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Insurrections and mass movements are taking place in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, China, India, Indo-China, Marocco, Africa and Latin-America. The terrible pressure exerted by capitalist imperialism and the severity of the struggle in the most important colonial countries are leading more and more to the hegemony of the working class, the most energetic and daring section of the masses, in the struggle of the oppressed nations against imperialism. The working class is the binding factor in the great united front of the oppressed peoples against colonialism.

Increased Imperialist Exploitation and Political Repression.

The imperialists are straining every nerve in order to crush the revolutionary anti-imperialist movement for emancipation. They are attempting to find a way out of the world economic crisis, which is a crisis of the whole capitalist system, at the cost of the oppressed colonial peoples by means of increased exploitation of the masses. The world economic crisis has tremendously increased the poverty, misery and exploitation of the toiling masses in the colonial countries. The world economic crisis and in particular the agricultural crisis, is nowhere so intense in its effects as in the colonial countries, where the frightful effects of the agrarian crisis reduces millions and millions to the point of starvation. Slave labour and forced labour are becoming to an ever increasing extent essentials of the imperialis colonial regime. The masses of the peasantry are coming more and more into the movement. They are surging up against the fortresses and strongholds of imperialism.

The intensification of exploitation in the colonial countries also effects the situation of the toiling masses in the countries of imperialism and increases their impoverishment. The result is that it is becoming clearer and clearer to the masses in the imperialist countries that their interest are identical with the vital interest of the toiling masses in the colonial countries.

Parallel with the increase of economic exploitation, the system of political oppression has also been intensified to a tremendous degree. The least movement of the masses against imperialism, the least attempt to found national-revolutionary organisations, or to organize the masses of the workers and peasants in trade unions, is countered with increased oppression, imprisonment and even physical destruction of tens of thousands of workers, peasants and students.

The fascist movement in all countries, which is conducting a chauvinist campaign of race hatred, is an instrument of imperialism for holding down the revolutionary mass movement particularly in the colonial countries (for instance, German fascist officers as technical advisers to the hangman Chiang Kai-shek).

Religion in the Service of Imperialism.

The growing indignation of the masses against imperialist oppression causes imperialism to use religious organizations to an increasing extent in its struggle against national and social emancipation. This can be seen in the crusade organized by the leaders of all the churches (Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhist and others) against the Soviet Union, and also in the warlike attitude of the Vatican towards the Soviet Union, in the Papal Encyclical against socialism and communism, in Gandhi's utilization of religious propaganda in India, etc. All this, connected with the preparations for the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin next year, reveals the role of the leaders of religion as agents of capitalism and imperialism.

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The Land of Socialist Construction

Two worlds: Socialism and Capitalism

By Hermann R e m m e l e.

To which System Belongs The Future?

Two economic systems, which today dominate the world, stand sharply confronting one another: the socialist economic system in the new world, in the Soviet Union, and the capitalist economic system in the old world, in the capitalist countries.

To which system belongs the future? This question is to-day engaging the attention of all peoples the world over.

The Soviet system prevails only in one sixth of the world - and nevertheless it already comes forward boldly and challengingly before all the world with the inexorable question: For or against!

And here it is not a question merely of two economic systems but of two world systems, of two systems of culture, of the ascent of the whole of the human race "out of the realm of necessity into the realm of freedom" (Friedrich Engels), on to the place of free humanity, which will finally and irrevocably abolish all attributes of serfdom and slavery in order to become the real master of the world. "The fight for mere individual existence is ceasing. Thereby mankind, in a certain sense, first passes finally from the animal world, from the animal conditions of existence, into real human conditions." (Friedrich Engels: Anti-Dühring.)

The longing and hope for the advent of Socialism, for the socialist order of society, is as old as oppression and exploitation, serfdom and slavery, wars and crimes of all sorts - in fact it has existed ever since class society existed.

For thousands of years two world systems have confronted one other in the thoughts and aims of men: the world class societies, with all their insane barbarities and suffering, the world of all against all - and the hoped and longed-for world of Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood for all members of the human race, the classless society - the world of Communism.

That which the millions of victims of the world rule of robbers and exploiters hoped and longed for, that which the exploited and oppressed of the whole world at all times yearned for, that which the best thinkers of humanity foretold, is today, for the first time in the history of humanity, in the Soviet Union, becoming true, becoming a reality! That for which millions of men and women in all ages joyfully sacrificed for, for which millions have fought and died - we to-day see rising before our eyes. It is to-day being fulfilled for the first time in the history of humanity!

To have accomplished the greatest world-historical deed of all times, that is  the great pride and the greatest merit of the class which alone can accomplish this great historical work, the modern proletariat! No other class in the history of the world has ever been able to accomplish anything grander and more sublime. The modern proletariat is the first representative of humanity freed from barbarism.

The work of Socialism in the Soviet Union is the work of the modern world proletariat, the first stage of the world revolution!

It was the imperishable work of the founders of modern Socialism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to bring to birth modern, scientific Socialism. It was the

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