The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-22
From Rote Fahne Cred FIag),
Berlin.

IuIOuSuOuG the WnOlS WOElu InS
revolutionary workers are preparing
to make on August first a mighty
international demonstration against
imperialist war. Even during the
World War the revolutionary work
ers demonstrated in August as a
protest against the bloody slaughter
on the battlefields and to make
known their desire for revolution
airy termination of the imperialist
war. After the war, the August
demonstrations of the proletariat be-
came ever greater and more wide
spread. Their slogans also became
ever clearer in measure as pacifist
illusions were destroyed by the ag-
gressive war policy of the imperial
list states.
If this year the revolutionary
working class must make special eff
forts to mobilize and arouse the
working masses, to lead them in
mighty street demonstrations, it is
due to the extreme rapidity with
which the imperialist contradictions
drive on toward new wars.
AnglO-American Conflict.
The development of capitalism
during the past year has been char
acterized by a marked decline of
sterilization. The contradiction be-
tween the increased productivity of
labor and market possibilities is be-
coming greater, the unevenness of
development in the individual CAPT
talist countries leads to a strength
ening of the antagonisms between
the capitalist countries, while the
great technical achievements accen-
tuate the imperialist contradictions
and accelerate the drive toward a
new division of a divided world.
In stormy fashion has imperialist
America entered the arena, since the
tempo of development of her market
no longer keeps pace with the tempo
of development of her industrial pro-
duction apparatus and of her in
creased productive capacity. She en-
counters thereby the resistance of
the "old" capitalist powers, espe-
cially the resistance of imperialist
England.
All efforts of the British bour
geoisie, as well as the defeats -
brought about through the aid of
British social imperialism = of the
British working class in the mighty
economic battles of recent years,
have not been able to do away with
the deep and difficult crisis of Brit
ish capitalism or even to partially
overcome it. Ever more stubborn
becomes the resistance of British i'm
perialism to the pressure of Ameri-
can imperialism, which in the most
diverse sections of the world is driv-
ing out British imperialism from it's
sphere of influence.
Central European Crisis.
This fundamental imperialist an
tagonism is strengthened by the
critical situation in. the other capt.
talist countries.
Imperialist Germany drives on
under the pressure of her inner cri-
sis and her outer burdens-to
stronger economic and political ac-
tivity. With her mighty economic
apparatus she crowds into any space
left over for the expansion of the
goods market and for exploitation.
Such countries as the Balkan States,
Rumania, and Poland were positively
shattered by the acute crisis in
their economy. They serve as agents
of the great imperialist powers, and,
pushed hither and thither like pawns,
they accelerate, precisely because of
the instability of their whole posi-
ton, the development of new i'm
perialist wars.
Growth of Soviet Power.
In contradistinction to this proc
ess of decay of the capitalist world
stands the building up of Socialism
in the Soviet Union. The bourgeoi-
sic and their agents in the camp
of the working class, the Social
Fascists, fairly tremble at the
thought of the realization of the
five-year plan, of this gigantic pro-
gram of construction that has been
undertaken and will be carried out.
They understand that the driving