The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14
Theses Of the Enlarged Plenum Of the
Executive Committee of the Young
Communist international
By Fred Ellis

spontaneous youth strikes flaring up every
where in spite of the furious terror of the
BOSSES the police and the trade union bureau
Gratis and at times a passive attitude of the
adult workers, indicate growing radicaliza-
ton and activity of the working class youth.
A new phenomenon specially to be observed
is the growing participation of girls (who in
some cases even declare independent strikes).
In the struggle against revolutionary senti-
ments of the working class youth, the bour-
geoisie on the one hand intensifies repression
and terror against the revolutionary youth or
carnations, and on the other increases and
strengthens the system of theological mould
ing of the youth, understanding that the out
come of the impending wars and class strug-
giles depends now to considerable extent on
the part which will be played in them by the
toiling youth. The school, church, art, litera-
ture, sport-everything is placed at the serv-
ice of militarization and fascisation of the
tolllng youth. The bourgeois youth organ
izatlons embracing in the major capitalist
countries more than half of the entire young
generation, are developing feverish activity.
The work of political decentralization of the
working class youth, its subsection to the in
fluence of the bourgeoisie, is being concen-
trated in the hands of the state which creates
for this purpose an apparatus with broad
ramifications and united leading center. The
Socialist Youth international is also working
at the behest of the bourgeoisie; it has openly
entered on the path of lsocial-fascism tits sup
port of the military program of the German
Social Democracy, Islander against the Soviet
Union, the preaching of "peace in industry"
strikebreaking in economic struggles of young
workers. etc.. left" phraseology often re-
sorted to by the Socialist Youth Interna.
tonaf in order more easily to win the masses
for social-fascism is particularly dangerous
under these conditions. The reformists sue
ceeded with the assistance of the entire Party
and trade union apparatus temporarily to stop
the rapid dsintegraton of the Young Social
list international, and they are now trying to
broaden its influence under the slogan of "uni-
fication of socialist work among the youth"
They want the Young Socialist international
to have monopoly right to work among the
youth in the mass labor organizations in the
hands of Social Democracy. But nothing will
save the Young Socialist International from
disintegration as the class struggle grows in
intensity.
2. Although the Young Communist Inter-
national can record series of important poll
tical successes since the Congress-: active
participation in the struggle of the Comm
tern against the Rights and conciators on the
part of the Young Communist League as
whole, as well as on the part of it's individual
Sections-in France, Poland China, Mongolia
and particularly striking activity of the Young
Communist League in Sweden; mass work
during the strike. in LODI and the Ruhr; the
heroic struggle of the Young Communists of
Berlin during the May days; the increasing of
Young Communist League International influ-
ence in new countries (Latin America, the
EasD there was to be observed during the, rast
year an exceedingly dangerous tagging HIiind
in the tempo of work of the Young Communist
international compared with the general tempo
of revolutionary development. The Sections Of
the Young Communist International did not
show due political activity in the sphere of
economic struggle of the working class youth,