WORKERS O F T H E WORLD . UNITE THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Published weekly by the Com muntet League of America (Opposition) at 128 Xast 16th Street, New Tork, N. T. Entered as second class mall matter, November 28, 1828 at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. under the act of Mareh c* 1888 N E W Y O R K . SA T U R D A Y JU N E 3 . 19 3 3VOLUME V I, NO. 29 I WHOLE NO. 176 NEW YORK. SATURDAY JUNE 3. 1933VOLUME PRICE 5 CENTS

Problems of the United Front Right W in g M ove LEON TROTSKY ' N ew Deal' Fakers THE JOBLESS MOVEMENT to Expel Militants Push Inquiry into Nazis,Poles Plot AND POLITICAL PARTIES Lessons of from P .M .A . Bankers Deals The condition of the millions of a case of “sowing dragons’ teeth M ay Day in unemployed in the United States is and reaping flies.” Gillespie, 111.—The class collabo- The puppets of Wall Street on i Attack on USSR more miserable and critical than Today, very clearly and sharply, ration policies of the Right wing A u s tria Capitol H ill are "investigating” the ever before. Such resources as they opportunistic and even reactionary of the Progressive Miners of Ameri­ House of Morgan. A sop to the | may have had themselves or through petty bourgeoisie and a sham in views are being put forth in the ca has been weakening the union Danger of Imperialist Intervention Imminent. Western friends, relatives, etc., are wholly movement of the unemployed, not in its struggle against the opera­ (REFLECTIONS FROM AFAR) its aims, the Senate Banking Com­ exhausted. Dependance upon organs mittee has disclosed damning evi­ alone by the known labor fakers tors and their agents. The red On the First of May the workers of charity and governmental assis­ baiting campaign of the operators dence on the tentacles of control Powers Haggle Over Vantage Points in Coming of the A. F. of L. and the charla­ of Vienna showed that in spite of tance is greater than at any time aiming to divide' and weaken the of J, 1*. Morgan and Co., which tans of the socialist party—from all deception, treachery and dis­ A nti Soviet W ar. Japan Cinches Position with hitherto. Yet at this moment, gov­ union forces, has been picked up reach out into every pore of the them that is to be expected—but appointment, they do want to ernmental relief of the cities and by the Right wing element and is financial, industrial and political also among so-called Communist light. Once again it became ap­ the Help of the Kuomintang and W a r Lords other agencies is being either elements. We cannot here deal w ith now being followed up in an at­ life of American capitalism. sharply or entirely cut in numerous tempt in the Springfield sub­ parent how easily all the bureau­ The revelations of the investi­ them a ll; we take only those con­ crats and semi-bureaucrats, the From Paris comes the alarming communities, such as New York. district to expel about three dozen gation are vindication of the con­ Soviet Russia and in its subsequent cepts brought out by the represen­ official ones as well as those of the news of a Hitler-I’ilsudski plot colonization. The “New Deal” of the Itoosevelt militant Left wingers. The first tention of the Marxians propounded tatives of the Lovestone, Right half-hearted opposition, disguise against the Soviet Union. J. Sauer- administration has failed thus far three slated to go are Joe Angelo, decades ago. Finance capital wields Furthermore, in this attack. wing Communist, group. wein, Foreign editor of the Paris to touch to any noticeable degree Freeman Thompson and Voizy. their own lack of decision as a its conrtol over the banking institu­ Hitler is indubitably to be the Movements of the unemployed "depressed sentiment” among the M atin, reveals the whole machina­ th misery involving the unemployed In the period of formation of tions of the nation thru a meshwork spearhead. The French merely want have been organized in a large masses. The workers want to fight. tion in a wire to the New York millions. A ll these factors tend to­ the PMA, special provisions were of interlocking directorates which to contract him for the job under measure through the instrumenta­ 'Hines o f June 1. day, as much or more than hitherto, made to admit into the progressive This is the most important conclu­ cunningly evade all laws aimed at the conditions of the Four Power lity of various political parties and sion from which we must proceed. French authorities made the news to give a strong impetus to the union all miltants expelled by the them by the trust-busting middle Pact, with Poland as a subsidiary. tendencies in the labor movement: public in an effort to hold Poland growth of a m ilitant and broad Lewis - Fishwick - Walker group. The First of May policy of the class. The trustified industries, with Poland itself wrangles for a more among these are the official Com­ and the Little Entente in line, a movement on behalf of the unem­ Workers who were the first to lead social democratic party Consisted few exceptions, are either indebted prominent place. munist party (Stalinists), the So­ task which has become increasingly ployed. the struggle against Lewis and in creating for itself an alibi: be­ to or outrightly owned, thrus stock That the French are losing their cialist Party, the CPLA (Muste- difficult for Qui D’Orsay diplomacy comiainy and who laid the ground­ fore the government, in case the control by the Morgan trust. The grip somewhat is apparent. With Of a positive and beneficial char­ ites), Lovestone (Right Communist due to the rigors of the world-wide work upon which the PMA was masses entered into struggle and Morgan institution dominates thru Mussolini to the South and Hitler acter is the growth of tendencies economic crisis. The Polish move Opposition) and others. b u ilt. Now, President