The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-05
Resolution of the PoIburo of the Central
Committee

l. The Seventh National Convention of the
Communist Party of the U.S.A. marked turn
ing point in the life of the Party. 1t registered
the accomplishment of those tasks set forward
in the Address OF the Communist International
to the mebership May IS, 1929, namely: the
correction of opportunist errors of both former
majority and minority; the abolition of I'M
principled factionalism and the unfication of
the Party on the basis of the line of the Com
munist International, and decisive turn to-
wards mass work by the entire Party. The
Convention itself while registering new achieve
ments, approving the line of the Central Com
mittee and the successful political and organ
national fight against the Lovestone group
and the Trotskyites was primarily a mobiliza-
ton of the party and sympathetic workers
for new, more intensive and more systematic
drive forward in mass mobilization and or
ganization of the working class. Its central
slogan was: tC the masses in the shops, mines
and factories.
g Confirming the defeat, isolation and final
expulsion of the right wing renegades live
stone, Gtlow, Wolfe ct all who have finally
passed over to the camp of counter revolution
the Convention simultaneously showed the
growth of new healthy forces in the Party
which has strengthened its ranks in the sue
cesful recruiting drive and improved and
tivized it's inner Party life through the develop
ment of self-criticism. Approximately 40 per
cent of the active Party forces today are the
fruits of the new proletaran recruitment which
reflected itself in the leadership of the Party
from units, sections, districts and to the Ma
tiona Convention. Especially noteworthy in
this respect were the Negro delegates whose
presence and activity in the Convention showed
that the Party has found broad base of con-
tact with the Negro proetariat, who turn to
Il
lion from the South white and Negro played
leading role in the Convention for the first
time in our history. The Party has made
healthy beginning in broadening its ranks and
building new cadres
s. The Convention showed that the Party
has been thoroughly alarmed against the right
Danger the main danger and, at the same
time, is alert to repel all ''leftist" deviations
which are the chief obstruction to successful
fight against the right. Delegation after dele
cation from the districts related concrete in
stances of struggle against the right which
has been the foundation of the Party's success.
tul development In the Party today no one
iares to bring forward openly right theories
The fight against the right has become before
al a struggle against opportunism in practice,
expressing itself mainly in passivity in mass
work, incapacity to develop new forces, incap-
icity or resistance to self-criticism.
d. The struggle on two fronts, against right
wing opportunism and against "leftist" sectar-
al tendencies, in the Convention discussion
,entered around the estimation of the economic
.risls and its perspectives. All perspectives
BASED upon the bourgeois propaganda of the
liquidation" of the crisis were combatted and
rejected the economic crisis was shown in
its true nature and setting as a cynical econ
omic crisis occurring in the situation of the
third period of the general crisis of capitalism.
deepening this crisis and sharpening the in
ternal and external contradictions breaking
DOWN the precarious sterilization, and acce
Grating the flow of the revolutionary tide in
the capitalist countries and in the colonies
At the same time, all elements of the theory
of "bottomess crisis" of a hopeless posi-
ton" for the bourgeoise, all elements of the
theory of catastrophe" whereby the revou-
ton automatically is produced by the economic
crisis, were sharply combatted and rejected
Those incorr, c. Foundations brought forward
in the report and discussion, around which the
debate centeret, namely, the uncritical pres
entation in tn report of the Central Committee
of the bourgeois theory of recovery of capital
ism from the crisis, without showing the i'm
possibility of normal" return to the pre-
crisis situation of capitalism, as we'll as some
speeches which contained elements of the theory
of hopeless position" of the bourgeoisie, were
clarified and corrected in the debate and in
the summing up. The Convention established
the perspective of deepening of the crisis,
not its liquidation and emphasized the active
role of The working class and its vanguard
the Communist Party, in determining the out
come of the crisis and the maturing world sit
uation foreseer and described in the Sixth
World Congress thesis which said paragraph
29) "the new upsurge of the Chinese Revou-
ton and tn inevitable sharpening of the revo-
lutionary situation in India can create an en-
tirely new world political situation and over
throw the relative sterilization of the capitalist
system" The Convention was unanimous on
these points, with the exception Of the fraternal
delegate from the Canadian Party, who defend
ed leftist" position on these questions which
under a masr of cleft" phrases, would lead
to opportunist passivty. The documents of the
Central Committee, issued on the economic
crisis, and the Convention thesis were unani
mously approved and referred to the incoming
Central Committee for final editing
B. Mobilization of the Party for mass work
was the outstanding note of the Convention In
this respect it was clearly established that the
principal for of the right dancer now Is PAS
svity in mass work. Signs of the right danger
are to be found in inactivity, in inability to
build shop nuclei, issue shop papers, build shop
committees, give independent leadership to the
growing struggles of the working class and
to build the revolutionary trade unions and min.
critics within the reactonary trade unions in
capacity to develop new forces and resistance
to sci. criticism. In these questions also was