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more outside of and in opposition to the refor-
mist unions, which play the role Of scabs
and that the unorganized masses take an in
creasingly active part in them, in which con-
nection the practice of creating organs for
strike leadership by the masses themselves in
the process of the struggle becomes more and
more widespread.
In the largest capitalist countries a further
growth of the strike movement is observed.
In France the number of strikes in 1929 was
double that of 1928 and at the beginning of
1880 a further growth of strike movements
was observed In Great Britain the number of
strikes in 1929 increased several fold COM
pared with 1928. While there was a slight
diminution in the number of strikes in Ger
many last year the strikes that occurred bore
a more fierce and stubborn character In a
number Of countries strikes are more often ac-
companied by mass demonstrations, which not
infrequently ended in collisions between the
workers and the coercive machinery of the
bourgeois state Omitted States, Austraia).
In the overwhelming majority of cases these
| strikes commence as an economic movement
for increased wages or against wage reductions,
but in many cases they assume political char
acter, are converted into solidarity strikes nc
per cent of strikes in France, strikes in defense
of dismissed and victimized workers Germany
or strikes in defense of proletarian revolution
airy organizations (Rumania). Even in coun-
tries where the most unbridled fascist terror
| prevails, strikes break through the framework
of the fascist dictatorship Italy)
H. In many countries which are entering
the crisis-phase and where a slight decline is
observed in the economic strike movement, the
rising revolutionary tide finds expression in
various militant forms of proetarian activity
as well in the more acute forms of economic
struggle
simultaneously with the strike movement,
there is extension Of the unemployed move
ment which takes the form of hunger marches,
| political demonstrations of the working class
which demand from governments and parlia-
ments work and bread for the hungry, social
insurance, unemployment relief at the expense
of the state and the capitalists. These demon
! strations are cruelty suppressed by the joint
! efforts of the bourgeosie and the social-fas-
cists. Embracing ever wider masses of EN-
! ployed and unemployed workers, and leading
IN some places TO Jn6 establishment OF commit
tees and councils of unemployed this movement
breaks through bourgeois legality, establishes
the right of the working masses to the street
and rallies broad masses of the working class
around the political slogans of the Communist
Parties (the recent demonstrations in Germany,
Poland United States and Rumania). The slog-
an of a mass political strike is becoming the
order of the day.
r. The development and intensification of
the crisis not only worsens the conditions of
the working class; it severely hits the mass of
the peasantry, especially its poorer sections
! AS result we witness a revival of the revolu-
tionary peasant movement Qtaly, Poland,
! Greece, Rumania) This movement assumes
! the widest dimensions in certain colonial coun-
! tries where it merges with the labor and ma
tional revolutionary movements. The collapse
| of the counter revolutionary unificaton of
| China and the intensfication of the struggle
| of the imperialists for spheres of influence in
| that country is accompanied by new wave of
! revolutionary peasant outbreaks guerrilla and
peasant armies). In India, owing to the sharp
economic crisis and the intensification of the
! terrorist regime, we see, in addition to big
! strikes Calcutta, the Great Indian Railway
| ana p0llUlCal demonstrations a revolutionary
! awakening of the peasant masses (Punjab)
! At the present time, a revolutionary struggle
! is flaring up against French imperialism in
| Indo China.
| All this goes to show that notwithstanding
| the flow of the revolutionary tide which
! Is expressed in the variety of forms the class
| struggle assumes and in the varying degrees
of its intensity, the revolutionary tide is rising
nevertheless, lifting the working masses to the
major tasks of the revolutionary struggles,
the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism
and the establishment of proletarian dictator
ship.
10. After the X Penum of the ECCI, the
theological state of the Communist Parties
! passed through process of further consolida-
ton on the basis of the line of the VI Congress,
the line of determined struggle against de-
viations and especially against the Right
Wingers and conciliators accompanied by purg-
ing the Communist Parties from decadent and
semi-social democratic elements. The correct
ness of the estimation of the Right Wingers
and conciliators made by the X Plenum and
its declaration that defence of the views of
Right opportunism was incompatible with
membership of the Comntern, and that the
conciators had adopted the Right Wing posi-
ton, have been wholly and entirely confirmed.
The Right Wing renegades of Germany,
Czechosovakia and the United States expelled
from the Comintern even prior to the Plenum
have adOnted the cocia1 de