The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-14

To the decision of the Tenth
Plenum of the ECCI, dealing with
the political line and fractional &C
tivities of Jay Lovestone, the group
represented by Gitlow, Lovestone,
Miller, Myerscough, Welsh White,
and Wolfe replied with an outrage
Gus ultimatum, by which they break
the last remaining threads that
linked them with the Communist
movement. In reply to the decision
of the Tenth Plenum, which con-
demned Lovestone's platform as an
opportunist platform contraposed to
the program and decisions of the
Sixth World Congress, they
answered with a political declara-
ton that it is not the platform of
Lovestone but the Address of the
Comintern which revises the line of
the Sixth World Congress-; after
making a hypocritical declaration
that they are ready" to go to Mos
cow to fight against the Address,
they put to the Communist Interna-
tional conditions in the nature of an
ultimatum, such as Immediate ces-
sation of the Enlightenment Cam
paign," unconditional reinstate-
ment" of Lovestone, his followers,
and Immediate condemnation" of
the &C reply to the Lovestone APP
peal, that is, political approval of
the Lovestone Appeal direct e d
against the Communist Interna-
tional. Otherwise there is nothing
for the ECCI and ICC to investi-
gate" declares this group.
Truly, nothing remains for any
Communist to investigate regard
ing the political position of these
renegades. They have completely
unmasked themselves.
AS the answer of the ECCI and
the ICC, published elsewhere in this
issue of the Daily Worker, declares:
The group of Lovestone has become
Right opportunist liquidators" and
their reply represents IAN attack
against the ECCI, insolent in tone
and renegade in regard to political
content. 1t shows that the sigma
tories entered the road of splitting
the Party and the formation of
new anti-proletarian Party, agency
of American imperialism"
The Tenth Plenum of the Com
munist International has completely
confirmed the analysis of the world
political and economic situation
given by the Sixth World Congress,
not in the opportunist manner in
which Lovestone and the conciliators
interpret it, but in the revolutionary
manner in which it has been in
terpreted and applied by the Politi-
cal Secretariat and by the Presidium
of the Communist International.
The Tenth Plenum of the ECCI
pointed out as new events since the
time of the Sixth World Congress,
the continued sharpening of the
fundamental contradictions of capt.
talism, sharply outlined radicali-
cation of the international working
class (that is, in the United States
as welD, and the oncoming of a
new rising tide of the revolutionary
proletarian struggle (including
therein the working class movement
of the United States). In connec-
ton with this analysis the Tenth
Plenum laid down as a task for all
Communist Parties the fight against
Right opportunist deviations, openly
represented in the CPUSA by the
Lovestonites, the fight against fac
tionalism-as the formulation of the
Tenth Plenum Thesis puts it, "the
fight against the demoralizing in
fluences of the opportunist factional
leaders Uovestone, Pepper) upon
the Party cadres."
Following the line of the Sixth
World Congress decisions, the Ad-
dress of the Communist Interna-
tional to the American Party, and
the Thesis of the Tenth Plenum,
and the final answer of the ECCI
to Lovestone's refusal to appear be-
fore it, and basing itself upon the
opinion of the overwhelming
majority of the Party expressed in