The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
Answer KiroV ASSaSSins
By Defense of the U,S>S,R,!
MHrderOus Deed Shows
Frenzy of USSB
En- emies
BY JOHN WILLIAMSON

THE assassination Of Sergei Kirov,
1 outstanding leader Of the Com
munist Party Of the Soviet regime
by the degenerated renegade
elements Of the former Trotzkyist-
zinoviev group, in league with cir
cles Of world imperialism, reflects
once more the capitalist encircle-
ment Of the workers fatherland-
the Soviet Union.
While comparatively few Ameri-
can workers were acquainted with
the life and activities Of this Boil
shevik leader, tens Of thousands OF
them instinctively felt the great
blow dealt against the Soviet Union
and Communist Party and Joined in
mourning. But mourning is not
enough. We must see in this bloody
terrorist deed the frantic efforts Of
a dying system Of capitalism, to
initiate new attack upon the
Soviet Union. Once more, the lie
factories work overtime, led in this
country by the prostitute Hearst
press and all their fascist allies. We
must answer the assassination of
Kirov and the new Anti-Soviet cam
paign by strengthening every &C
tivity in defense Of the Soviet
Union.
The defense Of the Soviet Union
rests on two pillars. There is the
Soviet Union itself, with its So
cialist indEStry, backed enthusiast
tically by a united working class,
defended by its unparalleled Red
Army-an of which is possible be-
cause Of the guidance and leader
ship of the Bolshevik Party. The
other pillar is that Of the toilers of
the capitalist and colonial countries,
who, suffering under the economic
lash Of the sixth year Of the crisis
and the fury Of the Fascist butchers,
see in the Soviet Union fortress
of victorious Socialism, a bulwark
of peace, the protector Of the prole-
tartan world revolution and a bea-
con which inspires them to sharper
and more effective struggle against
capitalism.
A Many Sided Task
To strengthen the defense of the
Soviet Union among the American
toilers is many sided task. It
consists not only in popularizing the
achievements of the Soviet Union in
contrast with the decaying capitalist
world, but in teaching the American
workers on the basis of their own
daily experiences, the theory and
practices Of Marxism Leninism,
which has made possible the birth,
continuous existence and growth Of
the Soviet Union. Furthermore, 1t
demands that the American workers
be made conscious of the plans for
armed intervention of the imperial
list world and of their duties as
American workers in defense of the
Soviet Union in time of actual war.
Above all, 1t calls for an intensi-
fed struggle against the sharpened
many-sided attacks of capitalism on
the living standards of the masses
with the shadows of fascism lurking
in the background. This will lead
to q growth of revolutionary con-
seriousness among decisive strata of
the American working class, par
ticularly in the steel, mining, auto,
rubber and railroad industries and
recognition that Soviet Power in
America will unlock the stranglehold
OF capitalism over the great wealth
and productive forces now separated
from the masses of the people, al
though it is the product of their toll
as a class.
To withstand the maneuvers, plots
and demagogy Of the capitalist class