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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-06-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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Claimants £21. Monarchies fought to unify the Balkan Peninsula, not by cooperation but by forcibly trying in two wars to establish Greater Bulgarias or Greater Serbias.
Crusade During and before these wars the Bulgarian Tesnyaks had organised Balkan socialist opposition. The ruling classes spoke of a Pan Slavic crusade against the Turks and organised Sofia Congress of reactionaries to support their aims.
The Tesnyaks replied by converting their annual Sofia involvement and for a republic.
The period immediately after the First World War saw the Bulgarian revolutionary socialists miss several important opportunities.
The Tesnyaks greeted the Russian Revolution, changed their name to the Bulgarian Communist Party and entered the Communist International. However. though •. they adopted Leninist forms they had not yet adopted a Leninist conteni.
The tailed to cash On its big influence instead stood byand watched a right wing coup d'etat overthrow the Peasant government and establish a proto-fascist dictatorship in June 1923.
Rising
Forced to correct its the BCP formed a errOrs united front with the peasant Agrarian Party and began to fight back.
3 months latar, Dimitroo led the brave, but ill-considcred, poorly prepared and abortive anti-dictatorship rising in north west Bulgaria the Stalin line when in 1932, on the basis of his Bulgarian experiences, he urged the formation of united workers' fronts against fascism.
At this time the Comintern was carrying out an extremely sectarian political line which characterised the non-communist workers' parties as "social fascist"
Dimitrov's political work took him to Germany when the German Communists were carrying out this policy with great enthusiasm. (Even to the point of working in some cases against the 'social fascist' SPD in alliance with to it.
Frame-up By the time the appliances reached Reichstag building the ! was beyond control. Ma Van der Lubbe was arri for the crime but so w Dr. Rudolf Hediger.
This was only a pas: name. The police soon covered that they had c Georgi Dimitrov "notorious internat Communist". This arre to the Reichstag Fire
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Socialist Organiser, Thursday 17 June 1982 Page 13