The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05

of the National Executive Commit
tee of the Young Workers (Commu-
nist) League of America.
The National Executive Commit
tee Of the Young Workers (Com-
munist) League Of America has al
ready pointed out to the member
ship the necessity of fighting most
energetically against the Right dam
ger and against Trotskyism, which
at the present time in the United
States is the most consistent express
sion of the Right danger. Because
the League has not yet been suffi-
GENTLY modified in this struggle,
the National Executive Committee
feels it imperative to take further
measures in this direction and to
further clarity the membership
about the problems arising out of
this struggle.
Trotskyism Greatest Danger.
Already in its first preliminary
statement, which was a warning call
to the League against the then re-
Gently discovered outbreak of Trot-
skyisnl, although it was issued even
before the renegades Cannon, Abern,
Shachtman and others had been ex-
PEELED from the Party, the National
Executive Committee saw clearly
that the greatest danger to the
Party came from the Right and that
Trotskyism becomes the rallying
center for all Right wing elements
in the Party" This was re-em-
phasized in the second statement of
the National Executive Committee.
The National Executive Committee,
therefore, called upon the member
ship to endorse and defend the de-
cisions Of the Sixth Congress of the
Con,intern, which constitute the
best weapons for defeating Trotsky-
ism and the Right danger.
The main danger confronting the
Comintern as a whole, including its
American section, is outright oppor-
tunism-the Right danger. The
Sixth Congress of the Comintern
called upon the parties Of the Com
intern to carry on sharp struggle
against the Right danger and
against all tolerance of Right wing
elements.
The Congress pointed out that
while the Right danger in all coun-
tries has it's sources in the same
objective situation rehabilitation of
capitalism and the existence of So
cial. democratic parties still having
strong hold on the masses of the
workers.. it expresses itself in diff
ferent forms in various countries
legalism, passivity in strikes and
other mass movements of the work.
ers, tolerant attitude toward social
democracy and illusions about
tLeft" social democracy, static atti-
tude on the trade union question,
underestimation Of the war danger,
NEGLECT of work in the armed forces.
In the Soviet Union the Right
danger takes the form of resistance
to the process Of rapid industrializa-
ton and a tendency to make con-
cessions to the kulaks, nepman and
bourgeois intellectuals. The Right
danger is crystallized in the resist
snce to the mobilization of the
Party for participation in the strug
giles of the proletarian masses arts
ing out of the rehabilitation of the
working class, particularly in the
basic industries.
Right Danger i'll U. S.
In the United States, where we
have the rehabilitation of certain
sections of the working class, par
ticularly in the basic industries, to-
gether with a continuation Of the
move to the right of the labor arts
tocracy, the Right danger finds ex-
preston in wrong attitude to the
socialist party Support of Panken,
open letter to S. P, recent California
open letter.; wrong attitude to the
labor party resistance to fighting
Shipstead-"labor party only hope
of workers"); skepticism regarding
the possibility of organizing tie un-
organized; defeatism in the mining
and textile situation proposals to
call off mining >strike) based on the
temporary defeats of the workers,
but where these very defeats are
preparing the ground for fiercer
struggles in the future; pacifism
and underestimation of the war
danger (errors in Nicaraguan cam
paign, welcome the fleet" leaflet
in California;; capitulation before
difficulties and enemies proposal
to conduct Mooney campaign as tail
end of liberalism); tendency to
compromise the Communist position
in order to achieve temporary
gains; lack of faith in the Party
as the leader of the masses; reser-
vations on the Comintern decision.
All these are summarized in the the
ory that at the present time in the
United States it is not possible to
develop a revolutionary movement
Of the working class and build a
Communist Party (Lore, 1924; Can
non, 1929.