THE COMINTERN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 26, 28 December 1932, Page 2

THE COMINTERN.

QUESTION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

SURVEY OF RECENT ACTIVITIES.

At the request of the Government Lord Denbigh has postponed until an early date next session the following question which he had intended to put in the House of Commons in November :

“To call the attention of His Majesty’s Government to the telegram in the Times of November 8 from its Riga correspondent and to the instructions issued from Moscow to Communist organisations abroad, stating that: “The world’s masses are now about to enter the second revolutionary phase —that of revolutions and wars; “That universal war is now inevitable and not far distant; and “Taking credit for the action in the British section in organising strikes and disorders in Manchester London, Liverpool, and Glasgow; and “In taking over the leadership of the unemployed. “And to ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they now propose to take with a view to meeting this open declaration of war and revolution in this country; and whether they continue to give the same amount of diplomatic immunity to the Soviet Mission in London.”

REVOLUTIONARY PROPAGANDA. The London Times’s Riga correspondent sends further particulars of the survey of the activities of the Comintern. The survey was read to the Communist organisations in Moscow by Manuilsky, the most prominent member of the presidium of the executive committee of the Comintern, which has not had a chairman since Zinovieff’s removal in 1927. It has been published in official' organs in Russia, including the Pravda. The published survey states that although the Comintern’s British section numbers only 5000, it has successfully a new organisation of unemployed, which has already “more than 50,000 members who regularly pay membership fees.” The survey boasts of successes in the United States, especially among the negroes. The United States section, it is claimed, numbers 10.000, but on one occasion it managed to get more than 1,000,000 into the streets and cpnducted “important fighting,” which led to the War veterans’ movement, numerous unemployed marches, and great demonstrations in Detroit, Chicago and elsewhere.

As regards the impending second phase of revolutions and wars the survey explains that the revolutionary upheaval on the Asian Continent is being started from two sides, China and India. The “revolutionary current” is directed across Asia and Europe from the Pacific to the Rhine and the frontiers of Imperialist France. The survey classifies Poland, “which is. a militarist State threatening the U.5.5.R.,” with China and Germany as countries where the revolutionary crisis is already maturing. The survey is divided into eight chapters. The last sections of the second and eighth chapters are devoted chiefly to Great Britain, the United States, and France, which nre described as remaining tho backbone of the capitalist system. The final paragraphs eulogise Stalin as the chief organiser nnd leader of the world’s revolutionary forces.