The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-10
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NAKAl CRISIS
rbs post position war r crisis has b 3e t5e
5ar1rs Of o %%I' Of the forms Of be-
,csip;t IT, In ai' struggle against war.
1 Re Narz a5 nv quoting in full the
Impaired =. ~ the War Situation
.sl5snsqbt t.. on the W! Workers Party 1yoe Of
Jj3?ted: BY States Sta at the outbreak
5s .c.l9i iiiissii in Afrioe; |
q Ao''iN
.,r,ies Of Italian Fasclsm
dtar nlol'p So W launched their at
Jon have nave the tITe Ethiopian peoples.
Driven BY SO social and economic
d internal aIaiors. Mussolini and the
lSco'IrDrgeoisie seek a solution
Italian DOui ig6perialist aggression
N open r4ba - last of the indepen-
1 ga cations 55fH Of Africa. , e,.;oo
2 . Iae SqS9l that hat the conflicts OF
i.alo s.Id imp Imperialism have reached
q g !saaa ' If armed struggle for a
the aagg % Of boundaries, and a re-
te9lahI # t territories and colonial
DIVISION . ~ Though the Italian
Po35es siol5 n Ethiopia may not lead
aal,p.a5iiS5teiv and directly to a
ilaIl NJ lo@tg,r1sggIe of the imperlallst
To[a III. this This delay can prove no
PSs s han temporary. The war
p MORE Ttb ioos must be understood as
n prelude to the new imperlaiiS'
' - !, '+ the preparation for the
,.. :. ~ seizure sl of Ethiopia, the
Is5pue Of Nations has once more
Icons Iss.~aS3nstTated beyond any possible
y j.,J4 its true role. The League
s :. Dot in in any sense whatever eth
5.i 49a a Of peace" 1t is the lega
o .S5 r5vnocritical cover for III
e-a We Of the dominant i'm
nsTsist powers. Since Ethiopl
EIct invoked League assistance o.
I december, 1884, the negotiation
have served to permit uninterrupt
ID preparations for war by Itai!
and deter defensive preparation b
Ethiopia. The League has beer
Utilized above all to serve the end
Sf British Imperialism. Behind il
cover the agents of Great Britain
France and Italy have haggle
over the price in terms of treatle
guarantees, protection, and terri
tories, which each was willing
pay to preserve its own interest
The threat of League sanction
has been made not to save Eth
iOpia-which the League report
self offered to sacrifice-but I
safeguard British colonial posse
sims and lines of communicating
and to try to close the opening I
Germany in Central Europe. i
League Of Nations is the agenC
not Of peace, but of imperial
aggression.
The struggle against imperial
var demands the unremitting c
Posure of the role of the Leag
Of Nations.
a. No less than the Europe
powers is U. S. imperialism bou
BY the iron chain Of cause and
tect to the events in Africa and
the new world conflict which tt
herald. The sentimental dream
y S. isolation, Roosevelt's pro
Uses that the U. S. will rems
lfee and untangled," have
more force than the unctu,
phrases Of Wilson in 1916.
Us: will, on the contrary, p
ne dominant and decisive role
He new imperialist struggle.
Sd its pacifist covering,
roosevelt government is pour
more funds into its war mach
S man any other nation in the wo
o 3 navy and army are constr
T. on purely offensive strait
~ ASS The U. S. bourgeo
waiting and preparing, expects
9s.eIVene in the later stages
new world struggle, when the O
s s.I; are mutually exhausted
+ fl'eVe the world domination
y s finance-capital.
-, Inc struggle against imperi
,s - Is above all the stru
Ssl Sl U. S. Imperialism.
in I, Inc U.S.S.R. cannot a
EplcatlOn in the world con
ut very life Of the workers
war threatened by the approach
81 81. a central task of the 81