The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-03
Fight Imperialist War! Defend the Soviet
Union!


Union!
THE economic crisis of capitalism is continu-
ously sharpening. The contradictions of
capitalism are becoming ever deeper. The
antagonisms between the imperialist powers,
particularly the United States and Great
Britain are becoming more accentuated. The
present crisis of capitalism and the contradic-
tions that arise from it are making the war a
concrete factor. The preparations for the i'm
perialist war are now being carried on at a
rate hitherto unknown. Our Party and the
revolutionary working class is now faced with
the task not only of exposing the imperialist
war preparations of the capitalist class, but
also with the mobilization of the workers for
struggle against imperialst war.
Imperialist attack against the Soviet Union
is continuously assuming definite organization
al expressions For example, the plan for the
United States of Europe proposed by the
French government, the completion of the
military enlightenment of the Soviet Union and
the consolidation of the fascist dictatorship in
Rumania, the provocation of Polish fascism,
the growing tariff walls and other measures
against Soviet exports, the religious war cam
paign to stir up war sentiment of the peasants
of Europe against the Soviet Union, are all
definite steps for the war preparations against
the U.S.S.R. The capitalist class of the entire
world and Of the United States recognize the
menace of the successful carrying out of the
Five-Year Plan of socialist construction in the
Soviet Union. The decay of capitalist stabil-
ization the growing economic crisis and the
decline of production in the capitalist coun-
tries are being most wildly contrasted with
the increase of production and the growth of
socialist industry in the Soviet Union. The
working class of the entire world clearly sees
the advantages and superiority of socialist over
capitalist form of production. Capitalism stands
today before the entire world as a social sys-
tenn which has outlived its time and is now
entering into a period of decay. Imperialist
war is the method by which capitalism tries
to solve its contradictions and to prolong its
decaying existence. These facts must be made
known as widely as possible to the entire
American working class.
In the mperialst war preparations, the So
cialist (Second) international is acting as the
agent of capitalism. Not only does the bour-
geosie utilize the socialist parties of all coun-
tries as a means of militarizing and prepar-
ing the working class for the next world war,
but we find that the socialist party itself is
taking the leading role in preparing the COM
ing war particularly war against the Soviet
Union. The provocative acts of the British
socialist labor government, the German-Polish
treaty established through the initiative of the
social democratic party of Germany, the CO.
operation of the French socialist party with
French imperialism in their attack upon the
Soviet Union and in the building up of the
French military machine, are all acts exposing
the imperialist role of the socialist party. The
recent manifesto of the Second international
calling upon the workers of Soviet Union to
re-establish bourgeois rule in place of the So
viets is an open act of war against the Soviet
TY~,a ia1i CT role of
International must be brought out more ener-
getically than hitherto to the American work
ing masses. Particularly in the present period
must we expose the treacherous and blood
thirsty imperialist role of the British socialist
labor government in India, supported by the
entire Second International and the American
socialist party. The imperialist slaughter and
suppression of French imperialism with the
support of the French socialist party in Indo-