The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09
teyuaioua Situation and the Current Tasks OF the Coni1err

III OIueE u CISdIS d iIlOlS LII uoA-
antee for the carrying out of the
decisions of the C. l., the Plenum
instructs the Presidium to take steps
towards strengthening the apparatus
of the ECCI by drawing in new,
growing Party workers from the
sections and by cleansing itself of
opportunist elements.
Under the leadership of the ECCI
and on the basis of it's Open Letter,
the Communist Party of Germany
has ideologically and politically de-
feated the renegade group of Brand
ler-T halheimer and has completely
undermined its influence among the
workers. The Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia has, with the active
participation of the ECCI, quickly
overcome the base attempts of Hais
and Company to split the Red TradA
Union Movement in Czechoslovakia
and has emerged stronger ideologi-
cally and politically out of the strug-
gle with liquidationism. Under the
leadership of the ECCI the American
Communist Party is successfully
liquidating the unprincipled faction
alism and the demoralizing influ-
ence of the opportunist faction lead
ers (Lovestone, Pepper over the
Party cadres.
A strengthening of the struggle
against the right deviations is also
necessary in the Communist Parties
of the colonial countries where the
opportunist elements are the con-
ductors of bourgeois and petty
bourgeois influence to the prole-
tariat, and are hampering it's class
struggle.
Fully and completely approving
the decisions Of the Presidium of
the ECCI concern the American
question, the decisions concerning
the German question, the Open Let
ter to the German Communist
Party, the decisions of the Presi-
dunn of the ECCI concerning the
Czechoslovakian question, the
Plenum of the ECCI considers as in
compatible with belonging to a Com
munist Party the defense by some
of its members of the opinions of
the right deviations condemned by
the Comintern as an anti-Party
trend deeply hostile to the interest
of the proletarian revolutionary
movement.
At the same time the Plenum
states that conciliationism which
made its appearance as cowardly
opportunism covering up open liqui-
dationism, has recently sunk in all
fundamental questions of the Com
munist movement to the positions
of the Right and inside the Comm
tern has taken upon itself the role
Of the right elements. After the
expulsion of the Right liquidation
lists it became center of attraction
for all the Right elements inside the
Communist Parties, mouthpiece for
all defeatist moods and opportunist
views. In view of this the Plenum
OF the ECCI demands (a) that the
conciliators should openly and de-
cisively cut themselves off from the
Right deviationists; (b) that they
should conduct, not in words but in
deeds, an active struggle against the
Right deviation; (c) that they
should without reservation submit to
all the decisions of the Comintern
and of its sections and should carry
them out actively. Non-fullfilment
of any one of these stipulations will
place whosoever breaks them out
side the ranks Of the Communist In
ternational.
The Plenum of the ECCI considers
that without putting these decisions
into effect, without destroying the
Right and the LEFT" (Trotzlzyite)
liquidationists, without a decisive
overcoming of conciliatism it is i'm
possible to fulfill the tasks of the
Comintern and its sections during
the new rising tide, the tasks
OF a struggle against the war
danger and Of defending the USSR,
Of struggle against social demo-
crazy and particularly against its
left" wing, of preparing the Com
munist Parties and the working
class for the coming revolutionary
battles, of selecting the true revo-
lutlonary leaders of the working
class capable courageously and I'M
flinchingly to lead the proletariat
into the struggle for overthrowing
capitalism and establishing the die
tatorship of the proletariat.
10. The struggle against liquida-
tionism, and against the concilia-
zionist attitude towards it, acquires
particular Importance as regards the
carrying out by the Communist
Parties of the task of winning the
majority of the working class. By
weakening the struggle against So
cial democracy, by over-estimating
it's forces and by diminishing the
role of the Communist Party, those
elements break the struggle of the
Party for the winning of a majority
of the working class and they pre-
vent the workers, who are on the
way from social-democracy to the
Communist movement, from making
the last step in the direction of
Communism. The Plenum of the
ECCI, in noting this strikebreaking
role of the right opportunist ele-