An early joint statement from the Mexican and U.S. Communists Parties on the common struggle against the common enemy of bloody Yankee imperialism and Lords of Wall Street.

‘For a Struggle Against Imperialist Rule of Wall Street in Both Americas’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 223. December 9, 1924.

The DAILY WORKER is proud to give in the following manifesto the signal of a new, intense class solidarity between the revolutionary workers of the United States and the oppressed workers and peasants of Latin-America, driven by the whip of native taskmasters, betrayed by traitors of their own race and repressed with the bayonets and rifles of the United States army and navy.

Across the barrier of language and border lines, the workers of America–ALL America!–not merely in the United States, stretch fraternal hands with their southern comrades in the fight for life and power.

TO THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS OF MEXICO AND LATIN-AMERICA.

COMRADES: The capitalists of the United States and their government today rule not only the United States but Latin-America as well.

The same capitalists that rob the workers of the United States, jail and murder them with their armed forces, use these same forces to deprive the Latin-American nations of their independence, make them colonies of Wall Street, increase the misery of the Latin-American workers and peasants and bring them under the iron rule of American imperialism.

The Mexican government that was established by the workers and peasants, for which they gave their lives by the thousands, has surrendered to the American capitalists. It dares no longer fight for the full freedom of the working class.

In Brazil, the capitalists of the United States and their government furnishes army officers to foment war against Argentine.

In Chile, the Anaconda Mining Company and the Guggenheims backed by the United States government, have seized control and murdered workers who dared to protest. They foment war with Peru. These plots against the lives of the masses of Latin-America are for the purpose of dividing them in their struggle against American imperialism.

In Santo Domingo, an American army rules with bayonets and machine guns.

In Haiti, thousands of workers killed by American troops is the basis of American capitalist power.

In Cuba, American bankers, behind whom stands the power of the United States, dictate the policies of the Cuban government while American capitalists plunder the workers and peasants.

In Panama, the Latin-American workers are held in virtual slavery by the American government.

Wherever the influence and investments of the American imperialist banditry are threatened by strikes and revolts of the Latin-American workers and peasants, there are found American bayonets and battleships.

The lives of the workers and peasants are nothing to them. They want profits and it makes no difference to them if it is stained with the life-blood of the working class.

Aligned with the capitalists of the United States are the social-democrats and reformers, the traitorous labor bureaucrats and other hangers-on of American and Latin-American capitalism. They protest friendship for the Latin-American masses but they fight only for the capitalists.

The Workers (Communist) Party of America calls upon the working class of the United States, Canada, Mexico and all of Latin-America to unite against the monstrous aggressions of American imperialism, to set up a united revolutionary front against the attacks of American capitalism and its government on the liberties, lives, and working conditions of the working class. It urges the working class to unite for this revolutionary struggle against American imperialist aggression, against the native capitalists, and against world capitalism under the banner of the Communist Parties in every country and the Communist International.

The Workers (Communist) Party of America pledges itself to wage the most militant struggle in its power against American capitalism. It alone in the United States fights for the toilers of Latin-America. It alone tells the masses of the danger to them in the growing power of the American capitalists of which their domination of Latin-America is a menacing sign. It alone rallies the workers of the United States for war an American capitalism.

Comrades: Extend this struggle to every corner of Latin-America. Broaden it. Organize the working class for the most stern resistance to the bloody tyranny of American imperialism under the leadership of the Communist parties.

Raise the slogan of “For a Workers and Farmers Government” as against the rule of American and native capitalism. Fight always and everywhere against all who betray the working class to the capitalists always remembering that the struggle against American imperialism for national independence is not the final struggle but nevertheless an indispensable part of the battle for the social revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the victory of the world’s working class over its capitalist enemies.

Comrades: Under the red flag of the Communist International let us close our ranks and organized to break the power of American imperialism without which capitalism cannot live on the western hemisphere. Let us build our own proletarian power and be swerved from the struggle by no capitalist propaganda or imperialist terror.

Against the power of the capitalists the power of the proletarians! Against the solidarity of the imperialists of all countries, the united front of the workers and peasants!

Against the rule of the capitalists, the rule of the working class under the leadership of the Communist Party!

Lang live the united front of the workers of North, Central and South America!

Long live the Communist International–the leader of the world revolution!

Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of America. National Committee, Trade Union Educational League. Communist Party of Mexico. Secretariat, Pan-American Anti-Imperialist League.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.

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