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European Trotskyist Conference Held The Anniversary O f The October the 1917 Revolution PUBLISHt^MILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By The Editors VOL. V III—No. 45 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1944 m Twenty-seven years ago, on November 7, 1917 the chain PRICE: FIVE CENTS of capitalism snapped in the Czarist Empire. Led by the Bol­ shevik Party of Lenin and Trotsky the Russian workers and peasants smashed the age-old tyranny of the capitalists, land­ lords and priests, and for the first time in history established the rule of the toiling people. The red dawn of that day ushered European Trotskyist Conference in a new epoch in the history of mankind. The deeds of the Bolsheviks were as good as their declara­ tions. Land to the peasants! Factories to the workers! A ll power to the working people! An end to the imperialist war! Held; Five Countries Represented This program of the Bolsheviks became the law of the workers’ state in the legislation of the parliament of the peoples, the Congress of the Soviets, under the guidance of Lenin’s party. In reality, in the concept of its leaders, and to its sup­ porters throughout the world the revolution in Russia was but Inspiring News Just Received Of February the beginning— a colossal beginning—o f a revolution that was destined to sweep through Europe, then Asia, and ultimately Meeting In France Under The Nazi Terror over the entire world. The Russian revolution awakened great hopes among the war-wearied masses on both sides of the News of the most inspiring character for class-conscious workers in Am­ trenches. The revolutionary message and actions of the Bol­ erica and throughout the world has just been received from England by sheviks served to dispel the poisonous lies spread by the capit­ "The Militant." Confirming our faith in the invincible power of the ideas alist rulers and their flunkeys in the ranks of the working class, and organization of Trotskyism, we have secured direct information about and to spur the workers to independent revolutionary struggle the growing Trotskyist movement in Europe. against the imperialist warmakers. The European Trotskyist movement survived under the terrible blows of the Nazis. After four years under the Nazi terror, our European com­ REVOLUTION SPREADS THROUGH EUROPE rades and co-thinkers have broken through the iron wall of imperialist W ith the slogans of Bolshevism on their red banners, the censorship to send us word of their development and activities. workers toppled the once mighty l lohenzollern and Hapsburg 3 Within the very sha­ dynasties. Sailors mutinied at Kiel. Soldiers refused to fight dow of the Gestapo, and returned home. The masses went out into the streets de­ MASS MEETING PROTESTS Trotskyist fighters from manding bread and peace. Soviets of workers and soldiers France, Germany, Spain, sprang up in Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Helsingfors. Belgium and Greece, Warned by these events, the imperialists hastened to DENIAL OF PARDON TO 18 held a six-day confer­ terminate their' hostilities in order to concentrate upon extin­ NEW' YORK, N. Y., Oct. 27—Several hundred workers and ence in France last Feb­ guishing the fires of revolt which threatened to burn the rotted other defenders of civil liberties tonight jammed the C ivil Rights ruary and laid the basis for the expansion of the Trotsky­ capitalist structure on the entire European continent. W ith the Defense Committee’s mass meeting at the Manhattan Center to protest against the recent denial of a presidential pardon to the ist movement and the spread of aid of the Noskes, the Scheidemanns and other social-democratic ihe ideas of revolutionary social­ 18 Minneapolis Labor Case victims and to give rousing welcome traitors, and by the most brutal methods of terror and dictator­ ism throughout Europe. to Oscar Shoenfeld, A1 Russel and Karl Kuehn in their first public No greater testimony to the ship, the imperialists succeeded in forcing the European revolu­ appearances after almost 10" strength and viability of the never forget nor forgive this tion back to the boundaries of Russia. months’ imprisonment at the Trotskyist program can be given crime which has been done to Danbury, Conn, federal peniten­ than the fact that our European Although isolated and starving, with its industries shattered us.” tiary. comrades were able to convene and its agriculture in chaos after years of war, the young Soviet "Through our incarceration,” their historic conference in the A tremendous ovation was ac­ he stated, “this danger to demo­ Republic survived. In its struggle for survival the magnificent face of the bestial terrorism of corded the three guests of honor, cratic rights (the Smith “Gag” Red Arm y organized by Trotsky and shaped out of the en­ the .Nazis and despite monstrous who were released last week at