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

~ In view of the necessity Of
concentrating the full attention of
the Party on the election campaign,
we have refrained up till now from
any statement or step calculated to
open a Party discussion on disputed
questions until the election campaign
will have ended and the pre-conven
tion discussion opened.
~ We have definite views on a
series of fundamental questions Wit
ally affecting the whole future Of
The Party and the Comintern which
it was our intention to bring before
the Party in the pre-convention dis
ctssion period.
(3) The discussion of these
questions conducted up till now has
not been a real discussion, since
many of the documcnts-in our opin-
ion some of the most important po-
3itical documents of our time-have
been suppressed and concealed from
the Parties of the Comintern or
presented to them in garbled form.
The opportunity which has come to
us in the recent period to read a
humber of these documents, dealing
with some of the most disputed
problems of the Comintern in the
past five years, together with the
rapid confirmation of their correct
mess by the whole course of events,
have shaped our views and eonvic-
tions. We consider it our revolu-
tionary duty to defend these views
before the Party.
az We had intended to under
take this task at the opening Of the
Party discussion after the election
campaign. However, the arbitrary
actions already taken against us
tour removal from our positions in
the I. LID. on Oct. 16) and the plain
indications shown in the present
hearing of the intention to take fur
tier organizational measures and to
begin a public campaign against us
in the Party press, make it neces-
sary to state our position without
further delay. 1t must be made
clear to the Party that the mea-
sures are being taken against us
solely because Of our political views.
These views must be presented to
the Party as they really are.
(5) We present them here in
outline form and will elaborate on
them more fully in our appeal to the
Plenum of the Central Executive
Committee against the actions taken
by the Polcom.
(6) We stand on the main line
Of the document entitled 1.-THE Right
Danger in the American Party"
(excepting certain erroneous formu-
lations dealing with the world posi-
ton and role of American imperial
iam), presented to the Sixth World
Congress of the Comintern by the
delegation of the opposition, in the
drafting of which we actively par
ticipated. AS set forth in this docu-
rnent, we believe that the present
leadership of the Party, mechan-
ically imposed upon the Party by
the E. C. G. l. against the will of
the membership, is a consciously de-
veloping right wing, whose course
and actions are all in the direction
of undermining the position of the
Party in the class struggle. Its &C
&tivities since the presentation of our
\ aament on "1he Right Danger in
the HsesGissn Party to the World
Congress, havs. confirmed and not
refuted this Ultimate. The irre-
sponsiblc adventuSem, the fractional
degeneration and buresucratic cor
ruption of the LoveSSpne group
leadership are an organic part OF
its Fundamental opportunist charac-
ter.
en- The latest decision of the
secretariat of the E. c. G. l., whlcf
undertakes to dismiss a whole series
Of principle questions raised IN on
Indictment Of the Party Leadership
with formal motion, giving no an
40. WHATSOEVER to the burning
questions of the Party in all fields
cf the class struggle, serves only
to strengthen the mechanical
s'ranglehold Of the right wing lead