What Socialist America Will Look Like (See Page 2) t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE W ORKING PEOPLE

Vol. X X I - No. 17 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1957 PRICE 10c March-on-Washington Support Grows Peter Fryer Joins Staff of The Militant Report New Peter Fryer, former reporter for the London Daily**)' W orker, w ill become a regular contributor to the M ilitant, Hungary. Shortly after his resig­ nation from the paper, he was Trade Union joining its staff as London correspondent. His first dis­ bureaucratically expelled from patch, scheduled to appear in p ------the British Communist Party for our next issue, will report on ist Party organ since 1948, re­ refusing to remain silent about the British Communist Party signed from the staff of that the real nature of the Hungarian Participation conference held Easter weekend. paper last November after its revolution. His expulsion was 'Fryer, who was a prominent editors mutilated and then sup­ confirmed by the recent Party By Henry Gitano writer for the British Comimun- pressed his dispatches from conference. A PR IL 24— Montgomery’s STILL A COMMUNIST participants in the nation­ In a statement after the con­ wide March on Washington ference, Fryer declared: “1 re­ — or Prayer Pilgrimage, United Socialist May Day main a Communist. I will go qn as it is officially called — fighting for the transformation ol the Communist Party into a will arrive in same station genuine Communist party . . . wagons that sped the Alabama Rally to be Held in N.Y. My friends will continue the bus boycotters to victory. Rev. struggle inside the Party against Martin Luther King of Mont­ A number of radical tendencies tant in a March 18 editorial en­ the corrupt, 'bankrupt and utter­ gomery, at a New York press will actively participate in a titled, “For a United May Day ly discredited Stalinist leader­ conference today, told of plans united May Day rally here to Rally.” The proposal gained fur­ ship. We will win because events for the Pilgrimage to the na­ make this year’s celebration of ther momentum when a similar tion’s capital which will take in Eastern Europe and Russia PETER FRYER the international working-class editorial appeared in the April are on our side.” place M ay 17 to p ro te st the holiday an historic event in New 1 National Guardian. Since leaving the Daily Work­ Hungary, they wrote: “To im­ Dixie reign of terror. Over York City. It will be held Wed­ er, Fryer has written two works prove our news service from that 50,000 Negroes and whites are nesday, May 1, 8 P.M. in the reporting on and analyzing the vital center, we are sending Pe­ preparing to back the Southern Central Plaza auditorium at 111 Dobbs, Gates Hungarian events, the book, ter Fryer to Hungary. Daily fighters for equal rights at the mass rally. Second Ave. (Near Seventh St.) “Hungarian Tragedy,” and a Worker readers know Fryer’s It will be the first time in al­ Muste to Speak pamphlet, “Hungary and the reputation as an experienced and Dr. King quoted a West Coast most thirty years that so many C om m unist P a rty — A n A ppeal skilled reporter. No one is better organizer for the march as diverse tendencies within the A symposium on “The Road stating that 3,000 people will to Socialism in America” will Against Expulsion.” He is now qualified for such an assign­ radical movement have united on working on a book provisionally m en t.” travel cross-country by plane M ay D a y. be held at the Brighton Com­ entitled, “Marxism and Stalin­ Fryer, who joined the Young and train to participate in the Speakers addressing the rally munity Center on Sunday, May rally. King affirmed there would 5, at 8 p.m. The speakers will ism .” Communist League at the age of will be: George Blake Charney Now 30 years old, Fryer has 15, began his journalistic career be heavy forces Coming from of the N. Y. State Committee, be A. J. Muste, editor of Lib­ the South: pledges of massive eration, John Gates, editor of earned a solid reputation as a shortly afterward as a reporter Communist Party; Bert Cochran, journalist. Among English jour­ foi the Yorkshire Post, a con­ support have been received from editor of the American Socialist; the Daily Worker and Farrell Montgomery, Tallahassee, Birm­ Dobbs, National Secretary of nalists, he is regarded as one of servative daily. In 1947 he was Dorothy Day, editor of the Cath­ fired for refusing to resign from ingham, Atlanta, Baton Rouge M ay Day, 1957: Demand olic Worker; Dr. W. E. B. Du- the Socialist Workers Party. The the top men in the profession. and New Orleans. Brighton Community Center is Prior to his refusal to lie about the Communist Party after par­ Bois, the noted historian; John The Washington Pilgrimage at 32CfO Coney Island Avenue, the Hungarian revolution, that ticipating in a May Day parade T. McManus, editor of the Na­ was called by Rev. King; Roy Brooklyn. It can ,be reached from view was shared by the editors under its banner. tional Guardian; A.J. Muste, Wilkens executive secretary of Manhattan via the BMT Brighton of the London Daily Worker. At He joined the staff of the Daily A Halt to Nuclear Tests! Editor of Liberation; and Myra the NAACP; and A. Philip Ran­ Beach line. the time of his assignment to (Continued on page 3) T. Weiss, Socialist Workers dolph, president of the Brother­ Party Vice-Presidential candi­ hood of Sleeping Car Porters. date in the 19&6 elections. The It will be interracial. Dr. King This May Day the international work­ proposals and all pleas for even this rally will be chaired by Clifford HELP FREE MORTON SOBELL! cited pledges of large delega­ precaution. T. MoAvoy, Chairman of the tions and financial support from ing class celebrates its traditional holiday Committee for ¡Socialist Unity, On A p ril 23, f if t y nations heard the the Auto, Steel, Garment, in an atmosphere charged with the under whose auspices the rally statement made by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Packinghouse, Department Store, nuclear arms race. The American work­ is being held. In addition, Con­ Electrical and Transport work­ respected scientist and humanist, in a rad Lynn, an attorney for the ers unions. ing class above all must concern itself broadcast sponsored by the Norwegian NAACP, will spe-k on the sched­ District 65 of the Retail, with this terrible fact for which the Big uled prayer pilgrimage to Wash­ Nobel Prize Committee. It was a simple Wholesale and Department Store Business government in the United States ington. Union, AFL-CIO, w ill send 1,000 and eloquent explanation of the dangers is responsible. Although invited to partici­ members to Washington accord­ of radiation. It was broadcast in all coun­ pate the Socialist Party-Social ing to plans drawn up at their Washington ordered the production of tries th a t possess atom bombs— excepting Democratic Federation and the April 22 New York union meet­ the first atom bomb and its use in World the United States. Independent Socialist League de­ ing. Unionists were urged by War II. It forced the production of the clined to send representatives. Cleveland Robinson, Seeretary- We present a part o f this message on The united rally has been or­ even-more deadly hydrogen bomb on a Treasurer of District 65, to get this May Day because we believe th a t the ganized under the banner of together in individual shops and “crash program” basis without the American working class has the duty — tnese demands: “Restore the Bill plan to march as a unit. He slightest regard for the warnings of to itself and all humanity — to force of Rights,’’ “End ¡Segregation — added that the union w ill guar­ scientists concerned with human safety. Enforce the Constitution!” “Ban antee that no disciplinary action the arrogant and irresponsible Big Busi­ Nuclear Weapons — Stop the The Pentagon in Washington has been is taken for absenteeism on that ness government to halt its reckless drive Tests Now,” and “Withdraw Al’. day. “Segregationists and race the only military power to threaten the toward nuclear war. American Troops from Foreign haters . . . and our lawmakers use of atom bombs in active theaters of From the beginning the Militant has Soil and Waters.” The Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell has chartered this 3,000-passenger will not be able to ignore the war: in Korea, in China and in Indo- A proposal for a united May- steamer for a Hudson River boat ride to Bear Mountain, Sunday, May 26. The boat will leave significance of scores of thou­ urged that nuclear tests be halted. We Day meeting was made from, the China. Only last fall the Eisenhower ad­ have demanded an end to the stock-piling from Battery Park at 10 a.m. and also pick uppassengers at 125 st. pier at 10:30 a.m. Round- sands of us massed before the floor during the discussion at a trip fare is $2.50 for adults and $1 for children. Tickets may be purchased from the committee Lincoln Memorial' on May 17.” ministration ordered troops equipped with of atom bombs. But we also believe that Brooklyn Symposium on Social­ at 940 Broadway, New York, N.Y. In urging support for the outing, Mrs. Helen Sobell said: District 65 also donated $500, nuclear weapons into the Mediterranean this is not enough. If all atomic weapons ism and Civil Liberties. It was “Three thousand people in any one place has political significance. A full turnout will help toward expenses for the march. put forward again in the Mili- field of war. Washington has openly were destroyed, the capacity to produce guarantee that Morton will take the boat ride f rom Alcatraz.” (Continued on page 4) stated it will equip the NATO forces in new ones would s till exist. N ot only the Europe with nuclear weapons and use weapons o f war, but the cause o f war them in the opening of any conflict. And must be eliminated. For this it is the Pentagon is rapidly reorganizing necessary to end the rule of Big Business Letter to N.Y. Radicals on ’57 Election U.S. armed forces to serve nuclear war. in America. It is necessary to build an By Joyce Cowley worded insincerities of the white areas remain and the Democratic platform. The Soviet Union long ago agreed to independent labor party and fight for a Socialist Workers Party housing conditions in the ghet­ The people of New York have toes are more scandalous than stop its nuclear tests if other nations also workers’ government. Only then will the Candidate for Mayor of New York already had four years of the ever. School desegregation in desisted. But the Wall Street govern­ danger of nuclear destruction be removed. Wagner Democratic administra­ To all socialist-minded Ntew Yorkers: New York is about to begin only ment in Washington has ignored all Only socialism will bring a lasting peace. tion. Certainly there is nothing after the most bitter struggle Having been designated as the candidate of the So­ that the labor bureaucracy, against the authorities who cialist Workers Party for mayor of New York City in the liberals or the Communist Party resisted every inch of the way. leaders, all of whom backed Excerpts from Schweitzer Appeal coming elections, I write this letter to explain our views Discrimination in city depart­ W agner in 1953, can p o in t to ments still persists. Police “ Since March 1, 1954, hydrogen bombs contribute to the preparing of the way on the campaign and the basis® as having justified the working- brutality against Negroes and on which I am running, cannot advance its own interests have been tested by the Americans at the fo r the insight so urgently needed. . . class support they delivered to Puerto Ricans remains part of We believe that working peo­ as long as it remains a captive “ The explosion of an atom bomb creates him. None of the major prob­ the American Way of Life in Pacific island of Bikini in the Marshall of the Democratic Party which, ple should give no support lems of New York have even New York City. Group and by the Russians in Siberia. an inconceivably large number of ex­ whatsoever to the Democratic- like the Republican, is a party ceedingly small particles of radioactive been attacked, let alone solved. The Wagner administration is “After the explosion of a hydrogen Tammany candidate Wagner, owned by Big Business. The In those spheres where an inch only way for labor to break out touted as not being old - type bomb . . . something