up. Only after the working class has got to power will it accomplish the work of awakening, uplifting, and enlightening its most backward brethren.
The toilers of the colonial and semi-colonial countries have arisen. The gigantic tentacles of the octopus of English Imperialism hold in their embrace the vast areas of India, Egypt, Persia; but this tremendous human ocean is agitated by incessant internal disturbances, causing the City to experience frequent drops of shares as well as hearts.
The national sentiments frequently blend with the social sentiments in the movement of the colonial countries. Both these however, are directed against Imperialism. Under the pressure of modern Imperialism and the leadership of the revolutionary proletariat the colonial and subject countries in general make a rapid march from primitive and weak methods of struggle to more mature ones.
The fraternizing of the Mohamedan and non Mohamedan peoples, all alike suffering under English and foreign domination in general, is fraught with great possibilities. By purifying the movement internally, by doing away with the influence of the clergy and of chauvinist reaction; by simultaneously fighting the foreign exploiter together with his native confederate—the feudal lord, the priest and the usurer—this growing army of colonial rebels is becoming a grand historic force and a mighty reserve for the world proletariat.
The pariahs have arisen! Their aroused sentiments extend eagerly towards Soviet Russia, to the barricade battles in the streets of German cities, to the growing strike wave in Great Britain, to the Communist International.
The Sociaist who aids directly or indirectly in maintaining the privileges of one nation at the expense of another, he who acquiesces in colonial slavery, he who draws a line of distinction between races and colors in the matter of human rights; he who helps the bourgeoisie of the metropolis to perpetuate its domination in the colonies instead of promoting the armed uprising, the British Socialist who fails to support by all possible means the uprisings in Ireland, Egypt and India against the London plutocracy,—such a Socialist should not only not get a mandate of confidence from the workers but should be shot or at any rate branded with shame.
At the same time the International revolutionary proletariat in its efforts to liberate itself, is being thwarted more by Party and Trade Union leaders who have climbed upon its back during the recent period, and by their egotism, conservatism, imbecility and treachery, than by the remnants of the barbed wire entanglements set up between countries during the war.
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