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

spreading in India. The heroic strike
of the Bombay proletariat; the
struggle of the toiling masses
against the Simon commission; the
street demonstrations and fights;
the growing agrarian movement
all this bespeaks the fact that India
is becoming one of the most impor.
tant battle-ground of colonial revo-
lutions. The open betrayal by the
Indian bourgeoisie of the cause of
national independence (the decision
of the national congress of the
Suaradgists concerning dominion
rights for India), and its active aid
in the bloody suppression of the
striking workers, expose the
counter-revolutionary character of
the Indian bourgeoisie. This means
that the independence of India, the
improvement of the situation of the
working class, the solving of the
agrarian problem can be conquered
only by the revolutionary struggle
of the workers and peasant masses
under the leadership of the prole-
tariat in the struggle against Eng
lish imperialism, the Indian feudal
lords, and national capital. The
tasks of the Indian revolution can
be achieved only in the struggle for
revolutionary democratic dictator
ship of the proletariat and the pea
santry under the banner of the So
VETS.
simultaneously with the growing
revolutionary wave in India, their
spreads again struggle in the col
onies and dependent countries
against the foreign oppressors
Morocco, Congo, countries of Latin
America, etc). Under conditions
where the wave of the revolutionary
labor movement is rising in the
mother-countries, and the USSR is
strengthened, the revolutionary
movements in the colonies will grow
stronger and with more rapid
tempo than heretofore, thus bring
mig nearer the collapse of the entire
capitalist system.
ii. The Parties of the Second In
ternational in Power.
5. The incapacity of the bour-
geoisie to find a way out of the
sharpening outer and inner contra
dictions; tse necessity of preparing
new imperialist wars; and of Sc
curing the rear by way of a maxi
mum oppression on the working
class as an escape" from the sit
uation created; the impossibility to
carry out these tasks with the
means of the bourgeoisie alone
without the aid of the social DEM
ocratic parties; finally, the need of
covering up such a policy with the
flag of democracy and pacifism,
have brought about the necessity of
open cooperation between the bour-
geoisie and the parties Of the Sec
ond International. Hence the COM
ing into power of the social de-
mocracy in Germany and of the
Labor" Party in England. The po-
litical mission of MacDonald's and
Mueller's governments consists in
putting into effect the plans of the
bourgeoisie both internally (maxi-
mum pressure on the working class;
exertion of a double pressure over
the working class in Germany in
connection with the reparations; ra-
tionalization in England) and in the
realm Of foreign policy (prepara-
lions of new wars and increased OPP
preston of the colonies).
In Germany we have the latest
experience of the strongest party
of the Second International, the So
cial democratic party, in power.
Through their own experience the
German working masses are out
growing their illusions concerning
social democracy. Social democracy
proved to be party which, after
assuming power, strangled strikes
with the rope of compulsory arbi-
tration, helped capital to carry out
lock outs and to liquidate the con-
quests of the working class e hour
workday, social insurance, etc.,. By
building an armed cruiser as well
as by adopting its new militarist
program that breaks with all the
remnants of pre-war traditions of
socialism, social democracy prepares
war. The leading cadres of social
democracy and Of the reformist
trade unions, in carrying out the
orders Of the bourgeoisie, now
threaten the German working class,
through the mouth of Wells, with an
open fascist dictatorship. Social
democracy prohibits May First DEM
onstrations. 1t shoots down un-
armed workers during May First
demonstration. 1t shuts down the