Pearcy does suffered defeat; before the masses, its financial affluence a huge section to the East of them, loss of control which aim for a merging of the in support of the conspiracy, ori- These movements of the unem­ not remember or is trying to for­ in case the masses entered into of the American industrial life. over Poland and the Little Entente various unemployed movements into gnally concocted by Nazi statesmen, ployed take, or should take on, the get these provisions. The Right struggle and achieved a vijctory. But J. P. Morgan does not trust would seriously weaken them. a single, national organization on is interpreted as an attempt to organizational expression of the wingers tell these militants to first it is hard to conceive of a more to .his outright or partial control T ha t is why they hold on so des- a united front basis. But as a counteract the Four Power Pact united front of all organizations get a job and then they w ill ob­ disloyal and outrageous policy.. It to assure his dominating influence. paratply. consequence, in part, of this for plans of France, which have met ready to take part in the movement tain a card. However, all are mem­ is disloyal because it leaves the Nor does he depend upon abstract Hitler, on the other hand, would ward direction, resulting essentially with resistance from Warsaw due of the unemployed. A correct ob­ bers of the union and have been masses with the illusion that they for indirect methods to keep the like nothing better than to gird from the objective conditions and to provisions for rearmament made jective must be the merging of the functioning for months. Further, have a party and a leadership. It government, both major political himself for the French by an alli­ demands of the unemployed, other now existing various unemployed for former Central Power nations, questions have again Come sharply one cannot get a job in the mines is outrageous because, in their most parties, subservient to his interests ance with the other notorious ad­ movements into a single and broad unless he has a union card. Per­ and needs. Practically half of the which the Pilsudsky regime fear’s. venturer of Eastern Europe, Pilsud­ to the front. These questions must difficult hour, it leaves the masses Sauerivein writes: United' Front on a national scale. haps Pearcy wanfls them to get national committee of the Repub­ ski. In this he no doubt hopes be decisively revolved soon; they which are accustomed to a central­ "The idea of the Nazi scheme, as F or the immediate demands them­ a joo in the scab mines? lican party, including Edward T. for Washington’s blessing. The involve the growth or crack-up of ized leadership, to seek a way out the French understand it, is that selves of the unemployed movement The Left wing is organizing to on their own hook. Rickard, financial adviser to Her­ Roosevelt “peace message,” which the unemployment movement, and Poland would make a big territorial can be fought for successfully only smash this attempt to exclude and bert Hoover for more than ten the Nazi chancellor was only too particularly its development in a The policy of the social demo­ concession to Germany in the Po­ on a planned, national scale. Such expel the most m ilitant element in years, and the chairman of fhis ready to welcome in his last Reich­ class conscious direction. cratic party excludes the possibility lish corridor and receive as com­ a united front must work out a the PMA. committee, John R. Nutt, are per­ stag address, leaves ample room for The numerous conferences of the common, minimum program of of a victory of the proletariat. At sonal beneficiaries of Morgan’s ben­ pensation territory in Soviet Uk­ such an aspiration. * * * • raine in the direction of the Black unemployed, especially the Confer­ action (immediate demands) which The need of an organized Left the same time, it excludes the pos­ evolence. The same goes equally for The first step in its fulfillment is Sea. I t is a German idea . . Marshal ence held recently in Chicago which binds all those adhering to the wing in every local of the PMA to sibility of any kind of stabilized the Democratic party, whose ex-na- clear — the Nazi-l’olish alliance Pilsudski has had his eye on the brought together various political movement, to work for its achieve­ fight for a program of class struggle regime. The proletariat w ill re­ tional chairman, Raskob, and the against the USSR. What else has Ukraine ever since he fought the tendencies, reveal that certain basic ment, irrespective of other political, and against the steady shift to the main in a condition of excitement present Roosevelt administration, Hitler to offer Pilsudski? On what requirements still confront the economic, racial, etc., differences right and the policy of class colla­ and of hope for a revolutionary through the medium of the secretary Russians there in 1930.” other grounds can Pilsudski meet From the report, which -Monseiur movement on behalf of the unem­ that exist in the movement. This boration, as pointed out for months solution. Tne bourgeoisie lives in of the treasury, Woodin, have re­ H itle r? Sauerwein says, the French consi­ ployed. Some o f the more im por­ should be accepted as elemental. in the Militant, is now a living constant dread of cfvil war. The ceived “gifts” from the House of military-police measures reveal der reliable and which they ob­ Yet, no matter which way the ta n t ones a re : The False Views o f the Lovestonites reality in the coal fields. The Morgan which discriminates against Franco-German tangle is solved, B u t w hat does not appear to be their unreliability more and more tained from “secret sources,” one Basic Requirements Stalinites are trying to catch up no one in the major party set-ups. with France directing or with H it­ accepted