Act) has been dramatized and thusiasm and devotion of the workers and peasants who came blows, including the execution of the termination of their year- made vivid (o countless organized DeGaulle’s Government Moves many leading comrades and tha to fight for their revolution, turned back the armies of imperial­ and-a-day sentences with time off workers. It is unfortunate and deportation or imprisonment of ist intervention sent by Churchill and Wilson and smashed the for good behavior, as were Harry unhappy that such methods of hundreds of their best fighters. forces of internal counter-revolution. De Boer, Clarence Hamel and dramatization are employed. I Although the first workers’ slate had triumphed over these To Disarm Workers In France Edward Palmquist, who had been assure you that it was not our A LETTER ARRIVES confined in the Sandstone, Minn, powerful foes, the outstanding Bolshevik leaders knew that this idea. But the fact remains that Our information comes from prison. Stormy applause greeted By W illiam F. Warde millions of workers have learned the mid-October issue of the Soc­ victory would not be conclusive while the Soviet Union was their vigorous appeals for a con­ about the. in ju stice done us and ialist Appeal, organ of the Re­ hemmed in by a hostile capitalist world. One or the other of Hard on the heels of Allied recognition of his counter­ Deserters tinuing nation-wide fight to free have protested. We can be proud volutionary Communist Party of these hostile class forces would prevail in the long rum Only the 12 Socialist Workers Party revolutionary provisional government, de Gaulle has Everywhere o f th is .” Great Britain, Fourth Interna­ the extension of the October revolution to the countries of ad­ and Minneapolis CIO truck- moved to disarm the revolutionary workers of France. Thc activities of war-weary He concluded: “ I want to say in tional, which publishes a letter vanced capitalism could save the Soviet Union from degenera­ drivers leaders still behind prison This move has precipitated the most acute political crisis German soldiers, deserting the most personal sense that I recently received from a repre­ tion and eventual destruction. bars and to win unconditional within France since the Paris uprising of August 19-24, from the army to return to sentative of the five European presidential pardons for the 18. (Continued on page 3) a crisis containing the threat of civil war between the theit; bombed - out homes, Trotskyist parties which met last BOLSHEVISM MEANS INTERNATIONALISM February. The full letter is as capitalist ruling class and the resurgent French prole­ testify to the growing disin­ WILL CONTINUE FIGHT tegration of the Nazi armies fo llo w s: Lenin and Trotsky hammered home this fundamental truth. Speaking on behalf of all the ta ria t. f and regime. We have received news of our The Communist program is international, not national. The ing for the punishment of those i framed-up Trotskyists, who were DeBoer and Hamel The direct tie-up between the The National Zeitung of British brother party, the R.C.P., making illegal arrests. imprisoned by the Roosevelt ad­ peoples of the Soviet Union can never achieve socialism without Allied recognition of de Gaulle Essen, September 13, com­ together with a number of copies This measure was taken with­ ministration because of their the overthrow of capitalism on a world scale. and his action against the Work­ plains: “It is no secret that Welcomed Home a! of your publication, the “ Social­ out consulting the National Coun­ m ilitant defense of labor’s rights Twenty-seven years have elapsed since the glorious October ers’ M ilitia is explicitly admitted individuals who have deserted ist Appeal.” We hope shortly to cil of Resistance, which is domin­ and their revolutionary socialist by the capitalist press corres­ from their formations arc ap­ get a complete report of all the revolution. During these years the prodigious v ita lity of its ated by the Stalinist party. Al­ opposition to Wall Street's war, pondents in Paris. “French of­ pearing everywhere now, de­ Minneapolis Affair international sections outside Eu­ achievements have astounded the world both in peace and in though the Council had original­ the three ex-prisoners expressed ficials at times prefer not to ad­ jectedly straggling back from M INNEAPO LIS, Oct. 22— In rope and to take up our interna­ wartime. While the capitalist system was careening downward ly urged similar action, it protest­ their determination to do all in mit that Allied recognition the froni. Partly by pretend­ a spirit of solidarity with the tional connections. Here shortly in the agonies of world depression, Soviet economy, under the ed against de G aulle’s attem pt to their power to rally American strengthens General de Gaulle's ing to a knowledge they do not victims of the famous Minne­ is news from us.
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