The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-28
World Front
Symptoms of World Revolt
From London to Algiers
Communists in Bulgaria
BY HARRY CANNES

I'M A5VAluOiA W ARSlCIS
Communists in Bulgaria
IN THE widest world front.
y and in the most diverse
lands, there are signs of a
growing mass upsurge which
IN many countries will soon
break out into serious battles.
Most recent reports tell of
the eyer-mounting struggles of the
British toilerS to such an extent
that the ruling class of this inn
perialist colossus is considering war
t m measures. J. H. Thomas
dropped the hint that instead of
holding general elections in the fall.
the British ruling class would con-
slider extending its present National
Government power for another
three years under the pretext of
national emergency"
lie mother of [capitalist1 denoc-
racles" turns to ever more fascist
measures to maintain the rule Of
the colonial shareholders.
Going on down the line, in every
type of capitalist land, and in every
degree of colonial country. tbs
symptoms of incipient revolt are
cropping to the surface.
In Spain, the revolutionary forces
are already beginning again openly
to test their forces with the Fascist
Lerroux-Robles regime. The same
IS true in Austria, Rumania and
Bulgaria.
IN Bulgaria" reports the Christian
4 Science Monitor, Communism
has assumed the most formidable
dimensions. And the more ruthless
the repression the more determined
the opposition"
The same paper reports the fact
that in Philippopolis, second largest
Bulgarian city, though the most
ferociouS terror has been unloosed
against the Communists and their
press, yet $4,000 copies of the Sec
reilly printed workers paper are cir
cuSated.'
Communism has penetrated into
the Bulgarian army and schools.
adds the Monitor correspondent In
many cities Of Bulgaria, open fight.
ing has taken place between the
workers and peasants against the
state police and soldiers.
TURNING to the colonial and seni-
1 colonial countries, we can see
what powerful blows are being
struck against imperialism in the
African continent as we'll as in
Latin America. The Algerian riots,
which began last summer in the
form Of anti-semitic actions. are
now more clearly becoming eco
nomic and political struggles against
French imperialism. The most
alarming feature for the French
Shareholders is the fact that the
native troops are showing signs of
mutiny, and with more serious OUT
breaks they will turn against their
masters. Nor has the French idea
OF bringing in Negro Senegalese
troops been greeted with any great
enthusiasm.
4 Inc revolutionary unrest In Al
glers and Morocco at a time when
British, French and italian inpe-
4 rialism are striving to enslsve Abvss
sinia, the last independent Negro
country in Africa, may set off
liberation movement on the African
continent that the capitalist powers
never dreamed of.
The Algerian battles are becom-
ing the most serious because the
proletariat, the dockworkers and
sailors are joining with the peasants
in the fight AGAINST French impe-
rialist rule. Jews first bore the
brunt OF attack because the willy
French masters, many decades ago,
when they first established their
rule, gave the Jews special posi-
ton as agents for the imperialist
oyerlords. In other words. though
the majority of the Jews are among
the poorest peasants and urban
workers. the most strategic positions
in trade and industry and impe-
rialist dealings are held by Algerian
Jews.
In the recent riots of the unem-
ployed in Mosteganem. as predicted
by L'Humanite, French Communist
organ, the battles did not assuma
an anti-semitic aspect but were die
rected against the chief enemy-the
Mayor, staff army officers, and sub
projects, the direct representatives
of French imperialism.
THE other great, outstanding up=
surge in semi colonial coun=
try. directlv affects American i'm.
perlalism. Never in the history Of
Cuba has there been such a unified,
and so powerful movement.
against the Wall Street puppet gov
eminent as is now sweeping that
Island That it will have its re-
percusSions throughout all Latin
America is also certain, especially
as the class battles in Mexico, Chile,
Peru Brazil. Paraguay. Bolivia and
other countries are rising high and
RAPIDLY maturing to revolutionary
proportions.
China, which has long been in
the van Of anti-imperialist revolu-
ton. now with the frightful eco
nomic and financial crisis hitting
that country, will soon see a huns
dredfold intensification Of the nae