The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-31
The Struggle Against Imperialist War
and the Tasks of the Communists
BY Fred Ellis

government, plays counter-revolu-
tionary role las is the case in the
struggle which the Chinese workers
and peasants arc now carrying on to
prevent the imperialists' dismem-
berment of China), the Communists
must work for the overthrow of the
bourgeois government under the slo-
gan of national defense.
38. The question of national
wars in countries where class diff
ferentiations are undeveloped, i.e.,
in Morocco, the Druses, Syria and
Arabia, must be similarly formu-
lated. Among such people, the pa
triarchal and feudal chiefs and rul-
ers play role similar to that played
by the bourgeoisie in the more ad-
vanced colonial countries.
Temporary cooperation with these
chiefs and rulers is permissible in
revolutionary struggle against i'm
perialism, but there is always the
danger that they will be bought over
by the imperialists, or that they will
subordinate the struggle for liberia
ton to their own caste interests.
The national wars of these peoples
must therefore be linked up with
the struggle against feudalism, or
against the feudal rulers, and for
the overthrow of feudalism.
Tasks in National Liberation Wars.
SO. The tasks of the interna-
tional proletariat in connection with
imperialist expeditions for the sup
preston of the national revolution
airy movements and revolutions
with few concrete exceptions-are
the same as in imperialist wars
against the Soviet Union, Wis, (a)
to fight against wars of oppression
by intensifying the class antagon-
isms with a view to Transforming
this war into civil war against the
limperialist bourgeoisie. (b) consist
ent application of defeatist tactics
towards the imperialist country and
it's armies; to fight for the victory
of the oppressed nation and to sup
port it's armies. (c) To resist, prim-
arily by means of revolutionary
mass action, the despatch of war
ships and munition transports to the
colonies by the imperialists; to OPP
pose the extension of the period of
military service for soldiers fighting
in wars against the colonies, etc.;
to oppose increases in war budgets
and the granting of loans by the
imperialists to the counter-revolu-
tionary governments and militarists
in the colonies; to fight against i'm
perialist war preparations in con-
cession territories and on railways
and inland waterways in the colo
MES. (d) To take measures to
counter-act the butcheries perpe-
trated by the imperialists in the
colonies and the support which they
render to the native counter-revolu-
tionary governments in suppressing
the masses of the toilers.
40. The tactics to be adopted in
the present struggle against inter
vention in China differ from the tao
tics adopted in the struggle against
intervention at the time when Sec
ton Of the Chinese bourgeoisie, and
of the Kuomintang, still played a
revolutionary role. The internecine
wars of the various native military
rulers, in the main, are an express
sion of the conflicts that prevail
among the various imperialist pow
ers over the partition of China. All
the warning classes, which represent
various factions of the bourgeoisie
and the landlords are counter-revo-
lutionary.
In view of the present situation in
China, the international proletariat
must combine it's active struggles
in defense of the Chinese workers
and peasants with exposing the
counter-revolutionary role Of all
bourgeois governments and militar-