Khrushchev’s Zig-Zag Course Reflects Crisis t h e MILITANT By Harry Ring PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE
JULY 17 — A series of obviously improvised and Vol. XXI - No. 29 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, JULY 22, 1957 PRICE 10c contradictory moves during the past week marked the drive of Nikita Khrushchev to consolidate his victory over the four bureaucrats whose downfall was announced July 3. unless they can achieve a meas The present zig - zag course ure of popular support. There illuminates the powerful oppos fore concessions must be prom ing pressures underlying the now ised and even granted. The acute crisis of the ruling bureau vanquished bureaucrats must be cracy. made the scapegoats for the Eisenhower Seen Cooking Up After the death of the crimes committed against the “supreme arbiter,” Stalin, the people by the entire bureaucracy. bureaucracy had to rule through The winner is driven to try to the vehicle of “collective leader play both “hard cop” and “ soft ship.” But wracked by the inner cop” at the very same time. conflict of special privileges and TWISTS AND TURNS material interests, the ruling caste is driven along the road of Last week they were trying to Rights Bill Deal with Racists throwing up a single new execute the twists and turns supreme authority. This process demanded by this situation. On is expressed in the uninterrupted July 10 the Moscow radio in Putting the Pressure On Congress power struggles of the rival formed the world that Malenkov, cliques within the bureaucracy. who had been ousted from the Liberals in Senate Seek to Patch Up Party Presidium for “anti-party A NEW STAGE activity,” had been made man The unique feature of this in ager of a hydroelectric plant in ternecine warfare is the context remote East Kazakhstan and that Rotten Compromise with Southerners in which it takes place— the new the other ousted chieftains, stage of the Russian revolution. Molotov, Kaganovich and Sbe- By George I*avan During Stalin’s bloody reign con pilov, had been assigned to other JULY 18 — The self-proclaimed pro-civil rights Democrats and Republicans are unspecified jobs. This was fol flicts within the bureaucracy falling over one another in their eagerness to whittle down the civil rights bill even were settled swiftly and brutally. lowed up the next day by a The Soviet working class had spokesman for the Soviet Fon- before the expected Dixiecrat filibuster has begun. been crushed by the bureaucratic eign Ministry in Prague who The surrender by Northern politicians in both Big Business parties of sections tyrants. W’orkers’ democracy was broadly hinted to Western cor of the bill explains the “good behavior’’ of the Southern Democrats who allowed the respondents that the deposed destroyed and the workers felt bill to reach the Senate floor on July 16. They cculd have prevented this by a filibuster politically weak and isolated. four would not be arrested or I Today the bureaucracy confronts tried. An obvious expert in the | then but they found it more advantageous to accept the concessions offered. Their a huge, culturally advanced and a r t of double talk, he explained; strategy is to weaken the bill even further by accepting more “compromises” and politically recuperated working vaguely: “They were anti-party, then, if anything remains that would hampei Jim Crow rule in the South, to begin not hostile. There’s a difference.” class. I t is a working class that the filibuster. feels the impulses of world During the very same inter The deal for the first big revolutionary trends. This work view, however, it was revealed surrender was heralded by a ing class is seething w ith dis that while the announcement had U. S. Tries to Evade speech of Georgia Senator been beamed to the outer world, content and hatred for the Richard Russell, who pretended it was not made to the Soviet bureaucracy. to discover a sinister wording people. Queried on this, the Each new split in the bureau in the bill enabling the Presi cracy gives further elbow room Prague spokesman cynically re Permanent A-Test Ban dent to enforce the anti-segrega plied, “It is not the custom in to the masses in their demand By Herman Chauka tion section of the law with the Soviet Union to announce for greater democracy and im JULY 15 — A proposal to lim it any suspension of nu federal troops if necessary. the appointment of technicians proved living standards. As the A ctually such power fo r enforc in the press.” clear tests to a ten-month period is now being pressed by rival bureaucrats contend for the ing the “law of the land” has post of lop-dog they face the The real reason for not in United States representatives to the London disarmament been on U.S. lawbooks since stark fact that victory is empty forming the people of the action conference. U.S. spokesmen em 1795. In a number of laws this on Malenkov is th at the public phasize that they will not "neg dei the test ban the better they power is set forth — fo r ex campaign against the deposed otiate” the ten-month proviso, will like it. ample in the civil-rights legisla group is still being carried on which is offered as a substitute The callous indifference to hu tion passed a fte r the Civil W ar. at fu ll pace in the Soviet press, for the Soviet offer of a two to man welfare winch this stand at meetings and over the radio. three-year test suspension. Mean represents is indicated by tne PRETENDED SHOCK A major reason why, for the first time in 80 years, a civil rights bill — though only a This campaign was given signi while the Atomic Energy Com A uV /8 .proposed lescajrcn pro Russell’s “horrible revelation” token one — has a chance in the U.S. Senate this session. These are part of the estimated ficant new impetus July 16 with mission announced July 13 that gram which is motivated by an that the President could enforce 25,000 persons who last May 17 conducted th e first historic march on Washington in behalf a speech in Leningrad by M a r it is planning a five-year pe admitted need to "im in the wide the country’s law with federal of civil rights. shal Zhukov who looms as an riod of research to.