The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-12
A YEAR OF STRUGGLE

ginning of the carrying out in practice of the
Plan of Action, show that slowly but surely
our League is making the beginning in mass
activity.
Despite all the positive achievements, our
League is still in a very serious condition,
mainly due to the disproporton between the
growing process of rehabilitation of the young
workers and the slowness of the League in
adopting itself and its methods of work, suit
able to the present period.
The roots for this slowness lie in the serious
underestimation and the failure to see the
readiness of the young workers for struggle.
The League is not enough politically alert,
thus failing to grasp things quickly, lack of
appreciation of the excellent possibilities we
have at present to build League. There
are some of the concrete tendencies of def
mite Right nature which must be strenuously
combatted.
Revolutionary Phrases.
In addition to this open opportunism, we
also have in ranks strong manifestations
of Left" nature. We have comrades who
speak about the third period, about the radi-
calzaton of the yoGng workers, and shoot
wonderful revolutionary phrases, but in deeds
are not doing the most elementary things
which the movement demands from an average
League member. The Y. c. l. and the Ma
tional Committee have pointed out again and
again, that it is these heroes" of pseudo
revolutionary phrase mongering that are the
chief obstacle in our struggle against the
Right danger
The main prerequisite for making the turn
towards mass work is complete theological
clarity, to be fully aware of all the elements
that stand in our way in making this turn.
That is why it is so necessary to struggle
two fronts, against open opportunism and
against opportunism covered with cleft"
phrases. This struggle on two fronts is moth
ing new in our ranks. In fact the entire his
tory of the Conintern is a history of sys-
tematic and persistent struggle against open
and covert opportunism. While we struggle on
two fronts, we must always know when and
where to direct our main blows, based on the
objective situation in the country, the exact
status of the class struggle the correlation of
forces, etc. 1t is wrong to create mechani-
cal division between these varied forces of OPP
portunism, they do not run parallel. In the
long run, all shades of opportunsm run into
the same channels. However, it is very es-
sential to carefully distinguish open oppor-
tunism covered with cleft" phrases, since the
methods in struggling against both deviations
are different
The struggle against opportunism however,
will remain so much talk if it is not accom-
panied with daily activity among the young
workers.
The carrying out in practice of the National
Plan of Action u.s.. therefore, the most impor-
tant political and organizational task of our
League today. The Plan of Action should not
be looked upon a mere carrying out of
quotas. The realization of these quotas must
come about as result of developing and lead
ing the struggles of the young workers.
Indeed the present, as well as, the future, is
very bright for the Young Communist League,
providing we will increase the tempo of our
work. providing the factories and the mass
youth organizations will become the central
sphere of our activity, providing we will learn
how to approach, bring in, and keep young
workers in our ranks. We passed the stage
when "show work" was considered an accom-
plshment. What we want is permanent re-
suits in the form of building youth sections in
trade unions, organizing genuine shop nuclei
to maintain our Young Worker as a weekly
to develop mass ant-militarist activity, to in
crease our membership, to broaden OUR League
to enter new territories.
Let US arm ourselves ideologically and or
ganizationally and prepare for the coming
battles of the American working class youth.