as elemental is who shall with events in Illinois. every day. The petty bourgeois thing stands out most clearly, Letters from the above-named in­ Namely, that on every side of the ler in the lead under American 1. W orking out ways and means make up the constituent parts of After the National Miners Union masses are becoming more and dividuals, disclosed at the investi- European diplomatic tangle the way auspices ultim ately, the line-up mu/st for cooperation and joint action of (Continued on Page 4) more nervous. The big bourgeoisie (Continued on Page 2) ( Continued on Page 4) out 113 seen—in an a tta ck against be against the fatherland of the the employed and unemployed. is becoming more and more con­ vinced that without the dictator­ workers. It w ill be concluded. That 2. Drawing the trade and labor ship of Fascism it w ill not be able much is obvious. Only the purblind unions, particularly of the Ameri­ to mantain its order. In this way, cannot see this. To trust in non­ can Federation of Labor, into the The Meaning of the Farm Revolts the social democracy paralyzes tht Organize Australian Opposition aggression pacts, as the Litvinoffs movement of the Unemployed, for proletariat with its doubly disloy­ and Stalins and Karakhans do, reciprocal results and benefits. al, locquacious and cowardly policy means under thes conditions, to pre­ In the last two years, and par­ organizational manner. We reprint below a letter re­ the Labour Party a wonderful wea­ pare the ground objectively for a 3. Developing a p o litic a l con­ ticularly in recent months, there and pours grist to the mill of The importance of this sponta­ Fascism. ceived from the secretary of the pon with which to discredit the smashing defeat of Soviet Russia. sciousness among the mass of work­ has been a great increase in the newly organized opposition in neous revolt of the agrarian bour­ Communist party. Recently, this To put confidence in the imperia­ ers, in this instance, the movement aggressiveness of the American geoisie and petty bourgeoisie must The semi- oppositionists of the the Communist Party of Aus­ list contradictions alone, as the of the unemployed. farmers in their efforts to throw not be overestimated, so long as it type of Max Adler (can Otto Bauer tralia. It is still further evi­ method of approach (?) has been present regime in the Soviet Union Various movements of the un­ off the burden of the crisis. The is but little bound up with the s till be counted among them?) dence and confirmation of the altered, .and the party carefully does, means to go to the slaughter employed arose in the past years forms of this activity have been workers’ struggles' and particularly cover up and protect this policy of wreckage perpetrated by the points out that when they refer to blndfolded. in the hope th a t through mass varieij—strikes, farm holidays, re­ with the revolutionary direction of disloyalty “from the Left.” Among Stalinist leadership of the Com­ the social-fascists they only mean The Western powers are heading pressure and organization, the sistance to attempts to foreclose these struggles. From the peasant the working masses there still munist International. But more the leaders of the social democrats. for an intervention agreement. Ja­ mortgages, in such widely-scattered glows the hope that everything w ill than that, it is a glowing tribute pan, in the Far East, is making miserable lot of the unemployed revolt or “jacqueries” of France of “From Below” in the Office millions can be partially alleviated. areas as New York, Wisconsin and the ancien regime, through the oe made good again from above, to the great historical role of| ready for collusion in the attack These are necessary and immedi­ Nebraska. Can we look upon these peasant movements of nineteenth- that the opposition w ill soon decide the International Left Opposition Unfortunately however, they have by the seizure of the Chinese East­ ate objectives that must be sincerely struggles as having revolutionary century Europe, the independent to point out the way of struggle. and the effectiveness of The forgotten that the workers have ern, by the setting-up of a new and militantly fought for by all significance? peasant struggles in Soviet Russia In this manner, irretrievable weeks M ilitan t, whose guiding voice a habit of remembering, so that North China vassal state, by the forces taking part in the unem­ The American farmer can be after the October Revolution, which and months are lost. reaches the serious and sincere when, in a frenzied endeavor to set conclusion of a binding truce with ployed movement. For Communists, divided into three classes: the at times were in conflict with the The Left wing of the social Communist workers in far-off up “a united front from below” they the lackeys of the Kuomintang. th is is elemental, or ought to be. large capitalist farmer, owning revolution, and up to the present democratic opposition made the A u stra lia . approach these self-same workers From all sides, imperialist ambus­ As in other fields of daily class several hundred to several thous­ time in the Western provinces of first attempt to act when it called To our new fellow-fighters and with this brand new form of orga­ cades lurk ahead for the fortress struggle, so in the unemployed and acres, regularly exploiting la­ China where the famous Chinese upon ‘the masses to demonstrate in comrades in Australia—greetings! nization (or is it a tactic?) the of the world revolution. movement, we put forward imme­ borers; second, the middle-sized “Soviets,” and the Chinese “Red the center of the city. The call As to ourselves, this tribute from workers greet them with stony si­ Stalinism has paralyzed the Com­ diate demands in themselves of farm er, operating 50 to 200 acres Army” dominate, history