The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-15
Editorial from the Pravda of
Feb, 27l

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Throughout the entiIe capitalist
world, tremendous landslides are tax
ing place. The economic crisis, not
withstanding the predictions of bour-
geois statistical institutes, continues
to deepen. Every new month of the
crisis hits the entire capitalist world
with a force equal to a major mill
itary defeat. The world market con-
tinues to shrink, the prices of agri-
cultural products continue to fall.
Contradictions among the capital
list states sharpen. Ever more often
the imperialistS begin to speak OPEN
ly about war. The futile sessions
of the Disarmament Conference are
accompanied by widening of the
predatory advance of Japan IN Jehol
and Northern China and by war in
South America. The entire inter-
national situation testifies to the
rapid transition to new round of
revolutions and wars.
A LABYRINTH
OF CONTRADICTIONS
The imperiaist system has become
hopelessly entangled in q labyrinth
of contradictions. The ruling classes
do not see any way out of the blind
alley outside of an intensified pre-
paration for war and an elevation Of
political banditiSn into q system. A
gendarnerie recruited from the scum
of society; black hundred bands of
cut-throats; the bayonet and the
machine gun; police tanks and police
aeroplanes, become, in an eYer-groW-
ing number of countries, the funda-
mental means Of Subjugating the
toiling masses under the power Of the
ruling classes. This shows that the
social basis of the governments of
the capitalist countries has narrow
ed and that by the ordinary normal
methods, in the first place by lean
ing on Social-Democracy, the bour-
geoiSie can no more secure its do
mination.
In number of capitalist states the
bolugeoisie is passing to an increas-
ing degree to methods OF open civil
warfare against the toiling masses.
in democratic" Czecho- SlovaINa,
with Social-Democrats participating
in the Government, workers demon
STATIONS are being more and more
brazenly fired upon Duks, Freiwald,
Bruecks, Polomka, etc.)
In Poland, court-martial is con-
tinually in session, attempting in
vain to halt the peasant movement
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ing workers.
In the capital Of Boyar Roumania,
in Bucharest, the troops, after a pro-
longed machine gun barrage, storm
ed the railroad shops, leaving on the
spot dozens of killed and hundreds
of wounded workers.
In JugO- Slayia, the government for
months conducts open warfare
against the peasant revolutionary
battslions leading q guerrilla war,
In Holland, aeroplanes lombard a
| mutinous royal cruiser.
In England, Switzerland and other
countries the troops and police fire
upon workers demonstra tons,
The bourgeoisie resorts to the most
stern oppressive measures TO suppress
the stor1nily, growing revolutionary
npsurge Of the masses.
WORKERS BLOOD
Split IN GERMANY
In "super-cultured' Germany,
which has Just celebrated the an
niversaries of Wagner, Goethe and
Hegel, workers blood is profusely
spilled every day in the streets and
the number Of victims Of Fascist ter
ror grows apace. Workers organiza-
tions, their buildings cooperatives,
editorial rooms, bookshops are daily
subjected to attacks of brutalized
fascist bands, forming an integral
part of the Fascist police apparatus.
Terror Is resorted to in ever greater
proportions. Aside from the ban on
the Communist press, which is part
Of the program Of the entire bour-
geoiSie, attacks have started on the
opposition" press-that of the Ca
tholic papal party and OF the Social
democracy. Writers and scientists
are being prosecuted for mere Stree
thinking Heinrich Mann, Kaeto
Kollwitz, and all those who are re-
cognized In the world as the most
outstanding representatives of pre-
sent-day German and world culture,
have been expelled from the Ac.
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