The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
NEW DEAL PAVES
THE WAY FOR WAR AND FASCISM
Workers Struggles
Must Be Based On
United Front

plotted with certain concessions.
for it to suppress a certain move
nent or uprising Of a certain sec
ton of the oppressed ard ex-
plotted. To try TO prove before
hand that position is absolutely
hopeless would be sheer pedantry
or playing with concepts and
ca5chwo-ds. Practice alone can
serve ss a real proof in this and
similar questions. The bour-
geois system all over the world is
experiencing a great revolutionary
crisis. And the revolutionary
parties must now prove by their
practice that they are sufficiently
intelligent and organized. have
contacts with the exploited
masses, are sufficiently deter
mined and skilful to utilize this
crisis for a successful and vic
torious revolution"
Lenin, dUrinS the imperialist war
of 1914-t8 declared also that one
of the major tasks confronting Inc
working class in the struggle
against imperialist war is the de-
feat of "thei- own government" de-
claring, "A revolutionary class in
a reactionary war cannot help wish
ing the defeat of its government. It
cannot fail TO see the connection be-
tween the governments military re-
serves and the increased opportunity
for overthrowing it"
United Front Is Basis
The American working class can
effectively fight against imperial
ist war and approaching fascism by
the means Of a united front Of Ill
the working class organizations, es-
pecially trade unions of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Railroad
Brotherhoods, by organization of
the workers in the shops, Negro peo-
pie. toiling masses We must under
stand the power that rests in the
hands of the workers in such unity,
which can deliver a smashing blow
against war preparations, by Initial
ing struggles against war prepara-
tons, by exposing each and every
attempt in that direction, by resist
ing the execution of the war prep
arations today by answering each
and every maneuver on the part Of
the bourgeoisie in that direction.
This must be combined with the
struggle of each and every right Of
the workers, such as the right to
strike, organize, picket, smashing in
functions. smashing the criminal
syndicalist law, and similar legal
and xtra-legal means of suppress
sion Of the working class. But the
basic task confronting us is to en-
trench the Party in the basic in
dustries Of the country, such as steel,
railroad, packing, mining, auto.
etc. AS the Open Letter of the Cen
trail Committee declared:
The entire work Of the Party
and the best forces of the Party
were to be directed first of all 10
building up and consolidating the
Party and revolutionary trade
union movement in the most I'M
pOrtant industrial centers Of the
country, to effectively and sys-
tematically win the decisive sec
tions of the American workers.
free them from the influence of
the reformist and bourgeois par
ties, mobilize for the struggle
against the bourgeoisie, and get
our influence sCIidly established
in these centers."
Basing ourselves in the shops and
trade unions the Communist Party
must take advantage of pacifist
tendencies that exist in the toiling
population. AS Lenin declared:
A mass sentiment for peace
often expresses the beginning Of
protest. an indignation and .
consciousness Of the reactionary
nature of the war. 1t is the duty
of all Social Democrats to take
advantage of this sentiment. They
will take the most ardent part in
every movement and in every
demonstration made on this basis,
but they will not deceive the peo-
pie by assuming that In the alb
sence of a revolutionary move
ment it Is possible to have peace
without annexations, without the
oppression of nations, without
robbery, without planting the seed
of new wars among the present
governments and the ruling
classes. Such deception would
only play into the hands of the
secret diplomacy of the belligerent
countries and their counter revo-
lutiOnary plans. Whoever wishes
durable and democratic peace
must be for civil war against the
governments and the bourgeofsie."
Our Party correctly places the
question when it gives maximum
support to the united front move
AAiCAiu Vi bilC 11lllCIlCd LEAK uF
Against War and Fascism. BY par
ticipating in this movement, which
unites Communists, trade unionis5s
Socialists, pacifsts, etc, it unites
with the Communists the forces who
are not as yet clear as to the very
nature of the war, but are in op-
position to imperialist war, utiliz-
ing this for the purpose of weldin7
1t into q movement against i'm
perialist war and against fascism.
And finally, we wish to bring at
tention once more to the teaching.
Of Lenin on the struggle against
war to prepare the Party for every
and all eventualities in struggle
against war While we must take
advantage of, and fight for, every
legal advantage in such struggle
for every mass open form we mus
remember the teachings of Lenin
which place before lis the task nj