of determination will cause the
utter defeat of the revolutionary
armed uprising. The main forces
must be thrown against the main
forces of the enemy.
Efforts must be made to secure
the superiority of the proletarian
forces at the decisive moment at
TIE decisive place, and without de-
lay the rebellion must be carried
over the widest possible territory.
There is an art in rebellion; but re-
bellion is not purely military prob
lem, it is primarily political prob
lem. Only a revolutionary Party
can lead rebellion. On the out
break of the rebellion the Party
must subordinate the whole of its
activity to the requirements of the
armed struggle.
b. The Proletariat Defends the
Soviet Union Against the
Imperialists.
26. Imperialist war against the
Soviet Union is open, bourgeois,
counter-revolutionary, class war
against the proletariat. It's princi-
pal aim is to overthrow the prole-
tartan dictatorship and introduce
a reign of white-guard terror
against the working class and the
toilers Of all countries. The basis
for the tactics of the proletariat in
capitalist countries in the struggle
against such war is furnished by
the Bolshevik program of struggle
against the imperialist war, i.e.,
transform the war into civil war.
The methods and tasks of this
struggle, prior to the outbreak of
the war and during the war must
however, be adapted to the concrete
conditions under which it was pre-
pared for, and to its openly class
character. The fact that, in this
case, the enemy" is not an imperi-
alist power, but the proletarian die
tatorship, introduces certain import
ant notifications in anti-war tao
tics.
Propaganda Work.
27. The propaganda tasks in
connection with imperialist war and
the preparations for war against the
Soviet Union, stated concretely, are
as follows:
AZ Pacifism is being transformed
from mere screen to conceal war
preparations into one of the most
important instruments for these
preparations. Hence, it is necessary
to intensity the campaign against
pacifism and against it's specific slo-
gans; against the Soviet Union in
! the name of civilization" and