is full of had no effect. It could not have the South Seas should spur every lence, and the comrades retire to munist International, the arm of greater or lesser importance. These (20 to 80'hectares), using little or the experience of independent ag­ any effect, because leadership can­ Comrade on to greater activity. lick their wounds in isolation. They world revolution. have been more or less accurately occasional hired labor; and the rarian revolts without the leader­ not come from an anonymous or­ With redoubled energy and en­ then proceed to indulge in self- Stalinism has betrayed the Chi­ worked out and need no repetition small farmer', comparable to the ship of the only revolutionary class, ganization. The workers want to thusiasm, forward! — Ed. urticism sufficiently for them to nese proletariat and helped into here. We- present immediate de­ European peasant, the tenant far­ the proletariat. know with whom they are dealing. launch another campaign. Then power the Kuomintang bandits, who have sold out to the Japanese ag­ mands because as living and not mer and the share-cropper. Aims of Agrarian Revolts It is not, naturally, a question of Sydney, A p ril 14, 1933 they go out and repeat the same sterile revolutionaries, we fight for old mistakes time and again. gressor. The m iddle and to some extent, These' revolts are not directed persons, but of the bafiner, the pro­ Comrade, the interests of the workers today. the small farmer have been the gram, the slogan, the organization. Result: Their isolation is becoming Stalinism has betrayed the Ger­ against the system of capitalism, In an endeavor to get a clear man working class by a senseless, At the same time we set forth our most actively engaged in the farm but against certain immediate re­ Several Left social democrats who chrouic. ultimate program for the abolition strikes and the militant actions want to fight, are perplexed because conception of the international situ­ unrealistic policy which has played sults of that system: super-exploi­ During these honest, but futile of capitalism and its replacement against foreclosure of mortgages. they have no “names.” The name ation, and to get a correct estimate into the hands of Fascism. tation by finance Capital, excessive of the present line of the C. I. attempts of the party membership To what end? So that socialism by the rule of the working class. The broadest masses of the agra­ taxes to support the capitalist is created in the course of the But, if we forget for one instant rian petty bourgeoisie and of the struggle. As long as the Left so­ from your point of view, I, in agree­ to overcome their weakness, the might be built in one country—in state, high prices for manufactured ment with others of the movement party leadership contents itself Russia! ? Where has this wise, our basic class approach, namely, agricultural workers have had a goods, compared with low prices cial democrats do not come out with our need and task to revolutionize limited share in this activity. On a platform of struggle, their calls in Australia have decided to open with the issuing of mechanical di­ “practical policy,” which has “com­ for agricultural commodifies re­ rectives from above. They re­ the workers; if we allow ourselves the other hand, particularly in the w ill get no echo. up communication with your or­ promised” with Chiang Kai Shek sulting from the control of the state ganization. iterate to a point of monotony thru and alienated the bulk of the re­ to get lost in a maze of immediate mddle West, there has been a dis­ apparatus by finance and its allied The Communist party is paral­ F or the past tw o yeans some­ the party press that they are the formist working class of the world, demands and become absorbed, how­ tinct tendency for the Revolting industrial capital. The aim of yzed by the criminal policy of thing has been' definitely wrong “Vanguard of the working class!” led to,? soever militantly, solely in the farmers to seek the assistance of these revolts has been to remove the Stalinist bureaucracy in Ger­ struggle for these demands, little or workers, particularly unemployed, with the C. P. in Australia. The and that "No revolution can be suc­ It must be plainly said: It has “abuses” and “excesses” of the many, by the theory and practice cessful unless we lead it!” Then led to the isolation of the revolu­ nothing w ill be gained for the work­ from the' nearby cities. existing system, not to destroy the of social Fascism, the hopeless support that was gained when the economic crisis began to be felt, they apparently sit back in comfort tionary fatherland. It has laid it ing class. What we reap w ill be illu ­ To a large extent this has been existing system and build a new muddle in-the question of the united was never crystallized gradually and await the rallying of the toil­ open to attack from without by sions among the workers, the growth spontaneous, although the Commu­ one on its ruins. Even the agrarian front, the regime of simulation and fell away. Today we find, that de­ in g masses around th e ir office doors. opportunist compromises directed of opportunism and the chance for nist party and other labor organi­ rebels themselves still have confi­ falsehoods. opportunists and fakers to deceive zations have tried to give direction spite the continued reiteration of The lead that they give is purely against the world revolution It dence in the stability and desira­ The Bolshevik-Leninists must look the workers. In short, it will be to this elemental movement in an bility of the existing system. the statement; “The ever increasing (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 4) for connections with the genuine radicalization of the workers,” the But when, on the one hand, the revolutionary elements