The Great Land Robbery by Hal Draper the Labor Movement in Tropical Africa-II by A

Isr.ls Arllll Minority: The Great Land Robbery by Hal Draper The Labor Movement In Tropical Africa-II by A. Giacometti EuropellR SDtilliism-1 Post-War Evolution of The Italian Movement by Lucio Libertini Tile Mllnillrins' illment by James M. Fenwick Til, EisenllDwer Doctrine r SOC Winter 1957 STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, THE NEW INTERNATIONAL 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933, AND JULY 2, 1946 (Title 39, United States Code, Sec THE NEW INTERNATIONAL A Marxist Review tion 233) SHOWING THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL, A Marxl.f Review Vol. XXIII, No. 1 Whole No. 174 Ilublished quarterly at New York, N. Y., for October 1, WINTER 1957 1956. 1 The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, Vol. XXIII. No. 1 WINTER 1957 Whole No. 174 man~ging editor, and business managers are: Publisher, The New International Publishing Co.; Editor, MilX Shacht TABLE OF CONTENTS man; }Ianaging Editor, Julius Falk; Business Manager, L. G. Smith, all of 114 West 14th St., New York, N. Y. 2. The owner is: The New International Publishing Co., QUllrterly Notes: Quarterly Notes: 114 West 14th St., ~ew York, N. Y.; Julius Jacobson, :395 West 11th St., New York, N. Y.; Albert Gates, 114 THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE ............ 3 West 14th St., New York, N. Y.; Max Shachtman, 114 West 14th St., New York, N. Y. The Eisenhower Doctrine by A. C. 3. The known bondbolders, mortgagees, and other secur ity holders owning or holding 1 per eent or more of total From the "greatest Sec to the minimum necessary to accomplish amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. the objective, and if the objective could Articles: 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in cases where the stock retary of State I have ever known," holder or security appears upon the books of the company President Eisenhower obtained his be accomplished by local action, certain ISRAEL'S ARAB MINORITY: as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of ly that would be all that would be under the person 01' corporation for whom such trustee is actin~; latest "doctrine" for a solution of the THE GREAT LAND ROBBERY... ........... 7 taken. If it required action outside of the also the statements in the two paragraphs show the at1lant s Middle East crisis. No great departure area, for example, attack staging full knowledge and belief as to the circumstanc{-s and con to by Hal Draper ditions under which stockholders and security holders who in American foreign policy has areas, lines of communication, and the do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, like, then that would be done. I do not hold stock and securities in a capacity otther than that of emerged with this doctrine, since, like EUROPEAN SOCIALISM-! envisage the possibility that there would a bona fide OImer. previous policies, it is an attempt to be, for example, an all-out attack on the POST-WAR EVOLUTION OF 5. The average number of copies of each is~ue of this maintain the world leadership of the publication sold 01' distributed, through the mails or oth~r Soviet Union unless it was quite appar THE ITALIAN MOVEMENT .......... 30 ~ise, to paid subscribers during the 12 month.'l preceding United States through essentially mil ent that what was happening was delib by Lucio Libertini the date shown above was: itary predominance. Economic assist erately intended to be the beginning of JULIUS JACOBSON, the Third World War. In that event, we Editor ance promised to the Arab nations is Sworn to and subscribed berore me this 21th day of might have to act differently. Those are THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN September, 1956. subordinated to it. Actually, this new matters which inevitably have to be left TROPICAL AFRICA-II ............... ,46 TONY CAPPELLO. Notary Puhlic, State of New "York objective of containing Stalinist Rus to the judgment of the Commander-in No. 31-56003100. Ply commisison expires 1\1arch 30, Chief. by A. Giacometti 19:;8.) sia is another variation of Dulles' di Published quarterly by The New International Publish plomacy, or what the current Progres Although we do not believe the ing Co., at 114 West 14th Street, New YOr/[ 11, N. Y. THE MANDARINS' LAMENT ................ G~ sive aptly calls "dangling one foot danger of war to be as acute as it was Re-entered as second class matter March 8, 1950, at the over the brink of war." Under it the by James M. Fenwick 90st ottice at New York, N. Y., udner the Act or March 3, several years ago (as a matter of fact, 187~ . President may engage the nation in a the danger of a new world conflict has Subscription rates: in the U. S., Canada antI A~raba $2.00 per year; bundles 35 cents each tor. ~ve copIes and military adventure if and when he receded considerably), the whole up. Britain, Ireland and Europe, IO/-BrItIsh, or $1.40 feels that it is necessary, without dis thinking of the Administration in the U. S. per year; Asia 7 / -British, 01 $1. 