THE Saturday, April 12, 1930 MILITANT Throughout the World of Labor IN THE SOVIET UNION XVI Party Congress IN INDIA Struggle With respect to that which concerns the And the Opposition small group shows clearly the agreement able to the ear of the apparatus bureau of the rank and file workers with the Op crats. And when the correspondent Nikpositionists, which the official press wears itine in the end of his note states that its lungs out in attempting to pass off as is becoming incomprehensible that the TrotOur Statement to the By not letting up their blows against counter revolution. It furthermore shows skylst group could have existed and could the Leninist Opposition, Centrism has faby a concrete example what work in com have carried on its disorganizing activity vored the possibility for all anti Soviet elinon brings together the Oppositionists without the local organizations knowing ements to raise their heads. The attention and the revolutionary rank and file anything about It. he only confirms the beJanuary, 1930 of the entire Opposition must be drawn to workers. The example of Pravda indig ture of the regrouping which, in workers Moscow this side of the question. the resistance to nant correspondent Illustrates the united centers, calls the most informed of the mi With regard to our tasks and immedicounter revolution. pitlless struggle must front towards which the Left Opposition itant workers to unite with the Opposition ate tactics our opinion is the following: it be waged against these elements, the Social in Russia tends and which newspaper writ for Communist work.
is especially important that Rakovsky, Democrats up to the Right wingers in the ers qualify as retreat or capitulation.
This pretended swan song brings us the Mouralov, Kogstor and the other comrades Party! Nikitine can express his indignation. proof that the revolutionary thought of the prepare a statement For the Sixteenth Party. The entire Centrist politics, with its Such swan songs cannot sound too agree Russian Opposition is very much alive Congress, in the name of the entire Oppopresent Left aspect, is more and more besition. This declaration must be addressed coming transformed into a bureaucratic to the masses over the heads of the leaders, adventure. The counter revolutionaries are The sense of this declaration must be: to rapidly mobilizing their forces, and the polexplain the preceding statement and to reities of Centrism furnish them with forces.
ply to the apparatus bureaucrats; to dissi That is why the truth must be put þrutally Gandhi Enters the Gandhi is forced to renew the struggle for pate any possible Illusions concerning Cenand the problem posed in this manner so non cooperation, and to preach the boycot trism; to denounce once again the nature that every comrade understands: the Party Field of. ting of British goods and the refusal to of Centrism in particular that which concourse must be changed or reaction will pay taxes. What can clearer to Lord cerns the problem of the workers, the Party triumph.
Last week we made clear the fundamental Irwin? It is a violation of the law, it is regime, and the problems of the Communist WORKER facts concerning the problems of the Indian a danger to the public peace. Take care!
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How far will Gandhi go in his camФ revolution. We pointed out the impasse in Centriem has not changed in the ulightwhich the nationalist chiefs found thempaign? The immediate future will tell, But when Gandhi stops, the revolutionary est. it remains true to its nature, but vells The Communist Workers selves, and in particular Gandhi, caught beitsell under a barrage of Left phraseology tween the thrust of the masses on the one masses will not. It is in the perspective of hand, and the pressure of the British on this continued development of the activity Tuternacional problems: we still live in a the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeois classes of the worker and peasant proletariat, that the responsibilities of the Communist in.
period of reaction, which draws to a close. At alinost the same time that the Sta on the other.
Our tasks are: to recapture the lost positernational enter. At the moment, there linist Political Bureau publised an insidOn March 2nd, Gandhi, who has begun is no Communist Party in India. There are tions; to systematically organize and pre ious plece of news in certain Leningrad the campaign of civil disobedience. forepars the proletariat for the coming battles; only agitators who fight in the Left wing of newspapers about the supposed sabotage seen by the Congress of Lahore, sent an to show up the inexperlonce and stupidity the nationalist. movement, in the bureaucraof a Trotskyist, the Pravda published a ultimatum to Lord Irwin, the viceroy of of the high powered politicians, who distic manner of Molotov, by attacking the at letter from a correspondent which is entit India, which serves to illustrate this situcover a revolutionary situation today in orsemblies where Gandhi and the other nationled The Swan Song of a Trotskyist Group. ation. In the matter of the ultimatum, It is alist leaders take the floor, Instead of carder that on the morrow, having burned their The author of this letter, after some gener an appeal to the kindness of the viceroy, an fingers thereon, they can turn their backs rying on propaganda and class struggle allties concerning the struggle of the Party anguished petition full of irreconcilable when it actually exists; to point out the contradi on two fronts, goes on to the following hold Erit activity within the masses by means of a laws, causes for the flasco of all the red demonclass party. Only the formation of this Items: writes Gandhi, as applied to my country, strations; to sum up all of the bolsheyizparty can make the perpectives favorable Thus, for example, a few weeks ago, to be an inquity and a curse. But feel for the proletariat.
ation of the Communist International, and no hatred for the British, nor the least wish at che Party purging of the nucleus in a especially to combat the anti internationФ repair shop at Belgosstrol (Minsk. a group to harm their legitimate rights in this alism, the pernicious theory of socialism in of Trotskyists was uncovered who claimed country. But all this in no way approaches one country wbich debases the world wide themselves to be 100 for the Party line, the duplicity of what follows. The The Durban «Raid, in signifiance of the October revolution and tlonal Congress has declared itself for fnand who were carrying on a desperate gives birth within our ranks to economic struggle against the Party. The group had dependence. The Dominion status would South Africa adventurism; to once again put forward published and distributed counter revoluAssure It to us. You, yourself told us so, the slogan of the Soviet United States of but since your declaration have become As an example of the condence with which tionary tracts, collected funds for an antipolicies are folated on the Comintern seeEurope.
