The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-20
PARTY LIFE
Fail to Utilize
Resolutions of
18th PIenu m


= the Communist International
because OF their tremendous and
timely Importance to our Party and
the revolutionary mass organiza-
lions has been published in pamph-
let form under the title of Capitalist
Sterilization Has Ended. This was
done to make it easily available to
every Party member. But the re-
Spouse of the districts to this
pamphlet shows a serious laxity and
underestimation of the necessity
of widely popularizing the decisions
of the 18th Plenum in connection
with making a radical change in
the methods and work of our Party
organizations.
With the result, that while the
resolutions have been off the press
for more than two weeks, with the
exception of New York, Cleveland,
Detroit, Chicago, and New Jersey
no other district has ordered a single
copy. Such important districts as
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Mime
sofa, California, apparently do not
yet know that these resolutions
have been issued in printed form.
But even the orders from the five
districts mentioned are inadequate
to fulfill the requirements Of get
ting these decisions to every men,
Der of our Party and reaching out
to the workers IN the revolutionary
mass organizations.
RESOLUTIONS VITAL
TO DAY-TO-DAY WORK
This failure to order the 18th
Plenum pamphlet reflects the con-
ception still prevailing in some sec
tons, wrongly SO, Of our Party
which views resolutions not as gen.
ordinations of the experiences of
the class struggle, laying down the
fundamental strategic and tactical
line for immediate guidance in the
development of our work, but as
liEeless documents disconnected
from the life Of our movement.
The very content and character of
the 18th Plenum resolutions should
be used to refute and combat such
tendencies wherever they spring up.
These resolutions, dealing with
the basic fundamental problems and
tasks of the various sections Of the
Communist International are par
ticularly applicable to our Party.
The general resolution raises
sharply the problems and tasks
confronting all Parties in the light
of the new phase of the general
crisis Of world capitalism-the phase
of the end of capitalist sterilization
THE present situation is pregnant
with unexpected outbreaks and
sharp turns of events" and pre-
cisely because Of this SIS it neces-
sary, without losing moment, to
intensity and accelerate our Boil
shevik mass work to win over the
majority of the working class. :. :"
TO carry out this task, every Party
of the Communist International
must make sharp break with
Sectarian methods of work, break
our isolation from the basic sections
of the proletariat, and through the
correct application of the Bolsheyik
policy of the united front from
below establish, extend and
strengthen permanent and intimate
contacts with the majority of the
workers, wherever workers may be
found" simultaneously undermine
ing and smashing the mass in
fluence of the social democracy"
Has our Party in the United
States solved this problem? Is this
not the most pressing need of our
Party today? The development of
solid personal, contact with the
masses, sensitivity TO the needs
and demands of the workers; re-
acting and giving leadership to the
problems of the workers; applying
the united front tactic to rally the
masses of workers in the struggle
around immediate demands, expos
ing and undermining the influence
OF the social fascist leaders.
But the membership of the Party,
the workers in the mass organiza-
tons cannot study, read and apply
these resolutions if they are not
made available by the failure of
the districts to order them and to
organize the distribution and sale
of the pamphlet. Immediate steps
should be taken in each district, in
each locality to order copies of the
resolutions from the Workers Lii
brary Publishers, Station 148, New
York City.
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