remained in the air, elements. nor to the Republican candidate. of progress has been made, it of the political blind alley, in Tammany, but liberal Demo­ namely an incalculable number of radio­ “ O f these elements, some exist fo r There is, of course, little danger was made despite the Wagner which it is trapped, is to or­ cratic. A glance at the corrup­ hours, some for weeks, or months, or that the labor movement will administration or because that active particles emitting radioactive support the Republican candi­ ganize its own party. We be­ tion in the City Council, where years, or millions of years, undergoing administration gave an inch to the lid has now been slightly rays. . . date. Unfortunately, that is not lieve it is a duty of socialists forestall having to give a foot. to campaign for just such a lifted, makes it plain that the “In the course of the three and a half continuous decay. They float in the higher the case with the Democratic New York remains a low-wage strata of air as clouds of radioactive dust. nominee. In his Campaign for breakaway firom the capitalist new-type Tammany politicians years th a t have passed since then, rep­ area — it is becoming more and are in politics for the same rea­ The heavy particles fall down first. The mayor in 1953 and for U.S. Democratic Party to independent more of a sweat-shop town and resentatives of the physical and medical labor political action. son as their forebearers. Under 'Senator in 1956, W iagner had the Democratic - Tammany ad-, sciences have been studying the problem. lig h te r ones w ill stay in the a ir fo r a the support of the labor of­ The Democratic Party in New the liberal Wagner the city ministration not only doesn’t witch hunt goes on. City em­ The material collected, although far from longer time or come down with the rain ficialdom, the liberals and the York City is an important com­ JOYCE COWLEY resist this but battens on it. and the snow. How long it will take before Communist Party. Thus the ponent part of the Democratic ployes are fired for having ever complete, allows us to draw the conclu­ constituting a real alternative While the politicians have in­ had any association, no matter major segment of those who Party nationally. And what is to the Republican Party, it timate ties with racketeering sion that radiation resulting from the everything carried up in the air by the how slight or far-fetched, with pressure to lead or advise the this national Democratic Party? permits the latter to survive and labor bureaucrats, they resist explosions which have already taken place, explosions which have taken place till individuals or groups guilty of working people and discriminated It is a Big-Business supported take office when the people militant trade unionism among represents a danger to the human race, a now has disappeared, no one can say against minorities of this city alliance of the white-supremac- anti-capitalist beliefs. Wagner’s have had a bellyful of the low-paid city workers. While backing up of the Board of danger not to be underrated, and that w ith any certainty. According to some worked with might and main to ist, anti-labor forces of the Dem ocrats. millions go for graft, the city’s Education’s recent celebration of estimates, this will be the case not earlier get New Yorkers to vote Demo­ South, the corrupt big-city ma­ Presentation of a real plat­ further explosions of atomic bombs will teachers, for example, cannot Academic Freedom Week in New cra tic. chines and its very junior form to the American people, increase this danger to an alarming than thirty or forty years from now. obtain a decent wage. York’s city colleges by ban­ partners, the vote - delivering- one that would rally the work­ extent. “What we can state with certainty, O U R D U T Y labor leaders and minority lead­ JIM CROW STANDS ning Daily Worker editor John ers, farmers and minorities in Gates, shows how reactionary “ I raise my voice, together with those however, is that the radioactive clouds That is, they urged the work­ ers. opposition to Big-Business rule, Despite demagogic gestures this liberal is on Civil liberties. of others who have lately felt it their will constantly be carried by the winds ing people, Negroes and Puerto It is this capitalist — Jim is prevented by the top labor of­ and a few appointments of Ne­ around the globe and th a t some o f the Ricans to vote against their own Crow — city machine alliance, ficials who keep the union move­ groes to city jobs, there has Another act symbolizing the duty to act. . . My age and the sympathy interests. For the one overriding with the labor bureaucracy Wagner administration’s wooing dust, by its own weight, or by being ment trapped in the Democratic been 110 real atta ck on the Jim - that I have gained for myself through lesson of American politics, na­ tagging along, that keeps the Party and who, in the name of Crow pattern of life in New of the reactionary elements was advocating the idea of reverence for life, brought down by rain, snow, mist and dew, tionally and in every state and political atmosphere in this party unity, make it give York. The Negro and Puerto his acceptance, over the repeated city, is that the working class country so reactionary. By not permit me to hope that my appeal may (Continued on page 2) grudging support to the weasel- Rican ghettoes and the lily- (Continued on page 4) Page 2 THE MILITANT Monday, April 29, 1957

.'..Dr. Schweitzer’s Appeal A Picture of U.S. Socialism By Harry Ring cm McCarthyism was in its as­ vclopments of the four-and-a- U S. policy can serve only to deep­ a fatal flaw. Its leisure—and (Continued from page 1) empty their waste water into the river. cendancy. The labor movement half years since it was pre­ en the revolutionary struggles therefore its culture—were lim­ Like those engaged in many was in a state of quiescence that sented. In a|l basic respects, it against it. At one point he put ited to a very narrow stratum little by little, will fall down on the hard “The radioactivity of the river water other pursuits, revolutionary so­ seemed to border on stupor. The meets the test of events in im­ it this way: “They act something of privileged aristocrats. It lack­ surface of the earth, into the rivers and was insignificant. But the radioactivity cialists frequently get so involved political situation was such as to pressive fashion. This fact, I like a schizophrenic fireman I ed the technological basis for of the river plankton wqs 2,OQO tijpes with the trees immediately before into the oceans. raise again the question, “Just think, lends much added weight once heard of who was also a universal leisure and culture. The them that it becomes necessary “Particularly dangerous are the elements higher, that of the ducks eating the how real is a socialist perspec­ io the revolutionary optimism pyromaniac. He ran himself rag­ society of ancient Greece rested to stop occasionally for a fresh combining long life with a relatively plankton 40.000 times higher, th a t of the tive for America?” which permeates the pamphlet. ged all day trying to put out the on a base of dehumanized slave look at the forest. To my piind fires he had started 1 the night labor. It was surrounded by a strong efficient radiation. Among them fish 150,000 times higher. In young one of the finest features of May Cannon undertook the lecture The key to the world situation before. He could never catch up world of baibarism. It was con­ swallows fed on insects caught by their Day is that it provides the op­ series to present a rounded an­ Cannon held, is this fact: “The strontium -90 takes the firs t place. I t is with his work.” This image also stantly embroiled in wars and portunity for a long-range look swer to this question. He pre­ course of history in the post-war present in very large amounts in the parents in the river, the radioactivity fitr John Foster Dulles’ activi­ eventually went down in ruins, at the socialist future and to as­ sented a broad analytical review world has been determined pri­ radioactive dust. Cobalt-60 must also be was 500.000 times higher and in the egg ties to a T. and nothing was left of it but sess anew the prospects fo r of the trends of world devel­ m a rily ,by the re la tio n between The pamphlet contains much what is scratched on stone and mentioned as particularly dangerous. yolks of water birds more than 1,000,000 achieving that final goal. My own opments and related them to the these three powers, the United other valuable materiaL, includ­ preserved on parchment. A few “The radioactivity in the air, increased times higher. . . thinking along these lines this prospects of capitalism and so­ States, the Soviet Union and the ing a penetrating estimate of how' ruins of the marvelous sculpture through these elements, will not harm us “None of the radioactivity of the air, year lead me to a-re-reading of cialism in the IDS. He concluded insurgent colonial world. All the that ‘‘a social crisis in this coun­ ether countries play merely sup­ the inevitable social crisis will and architecture still stand to from the outside, not being strong enough brought into existence by tjie exploding James P. Cannon’s pamphlet, shatter the two-party system give an intimation of what was “ America’s Road to Socialism.” I try is certain . . . a social crisis porting roles.” The British and and along with it, the notion of known and done twenty-five to penetrate the skin. But the danger of atom bombs, is so unimportant that it found it a rewarding experience. capable of exploding far sooner French fiasco in Suez and the a viable labor-Democratic coali­ hundred years ago. which has to be stressed above all the may not, in the long run, become a danger The pamphlet is based' on six than the wise men dream.” aimost total eclipse of their pow­ tion. But on the occasion of this Socialist society w ill stand im­ lectures given by Cannon in Los [ reread the pamphlet with an er in the crucial area of the Mid­ others is the one which arises from our to us through increasing the amount of socialist holiday, let’s pause for measurably higher than that of Angeles a t the end o f 1952. The ■eje tow a rd how w e ll the analysis dle East alone suffice to verify drinking radioactive water and our eating radioactivity stored in our bodies. a look at the new world that’s ancient Greece, even in its Golden Korean war was then s|ill going stacks up against the world de- this analysis. radioactive food as a consequence of the “ W hat are the diseases caused by in­ corning—the world that will be Age. Machines and science will increased radioactivity in the air. ternal radiation? The same diseases that FITS DULLES free of social crisis. Below' are be the slaves, and they will be far more productive, a thousand, are known to be caused by external Discussing the world counter­ some excerpts from Cannon’s in­ A-Bomb Fatality revolutionary role of U.S. imper­ spiring view' of the socialist fu­ ten thousand times more produc­ radiation. ialism Cannon demonstrated that ture. tive. than the human slaves of RADIOACTIVE RAIN “They are mainly serious blood di­ ancient Greece. Under socialism, “Following the explosions of Bikini and seases. If the cells in the bone marrow all will share in the benefits of “ What Socialist America Will Look Like” abundance, not merely a favored Siberia rain falling over Japun has, from are damaged by radiation they will By James P. Cannon walls of their individual kitch­ few at the top. All the people tim e to time, been so radioactive th a t produce too few op abnormal, degenerat­ ens will be the greatest jail break will have time and be secure for Our discussion tonight deals the water from it cannot be drunk. And ing blood corpuscles. Both cases lead to in history—and the most bénéfi­ an ever higher development. with the socialist society itself, cient. Women, liberated from the All will be artists. All will be not only there : reports of radioactive blood diseases and, most often, to which will grow out of the new rainfall are coming from all parts of the death. . . prison of the kitchen, will be­ workers and students, builders conditions when the class strug­ come the free companions of and creators. A ll w ill be free and world where analyses have recently been gle will have been carried to its “Not our own health only is