-try to. .de gaps of ignorance about atomic police and Marshal, and, if increasingly powerful ally of the termine more fully the effect of radiation.” they were successfully defied, Khrushchev clique. He charged atomic radiation on man. Consistently parroting the U.S. with federal troops, was received th at the four “ were opposed to U.S. delegates to the London line, Bntisn disarmament repre by Eisenhower and by the the exposure of the lawless acts conference are expressing •'op sentatives have endorsed the Northern press with pretended committed. They feared respon A n End to Rule by Purge - timism” about the possibility of ten-iuoinn pian. 'ii.ty ceiiain.y shock, Eisenhower declared it sibility before the party, before forcing the Soviet Union to do not speun. tor tne nmisu peo was unimaginable that he would the people fo r exceeding their ‘ water down” its proposal for ple on this issue. On J my 11 ever enforce Negroes’ civil rights power and committing unlawful a longer suspension period for with troops. The N. Y. Times and actions.” The Transport and Oenerai Let Soviet People Speak! the tests. In standing hard on Workers Union, tne largest other liberal papers called for the elimination of that whole MEAT AND BUTTER the ten-month limit, administra union in Britain adaed its voice An Editorial tion spokesmen have conceded section of the bill. Meanwhile Khrushchev was to those demanding an end to they are flying in the face of busily making meat and butter the tests and abolition ol the This section — Section III — Rank and file members and sympa Trotskyists with being opposed to in is the only part of the bill promises during his visit, along powerful world sentiment to hell-bombs. dealing with civil rights in gen with Bulganin, to Czechoslo thizers of the Communist Party of the dustrialization ! halt the deadly tests. They are A Soviet worker. This wom In this country on July 7 a vakia. On July 13 he told Czech U.S. are once more confronted with the Isn’t it possible that this method, per apparently determined to make eral, that is with “equal protec- an is a member of an in every e ffo rt to resist this popu 'ban-iiie-test petition signed by tion of the law” against segrega workers, “I t is not bad if, in dustrial working class — the gravest questions about what is happen fected during the struggle to crush work prominent individuals, in improving the theory of Marx, lar demand or to make oniy the tion practices declared illegal by second largest in the world ing in the Soviet Union. ducting some top union omeiais, the Constitution. To wipe out one throws in also a piece of ers democx-acy, is a fa c to r in the pi’esent necessary minimum concessions and growing more and more was sent to Eisenhower. Among bacon and a piece of butter.” He The dominant Khrushchev faction in complex power struggles among the to it. Section III thus means wiping conscious of its strength. the unionists woo joined me de then explained: “When you have the “collective leadership” that inherited out what small measure of anti Widespread demands for work bureaucratic chiefs in the Kremlin? MUMlBO-JUMBO mand were Walter Reuther, a hungry stomach it is some segregation protection the bill ers democracy and a better Stalin’s dictatorial power has accused Official arguments in favor of president of the United Auto times very difficult to under- The issue boils down to a very simple promised. Violations of rights life are the source of the three of the top-ranking officials of the choice: do we believe that the bi’oad mem the ten-month limit consist of Workers, James B. Carey of the in schooling, transportation, use Kremlin crisis. (Continued on page 3) Soviet government and Communist Party, bership of the Communist pai'ties and diplomatic mumfoo-jumbo. The International Union ol Electrical of public recreation facilities, Molotov. Kaganovich and Malenkov, of a ‘'unofficial” U.S. argument is Workers and Joseph K. Beirne, etc., thus would no longer fall ihe working class as a whole should play that the Soviet Union is “not to president of the Communications within the scope of the bill. whole series of “mistakes” and crimes, the decisive l'ole in deciding questions of be trusted” and therefore the woriiers. the present wide op No sooner had the Senate expelled them from the Central Commit fundamental policy in a workers state? U.S. must be able to quickly position to the deadly explosions voted — over the objections of Nazis ' Victim Defies tee of the Soviet Communist Party, Or do we believe that basic policy should resume exploding the deadly was also reflected last week in liberal Democrat Wayne Morse weapons. In other words, tne removed them from their government be determined by bureaucrats at the top the ¡introduction into Congress who wanted to send the bill to posts and sent the purged leaders into quicker Washington can find a of a bill to halt the tests by Rep. Plastland’s committee for “study” and then handed down to the pai’ty i-anks pretext for getting out fromu n- Charles O. Porter (D.