The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-24
C0MINTERN HITS
GERMAN PARTY'S
RIGHT WINGERS
"Brandler, Thalheimer
Exposed; Really Left
Social Democrats"
Need No Compromisers
Rights Not Able to
Split Communists
(Wueless to the Daily Worker)

MOSCOW, U S. S. R., Dec. %
The session of the Presidium of
the Executive Committee Of the
Communist International on Dec.
10 adopted an open letter to the
German Communist Party concern
ing the. right wing danger; this
letter reviews briefly right wing
fractional activity in the German
Communist Party since 1923. The
right wing never abandoned hope
to again win the leadership of the
party. The fifth Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International sternly re-
buked Brandler, Thalheimer and
Radek.
Before the Essen Party congress
III 1927 fractionalism of the right
wing was resuscitated. The next
stage of the fractional work was
referred to the ninth E. G. c. I.
Plenum and fourth congress of the
Red International of Labor Union.
The German right wing openly de-
fled the decisions of the fourth r. I.
L. U. congress, attacked the GEN.
trail committee of the German Com
munist Party all along the line,
and worked out it's own political
| platform.
Utilized Wittorf Case.
The Wittorf case gave the right
wingers an opportunity to make a
new attempt to win the party lead
ership. This attempt was con-
demned by the E. c. I. The right
wingers then commenced openly to
build a fraction.
Brankleer and Thalheimer held
fractional meetings in Berlin
Chemnitz and Offenbach in No
veinber. The right winger Calm
transformed the former Offenbach
party newspaper "Volksrecht" into
a right fractional organ. The right
winger Hausen issued the fractian-
al newspaper "Gegenden Strbm'
Hausen admitted to the E. C. C. I
Presidium the existence of a right
wing fraction.
RefOrmist Agency.
Thus it is proved conclusively
that an organized right wing frac-
tion exists in the German Com.
munist Party with a central lead.
ership, political platform and frac.
tional discipline. Brandler anc
Thalheimer are exposed by theil
own actions as left wing socia
democratic politicians. Objectively
they are right wing reformist
agency in the Communist Party.
The right wing fraction is max,
ing for plit and formation of 9
new opportupist party. Brandlel
and Thalheimer intend to form g
spartakusbund. This action is
doomed to failure. There is nc
present possibility of conciliatior
between the rightwing fraction and
the party. The latter has no room
for conciliators. Conciliators must
choose between the rightwing frac-
tion and the party. Conciliators
must fight with the party against
the right wing. The Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter-
national approves of the decision of
the Central Committee of the Ger
man Communist Party of Dec. Ia,
placing conditions to right wing
leaders. The rejection of these
conditions by the right wingers
must involve the expulsion of all
right wing leading elements. The
German Communist Party is in
structed to take the necessary
measures. Brandler and Thai
heimer are invited to Moscow to
answer the Executive Committee of
the Communist International.
Their refusal involves immediate
expulsion. Hausen and Calm re-
fused to cease fractional activity
and so the E. C. C. I. therefore de-
cides to expel both from the party.
The E. G. c. I. expresses its con-
viction that workers under the in
fluence of the right wingers won't
let themselves be led to social de-
mocracy, but will break with right
wingers and stand by the party.
1t is necessary, first, to have
'road theological campaign in the
ferman Communist Party to over
ONE the opportunist danger and
establish unconditional Bolshevist
unity and discipline; second, a sys-
tematic struggle against concilia-
tors whose attitude towards the
right wing hinders the party in it's
struggle to overcome opportunism
third, the development of inner
party democracy and selfcriticism,
and fourth, concentration of all
party forces on the basis of the de-
cisions of the sixth world congress
and under the direction of the Ex-
ecutive Committee on the Commun-
ist International.