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Combined with The Revolutionary Age The Communist All Power To The Workers!
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CHICAGO, ILL. SEPTEMBER 27, 1919 Five Cents The Call to Action HE Communist Party is now a fact. It The American proletariat is restless. Its Capitalism, weakens the workers develop a issues its challenge to Capitalism, more progressive elements have caught the fuller undertanding of their problems and making clear its purpose of mobiliz vision of the proletarian revolutions in the necessity for action.
Europe. The mass of the workers suffer The capitalists of the world, in a last ing the workers for the conquest of power.
under more acute oppression, and are desperate attempt to defend their power, It issues a challenge to the workers, calling them to the militant struggle against Cap anxious for a change; but they are not have banded in the League of Nations. But conscious of means and purposes. Capital the conscious workers of the world are italism ism is adopting the most terrible methods equally organizing, organizing in the ComWith the organization of the Communist of repression to maintain the workers in sub munist International, which issues its chalworkers Party, the conscious American jection, while it proves by its deeds utter lenge to the League of Nations and which respond to the Communist International, incapacity to solve the problems of recon will crush that League.
unite with the revolutionary workers of the struction that press down upon society. The world in the final struggle against Capitalworkers are eager for a solution; they are With the organization of the Communist ism.
developing the impulse toward workers Party, the conscious American proletariat affiliates with the Communist International.
Revolutionary Socialism in the United control of industry; they are moving slowly, The revolutionary spirit is now organizing States ceased being a faction, and now beitself here, organizing in a party of action, comes a disciplined party of revolutionary ORGANIZATION INFORMATION determined upon the conquest of power.
activity. The Left Wing of yesterday is the The constitution of the Communist Party The Communist International is not a Communist Party of today, organized on the provides. thing of a day. It is not the sport of a few solid basis of a militant membership and a Any branch of the Socialist Party romantic revolutionists. It is the proletarian clear, realistic and uncompromising proor of Socia Labor Party which gram of theory and action.
endorses the program and constitution response to the requirements of the struggle The Communist Party appears against Capitalism and Imperialism; it is the as the of the Socialist Party and applies for a charter before Jan. 1, 1920 shall be movement of Marxism in action, the exlargest working class party in point of accepted as a branch.
pression of the revolutionary simiggle.
membership: this alone indicates the mass Until State and District Organizations impuls behind the party. It appears, not are established branches in states other Capitalism in its murderous despair tries than Massachusetts and Michigan which do in response to the whims of individuals, not belong to Language Federations affiliatto strangle the workers movement for but in answer to the vital needs of the ed with the Communist Party, should send emancipation. Let the Communist proletarworkers in this epoch of the collapse of their application for charters direct to the iat answer!
National Headquarters.
Capitalism.
Dues stamps, membership cards and apCapitalism is dividing the world economplications for membership are now ready ically and financially, forging new chains At all points the new party meets the for distribution. Dues stamps prices are: for the workers of the world. Let the Comrequirements of the present situation and To members 40c. per month.
To Branches where there is no City munist proletariat answer.
of the proletarian class struggle. It breaks Central Committee 25c.
Capitalism is at the end of its historic completely with the remnants of the re To City Central Committee 25c.
mission; it is now the worst To State Organizations 15c.
enemy of actionary Socialist Party; it repudiates the Branches and City Central Committees wavering, hesitating Communist Labor progress and civilization. Let the Communwhich are not affiliated as described above munist proletariat answer!
Party; it stands clear on the solid base may remit direct to the National Headquarters for dues stamps.
of principle, a real Communist Party, with Application cards are 50 per thousand; Responding to the call of the Communist no taint of hesitation or of compromise. 50 for five hundred; 75c. per hundred. International, and building upon the basis To compromise is fatal. There must be Members dues books: 50 per 1, 000. 00 for five hundred; 00 per hundred.
of revolutionary experience in Europe, tounity of fundamentals: otherwise the workSend all charter applications and orders getther with the revolutionary experience ers are doomed to subjection or futile in for stamps and supplies to of the American movement, the Communist surrection, and inevitable betrayals. Not RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary Party organizes for action.
the least task of the Communist Party is to 1221 Blue Island Ave. Chicago, Ill.
On with the struggle! Unify the conscious expose the misleaders of the workers, the elements of the proletariat. Make the Compotential Scheidemans, Noskes and Haases, munist Party actually the party of the milmen who play with revolutionary phrases but surely, toward the consciousness of ag itant proletariat!
but put over reactionary deeds.
gressive action against Capitalism.
The Communist Party comes with a call The problems are large, but they do not Into this situation the Communist Party to action. It comes to rally the workers for projects itself, with a realistic program and daunt us. The task that we must perform is the militant struggle against Capitalism.
a necessary task, vital and vitalizing. Upon a clear understanding of the problems.
the Its purpose is to inspire the struggles of the our movement depends the future The impulse generated by the Russian proletariat. Upon our proletariat depends workers with revolutionary initiative, en Revolution is now seizing upon the workers ergy and objectives. The Communist Party the future of world Socialism, since Amerof the world. The Soviet Republic is intact.
is the most resolute and consistent expresican Capitalism is now the most powerful ion of the working class movement.
But even should the Russian Soviet Re and reactionary: and only with the crushpulc break down, as in Hungary and ing of American Capitalism can the proletOur program is clear: it calls for the Bavaria, the revolutionary inspiration will overthrow of Capitalism and the establishariat of the world realize its emancipation.
not break down. It will develop stronger ment of a dictatorship of the proletariu. and stronger, until the workers of the world We know that the struggle will be a That objective will determine our actions: that goal we shall never lose sight of.
end Capitalism.
harsh one. We lonow that the master class will use all means at its disposal to crush But we shall not speak of proletarian For the great fact is that we are now in dictatorship while ignoring the immediate our movement.
the epoch of the proletarian revolution. Cap.
mass struggles of the proletariat. Our party italism cannot endure, it cannot solve its But the more the repression, the more is a party of action, it will engage in the militant inass struggles of the workers, since own problems. It has come to the end of will we struggle to awaken the workers to ont of these struggles develop that underits resources. Peace Conferences may meet action. action against Capitalism, action for the Social revolution.
standing and capacity necessary for the in Paris, but the process of economic and workers to establish the dictatorship of the political disintegration goes on. Capitalism To the Communist Party. the revoluproletariat.
weakens more as each day passes; and as tionary struggle and the future!