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Volume 22 No. 2, February, 1943 1943 ~ THE NEW STAGE pF THE ~WAR IN EUROPE EUGENE DENNIS ' - • FRANCE'S HOUR HAS STRUCK - ANDRE MARTY ' . SOME PROBLE~S OF CENTRAU;zED WAR PRODUCTIO~ V. J. JEROME ,, L THE NATION AND THE ARMED FORCES MAX WEISS • THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS LOUIS F. BUDENZ ' ' - . ' \ ' . The CivilW.u in the United States, by Kar i · M ~ x and· , . · Frederi~k Engels . _, . , . ! . ' , '. , . .l • • .t2.5d-- 1 '· ';The FirSt A,neri~n R~voluti ~n,- by Jock Hardy :•' . .75 · -· -··- -·. ~ Reeo~str,u!'tio~: The Battle fpr. Democr~y~by ~a .J.e s S,_- .. -:~,.I • _ ., ._Allen •' . .. • ,. · r 1 . • .1, ••, • • • · ~ • 1.25 ... 1 1 .-, ~- '; 1 .r.., ( 1 , ' . I ' Thomas· Paine: S&leetions, witli Introduction by Jo m e~· S. · .Allen .·" . ".: . ., .. ;..__ . ,,./ . / . .25 \ . ' ~ddeus Stevens , ~by El izabeth. Lawson . ~., :1 : • .10 • ' - -r' , . • \: •• -- ·.,. • ' ! ' . ·{- r { r t / J • , 1 Hemet Tu.bmo~: Negro. Soldier a·n'd Al:>olitionls( "· ·.. ~ ' • • ,. by Eerl Conrad ' . ·· ' ' ~.15 Coll$t'ituti o~ I of the u,ited States of, America and~ the. \ Dedarati011 ·of lndepe.ndence; w1th Introdudion by· Ea'rl · Brq_wder "' · ~ · .' • ~ .10 . • _. •' ' I" 111• Negro ~n fhe Am~rica n , Revolution, by Pl.erbe.rt " ' .• • • J's A '"""-eket-''u r- • I \ . 10 . The Neg~ in lhe Civii .War, by Herbert Ap+h,eker . , I the 1~t Moyement, ' by. Herbert 1 T~~ ~..g,.~ ~. in; · Abollfion , Aptheker • • . • . • , ~ ; , . · • ,· . • 15 \ I -1.. ,..._ .. Ne9'ro Slave. Revolts in ·the u:s ... 1526--1860; _by Herbert Apthe1er . .· . • . .IS Outli~ .t Hi5tqry of · the Negro -Neople 1619-1918,, by . ,'Elizabeth U!wson • • • . • • '· · . •50 ~· \ • • ' ' I . '-""' Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist, Liberat9r, Statesman, · ' By Steve Kingston : • -. · . '· .05 \ /1 ' I I-..~ ' "..t: ': ·' •" 'f • W R 0 R K E S ~ I 8 R AR. Y PUBlISHERS ' ·_I '\. P. 0 . Be»c },48, Station D (832 Broadway) •New Yo r. k( .N., Y• •I ·~: l ) / VOL. XXII, No. 2 FEBRUARY, 1943 THE COl\fMUNIST A MAGAZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM-LENINISM EDITOR: EARL BROFDER CONTENTS The New Stage of the War in Europe Eugene Dennis. 99 Fr.mce's Hour Has Struck Andre Marty 114 Some Problems of Centralized War Production V. J. Jerome 126 Lincoln, Roosevelt and the Fifth Column. Milton Howard 135 The Nation and the Armed Forces Max Weiss 146 The President's Message to Congress Louis F. Budenz 157 Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Rela~ions Peter Kerrigan Hill The Communist Party of Great Britain on the Beveridge Proposals 168 Manifesto to the German People and the German Army 175 An Appeal to the People of Italy 181 Book Review 185 Entered as second class matter November 2, 1927, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE COMMUNIST is published Mcmthly by Workers Librarv Publishers, Inc., at 832 Broadway, New York, N. Y. (mail addresa, P. 0. Box 148, Station D), to whom sub­ scriptions, payments and correspondence should be sent. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year; $1.00 for six months; foreign and Canada $2.50 a yeiJr. Single copies 20 cents. PIUNTBD IN 'I'HB U.S.A. ...... ... LATEST PAMPHLETS ON THE WAR Food Prices and Rationing . $.01 By Loui.se Mitchell 300,000,000 Slaves and Serfs .I 0 By Jurgen Kuczynski Economics of Barbarism .15 By Jurgen Kuczynski Stalin on the War and the Second Front in Europe .01 The Science of Hatred .05 By Mikhail Sholokhov The Truth About Yugoslavia .05 Women in the War . .05 By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn The United States and Mexico: Two Nations-One Ideal .05 By Vicente Lombardo Toledano • WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Station D (832 Broadway) New York, N. Y. THE NEW STAGE OF THE WAR IN EUROPE BY EUGENE DENNIS TALINGRAD, Leningrad and tory grow brighter, it is necessary S Moscow! Odessa and Sevasto­ to take stock, to realistically esti­ pol! mate the situation so as more ef­ The Red Army, celebrating its fectively to proceed to the speediest twenty-fifth anniversary this Feb­ fulfillment of the unsolved as well ruary 23 in a mighty offensive un­ as the urgent new tasks which now der Stalin's genius and intrepid confront our people and nation and leadership, has indelibly engraved all the other United Nations. these names in the hearts and minds It is imperative to do this because of all freedom-loving people. the present military successes of the For the epic defense of Sevasto­ Red Army, coupled with the initial pol, Stalingrad and the North Cau­ successes of the American and Brit­ casus in 1942, like the historic de­ ish operations in North Africa and fense of Odessa, Leningrad and New Guinea, are so impressive and Moscow in 1941-and the