The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-22
Britain's Latest Conspiracy Against
the Soviet Union

Even though the tory imperialist govern
ment of Britain is engaged in modifying the
highest degree of resistance to the new and
aggressively insolent turn of American i'm
perialism signalized by the election of Hoo
yer, it still finds time to engage IN provoca-
lions and armed conspiraces against the So
Wet Union Thus, like the United States
government, it fights against the first work
ers and peasants republic while at the same
time carrying on intrigues against its capt.
talist rivals.
Just as the United States is desperately
trying to extend and consolidate its powers
in Latin-America, so Britain, in its war
preparations, tries to encircle. the Soviet
Union with bayonets in an effort to isolate
and destroy the Bolshevik government The
rebel bands now engaged in waging an at
tack upon Kabul, capitol of Afghanistan, are
bought and paid for mercenarieS of Baldwin
and Chamberlain, equipped with British arms
and munitions. Their purpose is to over
throw the government of Ammanulla, pro-
gressive Islamite king of that country and
establish in its place government servile to
Britain so that it can create a buffer state
against the Soviet Union and obtain base
from which to launch military operations
from the south in an eventual war of ag-
gression.
But thus far the Afghanistan government
has succeeded in repelling the imperiaGst
hireings. That Britain is preparing for
direct intervention with British troops is indi-
Gated by the fact that British planes have
been dropping leaflets over the Afghanistan
lines threatening intervention in case of
"harm Detailing British subjects"
This intervention is another source of
danger of another world war; war against
the Soviet Union. In such a war the class
struggle will be concentrated on an interna-
tional scale-the fight of the Soviet world to
resist the attacks of the capitalist world. In
such fight the Soviet power will have re-
serve forces among the seething millions of
the colonies and among the proletariat of the
home countries engaged in the war
Every resource of the working clasj and
the peasantry Of the countries affected
should be modified to prevent the war on
the Soviet Union. But if, in spite of all eff
forts to prevent it, war against the Soviet
Union does come, the capitalist nations will
face the mightiest power ever generated in
the world, the power of the world proetariat
and the colonial peoples of the world, under
the leadership of the vanguard of the eX-
plotted masses, the Communist international.
In such war the one demand will be,
not determination of the soldiers at the front,
but wholesale desertion of the imperialist
armies to the camp of the Red Army, the
army of the workers and peasants. In such
a struggle the question will be plainly putt
Desert the imperialist armies and with guns
In hand go over to the side of the armies de-
Tending the Soviet Union. In the imperialist
countries themselves the workers will be
urged to paralyze the war industries and take
advantage of the economic and political
crisis to overthrow the imperialist govern
ments and set up Soviet republics.
When the United States, Britain or any
other country plays with war; they are only
invoking the powers that will eventually de-
stroy them, for just as surely as they dare
launch another war just so surely will they
face the next stage of the world revolution
before they have gone very far.