The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

deeds is a typical Trotskyist tactic.
The course adopted by Cannon has
already placed him, Abern and
Shachtman in a position of open
struggle against the Party and the
Comintern.
While Cannon is still pretending
to stand on the platform Of the
Minority of our Party, known as
the Right Danger in the American
Party" he has actually abandoned
every principle Incorporated in that
document.
Already Cannon is forced openly
to expose his abandonment Of the
platform of the Minority when he
says that he is not in agreement
with certain wrong Foundations
contained in it (minority dOcumenD
on the world position and role of
American Imperialism" In other
words, Cannon is forced to state
that on the most basic proposition in
the Minority point of view, namely,
on the world position and role of
American imperialism, Cannon does
not share but is opposed to the point
Of view of the Minority.
Trotskyism is incompatible with
Leninism. Trotskyism is incom-
patible with the membership in our
Party. In the struggle against
Trotskyism the Party must differ
entiate between leading and respon-
sible Party members and non-prole-
tartan elements who consciously
adopt the -Comintern position
Of Trotskyism ard those proletarian
clements who because of lack of
clarity and weak Communist ideol-
ogy adopt a hestitant attitude on
the question. Toward leading and
responsible Party members and
-prolctarian elements the Party
must apply all necessary organiza-
ticnal measures, including expulsion
from the Party, which are neces-
sary to protect the Party from the
demoralizing effects of Trotskyism.
Towards hesitating proletarian ele-
ments the Party must adopt a
course of persistent and patient
theological Qualification, intensive
efforts to make these proletarian
clements realize the opportunist ma
ture of Trotskyism and to win them
away from the Trotsky Opposition
to the Party and to the Comintern.
The line adopted by the majority
Of the Polbureau contains serious
dangers for our Party. This line
obscures the cause and most i'm
oortant manifestations of the Right
danger in the American Party. By
so doing the majority of the Pol
bureau not only weakens the strug-
gle against Trotskyism but para
lyzes the fight against the Right
danger. The statement of the ma
| jority of the Polbureau sounds a
| dangerous note. 1t attempts to
brand the entire minority as being
Trotskyte and against the Comm
tern, because as members of the
Communist international we have
expressed disagreement with vari-
Gus phases Of the decision of the
Communist international on the
American question.
The Communist International or
dered a Party convention to take
Up and make a decision on all dis
uted questions before the Amer
can Party. The Communist Inter
national endorsed no group for lead
crship in the American Party, nor
cid the Communist international en-
dorse the line of the majority of
our Central Committee.
The Minority stands on the line
of the Comintern. The Minority has
made an energetic fight in the
American Party precisely for the
adoption of the Comintern line as
formulated at the Ninth Plenum of
The Communist International and as
later developed at the Sixth World
Congress. 1t was the Minority that
insisted upon reorientating the poll
cies of our Party upon the line of
the Ninth Plenum of the Commu-
mist international and upon an in
tensive struggle against the Right
danger. But the Majority ridiculed
and prosecuted the Minority for its
struggle to apply the Communist
International line to the United
States. The Majority, up to the
last minute, violently denied the eX-
istence of a Right danger either in
the Comintern or the American
Party. The Majority pursued the
policy Of supporting, covering up
and leading the extreme right wing
of our Party while concentrating its
main fire against the developing left
clements in our Party.
The present declarations Of the
c. E. C. Majority that it is in ia
vor of waging a struggle against
the Right danger are exposed as
mere pretense by its actual line of
policy, which is to continue its right
wing orientation and to fight the
Minority as the main danger in the
Party. The ling adopted by the
Majority of the Central Committee