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December 1944 No our • n erna lona THE ELEVENTH CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN TROTSKYISTS By The Editors Resolution Of The Socialist Workers Party On "The European Revolution And The Tasks Of The Revolutionary Party" Discussion Articles By E. R. Frank and Felix Morrow LESSONS OF THE 1944 ELECTIONS NATIONAL: "The Akron. Pub­ llc Library has a new Business IManager's Column I FOURTH INTERNATIONAL &: Labor Service Department. I brought in several issues of A sure indication of the grow­ VOLUME 5 December 1944 No. 12 (Whole No. 49) THE MILITANT and FOURTH i:ng influence of FOURTH IN­ 'INTERNATIONAL today. The TERNATIONAL is the increas· Librarian in. charge seemed ing number of unsolicited sub­ Published monthly by the familiar with our literature scriptions. Subscriptions from Fourth International Publishing Association and 'promised that they would Iowa, Minn., Connecticut, and be added to the service if we 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. 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Y. osity, but I would be most plete file $5. grateful if I could have I am enclosing Send me FOURTH INTERNATIONAL From Milwaukee we received $ ........ and THE MILITANT regularly. a request for a more recent back FOURTH INTERNATIONAL I have quite a job to procure issue: "I would_like to get two for OILe of the few which reach our copies of the recent issue of 6 months .................. $ 1.00 section. I will endeavor to ob­ F 0 U R T H INTERNATIONAL I year .................... $2.00 tain a permit to pay for the that contained an article about subscription if you can let me Gandhi, non-violence, pacifism, .".rame ...................................... have a regular copy of each. pte. Will you send them to me .and bill me for ihem? I will "Will close by thanldng you J'pmit immediately upon receipt ~'lddrcJs ................................ , ... once again and also be sending of the bill." (The articles re­ greetings to the 18 and wishing ferred to appeared in. the Oc~o· (; ity ........................................ you success in their release in ber 1944 issue under the titles: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the near future." FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VOLUME 5 DECEMBER 1944 NUMBER 12 REVIEW OF THE MONTH By THE EDITORS Lessons of the 1944 Presidential Canlpaign as Roosevelt's. The workers voted for these parties ~cam~e Under the Two-Party System there was no other avenue on the ballot to register their disat­ isfaction with the capitalist two-party system. Roosevelt's re-election for a fourth BREAKDOWN OF THE term marked a further stage in The American working class does not want to go back to the politics of the era of Hoover. It wants to go forward. The TWO-PARTY SYSTEM the breakdown of the traditional experience of John L. Lewis is clear evidence. Despite his two-party system of capitalist pol­ great popularity as a trade union leader, he not only failed to itics in America. The Republican party attempted its come­ swing the working class back of Willkie in 1940, but in 1944, back through strict adherence to the hoary rules of the two­ after four years more of Roosevelt, he could not even persuade party farce of tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. The Republican the miners to back Dewey. Old Guard staked everything on the accustomed swing of the The politicalization of the working class has been deep­ pendulum. They groomed their candidate and their program ened and accelerated by the war. The working class is deeply exactly as the "outs" are supposed to when it is their turn to concerned over tne war and the peace it hopes will follow. The replace the "ins." Dewey, the candidate they put up, was workers are worried over the possibility of a third world war, manufactured as closely to specifications for a bourgeois polit­ agitated over "reconversion," the likelihood of widespread un­ ical puppet as if he had been turned out on a wood lathe. employment, and mounting living costs. The Negroes are be­ According to the Hoyle of two-party politics, when the coming increasingly embittered over the spread of Jim Crow. masses arf! tired of a regime, they vote against it. Hence it is No one can expect to gain a serious hearing from the workers incumbent on the party out of office to avoid any act or decla­ unless he is prepared to take a stand on these fundamental ration which might attract the ire of the public. This was issues. Dewey could not hope to win the working class unless Roosevelt's tactic in the months before the 1932 election. he was prepared to go to the left of Roosevelt. Dewey, in keeping with this tradition, kept his mouth shut, Instead, the Republican Old Guard chose to insult the intel­ sedulously avoided any spectacular maneuvers such as the world ligence of the working class by dangling a red herring .before tours that drew attention to Willkie, committed himself on the ballot box. ,Roosevelt, they claimed, was under the in­ public issues as little as possible, and made himself out to be fluence of Communists because he was supported by the Polit­ a plain man concerned about the American home and efficient ical Action Committee, which in turn was influenced by Stal­ honest government.
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