great So­ promising that some people in the viet offensives of last winter and anti-Hitler camp in the United now-are signal landmarks in the States are being lulled into a sense people's war of national liberation. of false security. Some are becom­ They are symbols of the immortal ing victims of defeatist-inspired struggle of the Soviet people and its passivity and complacency, and Red Army against the Hitlerites and seem content to cheer our Soviet their barbaric "new order." They ally from the sideline~;, to "praise are the forerunners of a free Paris, the Lord"-but without passing Warsaw and Prague, and of an anti­ the ammunition. Nazi Berlin and Rome. They are In this connection, it should be signposts on the highway of man­ remembered that the Munichites kind's road to victory over fascist and the other appeasers are not only tyranny, to ensure national freedom, purveyors of dark pessimism and liberty and progress to the peoples outright defeatism per se, but like­ and nations enslaved and threatened wise they try to foster irrational by Hitlerism. optimism and over-confidence so as Today, as the Soviet offensive to delay and obstruct an all-out drives on, as America and Britain military offensive, so as to halt the prepare to extend the highly signifi­ launching of the second front in cant operations launched in North Europe, so as to divert public at­ Africa, and consequently as the tention and to create disunity and prospects of a United Nations' vic- internal strife over post-war gg 100 NEW STAGE OF THE WAR IN EUROPE "plans," as well as over "domestic" In view of this it is necessary that issues, so as to promote a "nego­ we analyze the present moment in tiated peace" with the Axis, a the war and take our bearings. This "conditional peace" a la Hoover. is doubly urgent so that we may And some honest but confused utilize the favorable turn in the war patriots are falling into the trap. now taking place and move full Many are becoming intoxicated speed ahead, so as to guarantee that with the recent changes in the mili­ the prerequisites which now exist tary situation, and are inclined to for smashing Hitler and Hitlerism in turn their attention away from the 1943 shall be seized and utilized in central and decisive military-politi­ time by -all the peoples and the en­ cal tasks which lie ahead, espe­ tire anti-Hitler coalition. cially from the need of developing a closer and more unified Allied * * * strategy and common fighting action By the end of 1942 a profound in the decisive European theater of change had taken place in the war, the war. Many are tending to lose in the relationship of military themselves in politics and business­ forces in Europe. Following' the as-usual activities, or in controver­ stubborn defensive battles of the sies over hypothetical problems of summer and autumn, the Red Army the morrow, pertaining to the future launched powerful offensives in the organization of post-war peace and Stalingrad area, on the Central reconstruction - forgetting that Front, in the Middle Don and in the without the military defeat of Hit­ Northern Caucasus. ler's Axis,· without the annihilation Along with these key blows, the of the Hitlerites, there can be no Italian-German coalition suffered victory, no freedom, no just and a series of defeats on a number of durable peace. other fronts. There was the rout Others in the camp of national of Rommel's forces in Egypt. There unity, however, are extremely pes­ were the successful Anglo-American simistic ancf circumscribed in their operations in Morocco and Algiers, approach, are limited in their un­ and the advance on Tunis. There derstanding and perspective. They are the first steps to form in North are disposed to doubt the possibili­ Africa a sizable anti-Hitler French ties of delivering the decisive blows Army. Dakar, which the fascists against Hitler this year. They are intended to convert into a base for inclined to minimize the fav­ their operations in the Battle of the orable possibilities now existing for Atlantic, and as a potential spring­ accelerating Hitler's defeat in 1943. board for attacking the Americas, Consequently they tend to delay now has become a base for A111er­ the development of a coordinated ica's armed forces. and all-out military offensive by all After two and a half years of · the United Nations now, and orien­ struggle for the French navy the tate on achieving victory in 1944 or Hitler imperialists failed in their later. objectives, as a result of the pa- NEW STAGE OF THE WAR IN EUROPE 101 triotic and anti-Hitler stand of the paired the naval power of Japan. French sailors and officers, the Tou­ And in China, its heroic armies and lon workers, as well as a result of peoples virtually single-handed .
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