threat­ free men. equal. Human solidarity will en­ conclusion—that is, to the aboli­ made. In several places, the w ater has ened by internal radiation, but also th a t * * * circle the globe and conquer it, tion of classes and consequently proved to be so radioactive that it was I must also break the news to ano subordinate it to the uses of of our descendants. The fact is that the of all class struggles. Our pre­ the Southern crackers and their m an. unfit for drinking. cells of the reproductive organs are parti­ view of the socialist society, Northern cousins, and other That, my friends, is not an “Whenever radioactive rainwater is therefore, is not a program for cularly vulnerable to radiation. To the members of the Jim Crow fra­ idle speculation. That is the struggle, but a forecast of the •found the soil is also radioactive — and profound damage of these cells cor­ ternity that under socialism realistic perspective of our great lines of future development al­ in a higher degree. Thp soil is more radio­ responds a profound damage to our America will no longer be a movement. We ourselves are not ready indicated in the present. active not only by the downpour, but also descendants. . . ‘‘white man’s country.” It will privileged to live in the social­ * * t ist. society of the future, which from radioactive dust falling on it. And “We are forced to regard every in­ belong to the colored people too. Socialism will undoubtedly They will own as much of it as Jack London, in his far-reach­ with the soil the vegetation will also case in the existing danger through ■bring about a re vo lu tio n a ry anyone else and share to the full, ing aspiration, called the Golden have become radioactive. further creation of radioactive elements transformation of human activi­ without let or hindrance, all its Future. It is our destiny, here and “The radioactive elements deposited in by atom bomb explosions as a catastrophe ty and association in all fields bountifül prosperity and abun­ now, to live in the time of the previously conditioned by the di­ the soil pass into the plants where they for the human race, a catastrophe that dance, all its freedoms, rights death agony of capitalism. It is vision of society into classes—in and privileges—without any ex­ our task to wade through the are stored. This is of importance, for as must be prevented under every circum­ work, in education, in sports and ception whatever. blood and filth of this outmoded, a result o f this process it may be the stance. amusements, in manners and << * * dying system. Our mission is to case tha t we are threatened by a con­ “ There can be no question of doing any­ morals, and in incentives and re­ In the classless society of the clear it away. That is our strug­ wards. siderable amount of radioactive elements. thing else; if only for the reason that we future there will be no state. gle, our law of life. iBut all these changes which We cannot be citizens of the “The radioactive elements in grass, cannot take the responsibility for the The Marxist formula that the cannot be anticipated and pre­ state will wither away and die socialist future, except by antici­ when eaten by animals whose meat is consequences it m ight have fo r our de­ dicted, will begin with and pro­ out has a profound ultimate pation. But it is precisely this used for food, will be absorbed and stored scendants. Tokomo Nakabayashi, who survived the A-bomb explosion ceed from the revolutionary meaning, for the state is the anticipation, this vision of the in our bodies. “They are threatened by the greatest at Hiroshima, died of a heart attack last year at the age of 25 transformation of the system of most concentrated expression of future, that fits us for our role while undergoing plastic surgery in a New York hospital. production and the consequent violence. Where there is vio­ as soldiers of the revolution, sol­ “What this storing of radioactive and most terrible danger. augmentation and multiplication diers of the liberation war of material implies is clearly demonstrated She was one of the young women brought here to undergo lence, there is no freedom. The “That radioactive elements created by plastic surgery for radiation burns and sears resulting from of the productivity of labor. This society of the free and equal will humanity. And that, I think, is by the observations made when, at one us are found in nature is an astounding the bombing. Today, the Japanese people are again confronted is the necessary material prem­ have no need and no room for vio­ the highest privilege today, the occasion, the radioactivity of the Columbia event in the history of the earth. And of with the deadly menace of radioactivity as the major powers ise for a society of shared abun­ lence and will not tolerate it in occupation most worthy of a dance. The revolutionary reor­ civilized man. No matter wheth­ River in North America was analyzed. the human race. To fail to consider its continue their testing of nuclear weapons in Pacific areas. The any form. This was the profound Japanese government, reflecting the pressure of the popula­ ganization of the labor process conception of the great Marxists. er we personally see the dawn of The radioactivity was caused by the atom- importance and its consequences would — of the manner of working and socialism or not, no matter what tion, has appealed to Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the # * * ic plants at Hanford, which produce atomic be a folly for which humanity would have of regulating, measuring ’and our personal fate m ay be, the United States to end the nuclear tests. A ll of their pleas have Leisure is the condition for all compensating the labor time of cause for which we fight has so­ energy for industrial purposes, and which to pay a terrible price. . . been turned down. cultural development. "The Glory the individual—•■will take place cial evolution on its side and is that was Greece,” justly cele­ first and should be considered therefore invincible. It will con­ brated in song and story, was first, because it will clear the quer and bring all mankind a new the first great confirmation of way for all the other changes. . . day. this law. Ancient Greece, bor­ FUND SCOREBOARD All concepts of the amount of It is enough for us, I think, if What Calif. CP Leaders rowing from other civilizations, B ranch Quota Paid Percent necessary labor required from we do our part to hasten on the produced the first truly cultured CLEVELAND $ 420.00 $ 610.00 145 each individual, based on present day. That’s what we’re here for. class. In some important respects MILWAUKEE 250.00 254.00 101 conditions and practices, must be That’s all the incentive we need. it touched the highest peaks our abandoned in any serious attempt And the confidence that we aré ALLENTOWN 102.00 102.00 100 race has yet known; and in the BOSTON 600.00 600.00 100 Reject as “Trotskyist” to appi'oach a realistic estimate right and that our cause will pre­ Golden Age of Pericles it came BUFFALO 2100.00 2100.00 100 of future prospects and possi­ vail, is all the reward we need. [The passages published below the support of the world work­ cause it implies that the work­ to its fullest flower. Its attain­ CHICAGO 1560.00 1560.00 100 bilities in this basic field. The That’s what the socialist poet, ing class in the form of ex­ ing class must continue to ‘live’ ments in literature, the drama, DETROIT 1000.00 1000.00 100 form part of a criticism of the labor necessary to produce food, William Morris, had in mind, tending the socialist sector of with capitalism and does not sculpture, architecture, philoso­ SEATTLE 360.00 360.00 Draft Resolution of the CP Na­ clothing, shelter and all the con­ when he called us to 100 the w o rld. clarify the fact that while phy; in the beginnings of science TWIN CITIES 1584.00 1587.85 100 tional Committee written and veniences and refinements of ma­ “Our errors here flow from monopoly is the more advanced and in the graces and amenities “Join in the only battle YOUNGSTOWN 300.00 300.00 widely circulated in mimeograph terial life in the new society will 100 our subordination of the class stage of capitalism, capitalism of civilized intercourse—are the Wherein no man can fail, N e w a rk 240.00 235.00 98 form during the pre-convention be co-operative, social labor — stru g g le on the A m erican scene is the root enemy. . . . original pattern from which For whoso fadeth and dieth, N ew Y o rk 5000.00 4615.10 92 discussion by the Section Organ­ with an ever-increasing empha­ in order to ‘defend’ the USSR, “On the question of our Western civilization stems. , Yet his deeds shall slill Los Angeles 4000.00 3406.50 85 izational Secretary of the 46th sis on labor-saving and auto­ without realizing that the real formulation in the draft resolu­ But that glorious Greece had p re v a il.” Philadelphia 480.00 400.50 83 Assembly District of the Los matic, labor-eliminating machin­ defense of the socialist countries tion regarding the Democratic San Francisco 800.00 640.00 Angeles Communist Party. Its ery, inventions and scientific dis­ 80 lies in the extending of Social­ Party: . . . The existence of a O akland 190.00 ideas have had widespread in­ coveries, designed to increase the 240.Q0 79 ism to other states, including, mass labor movement of 17 m il­ A k ro n 140.00 fluence among CP militants. rate of productivity. . . . 110.00 78 the U.S.A. . . . lion organized workers, together St. Louis 80.Q(3 50.00 The document was repudiated The progressive reduction of 64 “The working class, in order with the existence of a mass G eneral as “Trotskyist” by its author in this labor time required of each BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS 105.60 — Negro peoples’ movement ar^ her Stalinist-style “confession” to achieve socialism, must have individual will, in my opinion, an advanced, class Conscious, so­ significant factors which make at the Southern California Dis­ soon render it impractical to com­ On tlie Theory and Practice Total through cialist-oriented vanguard to lead possible the realization of the trict Convention of the CP, Aprij pute this labor time on a daily, A p ril 24 $19,256.p0 $18,226.55 95 organization of an independent 13. A t that time she also charged it. While it should draw on the weekly or even yearly basis. It Of Revolutionary Socialism traditions and forms familiar to party of labor and farmers if seven CP members who ad­ is reasonable to assume—this is we fight for such a line instead vocated views similar to those the American people in its or­ my opinion, but only my opinion BY LEON TROTSKY of ‘dead-ending’ the energies of she repudiated with being ganizational structure, it must, and not a program—that the these workers in the Democratic In Defense o f M a rxism ...... ) ...... $2.50 SWP Fund Hits 95% — “agents of the Socialist Work­ because it recognizes the class amount of labor time required of P a rty . The Revolution Betrayed ...... 1.50 ers Party.” (Full details were forces which will continue to be the individual by society during “The Democratic Party cannot Stalin’s Frame-Up System published in last week’s issue ef lined up against it until social­ his whole life expectancy, will be this instrument in the hands And the Moscow Trials ...... 1,00 the Militant.) — Ed.] ism is achieved, be so organized 'be approximately computed, and One Week Left to Go! of the working class because it as to provide safeguards for that he will be allowed to elect Draft Program of the Communist International ....___ .25 is a party of capitalism, Europe and America I...... By Constance Farr “ While the Resolution spends united action once a program is when to make this contribution. dedicated to the continuance of Marxism in the U. S...... 35 Party-Building Fund Director considerable time analyzing the arrived upon, by democratic dis­ I incline strongly to the idea that Death Agony of Capitalism errors of the past period, it fails cussion and majority decision, capitalism. The problem is one the great majority will' elect to Only 5% le ft to go in thp $19,256 P arty-Building F und! to single out adequately the and provide further for the right of convincing the workers that get their equired labor time over (Transitional Program) ...... 