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By Leon Trotsky ~ the USSR in War • • January 1942 our • n erna lona A STATEMENT ON WAR By James P. Cannon The Minneapolis 'Sedition' Trial By Felix Morrow Mr. Davies and the Moscow Trials By Natalia Sedov Trotsky t,. Lenin on Imperialism . • • • • . By Leon Trotsky ~ The USSR in War • • . • • . By John G. Wright "'~ 1 ~-: =======:========- 1wenty Ce-ut-s country. The record and analy­ Manager's Column sis appearing in our columns I I FOURTH INTERNATIONAL will constitute an invalua:ble historic record of the case. 'The last issue of FOURTH Published by the Fourth International Publishing Association INTERNATIONAL had hardly We urge every reader to in· reached our r,eaders when the Volume III January 1942 No.1 (Whole No. 18) sure to himself the issues which long-awaited turn of events 116 University Place, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Algonquin will deal with the future of this 4·8547. Subscription rates: $2.00 per year; bundles, 14c for 5 trial by taking a subscription plunged the United States into copies and up. Canada and Foreign: $2.50 per year; bundles 16c World Wlar U. This fact has for 5 copies and up. to the magazine and subscribing Entered as second-class matter May 20, 1940, at the post offIce for those of his friends and ac­ with one gesture enhanced the at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. importance of the magazine ,his­ quaintances who might be wiser torically and fundamentally Editor FELIX MORROW and better informed if they too changed the nature of the back­ b e cam e regular readers o,t FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. groun4 against which the maga· TABLE OF CONTENTS zine is pubt'ished and circulates. * ... '" Our interests will continue to A Statement on the \\Tar ..... By James P. Cannon 3 A. recognition of the value of the treatment given the Minne­ be as they always have been­ The Minneapolis 'Sedition' Trial internatiorul.l in their scope a.nd apolis trial by our press comes By Morrow it will be our serious endeavor FeUx 4 from a source from which at· to maintain contact with co­ Mr. Davies and the Moscow Trials tention is real flattery. thinkers in other parts of the By Natalia Sedov Trotsky 9 Libraries connected with the world, in order that the ideas top·ranking universities of the of socialism can be maintained Forecasts by Leon Trotsky .................... 12 coun try as well as those noted and im.!plemented by the experi­ Capitalist Economy Under Fascism for the completeness of their ences of workers on every con­ By. L. Howard 14 data on social subjects have been tinent thrown into the slaughter rushing to secure 8ubscri-ptions house of imperialist confiict. The USSR in \Var ........... By John G. Wright 16 to FOURTH INTIDRNATIONAL. The extension of the war in· Lenin on Imperialism .......... By Leon Trotsky 19 • ... evitably brings a curtaHment of An amusing side-light on the the freedom with whioh our Naval Power Today ............ By James Cadman 21 historic val u e of materials magazine can circulate abroad: From The ARSENAL OF MARXIS~r printed in our pages comes in but in times Uke this the quaU­ On the Essence of Constitutions the form of numerous requests tative value of a Umlted circu· By Ferdilumd Lassalle 25 from all parts of the country for lation is far greater than a broad copies of our issue of June 1941 . .... 214 Manager's Column Inside Front Cover distribution in ordinary days. It was in that issue that w.e It w11l be the business of our printed Leon Trotsky's brilliant distributors and a'gents in every cerned with the relationshLp of FOURTH INTERNATIONAL analysis of the authenticity of part of the country to concen­ working-class civil rights to the w1l1 undoubtedly carry a greater the Tanaka Memorial. Now that trate their energies henceforth government in a war period. amount and more authentic time and the gunboats of the on the securing of. subscription.s As was true during the con­ news of the appeals than any Japanese have focused attention to the ma·gazine in order that as duct of the trial in Minneapolis, other magazine published in this on the poUtics of the Land of large a number of workers as the Ri.sing Sun, Trotsky's opin­ possible can oocome regular ions on tkls phase of imperialist readers and in this way become imperative have acquired a new thoroughly familiar with our value. Ideas. Available Now Business is 'business, and any­ • • * one anxious to refresh his mem­ Shortly after the publication Bound Volumes of ory concerning TrotskY's views of our last number, the trial of on the forces driving Japan to the eighteen Minneapolis de­ imperiaolist assault may have a fendants came to a close. AI· NEW INTERNATIONAL and copy of t,he June issue