-Ore.). and butchery — to take up the exile and disgraced obscurity. and the working class? civil rights bill, than libera! French "Justice" Molotov, Kaganovich, and Malenkov Democrat Anderson (N.M.) and We must make a choice between these IThe recently concluded tria l of the editor and writers for have been accused by the Khrushchev liberal Republican Aiken (V.) in two concepts. It is a choice between troduced an amendment to delete La Veritc, newspaper of the French Trotskyists, has been a tria l of group of complicity in Stalin’s mass- Tuskegee Negroes' Right workers democracy and bureaucratic Section JII from the bill. freedom of the press in, France as well as of the right of Algerians murder crimes. If there is indeed evidence tyranny; between Leninism and Stalin The next day Senators Know- to independence. In previous issues we printed excerpts from the that just these former partners of Stalin, ism. land . (R -C al.) and Humphrey testimony of Pierre Lambert and Daniel Renard. Here are excerpts and none others, are guilty as charged, from the closing speeches of the two other defendants, Gerard To Vote Gerrymandered (D-Minn.) introduced an amend why isn’t this evidence presented? Why We read in the Daily Worker that it ment to strike from the law Bloch and Stephane Just. — Ed.] By Fred Halstead the blanket charges without evidence? is deploi'able that a full and free discus books the Reconstruction era act empowering the president to (Speech of Gerald Bloch) torn from them by torture and Why aren’t the accused heard from? sion involving the whole woi-king class of JULY 12 — Tuskegee Negroes remain virtually 100% Is enforce civil rights laws with Your Honor: I am being repudiated by them in the court the Soviet Union did not take place. solid in their boycott of white-owned stores this week as room. Ben Boulaid, himself, it because a full and free discussion would troops if necessary. prosecuted particularly fo r Quite right! But the Daily Worker also the bill which precipitated their mass protest becomes law despite torture did not confess. reveal that the entire “collective leader A further demonstration of today for lack of a governor's articles denouncing torture and ship” shared in Stalin’s crimes and con says that this deplorable fact should not the treachery of libera) Demo- veto. Their central demand has concentration camps in Algeria. TRIED TWICE obscure the pi'ogressive significance of pital employs many Negroes and crats on civil rights is the tinue to cling to the methods of Stalin now transcended the immediate provides most of the income for And if the prosecutor has been Your honor, this morning I what was decided by the Khrushchev amendment being prepared by ism? If so. shouldn’t the truth about this issue— the bill passed unani Tuskegee, has received a yearly able to criticize the perhaps re-read the verdict with which O’Mahoney of Wyoming. victory over his opponents. mously by the Alabama State State subsidy of $350,000 and vehement tone of some of those the special section of the m ili be known to the Soviet workers and the O’Mahoney is for cutting the legislature re-drawing the map was set to receive $4CC‘,0C0 this articles, I in no way apologize tary tribunal of Lyons con world working class? This smacks of the same kind of reason heart out of the bill’s vote- of Tuskegee to exclude all but year. The school officials, fo r it. I myself am an old con demned me on Sept. 9, 1942, to The purged officials are accused of ing that was used to justify all of protection section by giving the 12 years of hard labor, 20 years’ about 12 of the 40C' legistered backed bv the aroused and ac centration camp prisoner. I have opposing the post-Stalin “democratiza Stalin’s crimes for so many years. Since Dixiecrats their phony “trial-by- loss of the rig h t of residence Negro voters. There are 600 tive Negro community, refused jury” demand. His amendment, resolved to denounce without progressive developments are taking- place moderation concentration camps and loss of citizenship rights. I tion.” of opposing improvements in the w hite voters in the city. to buckle before the threat. however, may be a “compromise” whether they bear the flames of also read the indictment brought workers’ standard of living, of obstruct in the Soviet Union, we were told, why The Negroes arc demanding, Englehart also announced limiting federal judges to order in addition to an end to the ger plans to push through an am- Dachau or Auschwitz [Ger against me on th at occasion. I ing the resumption of relations with bother to examine the methods used to ing fines or imprisonment only was surprised to discover that rymandering, a new boa id of hiendment to the State constitu where an official has openly many], Vorkuta or Karaganda Yugoslavia and opposing the lessening of achieve them? [USSR] Berrouaghia or Lodi the articles of the legal code registrars which will not dis tion eliminating Macon county and indisputably refused a [A lg e ria ]. invoked against me were the world tension. Later it was discovered that the criminate against Negroes at which includes Tuskegee by dis qualified Negro the right to very same as those being used tempting to register. solving it into .five surrounding The Judge: There has been But how can Communist workers who progressive developments took place vote. Where deprivations of the today — articles 80 and 83. . . counties where the Negro pop no objection to your having are seeking the truth judge the validity despite the bureaucratic rule of Stalin THREAT TO COLLEGE right to vote involve more than I hasten to add, however, that ulation is not so heavy. Under one person or where interpreta spoken of tortures or of camps. of these charges when all they hear is and not because of it. Racist State Senator Sam En the opportunities for a defense the present Jim-Crow registra tion of the state election laws is Bloch: But one of my artie’es Khrushchev’s version of what the purged glehart, head of the A-iaoama which is specially objected to is allowed me now are infinitely In our opinion, it is the urgent duty of tion system, white voters out involved, a ju ry trial, i.e., an greater than before the court in White Citizens Councils and the entitled “Stop the Executioner!” and silenced opponents proposed? number Negroes