B Ack to L En In

miMILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Vol. IIINo. 23, Telephone: DRYdockl656 NEW YORK, N^rTSaturdayTJune 14, T r I ceHT^ENT^ B ack to Lenin MANIFESTO TO THE RANK AND FILE AND SEVENTH NATIO NAL CONVENTION OF THE C. P. U. S. A . The crisis iu the Part;', manifest to and the creation of a huge army ot the un rationalization, wage-slashing, and in gen all but the self-contented/bureaucracy, de employed are having the effect of wiping eral an offensive upon the workers’ stan mands the most serious attention of all out this illusion in the minds of broad dards of living, can only hasten the pro Left Needle Workers Communist workers. It is to aid them to sections of the working class. The sharp cess. U.S. Imperialism can re-create a break through the rigid barriers erected contrast between the previous “ prosperity" bourgeois working class in this country, by the ruling regime in the PaTty for the and the misery ot unemployment which such as England had at the opening of Convention Meets worthless “pre-convention discussion” that and hangs like a Damoclean sword over the century, only by enslaving tihe rest the Left Opposition addresses this appeal has cut Into more than 6 million workers of the world ,the mere endeavor of which The Second National Convention of the to the Party membership. the rest of them, Is jolting the working involves the most violent m ilitary and Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union There is a widening gap between the class out of its bourgeois stupor. A deep revolutionary eruptions. met in New York City last Saturday and Under the pressure of these develop possibilities for the strengthening of the going process of radicalization is begin Sunday, June 7th and 8th. There were over movement in the United States and the ac ning to take place. The process w ill be ments, the American workers are moving four hundred delegates present of whom away from bourgeois Influence and ide complishments that the leadership has to accelerated by the exhaustion of the “ pros 307 hailed from New York. According to ology, and their former passivity. There record. The increase in Party member perity reserves” of the workers. The at official reports 200 shops sent delegates is a growing mood for struggle and m ili ship and influence over the workers cor tempts of American capitalism to issue out from New York City. In other words this tancy. The huge demonstration on March responds less and less to the activity of of its crisis by a re-adjustment ot its in is an indication of the lack of Left wing 6 and even the smaller ones of May Day the Party. There is not a single mass dustry fo r more effective competition oh organization in the thousands ot New York ( Continued on Page 3 ) organization of the workers where the the world market, attempts which spell shops which were not represented. Party has succeeded in consolidating or The two days of the convention were advancing its position in the past year or devoted to combatting the Lovestoneites, two, be it in the Left wing unions, in the without any intelligent discussion of tto conservative A. F. of L. and independ Rally to Weekly actual needs of the uuion. The General dent unions, in the cooperatives, in the Executive Board that was elected was « numerous language fraternal orders, etc, continuation of the Stalinist) factionalism New York Leads the Way! which is undermining the Left wing in etc. In the ranks of the Party itself there is a deadening passivity, an indifference As we go to press, we are Informed that the New York Execntre of tlia fluence in the unions. Not only were one- and a growing dissatisfaction with the Communist League (Opposition) has met In response to our appeal for $2,000 to hundred percent members of the Stalin faction and their pliant supporters elected prevailing Party course, which are pre niisintaln the Weekly M ilitant, and has pledged a sum of $500.00 toward this end. to office but even Party members who at vented from completely paralyzing all ac A Day’s Pay from every member of the Branch was accepted as an immediate action. one time or another had happened to ex tivity only by feverish administrative lash In addition, the Branch members w ill prooeed to canvass sympathizers with special press a word of criticism or were unfor ings and tihe ever harder measures of the lists, and w ill inaugurate hon$e to house collections and other means to assure it tunate enough to harbor an independent! control commission. quota of $300.00 being raised in the given time. New York has set a good example. We look forward with confidence fo* thought were eliminated from the G. E. B. In the upper strata of the Party, new adequate pledges and results throughout the country. in spite of their superior experience. “ leaders” appear every day and old "lead We go to press Just as the convention ers” disappear or are demoted without The M ilitant lias been a fighting guide to tiie Communists and Left wing in concluded and are therefore compelled to the Party or working class knowing any their struggle against the labor bureaucracy of the A. F. of I* and the "labor leaders” hold over for the next issue a thorough and thing about it until they are informed by of the Hiilntan-Beckerman A. C. W. crew. detailed analysis of the course and perspec the official press. The suppression of all The M ilitant has fought for the organization of the masses of unorganized tives of the Industrial Uuion. initiative and the complete dependence of workers into labor unions on a militant industrial basis. all activity upon decrees from above make the Party immobile, and the leadership en For the Unemployed Save Georgia Class deavors to make up for the Party's fa il The Militant has conducted a campaign on behalf of the unemployed millions ure tto meet situations in time by plunging under the slogans of work or compensation, tor social insurance, the six hour day ft unprepared into adventures and con and the five day week, etc., and has merciiesslessly and accurately shown up the W a r Prisoners sequent debacles. thread-bare “ prosperity” of the imperialist) regime of Hoover and Company. One of the most brazen examples of The Party’s immobility and the lead The Militant has maintained a consistent position for revolutionary Com American capitalist class justice is the at ership's adventurism is the more danger munism, for the preservation and defense of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. I t has with equal vigor combatted the revisionist theories, the opportunism and bureaucracy tempt to send bo the electric chair the six ous because of the broad perspectives for m ilitant workers, H. M. Powers, Gilmer the growth of Communism in this country. that have been nourished by and grown to huge proportions under the directions of the false disciples of Lenin — the Stalins and Bucharins. Brady, Henry Storey, Joseph Carr, Mary Apart! from the historical causes, the Dalton and Anna Burlak. the last three of immediate reasons for the bourgeois, class- For the Opposition whom are members of the Young Commun collaborationist ideology and political back The M ilitant has espoused the cause of the Russian Opposition—the Bolshevik. ist League, at Atlanta, Georgia. The South wardness of the American workers have Leninists led by Trotsky—who, In prison or in exile, maintain the struggle for the ern Bourbons threaten to deprive them of been the relative prosperity it enjoyed in preservation of the proletarian dictatorship and who struggle for the regeneration ot their lives for holding meetings of Negro the past few years and the privileged pos the Party of Lenin on Its October basis. and white unemployed workers and for ition it occupied in comparison with the The Militant fights for the building of a revolutionary Communist Party iu distributing Communist literature! For European and Asiatic working class. The the United States on a Leninist foundation, as against the caricature of one as this they have resurrected from the ar American workers have developed for the developed by the Fosters and Lovestones. chives of 1861 an unused law on Insurrec better part of a decade -under the illusion^ The M ilitant as a WEEKLY publication, has been better able to carry on tion. of a “permanent prosperity”. these historic tasks than in its early days as a semi-monthly paper. The indictment is so astounding that it The Economic Crisis Last week, we spoke of the danger and possibility of a return by the M ilitant seems almost incrodible, But if anyone The collapse of the stock market, the to existence again a3 a semi-monthly. We called upon our readers, mebers and thinks this is just some farcical trickery deep-going decline and crisis in industry. sympathizers to render us financial assistance that we may continue as a Weekly with which the reactionaries of Georgia Militant in the forthcoming period, and to solidify our position. are trying to amuse themselves let them at once drive this dangerous illusion out O u r A ppeal of tihelr head. These legal lynchers are in For Unity of Communist Ranks We need $2,000.00, over and above our regular income of subscriptions,bundle deadly earnest. They want the blood of the payments, etc. to insure our existence as a Weekly publication for the next six months.

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