The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

only member of the Central Committee who
still supported the trio at the November
Plenuil and who today also disassociated HIM
self from them.
1t is necessary to point out the extreme
stubbornness with which Comrades Bukharin,
Rykov and Tomsky defended to the last min
ute the wrong and openly anti-Leninist views
of the right wing. 1t was necessary to have
the greatest success of the Party on all
frc of socialist construction recognized even
by our class enemies, it was necessary to have
binding proof to show how the theology of
the right wing turned itself into standard
for the mobilization of all anti-Soviet and anti
prOletarian elements in the country, it was
necessary to have the tremendous pressure of
the Party Masses and finally, it was neces-
sary to have the resolution of the November
Plenum, declaring that the advocacy of the
views of the right wing opportunists and con-
cliators was incompatible with membership in
the Party, in order to have Comrades Bukharin,
Tomsky and Rykov do what the Party long
ago tried to have them do.
And they have done this after they were
completely deserted by their followers, after
they still tried to conceal and again and again
tr.Hl by diplomatic means to avoid an open
Bolshevik admission of their grave mistakes,
after they tried "to reason despite and in
spite of the facts" in defense of their self
evidently bankrupt views, they continued to
struggle against the Party with all weapons,
including the weapon of SANDER Every rank
and file Party member, with all the satisfac-
ton with which he will read the statement,
will say that Comrades Bukharin, Tomsky and
Rykov delayed them too long and too much
misused the patience of the Party. And he
will wait to see how Comrades Bukharn, Ry-
kov and Tomsky will carry out in practice their
Statement; of their imperative duty of defend
ing the general line of the Party against all
difficulties and all deviations, against the
right wing and conciliators in the first place.
1t is self-understood that the Central Com
mittee will give them an opportunity to do
this before the entire Party.
The Party and its general line are victorious
Was it long ago that the Trotskyites began
their infamous march with fire, sword and
trumpet, of objectionable petty bourgeois
phrase-monge-ing and self-praise, against the
line of the Party? And what is left of Trotsky-
ism today? We think that among the argu-
ments that pushed the leaders Of the right
wing opposition to CO ~itulate before the Party
(.hough how late this capituation wasD not
the least factor was the fate of Trotskysm,
its short but in great measure instructive his
tory, which passed before the -es of the en-
tire Party and shamelessly ended itself on
the low pages of the bourgeois press.
In the difficult moment for the Farty, Com
rades Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky began to
vacillate to deviate from the general lire of
the To- y, when the Party after the Fifteenth
Cor 'ess faced great difficulties, Wen the
kulak, strens shened during the years of exist
ence of the NEP, tried through sabotage in the
grain collection to take the Soviet Power by
its throat, when we expected the treachery and
betrayal in leading cadres of our industry (the
Don Basin affair." when we, through short
period, clearly sensed the vacillaton of Sec
ton of the middle peasantry in the struggle
between the working class and kulak.
Precisely at this moment, when the Party
had right to expect from its leadership the
maximum of consistency, iron Bolshevik firm
ness, struggle in spite of all difficulties and
hardshps, not to turn the Party rudder from
its correct course laid down at the Fifteenth
Party Congress, Comrades Bukharin, Rykov
and Tonsky began to deviate and oppose the
policy Of developing the socialist offensive