in the county automatic acquittal, would be all who stand for workers democracy in sponsor of the city-limits bill, It calls for protests of public 1942. That one found me guilty We know that one of the techniques of by 2,(SOO to 1,000, but should the mandatory. of “endangering the external the Soviet Union and everywhere, to lias threatened to have the leg opinion to stop the execution ol Negroes succeed in gaining fa ir Since the only meaningful security of the state by under Ihe Stalin system of rule was to take demand in a clear and unambiguous way islature cut off all appropria Ben Boulaid who had just been registration, they wouid outnum- part of the civil rights bill left tions to Tuskegee Institute. The condemned to death. The prose taking by whatsoever means to over the program of an opposition, and that all viewpoints be heard. ber w hite voters by six to one. commit an act against the in dean of students at tne woi ld- is the voting section, passage cutor has said that Ben Boulaid then denounce the opposition for being Let the purged speak. Let them present All deports indicate that the tegrity of French territory, and famed Negro educational institu of any such amendment would directed the November 1, 1954 opposed to precisely this program. Negro people of Tuskegee are in specifically in possessing and their position before the bar of world tion is president of the Tussegee attack on the barracks in Bona a fighting mood and are de make it unnecessary for the 'This was the case when Stalin denounced Civic Association which is lead [Algeria]. In fact this was the making propaganda use of working-class opinion. Let Khrushchev termined .to cut through this whit e-supremacist Senators to pamphlets and documents the Trotskyists as “super-industrializers” ing the mass protest movement. theme of the accusation at the and his supporters attempt to prove their Southern Democratic trickery by stage a filibuster. They would originating with the Fourth In Many of its J acuity meinueis tria l where be was sentenced to because they proposed the first five-year charges in the light of day. And above mass action— whatever the cost. ternational, and further in par have won the battle beforehand. death. But this was proven — plan. Then Stalin took over the program and stuaents are active partici The boycotters have been threat ticipating in the building of the all. let the Soviet workers be heard; The civil rights bill would be and that was what my article pants in the struggle. The ened and widely criticized be Trotskyist movement in the of the Trotskyist opposition, applied it in xyas about — only by confessions they have been forced to remain silent school, which together w ith a cause their actions are hurting but an empty mockery of the bureaucratic fashion — and charged the pi other prisoners, confessions (Continued on page 3) too long. Veteran’s Administration Hos- individual white businessmen. Negro people. THE MILITANT Monday, July 22, 1957 Global Conspiracy New Phase of the Stalinist Crisis (The following article ap bureaucracy cannot escape. Those resucratized party, for that ply and neatly as that. Neither peared in the July-August issue who try to hold back historical would have exposed their real the Khrushchev faction nor the of Labour Review, British. Marx Still Not Close Buddies motives. The views of those ex Molotov faction nor tve Malen Against SP-SDF? progress always find their most ist journal. — Ed.) cherished dreams and illusions pelled have nowhere appeared kov faction is homogeneous. It in documents from their own may well be that each of these By Murry Weiss Not since the world’s com turn into their opposites; and the more these men who cling hands. After one preparatory ar factions hss chosen to adopt : s munists woke up one fine morn to the power that by right be ticle in Pravda a fait accompli its own various popular de If you want to get Rome insight into the fantastic ing in 1929 to discover that three longs to the Russian workers is presented to the Soviet peo mands. We should beware of eminont members of the Soviet workings of the right-wing social-democratic mind, read shout about a “collective leade; - ple. Y e t this is supposed to be over-simplified interpretations Communist Party’s Political Bu the June issue of the Socialist Call, the official organ of ship" and “party unity” the fas "inner-party democracy,” and of a conflict whose outlines are reau, Bukharin, Rykov and Tom- the Socialist Party-Social Demo ter does the monolith crumble these men have the audacity to in many ways still misty. The sky, were engaged in “anti-party cratic federation. periaiism. During the Thirties, into warring- factions. Stalin was refer to the Tenth Congress to important thing is that the mo- activities” has there been a cri The whole world political situ- when diplomatic relations be able to hold the piivileged up support their strictures on fac Uve force of this cataclysm, and sis in the Kremlin so severe as atio i is 'being shaken to its foun tween the U.S. State Depart per stratum together, not be tional activity. of those which will certainly fol that arinouneed on July 3. The dations r.y the turbulent events ment end Stalin were cordial, cause of any exceptional per Lenin, however, never in low it, is the resuscitation of rainoval of Molotov, Kaganovich in the Soviet orbit; the workers the social-democrats and the la sonal powers he possessed, but tended the proscription of fac the Russian working class. and Malenkov from the Central in. the Sov'et Union and Eastern bor bureaucrats worked closely because the pe: iod of his dom tional platforms rs anything For this class, new magnifi Committee and from their Gov- Europe ate on the move in an with Stalinists in united fronts, inance was the period of the Hus more tlian an extraordinary