The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
By JOHN EEL.

AUGUST %, which follows the August list
"A Anti-War Day, is the anniversary of the
brutal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti by the
Yankee capitalist justice 1t is an Anti-Imper-
ialist Day throughout Latin America. day of
struggle against imperialism, especially Amer
lean imperialism.
The defiance of the capitalist class of the
United States to the international protest of
the world revolutionary proletariat in 1927 that
sought to prevent the electrocution of Sacco and
VanZetti, was taken up as challenge by the
Latin American oppressed masses. 1t became
since then day of revolutionary tradition in
which the oppressed workers and peasants of
Latin America express their solidarity with the
working class of the United States and demand
in huge demonstrations their national liberia
ton from American imperalist domination The
same imperialst class that murdered Sacco and
vanzetti keeps under its iron heel the millions
of downtrodden, starved workers and peasants
in Latin America, particularly in the Carib-
bean region. The same imperialist exploiters of
the American proletariat murder, jails the mill
tant workers and deports the foreign-born
(MeNcans, etc..
Thus the struggle of the exploited workers of
the United States are intimately linked up with
those of the oppressed of Latin America. The
combined and coordinated forces of the exploit
ed in the metropolis of imperialism and in the
subjected countries is the only guarantee for
the final success of the world revolution The
workers Of Latin America, under the leadership
of the Communist Parties have already taken
the first practical steps of bringing together the
oppressed colonial peoples with the revolution
airy proletariat in the capitalist country of the
United States by setting this 23rd of August
as a day of struggle against imperialism. The
nft he
mist International says:
"The breaking up of the colonial empire, to-
gether with the proletarian revolution in the
home country, will overthrow the capitalist sys-
tenn. Consequently, the Communist Inter-
national must widen the sphere Of its activi-
ties 1t must establish relations with those revo-
lutionary forces that working for the over
throw Of Imperialism in the countries sub
jected politically and economically. These two
forces must be coordinated if the final success
OF the world revolution is to be guaranteed"
The anti-imperialist day of this year takes
place in the midst of a revolutionary upsurge
of the oppressed peoples in the Caribbean in an
attempt to Iberate themselves from the yoke of
American Imperialism.
The inperialsts of the United States are try
ing to put the burden of the economic crisis
upon the working class, by intensifying their
exploitation OF the workers, robbing and ex-
propriating the peasants OF Latin America
Yankee Imperialism is condemning 10000 900
workers to want and starvation. is increasing
its terror on the militant workers. The grow
Ing nlilitancy OF the workers throughout the
United States is met by the capitalist govern
ment with lynching jails and deportations. The
death sentence for the Negro young workers
OF Scottsboro, the determination to keep Mooney
and Billings in Jail for life, the mass and whole
sale deportations of Mexican workers in >the
West and South of the United States, show the
increased terror of the United States imper-
ialsm against the growing nilitancy of the
workers and the struggle of the Negroes for
complete equality.
In Latin America, the same Imperialism is
tightening its financial and military control is
condemning the starving workers and peasants
to death. 1t keeps relationships in Cuba Med-
co, Santa Domingo. etc. 1t rules with an iron,
military hand in Nicaragua, Haiti. The Amer
lean government acting in behalf of the rapa-
cious Wall Street bankers, plantation owners,
sugar barons and petroleum magnates, en1lavcs
millions Of workers, agricultural workers and
peasants, uses forced labor and STILES with
brutal and inqusitorial means the liberation
movements in the Caribbean 1t supports the
national bomgeoisies and tcudal landlords 10