THE FOURTH congress of the Communist International passed a Resolution on the East' dealing with tasks In une those countries still tasks of national revolutions. This resolution contained a specific section on the tactics of the united front. full below:
the THE workers united front is the working slogan advanced in the West during the transition period, characterised by the organised Similarly in the colonial East at the present time the key slogan 1o advance is the anti-imperialist front. Its expediency follows from the perspective of struggle with world imperialism thai will demand the mobilisation of all COll united revolutionary elements.
This mobilisation is made all the more necessary by the tendency of the MONCCIOUS for compromises with directed against the fundamental interests of the mass of the people. Just 1n the West workers united front has helped and is still helping democrats sell-out of proletarian inso the slogan South imperialist united front will help to expose the vacillations of the various bourgeois nationalist groups This slogan working alasse. revolutionary their class consciousness; it will place them in the front ranks of those fighting not only imperialism, but the remnants of feudalism.
The workers movement in the colonial semi-colonial must first of all establish itself as an are the independent revolutionary factor in the Only when its importance as an independent factor is recognised and its complete political autonomy secured can temporary bourgeois democracy be considered permissable or necessary.
Similarly, the proletariat supports and advances such partial demands as South an independent democratic republic the abolition of all feudal rights and privileges, womens rights etc., insofar as it cannot, with the relation of forces as it colonies and facing the further democratic anti-imperialist This is printed in gathering of forces united long-drawn-out ruling classes to make foreign capital the country the slogan of the to expose the social sonnelles antistruggle will also help the to develop their will and to increase perialism.
countries common anti-imperialist front.
with de cemenl government.
does not and the introduction of tion, exists at present, make the implementation of its soviet programme the immediate task of the day.
At the same time the proletariat seeks to put forward slogans which political links between the peasant and semi-proletarian masses and the workers movement. Explaining to the broad working masses the untv will tue michlalluld proletariat and the Soviet republics is one of the most important functions of the anti-imperialist united front. The colonial revolution can triumph and defend its gains only if accompanied by a proletarian revolution in the advanced coutries.
The danger of a deal between bourgeois nationalism and one or more of the rival imperialist powers is much greater in the semi-colonial countries (China, Persia), or in the countries gaining state independence thanks to inter-imperialist competition (Turkey), than it is in the colonies. Every such agreement means a wholly unequal division of power bet ween the indigenous ruling classes and imperialism; though it may be disguised as formal independence, it leaves exactly as before -semi-colonial buffer state, the puppet of world imperialism While the working class may and make partial temporary compromises to gain breathing-space in the revolutionary liberation imperialism, it must be absolutely opposed 1o any attempt by the indigeneous ruling classes to maintain their class privileges by agreeing to open or tacit power-sharing with imThe demand for a close with the proletarian Soviel republic is the key-note of the anti. imperialist united front.
This slogan must be accompanied by a determined struggle for maximum democratisation of the political system, which will give the workers organisations the freedom to fight fo their class interests (the demands for a a retro he a system me system, organisation of the administrative ap paratus on the basis of popular self labour legislation, the restriction of child labour, maternal and child welfare etc). Even in independent Turkey the working class enjoy freedom of associa which is a good indication of the bourgeois nationalists attitude to the proletarial.