in the Com­ exsting system cracks open and lays facts are that an increasing number munist party and the social demo­ keep away from any demonstration bare its inner decomposition, dur­ cratic opposition. It is not true Stalinist Diplomacy Leaves Trail of ing a revolutionary crisis; and on or movement launched by the C. P. New York Branch to Hold Picnic For that everything is lost in Austria. For criticizing the leadership in the other, the proletariat, guided by Great shake-ups, transformations in its revolutionary party, steps for­ an honest endeavor to correct ob­ Treachery for International Proletariat the masses are still possible. A vious Right opportunist errors, Benefit of Press & Illinois Campaign ward as the one class in society small organization which knows that has a definite policy .and has many good members have been ex­ The opportunist theory of social­ the USSR and the Comintern. They what it wants can play an histo­ pelled. It is significant that the On Sunday, June 11, 1933, the McLean Ave. trolley to Tibbett’s the strength and the organization rical role under such circumstances. ism in one country is showing its stand in opposition to it and fill with which to carry it out, under majority of these expelled members New York Branch of the Commu­ Brook Park. fruits. A correct revolutionary, the jails and places of deportation these Circumstances the agrarian — LEON TROTSKY have good records of struggle in nist League of America (Opposi­ Comrades and sympathizers: Re­ Marxist Russian Foreign Policy, in the state for which they have their leadership of the workers. tion) w ill hold its first picnic of revolt is swept along behind the Prnkipo, May 7, 1933 serve SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1933 for based upon the theory of the per­ fought. Bureaucrats who have proletarian revolution and rein­ While pretending to follow in the the season a t Tibbetts Brook Park an all day frolic at Tibbetts Brook manent revolution, would have arisen on the basis of the reaction­ forces it. Depending on the relative footsteps of Lenin, the party leader­ (Picnic ground to be announced Park seen its chief tasks in the problems ary theory of socialism in one importance of agriculture in the ship gives lip-service to the revo­ later in the M ilita n t). The picnic, of the Chinese, the German, the country, which stands in contradic­ national economy, this reinforce­ lutionary movement instead of en­ apart from the good time assured world revolution. Of greatest im­ tion to objective reality, decide the ment may be decisive, as in Soviet «Young Spartacus» O ut gaging in the concrete work among for all who attend, has the neces­ NEW YORK BRANCH PICNIC portance was the Comintern as the policies. Russia, or substantal, as it would the masses so necessary i f they sary and excellent objective of instrument of world revolution. To Nationalist Foreign Policy—A be in the United States; or even The June issue of Young Sparta­ wish to win concrete support for raising money to maintain the — a t — its interests, diplomacy, which only Logical Consequence negligible, as it would be in Great cus is off the press and ready for their line. weekly M ilitan t and to assist in has a technical significance, should sale. Featuring National Youth When the Comintern instructor the work of the Left Opposition TJ BETTS BROOK PARK Soviet diplomacy has rid itself of B rita in . have been subordinated. Day, it contains the International among the Illinois coal miners. all control by the Comintern and The present basis of American was here, he introduced the theory (F ie ld to be announced la te r) Thus, with a correct polity, the Left. Opposition’s statement to the of “social-Fascism.” This was im­ To this picnic have also been in­ made an opportunist practice out agriculture is unstable and cannot central problem of the Soviet Union Youth Anti-Fascist Congress at mediately taken up by the leader­ vited the members and sympathi­ on SUNDAY, JU N E 11, 1933 of a juridical fiction in the Soviet be maintained for very many years Copenhagen. This is a powerful zers of nearby Branches of the in the last few years should have constitution. If Russia alone could longer, as is shown by the per­ ship with enthusasm, and they Games - Refreshments - Speakers been the struggle against German document which should be seriously proceeded to thoroughly thrash Communist League. Special invi­ build up socialism, it had to con­ manent crisis which has corroded Auspices : New York Branch, Com­ Fascism, which should not have studied by both youth and adult the Labour Party with it at every tations have been extended to the duct a .nationalist foreign policy, American agriculture ever since munist League of America (Opp.) been permitted under any circum­ comrades. It should add in clari­ opportunity. Not realizing that they Newark and Philadelphia branches. the Comintern had to become a 1920, and even d u rin g the years fying the question of the relation only represented an insignificant The picnic committee is already (DIRECTIONS: From New York stances to seize power. Further­ negligible factor whose interests of a stabilization and “prosperity.” between the general class move­ minority of the workers, they in­ on the job with preparations for City — Take I.R.T. Woodlawn-Jer- more, China should have been sup­ had to be subordinated to diplo­ Overextension, excessive productive ment and th youth. Among the discriminately labelled every social fun and good food. ported against the brigand inva­ macy. Then non-aggression pacts, capacity, low prices in relation to ome Avenue Subway to Woodlawn sion of the Japanese. other articles are those on Ger­ democratic worker as a counter To get to Tibbetts Brook Park participation in the Kellogg Peace manufactured goods, a