The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-29
By JACK TOMBSTONE.


THE Wall Street crash, while it dramatized
the economic crisis, at the same time ex-
posed many weak props, set up by bourgeois
economists and social reformists in their at
tempts to hide the weakness of American CAPT
talism. Today we see capitalist Sterilization
breaking down, under our very eyes, at a.rapid
rate with the U. S. A. as the center of
sharpened world economic crisis. Already we
see the effects of the crisis in the deepening of
the depression in Great Britain, Italy, Ger
many and many other European countries,
sharpening the antagonisms between the inn
perialist countries in their search for new
markets, forcing a more rapid stride in their
war preparations
Sharpened War Danger.
The tremendous development of socialist
economy, the antithesis of painless capitalist
economy emphasized in the great success of
the first years program of the Five Year
Plan), is taking place simultaneously with the
sharpening contradictions of world capitalism
and the general crisis of capitalist economy.
These factors further increase the antagonism
and hate of the imperiaist governments to-
ward the Soviet Union intensifying their prep
arations for war of aggression against the
Workers Republic
Again the economic crisis sharpens the an
ta~onisms between the workers and the CAPT
talists in their attempt to compel the working
class to pay the cost of the crisis. causing ruth
less suppression of strike struggles by the en-
ployers and the state. In this sharpening class
struggle period we see the A. F. of L. and their
allies, the socialists, the renegade Communist
and so-callel progressives merging more open
ly with the capitalist state, taking the leading
role in assisting capitalism to overcome the
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tempting to resuscitate capitalism at the ex-
pense of the working class.
The American capitalist class has placed
the agenda of today: general offensive
against the working class to make them pay
for the economic crisis preparations for war
against the Soviet Union, to attempt to hook
up the workers and peasants of the first work.
ers' republic again to the yoke Of imperialist
exploitation; preparations for imperialist war
for the conquerng of new markets through
redivison of the world with the U. S. A. and
Great Britain as the central competing pow
ers around which the other capitalist nations
will gather in another and more terrible world
blood bath; ruthless suppression and exploita-
ton of Latin American workers and U. S. A.
colonial peoples, which is already expressed in
the massacre of Haitian workers, the military
control of Nicaragua and other Latin Amer
lean republics" the illegalizng of the Com
munst Party and the SSUM in Mexico by the
agents of Wall Street.
Struggle For Markets.
U. S. imperialism is the main aggressor to-
day; it lea Is the struggle against the Soviet
Union it is the aggressor mall war prepare
tions. This does not mean that Great Britain
and the other imperialist nations are not pre-
pairing for war against the Soviet Union ard
a~on~st themselves. The mpoverishment of
the masses and the tremendous shrinking of
the home markets oompes United States i'm
peraism to pursue more aggressive policy
in the solution of its contradictions. This
means grabbing control of new spheres of in
fluence and markets which could only be
achieved by means of war.
In this period of mass struggles and imper-
ia'ist wars. the American working class has
historical role to play. Glass war against the
nrenarations for imperialst wars. Turn the
imperalst war into civil war; This is the
perspective. The American workers be pre-
pared for such action. this perspective is in