The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-23
LIEBKNECHT, LUXEMBOURG
WORKING CLASS LEADERS

mass unemployment hunger, wage slashes-
witness Germany England. Poland, Jugoslavia,
etc. They support and in many cases direct
the operations of the imperialSt governments
as for instance the British Labor government,
massacring the workers and peasants OF lndia'
Egypt, Palestine, ETC. They support the imper-
ialiSt government of Holland Gin relation to
Javs); France beading in inperialist prepara-
tons generally, and in expeditions against Nor
rocco, Indo-China); in attacks on the revolu-
tionary workers of the United States, Poland,
Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Scandinavia They
support the imperialist actions in the colonies,
and above all are the front-line fighters against
the Soviet Union. No lie, no SANDER Is too low
for the social democrats. The revelations at
the trial of the leaders of the so-called Indus
trial Party" in Moscow, showed the connections
of the social democrats with the imperialsts in
preparation for armed intervention in the So
Wet Union No press attempted to redicule the
trial more than the socialist press And let us
not forget that it was the second international
which, in its manifesto of May l and one of
more recent date, called for war against the
Soviet Government.
Lebknecht and Luxembourg, in taking up the
fight against the traitors of the working class
in 1914, together with Ienin who long before
than time began and led the fight against the
our tasks today, now that the imperialist world
is preparing for war to get out 70 the crisis,
and for armed attack on the Soviet Union. This
task becomes all the more necessary, in view
of the war preparations of the U. S. govern
ment-federal budget S1.127 100000 for months,
or than any time in the history of the
country, the report of the Fish Committee, which
is directly in preparation for war-the united
front which is forming in China of the i'm
perialist powers for open support of the warlords
against the advancing Chinese Red Armies, etc.
Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg-and above
all the Communist International-have shown
us that in our fight aagnst imperialism we must
also fight against the traitors of the working
class. Not one fight taking place after the
other, but single fight on two fronts Just
as the struggle of the workers against the bosses
and their government in strikes, etc, cannot be
separated from the struggle against the fascist
and social fascist trade union leaders, who are
tools in the ranks of the workers, carrying out
the wishes of the bosses to smash the ranks of
the workers, reduce their conditions, etc. So in
the struggle against imperialist war, our guns
must be drilled at the enemies on the two fronts
Lenn Liebknecht, Luxembourg three heroes
of the working class-are dead but that for which
they lived and died, is lvelier today than ever
before. The struggle against the traitors, the
imperahsts and all their lackeys. the struggle
for the revolutionary unification of the working
class are the demand of the day.
Not individual leaders will lead the working
class, Liebknecht and Luxembourg did not live
to participate in the organization and activities
of the Communist International, although they
and few other German revolutionists were
the heart of the Spartacus movement of Ger
many. out of which developed the German Com
munist Party. But their lives were the person
ification of that which will lead the working
class to victory: devotion to the working class
unending courage, and, with the aid of the Com
m,nist International the correct line and policy.
Not individual leaders but the Communist Party
furnishes the leadership for the struggle-the
unified revolutionary struggles of the masses in
the capitalist and colonial countries against
world imperialism, and its tools and allies, the
socialist parties and the reactionary, fascist trade
union leaders