The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
Long Live May Day!
Down With w ar!
Long Live the USSR!
MAY DAY 1929 MANIFESTO OF THE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
Frs OF ALL COUNTRIES AND OPPRESSED
COLONIAL PEOPLES!


COLONIAL PEOPLES!
THIS the foreth time that the international proearia
will celebrate May Day, but this time it will celebrate
it day of militant nternaon demonstrations of the
workers under extraordinary conditions These conditions
lend the May Day demonstrations profound revolutionary
significance
eve of the war of 1914 there is again the
smell of powder in the air. Fascist reaction is raging,
gains
The exploitation of the working in this period of
capitalist naturalization mOnstrOus character
Millions of unemployed filling the towns The pauperza-
ton of the colonial peasanry unprecedented dme
sions.
At the time the Of resistance the part of
the toers constantly rising One class arrayed against
another The of the prOearia the oppressed
colonial peoples approaching turning point in history
Never has the reacherous character of the policy of the
Second International been obvious when
tionary is rising Never in history has class been
cyncaly and systematically betrayed the prOetarat
by the Second international during and after the The
workers idea of international brotherhood is replaced by the
call for ratrcdal struggle the workers. the class
struggle by cooperation with the bOurgeOse the call for
revolution by active counter struggle against
it the task of Overhrowng the capitalist by efforts
to rescue and strengthen it. The workers cannot take single
victorious revolutionary without stepping
body of the Second International without breaking OPPOSE
ton to the labor movement without realizing the full sgn
cance of the betrayal of the Second International Workers
and oppressed colonial peoples the nefarou work of the
international social democracy after the brought
before your merciless judgment
YOU were told that the of s141s would be the last
and that it would be followed by the golden age of
peace among peoples All your your nobest
feelings of international solidarity all your indignation at the
barbarous system of capitalism has been by the Second
international in order to enable the bOurgeose to hold mill
lions of workers under for than four years.
If the of 1914-1S did not end in a workers revoIu
ton, if capitalism succeeded in emerging although seriously
wounded from the postwar crisis this is entirely due the
authority of the Second International the confidence of the
in it, being placed at the service of the military stas
being made the instrument of the policy of the international
stock exchange which plunged the nations under its rule into
mad sanguinary No language is strong enough
to express the crime which committed by the staff of
the Second international against the millions workers who
followed it during the They did save future
generations from BY their very eachery they
prepared the ground for for world hegemony be-
tween the United States and Great Britain which will be
moro disastrous in its consequences.
Armaments are growing armies are being mechanical
the air. the and the land becoming theatres of
just the the of 1914. The Pacific Ocean
is about to become bloody catastrophe is
pared with which the of 9141S with it's wholesale
will pale into nsgncance Under the blows of modern
of determination under the death dealing fumes
of poison entire cities will be turned into cemeteries the
difference between the civil populations the the
military front will be Obliterated
If there is force which will delay the outbreak of this
world the fear of the ruling that the workers
will revolt in addition to fear of the existence of the Soviet
UniOn To the of the world the first labor republic
is like shining star surrounded by clouds of hatred the
part of the executoners of the toers international
bourgeose wants to wipe the Union of Socialist
public off the face of the earth hand in
the redivsOn of the world TIL bayOnes of its vassas-
Poland Roumania and the Baltic states directed against
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics In order to sme
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in Central Asia
Britain organizes coup d'etat in Afghanistan.
The capitalist world prepares organizes war against
the Soviet Union before other because only
ing the resistance of the toiers will it be to start new
world for the existence of the Soviet Union constitutes
mortal danger to the capitalist world.
VOU told that at the of war the nations will
dsarm What mOckery these promises are in the face of
the fact before u.s. Under the cloak of paciism and dis
armament the ruling classes by deprvng the toes of arms
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