TO ARMS! REACTIONARIES AT THE GATES!

MAY DAY! MAY DAY! SOUND THE WARNING! REACTIONARIES ARE ATTACKING! And now, a word from our Supreme Comrade, David Fagus:

Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters! Men of our army and navy! I am addressing you, my friends!

The perfidious military attack on the Peoples Democratic Republic of Rogers Park, begun on May 1st by reactionary forces, is beginning.

In spite of the heroic resistance of the Revolutionary Peoples' Army, and although the enemy's finest divisions and finest airforce units have already been smashed and have met their doom on the field of battle, the enemy continues to push forward, hurling fresh forces into the attack.

The enemy's troops have succeeded in capturing Pratt Beach, a considerable part of Loyola Park, the western part of the 49th Ward, part of Morse Avenue. The fascist airforce is extending the range of operations of its bombers, and is bombing Clark Street, Devon, Sheridan, Paulina, Lunt, Loyola and Touhy.

A grave danger hangs over our tiny country.

How could it have happened that our glorious Red Army surrendered a number of our precints and districts to reactionary armies? Is it really true that the Gentry are invincible, as is ceaselessly trumpeted by the boastful capitalist propagandists? Of course not!

Of no little importance in this respect is the fact that Chicago has suddenly and treacherously violated the Non-Aggression Pact she concluded secretly only days ago with our new nation, disregarding the fact that she would be regarded as the aggressor by the whole world.

It may be asked how could the Interim Government has consented to conclude a Non-Aggression Pact with such treacherous fiends as Daley and Stroger? Was this not an error on the part of our Interim Government? Of course not. Non-Aggression Pacts are pacts of peace between states. It was such a pact that Evanston proposed to us in April.

There can be no doubt that this short-lived military gain for Chicago is only an episode, while the tremendous political gain of the PDR of Rogers Park is a serious lasting factor that is bound to form the basis for development of decisive military successes for us in the war with the reactionaries.

That is why our whole valiant army, our whole valiant navy, all our falcons of the air, all the peoples of our country, all the finest men and women of Europe, America and Asia, finally all the finest men and women of Rogers Park --condemn the treacherous acts of Chicago and Cook County and sympathize with us, approve the conduct of the Interim Government, and see that ours is a just cause, that the enemy will be defeated, that we are bound to win.

By virtue of this war which has been forced upon us, our country has come to death-grips with its most malicious and most perfidious enemy - Chicagoan aggression. Our troops are fighting heroically against an enemy armed to the teeth with tanks and aircraft.

Side by side with the army, the entire 49th Ward is rising in defense of our native land.

The enemy is cruel and implacable. He is out to seize our lands, watered with our sweat, to seize our grain and oil secured by our labor. He is out to restore the rule of landlords, to restore the vote, to destroy our culture and our existence, to convert them into the slaves of Republicans and land barons. Thus the issue is whether the peoples of Rogers Park shall remain free or fall into slavery.

All who by their panic-mongering and cowardice hinder the work of defence, no matter who they are, must be immediately haled before the military tribunal. In case of forced retreat of Rogers Park Army units, all rolling stock must be evacuated, the enemy must not be left a single engine, a single railway car, not a single pound of grain or a gallon of fuel.

All our forces for support of our heroic Red Army and our glorious Red Navy! All forces of the people--for the demolition of the enemy! Forward, to our victory!

(portions of speech taken from a speech by Lenin; source Stalin on War with Germany, July 3, 1941)