The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
feminist Teachings on Struggle
Against Imberialist War

marily in the war industries which
serve the mobilization for and the
conduct of war, like the metal in
dustry, the chemical industry, and
transport. 1t is particularly import
ant to apply the tactics OF the pro-
letarian united front and to secure
the organizational consolidation OF
its results establishment of Com
mittees of Action, etc."
DERHAPS the weakest anti-war
! work has been that among the
farmers. The Sixth Congress pointed
out that the farmers and peasants
provide a large part OF the recruits
for the inlperialist armies. And in
the u. S. A., revolutionary anti-war
work among the farmers has been
practically nil, situation which 1t
is essential to remedy without a mo-
ment's delay. The revolt of the small
farmers as evidenced in their strikes
and militant mass actions affords a
particularly good opportunity for this
work at present.
WORK AMONG
YOUTH AND WOMEN
Then there is the work among the
youth and women, both of which
have been sadly neglested. On this
point the Sixth Congress said: 1.-THE
greatest efforts must be exerted-not
only by the youth organizations, but
n a3cfr hot
bourgeois sport organizations. fascist
organizations, military schools, etc. =.
they (the Communists) must organize
work for the political education of
these young workers and for the dis
indignation of the bourgeois military
organizations" Industrial working
women and workers wives, too, must
and can be reached only through in
cessant activity.
"ANTI-MILrTARIST activity; work
n in the army and navy; work
among the recruits and reservists
and in bourgeois defense organiIa-
tionS, in which the proletarian ele-
ment Is strongly represented, must
constitute an inSeparable part of the
general revolutionary mass activity
of the party and must embrace the
whole of the working class" declares
the thesis. Furthermore, it points out
that Communists reject the indivi-
dual actions of refusal to bear arms"
refusal to shoot" and the rest of
the empty slogans of pacifists and
their like. g. when the question of
joining the bourgeois army or of re-
fusal of military service boycott, is
raised, the Communists must advise
the workers and poor peasants to
reject the refusal OF military service
slogan, to avail themselves of the OPP
portunity 10 learn the use Of arms,
to AIRY on revolutionary work In the
army and, at the proper moment, to
turn their weapons against the bour-
geoisie." Communists do not Surren-
der to pacifist individualism, to Slo-
gans of refusing military service"
To do so would mean to leave the ar
miles 100 percent in control of the
imperialists, to give up the carrying
on of revolutionary work among the
workers who constitute the bulk Of
the armies. To refuse this task would
mean to abjurr and render mean
inglesg the struggle to convert i'm
periaIist war into civil war for Social
ism; to make OF the correct feminist
slogan an abstraction DIVORCED from
reality.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
HUMBUG EXPOSED
The thesis deals also with the
gigantic hunbug known as the League
of Nations whose activities serve to
camouflage the groupings and blocs
OF the inperialist powers. 1t exposes
also the position of the Socialist Par
ty leaders over the world on the war
question. On this question, as on all
others, the Socialist leaders are un-
der the domination of their respect
i've national bourgeoisie. Their hollow
pacifism, abstract calls for general
strike" In case of war, Is as necessary
to imperialism as air Is to life. With
out it the capitalists could not carry
out their war propaganda and whole.
sale deception OF the masses.
AGAINST this surrender of the
n Socialist Party leaders to the
class enemy Of the workers, only the
Communist Party, guided by the
Communist International, represents
the international solidarity Of the
working class. Thus carrying out the
policy Of fighting against Its own
bourgeoisie in the manner IN which
our heroic Japanese Party has led
the way.
The thesis goes further, presenting