"While compelled to evacuate Siberia and the maritime region, the Japanese imperialists are~ still in occupation of Russian Saghalin, are still keeping the Russian population there in subjection, and from this position are still a menace to the young soviet social order in those territories of the Far East.
"The International proletariat is convinced that the time is not far distant when the militarist clique, which is now ruling over the Japanese workers and peasants, will stand before the tribunal of the Japanese proletariat and will be compelled to answer for its numerous crimes, including those committed in the Russian Far East."
Resolution on Jugo-Slav Terror
To the workers of the world!
WORKING men and women! Comrades!
The reactionary government of the young Jugo-Slavian capitalist State has committed many crimes against the Jugo-Slavian Communist proletariat during the two years' reign of white terror. The white court magistrates have already passed many death sentences. One of their victims is to be executed shortly.
This latest victim is our comrade, Keroshovich Jun. He was condemned to death for the crime of having been the leader of the general miners' strike in Jugo-Slavia in 1920.
Although outlawed, the revolutionary proletariat of Jugo-Slavia and our comrades succeeded in organising throughout the country a big campaign against this latest crime of the Jugo-Slavian government. They have also addressed an appeal to the members of the Second, Two-and-a-half, and Amsterdam Internationals, in which they invite them to establish against the white terror a united front of the entire Jugo-Slavian working class. The reply was in the negative.
The Fourth Congress of the Communist International expresses herewith its complete solidarity with the Communist proletariat of Jugo-Slavia, which is carrying on a struggle against the reactionary forces. It calls upon the revolutionary proletariat of all countries to join their protest to those of the Jugo-Slavian proletariat, and declare its complete solidarity with the latter in its struggle against the execution of Comrade Keroshovich.
With the leaders if possible, without the leaders if necessary, the working class of the whole world must protest unanimously and energetically against this latest crime of the Jugo-Slavian bourgeoisie and its social-democratic allies.
Down with the white terror!
Long live the Communist proletariat of Jugo-Slavia!
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