25 And there is one more week for the branches who have not main error which gave rise to to dissent, conduct full and free they must move away from in­ with in their early youth, work­ The Suppressed Testament of Lenin ...... 25 yet reached 100% to catch up so that the next Fund these mistakes: our dependence discussion on varying points of struments of the capitalists and ing a full day for a year or two. Stalinism and Bolshevism ...... 15 upon the Communist Party of form their party based on their Fascism: What It Is — How to Fight It ...... ! ! '1 5 Scoreboard can proudly announces— ------view, be disciplined by voluntary Thereafter, they would be free the USSR and our failure to understanding and loyalty, and own class interests. Democratic for the rest of their lives to de­ The Class Nature of the Soviet Stqte ...... 25 that we have reached our goal. dividual pledges, the response P a rty candidates are the build in the United States an fight constantly for raising the vote themselves, with freedom in New York Fund Director was very good indeed. Many independent Party, based upon understanding of its members creatures of the capitalists and their labor, to any scientific pur­ Ethel Wood reports that this members who did not feel they • Marxism and interpreting the on the basic principles, strategy stand for that class and that suit, .to any creative work or play campaign has been one of the could pledge more nonetheless system. They represent the in­ history, special conditions, and for achieving socialism, and the or study which might interest BY JAMES P. CANNON most inspiring in many years. overpaid their quotas. problems of winning Socialism tactics that will advance the terests of the ruling class in them. The necessary productive ‘We are absolutely sure to America’s Road to Socialism ...... $ .35 ‘‘All in all, the morale and here under vastly different con­ struggle most rapidly. . . . the last analysis. Working class labor they have contributed in a make our $5,000 quota by next Socialism on Trial ...... 50 spirit of the local are so good ditions than were in existence “ Peaceful co-existence subor­ candidates, running on a work­ few years of their youth, will week and we will probably go The Coming American Revolution ...... 10 that we are all inspired to con­ in the USSR. dinates the struggles of the ing class program, in a party pay for their entire lifetime over. Sypathizers of the party American Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism ...... 15 tribute as much as possible.” “The problem of building So­ colonial peoples against im­ controlled by the working c!css, maintenance, on the same prin­ contributed over $400. are the only guarantees of the Eugene V. Debs: The Socialist Movement Because of the expansion of cialism in the Soviet Union, a perialism to that of maintaining ciple that the workers today pay “One of our friends who is a Of His Time; Its Meaning for Today ...... 25 activity which has been taking backward Country politically, the status quo on a world scale. class interests of the work- for their own paltry “social se­ registered nurse, has been work­ The IWW — The Great 'Anticipation ...... 25 place in the SWP, the comple­ with a heritage from Czarism of Peaceful co-existence therefore eis. . . . curity” in advance. ing on a second job in order to The Road to Peace ...... ,25 tion of the fund drive is par­ primitive productive capacities, is a betrayal of the struggle for “An effective regroupment of * * * pay up her substantial pledge. The History of American Trotskyism ticularly important. Not only are and a low labor productivity (in­ socialism because it implies the the left can only be achieved by Two nights a week, she is work­ The emancipation of women regroupment symposiums being capable of bringing economic right of continuing existence to free association and inter-change will begin in the very first days P aper 1.75 ing for the Party-Building of all points of view of socialist held throughout the country, gains which would guarantee capitalist states, without recog­ of the workers government, and C loth 2.75 F u n d ! The Struggle for a Proletarian Party but a number of tours by SWP political democracy to the Rus­ nizing that the only true defense minded groupings and the hold­ “ One couple with two children very probably will be fully com­ speakers on the subject of re­ sian people), isolated in an of the Soviet Union and other ing of varied types of activities pleted before the socialist society Paper 2.00 have taken out a loan so that which may lead to the eventual groupment are underway, or encircling ring of enemy capital­ Socialist states is the extension emerges from the transition pe­ C loth 2.75 they could complete their pledge organization of a mass party scheduled for the near future. ist states, gave rise to distor­ of socialism through the entire riod. The first condition for the on tim e .” of socialism.” Besides the opportunities opened tions and crimes as outlined in world. ^ . . real emancipation of women PLEDGES OVERPAID up to us by the ferment in the the Khrushchev report. Instead “The draft resolution projects is their economic emancipation. OTHER radical movement today to hold “When we appealed to the of the advent of Socialism the ‘anti-m on opo ly c o a litio n ’ as That must presuppose the sci­ Regroupment: A Programmatic Basis for Socialist meetings, we are able to help bringing its full potential to the Los Angeles New York local to raise in- the main strategy to advance entific organization of house­ Unity — By the National Committee of the towards the republishing of people of the Soviet Bnion, such the interests of the working The work, like all other work, so that Socialist Workers Party ...... $ .10 Trotsky’s works, long out of benefits were denied by the rise class and implies that this is ABRAHAM LINCOLN women too can have time and Revolution in Hungary and the Crisis of Stalinism — p rin t. of a bureaucratic caste who the path to socialism in the B R IG A D E leisure for cultural activity and By the National Committee of the SWP ...... 25 With only one week left to fought to maintain their privi­ U.S. guch a formulation is a A Three-Month Subscription invites you to its the free choice of occupation. Negroes on the March — By Daniel Guerin ...... 1.50 go, we urge all readers of the lege by denying t|ie fu ll develop­ betrayal of socialism because it 20th Anniversary That will imperatively require ment of Socialism. This was due To THE MILITANT Militant who have not yet con­ fails to make the basic point Dance the establishment of communal Send for Complete Catalogue tributed to the fund tq send in in part to the fusion of the that fundamentally the enemy is kitchens, housekeeping services, Only 50 Cents their contribution right away to CP of the USSR with thp state capitalism. To propose an ‘anti- Sat., May 4 — 8:30 P.M. nurseries and kindergartens. . . . PIONEER PUBLISHERS SWP Party-Building Fund, lip apparatus and in part to the monopoly Coalition’ is to desert Yablon Center * * * 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. 116 Unjversity PL, N.Y. 3, N.Y. University Place, New York 3, problems of building sociglistn the basic class position for the 7213 W. 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Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS N.Y., under the act of March At Jordan Independence Jolts McDonald Machine each In foreign countries. $. 1879.“ Business Manager: FRANCES JAMES By George Lavan Hussein was also laying the non-Arab military attaches in By Fred Halstead steel workers who were watching basis for U.S. intervention by Amman [Jordan’s capital] the unstable auto industry, and VoJ. XXI - No. 1 7 Monday, April 2 9 , 1 9 5 7 April 25—The U.S. is throwing Ponald C. Rarick, the rank- declaring that popular opposi­ against Jordan’s independence were increasingly engulfed with and-file candidate who opposed all its weight behind the moves tion to his seizure of power and liberty.” It was an open an accumulation of debts. In ad­ David J. McDonald for President and to the expected declaration secret that the m ilitary attaches dition, little had been done to in Jordan against, representative of the United Steelworkers of of martial law was the work of referred to by General Hayari comhat the nation-wide discrimi­ government and Arab national­ America in the referendum elec­ “international communism and were primarily the American. natory policies of the steel cor­ Socialism Will Win in the U.S. ism. As the seizure of power by tion last Feb. 12 received a whop­ its followers.” The Eisenhower He further said he had no porations which keep Negro playboy King Hussein began to ping 35% of the total vote. The On May 1, representatives of the So­ political consciousness, the very existence Doctrine provides for use of stomach for the job assigned workers in the generally lower wobble in the face of over­ McDonald-controlled Teller Com­ troops in the Mideast if it is him — namely, sounding out of­ paying and dirtier jobs. cialist Workers Party and the Communist of an organized labor movement 16-mil­ whelming popular opposition and mittee of the 1!4-million-mem­ threatened by “Communism.” ficers willing to shoot down the The McDonald machine, arro­ Party, as well as several pro-socialist a nation-wide general strike on ber union reported April 19 that lion strong constitutes a challenge to Big people if they revolted against gant and calloused to the senti­ April 24, Eisenhower issued RELIES ON BEDOUINS Donald C. Rarick, who was back­ groups, will meet on the same platform Business domination. The Negro people a deal between the king and ments of the workers in the w h at the A p r il 25 N ew Y o rk ed by the Dues Protest Commit­ in New York City. This united celebration are actively engaged in the struggle for The situation in Jordan re­ Imperialism. plant, ignored these real prob­ Times described as an “ unusual mains uncertain. As yet King tee, received 223,516 votes to will be a part of the demonstration of equality, which constitutes another chal­ Working hand in glove with lems and pushed a dues increase w a rn in g ” th a t m ay w e ll be a Hussein has failed to consolidate McDonald’s 404,172. U.S. imperialism, in its attempt from $3 to $5 per month through millions throughout the world. Still, the lenge to Big Business rule. diplomatic and' propaganda pre­ his seizure of power. The new It was the first election in the the convention. Then it proceeded to tear Jordan away from the forces represented in the United States All these forces will be impelled into lude for the use of American Cabinet he appointed, whose uiuon’s 20-year history in which militant Arab block with Egypt to raise the salaries of the union troops in Jordan. center of gravity was pro-im­ the presidency hals been con­ will be only a tiny segment of the Amer­ further struggle — a world-wide struggle and Syria, are the feudal rulers officials. (McDonald now gets perialist, is alrieady tottering. tested. “The magnitude of the ican w orking class. for socialism — as the crisis of capitalism Eisenhower phoned the mes­ of imperialism’s outstanding $50,000 per year.) sage from his cottage at the Similarly his attempt to man the anti-administration vote stunned stooge states in the Mideast — The Dues Protest Committee We recognize this numerical weakness deepen^. army with officers loyal to hjm union leaders,” according to the National Golf Course in Atlanta, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Both first campaigned for a special and fully appreciate the immensity of the A severe crisis has also seized the a nti­ Georgia, to Washington for personally rather than to the April 20 New York Times. The are supported by the big oil convention to repeal the dues in- release. It declared “ the indepen­ parliament has not firm ly jelled. report also recognized that the task ahead. Yet this apparent w’eakness capitalist countries of the Soviet orbit. companies. Slave owning King ciease. The attempt was unsuc­ dence and integrity of Jordan The dismissal of Arab rational­ McDonald - backed incumbents should not deceive us. There is every But this crisis, unlike that in the capi­ ¡Saud is W a sh in g to n ’s fa v o rite cessful, but the committee re­ as vital” and covered by the ist Chief of Staff Nuwar was were swept out of office in the bearer of the Eisenhower Doc­ ceived such