The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
Revolutionary Greetings

Renubics On Nav l. 1918 for the first time army of self
ruling and peasants under the red flag OF revolution
marched all the cities and towns of the largest coun
try in the world That day 1918 the greatest May Day
yet known 1t celebrated the conquest OF one
sixth of the surface of the globe by the working class and ong
peasants. -
The coming May Days will of necessity draw the attention
of the working its class allies the working farmers
the conques which made possible that first free May Day
for workers the conques which earlier established the first
Socialist Republic. ,
After en-year period beginning the midst Of the blood
soaked wordwar ending today with the present develop
ens toward second worId-warhc workers of the world
say that the of 1917 are more rmy established
than and being consolidated III preparation lo LIE
storms that coming
The proearian revolution 1917 marked the first stage
of the world revolution Not revolution of the workers of
single country but revolution of all the world workers.
the time being limited to the territory OF single country
workers whose role It to be the vanguard
of the world revolution the rst to say that the Union Oh
Socialist Soviet Republics is not Rusat Is the Socialist
fatherand of all who toll in every nation of the world
imperas governments Of the world have laid siege
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics during the ten years
that followed its founding
The Union of Socialist Republics the only
full state the that mperast state 1t is the
world Power that and does policy of
the Power that does not follow policy of aggression
against peoples that does not follow policy of war
making against other nations The interest of the Union of
Saist Soviet Republics identical with the interest of the
working class of the world is opposed to the pungng OF the
natNns into another imperalst world-war.
is the socialist faherand of all workers of the world.
The Fed Army Union is the disposal of the
Qrk and of the exploited peoples of all naonS it is
he army of the Revolution,
The diploma of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
poes the eyes of the toers of all nations the naked fact
capitalist mperialist the whole world
make the slightest step toward abolition of but
must because of their nature and for
of conquest The peace of mperialist states is in fact
but truce in the process of warfare that cannot end except
with the end of the capitalist existence Peace for
mperast state cessation only in the actual firing and not
in the manoeuverng for military advantage not truce
in the real aggression other states Peace for capital
ism with the working class within the state not
peace with colonial and semcoonia peoples but aggression
Today, in the time of capitalist peace, bloody warfare
is being waged against the peoples of Nicaragua and China
and also against the coal miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio
The class struggle proceeds and the struggle for the be
alton of suppressed peoples proceeds in all mperas
tries Through the development of this class struggle the world
revolution gathers its strength and proceeds toward the point
where will deliver the death blow capitalism The major
y of the working class in mperas countries being
and in all countries finally will be for the revolutionary
and the only revolutionary party In all mperiais
countries the developing events show the working class that
of its demands and needs of life be except
through class struggle under the leadership the revolutionary
Communist Party and the Communist International
The world-pcture which see today includes rapid
preparation for mperiaist the part the ruling
classes and states of mperast nations the other hand
the consolidation of the Socialist achievements the
of Socialist Soviet Republics The picture includes rapid
OF tens OF millions OF workers and peasants who
have been bound to the chariot ruling class by the yellow
socia-democracy which defends capitalist democracy
In the United States of America some of the most impor
tan sections of the working class learning that the
munist Party is the of leadership which will
give guidance to their struggles for the most elementary
needs OF life In the coal miners struggle in the textile
ers struggle and in the struggles the workers is
becoming clear to the workers concerned that the Communist
Party alone the party OF the working class Thus in the
stronghold of world capital the powerful Wall Street.
ne revolutionary party OF the working class is gaining
CID among the masses OF toes The treacheros
aSt party the treason Of the bureaucracy which srang
g the trade unions are inevitably exposed when the activities
the revolutionary party of the workers put sharp
trast beside them
May Day belongs the world revolutionary movement
The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics the stronghold
Of the revolution
Inc world revolutionary is the Communist
movement.
lts leadership IS the Communist international.
Inc world 9outlon casts up accounts today finds
sen stronger a ever Tor the stormy times which will usher
III the Union OF tclaist Soviet Republics of the World
JON the Woers tCommunist) Party of America, section
of the Communist international