The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
It'll Penum of the Executive Committee of the COmintern

thousand workers. The Party has
not receded one step before reac-
ton, and has not allowed the bour-
geoisie to provoke it to an armed
uprising which, under the given sit
uation, would have led to isolation
and to the revolutionary vanguard
being hurled back. The May Days
in Berlin are a turning point in
the class struggle of Germany and
they accelerate the tempo of the
revolutionary rise of the German
labor movement. Not only was il
not a defeat of the German prole-
tariat, as all the defeatists and the
renegades of Communism assert
but on the contrary, it demonstrated
the successfulness of the battle tao
tics of the Communist Party which
mercilessly fought against all lag
gard tendencies in it's own ranks
The political significance of the &C
ton of the Berlin proletariat con-
sists in having defeated the attempt
of the bourgeoisie and social democ-
racy to deprive the working class
of its May Day; in having forced
the German bourgeoisie and it's So
Icial democracy to capitulate before
the onslaught of the working class
as regards the question of prohib-
iting demonstrations; in finding its
reflection in the struggle for the
streets in other countries; in having
aroused in other countries the pro-
letarian masses, who in mass DEM
onstrations expressed their solidar-
ity with the German proletariat. In
so far as this action took place
under conditions where the fighting
character of the May Day demon
lstrations and strikes in countries
other than Germany poland
France, Bombay was more pro-
nounced than in the past years, it
testifies to tendency of the eco
nomic movement of the proletarian
masses to grow into the highest
forms of revolutionary struggles.
The Plenum of the E. C. C. l., ex-
pressing it's solidarity with the he
roic proletariat of Berlin, the cou-
rageous defenders of the barricades
of Neukoeln and Wedding, states
its full agreement with the tactical
line of the German Communist
Party followed during the Berlin
events.
". The Comintern ard the Current
Tasks of the Communist Parties.
8. The oncoming of the new ris-
ing tide of the revolutionary prole-
tartan movement, and the coming to
power of social-democracy in Ger
many and England, place before the
Comintern and its sections with es-
pecial sharpness the task of deci-
sively Strengthening the struggle
against social-democracy, particular
ly against it's cleft" wing as the
most dangerous enemy of Commu-
nism in the ranks of the labor move
ment and the chief brake upon the
growth of the fighting activity of
the laboring masses. In connection
with this it has become the central
task of the Comintern in the realm
of inner Party policy to struggle
against opportunism which is con-
ductor of bourgeois influence to the
working class, and against social
democratic tendencies inside of the
Communist movement. Wi h o u t
cleansing the Communist Parties
both of overt and covert opportunist
elements, the Communist Parties
cannot successfully move ahead on
the road of solving the new prob
lens placed before them by the
sharpening class struggle in this
new stage of the proletarian move
ment.
The significance Of this new stage
in relation to the Communist Par
ties consists in it's having helped,
in the course Of the spreading class
battles, to uncover the rotten, OPP
portunist elements that have played
a strikebreaking role in these bat
ties. Herewith was corroborated
the correctness of the Sixth Con-
gress of the Comintern when it
pointed out that the main danger
in the Communist Parties is at pres
ent the Right opportunist deviation.
9. The Plenum of the ECCI
states with satisfaction that the in
fluence of the Comintern has grown
during the past time, that its Sec
tions have become stronger, organ
nationally and ideologically; that
they have cleansed themselves of op-
portunist elements (Brandler, HAS,
Lovestone). The cries of the Right
renegades about the degeneration of
the Comintern, cries taken up by
the philistine conciliators, only prove
how very necessary it was to cleanse
the Communist movement in order
to forestall the corrupting work of
the opportunist elements and to
guarantee true Bolshevization of
the Communist Parties. The most
important results of this Bolsheviza-
ton are already apparent in a num-
Der of Communist Parties, in the
first place in Germany, France and
Poland: Their cleansing themselves
of the opportunists has increased the
fighting capacity of the Communist
Parties and brought them nearer to
carrying out the task of leadinr the