informed that the politicians of Great BriParty campaign fund. demoralized the less What To Tell the Party tain had no intention of conceding it to us.
tions and afterward Justified, you will be firm Communist and non Party factory Interested to learn that a police raid reIn our statement the complete truth workers. This group was composed, Gandhl on his knees Before the cently carried out in Durban against de must be told to the Party and to the work amongst others, of party members and Lord Vleeroy faulting native tAr payers, who, however, ing class. They must be forewarned of the avowed Trotskyists who had been expelled In the sentence which we underlined, offered no resistance, was halled in the Inthreatening crisis which, today, is closer from the Party. An agreement of mutual Gandhi unites the claim for independence precorr recently as a triumph for the Com than ever. An infinitesimal minority tende support had been concluded between the and that of Dominion status. He writes Intern new South African blogan. The towards making concessions to Centrism Communists and the Trotskylsts. Thus that Dominion status would assure indepen raid was falsely referred to as. native at the time of the Sixteenth Congress. Their the Communists of the factory nucleus dence, would lead to independence. And revolt due directly to the application of path is not ours. Without a thrust from the had attempted to introduce some non Party yet Gandhit cannot be ignorant of the fact the new policy which had increased the base we shall not influence Centriem. This elements of their group into the Party. In that these are two quite contradictory influence of the What are the facts. thrust must be prepared therein lies the their turn, the latter did not permit attacks things. Dominion status is a form of gov There was no revolt. The police problem.
upon the pseudo Communists. At the last ernment in the group comprising the Bri raided the native locations in Durban, with One of the most serious of moments ap purging, for example, a certain Trotskylst, tish Empire, accomplished to the benefit of out prior warning to compel defaulters pears to be iu the country with respect to Reinzelberg, toaming at the mouth, had de the native bourgeoisie; it is the demand of to pay their tarus. There was no attempt the malodorous situation in the collectives. fended a member of the secret Trotskylst the industrial and commercial sections of at resistance to the police, who were armed, This is explained to a large extent by the Party, Buslovitch.
India, and it is also a promise that the Le tbe tares were pald, and those who were sibility of avoiding difficulties, of utiliThen the correspondent includes the bor Party has made, but is, however, un unable to pay were put in Jall.
sing credits and machines. Unions of poor discovery of the group and the statement able to keep. But independence, that is to The Communist Party has no iniu peasants must be organized more than ever wherein the leaders admit their errors, of a open the door to the proletarian revolution. ence in Durban, it cannot munter halfbefore. Only these unions, under a proper type well known in the statements which Gandhi fears this second eventuality. dozen members to form. branch. And leadership, can give a clear cut class charare lent to or extorted from the Oppo He writes to the viceroy that his intransi to the new policy has been proved correct acter to the collectives and orientate the sitionists.
geance explains the progress which the by a revolt which never happened, promovement upon our path.
party of violence has made among us, and duced by an influence of the which The apparatus, acting only through ad The Opposition and the Rank and File explains the increasing seriousness of the le non existent. These statements inelin.
ministrative means and by thrashing about This text permits of a certain number of situation. In other words, Gandhi fears South African Communit both in the in the press, can make the collectives the lessons. But first, it must be pruned of its the weight of the revolutionary masses, and Party and out to laugh. But they are opposite of what they should be. They can third period literature which is more cop he also tries to make use of them as a other apparently swallowed whole in become the organizatory centers for all the ious than nourishing. It must be pruned scare crow against the viceroy. But the countries, where faithful worshippers at enemy elements in the country. Unques also of insults and absurdities (the cam end of his petition is more pitiful, Не the shrine of Stalin acclaim the correctness tionably, the Kulak movement is growing. paign fund against the Party, etc. What writes, It is evidently in your power to of his line. When will the Comintern CBA serious warning is given by an incident remains is that in the large working center prevent me from acting by locking me up. to mislead? In fact, its line in South Africa which occurred in the Ivanovo Vosnessenk of Minsk, among the railroad workers, But, mysell gone, have the conviction that is proving as true as did its line in China.
district, where a crowd of peasants, under among the rank and file. Communists, there there will be hundreds of faithful comC. Frank Glass the direct influence of the Kulaks, arose to was formed an organized group, unkuown panions to continue the struggle. While Johannesburg, So. Africa beat up the Communists.
to the apparatus functionaries, which strug there is yet time, beg of you, on my The Centrists Adventures gled for the program of the Opposition. knees, to prevent the irreparable. It is urgent and important that the The Communists of the nucleus had formed The Workers WIN March Beyond Gandhi JAPANESE RADICAL HELD FOR causes for the enormous destruction of cat a united front with their expelled comrades Lord Irwirr, vicercy of India by the DEPORTATION tle be analyzed. Despite a certain halt in and coordinated their struggle against Cen grace of MacDonald, was satisfied with an SAN FRANCISCO Sadaichi Keninotsu, the grain crisis and an amelioration in the trism. Thus, spontaneously, a secret frac indirect reply. His secretary answers to Japanese Communist being held at San rationing of meat, the real salary of the tion was formed which brought together in the Mahatma: The viceroy has learned Francisco for deportation, was granted a worker shows no signs of any increase. Communist work, the rank and Ale Commu with the deepest regret that you contemstay of hearing on a habeas corpus motion, Particular attentions must be given to the nist workers and the expelled and this plated a form of action which, manifestly, He is out on 3, 000 bond, Kenmotsu was spirit of the proletariat. The Mensheviks among a group of railroad workers in a allows of a violation of the law and a dan arrested during the unemployment demonalready profit by their discontent. large industrial center. The life of this ger to the publie peace. Sick at heart, strations in March.