The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-07

W Jlle OInUeQ SGaCeS ana on Cfle
peoples dominated by Yankee i'm
perialism Gncluding Mexico. The
toilers see, in the alliance Of the
workers, the oppressed nationalities,
the peasants and the exploited
masses in general and also of the
soldiers, under the leadership of the
Communist International, the Party
of Lenin, the indispensable condition
for the victory of the proletarian
revolution in the imperialist coun-
tries. for the victory of the move
ment of national liberation in the
colonies and senli-colonies, for the
victory of the world proletarian rev.
olution.
Rivera the Renegade.
But as Communists we must de-
nounce before the masses the real
role of Rivera as a demagogic in
strument of the bourgeois Landlord
government of Mexico, and of its i'm
perialist masters.
Rivera WEE expelled from the Com
munist Party of Mexico, of the Cen
trail Committee Of which he was a
member, for having elaborated in
1929 and 1880 with the governments
of PorteS Gil and Ortiz Rubio, first
as Director of the School of Fine
Arts. and later as painter of the
murals in the National Palace. Ri
vera thus served to mask the counter
revolutionary character of the gov
eminent, which had shot Guadalupe
Rodriguez, q leader of the Party
The Mexican government. with whom
Diego Rivera collaborated, had been
an accomplice in the assassination
of Julio Antonio Mella, had
suppressed the press of the reyolu-
tionary workers, declared illegal the
c ON m unist Party, and was
then numbering imprisoning and
deporting to the Islas Marias large
numbers of revolutionary workers
and peasants.
Rivera had been expelled once be-
fore in 1924 for his opportunism and
serious political deyiations, and had
been readmitted in 1927, on the basis
of his anti-imperialist activity at that
time.
In 1880 Rivera sold himself to the
agent of Morgan in Mexico, Mr.
Morrow, to paint murals in his home,
the former Palace of CorteS in Cuer-
navaca, and to paint a portrait Of
Mrs. Morrow.
By his work for Morrow, Rivera
prepared the ground for his coming
to the United States. The prestige
which he gained as a member of the
Communist Party of Mexico makes
Rivera a useful instrument for the
Yankee millionaires, at a time when
their trusted agent Roosevelt is at
tempting to deceive the toiling
masses by his demagogic speeches
and radical promises. At the same
time he strengthens the dictatorship
of the capitalists and bankers, carries
out the fascination of the government
and the most brutal enslavement of
the workers, poor farmers. and op-
pressed Negro masses, and prepares
the country for the new imperialist
war. and for the war of intervention
against the Soviet Union
This has been the role of Rivera
in California, Detroit. and New
York, where, by painting for the
millionaires he has been able to
pocket tens of thousands of dollars.
His actual fight" against the mil
lionaires merely signifies that, in
dang" r. implicitly losing his pres
tige volutionist," he has tried
to vinc.- himself before the masses
by a demagogic maneuver. Rivera
without his mask. Rivera openly re-
dictionary, would be of no use to the
imperialists who pay for his services.
sc
ing to return to Mexico with the
prestige of an anti-imperialist. in Or
der to continue to carry out his role
as a demagogic instrument Of the
bourgeois landlord government
Deportation Agent
At the beginning of this year Ri
vera deceived with false promises a
group OF Mexican workers in Detroit,
snd gave them handful Of dollars
t0&ld from Ford with which to re-
turn TO Mexico, making them believe
that in their 'fatherland" a paradise
was awaiting them. Two months ago
these same workers sent a letter to
Rivera from the unhealthy coast of
the State of Guerrero (where the
government sent them to ''colonize")
approaching him for his action and
declaring that. instead of the prom
iscd paradise, they had found hunger,
misery. malaria and death. Through
this act Rivera has become an ac-
copNce of the Yankee bourgeoisie,
and ~ its lackeyS in Mexico, in the
crime of the deportation of Mexican
workers from the United States.
Rivera recently declared in New
York that great progress has been
made in Mexico in the education of
the masses. He makes this claim at
a time when, in the Federal District
alone, there are more than $4,000
children who receive no education
because of lack of schools, when,
throughout the whole country schools
are being closed, the number of
teachers is being reduced when the
teachers salaries are being cut
(there are teachers in the rural dis
tricts who earn peso and even half
a peso day, when the tuition fees
of the secondary schools are being
doubled, the enrolment in the Uni
versity is being restricted, and all aid
is being denied the children and poor
students. BY this statement Rivera
ratifies his compromise as a lackey,
defender and propagandist of the
geois-landlord government, and
curries favor in order to find COM
Portable berth for himself when he
returns to Mexico
In his recent demagogic speeches
and declarations. Rivera hides the
true character of the Calle5-Rodri-