The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-24
Weakest InperiaIist Links Already
Cracking

The fascist dictatorship in Poland is already
unable to check the continual growth of the
strike movement which is steadily advancing
towards a general strike in Poland 1t could not
check the peasant movement in the Western
Ukraine in 1881, nor the uprising of hundreds
Of thousands in the Cracow, voylooship-that
is, in the heart of Poland-in 1881 In such
a small country as Greece, the attempt of the
bourgeoisie to set up the fascist dictatorship
Of General Plastaris on March 6 Of last year was
broken UP in twenty-four hours when the popu-
lation of Athens came out on the streets. Fas-
cist dictatorship in Italy, which has CONSOLE
dated its apparatus during the ten years of its
existence cannot prevent either the unem-
ployed movement or the strikes of agricultural
laborers or a strike in the naval station of
Spezzia. All the frenzies Of the Rumanian ST.
guranza have proved powerless to avert Ru-
manian Lena massacre at Bucharest. accom-
panied by the shooting of five hundred people
and the arrest of two thousand insurgent rail-
wayrnen in February of last year. Even these
facts, taken by themselves, give a clear idea
of how much combustible material is accumulat-
ing in the countries which are being fascised
and in the countries Of fascist dictatorship.
Further, let us take the weakest links in the
capitalist system. What do we see here? Rev
buttons in China and Spain. But the rev.
o-ution in China is a revolution in vast coun-
Try where the antagonisms of the imperialis
system are intertwined The rupture of the
chain in this link will cause the whole worlc
system Of Imperialism to totter. And this rup-
t1re has commenced with the formation Of Sovie
Cana, whose forces are growing and strength.
ening every day. Soviet China represents the
tomorrow Of the colonies and dependent coun-
tries oppressed by imperialism
Spain. On April A. 1881, another crown slips
from a nonarcl1's head and falls into the dust
bin. The so-called Labor government in Eng
land prudently gathers up the bankrupt mon
arch Alphonso XIII The military terrorist
dictatorship is overthrown at one blow by tht
insurgent workers and peasants, thus fore
shadowing the future fate of German anc
Italian faScism.
India. In November, $780, at Peshawar the
native riflemen refused to fire on the crowds
Uprising in Sholapur in the same year. TIT
town in the hands of the workers unions fol
several days. Throughout 19S2-continual peas
ant uprisings in Burma, in the United Provinces
in Bengal In 1888, the peasant uprisings con-
tinue.
Latin America. September, 1881: spontaneous
uprising of the navy in Chile July 1882: for
nation of Soviets in Chile, which last clever
days. August, 1882: anti-war movement OF
August l in Cuba, developing into a genera
strike and revolution, and so on.
What prevents these continual movements il
the colonies and dependent countries, wher
the objective conditions for a revolutionar.
crisis have matured, from turning into victori
Gus colonial revolution? They are preventet
by the weakness and youth of the Conmunis
Parties of these countries by the continued
influence of treacherous national refornism anC
above all by the monstrous pressure on the par
of the world imperialst system which employ
such methods of suppression combining il
themselves the tortures Of the Middle Ages, thu
bonfires of the Inquisition with the most mod
ern technique commandments from the air, thu
use of gases, etc. Were it not for this mon
strous pressure by imperialism, all China woulc
long ago have been Soviet, and India woulC
have dropped out of the syStem of British i'm
perialism.
But, comrades even that armed force upor
which the ruling classes rely in their efforts t.
retard the revolutionary movement of thu
masses is already beginning to wsver in certain
capitalist countries. The three and q hal
years that have elapsed sincs the Sixteenth
Congress have been marked by unrest in the
armies, in certain places taking the form O.
open rebellion Cases of determination between
soldiers and striking workers are becoming eve
more frequent. So it was in France, so it was il
Belgium during the miners strike at Borinage
so it was in other places also. Let me emu
nerate one or two individual cases.
Japan. The attack on Shanghai in February
t932. The japanese newspapers, losing thet
anse of the ridiculous, write that about Sol
Japanese soldiers and sailors before Chapel hav
grown so homeSick' that it was necessary K
send them back to Tokyo at full speed. At thu
present time about $50 soldiers and officers O.
the japanese army Of occupation in Manchrii
ire on trial, accused Of holding dangerous
IDEAS"
Bulgaria. In 1888 dsath sentences are passed
so soldiers Eho participated in the Commu
list organization in the army. Trials continue
n 1894
Switzerland. November, 1892 In peaceful
Geneva, the residence Of the League Of Nations
the city Of fashionable hotels and of the stable