The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-09
REVOLUTIONARY UPSURGE
IN THE COLONIES

between the imperaist powers-Britain, Amer
lea, Japan; the intensfication, in connection
with this, of the struggle between the different
militarist cliques in China--all of this gives
rise to extremely favorable conditions for po-
itcal and organizational Strengthening of the
ranks of the proletariat. The so-called "reor-
ganizationists" are trying their best to make
use of this situation and coming out before
the masses as LEFT" Kuomntangites. However,
their close contacts maintained with such out
and-out militarists, as Yen Hsi-shan and Feng
Yu-hsian, rs well as with japanese imperialism,
makes it possible to expose the real substance
of the Observation-Disclosures" to the working
masses. The fresh upsurge which more acute
ly and with greater force brings forward the
basic problems of the Chinese Revolution-the
overthrow of the yoke of imperialism, the ag-
raran revolution, the workers program of de-
mands, and the uniting of China by means of
setting up a Soviet Workers and Peasants
Government-open up vast perspectves before
the Chinese Communist Party and revolution
airy trade unions.
A New Milestone.
A new milestone in the development of the
revolutionary movement in the colonies are the
late events in Indo- China The brutal and ever
increasing exploitation of the country by
French imperialism through the monopolist
French firms and banks, through the French
militarists and officialdom on the one hand,
and on the other, the influence of the revolu-
tionary movement in China and India, between
which Indo- China is squeezed in were the
causes of the recent events in IndoChina. 1t
began with rather extensive strike movement
last year. The miners, textile workers, cleo
tricians, chauffeurs and Others were out on
strike. The leadership of the strike movement
was in the hands of revolutionary elements
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Workers Revolutionary Union. In response
to the strike, the Government effected mass ar
rests. Hundreds of workers on the least sus-
picion were thrown into prison and tortured.
The movement, however, continued to widen in
scope, embracing ever-wide eXtents the
poor peasantry the brutally exploited planta-
ton laborers, and, strange as it seemed to the
imperialists, the native troops. Neither will
the mass executions with which the savage
French imperialists responded to the movement
be capable of holding back the forward surge
of the working masses. AS it is the method
of colonial exploitation applied in Indo1 China to
doom the toiling masses to gradual extinction.
Most important forward moves are evidenced
today in the Arabian-East. After the sup
preston of the uprising in Syria, period of
quiet set in. However, not for long. The
events in Palestine, in August of last year,
were the beginning of a new upsurge, but I'M
der quite different circumstances. 1t was diff
ferent from the point of view that the Feudal
aristocracy and trading capital, which played
the foremost role in the Syrian uprising, are
now beginning to realize that their positions
are becoming rather unstable and that the
proletariat is entering the movement, is be-
coming active and coming to the fore. In this
connection, the First Arabian Labor Congress
held in Haifa Palestine), at the beginning
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elements were still in the minority at this
Congress, the influence of bourgeois National
ism still predominated. However, at this Con-
gress speeches could be heard and resolutions
carried, which showed that the more advanced
strata of the Arabian proletarat is beginning
to realize its class conditions and the class tasks
with which it is confronted
Leadership of Proletariat.
nesrite the different forms of the econom
ara i.ical conditions of the colonial and sem
co,2~:' countries, it can be definitely said tina
throughout all Asiatic countries-not only r
India and China, but also in Korea, Philippines
Indonesa, Arabia, as we'll as in the Latin
American countries, the proletariat, it is I'M
derstood to different degrees, is, however, be-
ginning to play an increasingly greater, more
active and independent role in the national
revolutionary movement. From this point of
| view we have now entered upon new phase in
| the movement of the colonial countries.
This cannot yet be said of the African con-
| tinent of such countries like Kenya or flanagan
| aka, of the Congo and Nigeria. Over there
| we witness the first mass actions of the peas
| antry led to desperation by being deprived of
| their lands by forced labor and heavy taxation
| But in South African the Transvaal, Cape
! Town, etc., where the compact masses of the
| Negro Industrial proetariat are concentrated,
| there is already a widespread movement of
the Negro workers, an extenc.ve strike move
ment, which often turns into open action d.
rected against the mperialist powers. This
continent is today being drawn into the whole
world movement of oppressed classes and peo-
| pies.
The reserves of the revolution are inexhaust-
| ible. The groundwork of imperialism and CAPT.
talism is steadily being undermined The role
of the proletariat in this struggle is continu-
ally growing.