low rate of many, unemployment, reforestation, Station — last stop. From there But the representatives of this profit, severe competition with revolutionary and an enemy of the from New York City: Take the Pact, struggle for international and working class youth struggles working class. This of course led I. R. T. Woddlawn-Jerome Ave. take McLean Ave. car to Tibbetts correct, international tactic which disarmament “as the only means of new countries like Canada, Argen- conforms to the objective require­ in the Trenton and New York Doll to open antagonism and hostility train to the Woodlawn station—the Brook Park.) ments do not decide the policy of (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 4) ind ustry. and gave the opportunist leaders of last stop. From there take a PAGE 2 THE MILITANT « r . SATURDAY, JUNE 3,1923 LEAGUE ACTIVITIES N .Y . Youth March Right W ing and MUSTE & BROOKWOOD Against W ar B ook Chicago Branch in Greek Stalinists Exclude Stalinists in P M A II. and Brookwood w ill go down as a A ll the previous splits in the New York—Approximately live Right wing institution, and uo one CPLA were as nothing when com­ w ill shed any tears, Brookwood as 'Militant Drive Protomagia thousand young workers paraded R eview (Continued from Page 11 pared with the recent wholesale u Right wing Institution has out­ the streets of Harlem, N. Y., on the was defeated and became a paper Chicago, 111.—The Chicago branch New York—Last January the walk-out of Musteites on Muste. grown ■ Its usefulness just as third anniversary of National Youth Pioneer Publishers have just ob­ organization in Illinois and the Left With the resignation of D. Saposs, Musleism has no place in the of the Left Opposition has whole­ Greek organ of the party announced Day—the counter demonstration to tained a batch of copies of an ex­ Opposition proposed the return of J. C.' Kennedy and Katherine American Labor Movement. heartedly entered into the campaign that a provisional committee was the hypocritical Decoration Day cellent documentary book on the the Left wing in the UMWA, the Pollack the CPLA was left like a I t is a grand glorious boast of of expansion inaugurated by the established for the purpose of mouthings and jingo speeches of American Left Opposition. The foreign policy of the Soviet Union Stalinites opposed the Left wingers forsaken child in the cold. A ll the CPLA that they alone are preparing plans for a conference the m ilitary sides of the bankers from November 7, 1917, to the who took tills course. Later when last week has witnessed a series (which was held last February) of these "militants” are faculty mem­ fighting against labor racketeering. and the munition manufacturers. signing of the reaty of Brest the rank and file movement split bers of Brookwood and only yes­ It is true that the Labor Age de of successful activities here which all Greek workers’ organizations, Ojstensibly an anti-imperialist w ill bear rich fru it in the near Litovsk and its immediate effects away from Lewis and company and terday were members of the N. C. votes much space to John L. Lewis to outline a common program of war demonstration the tone of the the Left Opposition proposed that future. in September 1018. “ Russia and of the CPLA. The fight was sim­ and Brindloism. But the Musteites action for unemployment relief slogans, due to the environs of the Germany at Brest Litovsk’’ is an all -Lett wingers enter and build a from the Greek charity organiza­ mering underground for the past have no access to these unions and Last Sunday, May 21st, we held parade, swerved radically from its exposition in detail chronological Left wing in the new union move­ lew months while Muste was trying the attacks on Lewis only serve to a very successful mass meeting with tions and the church of the city. original purpose to a Scottsboro form of the struggle between the ment the Stalinites boycotted the A t the conference ther was also to persuade them that Brookwood cover up the racketeers inside the comrade Cannon who is now on tour protest march. The spirit of the Soviet Union and the imperialist movement and its conventions. S till should be a training school for CPLA. Hardman is one of the for the Left Opposition. Comrade represented the Greek workers’ marchers was highly enthusiastic powers, particularly Germany in the later, when the revolt broke out educational club Protomagia, with budding Musteites. 'outstanding figures of the CPLA. Cannon’s lecture on the perspec­ but little expression came from the early days of the Revolution. and the Progressive Miners of According to inside information, lie also defends one of the most tive of the American revolution was three delegates. A resolution was YCL and sympathizing bodies of .America was established, the Stal adopted that the conference go on The history of that period, and it was found that Brookwood and criminal exhibitions of despotism very enthusiastically received by an anti-militarist nature.' It re­ particularly the role of comrade iniles did not understand the move­ the CPLA were so entangled that and racketeering in the Amalga­ the workers present. The atten­ record to elect a permanent com­ mained for the Spartacus Youth ment, stayed out of it and used mittee composed of one delegate Trotsky, has been grossly distorted Muste . was using Brookwood’s re­ mated. Tlie Musteites have ma­ dance was excellent in spite of the Club, affiliated to the Left Opposi­ by the Stalinists. With the excep­ most of their energy and the col­ sources, time and money to bolster terial from workers in their office fact that it was the first warm each from the participating orga­ tion, which was present in a goodly umns of the Daily Worker to throw nizations. Another resolution was tion of the book under considera­ up the