widespread support reason for confidently persevering in tjie ta list world, does not flow from the followed by the appointment of or.ly two districts where the di­ Eisenhower Doctrine. As the trine. Iraq's King Feisal is a from the outraged steelworkers struggle for socialism in ihe United States decline of a social system. On the con­ N. Y. Times account observed, General Hayari and a purging rectorship was contested. In the pMppet inherited by U.S. im­ that it ran candidates in the elec­ “It amounted in effect to a of nationalist officers from key Homestead District 15, near and throughout the world. It is not we tra ry . it has been brought about by the perialism when it took over tions. The committee’s program public invitation to Jordan’s gov­ commands. Bedouin officers and Pittsburgh, the Dues Protest who are isolated or out of touch with very successes registered by the planned from Britain in the Mideast. was limited to updoing the un­ ernment to ask for U.S. as­ regiments were given favored candidate Paul M. Hilbert, for­ reality, as our enemies claim. It is the economy and by the extension of the Soviet Thus in th e whole M ideast, as democratic changes made at the sistance in meeting the problems positions. The Bedouins, a well as in Jordan itself, the mer president of the Local at ¡Los A ngeles Convention and defenders of capitalism who think U.S. orbit. This has imbued the Soviet work­ confronted by it.” To reporters minority of the population are Firth Sterling Steel, defeated firmest pro-U.S. forces are the calling for the election of all in­ Big Business is invincible. asking, “Does this mean that if tribesmen from the east — the John R . S ulliva n by 13,734 to 6,- ing class with greater determination to reactionary, backward, feudal ternational staff officers. Rarick Jordan asks us for military or most primitive and backward 269- In the Lorain, Ohio district, We live in a revolutionary epoch, in the get rid of the parasitic Stalinist bur­ elements while the stauchest apd the Other leaders of the any other kind of aid we will part of Jordan. Paul .Schrenup ousted B. W. Oh- period of transition from capitalism to so­ eaucracy, to restore workers’ democraey anti-imperialists are composed movement failed to develop a give it to her under terms of The new Chief of Staff, how­ le r by 15,1127 to 1'2,079 votes. The of the workers, students and program dealing with the other cialism. The profit system has long out­ in order to clear the road for new advances the Eisenhower Doctrine?” ever, after one day fled to Syria dues protest movement did not peasants who wish to throw off real problems which face the lived its historic usefulness. I t has become to socialism. White House press secretary and there announced his resigna­ figure directly jn the latter con­ steelworkers as a result of Mc­ poverty and colonialism and an intolerable fetter on mankind’s pro­ I t is true th a t the K rem lin was able Hagerty replied “no further tion. He told reporters that the test, however. Schremp, who did Donald’s failure—under his gress. to crush the rising of the Hungarian com m ent.” Royal Palace was “preparing a modernize and democratize their rot participate in the dues pro­ “arm -in - arm”-w ith -management Meanwhile in Jordan, King plot in cooperation with foreign countries. test, considers himself a Mc­ The promises of the American capital­ workers. This monstrous deed of the policy—to put up a fight against Donald man although Ohler had the corporations. ist rulers to bring further progress to Soviet bureaucrats must be denounced by the official nod. The widespread' support given mankind bear no resemblance to their all who call themselves socialist. But the The incumbent secretary-treas- the opposition in spite of this deeds. They proclaim themselves cham­ Kremlin’s repression will not stop the urer, I. W. Abel, received 420,- programmatic lack reveals the Rake British CP Tops 000 votes to 181,264 for W illiam weakness of McDonald’s hold pions of “freedom” while bolstering growth of the anti-Stalinist political C. Klug of Milwaukee, the dues- on the hearts and minds of the tyrants like Franco and Chiang Kai-shek. revolution. protest candidate. Vice President workers in the plants. The sig­ They shout about the ‘iCommumst Howard Hague who was unop­ A DISTINCT GAIN nificance of this development is Menace” while attempting to crush At Stormy Convention posed is reported to have re­ revealed by the attitude of the colonial revolutions. They speak of “pa- In the meantime, the workers in the ceived 479,747 votes, leaving Big Business press. “ Recent spec­ Soviet orbit by their struggle against By Herman Chauka Levy, a major party intellectual, tions from the party. Our lead­ about 150,0010 ballots that were ulation has suggested,” says the tional defense” while building a network by John Mc:Loughlin, a shop ers share the guilt for the party’s cast without Hague’s name being The leadership of the British April 22 Wall Street Journal, o f m ilitary, bases all over the world. They the bureaucracy have already made an steward who played a leading climes and political degenera­ m arked. Communist Party was scored as that the unexpectedly large pro­ invaluable contribution to the world role in the recent Briggs Motor tion by their failure to question prepare for war and call it the struggle guilty of continuing Stalinis’t The Dues Protest Committee test vote against Mr. McDonald fo r peace. struggle for socialism. The destruction Bodies strike, and by others. these events.” was formed after the union’s may lead him to take a tougher, policies by delegates to the par­ Professor Levy told the confer­ of the Stalin cult 'brought a'bout by their ly’s 25th annual conference held Replying to critics, party sec­ Los Angeles convention last Sep­ more militant attitude in his ence that after a recent visit to dealings with the steel industry STOCKPILED BOMBS mounting pressure has begun to liberate over the Easter weekend, .accord­ retary-general John Gollan as­ tember. The contract signed the Soviet Union, “I got my belly prior to the convention was gen­ in an effort to build up more They have loaded the world with atomic Communists everywhere from the fatal ing to press dispatches from serted, “ We have supported the full lo last me the rest of my erally considered by workers in support among rank-and-file London. A major issue in dispute life.” The positive accomplish­ weapons and seek to reassure the world’s illusion that Stalinism represents Lenin­ S oviet U nion in H u n g a ry ¡because the plants to be weak and in- union members.” was the. leadership’s support of ments in the Soviet Union, he population that somehow or other they ism. the Kremlin intervention in Hun­ it was correct, not because we aaequate in the face of high Meanwhile Rarick, who works said, are “coupled with a cast- in the United States Steel Irvin will prevent the bombs from being ex­ For many decades, the S talinist bu­ ga ry. were afraid to criticize.” company profits. It tied the iron bureaucracy, a form of gang- Yorks at McKeesport Pa., and ploded. Discussing the reported drop workers to a three- year contract reaucracy has stood as the major obstacle Control of the convention by slerism that battened on an un­ in an inflationary period. A who was unknown outside his Economic expansion — made possible within the working class movement to the the leadership, however, enabled assailable socialist economic ba­ in membership from 31,000 to speed-up campaign by the com­ own Local 2227 until the dues only by government subsidization of the struggle for world socialism. Fearing passage of a resolution eonfirni- sis.” 27,000 since the last conference, panies had resulted in mounting protest started, has refused to ing the expulsion of Peter Fryer economy — is accompanied by a tech- revolution at home th a t would end th e ir Hitting on the Hungarian is­ Gollan denied that “many of our grievances which were bogged concede the election. He has from the party. The vote was sue, McLoughlin declared, “It is nogolical revolution th a t opens the pro­ usurpation of privileges and power, the best comrades” have left the down in a long and drawn-out charged “many irregularities” in repoVted as 486 to 31. F ry e r was no good digging our heads in the procedure, for which the Interna­ the election procedure and de­ party. “They were not the best spect of entire sections of the working Stalinist bureaucrats have tried to block the correspondent for the Lon­ sand and ignoring Hungary. Ter. tional officers were responsible manded a break-down of the class being rendered unemployed. How working-class revolution everywhere else don Daily Worker who resigned rible things were done in Hun­ comrades,” he contended, “or Then, there was an increasing votes in each of the union’s 2,- long the boom itself can last and whether throughout the world. fjo.m the paper after his dis­ gary. We lost the support of they would not have left.” feeling of insecurity among the 709 locals. patches from Hungary were mu­ i t can be restimulated w ithout war is a masses of people.” The world Communist movement was tilated and suppressed. He was Christopher Hill, an Oxford question that plagues capitalist states­ transformed from a revolutionary or­ expelled for speaking out pub­ lecturer in English history, men. ganization into a mere instrument for licly in support of the Hungarian charged, “There is authoritarian Thus socialism continues to be the diplomatic pressure in the service of revolution. tendency in the party, a ten­ After denial of his request for dency to distrust the rank and Our Readers Take the Floor urgent need of society and the only means Soviet foreign policy. This led to the right to speak directly to the file and keep disdussion down in the labor leaders to break the of getting out of the blind alley of capi­ catastrophic defeats such as those in Doe and fair play are subversive, conference for ten minutes on his the party.” A resolution on par­ From Mississippi but the KKK and White Citizens power of the unions and get them talism . A t hand are the forces that can Germany and Spain that permitted im­ appeal against expulsion, Fryer ty democracy introduced by Hill E d ito r: Councils are patriotic organiza­ under control of the Federal gov­ destroy capitalism and usher in the world perialism to launch World W ar II. distributed copies of his speech was defeated 472-23. tions. Just how can you see your ernment. It is up to the rank and 'I am forwarding several let­ socialist order. Already one-third of the The destruction of the Stalin cult has to the delegates after the ses­ Another delegate, John O’Con­ way out? I am still hoping for file to get rid of the parasites sion. nor of Liverpool, declared, “I ters to you from a friend in Mis­ they are supporting and take world is excluded from capitalist ex­ prompted many Communist militants to sissippi. an earthquake that will jar the In the convention sessions the believe the leaders on the plat­ rotten foundations. W ill write over their own affairs. Beck is ploitation. The colonial revolution con­ R. L. undertake a thorough reexamination of line of Party leadership, and form are,'Stalinists. .Stalinists in again next week when I hope not probably a crook, but the U.S. tinues to spread, challenging at every program. We are confident that out of that of the Kremlin to which it that they accept policies which Chicago to ¡be so upset over the daily Senate has no right to make it­ step the exploitation of the colonial na­ this discussion a realignment of revolu­ is tailored, was lashed by Hyman led to frustrations and resigna- [The letters follow — Ed.] news. self cop and judge and jury — H . J. in fact, dictator in every respect tions by foreign imperialist powers. tionary socialist forces will take place Dear Friend: Mississippi — to get rid of Beck. The rank In Europe, the ■working class continues uniting all genuine socialist militants in It seems that jobs are playing and file Teamsters should get rid to stand as a powerfully organized force, a revolutionary party. out in a funny way. Yet the La­ Dear Friend: of Beck and at the same time go ready to prevent — as in Britain and In this way the rise of the working class The Role of In ti Brigade bor Department says more people Your letter found me