The daily worker., 1934-03-26
The Condition of Other Communist
Parties

The Communist Party Of Poland has ali
made progress in winning over the maiori
Of the working class. This fact has found
expression, firstly, in the numerical growth
the Party and the Y.CL, which now numb
as many as 10000 members, l. e., as mary
the legal Polish Socialist Party (PPs0: Sc,
ondly, in the independent organization and f3
dependent leadership Of a series Of powerf,
strikes.
In France after a number of years of stant
still and even of certain decline in the nunei
ical growth Of the Party and the Red Con
federation of Labor, the last year has bee
marked by definite shifting in the directic
Of the further increase both of the Party, whit
now numbers about 10000 Communists, al
Of the Red Trade Unions, which at the presel
time number about 275 900 members.
In Czechoslovakia, despite the fact that tb
Party has been driven underground, it numbe,
$1,000 members at the present time, togethe
with 10000 members in the Red trade union
The heroic workers Party in Bulgaria he
won over the majority Of the working class
in 1882 1t captured the municipality of sofis
which brought in its train the cancellation o
elections and rabid wave Of repressiori
against the Communist Party. Great successes
have been gained by the Communist Party
Of Spain, which has grown from 300 membef
three years ago to 10000 at the present tima
which is leading about 100000 workers organ.
lied in trade unions and which received abou
100000 votes at the last elections. (Applause.)
The Young Communist League is growing anc
numbers 5000 members at the present time;
its influence is growing in the army and thc
influence of the Party over the peasantry ik
steadily increasing
At the present time there is hardly one sector|
of the Conlintern which has not broadened itt,
mass basis during the past three and half
years. The American Communist Party has
doubled its membership, numbering at ths
present day upwards of 10000 members Ar
especially sharp upward curve is to be seen in
the numerically small Communist Parties, such
as the Dutch Party, which has doubled and
trebled the number of its members. These
Parties are already becoming serious antagonists
Of the big social democratic parties; they are
now not afraid of great tasks, they boldly pene--
trate into every mass government; they are
snatching the leadership of these movements
out of the hands of the social democrats The
Comintern now numbers $4,000 Communists in
the capitalist countries. But it is not only +
question Of the numerical growth of the Con
munist Parties; it is also question OF tn
growth of their influence. Such a small Part
as the Communist Party of Australia, which ha
only thousand and a half members is ablf
to have its second secretary elected genera
secretary of the All-Australian Federation 0
Miners, Three thousand five hundred Com
munists in Belgium impress the striking miner.
of Borinage by their courageous behaviour
more than does the party of Vandervelde with
its many thousand members
The English Communist Party has hardl
increased numerically during the last few years
But if the students of the two most aristocratil
universities - oxford and Cambridge - strike
horror into the whole of the English bourgeoisie
by passing a resolution that they will not de-
fend either king or country in the event of
war, that is the result Of many years of anti-
war agitation by our Party If the workers Of,
the Independent Labour Party are now knock
ing at the doors of the Conintern despite the
sabotage of their leaders, that is, above all
thanks to the consistent Bolshevik line pursued
by English Communists.