The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28
Are the Decisions of the E. Gel
Plenum to Remain on Paper?

activity and to the struggle for the winning over
of the working youth.
BY means of facts the XII Plenum fully DEM
onstrated the counter-revolutionary role of the
International Social Democracy as the main So
cial prop of the bourgeoisie in its struggle
against the proletariat and the political educa-
ton therefrom was formulated by the Plenum
thus;
Therefore the exposure of social democracy
and the Second International, the release of
the toiling masses from the influence of social
democracy, the isolation and defeat Of social
democracy are the immediate and most urgent
tasks of the Communist Parties.
If this does not place every C. L Section under
the obligation to examine once more and to de-
velop further the methods of its struggle against
social democracy, then the convocation of inter
tiona1 sessions of the Executive Committee of
the Cornintern is utterly useless.
The ECCI P1enum itself has already given in
its political resolution series of drectives as to
how the struggle against the social democratic
refornist leaders is to be conducted during the
preparation and development of all revolution
ary activities. But the Plenum has naturally
left it to the individual sections to work out the
concrete forms, methods and slogans of the
struggle in accord with the local conditions in
stance, the Executive of the Labour Party de-
ceives large masses of workers with the "Argu-
ment" that the Macdonald government has not
a free hand to carry on radical Labour policy,
because it is still minority government but
that it is certainly better than a conservative
government. &C.. This is a British variety of
the swindle INDUCED in by the German Police
Socialists who try to make it out to the German
workers that the Bruening government is the
lesser evil" This must be exposed in England in
true English fashion. In another country again
in a different manner.
The ECCI Plenum said con Che basis of a
concrete platform of everyday demands and by
means of methods ineligible to the masses,
the G. I. Sections must expose every treacherous
act of the social democrats. Wherever Commu-
nists do not develop an adequate activity in the
struggle against the Right danger within the
parties, apply mechanically the correct GLASS
against class" tactic without considering the
stage of development of the Communist move
ment, wherever they do not apply it concretely
in accord with the special conditions of their
country and identify without reservation social
fascism with fascsm, the social fascist leaders
with the ordinary social democratic workers,
they weaken hereby their own independent lead
ershp of the class struggle and the offensive
character of their struggle against the Social
Democrats, and allow the latter to carry out
their struggle against the social democrats, and
allow the latter to carry out their sham maneu-
vers against faScisn, and to deceive the masses
who are following them"
Thus, the decisions Of the ECCT Plenum we're
certainly not intended to be looked upon as a
finished work of art which one hangs up and
admires. On the contrary through these deci-
sions a whole series of tasks were imposed on
the individual G, L Sections with view to their
further elaboration and concentration. This is
the most important part of the work which re-
manned to be done by the Sections, and which
has not yet been done But this work must be
done. The Political secretariat of the ECCI
reminded of this duty.
This is not matter only for the Party ex-
scutive. The whole Party, all its organizations
sion and elaboration of the decisions of the
ECCI Plenum Every Party organ and every nu-
ceus is to participate in the examination and
concentration of these tasks. There must be
healthy comradely self-critcism regarding Party
work with the object of improving it.
Without such broad collective working out of
the questions in the Party, the result which the
Plenum of the ECCI set itself, cannot be at
tanned. 1t goes without saying that the leading
Party organs must guide organize and control
this collective consideration of the questions dis
tribute the necessary material which is to serve
as basis for the discussion issue political in
structions, in order to help the lower organiza-
tons to deal with the questions correctly, etc.
Nothing sensible can be achieved if things are
left to look after themselves
If part of what have mentioned here has al
ready been carried out by this or that Section,
lea,
must be done Immediately Comrades, see to
this everywhere with true Bolshevik energy The
result of the xI Plenum must not be allowed to
go past our Parties without leaving a deeper
impression.