The daily worker., 1931-07-27
Are the Decisions of the E. Gel
Plenum to Remain on Paper?

On the other hand, for instance the CP Of
France Great Britain USA and many other
Sections of the Comintern have hitherto if we
are correctly informed, treated these decisions
rather formally, have so to speak, taken cog
nisance of them" which means that for the
time being the substance of the Plenum decisions
have been the subject of a couple of short news
paper articles, and that otherwise the questions
have been put off till the Plenum of the &C;
then at the Plenum of the &C, report on the
ECCI Pfenums was listened to- and after an in
adequate discussion an equally inadequate res
olution adopted, in order to proceed after
that with the agenda."
However, it is just possible that one or other
of these parties has after all done a LITTLE
MORE, in order to make the results of the
ECCI Plenum its own, but if so, we are not
aware of it. Anyhow, one thing is certain, that
most of the CT Sections have not yet done JUS
tice to the MOST IMPORTANT tasks arising
for them out of the ECCI Plenum namely. %
concentration of these decisions in accord with
the special conditions in their respective coun-
tries; and 90 drawing the whole membership
of the Party into the discussion and concrete
elaboration of the ECCI decisions.
The first of these asks demands a thorough
re-examination of and a reply to a whole series
of very important pressing questions by every
one of the Communist Parties, On the basis of
the new general resolutions of the ECCI
The XI Plenum of the ECCI has above all
called attention to the development of the crisis
of the capitalist system, to the accentuation of
the class struggle, to the development of the
revolutionary upsurge, and to the fact that most
of the CT Sections lag behind the rehabilitation
of the masses. What are the concrete forms
which these phenomena take in the given in
dividual country? This must be clearly indi-
Gated. The VI Plenum has given special en-
phasiS to the fact that the growth of the revo-
lutionary upsurge is developing unevenly "in
accord with the degree and tempo of the devel-
opment of the crisis and of the accentuation of
the internal and external contradictions of capi-
talism in the given country In countries such
as Germany, Poland Spain, the Plenum has es-
tablished an upward development of the premises
of the revolutionary crisis. But what about
France, Britain or America ETC. in this report?
What is the tempo and degree of the develop
ment of the crisis and of the accentuation of
the internal and external contradictions of capt.
talism in these countries? The executive of the
respective Communist Party should have clear
ly worked out this Immediately after the ECCI
Plenum, beginning hereby real popularization
Of the ECCI decisions in the ranks of the Party.
The XI Plenum gave general characteristic,
less capitalist offensive against the standard of
living of the workers Cmass dsrnissals and un-
employment wage cuts, higher taxes, artifciaIIy
maintained high retail prices reduction of So
cial insurance, etc., and recorded at the same
time the growing discomfort of the wide masses
further sharpening of the strike and un-
employment movement, the growth of the oppo-
sition of the petty-bourgeois urban masses. ETC.
What form does this take in our country?"
Every Communist Party should have asked itself
this question. Why? Above all for this reason:
because the ECCI Plenum had to establish the
fact that there we're serious defects in most
of the CT SECTIONS, which took the following
form:
policy of Kvostism with regard to series
of great revolutionary movements; unemploy-
ment demonstrations, strikes and peasant
movements. Tagging behind with regard to
the mobilization of the masses for the defense
of the daily needs of The workers, Inadequate
linking up Of the struggle for these demands
with the struggle for proetarian dictatorship
Section? This is what every Communist Party
should have asked itself. 1t should also serious
ly consider the measures to be taken in order
to completely remedy this weakness The popu-
larlzation of the decisions of the ECCI at the
Plenum should have been utilized precisely for
the purpose of mobiizing all Party organizations
and members for the struggle against our chief
weaknesses, and final victory over them In