O.K. and on strike and tie up the whole in the midst of some real news— France — any alleviation of the crisis of movement in the Soviet orbit is helping arc working than ever before country until all Senate investi­ with higher wages. When a 30- the student strike at Alcorn gating committees are disband­ their imperialist rulers through increased to build the indispensable instrument for year old person here is put off a A&M College [All-Negro state ed, and that includes the Un- exploitation of the workers. working class victory in the rest of the Vets in Hungarian Revolt job and files for unemployment college in Mississippi — Ed.] A l­ American Activities Committee. most all of the 570 students were In the United States, too, despite the world — namely, the revolutionary so­ (The following article is re­ 1,257 Hungarians had served in tney offer to send him to Flor­ E. L. expelled for failure to return to fact that the working class lags behind in cialist party. printed from the French social­ the International Brigades dur­ ida, New Jersey or Michigan C a lifo rn ia ist magazine, France Observa­ ing the Spanish Civil War. In ac­ with a guarantee of only about classes. Our radios and televi­ teur. It appeared in the special cord with the directives of the $4.60 a day above board and lodg­ sions are giving it all the pub­ issue of Jan. 3 on “The Hungar­ Communist Party, most of them ing with no weather guarantee. licity possible for they did not The Poor Get It know a Negro would challenge a Mrs. Trotsky ian Tragedy — related by those entered either into the Arm y (as If you refuse to go, you are un­ E d ito r: Calendar of Events who lived through it.” The arti- available fo r w o rk so you can dare from a white Trustee board. was notably the case with Gen­ A big storm hit last week not e'e ran under the title “The Vet­ not draw compensation. But they did. eral Nokrady, Lt.-Colonel Fur- far from where we live, which is erans of the International Bri­ H . J. ges, Commander Bertely and I have a friend that was the poor or slum section of Dal­ Detroit P.M. ‘‘The Russian Revolution of Denies Press Mississippi gades headed the m ilitary strug­ Captain Maleter), or into the evicted from his apartment in las. So it looks like the poor get 1017” by Theodore Edwards. May Saturday, May 4, 6:30 P.M. gle in Hungary.” — Ed.) political police. These elements Chicago because he had four chil­ it from all angles. They have 4 subject: “The Dynamics of the ¡In 1945 it was estimated that dren and his wife was pregnant. May Day Celebration—spaghetti were especially hit by the purges Parasites i t tough. The p o o r have .been in Russian Revolution: The Internal dinner, short talks and social af­ Rumors which swept over Hungary after They gave as cause of eviction this world a long time and have Laws of Motion of Revolutionary E d ito r: fair. 3737 Woodward. NEW YORK, April 24 — In a the definitive victory of Rakosi’s that the apartment was con­ been believing whatever they Mass A c tio n .” 1702 E ast 4th letter to the New York Post, regime. The last wave, which demned, but after four months You have an interesting paper were told for a long dry spell. S tre e t. of seeking a home he could not Natalia Sedoff Trotsky, widow . . . FRYER was the largest, followed the ex­ and I agree with much of what That’s why I got a bang out of • ecution of Rajk (who, it will be find one that accepted children you say in it. You would get Los Angeles of Leon Trotsky, today denied (Continued from page 1) your election speeches. Time on rumors that she had been called remembered, had himself partici­ for less than $110 a month plus farther though, with it, I think, radio and TV had to be allotted I ¡School of International iSocial- Philadelphia to appear or had appeared be­ Worker the following year and pated in the Spanish Civil War.) utitlities. He was only a porter if you gave most of its space to to all parties. That’s the first ! ism presents two series of Sat- May Day Celebration, Friday, fore any Congressional investi­ was its Parliamentary corre­ The Secretariat of the Associa­ a t $60 per week, so he could not what the rank and file has to say most of these crackers ever heard j nr day afternoon lectures. At 1 May 3, 8:30 P.M., Murry Weiss, gating committee. spondent th ro u g h 1949. A fte r tion of the Veterans of the Bri­ afford a high-price apartment. and less to feature writers. . . . that there was more than ele­ ; P.M., ''The First American .Rev­ associate editor, International So­ that he covered elections and gades, estim ates th a t 187 of its His family came South in July These Labor Union Leaders Her letter came after a num­ phants and donkeys (really hogs olution,” by Wm. F. Warde. May cialist Review, speaks on “Will strike struggles in France and members were executed between when they were evicted. On Dec. l ave no r ig h t to 'be where they ber of papers throughout the and jackasses). For all the good 4 subject: ‘‘The Growth of Re­ American Labor Go .Socialist?” youth festivals and peace con­ Rajk’s death and the end of the 15. he gave up his job and came are. How did they get there? country had published stories it has done me, they all could sistance to British Rule.” At 2 Questions and Discussion period gresses in Budapest, Berlin and Stalinist purges. Four hundred here as his wife was to ,be con­ Yesterday we were all roaming saying she had testified before have been elected. (. ------followed by gala social evening. Warsaw. In 1949 he covered the others had been arrested, of fined in March. the jungles free as the birds, either the 'Senate Internal Secur­ M ilita n t La bo r Forum . 1303 W . trial in Budapest of Laszlo which 116 died in prison before He has filed for unemploment today we have all kinds of gov­ M rs. L. T . ity Subcommittee or the House G irard. R a jk . D u rin g 1954 - 56 he the general am nesty o f 1955. compensation, but as yet he has ernments exploiting us and tell­ Dallas, Tex. Committe on Un-Amrican Ac­ HUNGARIAN • also served as London corre­ This explains why the Veter­ not received a penny. He was ing us what to do. It is ridicu­ tiv itie s . spondent for both the Communist ans of the Brigades were among penalized four weeks for quitting lous that we support such para­ TRAGEDY New York In the April 18 N.Y. Post, Rob­ Party’s Daily and evening papers the most determined adversaries a job, and his Chicago employer sites as the Federal government, American Youth for Socialism ert Allen wrote in his syndicated in Hungary. of the Rakosi-Geroe group; the says they can use him now, so he as the business government, as Twin Cities by Peter Fryer holds open meetings every Tues­ column, “Inside Washington,” Describing his work on the friendships that they formed in is classed as unavailable as he the professional government, as day night, 8 P.M., at 116 Univer­ that Mrs. Trotsky “spent a week Daily Worker, Fryer writes, “Did the Army, after the amnesty, be­ won’t accept work offered him. all of these other cliques in so­ MAY DAY CELEBRATION Peter Fryer was special cor­ sity PI. A short business meet­ in Washington” testifying in everything on paper from oc­ came genuine hotbeds of opposi­ He appealed three weeks ago and ciety that are nothing but a form respondent of the London ing is followed by an interesting closed session before the Sen­ casional leader writing to Satur­ tion. The Veterans of the Bri­ has not heard from the depart­ o f governm ent, now we take on Speaker I Daily Worker in Budapest. ate Internal Security Subcom­ m ent yet. educational discussion. April 30, day morning street sales outside gades unquestionably played a another government of parasites DOROTHY SCHULTZ His dispatches telling the 8 P.M. Hear a reveiw of Engel’s mittee, and that among other local tube station. Arrested, man­ very great role in the military I suppose we 100 million poor to support when actually any­ truth pbout the workers’ “Socialism, Utopian and Sci­ matters, the discussions included handled and fined wdiile doing organization of the insurrection: working Americans must have thing the working man and wom­ Followed by Gala Social Evening uprising were suppressed by entific,” by Jim Lane. the recent suicide of the Cana­ th is, 1955.” A t the saime tim e Maleter commanded at Budapest, been born in tbe wrong counti-y an get, they get themselves and the editor. This hook is his dian diplomat, Herbert Norman. F ry e r was also le c tu rin g on Goldstein at Pecs and Silo at and 'are aliens here in our own these so-called officers and leacL Sat., May 4 — 8:30 P.M. eyewitness account. In 'her letter to the N. Y. Post, Marxist philosophy at Marx Me­ Gyor. native land, to be used as ma- ers have not a thing to offer but 96pp $1.00 Marxist Labor School. A Mrs. Trotsky said: “The article morial school evening classes and According to reports -which are chinegun bait in case of war words. • Order from: series of classes from' 8 to 10 by Mr. Allen which appeared in a". Communist Party national naturally difficult to check, 519 ana as docile slaves in time of When a man goes on strike it 322 Hennepin Ave., Rm. 205 PIONEER PUBLISHERS P.iM. every Monday night until your paper April 18 has no basis schools. His special dispatches to former members of the Interna­ peace. The money we earn is is the pressure of his strength June 10 on “Tine History of tional Brigades were killed in the taken for taxes and the taxes arc that brings the employer to Minneapolis 116 University Place in fact. I have not been called to this paper will cover political de­ American Socialism” led by appear and have not appeared velopments in the British radical encounters where the Hungarians used to enact laws of oppression terms and not the words of the New Y o rk 3, N . Y. Ausp.: Socialist Workers Party Joyce Cowley. To register, phone before any Congressional com­ labor movement and special Eu­ were arrayed against the Soviet against us. All unions and civic Labor Leader. In, fact now I think I AI. 5-7852. 116 University Place. m itte e .” ropean developments. troops. organizations that speak for jus- the federal government is using The Negro Struggle th e MILITANT By Clara Kaye - ■ - V O L U M E X X I A Letter of Protest to Life Magazine M O N D A Y , A P R IL 29, 1957 N U M B E R 17 (The following letter was sent to Life magazine on Feb. 16 in criticism of the periodical’s series last fall, entitled “Background of Segregation.” — Ed.) Editors, Life Magazine: school system, abolishment of corporal punish­ ... March on Wash. 500 Hear Swarthmore I consider your series on “The Background ment in prisons, universal manhood' suffrage, (Continued from page 1) ganizing meetings, poster wa'ks, abolition of imprisonment for debt, and the of Segregation” to be a slanderous attack against The April 27 Norfolk (Va.) leaflets and placards. New York first steps toward women’s legal equality. the Negro people, inasmuch as your historical Journal and Guide reports “the headquarters of the Prayer Discussion by Thomas, survey of the Civil War and Reconstruction bases SELL-OUT OF NEGROES state NAACP has invited ail lilgrimage for Freedom are at itself upon all the prejudice-soaked lies of the Virginians to join a gigantic 20 W. 40th Street. These governments were not overthrown by Bourbon historians who seek to justify the mod­ motorcade carrying thousands of a majority but by a minority of whites organ­ While Negroes are sacrificing ern Jim-Crow system by the alleged incapacity persons to Washington.” The ized in terroristic bands. The Reconstruction to defend their right to dignity of Negroes to participate in politics and in so­ April 13 Carolina Times said in Gates and Murry Weiss governments were overthrown because they in­ and equality as human beings, cial movements with intelligence and maturity. its e d ito ria l: “ Go to W ashing­ terfered with the profits of the plantation sys­ Eisenhower makes a studied SWARTHMORE, PA., April in doing this the Soviet work­ Thomas, devoted most of his And Life baldly supports this greatest falsifica­ ton on May 17 by bus, auto, tem, which could not be obtained without slave­ practise of refusing to recognize 23 — Five hundred students ers were destroying the corner­ time to regaling the audience tion of American history ever attempted, despite plane, train, foot or bicycle, but like conditions for the