The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-04-10

countries
Against the betrayers, the
Workers Party rejects every form
OF social-patriotism and social
chauvinism; it rejects every con-
ceptlon of national unity and ma
tlonal defense; it rejects all ideas
OF truce with the bourgeois state,
democratic or fascist; it exposes
the role of the League of Nations
as the pawn of the imperiaIist
member states; it rejects the senti- |
mental illusions of pacifists and |
petty bourgeois liberals; above all |
it directs its attacks against the
enemy at home, against u. S. inn
perialism.
The Workers Party places no re-
lance on the peaceful intentions
of bourgeois-democratic nations,
nor upon spineless united fronts"
of liberals, ministers, bourgeois
women's clubs and "anti-war" pro-
fessionals.
The Workers Party calls for the
defense of the Ethiopian peoples
against Italian aggression, for the
defense of the U.S.S.R., for I'M
| remitting struggle against the
coming imperialist war. But for
this defense and this struggle, the
: Workers Party calls at the same
E time for the sole means by which
they can be, in fact, conducted:
] for the independent and autOnom-
J, Gus action of the working class. 1t
r is the international working class,
t especially the Italian working
i class, together with the oppressed
: colonial peoples, who are the true
e allies of the Ethiopian peoples
f not "peace-loving" Britain, nor the
n League of Nations, nor Stain
# Laval, nor Roosevelt, nor their owl
( Christian Emperor and semi-feu-
It dial chieftains. It is the indepen
ID dent sanctions of the working
s class, its own boycotts, strikes, de
" tense funds, mass demonstration
e. that can aid the battles OF the
st Ethiopian peoples, not the sane
rv tions of finance capital and it
puppet states. And likewise TO
81 the defense of the U.S.S.R. all,
~. ~ the struggle against the approach
10 ing world war, it is only the ind'
= pendent action of the worlir
hr class together with its allies und'
'oS1 its leadership which gives hope
30 the working and exploited mass
~ "a struggle not in collaboratlo
no. with the bourgeoisie through Il
~ national state, but in ever sharp
"a attack against the bourgeois
he and the national state.
',,T The struggle against war is n
a and cannot be conceived as an !
al dependent" struggle, having
cir special status above class conflc
T IT, It is an integral part of the rev
~ lutionary struggle for Workee
~ power. The struggle against /
t tSa perialist war means the day
tI dav building Of workin-cl;
the strength. neans-not suspension
lS' the class conflict until the "
" " crisis passes-but the intensltl
y ton of class conflict ana
7 n preparation to turn the lmper1dl
- - war into civil war for the ov
~, throw of the bourgeois state
'ul the victory of the workers.
Oh More clearly than any OF
que nhase of revolutionary actlV
a ! does the struggle against
I've attest the international charac
La of the revolutionary movement
pro ;s an international struggle
'rlo- N must be conducted in terms OF
~ International strategy, through
inst integrated international olsol ni
'N's' ton. Thus the struggle agar
- war poses, in the most int
Cne form. the central task of the. p
pas ont neriod: the building or
eneo Fourth international, the dyna
nary generator to drive forward
'tlve revolutionary advance of the w
class ino class. Threatening as IS
by onconing of the new war, r.
ann lively weak numerically as are
ct Oh forces now ranged against
ague +hnre is no reason to despair.
the If the last world war came
i 9y great step Of the world revoIu
2. l.; Vet in 1914, the internatlona
stand we're an organized force IN
oclal- one nation, and the betrayal
ISIS ne social-democracv came to the E
ready mass Of the workers as a s
turn that was unexpected and not
Eng narad for. Today, organized q
their &c revolutionary internat!ons
ming o-,ist in nearly every nation
misses are actively foregoing the pa
01 tilo of the Fourth lnterhdC1Iollle 90, :