HANDS OFF SOVIET RUSSIA 355 354 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 1: against Soviet Russia, not a cent, not a rifle to help wage this war.
This slogan has already been adopted by the British, French and Italian workers. In Great Britain, in France and in Italy the workers are refusing to load ships with ammunition and provisions des tined for the foes of Soviet Russia. The Soldiers are refusing to go to the Russian fronts!
American workers, you must follow their example! To every invitation to play the part of Cain towards your Russian brothers, to every request of the American government to enlist for active service in Russia, or to load ships for the bloodstained Russian White Army, there must be one answer. HANDS OFF SOVIET RUSSIA. The Communist Labor Party of the United States of America.
Hence, America participation in this war against Russia!
American troops are still on Russian territory, and American ammunition and money are still being used for the purpose of strangling the only proletarian Republic in the world.
America intervention in Russia is frequently referred to as President Wilson private war. This is correct only insofar as the formalities required for the waging of this war have not been complied with: It is being carried on without the consent of Congress, Yet, as a matter of fact, it is not altogether President Wilson private war. It is rather the class war of the American plutocracy, the class war of the international money bags. American capital is vitally interested in crushing Soviet Russia and it does not stop at mere technicalities, even if it means the violation of laws of its own creation.
In waging this war, President Wilson plays the part of the faithful servant of the American plutocracy.
American workers, you must realize this and bear it firmly in mind. You must know that every American soldier sailing for Russia, goes there to shed the blood of the Russian workers and peasants who are now engaged in a desperate struggle against the capitalists of the world those brigands of the international highways. You must bear in mind that every rifle, every cannon, every machine gun which is being sent from the United States to Russia means death for the many Russian workers and peasants who are sacrificing themselves in order that the workers the world over may be liberated from the yoke of international capital.
Workers of America! it is not sufficient to know and to bear all this in mind you must act accordingly. Your slogan must be: Not a soldier for war Two Years of Soviet Russia By LUDWIG LORE Not even the most optimistic among us believed that it was possible. That Russia, dark, ignorant, barbarous, illiterate, Tsar ridden Russia had, not quite a year before, shaken the curse of the Tsar despotism off its back had seemed marvellous enough. That, for years to come, this great nation, made up of countless heterogeneous elements, exhausted by years of warfare and incredible exploitation would change from ruler to ruler, was so obvious that the abdication of the first imperialistic government in favor of that of Kerensky caused little surprise. But the coming of a real socialist revolution, a revolution that would not only place complete political control into the hands of the socialist movement, but that would by and by actually carry out in medieval Russia the Marxian program of expropriation exceeded even the wildest of our hopes.