labor force. And the colored reporters at his White stone of the Cold-war arguments with jokes about the “repentant the growing number of excellent exposes of go. We must impress upon the overflowed Friends Hall at Northern bayonets upon which Reconstruction House press conferences (Afro- of the U.S. State Department sinners,” in which category he Bourbon historiography by scholars 'both white Fresident and congress that 17 Swarthmore College last night rested were deliberately withdrawn after a fab­ American, April 27). Yesterday “ liberators.” included both the Communist and N egro. million Negroes in this country ulous sell-out deal between Northern capital and terrorists engaged ir. another to hear a symposium on “Social­ Party and the Socialist Workers What is the truth behind the fallacies and are tired of being kicked around LABOR PARTY NEXT STEP Southern landowners. (See C. Vann Woodward’s early morning shooting at the ism in the United States.” In Party. He expressed skepticism deceptions you have engaged in? and that they want the national “Reunion and Reaction,” Columbia University Koinonia, Georgia int-rrraciai addition to the record turnout Weiss said that the greatest as tc the “sincerity” of the (1) The Role of Slaves in the Civil War. government to do something Press.) farm.'Today, a Texas white man blow against the war threat, as changes Cates claimed in the Life has dutifully mouthed the traditional white ab ou t it . ” from this Quaker College, Negroes were not placed in power because who confessed killing a Negro well as the greatest assistance position of the CP. He argued upper-class distortion of the Civil War: that situated 15 miles from Phila­ of disfranchisement of confederate whites. In no boy 13, was freed; while an to the anti-bureaucracy move­ that calling for the withdrawal the Negroes were an idiotic, sub-human mob SPECIAL TRAINS reconstructed states were more than a small mi­ Alabama Negro convicted by an delphia, students and workers ment of the Soviet people would of troops from ail foreign soil, which intruded itself upon the military scene From most of the larger cities, nority of the whites disfranchised. In all the all-white jury of a “burglary” in from the entire area were rep­ come as a result of a socialist by both the Soviet Union and causing great harm to the army and to them­ demonstrators will be able to state legislatures, only South Carolina had a which he stole nothing, was victory of the workers in the the West, should not be used to selves. ride special freedom trains at resented in the audience. The sentenced to death. West and particularly in the obscure the question of the consistent Negro majority. half price; -chartered buses will speakers were John Gates of the SLAVES FORCE VICTORY Illustration and text are equally steeped in U.S. He declared that the next special character of the Soviet aiso be available at lower rates. Communist Party and editor of great step in this direction by army’s brutal role in Hungary The truth is that it was exactly these many the tradition of white supremacy in your Series. Car pools are reported from all the Daily Worker, Norman the American people would be and the need to demand its mass actions of the slaves which forced Lin­ Negroes are shown as “bewildered . . . follow­ over the country and some par­ Thomas of the Socialist Party- the organization of an inde­ removal from that country. coln’s government to abandon its suicidal policy ing and encumbering Sherman’s army . . . aim­ ticipants are planning to hitch­ pendent La b o r P a rty based on In another part of his pres­ of “Save the Union and Save Slavery,” and to lessly wandering in the dark . . . restless” — like hike. Regional offices for the Social Democratic Federation the unions. Such a party, he entation, Thomas presented his adopt the program of immediate and uncondi­ animals. Fleeing from bullets, submitting to ■march have been launched in and Murry Weiss of the Social­ said, would form a great alliance reformist views on Marxism. He tional emancipation. It was the slaves who slaughter wearing red badannas and gaping ten cities. ist Workers Party. of workers, the Negro people, empriasized that he did not re­ forced the organization of the white Northern idiotically! Arid according to Life, Negroes were Richard Moore, New York Stuart Silvers of the Forum working farmers and students gard socialism as a science, that Abolition movement by their pressure ana propa­ not elected to office. They “ assumed positions cf area transportation chief told for Free Speech, the student and would contend for power :t was not the inevitable next ganda, and the slaves who forced the abandon­ prominence and power.” And while “not ail Ne­ this writer: “The phones keep against the monopoly capitalist stage in history and that Marx­ ment of the gentleman's war by wmch McClel­ gro political leaders were ignorant or arrogant,” ringing all day with inquiries organization sponsoring the rulers. He called on the students ism riad been disproven. lan and Lee were settling down to a stalemate. trie tacit assumption is that the majority cer- about transportation.” He said meeting, ably presided over the who were interested in social­ Cates also expressed the view The slaves forced the abandonment of the Ana­ 1 tuinly were. Any white who befriencied such a 209 buses are scheduled to leave debate which lasted until 10:30 ism to follow closely the debates that Marxism had been proven conda plan of “encirclement” of the South, and IbacKward and shiitiess bunch became auto­ New York from convenient P,M., including a lively period of within the radical movement, wrong on some fundamental helped achieve the final unconditional surrender. matically a “scalawag” or “carpet-bagger.” points in the city, and that the questions from the floor. study the position of the dif­ questions or required basic re­ They forced their way into the Army, demand­ But you treat the plantation owners and way things are moving, addi­ ferent tendencies and make up vision on otrier points in the light ing the right to fight, until they represented a their stooges much more gently! The Klan’s tio n a l l,UUO-person freedom Weiss opened the discussion their own minds as a result of of new world conditions. large and powerful fighting arm which Lincoln early leaders, it appears, are “men of dignity . . . trains will be required. with a presentation of the so­ the original Klan deteriorated into a group of first-hand investigation. In the rebuttal and question reluctantly admitted was tne key to winning the Lance Roberts, New York cialist solution to the problems terrorists and sadists that died out. . Ohi period, Weiss explained tnat the war on the field of battle. chief of relations for the Pil­ of a world threatened with PRAISES ATTITUDE W hen? '¡Socialist Workers Party had a Further, the slaves never had the illusion you grimage, said early reports show nuclear war and capitalist The next speaker, John Cates, long record of struggle against ascribe to them about tne “heaven” they would that New York will go over the depression. He cited an article FOR OBJECTIVE PORTRAYAL thanked the sponsors of the Stalinism. Turning to Tnomas find in the North. On the contrary, Northern fop on its quota of 10,000 per­ in the April 22 New York Times meeting, as Weiss had, and also no declared that only those who To summaize: the account of the origin of Negroes moved skillfully and knowingly, and sons to attend the march. To by C. L. Sulzberger, which said, said that the authorities of stood on a program of opposition segregation is so false and prejudicial to the Southern Negroes knew that the tirst step to publicize the mammoth demon­ “ Quite apart from permanent Swarthmore College had shown to trie foreign policy of Amer­ Negro, that trie least Life could do in the inter­ stration, a huge streamer will emancipation was to destroy the system of chat­ threats of nuclear war, there a commendable attitude towards ican capitalism and opposed all ests of free and impartial discussion is to de­ be secured across Harlem’s main tel slavery. They accordingly were determined exists a fear that peacetime freedom of speech in contrast to American imperialist interven­ vote the same amount of space and prominence thoroughfare at 125th Street. to force tneir way into the conflict. civilization is itself exploding the New York City college of­ tion could speak as genuine so­ to an objective treatment of this matter directed A ll of this is elaborately documented by Dr. There will also be rallies, or­ REV. MARTIN L. KING from within. The twin forces ficials. He referred to the recent cialists about the removal of the by scholars to be named by the NAAOP, Atlanta W. E. B. Du Bois in his monumental work on of automation and atomic ban on his appearance before K re m lin ’s troops fro m H u n g a ry. University or a similar organization. the Civil War, Black Reconstruction. energy are racing to revolu­ city collge stuaent groups dur­ “A class-struggle socialist op­ How else can the Negroes who have won A11 honest historians agree that the role of tionize production. Unless these ing academic freedom week last position to American capitalism such magnificent legal victories in past years the slaves in the war was essential and de­ processes are carefully guided month because of bis status as requires that we demanu, for ex­ get a chance to answer the systematic campaign cisive in saving the Nation. ...At Y. Elections they may eventually strain the a convicted victim of the Smith ample, that all U.S. m ilitary and the press engages in — a campaign to prepare (>2) Reconstruction. This government was the mass movement is more im­ entire fabric of society. In such “ G ag” A c t. financial aid to the 'dirty war’ of public opinion for accepting a “compromise” on (Continued from page 1) the finest example of truly democratic and rep­ portant now than the eleetoYal a case man will at last have In his presentation Gates blench imperialism in Algeria the question of desegregation and civil rights protests of labor and the Puerto resentative government in the history of the presentation of a full revolu­ produced a Frankenstein mon­ posed the threat of nuclear war 0e stopped,’’ Weiss said. which would not assail Jim Crow in any essen­ Rican people, of medals from United States. The first and last social reforms tionary socialist program. It ster. . . Supposing production as the over-riding issue facing Spanish dictator Franco and PLACE OF COMMUNIST tial. How else can Negroes and whites learn would, indeed, pave the way for all mankind. He presented the that the Southern people ever obtained was re­ Cuban dictator Batista. totally outstrips practical ab­ the truth about Negro History? presentation of the socialist pro­ Turning to Gates, Weiss ceived under this government — the first public This is but a brief sampling sorptive capacities, that increas­ Communist Party position on gram inside a labor party. “peaceful coexistence” as the pointed out the hopeless fallacy ol tl’.e crimes and misdeeds of ingly idle men are unable to use But even if the labor leaders up the leisure or products ma­ solution to the cold war and cf regarding the suppression of the Democratic machine in New the Hungarian uprising as mere­ York City which workers are continue to hogtie the unions to chines make for them? If the mapped out the policy of a “peo­ the Democratic-Tammany ma­ ly a “mistake.” He snowed how going to be asked to support atom doesn’t destroy us first, ple’s anti-monopoly coalition” as Lincoln Brigade Dance in chine in the 1957 election (as can automation eventually pro­ the political road for the U.S. the entire Hungarian working again. A ll socialist-minded New class rose in a general- strike Yorkers should do their utmost they give every indication of do­ duce us into a state of stultifica­ He said that a mass party of against the Stalinist regime. to persuade the working people ing), no socialist can conscien­ tio n ? ” the American people composed “This was a revolution ol the to break away from this gang tiously make that an excuse for of labor, the Negro people and L.A. to Aid Bonetti Case following their lead. On the con­ ‘MARXIST TEXT’ liberal sections of capitalism woiking class against the bu­ of corrupt, unprincipled poli­ trary we should