The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-29
The Struggle Against Imperialist War
and the Tasks of the Communists

peace; against realistic paci-
fism," which regards the Soviet
Union al proletarian and colonial
revolutions as a menace to peace;
against radical" pacifism, which,
under the mask Of opposition to "ali
war;" strives to discourage defense
of the Soviet Union.
Counter-Revolutionary Socialists.
b. Social Democracy is passing to
active counter-revolutionary pre-
paration for war against the Soviet
Union. Hence, it is necessary to
intensity the campaign against the
Social Democratic leaders of the
Right as we'll as of the Left, and
also against their Trotskyist and
anarcho syndicalist hangers on.
Above all, the slogans with which
these will try to justify war against
the Soviet Union such as: Eight
for democracy against dictatorship;
degeneration; "Kulakization"; "the
Soviet system is approaching the
Thermidor stage; the legends they
spread about "Red Imperialism;
the slogan of Neutrality" in the
event of war, ETC., must be exposed
and discredited in the eyes of the
masses.
Champions of Worlds Workers.
%. The international working
class, and the toilers generally, look
to the Soviet Union as their cham
pion, and their attitude toward the
Soviet Union is one of growing
sympathy. Bearing this in mind,
and also that the broad masses of
the workers will understand much
better than in 1917 that the next
imperialist war against the Soviet
Union will be open class war; that
the masses of the toilers are now
wiser from the experience they had
of the first imperialist war and that
the vanguard Ct the proletariat now
has strong revolutionary organi-
cation in the shape of the Commu-
mist International, it may be safely
asserted that the opportunities for
fighting against war are far great
err now than they Wee in previous
times, and consequently that there
is every reason for adopting holder
tactics.
Greater Anti-War Possibilities.
al The possibilities of preventing
war against the Soviet Union by
intensifying class struggles to the
point of revolutionary, mass action
against the bourgeois governments
are much greater at the present
time than the possibilities for such
action were in 1914. An example of
revolutionary action was given by
the British workers in 1920, when,
by forming Councils of Action, they
forced their government to abandon
their intention of declaring war
against the Soviet Union.
By The conditions favorable for
Transforming a war against the
Soviet Union into civil war against
the bourgeoisie will be much more
speedily created for the proletariat
than in an ordinary imperialist war.
g Therefore, although the Com
munists in capitalist countries must
reject the phrase "Reply to war by
general strike" and have no illu-
sions whatever about the efficacy
of such phrases, nevertheless, in the
event of war against the Soviet
Union becoming imminent, they
must take into consideration the in
creased opportunities for employing
the weapon of mass strikes and the
general strife, prior to the outbreak
of war and during the mobilization.
Aid of Oppressed Nationalities.
d. In the event of an ,..tack upon
the Soviet Union the Communists
in oppressed nations, as well as
those in imperialist countries, must
exert all their efforts to rouse re-
bellion or wars Of national liberia
ton among the national minorities
in Europe and in the colonial and
semi-colonial countries against the
imperialist enemies of the Soviet
State.
20. In view of the fact that the