The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-19
The Sixth Red World Congress

cnt epoch of the world revolution,
the proletariat is called upon to de-
vote the greatest attention to the
experiences and lessons of these
wars.
In outlining the struggle of the
rroletariat in capitalist countries
against pacifism, it is emphasized
that the most important tool of the
imperialists in the disarmament
farce is social-democracy which
spreads among the masses the illu-
sion that genuine disarmament and
abolition of war are possible with
out the overthrow of imperialism.
Colonial Question.
The Theses OF the Colonial Cues
ton, presented by Comrade Kuusi-
men, was based on the Theses of the
Second Congress written by Lenin.
1t was much more detailed and re-
viewed developments up to the pres
ent time. The Sixth Congress de-
clares that the principles on the
National and Colonial Question"
adopted at the Second Congress still
have full validity, and still serve as
guiding line for the further work
of Communist Parties. Since the
time of the Second Congress the
actual Importance of the colonies,
however, has vitality increased as
crisis factors in the capitalistic
world system. All basic questions
of the revolutionary movement in
the colonies and seni-colonies are
Immediately bound up with the
greatest epoch-making struggle be-
tween the capitalist and socialist
systems, which are now being fought
out on a world scale in the form of
the struggle of world imperialism
against the Union of Socialist So
Wet Republics, and within each of
the various capitalist countries be-
tween the existing bourgeois class
regime and the Communist move
rnent.
The Theses reviews in detail the
essence of imperialist colonial pol
icy, the various types of colonial
countries and the position of the
reasantry, the question of the bour-
geois-democratic revolution in the
most important countries, and sets
forth the immediate general tasks
of the Communists. Most important
features of the theses are its dec
larations on "decolon cation" and its
analysis of the urgeois-democratic
revolution. The theses declares that
all the talk of the imperialists and
their lackeys about the "decoloniza-
ton" policy of the imperiaiisc pow
ers towards their colonies. about the
fostering of their development in
liberty" is nothing else than an i'm
perialist lie. 1t is extremely i'm
uortant that the Communists, in
both the imperialist and colonial
countries, shall completely unmask
this lie.
Communist Program.
The phase of the bourgeois dem
ocratic revolution which is at pres
ent involved in countries like India
and China, with relatively broadly
developed class differentiation, and
the Union of South Africa, the Phil
ippines, Algiers and Tunis, and in
part of Morocco, where class differ
entiation is likewise relatively de-
veloped, is the phase of transition to
the Socialist revolution The his
torical meaning of this phase con-
sists precisely in the preparation of
the pre-conditions for the prole-
tartan dictatorship of the socialist
revolution.
One of the monumental achieve
ments of the congress was the build
ing Of the program of the Commu-
mist International. This task had
been specially referred to the Sixth
Congress. The original draft as
submitted by Comrades Bukharin
and Stain went through a long pc