The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-16
BY S. GUsEw.

THE decisions of the XII. Plenum
of the Executive Committee Of
the Communist International mark
an exceptionally important phase
for all the G. I. sections.
The end Of capitalist sterilization,
the development of the revolution
airy upsurge, the transition to a
new cycle of revolutions and wars,
all this makes it incumbent on
the c. I. sections to prepare the
struggle for proletarian dictator
ship. Although the development Of
the revolutionary movement in the
Anglo-American countries Great
Britain, U.SA., Canada, Australia),
still lags considerably behind the
high tension of the whole interna-
tional situation, even in these coun-
tries the C. I. sections are faced
with the same task: preparing the
struggle for the proletarian dicta-
torship. In the Anglo American
countries the wining Of the major
ity Of the proletariat is for the G.
7. sections a practical task Of the
present day: these G. I. sections
must turn their face to the mas
ses, to mass work, and take up
work among them; they must es-
tablish, broaden and strengthen
constant connection with the mas
SEES. for without it the winning of
the majority of the proletariat is
impossible.
But it would be great mistake
to infer from the fact that the re-
volutionary development in the
Anglo-Saxon countries lags behind,
that these countries are doomed al
ways to remain behind the more ad-
Vanced countries with regard to
revolutionary upsurge. Three years
of nonStrous economic crisis within
the general capitalist crisis, an eco
nomic crisis which cannot be over
come by peaceful means, without
revolutions and wars has called
forth intense upheavals In the
worlds capitalist system which as
sumo, in connection with the gi-
gantic success of socialist construc-
ton in the U.S.S.R., such a cata-
strophic character that one cannot
exclude the possibility of the U. S.
A. or Great Britain or Australia
pushing forward to the front with
regard to the swing of the revolu-
tionary demonstrations of the pro-
letariat and the masses of workers
in general. In such case, it will
be up to the G. 7. sections in the
Anglo-American countries to pre-
pare the struggle for the prole-
tartan dictatorship, which implies
the same, direct, practical tasks
confronting now the Communist
Parties of Poland and Germany.
The miners strikes, the veterans
movement, the ''strikes" of the U.
S. A. farmers, the unrest in the
British navy, the Lancashire strike
in England,-all these are only
the harbingers Of pending reyolu-
tionary events, and by these harb-
myers one can get an idea of the
magnitude of the events them
selves, and what enormous progress
these countries can make along the
revolutionary path.
LAG BEHIND MASSES.
That the influence of the G. 7.
sections in the Anglo American
countries has grown is an estab-
lished fact. This growing influence
among the masses is first Of all due
to the upsurge of the mass strug-
gle. Tt is no longer necessary for
the Communist Parties "toI look
out" for the masses to arouse them
for the struggle. On the contrary,
the rising masses are on the look
out for leadership and follow the
Communist Parties wherever and
whenever these Parties place them
selves at the head Of their actions.
The growth Of the influence of the
sections Of the G. I. in the Anglo
American countries is also due to
some improvements in their every
day work. However, there is an
enormous difference between the
achievements Of the Communist
Parties in the sphere of the I'M
provement of their work and the
enormous tasks which are placed
before them by the end of capital
list sterilization and the develop
ment of the revolutionary upsurge.
In practice our Anglo-American
sections are all the time tagging
behind the upsurge among the mas
ses. with the result that the leader
ship of mass activity, especially
strikes, has been left in the hands
of the relormists with the excep-
ton Of a few movements which, II