The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-04
Anniversary of the American
Revolution

The Fourth of july concentrating the birth of republic
which had origin revolutionary colonial revolt dawns
TODAY upon that same republic grown the mightest imperial
power EARTH power rapidly becoming the most aggressive
oppressor of colonial peoples in the world.
The American capitalist defenders of its social lnstu
ton and Spokesman government much of this day
in the capitalize the traditions of 176 in support OF the
capitalist Imperialism of 1928 To dope the minds OF the masses
of workers and farmers to WIN the support OF neSe MASSES
behind the United and its slaughter of Ncaraguan
this capitalism nvokes the of Washington Paine Jetfe
son and Franklin!
Ghosts of the barefoot revolutionary fighters evoked to
spea-not for the revolutionary fighters now in the army OF
Sandno-bu for the counterrevoutonay Wall Street govern
which sends its Hessan marines to destroy the ndepen
dence of weaker nations
All that the United and its ruling class
can celebrate today revolution but For
the revolutionary traditions of all periods of history can play
their role vital forces only in the present
The 1928 the most powerful reactionary
force world It's mperast aggression rapidly increasing
in Europe and Asia well in Latin America its boast OF
inaenabe rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
hollow mockey the hundreds of thousands OF starving
driven to the wall by the combined power Of
and shop employers to the tens OF thousands
of textile battling the streets for the right merely
hold meetng fact to the entire working class and to the
farmers being appropriated throughout the west
The this editorial is written in jail result of
an effort speak publicly against the invasion of Nicaragua
is comment enough American LIBERTY and what 1t means
July a, 1928.
Does it require more than schooboys
that the traditions of the revolutionary overthrow of
praccd by Washington does not belong to Andrew Mellon
Cal Coolidge, Ware and Hoover?
The working class exploited farmers of America
learn much their historic role by study of the first Amer
revolution bourgeois revolution to be but which
released political progress employed
revolutionary methods in forms applicable to that day Together
with the Civil War of 1861 which second revolution
peng the first laid the basis for the growth of that which
alone and will carry thru the third and final American
oluon-the working class.
1t the duty of workers and the exploited farmers
historic allies in the struggeto claim all that is revolutionary
in the traditions of the American bourgeois revolution
They must learn the nature of the State Power from the
continental that suppressed the former ruling social
strata with hand From the acts of George Washington
jefferson Paine the workers draw American historical
confirmation of the lessons which sharper and clearer
form of the greater revolution of 1917 By these events they
will be enabled the better understand the present of
perasm and the proaan revolution uShered in by the last
world the overthrow of the of the and the
bougeoe what the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Let make of every tradition of 1776 for the struggles
of the revolutionary working class and the colonial slaves today
And in the light of the approaching second world and the
inevitable mperast attempt overthrow the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics Socialist Fatherand of all workers. remember
the tradition of Tom Paine born England who Joined with
heart and hand in the revolutionary against England This
tradition fits well with that tradition made by the
United States Marines who the revolutionary army
of SANDING to fight against the Imperialism native
country.
Long live the American Revolution!
Join the proearian Minute Men" of today fighters of
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