The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

the two imperialist giants to "solve"
this disproportion is inevitable and
can only be consummated by the
one means capitalism knows to solve
its contradictions-by force, by war.
American imperialism plays the
most aggressive role in the sharpen
ing of Anglo-American antagonism.
America is crowding out Great Bri-
tain in every section of the world.
An increasingly furious race for big
ger navies and more powerful arm
les is developing on the basis of
economic rivalries. Blow follows
blow in this struggle. The Anglo
French naval accord against the
United States was answered by
Coolidge's Armistice Day speech,
which was justly characterized as
an "ultimatum to Europe" and by
the proclamation of the principle of
an American navy second to none.
Under the cover of the pacifist
smoke screen of the League of Ma
tons and the infamous Kellogg Pact,
there are already being formed new
alliances of the imperialist powers
for the coming world war. The
much-vaunted Anglo-American eco
operation" belongs to the past. The
jingoist dream of the "blood broth
erhood" of the big English-speaking
nations has been replaced by sober
awakening to open hostility. The
common English language serves
not as bond but as a means of
clearer expression CT imperialist an
tagonism. The old pacifst babble
that "war is unthinkable" between
the "Anglo- Saxon" nations is re-
placed by open war talk, which
shows that the lingo imperialist ele-
merits of both countries are doing
nothing but thinking about war. The
growing power of American imper-
ialism is today the greatest menace
for the world.
J he foremost International duty
of the British as we'll as the Amer
lean Communist Party is the strug-
gle against lilpc"i;:iist war.
The growth of Anglo-American
antagonism is the more dangerous
because it includes cooperation be-
tween the ':wo imperiali+t robbers
against the colonial peoples. ss in
Nicaragua, in China, and against
the stronghold Of the working class
of the world, the Union Of Socialist
Soviet Republics.
The British Labor Party and Trade
Union Congress as well as the
American Federation of Labor and
the despicable socialist party of
America are today but cogs in the
huge war machine of British and
American imperialism. The fight
against these factors of social re-
formism and their influence upon
the working class and even upon the
Communist Parties is the foremost
task of all sections of the Commu-
'AASo AheSiHolIOIldl. DeSD DdSlC
differences in the objective condi-
tons in the two countries, which
show us picture of declining Bri-
fish imperialism and American i'm
perialism in its full swing of ascen-
sion, the war danger, which arises
precisely from this unevenness and
disproportion of imperialist develop
ment, makes the fight against the
Right danger, which is today the
main danger confronting all sections
OF the Communist International, i'm
perative in the British as well as
In the American Communist Party.
Underestimation of the imperial
lst war danger or of the importance
OF the struggle against the Right
danger, any illusions about "peace-
full cooperation" of British and
American imperialism or in the KEEL
logg Pact and about the s'peace-
making" role of the British Labor
Party or the American liberals of