then continue reaucracy,” Weiss said', “ and the at a dance celebrating their 20th and given a hearing by the De­ ticians and to strike out on the Weiss declared that the N. Y. would open the way to peace By Della Rossa with a vigorous socialist cam­ Times in this article provided us place of a revolutionary com­ Anniversary Saturday, May 4, partment of Immigration Board path of independent working- and eventually socialism. paign, making the necessity for with a “Marxist text” — from munist was on trie side of the It is unfair and unjust, con­ 8:30 'P.M. at Ya'blon Center, 7213 of Inquiry. He was questioned class political action. Whether such a party would labor’s independent political ac­ the warped point of view of the workers and not the bureau­ tends a leaflet issued by “ Friends W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. about going to Spain and about Socialism is not merely a grow out of the present Demo­ tion a major issue. Every worker cra ts.” of Frank Bonetti.” that the Im­ C o n trib u tio n w ill be $1.00 former affiliations with unem­ better kind of society that monopoly capitalist rulers in the cratic party or make its ap­ migration authorities, having all won away from class-collabora- U.S. He pointed to the ultimate pearance in some other way In answer to a question from Bonetti was born in France of ployed organizations and the would be preferable to capital­ the evidence before them and Communist Party. Bonetti says tion politics prepares the emer­ irrationality of a social system could not be determined by any a student as to what was the Italian immigrants. He followed ism. In our epoch it is a life-or- admitting Frank Bonetti as a gence of the working class as a whose ruling-class spokesmen blueprint, Gates contended. most important issue facing the his father into the coal mines he answered all questions truth­ death necessity. The working perm anent resident in 1938, fully and completely, stating that whole as an independent political regard man’s capacity to raise Referring to the recent con­ students today, Weiss answered when he was 13. In 1923, when class must advance or it will be should, on the same evidence fcrce. his productivity to undreamed­ vention of the Communist Party that it was the same question he was 1'5, he came to this coun­ !:e had been a member of the thrown back — it cannot mark and no other, reverse their deci­ Communist Party from 1932 to The Socialist .Workers Party of heights as a catastrophe. of the U.S., Gates said that facing the American working try where he helped build its time very long. The consequences sion 13 years later and ask for 1936. He was admitted into the nominated me as its mayoralty Why not use our technological there should be an awareness class as a whole the need to form wealth through work in the coal of working-class defeat in our his deportation. candidate to make sure that a know-how, our ability to produce that the CP has undergone a a Labor Party. Gates said that .mines, in the steel mills, and for U. S. as a Permanent Resident. time are catastrophic. They can Bonetti, through Attorney Jo­ so cia list cam paign w ould be the necessary and good things change. He said the party the H-bomb tests was the most Ford Motor Company in Detroit. be atomic war or a police state seph Forer and with the support SAME OLD QUESTIONS - waged in the 1957 election. We of life with less labor time, to recognized its past error in con­ important question and called for He applied for citizenship in or fascism or a reversal of the of the Los Angeles Committee He settled down with his fam­ stand, however, ready to discuss create a world of abundance and doning “mistakes” and crimes a halt to these dangerous tests 1929 but the uprooting and the slow process of racial ameliora­ for the Protection of Foreign ily in Los A ngeles in 1942, then any other proposals for an ef­ peace? Weiss asked. that occurred in “ socialist coun­ at once, as a first step towards struggle for existence that came tion to the most savage persecu­ Born, has therefore filed a peti­ he reapplied for citizenship. This fective, class-struggle, socialist tries” out of a false sense of un­ peace. In a further retort Weiss with the depression interrupted tion, as in Germany. That is The SWP speaker then dealt tion for review by the U.S. Su­ was denied because of political why socialists can permit no let­ campaign in the coming ejection. with the contention that a critical defense of everything said that the most effective way the process. to halt the war-makers was to preme Court, asking that body affiliations before his re-entry up in their struggle to move “ Soviet menace” to the security that happened there. He said In July, ,1937 he went to ¡Spain to make a decision in his case. in 1938. their class forward. of the ‘‘free world” prevented us that in place of the motto: “ So­ break with class collaboration in with the Abraham Lincoln Bri­ The Walter - McCarran Law politics, build a party of the The greatest obstacle to from harnessing our productive cialism right or wrong,” the CP LINCOLN BRIGADE HELPS gade to fight for the Spanish Re­ went on the books in 1951 and Newark Symposium working people and take the po­ labors advance today is the forces in a system of planned was adopting the motto, “For Funds to help with court costs public against the Franco upris­ he was called for an interview by litical power away from the class political entrapment of the work economy for the benefit of all socialism, when it’s right, keep it for the Bonetti case will be raised ing. On returning to New York the Department of Immigration. that profits by war. ing class inside the capitalist, mankind. “Capitalism has never right; when it’s wrong, make it by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade he was detained at Ellis Island Now they were asking again the Dixiecrat-dominated Democratic “ American Socialism been able to use the productive rig h t.” same questions as in 1938, ex-i I P a rty . and the Future” machine except for its own The third speaker, Norman cept that now they were pressur-1 Therefore socialists must cam­ private profit and wars for A Marxist Quarterly HARRY BRAVERMAN mg him to lie and distort about1 paign ceaselessly to bring about profit,” be said. But taking the Ed. Board, American Socialist Cowley Speaks at Rutgers “piots” and “infiltrations” — or labor’s break from the Demo­ “Soviet menace” argument on Philadelphia International else face deportation. cratic Party and to help achieve DAVID DOLLINGER its own terms he showed how the emergence of an independent the Wall Street “liberators,” by . “The idea of deportation hit Liberation Magazine MAY DAY CELEBRATION Labor Party. Socialist Review their whole record and class in­ W ill American Labor me hard,” Bonetti says. “After DANIEL ROBERTS terests, could not be entrusted On the Source of Racism 1957 T A S K S Go Socialist?” The Winter issue is now on all these years to be sent back Editor, The M ilitant with “freedom missions” any­ \ sale. It features articles on the By Barbara Dorithy to find moral justification for the 'So imperative is the need for where. “The Soviet workers and to a land that had become for­ MAX SHACHTMAN Speaker regroupment of revolutionary social institution of slavery in labor to begin independent the workers of Eastern Europe On .April 1, Joyce Cowley ad­ eign to me, to break up our fam­ Nat’I Chair., Ind. Socialist League MURRY WEISS socialist forces in the U.S. and the modern world that brought political action that if the union are showing the world how their dressed a meeting of Rutgers ily and be exiled from everything on the American economy. about anti-Negro prejudices.” movement of this city should own revolutionary action will Associate Editor, students in New Brunswick, N.J. MARTHA STONE 35 cents a copy $1.25 a year Tracing the development of I cherished because of things I put forth a slate of independent eliminate the bureaucratic International 'Socialist Review About 36 'students attended the N. J. Communist Party Negro slavery under capitalism, had done legally twenty years be­ candidates, then regardless of oligarchy in the 'Soviet Union, Question and discussion 116 U n iv e rs ity Place meeting. They were from three because cheap labor was needed any shortcomings of their plat­ Fri., May 10 — 8:30 P.M. fore seemed so fantastically un­ he said. And Weiss added that period followed by classes in Comparative Eco­ in the new American colonies, forms, socialists would have to New Y o rk 3, N .Y . fair that I thought the man was A Gala Social Evening nomics, which have been hear­ she showed why prejudices did consider foregoing their own Tunis Mansion ing -a series of talks by radical not disappear when slavery was b lu ffin g .” candidacies for a maximum of 929 Bergen St. Fri., May 3 — 8:30 P.M. leaders at the .home of one of abolished: "Today it is still eco- In October 1951, he was pulled unity behind the unions’ slate. New York the professors. Among the pre­ nom'ically profitable and a pow­ eif his job and held for deporta­ For one such forward step by C o ntrib . 75 cents (Doors open at 8 p.m.) vious speakers have been Nor­ erful weapon in the hands of em­ tion. The only “evidence” against Militant Labor Forum BOOK - A - MONTH man Thomas, Earil Browder and ployers and their political rep­ MILITANT LABOR FORUM a Communist Party representa­ him were the truthful answers LABOR: resentatives to weaken and di­ 1303 W. G ira rd Ave. tive . vide the working class.” he had given to Department of May Day Celebration FREE AND SLAVE In spite of the fact that there “Although the concept that Im m ig ra tio n questions in 1938. Negroes are inferior, was con­ “American Labor is no liberal or radical organiza­ This time the decision was de­ Introductory Offer! Workingmen and the cocted in 'the 18th Century, se­ tion of any kind on campus the portation. For six years the case at Crossroads” Anti-SJavery attendance and response of the gregation laws separating whites NEGROES Movement in the students present were excellent. and Negroes are even more re­ has gone through the courts until A Six-Month Subscription In her brief introductory re­ cent and have only existed in now it has reached the U.S. Su­ Speaker: MURRY WEISS ON THE United States marks 'Mrs. Cowley said: “The the last 60 years. Segregation preme Court. To The Militant Only $1 and discrimination were extended Socialist Workers Party is a Bonetti feels his case can be By Bernard Mandel Marxist Party which advocates a by the adoption of innumerable MARCH Jim Crow laws. Race prejudice won. But he needs help and that revolutionary change from a cap­ A Frenchman’s Report italist to a socialist method of in justification of the slave la­ help should come from the en­ The Militant Published a t $3 Dancing and Entertainment production. This w ill be achieved bor system is now being chal­ tire labor movement, because Bo- on, the American Negro Special Price: $1 116 University Place w ill follow the meeting. through class struggle and the lenged ¡by the rising tide of co­ netti is a victim of the Walter- Struggle (Plus 15 cents mailing charge) independent political action of the lonial revolution, which has in McCarrap Law, which has been New York 3, N. Y. large measure inspired the Ne­ By Daniel Guerin working class, in alliance with Sat., Apri] 27 — 8 P.M. Payments must accompany the Negro people and small groes in the South. Equality will and will be used against union 192 pages $1.50 ord er farmers.” 'She then proceeded to come only with an alliance of militants as well as against those O ld e r fro m give a Marxist analysis of the the Negro people and the labor w ith dissident political views. movement and the first great Zone PIONEER PUBLISHERS issue which raised the most con­ Letters and contributions can be PIONEER PUBLISHERS troversy in the last election cam­ step will be the building of a 116 U n iv e rs ity Place paign—segregation. “Prejudices Labor Party.” The meeting sent to F ra n k B onetti, 1455 Avon 116 U n iv e rs ity Place 116 U n iv e rs ity Place C ity ...... State N ew Y o rk 3, N .Y . are a capitalist phenonmenon,” closed after a very lively ques­ Park Terrace, Los Angeles 26, C o n trib u tio n 50 cents N ew Y o rk 3, N .Y . she explained. “It was the need tion period. California.