The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-26
THE MATURING INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CRISIS GROWING
MASS UNENFLO YAlENT AND STRIKE ACTION


movement, try to force upon the Communists
working in reformst unions the discipline of
the social-fascist trade union apparatus, adj
vocate united front of Communists and social
fascist campaign against the Communist
Parties and the U.S.S.R and supply material
for that campaign
The fragments of the Trotskyist groups
headed by Trotzky have in fact also descended
to this position. A complete identity of views
is to be recorded between the Trotskyites and
the Ring Wing renegades on all fundamental
questions of policy and tactics, and there is
complete harmony between them, even to the
extent of open blocs (Hamburg and China)
in regard to the work which both alike are en-
deavoring to carry on as the direct agents of
social-democracy, in order to demoralze the
Communist Parties.
The determined struggle of the Communist
Parties against the socialdemocrats which is
inseparably linked up with the task of winning
the masses to the side of Communism, pre-
supposes the ruthless exposure of the social
democratic agents acting under the Communist
flag, both the Right Wing and Trotskyite re-
negades the further purging of the Parties of
elements that attempt to play the same role
inside our organizations, and the overcoming
of all opportunst deviations both Right which
is the main danger, as we'll as the Left, in the
Communist ranks.
IA. In the midst of the developing crisis,
of the further intensifcation of the class strug-
gle and the rising revolutionary tide the fun
damental tasks of the Communist Parties are:
to capture the main masses of the proletariat,
to mobilize around the proletariat and under
its hegemony the broad toling masses (the
peasantry, the ruined urban petty-bourgeoisie,
the oppressed nationalities); secure Party lead
ership in actions, and to direct these &C
tions (strikes, unemployed movements, demon
strations), actions which often break out spon-
taneously along the channels of an organized
political struggle, especially in the form of mass
political strikes which will bring the working
class towards the task of the revolutionary
struggle for rover.
The fulfment of these fundamental tasks
which are decisive in the present stage-in
accordance with the decisions of the x Plenum,
calls for:
1. Consolidation of the Party organizations,
especially the factory nuclei and trade union
fractions: wider embracing of the masses of
revolutionary workers by Party organizations,
in connection with which the campaign for the
recruiting of new members which has been
successfully, though not sufficiently, conducted
in the last few months in the Communist Par
ties Of Germany and the United States of Amer
lea, is of exceptional Importance.
2. While further strengthening the work of
agitation and propaganda to the fullest possible
extent a change must be made in the forms
and methods of work of the Communist Parties
to make them correspond with the task of lead
ing the mass actions of the proletariat (strikes,
unemployed movements, demonstrations, of the
revolutionary peasantry and agricultural labor
ers lat home and in the colonies), while real
and effective preparation must be made for
these actions. In Great Britain where this
task of changing the forms and methods of
work is very urgent indeed, the "Daily Worker
must play an important part in bringing about
this change.
3. In connection with the fundamental tasks
of capturing the masses, the process of radical
ization of which must be accelerated to a con-
siderable degree by the maturing crsis-work
in the reformst Unions and work on the basis
of the united front tactic from below for the
liberation of the masses from the influence of
the social traitors becomes of particular i'm
portance. This requires also more intensive
work by the Communist Parties in the revolu-
tionary Trade Unions France Czechoslovakia,
United States), energetic recruitment of work
ers for these trade unions, the securing for the
Communist Parties of the leadership in all the
organs of mass proletaran struggle created
from below factory committees, strike COM
mittees, unemployed committees, etc. and
strengthening this basis the revolutionary
trade union opposition in the reformist unions,
and its definite organization. In connection
with all this, the task in Germany is to con-
solidate to the utmost the ranks of the revolu-
tionary trade union movement and the organi-
rational centre of this trade union movement.
a. The unfolding strike struggle which in
some countries is combined with other forms
of political struggle of the working class (mass
demonstrations, solidarity strikes, etc. raises
before the Communist Parties the task of ex-
tensve popularizing the slogan mass political
strike" and in the work of the Communist
Parties themselves it raises the task of COM
bining open with illegal work In this connec-
ton, the duty of the Communist Party of Poland
is to prepare the working class for the leading
role in the maturing general political crisis.
5. The Communist Parties in the colonies