The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
THE CRISIS IN THE
UNITED STATES
and the Tasks of the Communist Party of the
United States

nation come to the defense of the
Negroes, advancing the demands for
full racial, social and political equal
ity for the Negroes and their right
to self-determination.
If the Ameicran employers now
resort to the assistance of the pow
ers that be on the occasion of
/ strikes, this will take a still wider
character in accord with the degree
of further development of the class
struggle. The Communist Party of
U.S.A. should impart to all discon-
nected economic battles of the work.
ing class the character of a wide
political movement. The question
of the mass political strike is now
becoming extraordinarily real in the
United States. The Trade Union
Unity League should render active
and open support to the Communist
Party.
The Communist Party Of the
U.S.A. should exert all of its
strength in order to give to the
struggles Of the American workers
an international character. The
Party must destroy the illusions re-
garding american isolation" propa-
gated among the workers by the
bourgeoisie and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, uniting the Of
fensives of the workers of the
United States with the offensives of
the workers of other countries
around the struggles against war
danger, against the Young Plan, in
defense of the Soviet Union, etc.
The growing world crisis of capital
ism, aggravated by the development
of the crisis in the United States,
undoubtedly will induce a consider
able sharpening of the competition
between the imperialist powers in
Latin-America, as well as in other
colonial and semi-colonial countries.
This will evoke sharp class collisions
in these countries which will acquire
a revolutionary character. The
Communist Party of the U.S.A.
should render to the workers of such
countries full support in their fight
against American imperialism as
well as against their native bour
geoisie.
Mobilizing the masses in defense
of the Soviet Union the Communist
Party of the U.S.A. will widely
popularize the successes of the Five
Year Plan of Socialist Construction
in the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics. The Party must fully
utilize the successes of socialist con-
struction in the Soviet Union. In
the source Of IL years the social
reformists have not ceased to SLAM
der the 81 t Union. At the pres
ent time the decay of capitalist
economy on one side and the power
full sweep of the construction in the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
on the other, give the Party splen-
did opportunity to muzzle the social
fascist agents Of the bourgeoisie.
The objective situation in the
United States is to the highest de-
gree favorable for the growth of
the Communist Party. Exactly for
this reason the American bourgeoisie
is all the more strengthening
the offensive against the Commu-
mist Party, trying to drive it under
ground. Notwithstanding this, how
ever, the Communist party of the
U.S.A. will grow and develop indie
pendently of whether it shall exist
legally or will be forced to 60 un-
foreground. The American Fedora
ton of Labor and the socialist party,
by hteir treacherous conduct, are
exposing themselves in the eyes of
the working masses. No small role
in this respect will be played by
their latest agreement with Hoover,
according to which they took upon
themselves the obligation not to put
forward any demand for increases
of wages.
In the immediate future the Com
nunist Party of the U.S.A. will lay
the solid foundation for it's trans
formation into a genuine mass party
of the proletariat of the United
States. Its developing struggle in
the conditions of the sharpening
crisis in the United States and the
growing OF this crisis into world
crisis, have colossal Significance for
the entire international proletariat.