The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-16


tire open organizational formation
of their fraction.
The chief leaders of the fraction
are Brandler and Thalheimer, for
merly members of the C. P. G. and
now members Of the G. P. S. U.
1t will be remembered that Brand.
Ter and Thalheimer committed a Sc
ries of very serious mistakes in
1923. After the events of that year
the indignation of the broad masses
of the c. P. G. was so great that
even then Brandler and Thalheimer
were in danger of being expelled
fro--l the Party. Assuming, how
ever, that they would overcome their
opportunist tendencies, the E. C. c.
l. and the C. c. of the C. P. S. u.
left them last chance of improve
ment and permitted them to trans
fer to the c. P. S. U.
AS the latest occurrences in the
C. P. G. have shown, Brandler and
Thalheimer have proved politically
incorrigible. Throughout 1925 and
1927 they Systematically refused to
admit their chief errors and have
persisted in this refusal up to the
present. Brandler emphatically
pointed this out in his speech at
Offenbach at the joint meeting of
the Party members and of the Com
munist fraction of the Frankfort
students in November 1928. In the
same month, Brandler and Thai
heimer commenced organizing frac-
tional assemblies in Berlin, Chem
nitz, 0ffenbach, and other places and
appearing as fractional speakers at
Party meetings. Their adherent
Calm, candidate of the C. c., con-
verted the periodical "Volksrecht,"
formerly appearing at Offenbach as
a Party organ, into fractional pub
LEGATION, while Hansen, another of
their adherents and likewise candi-
date of the c. c., published an Open
Letter to the members of the Bres-
lau District Organization, consisting
entirely of attacks on the C. C. and
the Comintern. Somewhat later, the
said Hansen commenced, in the ca
pacity of chief editor, with the pub
LEGATION of the fractional periodical
against the Current" in defense
of the Opposition. This publication,
together with other printed matter
Circulars, letters, etc.,, was sent
to all the organizations and publicly
distributed.
In the commission appointed by
the Presidium of the E. C. C. I. to
deal with this case, Hansen admit
ted, on November 9th, 1928, the ex-
istence of Right fraction in the
c. P. G. He owned that this fraction
possessed its own political platform,
which had not yet been formulated
in any uniform political document,
and declared that of late, and par
ticularly before sessions of the C.
c., he had had various discussions
with Thalheimer and had conferred
with Brandler prior to his departure
for Moscow in. regard to the neces-
sity of definite formulation of the
political platform for the fraction
at the next Party Congress.
At the session of the same Com
mission on December 9Th, 1928,
Calm attempted to deny the exist
ence of Right fraction and of his
participation in it's work. He was
unable, however, to explain away
the fractional character of the work
done by the Party organization at
Offenbach under his direction lit be-
ing here that Brandler had held two
fractional reports at Gains invita-
tion) nor yet the fractional nature
of the "Volksrecht," in which these
and Brandler's other declara-
lions were published and which
waged fractional campaign against
the c. P. G.
In this way it is established be-
You'd all doubt that there is at pres
ent within the Communist Party of
Germany regular Right fraction,
which has central leadership and
a political platform of its own and
which exercises fractional disci-
pline in it's proceedings.
The political platform of this frac-
ton is, so Hansen declares, set forth
in the programme of Brandler and
by articles in the first
issue of the periodical Against the
Current" in the "Volksrecht," and
in the fractional documents of the
Right fraction.
Brandler's programme of action
is typical product of Menshevist
mentality. Under the flag of the
fight of the proletariat for power
and by the hypocritical slogan of
control of production at the pres
ent moment" it attempts to snug
gle in the social democratic princi-
pie of economic democracy" AS is
well known, the slogan of control of
production at the present moment,
at a time when there is no acute
revolutionary situation and when the
bourgeois State authority continues
to obtain. was repudiated by the vi
World Congress of the Comintern
as being an expression of deviations
to the Right.
In a pronouncedly opportunistic
way, the Right fraction misrepre-
sents the revolutionary transition
slogans of the period which is char
acterized by an Immediately revo-
lutionary situation. The revolution