The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-20
For Political Decisiveness and Clarity
in Our Anti-War Activities

the Union Of Socialist Soviet Republics? ANY
wonder then that Trotsky today is the best paid
capitalist journalist the star writer of the Sat-
urday Evening Post, and the Liberty magazine,
subsidiary of the greatest Soviet batting daily,
the Chicago Tribune?
The above mentioned Trotzkyist thesis in THE
Militant" states further: Europe versus Amer
lea, the central probler' of capitalist world poll
tics" You see world imp 'alism is not wor-
ried in the least by the fact that the first Five
Year Plan has already completed the building
OF the foundation of Socialism. And by speak
ing only of the contradictions between the i'm
perialist powers, Trotsky is covering up the main
antagonism between dying capitalism and the
world which is building Socialism
The January End 1882, issue of The Militant
again repeats the old slogan OF Trotszy so
Wet United States of Europe" against capitalist
America. We will not at this time go into a
discussion regarding the falIacy and WORKOUT
brilliancy of the mentioned slogan, but
evidently Trotsky lost sight of the fact d.
that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics as
against the whole capitalist world European, as
well as capitalist America, is the central prob
leb Of world politics today.
Trotzky and the Militant, do not see at all the
existence of Soviet China, the heroic struggles of
the Chinese Red Army Trotsky is against a
Soviet China. AS against the slogan of the Com
munist International for Soviet China Trotsky
advanced the slogan of a Constituent Assembly
counter revolutionary political thesis to dis
-, the workers in tie struggle for the defense
Of Soviet China
The February 18th issue of the Lovestone sheet
also places first the contradictions between the
imperialist pwoers then, in the same issue, all
Of a sudden they notice that only in the last
week there took place "a distinct swing of Jap
anese imperialism under the direction of an at
tack against the Soviet Union" Marvellous in
deedl All this time Japan and U. S. imper-
ialism forgot" about the need of a united at
tack against the Soviet Union and the Chinese
masses.
Thus we see how the counter-revolutiona
vanguard of the bourgeoise from the cleft" is
in complete accord with the counter-revolution-
airy flank from the right. And the counter
revolutionary front is rich" in a variety of
colors and shadngs
Take the Labor Age, the official organ of
Music, the organ of left social fascism. It's
recent February issue carries leading editorial
on the war with China. 1t has high sound
ing headline: "a Warning to Workers of the
United States" Music has no scruples in using
left phrases. The editorial is full of them, but
not one single word, not hint, not whisper
about the Japanese guns which are at the pres
ent time roaring close to the Soviet border, about
the role of American Imperialism and the war
moves against the Soviet Union. Left phrases
about the war on the Chinese masses as n cover
for the complete silence regarding Soviet China
and the imperialist united front against the
Chinese Red Army.
So down the line to the socialist party and the
sanity Norman Thomas The recent statement
of the socialist party repeats its role of the last
world war. 1t calls upon American Imperialism
to become the leader and arbiter of peace in the
Far East. 1t praises the Japanese socialists for
their brave resistance to Japanese Imperialism
What does this "brave resistance" consist of? In
declaring that the war in Manchuria is not car
red on in the interest of capitalism, is not a
capitalist war;" statement by the leader of the
japanese socialist party.
The talk of the "brave resistance" is to blind
the workers to the treachery of the Japanese
socialists, to cover up their own treachery in the
United States to blind the workers to the heroic
role of the Japanese Communist Party, Of the
American Communist Party, as the only anti-war
party Of the working class
What is the most significant characteristic of
the socialist statement? The complete silence
about the open acts Of provocation against the
Soviet Union, the war on the Chinese Soviets.
The editorial Of Norman Thomas in the New
Leader Of February 10 reveals his support for