The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-09

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Italy and other countries, the bour-
geoisie, aided by social democracy
and the reformist trade union bu-
reaucracy, is carrying out with the
greatest brutality a system of
shameless robbery and enslavement,
system of barbarous oppression of
the working class. As a consequence
of capitalist naturalization, we have
gigantic growth of unemployment
(12-13 million of unemployed in the
main capitalist countries).
The ruin of the middle strata, the
decrease in. the number of officials
ir the capitalist states, all this
swells the ranks of the city poor.
The situation of the main mass of
the peasantry not only has not i'm
proved, but, on the contrary, the
pauperization of the middle and poor
peasantry has considerably grown.
The situation of these strata of the
village population is becoming still
worse in consequence of the growing
agrarian crisis and the growth of
reaction in all the countries The
bankruptcy of the famous prosper
ity" slogan proclaimed by the Amer
lean bourgeoisie is becoming ever
more apparent. To withstand Eu-
ropean competition, the American
bourgeoisie conducts a planned of
fensive against the standards of liv-
ing of the American working class,
thus swelling the ranks of the I'M
employed lover 100000 unemploy-
ed in the U. S. Az. The concilia-
tors conception of softening inner
contradictions in the capitalist coun-
tries and of the possibility of organ
izing the internal market while an
archy prevails in the foreign mar
ket alone, is refuted by the entire
development of capitalism during the
last years and in reality signifies
equalization before reformist ideol-
ogy.
Side by side with the policy of
economically thro.tling the work
ing class there goes on the growth
of political reaction: Fascisization of
the state apparatus of the bourgeoi-
sic; growth of repressions and white
terror; Fascist coups d'etat with the
aid of world capital (Jugoslavia);
mass arrests of workers France,
Poland, etc.; closing of revolution
airy organizations CLOSING Of the
Red Front Fighters Organization in
Germany; shooting down of strike
demonstrations (India, U. S. A., Ber-
linz; assassinations of revolutionists
by court sentence and without court;
long, cruel terms of Imprisonment
Italy, Balkan States, Poland, etc.,;
raging white terror against the
workers and peasants movement
lin Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, vene-
zuela and other countries of Latin
America).
Under conditions where the i'm
perialist contradictions grow and
the class struggle becomes sharper,
fascism is becoming a more and
more widespread method of bour-
geois-domination. A special form
of fascism in countries with strong
social-democratic parties is social
fascism which even more frequently
serves the bourgeoisie as a means
of paralyzing the activity of the
masses in their struggle against the
regime of fascist dictatorship. By
all this monstrous system of politi-
cal and economic oppression, sup
ported by international social demo-
cracy, the bourgeoisie attempts to
liquidate the revolutionary class
movement of the proletariat for
many years to come. But here, too,
its labors are doomed to failure.
The growing fighting activity of
the working class, the oncoming of
the new rising tide of revolutionary
proletarian movement signalize the
inevitable collapse of this regime
of unheard of exploitation of and
violence against the toilers, re-
gime which international social
democracy cynically proclaimed as
the era of the democracy in flower"
and of capitalism growing into $50
cialism."
a. Neither has the bourgeoisie
succeeded in suppressing the revo-
lutionary movement in the colonies.
The antagonism between i'm
perialism and the colonial world APP
pears ever sharper in the most i'm
portant colonial and semi-colonial
countries. After the temporary de-
feat of the revolutionary movement
of the workers and peasants in
China, the Chinese bourgeoisie,
whose economic interests are most
closely linked up with the finance
capital of the various imperialist
countries (USA, England, JAPAN,
and who was in alliance with the
feudal reaction, proved absolutely
bankrupt as far as defending the in
dependence of China is concerned,
and it has in practice passed over
into the camp of the imperialist en-
emies of this independence.
The present inner war in China
among three militarist cliques that
are the instruments of the various
imperialist governments shows
clearly that the interests of the
ruling cliques of China are funda-
mentally opposed to the interests of
the national unification of China.