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20¢ MAY 1944 t "j MAY DAY FOR VICTORY LOUIS F. BUOENZ • I I( TRENDS IN' THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES I AQAM LAPIN • THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM N. SPARKS • THE SEATTLE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS I• HENRY P. HUFF • CONCERNING A CHARGE OF BETRAYAl HANS BERGER • ENEMIES OF TEHERAN BOB THOMPSON New Books on the Soviet Union VLADIMIR LENIN A Political Biography Prepared by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of the U.S.S.R., this new definitive study of the founder and leader of the Soviet Union constitutes in many essential respects a history of the so cialist revolutiol) of 1917 which gave' birth to the mighty Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and an exposition of Lenin's social, economic and politico! theories which guided it to power. Price $1.90 The Red Army By Prof. I. 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XXJII, NO. 5 MAY, 1944 THE COMMUNIST A MAC.AZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM-LENINISM EDITOR: EARL BROWDER CONTENTS May Day for Victory and the Teheran Goal Louis F. Budenz 387 Trends in the Two Major Parties Adam Lapin 397 International Monopolies and the War K. Hofman 410 The Two-Party System N. Sparks. 415 Enemies of Teheran Bob Thompson 42~ Concerning a Charge of Betrayal Hans Berger • 431 The Maryland-District of Columbia En lightenment Campaign . Doxey A. Wilkerson 440 The Seattle Municipal Elections Henry P. Huff 450 Issues and Tasks in the Primary Elections 457 Hungary's Occupation by Hitler E. Gavrilov 461 Where Is Finland Going-Toward Peace or Catastrophe? 465 Historic Documents 469 Entered as second class matter November 2; 1927, at thie Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE COMMUNIST iB published Monthly by Workers Libra7'11 Publishers, Inc., 4t 832 Broadway~ New York ·3, N. Y. (mail addresa, P. 0. Box 14B, Station D), to whom aubscriptions, payments and correapondence ahould be sent. Subscription . rate: $2.00 4 year; $1.00 form months; foreign and Canada, $2.50 II 1/Car. Single copies 20 ceuts. PRIN"'''!D IN THB U.a..&; PAMPHLETS ON TH~ WAR Communists and National Unity, by Earl Browder .63 The Negro People and the Communfsts, by Doxey A. Wil- ~~n m Labor Faces '44's Challenge, by Joseph North .02 Teheran and America, by Earl Browder .05 Moscow, Cairo, Teheran, by Earl Browder .05 Farmers in 1944, by Charles J. Coe .10 Soviet Trade Unions and AHied Labor Unity, by Wi'lliam Z. Foster . .05 A Talk About the Communist Party, by Earl Browder .03 Jewish Unity For Victory, by Alexander Bittelman .1 0 The Path Dimitroff Charted, by V. J. Jerome .05 We Will Join Hands With Russia on Polish-Soviet Relations .05 The 16 Soviet Republics: Molotov's Speech to the Supreme Soviet .03 The War of National Liberation, by Joseph Stalin, in two parts . Each .15 George Dimitroff, with an introduction by Earl Browder .10 • WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Station D (832 Broadway), New York 3, N.Y. MAY DAY FOR VICTORY AND THE TEHERAN GOAL BY LOUIS F. BUDENZ TN A WORLD much changed since the triumph of the pledges and the J. that which gave birth to the first program of Teheran, with its prom May Day, the workers' holiday in ise of peace for several generations. 1944 stirs labor everywhere anew to It is fifty-five years since the First visions of anti·Nazi victory. Congress of the Second Internation· The responsibilities placed upon al adopted a resolution, as proposed the working people in this globe- by Paul Lafargue, to celebrate May encircling war of national liberation 1 annually as the workers' holiday. are different in degree and form It was a day to review the forces from those which faced the workers of the international working class. on that first May Day six decades It grew out of the understanding ago. Underlying both periods, and and initiative of the most advanced through the intervening years, there section of the workers' movements, have been nonetheless the same which included in the forefront broad and basic objectives in each those who marched under the ban succeeding May Day. This holiday· ner of the .fight for Socialism. has been dedicated to that solidarity The resolution which brought this of the labor movement internation· holiday into being, as presented by ally which would produce the maxi· one of the outstanding disciples of mum victories over the enemies of Marx and Engels and adopted by the peoples, and it has had ever as the Congress of the Second Inter its goal the establishment of an en· national in 1889, called for a great· during peace. international demonstration on this Such objectives-the great goals day. The first theme of the demon of May Day-are expressed today stration was to be the eight-hour amid the thunder of battle and the day, that center of struggle which hopes of mankind, in the new moves led to the development of our first for closer cooperation among the permanent American trade union American, British and Soviet trade movement. union organizations for the wiping Three years before the Lafargue out of Hitlerism. They are likewise resolution, May Day had rocketed brought into life through the strug' across the horizon as a militant day gle in our country ·and elsewhere for of international labor solidarity in 387 383 MAY DAY FOR VICTORY the big mass movement of the Amer of all human freedom. For they have ican workers for that eight-hour-day furnished one large occasion for demand. May 4, 1888, will ever be strengthening the sinews of the la remembered in the annals of human bor movements everywhere and in freedom as the time of tbe Haymar giving those movements better polit ket frame-up and massacre. It will ical perception. These developments also long be recalled that the then in turn have made these movements youthful American Federation of strong enough and alert enough, in Labor, deeply stirred by the battle humanity's present gigantic crisis, for the eight-hour day and by the to turn out the production and help terror represented by Haymarket, carry on the war which has seared made a decision in 1888 that May 1 and will destroy Hitler. be a day of militant workers' dem onstrations. The French Trade Union * * * Congress followed with a similar In the United States, for instance, resolution, thus opening the way for the. existence of a strong labor move the decision reached through the act ment has been a major factor in the initiated by Lafargue. record-breaking aircraft production It was with an eagerness justified that has distinguished the American by subsequent history that Freder war effort. On April 2 Charles E. ick Engels waited for the first inter Wilson, chairman of the Aircraft national celebration of May Day in Production Board, could announce 1890. "I am looking forward to May with some pride that America had 1 with great impatience," he wrote reached an all-time monthly record his friend Sorge. And on that day of 9,118 planes in March. It is the itself he hailed the unity which it American trade union personnel of signalized, in so many communities 12,000,000 members that has done so and so many lands. much to bring about the condition Although widespread provocations that Donald M. Nelson, chairman of and military precautions were taken the War Production Board, could re by the reactionaries in country after fer to on Jan. 24. Then he said that country, tbe first international cele "the nation has definitely solved the bration of May Day brought out major problems involved in mass thousands of working people in production of munitions," and has many different nations. In Britain been able to arm its own millions of and Germany, Belgium and France, men and devote considerable lend Sweden and Norway, Italy and lease to the armies of its Allies. Spain, Austria and Russia, the work The intelligent, cooperative, vig ers downed their tools and marched orous trade unions were strong in the big demonstrations. enough to stimulate their members Called in ·the name of labor and to achievements of this character; for the furtherance of labor's aims, they have sprung up, let us remem these mighty mass parades and ber, out of the struggles of the past, meetings have contributed in the to which May Day gave fire and long run of history to the progress energy. More than production had, MAY DAY FOR VICTORY 389 of course, been involved. The trade were and are in those armed forces.

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