The Daily Worker

Continue the Struggle

THE war tension and the war preparations of the imperialist world are infinitely greater today than they were on August 1, 19 years ago, when overnight millions of workers were herded to slaughter in a war which devastated the world.

In 1914, the imperialist rivalries which exploded into this gigantic carnage were developing under conditions of a relatively stable capitalism. Nevertheless, those rivalries cost 13,000,000 lives.

Today capitalism is in its deepest crisis. Capitalist stabilization is over.

The capitalist ruling class can see no way out of its crisis excepting war. It is preparing for war at an unprecedented pace.

Complete fascism in some countries, and in all capitalist countries an ever more highly organized apparatus for the ruthless suppression of the working class, and an ever sharper attack on their standards of living, sets the stage for war within each of the great capitalist powers.

THESE preparations, sped to breakneck pace by the economic war of each capitalist country against all others, are turning more and more surely toward a supreme struggle of the countries of capitalism against the Soviet Union, the land where the workers are building socialism.

Despite their profound rivalry, both the United States and Great Britain support Japan in its open war moves against the Soviet Union, in which French finance takes an equally eager part. American rivalry with Japan makes the U. S. even more anxious to see Japan involved in war in the Soviet East.

Adolf Hitler openly declares his ambition to seize the Soviet Ukraine, and Alfred Hugenberg's memorandum to the World Economic Conference brazenly called for the cooperation of the great powers.

Despite the non-aggression pacts which the capitalist nations felt compelled to sign with the Soviet Union, the countries on its borders remain armed camps, supported by French finance.

UNTIL now the unshakable peace policy of the Soviet Union in the face of the most vicious provocations, and the active, concrete support of the international working class, have postponed the inevitable explosion of war.

Not only in today's mass demonstration against war must the struggle be carried on. The fight against war must be carried on daily, hourly, on every front.

The workers must expose every preparation for war, every provocation, every attempt to deceive the masses. This vigilance cannot be maintained without a constant exposure of the deception and disruptions of the Socialist Parties, which are preparing once again, as in 1914, to deliver the workers unprepared and disunited into the hands of the capitalist war-makers.

THE struggle against war must be carried on through the struggle against the slavery measures of the New Deal, against the starvation program of the American ruling class, for the right of the workers to fight for their standards of living, for Unemployment Insurance, against imperialist wars, for defense of the Soviet Union.

By this relentless, day to day struggle, against starvation, against Fascism, against war, we must lay the groundwork to turn the coming imperialist war into a civil war, a war of the workers against their exploiters, for the final smashing of capitalism, for all power to the workers and toilers, as the only way to a lasting peace.