of though they were exonerated of FOURTH INTERNATIONAL by the charge of sedition, they were simply sending us a request and held for violation of the Smith FOURTH INTERNATIONAL twenty cents. Act, which in effect holds them for liable for imprisonment for the * * crime of considering the advis­ Early in January 1942, bound ability of a change in the form 1940 and 1941 volumes of FOURTH INTER of government of the United NATIONAL will be available to States. allY who wish to augment li· This case is regarded by aU Price $3.00 braries by adding a volume of jurists and people interested in Marxist comment on contempo· l'aneous events. The issues of the maint~mance of civil liber­ ties du.ring, a war period as one Order now from two years-1940 and 1941-will of the most important labor be Ibound together and the price cases in the history of the Business Office of the bound volume will be Unite-d States. $3.00. The appeal, first to the Cir­ FOURTH INTERNATIONAL Since the numbCl' of bound cuit Oourt of Arppeals, and fi­ 116 University Place volumes is limited, we urge that nally to the Supreme Court of orders be sent In at once to the the United States will be fol­ New York business office of FOURTH IN· lowed with keen interest by TERNATIONAL, 116 University every individual who is con· Place, New York, New York. FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VOLUME III JANUARY 1942 NUMBER 1 A Statement on the War By JAMES P. CANNON The considerations which determined our attitude toward defend that, either in Italy and Germany, or in France and the war up to the outbreak of hostilities between the United Britain - or in the United States. States and the Axis powers retain their yaHdity in the new The 1fRrxist analysis which determined our attitude situation. toward the war up to December 8, 1941 continues to de­ \ Ve considered the \\"ar upon the part of all the capitalist termine our attitude now. \Ve \vere internationalists before powers involved ~ Germany and France, Italy and Great December 8; we still are. \Ve believe that the most funda­ Britain -- as an imperialist 'war. mental bond of loyalty of all the workers of the world is the 111is characterization of the war was determined for us bond of international solidarity of the workers against their by the character of the state powers involved in it. They exploiters. \Ve cannot assume the slightest responsibility for were all capitalist states in the epoch of imperialism; them­ this war. No imperialist regime can conduct a just war. selves imperialist - oppressing other nations or peoples­ \Ve cannot support it for one moment, or satellites of imperialist powers. The extension of the war \Ve are the most irreconcilable enemies of the fascist to the Pacific and the formal entry of the United States and dictatorships of Germany and Italy and the military dictator­ Japan change nothing in this basic analysis. ship of Japan. Our co-thinkers of the Fourth International Following, Lenin, it made no difference to us which im­ in the Axis nations and the conquered countries are fighting perialist bandit fired the first shot; every imperialist power and dying in the struggle to organize the coming revolutions has for a quarter of a century been "attacking" every other against Hitler and l\1ussolini. imperialist power by economic and political means; the resort \Ve are doing all in our power to speed those revolutions. to arms is but the culmination of this process, which will con­ But those ex-socialists, intellectuals and labor leaders, who in tinue as long as capitalism endures. the name of "democracy" support the war of United States im­ This characterization of the war does not apply to the perialism against its imperialist foes and rivals, far from aid­ war of the Soviet Union against German imperialism. \Ve ing the German and Italian anti-fascists, only hamper their make a fundamental distinction between the Soviet Union and work and betray their struggle. The Allied imperialists, as its "democratic" allies. \Ve defend the Soviet Union. The every German worker knows, aim to impose a second and Soviet Union is a workers' state, although degenerated under worse Versailles; the fear of that is Hitler's greatest asset the totalitarian-political .rule of the Kremlin bureaucracy. in keeping the masses of Germany in subjection. The fear Only traitors can deny support to the Soviet workers' state of the foreign yoke holds back the development of the German in its war against fascist Germany. To defend the Soviet revolution against Hitler. Union, in spite of Stalin and against Stalin, is to defend the Our program to aid the German masses to overthrow Hitler nationalized property established by the October revolution.
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