FOR PEACE, FREEDOM AND SOCIALISM
FOR PEACE, FREEDOM AND SOCIALISM May Day, 1934 The International to the Workers of all Countries! IN deep mourning, but unshaken In their convictions and in their confidence of victory, the...
...The armaments race hasbegun...
...The heroes of Austria will remain faithful to the banner of international Socialism, you will hold with redoubled force to your ideals, which you have sealed with your blood, just as the International will stand at your side...
...The International therefore renews its demand for universal disarmament: No concessions to Fascism thirsting for war...
...They know that the government of the hangmen Doll fuss and Fey desired and precipitated the civil war in Austria...
...Long live Socialism...
...The victory of Fascism can only be followed by the victory of Socialism...
...These are the signs of the great change, which will extend democracy and restore it in the countries which are at present under fascist rule...
...In the Scandinavian countries one Socialist victory follows another...
...In the island of democracy in Central Europe, the Czechoslovakian Republic, the whole of the Socialist movement is successfully defending the democratic institution...
...IN deep mourning, but unshaken In their convictions and in their confidence of victory, the workers of the whole world will celebrate this first of May—in huge demonstrations where freedom prevails, and with (Ct teeth and clenched fists where Fascism has established its rule of terror...
...On this First of May we swear that we will do all in our power to support your struggle for freedom...
...Fascist force cannot prevent the inevitable consequences of capitalist development...
...The Bureau of the Labor and Socialist International...
...Full of admiration the International has watched you at work during the years since the end of the war, when as peaceful architects you built up Red Vienna and made it an example to world ^Socialism...
...Fascism is not removing but intensifying it...
...Superior armed force, and not law and justice, decided the struggle...
...The deliberations on disarmament have become discussions on rearmament...
...The best security against the threat of war is the fear of the ruling classes of a workers' revolution...
...The crisis through which the capitalist economic system has been passing for nearly five years is ill unsolved...
...In Switzerland the workers have frustrated all the reactionary, attacks and step by step conquered new positions...
...On May Day the workers of all Countries will bow their heads in deep respect before your dead, your prisoners, and {he widows and orphans of the February fighting, upon whom Austro-Fascism is now exercising its revenge, and swear to you eternal loyalty and solidarity...
...In all the countries of Western Europe, in Great Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark, democracy is unshaken...
...Just as you are doing, so will the International carry on the most intense and unmitigated struggle against the rule of Austro-Fa-tiim until the day when" the red banners wave again >*>ctorious from the Vienna City Hall...
...The International still reltes upon you, and more than ever, today...
...Even though Austria ha> fallen a victim to Fascism, our courage and convictions are unbroken...
...For Peace and Freedom...
...The certain disappointment of those who threw themselves into the arms of Fascism will be fatal to this last capitalist system of government...
...Italian Fascism is allowing hundreds of thousands of unemployed to remain without support and to die of starvation...
...Already we see the first signs of the recovery of the Socialist -movement...
...The more hopeless the economic situation becomes for capitalism, the more powerful will be the forces leading to war...
...Worker* of Austria...
...On May Day we will demonstrate unbroken and certain of victory: For the Liberation of the Slaves of Fascism...
...The Socialists of Argentina have brought the capital of their country under Socialist control...
...For Socialist Democracy...
...With fast-beating hearts the workers in all countries have followed your heroic struggle for freedom, which has let up an everlasting monument to you in the hearts of all decent people...
...The victors, quarreling over the booty are leading Austria, which has become a colony of Italian Fascism, into questionable adventures, to Hapsburg or to Hitler, and thereby creating for Europe a new danger of war...
...cooperation between all free nations against the danger of war which arises in all Fascist countries...
...The best guarantee of peace is the strength ,of the Labor and Socialist movement...
...Long live the International...
...Full of sorrow the workers of all countries stand at the graves of the Austrian workers who fought for freedom, who gave their lives for liberty, peace and the honor of world Socialism...
...German Fascism, which throws Socialists into prisons Conic shoulder to shoulder ere the earth grows older Hope lies in naught but thee and me...
...The Belgian labor movement has taken the offensive and by its plan of action has set up a signal for the workers in all democratic countries...
...and concentration camps, which by its new labor law has completely enslaved the wprkers and left them to the mercy of the employers, is squandering the national wealth in feverish rearmament...
...The ideal for which the heroes of Austria fought and died is invincible...
...Shortly after the fall of Red Vienna the British)Labor Party gained control for the first time in its history of the largest city in the world, the capital of the greatest world empire, London, and thus gave notice that it would soon capture the government itself...
Vol. 17 • April 1934 • No. 17