and cent opportunities are opening ornnnjnt posts eclipses even the independent struggle for work peoples’ fronts and in the unions. sion workers’ weariness and temporary measure during a out. The essential feature of this Twentieth Congrss revelations ers democracy; the Soviet ¡bu In this period Stalirjists and so- apathy, reinforced by the defe t critical period. Open groupings j new stage of the crisis is that reaucracy is in the throes of an ciail-ctemoenat.si often combined in the light it sheds ctn the in and open discussion had been ternal stresses that rack the of the revolution in the West and the workers will more and more insoluble cr'sis; and every Com against left wingers and revo the terrible sufferings of the the tradition of the Bolshevik come on to the arena. I t is not Soviet bureaucracy, and in its munist party in the world is lutionists. On'y when the inter Second World War". But this is Party from its inception; the ruled out that they may tem potentially unsettling effects oil gripped by a seething discussion ests of American im perial’sm p. new historical epoch. The old Stalinist parties cannot tolerate porarily use reactionary mem Eastern Europe and on Commu in Which the entire structure of dictate a witch hunt against incantations and formulas no them because thfev cannot tole bers of the ¡bureaucracy as in nist Parties. Stalinist ideology is being rip the Communist Party, do these longer work. The cracks are rate the clash of opinion. The struments, ¡before they reach the ped to pieces. state - department "socialists”, Molotov, Lenin’s “best filing- w'deni eg rapidly as the whole crisis of 105.7 is fundamentally stage of ¡building their own new, One would think that these discover they can have nothing clerk cf the revolution,” Stalin’s structure is shaken from below different from bjie crisis of revolutionary leadership. But no somewhat important develop to do with united fronts. “comrade-in-arms”— and accom by the still inarticulate, but im 1921: then an infant workers’ threats, no terror, no conces Tito, Khrushchev arid Bulganin in Yugoslavia in 1955. ments would have by this time The role of the SP-iSDF lead plice in the murder of Lenin's mensely strong, Soviet prole State was menaced by foreign sions, no maneuvers can prevent Yugoslav officials were jubilant over the recent Kremlin purge shaken even the leaders of this ers in the case of the American colleagues — the man to whom tariat. July 1957 is the outward Intervention; now a bureacracy the discussion coming into the of old-rine Sstalinistsi until Khrushchev’s Prague speech. July 11 SP-SDF from their customary Forum has been the best evi any d irty job could be safely en.. and visible sign that the crisis is menaced by an awakening factories, can prevent the emer attacking Yugoslav workers councils. The Belgrade reaction Stalinonhobie torpor. But no' dence of their complete incapa trusted, at l?st falls victim to a of the whole ¡Stalinist regime has people thirsty for knowledge gence of political trends, can was “shocked silence.” The Call editors can see only, one city to offer f.ny progressive verijr.ble coup d’etat. A genera entered P. new stage. The face of about the past of the movement. prevent the Russian workers pattern to these world develop contnbutkn to the regroupment tion’s faithful service to the 'bu the waters has suddenly become The reference to the Tenth Con from organizing, can ¡prevent ments—there ’s a vast global process. When the Forum was reaucracy Ls rewarded with a troubled; massive and irresistible listinism and fear of the truth. ■been about improving the con gress may therefore boomerang the rise of .a rejuvenated Marx consp:racy afoot, masterminded- pitiless indictment of Ivs nar dition of the .Soviet workers, but back at it§ authors. under attack by. the capitalist, currents are stirring in the N ot least cif all, in the sphere ist movement in the UiSSR. The by Khrushchev himself, to steal oress and tie Congressional in-, row-mindedness, conservatism— depths. of ideology, the ruling caste can about how best the bureaucracy The gravity of the crisis is Labor movement of the West the pure and vnsulHed little pil Tul'Hcrs, they acted within the and “anti-party” activities. In The bureaucracy is now act oinly m utter that it has nothing can defend its positions: wheth shown above all by the tone of low of “socialist integrity” from socialist movement Pke the Un the whole voluminous compass ing as an unbearable fetter on to learn from Mao Tse-tung. e r to give concessions, what the document issued on July 3. must rebuff all attempts by im under their heads through the cle Toms act within the Negro of Molotov’s speeches there oc Soviet Kfe. Its chains bite into The bureaucracy is actuated concessions to .give, to whom to This is nd product of a calm perialism to take advantage of revival of the diabolical Leninist movement. They rushed into curs but one striking and memo the living flesh of Soviet so by two economic impulses. It give them, and so on. academic dispute between “lib the crisis, and must rally to the tactic cf the ir.ited front. •mint when the witch-hunt heat rable phr.tse "All roads lead to ciety a t a hundred and one must protect the nationalized eralizers” and “anti-liberaliz BEHIND CLOSED DOORS support of the Russian workers. was on, not to defend the Forum, communism.” Perfectly true; but points. In industry and argri- property relations; it does so in ers.” The dominant faction is THE AMERICAN FORUM The night has lasted for a mt to try to knife it. They with a little foresight he might culture the tail ends of a series its own way, of course, but do This was a fight behind speaking not only to its ousted The keen-witted editors of the whined and whimpered about have added that for the major of unfulfilled plans litter the so it