The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
BY ROBERT HAMILTON

oaiiy newspapers. And over the
wnoie worpS, from Moscow to
s IBuenos All, : and from London to
Indo-China, there stretches the vast
d network of Communist papers, the
central organs of the various Com
munist Parties and the trusted lead
ers of the working class in its battle
for the proletarian revolution.
Communist newspapers are print
ed in over 100 different languages.
They range in size from the impress
Sive "Pravda", central organ of the
Communist Party Of the Soviet
Union, the only Communist Party
that has already succeeded in its
historic task of overthrowing its
. own capitalist class, to the press OF
the Chinese revolutionary workers,
secretly produced from stencils On
sen1i-transparent rice-paper.
''Pravda" has daily circulation of
over 100000. while the illegally
printed and distributed Communist
papers in such Fascist countries as
Latvia or Java are printed in issues
of no more than few thousand.
REPRESENT BEST TRADITIONS
OF the hundreds of Communist
newspapers throughout the world,
certain papers stand out as incor-
porating the finest traditions of the
revolutionary press. "Prayia", "Dic
ROte Fahne", and "L'Humanit6"-
their very names are a challenge, a
trumpet calling to battle in the class
struggle. Other leading Communist
papers, although not so widely
known nor with SO long a tradition
of revolutionary leadership, such as
the London DAILY Worker" and the
Prague 'Rude PravO", are the be-
loved and trusted voices of hundreds
of thousands of British and Czecho-
Slovakian workers.
The biggest Communist daily
paper in the world, both from the
standpoint of circulation and in
f1uence. is 'Pravda" (Truthl.
Founded in 1912, the year that the
Russian masses rose again after the
shattering blows dealt them by the
Czarist reaction that followed the
1905 Revolution, when the Lena
gold-field miners went out on their
historic strike, "Pravda" did invalu-
able work in consolidating the Boil
Shevik Party. Suppressed by the
Russian secret police when the war
broke out, it again appeared as a
legal organ on March 18th, just
after the February Revolution had
overthrown the Czarist monarchy.
The Bolshevik Party placed Com
ta1f -
had just returned from Siberian
exile, in charge of the editorial
board. "Pravda" led the fight for
the successful october Revolution in
1917, played a major role in the
heroic struggle Of the Russian pro-
letariat against the Allied and
White Guard Intervention troops,
and has been one of the chief fac
tors in the successful fight of the
Soviet masses for the achievement
Of the Five-Year Plan and the col
lectivization of agriculture.
Today, with its gigantic circula-
tion and as the central organ of the
magnificent Communist Party Of the
Soviet Union, it stands unrivalled as
the pattern Of what Communist
organ should be, the driving force,
the voice Of the vanguard of the
Soviet proletariat, in the latter's
progress towards Socialist society.
THE 'sROTE FAHNE"
die ROte Fahne" C'The Red
Flag'D, the leading daily organ Of
the German Communist Party,
printed and distributed today under
the perils of the implacable Nazi
terror, looks back upon a glorious
fighting career, born as it was in the
midst of revolution and forced into
illegality more than IS times during
its fifteen years of existence.
Founded by our unforgettable
martyrs Karl Liebknecht and Ros-
Luxembourg in 1918 and printed at
first on the confiscated presses of
the reactionary Hugenberg news
paper concern, the 'fRote Fahne''
had to go underground less than
two months after it's first issue, and
its two founders and editors, Lieb-
knecht and Luxembourg, were muir
dered by the hired agents of the
German Social-DemocratS. In the
ensuing years, it became the train
ing school for Communist Journal
lists, who went out to establish over
81 different daily newspapers of the
Communist Party all over Germany.
The Hamburger volkszeitung' the
"Ruhr-Echo" and the ''Bremer Ar
beiterzeitung" are but three Of the
celebrated offshoots of the school
OF the Communist press that was