The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-19
Joint Manisesto to Workers,
Peasants of the Philippines
From Communist Parties of China, Japan and the U.SA


to make clear to the Philippine
people that they have no part in
the plans of their respective inn
perialisms against the Philippine
people. They emphatically repudi-
ate every imperialist ambition and
plan of Washington and Tokyo.
They are fighting and will continue
to fight to bring all such imperial
ist plans to naught. They empha-
size their adherence to the prin-
ciple that the Philippine people
have a right to determine tFeir
own destiny, to decide their form
OF government on the basis Of self
determination. 1t is nece ssary to
add that self-deterlniaat.on will be
a fraud and national independence
will be umobtainable without the
victorious armed revolutionary
struggle of the masses of workers
and peasants led by the c. P. P. 7.
Conversely, the same powers of the
armed masses that Is able to Wrest
Independence from enc imperial
ist oppressor, will be the guarantee
against a new 5uEjcctian to cry
and all other imperlaiisms.
THE road TO such goal is neither
smooth nor short, and it is our
duty as brother parties to lend YOU
every possible aid in your St uggle.
which is our struggle also, as your
enemies and ours are the same.
Imperialism, through its agents in
the labor movements OF the i'm
perialist metropoli, lqtluence3 the
masses to either an active or pas
S.Ve support OF imperialis5 colonial
policy. We need only mention the
despicable apologists for Japanese
imperialism's rape of Manchuria
who lead the socialist" party ard
trade unions of Japan. The Amer
lean socialist" party plays a SIM
liar role, and the chauyinist policy
of the leaders of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, who exclude all
ASiatic immigrant workers from
the A. F. L. and oppose even their
admission to the country, is a
stencil in the nostrils Of all class
conscious American workers.
The C. P. P. I. faces great tasks
and formidable enemies. First is
the direct repressiVe violence of
American imperialism, which is
trying TO decapitate the working
class movement by Imprisonment
and banishing all G. p. revolution
airy trade union and peasant lead
ers, i'll open contradiction, it should
be observed Of all pretensions that
American rule has brought Amer
lean democratic rights"
We are confident that the Philip
pine proletariat and peaSantry will
be able to defeat the purpose of
American imperialism. But it is
true that these prosecutions receive
the enthusiastic support of the
Philippine bourgeoisie and landlords
and this, indeed. measures the i'm
perialiSt corruption and serVility of
the entire bourgeois and landlord
class. To re ain a share with i'm
perialism in The capitalist exploita-
ton ana the feudal robbery OF the
Philippine workers and peasants,
the hourgeoisie and landlords of
the Philippines are ready even
anXious-to strike am agreement
with Yankee imperialism upon its
own terms. This, in spite of the
fact that national independence is
the deepest desire Of the wide mas
SEES, all bourgeois and landlord po-
litical parties and leaders such as
Zuezon Osmena, RoSaS Il Co., and
that vile TRAITOR and demagogue,
Aguinaldo, arc either openly or Sc
cretly in conspiracy with the Amer
lean imperialist administration to
defeat the demands of the Philip
pine people and to betray the
Philippine nation.
ANOTHER section of the Philip
pine bourgeoisie, to whom the
economic crisis has prevented
American imperialism from shar-
ing with 1t the wealth wrung from
the toiling masses, has set up a
rival clique to that favored by
America, and has been conspiring
with agents of Japanese imperial
ism. just as American imperialism
strikes at the movement for indie
pendence by persecution Of Com
muniSts and revolutionary mass
leaders, so also did these agents of
Japanese imperialism, which is we'll
aware that the G. p 2. !. is the
principal foe TO all imperialist plots