must, since these are the closed dooris, at which the con enenjies, but also, to the masses generation, for three long, dark Call f«e as the instrument of how the N.Y. Times was giving obstacle on the Russian path to planners’ desks. In literature, soil that gives it life. And it testants could hear the first of the people. There is a threat decades. Now it is ending. The this global conspiracy the Amer too much i pace to the Forum. communism, the Soviet bureau music and historiography ad must safeguard its own privi premonitory tappings of the between every two lines. bankruptcy apid impotence of a ican Forum—-For Socialist Edu They opened an expulsion drive cracy, all roads lead to convul ministrative methods designed to leged position. As with, every giant outside. They "did not take Can the struggle be seen as leadership torn by internecine cation, the institution set up by ^gainst SP-SDF members who sions, intrigues, shocks and compel uniformity and stifle parasite, this latter is its pri the discussion outside the Cen one between “Stalinists” and strife are the clear signs of an many representative radical had the courage and integrity to tumbles. creativeness succeed only in re m ary consideration. The discus tral Committee—not even into "anti-tStalinists" ? By jio means. tendencies and individuals to pro join the Forum and stand by it This is the destiny which the vealing the bureaucracy’s phi- sions in the Krem lin have not the ranks of their heavily bu- The lines are not drawn so sim- approaching dawn. mote a free and untrammeled when it came under witch-hunt discussion on the problems of attack. American socialism. The sin'ster .purpose of the NORMAN THOMAS Credit Expansion Increases Summer Issue AF'-SE, according to the Call, is Even Norman Thomas is re British Armaments Boom Living Costs to lure the SP-SDF onto the garded as a “le ft” extrem ist by one Franik Cousins, who is a In : he name of his members Of Labor Review same platform with the Com the clique that runs the SP- By Peter Fryer leading member of the General Cousins delivered this warning munist Party in order to engage SD F because he takes a ccnsist- Special London Correspondent Inflation Menace in US Council of the Trsdes Union to the Macmillan Government: in open debate. By this device, ?nt stand in behalf of the civil livery issue of every serious Congress, and the general sec “While the Government or in Now Available the editc;s argue, the Comnru- liberties c.f all, including the CP By Vincent Copeland newspaper published in Britain retary of Britain’s biggest trade dustry, or both, collectively pur By Bert Deck n ift Party hopes to rehabilitate leaders. And were it not for Inflation is now the top concern of the U.S. Treasury, this past week had the word “in union, the Transport and Gen sue a policy which worsens the itself appear as a legitimate or Thomas’ public stature he would Perhaps the most exciting flation” in a headline somewhere. eral Workers’. standards cf the people we rep the Federal Reserve Bank, the editorial writers of the ganization end eventually en doubtlessly be disciplined by literary result thus far in the The Tory Government is doing Under Cousins’ predecessor, resent, we shall do everything nation and in fact a tremendous assortment of powerful snare the SP-'SDF into united these petty bureaucrats for par international regroupment dis its damnedest to w! ip up public the late Arthur Deakin, this in our power to protect our activities. ticipating in debates with the CP individuals none of whom have cussion among socialists has feeling against the growing large, rich, powerful and influ members.” N a tu ra lly they use the statis Does it enter the minds of and the SWP. ever shown much concern for the been the appearance of the new movement for higher wages. ential union was a bastion of workh'g-eensomers of the coun tics to convince labor that a' these strategists that perhaps Hew can ,-vnyene who pro An editorial in the Journal of British bi: monthly Labour It is doing th:s at a time when Right-wing views. Its enormous try in the past. This is because raise in wages is not good for in the course of these debates fesses to be a revolutif’.iary so the Amalgamated Engineering Review. the new and iniquitous Rent Act (1,277,000) block vote at the it. But the capitalist economists they may influence the thinking cialist isee in this SP-SDF a Union, which w,th 853,000 mem a “cheaper dollar” cuts millions As one of its readers writes has just come into force, giving annual TUC and Labor Party bers is another very powerful of dollars of real wealth off the are not at all sure that this is of thousrlnds of workers in and progressive force in the regroup in the July-August issue, “1 landlords of private bouses the conferences could always be re income of lenders of capital the real reason for inflation. around the CP who are des ment process, let alone the c.vli body, has also turned dovyn the have read Labour Review from go-ahead for terrific rent in lied on to support wrge freezes Government’s scheme for an “im (:b:nk mortgages, bonds, etc.) They understand all too well perately looking for answers to ter of a radical regroupment? its inception and am of the creases. and the like. the crucial questions pqsed by partial” body, branding the The prevailing power of the the pressure of borrowed money opinion that each issue has been But apparently anything is Now a big chainge is taking the crisis of Stalinism? And at a time when British project as “unnecessary.” The dollar, .measured by the consum on the economy. But in spite of a great improvement on its possible, for we have seen Max MPs [members of parliament] place in the TGWU. Its biennial miners, too, through the mouth er price index, fell 2.9 percent all kinds of controls, credit is predecessor. . .” After