declining CPLA. After the that was never brought to light. Sunday following several weeks of contingent, to give the internation­ tion there is little material in mud at the union and its leaders Saposs group divorced itself from Why? I t deals with union episodes cold and rainy weather. A good proposed by the notorious Stalinist alist spirit to the gathering. and at no time did they present editor of the Greek party organ English on this subject. Here are the CPLA, the fight was forced out that would be very embarrassing number of Stalinists were present U ntil the day of the parade, the contained peace declarations of the proper political criticism and di­ into the open with the result that lo ,1. B. 8.. Hardman, who is first and although the subject was not Empros, to the effect that all par­ organization of National Youth Day rectives. ticipants shall accept the program Workers’ Republic, speeches and Muste was ousted. The Times re­ lieutenant of Muste in the CPLA. of a polemical nature, they re­ bore the label of the united front. statements of Trotsky before, dur­ Such a policy by the Stalinites ported that the majority of the Naturally the Musteites w ill reply mained throughout the meeting and of the party-controlled unemployed The Lovestonites, the Spartacus played into the hands of the more that they did publish an article councils and that the Empros shall ing anti after the signing of the students went out on strike in sym­ gave the speaker their undivided Youth Club, branches of the Young reactionary element, split the forces on racketeering in the Amalgama­ be the official organ of the com­ Treaty of Brest Litovsk, famous pathy with Muste. The catch is attention. A considerable number Circle League had a place on the of the Left wing, and thereby ted by Carlo Tresca. But—this mittee. We of the Protomagia, pro­ speech of Lenin at the Fourth A ll that Muste promised them jobs in of workers took advantage of the provisional committee. A Conces­ helped intrench the Right wing in article was prefaced with profuse tested against this resolution which Russian Congress of Soviets in the CPLA. This would give them chairman’s invitation to leave their sion was even offered by the Stalin­ March 1919, and the actual terms the saddle at the very start. bread and butter and give him apologies from the editor. addresses in order that we may proposed to use the committee as ists to the YPSL to refrain from The turn of the C. I. toward the Furthermore, about a year and a an organization superceding all or­ of the treaty. Trotsky’s summary workers that are conspicuously notify them of future meetings and all criticisms of the war record of united front after the German de­ half ago in Montreal, three thous­ ganizations and not a genune uni of the peace negotiations (pages absent in the CPLA. altogther, the Left Opposition w ill the reformists in the case that the' feat forced a turn in America and During the fight Muste charged and tailors drove out the Amalga­ ted front body. But we remained 134 to 145) is a brilliantly Concise reap many benefits from this meet­ latter would participate in National in the coal fields. The Stalinists the Saposs group was going to the mated racketeers and formed a new and participated in the committee exposition of the meaning of the ing. Youth. D ay! The day of the march changed their policy in the coal Right while he (Muste) was bein: organization just as the Progressive with the statement that we do not treaty, its conditions arid the dis­ changed all this unusual gentility. fields and in the last few months ousted for being too m ilitant and Miners of America did against The climax of the week’s activi­ accept the resolution. pute in the Central Committee of The Stalinists, finding themselves the Russian Bolshevik' Party. have had a proper program that revolutionary. Let us see whether John J. Lewis. The Amalgamated ties Was reached at a meeting of That aroused the hostility of the was far superior to their previous the members of the Left Opposition in a united front with their paper, The policy of the Bolsheviks was Muste is really going to the Left. replied with terrorism, strike-break­ Stalinist bureaucrats against our organizations, the Left and Right' to utilize the peace negotiations to wrong program in the coal fields. Did Muste, while he was the head ing, treachery and collusion with and its sympathetic organizations club and immediately they started The Stalinists have realized the on Thursday. After an address by Opposition alone, became insolently i arouse the international working of Brookwood, ever propose a radi­ the bosses against this new organi­ a campaign of slander against us, arrogant casting all their smooth clfiss and particularly the prole­ necessity of a Left wing in the cal change of policy, teaching, or zation just as Lewis did in Illinois. comrade Cannon on the work of preparing the ground for our ex­ PMA, for more than one reason. the Left Opposition in the most spoken phrases on the united front tariat of Austria and Germany. On in representation of the student Why has the CPLA kept silent here clusion from the committee, which I to the four winds. Leaflets were February 4, 1918, Zinoviev, in the But their method of building a body, or the fellowship? No! Muste and blazed forth so violently against important class battles waged by was packed w ith party member's Left wing shows no improvement the workers recently, the possibili­ ripped from the hands of the Love- name of Petrograd Soviets ad­ did not want such a radical change Lewis? representing non;existing organiza­ stoneites, copies of Young Spartacus dressed the Berlin and Vienna upon the past. They have already in Brookwood in the past,'and he This confusion of tiie Musteites ties of further participation in