The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-10

fantry. Public buildings will have a mill
tary guard At the same time number of
arrests will be carried out Git is said about
50O)."
1t is also characteristic of the present phase
of the class struggle that the workers have
begun, quite spontaneously, to take up their
defense against the civil war methods of the
bourgeoisie. This has happened before, but
only in isolated instances and isolated coun-
tries. In general proletarian defense against
fascism and against capitalism's preparations
for civil war bore, even last year, prepon-
derantly theological and propaganda charac-
ter An theological campaign against bour-
geois terrorism is more necessary than ever
now. The idea of proletarian defense must be
systematically and emphatically spread among
the workers. The establishment of anti
fascist defense corps to spread this idea must
now be taken in hand with the utmost energy.
But an theological struggle will no longer
suffice. The intensification of the class strug-
gle, the bourgeoisies activities in suppressing
the workers, the growth of working class mill
fancy have all proceeded so far that it is es-
sential to deal in all seriousness with the ques-
ton of the direct physical defense of the work
ers and their organizations against the acts of
violence carried out by the bourgeosie's armed
bodies of suppression.
1t must be strongly emphasized that the
question of the concrete forms of proletarian
defense cannot by any means be limited to
the question of special defense organizations,
particularly in the present phase of the strug-
gle. The question will have to be dealt with
in a much broader fashion if we are to ap-
proach it correctly. We think it will be use
full at this point to recall Lenin's words in
his article on Guerilla Warfare:
"In the first place Marxism differs from all
other and more primitive forms Of Socialism
in that it does not bind the movement to any
particular form of struggle. 1t recognizes the
most varied forms of struggle, and it does not
"invent" them, but only generalizes, organizes
and endows with consciousness those forms of
the revolutionary class struggle which arise
spontaneously in the course of the movement.
Hostile to all abstract formulate and doctrinare
recipes, Marxism demands the closest atten-
ton to the mass struggle which is proceeding
and which, as the movement develops, as the
class-consciousness of the masses increases, as
economic and political crises grow more acute,
gives rise to new and most varied methods of
defense and attack"
If we want to attack the question of prole-
tartan defense from the correct angle, we must
first of all have the greatest possible elasticity
in the tactics and organization of defense 1t
is, for example, quite clear that the question
of the creation of special organizations is one
whose correct solution is possible only on the
basis of the practical needs of the mass strug-
gle in strike movements, in the defense of
workers organizations and their headquarters,
etc.
In particular we must develop new tactics in
street demonstrations. With increased police
provocation, prohibitions and attacks on one
hand, and the growth Of working class mill
fancy on the other, demonstrations must keep
even Communist demonstrations in most coun-
tries were in general modelled on the old
cial democratic example. Demonstrations were
made with the permission of the police. The
demonstrators walked through the streets ac-
companed by the police, to the fractional
meeting place, where the traditional lrc.ram
was run through.
ITO b Continued)