all, the SP-.SDF is not a Shachtman waiting at the gates aie voting themselves a pay in conference, which Fas iust fin of their secretary Ernest Jones, last year. not contracting. It is still ex I t need only be added that the very large organization. In view of the SP-SDF for over a year- crease of 470 pounds a year;! ished, while it did no't show any ¡have expressed disapproval. This is no greater than the panding. Consumer installment current issue is no exception. of its tiny numbers and weak nd-a-half, growing old and tired, when meirlbers of that most loosening of the bureaucratic With 100,000 out-of-London average constant decline (infla credit alcne, has now reached The featured editorial on the ness, shouldn’t this organiza but not despairing, end crying useless body of ermined legis domination of this union, did busmen threatening to strike for tion) since 1946. But it comes the 32 billion dollar figure, hav fall of Molotov is a brilliantly tion, which professes to dispense to the entire radical movement lators in the world, the House show that the Cousins’ “new more pay on July 20; with the on top of the most strenuous ing expanded two billion last succinct statement of the new the only true brand of socialism, as it passes by: "Here is the of Lords, are to get three look” means more responsiveness doctors still up in arms about government attempts to combat year. There is about 15 billion phase of the crisis of Stalinism. be eager to reach the minds of gateway to a mass socialist guineas a day for each day they to the feelings and needs of the the inadequacy of their pay; it. Suppose the water in a leak «loiters outstanding in auto (See reprint of this editorial the overwhelming majority of party! Here and here alcne can attend; when members of the rank and file. with a pay rise of five per cent ing boat were rising at the rate mobile loans. That is an. amount on this page.) the radical workers? Don’t they we find the path to a bro: d so- hoards of nationalized industriesi (One thoroughly reactionary just announced for 6CO.OOO civil of three inches per hour for sev about equal to the total value of | Of special interest is the criti feel they can win in such de- cte’.ist movement.” aie to get higher salaries (up decision must be mentioned, servants (“to encourage the eral hours, and then 2 crew < I all the passenger cars produced cism of Russian Trotskyism by llc lt 6 S ^ I t js beyond our power to do to 10,000 pounds a year for however. The conference set an others,” someone said unkindly) me-' vigorously began to bail the in 1956. I Communist theoretician, R. W. Not in the least! The SP-SDF justice to this bizarre spectacle. chairmen). exceedingly bad example when the Government .has scarcely water out for an hour or so. Davies. An answer to this peddlers rf “socialist integrity” Let us yield the floor to the ed- These loans—this huge un No wonder trade union after' it demanded “strict and orderly” chosen the best time to halt the If they discovered that the wa article by Leonard Hussey are standing pat. They boast itor of Labor Action, Hal stable credit situation, not to trade union is expressing firm Government controls on the im wages movement. ter still rose three inches per begins, “The article by R. W. that, they never supported the Draper. Labor Action has sup mention the much larger gov opposition to the Government migration of West Indians, I t would be far better occu hour in spite of their battle Davies is on an altogether dif Soviet Unicn from October 1317 ported Shacbtmair’s politics for ernment debt which also pushes plan for a national “impartial urged fne TUC to adopt immi pied jn trying to halt price in against it, they would have some ferent plane from the tradi on. T h a t’s enough proof that 17 years. Draper is opposed to ¡prices up in its own way-— are end authoritative” body to con-' gration control as a national pol creases by cutting arms expendi cause fo r alarm. tional type of Stalinist critique of thev’re the genuine article, isn’t the kind of SP-SDF orientation constantly rising, and with an sicier wages policy “in an in -; icy. N ot one Of the 8C0 dele ture (twice as much per head of Trotsky. Instead of the counter- it? that is supported by a majority expanding economy will continue flationary setting”— i.e., to keep gates voted against this resolu the population than that of any BLAMED ON WORKERS posing of ‘Trotskyism’ to Lenin As if to demonstrate their ut cf the Politics-1 Committee of to rise. wages down. tion, which is 3 shocking com other European country) and re- Naturally every Big Business ism, we have a frank bracketing ter lark of contact w'th polit Shacbtman’s organization. Dra The truth is, that with ail A ibody-blow for the Govern mentary on the chauvinism all peal'dg the Rent Act. editorial writer blames this sit of Lenin and Trotsky as ‘those ical reahty, the Call editors have per regards the SP-SDF orienta- their statesmanlike talk the fi-| ment was the opposition to this too prevalent among British But then it would no longer uation on the “greedy” demands politicians of a past era.’ In dreamed up a role for the So t:on of the PC majority as a ■nancial authorities do ,not have scheme expressed this week by workers.) be a Tory Government! of labor for wage increases. stead of the familiar bogey- cialist Workers Party in this “systematic adaptation to social the authority to reverse this image of Trotsky as arch-mili devious plot: “The Trotskyite democracy.” He also regards it Iretnd, rind are not even quite tarist and would-be-dictator, we groups.” they soy, “ere willing is a pipe dream. In the July 8 sure they want to in spike of the have Trotsky judged as a man cooperators in the new CP l'ne. issue of Labor Action, Draper crash they suspect lies at the who wanted to carry democracy The Trotskvite groups, particu says: end of their road. beyond the bounds of ‘realism’.” larly the SWiP, are somewhat "IF only the SP rose to its Gives New Evidence in Trotsky Murder For example, the Government’s This exchange between R. W. reluctant followers of the CP opportunities, sighs the PC ma Davies and Leonard Hussey training of the assassin who is “tight money” policy— the pres view that the SP-SDF should be jority, what a wonderful move- By Fred Hart an eyewitness report of what is demonstrates that a fruitful and still serving h'.is sentence in Mex ent higher rate of interest—is a primary area of operation.” mesit we could build! No doubt: in the top-secret files in Mos objective discussion on the his New evidence ip the murder ico for the crime, were carried supposed to discourage borrow if only the girl were beautiful, cow. torical differences between Trot N O T SO of Ledn Trotsky, definitively out by a deputy of the NKVD ing, restrict creo'lt, and thus re rich, intelligent and sweet-tem The revelations were made by skyism and Stalinism is possible. This story hasn’t even a re linking up Stalin’s sricret po named Eitington. duce the inflationary pressure. pered, she would make an excel Vladimir Petrov, Third Secreta The British Marxists do not mote relationship to the truth. litical police in the planning o>f The full details made public But this has made mortgages lent wife. But under the circum ry of the Soviet Embassy in underestimate the importance of The SWP hr.s vigorously op the assassination, has heen made by the Petrovs are reported in more expensive and reduced the stances we are not well advised Canberra, Austr.vlia, whose de such a discussion. They welcome posed all talk about the SP-SDF public b,y a former top officer the summer issue of the In te r bonanza of home construction to rush into matiimcmy.” fection from Moscow in 1954 cre it for the rich understanding ■of the dread organization. The national Socialist Review. The for the contractors—and the as the '‘center of regrou,pment.” ated an intrenational sensation. it can yield. ¡Soviet Consulste-Gdneral in New magazine also carries the Pet banks who supply the monev. The SWP sees no merit what They are contained in a book American readers will find The following joke is reported York was named as the place rov’s revelations about the fate So, simultaneously with the ever in the attem pt of some CP which be and his wife Evdokia Tom Kemp’s series (concluded in ly making the rounds in the from which the co!d-bloMded k ill of Karl Radek and some of their higher interest rates, down pay leaders, like John Gates, to re wrote and published recently in this issue) on the prospects of National Press Club in Wash ing- of one of the founders of the eyewitness reports as form er ments hqve now been reduced. solve the crisis of Stalinism by London. The facts were made British capitalism most useful. ington, D.C.: Soviet Union was plotted. government officials on what is On July 1 Congress passed a law convincing the SP-SDF that the public in this country for the Although Kemp deals specifically reaJly going otn inside the So reducing minimum down-ipay- CP is more reform ist and more Question: W hat is a “clean” H - In August 194Ci, when the ex first time by the International w ith British economic develop ments on PHA -insured housing social-democratic than the SP- 'bomlb ? iled socialist leader was killed Socialist Review. viet Union. ments, trends similar to those SDF itself. The SWP has pro by a blow from ,a pick-axe, it to three percent of the first 10,- Petrov reports th "t as an of in the U.S. are easily discernible. posed a revolutionary socialist Answer: It’s a bomb that kills was proved circumstantially that 000. and 15 percent of the next ficial of Stalin’s police charged Also included in this issue is regroupment of tire radical you but leaves S' few people the m urderer was an agent of 6,000. The previous minimum was with the supervision of Soviet an analysis of a new shift in workers. And that means a re around to act as pallbearers. Stalin. This is now confirmed by five percent of the first 9,000 merchant seamen on the lower policy by the Chinese Com groupment that is politically op Danulte, he often consulted the HUNGARIAN plus 215 percent of the remain munist Party by Michael Banda, posed, net only to Stalinism, 'but secret files of the Intelligence der. And that was reduced from Joseph Redman’s study of the to state-department “socialism.” LEON TROTSKY department. One day, by mis TRAGEDY a still higher requirement last British CP from 1925i 29, and a O f course the SWP is in favor take, he was handed the file on discussion on Dialectics. of united fronts on specific “from the evidence of my own fall. Trotsky. questions like the struggle for eyes,” The file “contained the Thus a w orker can now buy a Petrov declares that what he by Peler Fryer Copies of Labour Review, il civil liberties confronting all detailed planning by the N. K. $12,000 home with a $600 down working class organizations. And read proves that Trotsky’s mur V. D. experts over a period of British theoretical magazine m; payment, where test fall he had be obtained fo r 50 cents. A su of course the SW P also favors der was planned in Moscow. He years, which led up to the suc to pay $1200 down, and before scription for one year (six i full, free and open debate among also confirms the fact that there cessful assassination.” sues) sells fo r $2.50. W rite all radical tendencies to clarify was not a single item in the Petrov says that “Though I that a larger amount. Thus the 96pp $1,00 M ilitan t Business Office. 1. differences and enable workers voluminous file that would sup read the file quickly, with a w orker is tempted to borrow a port the false charges leveled by (Plus 15c m ailing charge) University Pl., New York 3,