The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
What Outcome to the Civil War in Mexico?


the movement beginning 1910 which overthrow the auto
crat Poro Da they have through revolution after
revolution through couner-revoution after counterrevou
ton and repeatedly faced intervention by the bullying
Dollar Imperialism of the North.
Now again civil war is raging in Mexico. But the pre-
sent under circumstances not precisely the
same those of the past First of ALL the world situation
makes Mexico than before strategic point in
struggle that not confined to Mexican territory The
sent world situation network of mperast intrigue lead
ing rapidly to world The decisive element in all of the i'm
periaist intrigue in the world at this time is the struggle
between the imperias United States and the mperast
British Empire. 1t is largely struggle between the two
imperialist powers for colonies All of Latin America is
coveted colonial prize in the eyes of BOTH
Is it possible that the present fighting in Mexico is
thing separate and apart from the struggle between the
United States and Great Britain? None but the most naive
would think President Hoover did Coolidge before
him. maintains today in Mexico ambassador who
the authority of governor general Mexico for the
IT, government This is of course the expense of the
of Mexico But it is also at the of British
Imperialism The United States capitalist SYSTEM swollen
capacity for production and eyerhy search
ing for wider markets and colonies for exploitation
gagged in bitter struggle to obtain undsputed rule through
all of Latin America Hoovers first act after his cleo
tion his Imperial tour of the Latin American countries
idle pleasure trip Every inch of ground touched
by his feet considered by him and his
colonial territory From the Rio Grande southwark to the
tip of South America vast territory looked by the
Hoover government its colonial domain The Monroe
Doctrine it is applied today is the mperaist charter of
Wall Street in claiming title to this territory.
But the world of today is not unlimited field Today
the struggle of imperialism only against the intended
vcmnaons but is also complicated by the rivalry between
imperast power and another mperat power for the
right to ensave the victim Only few years the DOM
inant mperast influence Latin America that of the
British Empire The situation taking Latin America as
whole in which the two mperalst powers nearly
evenly balanced with the United States pushing hard drive
the British The warfare between the
Bolivia and Paraguay in fact Initiated by the
United States in this struggle.
No matter what may have been the direct initiating
force behind the present uprising in Mexico it necessarily
part of the struggle between imperas Washington and
imperiaist London we'll struggle against the masses
of Mexico And the outcome of it cannot do otherwise than
the strained relations between the two mperast pow
to further stage 1t not accidental that the Porte
Gil government boasts of its support by a foreign pow
ers, although the siavish boast is false.
The Portes Gil government faced by this revolt of feuda
clerical clements does not maintain the of
pendent state but rushes headong into closer embrace in
the of Hoover If could dismiss the possibility of
movement of workers and peasants arising out of the
civil the conclusion would have to be that the Mexican
state practically to from this crisis than
ever before the helpless nkey of the United States mper
aism
Thus the toling of Mexico placed in such
position that barring their active revolutionary inter
venon in the civil any outcome will their deeper
ensavement If the fascist uprising to wn it would
certainly freedom for the workers and peasants On
the other hand clear that if the present uprising is SUM-
pressed by the Portes Gil government with the help prac
ca superintendent of the United States governnnand
without any intervening activity of the workers and
peasanshen Mexico will out of the civil war bound
hand and food tighter than before by the Wall Street
government
The Mexican workers and peasants, standing at the
crossroads of international situation must fight as
force independent from the cowardy petybourgeos gov
eminent of Portes Gil and the governor Morrow
Neither ensaveent to British Imperialism esavenent
to United States imperialism be accepted by the Mexican
And in the class nature of the Portes Gil govern
ment it can be nothing than prostitute to
other Imperialism.
The Mexican workers and peasants be armed! Only
the victory of the armed workers peasants can be the
defeat of the feudal-clerical uprising!
Necessarily the industrial working class must take over
the hegemony of the movement if it have effec-and
this can be only if the Communist Party Mexico becomes
the accepted leader of the workers in this situation
The program should be-
l. appropriation without and the handing
of part of the big plantations the col
ive cultivation of the workers. the distrb-
uton Of the other portion between peasants farmers
and coonsts. 4@Q
o. COnscaon foreign enter
prises banks etc., and of the big enterprises national
bOurgeoie and big landlords
g. The reputation of State debts liquidation Of any
kind of control the country the Of Imperialism.
4. The introduction of the S-hour working day the
gamp OutO of semi ike dti0nso f la