The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-07


for the reestablishment of cap
italism in the Soviet Union.
mot only the interests of the
working class of the Soviet
Union but the interests of the
international proletariat also
demand an uncompromising
struggle against Trotskyism,
against outright opportunistic
tendencies, and against all toll
erance towards such tendencies,
all conciliatory attempts to
cover up and protect such out
right opportunism."
But in the United States Trotsky-
ism is not yet defeated. On the con-
trary, it is still a growing menace.
The new Trotskyist outbreak in our
ranks creates grave situation for
our Party. The renegade Cannon
group is working overtime to split
our Party. It's theology today is
openly counter-revolutionary, social
democratic. The Trotskyist group
around Cannon, Lore and Eastman,
is an open ally of the capitalists,
the government, the socialist party,
the A. F. of L., in their efforts to
wipe out the Communist Party. In
its present form in the United
States, Trotskyism is the most com
posite and consistent system of op-
portunism. The platform of Trotsky-
ism in the United States is today
the rallying point of all Right wing
elements within and outside our
Party. The complete destruction of
Trotskyism in our Party can be
realized only thru an uncompromis-
ing, relentless fight against every
manifestation of the Right danger,
thru merciless self criticism of all
errors, of all mistakes made by the
Central Executive Committee and
by the Party as whole; thru a
most thorough mobilization of all
Party forces to isolate and annihi-
late the renegades, near-social dem
ocrats, liquidators and splitters.
In the United States, Trotskyism
has never rallied to its banner any
support from the Left. The very
opposite has been the case. Whom
has Trotskyism ever rallied to its
support but the extreme Right wing
elements in our Party? Look at this
galaxy of opportunists who have
flocked to Trotsky's Menshevik
standard: Lore, who was condemned
by the Fifth Congress and Fifth
Plenum of the Comintern as a two
and-a-half internationalist and who
was unanimously expelled by the
Fourth Convention of our Party as
an incurable opportunist; Salutsky,
a defender of the reactienary trade
union bureaucracy's faith; Eastman,
avowed antiMarxian and once sup
porter of Woodrow Wilson and his
imperialist war plans; Askeli, una
nimously condemned by the Fourth
Convention of our Party for his
Right wing errors; Sulkanen, for
years the symbol of the crassest
opportunism in the ranks of our
Finnish comrades; and lastly, Can
non, who resisted the expulsion of
Salutsky, who proposed the expul-
sion of five thousand Left workers
from our Party because they did not
Immediately accept the proposals of
the Central Executive Committee
for the organization of an open
Party. This is the same Left"
Cannon who was censured by the
Fifth Congress of the Comintern:
"The comrades gathered
around the other group, such as
Comrades Hathaway and Can
non, have made a number of
declarations which show that in
their efforts to secure influ-
ence on the Electromagnetic,
they failed to maintain the Com
munist position"
The Comintern's Characterization
of Trotskyism, which began as a
left" deviation and developed in
its last stage into an out-and-out
social democratic deviation has
proven to be correct.
Thus, Comrade Stain, at the Oc-
tober, 1927, Plenary meeting of the
Central Committee and the Central
Control Commission Of the Commu-
mist Party of the Soviet Union, said
of Trotskyism:
"From Trotskyism to Men
shevism' to the fundamental
question of degeneration-that
is the way of the Trotskyites
in the last three years.
"The Trio skyites have
changed i. :"
And in his concluding speech at
the Fifteenth Congress of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union,
Comrade Stain further said:
"Comrade Rakovsky main
tains that the opposition is the
Left wing of our Party. This
would make cat laugh. Such
statements are evidently made
to salve the conscience of poll
tical bankrupts. 1t has been
proven that the opposition is
Menshevik wing of our Party,
that the opposition has Gegen-
Grated into Menshevism, that
the opposition has been object