The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-16


ership upon our Party. This bureau
cratic secretariai method Of dealing
with disputed principle questions
must be emphatically rejected by
the Party both in form and content,
SINCE they have nothing in common
with Lenin's teaching regarding the
theological leadership Of all Com
munist Parties by the Comintern
and the unremitting struggle against
opportunism on all fronts.
(S) The present attempt of some
Of the leaders of the Foster-Bittel-
man group who signed the document
on the Fright Danger" to abandon
that platform, to moderate the
struggle against the Lovestone-
Pepper right wing, and to effect a
political coalescence with them in
order to direct their attack against
those who remain true to that plat
form and develop it's logical and in
evitable international implications,
in no way alters the fundamental
correctness. Of the document. It
merely demonstrates the political in
stability of these leaders which
hampers the process of developing
an opposition to the present right
wing leadership and line of the
Party on a principle basis. We have
no doubt that the supporters of the
opposition who have regarded the
struggle against the right wing
leadership as a principle question
will continue to adhere to this posi-
ton despite the vacillations and
.naneuvers of a section Of the lead
crs.
10y The problems of the Ameri-
can Party are organically bound up
with the fundamental questions con-
fronting the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union and the Comintern
and cannot be solved separately from
them. The left wing of the Ameri-
can Party, taking shape in the prin-
ciple struggle against the right
wing leadership Of the Party (Love-
stone-Pepper group) will go forward
only insofar as it recognizes the
necessity of a struggle against the
right danger on an international
scale and links up its fight in the
American Party with the Bolshevik
fight for the Fundamental tenets of
Leninism in the Communist Party
CT the Soviet Union and in the Com
intern.
(10) The opposition in the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union,
led by L. D. Trotsky, has been fight
ing for the unity of the Comintern
and all its sections on the basis of
the victory of Leninism. The cor
rectness of the position taken by
the Russian opposition over a period
of five yea of struggle has been
fully confirmed by events.
(a) The struggle led by Trot-
sky since 1923 for Party democ-
racy and against bureaucratism
as the pressure Of another class
upon the Party of the proletariat,
was absolutely correct then and is
even more SO now. The adoption
Of this position by Zinoviev, Ka-
menev, and others in 1925, and
the attempt of Stain to adopt it
now, demonstrates the tremendous
pressure of class forces which inn
pei the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union to this platform. The
struggle for Party democracy,
against bureaucratism and for a
regime of genuine feminist self
criticism are burning questions
now for every Party and for the
Comintern as a whole.
OBJ The necessity for a more
relentless struggle against the
Kulak and the Nepman--fcr an
crientation exclusively upon the
workers and hired hands, united
with the village poor and lower
peasantry and in alliance with the
middle neutrality-suspicious. by
the opposition, becomes clearer
every day. The trend of events
! and the irresistible pressure Of
class forces is already driving a
deep cleavage in the leadership
Of the Communist Party of the
| Soviet Union and is forcing the