00 per year •. MAX SHACHTMAN, Editor Address all editorial and business communications to cussion and without prior endorse continuing world crisis revolves The New International, 114 West 14th Street, New York ment by Congress. around "ultimate military solutions." JULIUS FALK, Managing Editor 11, N. Y. This doctrine, drawn to provide the In general, American foreign policy means for engaging in war with Stal is fundamentally undemocratic. It is inist Russia, is, paradoxically, de undemocratic in its world perspec SulJseribe Now to scribed as a great instrument of peace. tives as they relate to the aspirations "I don't think," said the Secretary, and yearnings of the people of the THE NEW INTERNATIONAL "anybody ever thought the Monroe world; it is undemocratic in relation 114 West 14th Stott New York 11. N. Y. Doctrine was a declaration of war. It to the people of the United States, was a declaration of peace, and that is since it ignores the interests of the Rates: $2.00 per year what we are bringing here." But the people. essence of the Eisenhower Doctrine is At the end of the Second World more accurately presented in the de Name ............................................................................................................ War, the ferment throughout the con scription Dulles gave of it in his testi tinental land masses containing mil mony before the Senate Committee. Address ........................................................................................................ lions upon millions of colonial peo There he said: ples began. It has continued unabat elfy.............................................................. Zone .......... Sfafe................. .. We would want to limit our activity ed. The achievement of colonial inde- pendence resolved only the first prob land and Hungary, and the crisis in gees feel deceived. They feel that they their area of the world become the lems for the newly established na the Middle East. In both events, the were promised goods that were never next battleground in the struggle of tions. The problems of infinitely policies of the State Department have delivered. The American attitude to the powers. In almost all the Arab greater magnitude, those of economic been irresolute. fitful, and ambig-uous. ward the Hungarian revolt on the one countries, the reaction to the doctrine and social reconstruction, the require Improvization and expediency have hand hailed the heroic struggle has been vigorous enough to cause ments of tremendous amounts of ba characterized the Administration's re ~gainst the Russian colossus, and on the State Department to put all its sic capital for growth-to these great sponses to these stupendous occur the other, worried and wondered resources behind reassurances to the problems, American foreign policy rences. However "daring" the declara about the implications of the revolu Arabs. One of the Department's mi has been bankrupt and, above all, re tions of Dulles may have sounded, in tion as method, and the Workers nor (or is it major?) efforts in this actionary. The United States has not every instance they were reduced to Councils as instrument, of the rebel direction was the invitation to Saud presented itself as the great spokes glib moralizing and sanctimony, to I lion. to come to the United States to ar which the Secretary is ever prone. As , man of a new economic and political In the Middle East, American for range for his next handout so that he revolution in the colonial world, but the Hungarian events have shown, I I eign policy has one dominating mo might purchase more concubines, ~ rather as the heavy-handed defender bombast is a poor substitute for I tive force: oil. For the sake of oil the slaves, automobiles, and keep his arnI of the old order, not the defender of policy. government has bribed half a con ed and hired assassins loyal to him. the old colonial regimes, but the de It might be asked: what could the tinent. On behalf of oil, it has clashed Creating a schism in Arab ranks is no fender of feudal and private property United States have done in the face of with its Allies, condoned slavery, and doubt also an objective inherent in rights where they conflict with the the Hungarian events? Send troops embarked on a high policy of what the visit. needs of the masses. into the country and risk the danger amoun ts to financial bribery of the In all of this, the Administration Among the Western allies, the of a new world war? Obviously not. most miserable rulers in the world, has by-passed the UN. This omission Uni~ed States appears as the provider But American propaganda prior to the Arab chiefs of state.

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