The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
The Significance of August %,
Antl-Imperialist Day

their ruthless exploitation of the toiling masses
and their counter revolutionary suppression of
the revolutionary class unions and the Commu-
mist Parties.
August % of this year will take place in the
midst of an armed struggle of the workers and
peasants of Nicaragua and Honduras, life and
death struggle against the domination of Yam
kee imperialism and the native feudal lords
The revolutionary liberation movement in Mica
ragua and Honduras has taken a new course
this year. The armed forces under SANDING
have been sweled with ruined peasants and
unemployed workers from the Yankee lumber
and fruit companies Of tremendous impor-
lance is the coming to the forefront of the
workers in Nicaragua and Honduras against the
military control of the plantations and luin-
Der camps. This lays the basis for the organ
lzaton of the Communist Party and revolution
airy trade unions in Nicaragua, and imposes
upon the Communists in Honduras the task of
the independent leadership of the revolutionary
struggles of the masses
Within the National Guard differed by Amer
lean marines, great discomfort is prevailing and
signs Of revolt of the lowest rank and file in re-
fusing to shoot their brothers are clearly visible
The movement is taking considerable proper
tons extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coasts.
The Washington government has answered
the recrudescence of the armed struggle in Mica
ragua with warships, more marines, machine
guns and airplanes In Honduras, the guerilla
warfare in the surrounding districts of Tela
Progresso is going on for weeks. Workers and
peasants from the United Fruit Co, Indians
and attachments of workers from the cities are
fighting against the Yankee government of
Mejia Colindres. These liberation movements
are as yet chiefly under the leadership Of petty
bourgeois chieftains such as SANDING in Mica
ragua and General Ferrera in Honduras But
the strengthening of the Communist movement
in Honduras and the formation of the Comrnu-
mist Party in Nicaragua will raise the struggle
in these countries to higher level leading to
the establishment of the hegemony of the prole-
tariat in the anti-imperiahst agrarian revolu-
ton.
August 23rd of this year will find the masses
of Cuba in huge protest against the Chadbourne
Plan and the Yankee Machado regime of terror
and starvation. The Communist Party of Cuba
is becoming more and more the leader of all
oppressed. Under its leadership the workers are
now organizing and fighting for unemployment
relief against the Emergency Law of taxation
and against the Guggenhein- Machado- Nenocal
peace pact. The leadership of the present daily
struggles of the masses especially against I'M
employment by the Communist Party will enable
the Party TO become the leader of the revolu-
tionary fight for national liberation.
The Caribbean countries will greet this year
the formation Of the Communist Party of Vene-
zuela which under the most difficult conditions
by the bloody terror Of the tyrant Juan Vicente
Gomez, has led unemployed demonstrations in
Caracas.
The great strides made this year by the COM
murist Party Of Colombia in cleansing itself OF
the corrupt and opportunist elements, It's lead
ership in the independent strike struggles Of
the workers and plantation workers, makes the
Party the leader for the uncompromising fight
for national liberation.
These are some Of the important events now
taking place while the workers and peasants
throughout Latin America are preparing the or
ganization of the Anti-Imperialist Day.
But this day will not only be day of strug-
gle against Imperialism. 1t will also be the
day of struggle against the bourgeois offensive,
against the fascist terror of the native govern
ments maintained by Yankee imperialism 1t
will be the day of struggle against the Pan
American Federation of Labor, the refornist
traitors who in Latin America are the bulwark
and defenders OF Yankee domination and op-
preston. The American Federation of Labor is
working against the freedom of Mooney and
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