the tions. They used all forms of forgotten their new turn and re­ class struggle and the resultant were torn to shreds by rowdy ele­ “ Soviets":. “Brothers and com­ did not advocate such a change was made imssible by the bureau­ gangsterism in order to force our ments of the YCL, with no word of panions in arms, by your strikes turned to their old formula. recently when he was forced out cratic blunders of the Stalinists, growth of the Left Opposition, the delegates to withdraw. Bolshevik-Leninists present gave criticism or attempt made by their and demonstrations and the crea­ On May 21, they decided to or­ from Brookwood. Why is he both nationally and internationally. The Stalinists were determined leaders to stay their provocative tion of your Soviet of ¡Workers’ ganize a Left wing and start at calling him a “ Left” and a rev­ Had the Communist party had the concrete evidence of their devotion to do away with us at any cost. to their class and their enthusiasm actions. and Soldiers’ Deputies you have once to call a state conference one olutionist? Let Muste’s record as correct policy, Muste would never When their original pressure failed, When the parade marched into shown that the Austro-German week later on the 28th. They the dean of Brookwood, and since have had the opportunity to estab­ in the accomplishments of the Left they proceeded to use open hooli­ Opposition. the circle, where the speaking was working class w ill not allow the consulted no one who is not a the form ation of the CPLA speak lish this caricature of radicalism gan methods. to take place, both the Left Oppo­ hangmen and spoilers to impose a Stalinist or close sympathizer of for itself. in the American Labor Movement. Without hesitation they agreed The Greek bureau of the party sition and the Lovestoneites as peace of violation and annexations the party and proceded to call the 1. The ousting of a Left wing Nevertheless Muste and his CPLA to raise Chicago’s quota of $400 in organized a group of party mem­ well as the chairman of the Ameri­ on the Socialist Republic of So­ state conference. They said they scholar like Calhoun from Brook­ are doomed because: the expansion campaign of the Left bers to be used as a “ strong arm can Youth Federation (who had viets . . . The destined outcome of tried to reach everybody but did wood. 1. i t is a reformist organization. Opposition. lJledges_were called for. squad” against us. On April 17th, made some objections, unpleasant the peace pourparlers is being de­ not have time, and with such a 2. Muste adopted a new policy 2. It lias no economic basis. One comrade pledged $100.00. An­ when the committee was supposed to the bureaucrats) were confronted cided not at Brest Litovsk but in llimsy excuse proceeded to exclude excluding students who accepted 3. It has no political organiza­ other- pledged and paid $50.00. to meet, our delegates went over with a refusal to allow them speak­ (lie streets of Berlin and Vienna everybody except themselves and the line-up of the Communist party. tion. Pledges of tens and fives came roll­ to participate in the meeting. But ers in .spite of the previous agree­ and German and Austrian cities those who stumbled upon their 3. Muste did not allow graduates 4. It has no working class fol­ ing in. Unemployed comrades, when our delegate entered the hall ment to the contrary. The excuse . . . Comrades, members of the plan and broke in on them. who are Communists to vote at the lowing.- having no money of their own, vol­ of the Spartakos Club, where the was that there were already too Soviets of the Workers’ Delegates In the caucus, they proceeded, annual meeting, although their vote 5. It is an eclectic gathering of unteered to canvass their acquain­ committee was in session, the hoo­ many speakers (from organizations of Berlin and Vienna, your victory over the advice and motions of the could not decide either way whether radicals and liberals. tances, and raise all the money they ligans confronted him and ordered controlled by the YCL). Vigorous w ill signify the fu ll and indisput­ Left Opposition miners’ fraction he should remain or be ousted from I t is plain, therefore, that the possibly could. A worker who had him to leave. Upon our delegate’s objection was voiced and th e ! able victory of Socialism, for two and others to organize a provisional Brookwood. collapse of Musteism is inevitable. just found a job after eight months demand for an explanation as to Stalinists were forced to call an 1 victorious revolutions in Russia and committee, and adopt a draft pro­ A ll this was in accordance with With the revolutionary upsurge of of unemployment, pledged $5.00. It the authority for their action, they impromptu meeting of the steering' in Germany w ill be invincible. gram. They gave the committee the “ revolutionary” policy of the tlie American working class these was very evident that every com­ said that they were acting on in­ committee which they packed with ■ Long live tire Soviets of Workmen’s power to call another conference CPLA. This is Muste’s record' as fake “ militants” of the CPLA w ill rade present was making every structions from the conference a couple of non-members, thus suc­ and Soldiers' Delegates of Berlin later and to get in touch with all a revolutionary and a Left winger. stand exposed as barren and futile sacrifice and effort to do his or committee which had decided not ceeding in giving their violation of j and Vienna! Long live Commu­ other Left wing groups, some that The Saposs gtoup now in control evangelists of reformism. her share to further the work of to admit anybody else. They al­ the united front a “legitimate” j nism !” were formed before the caucuc. at Brookwood is an out and out — S. M. DAVIS the Left Opposition. Approximately ready had enough delegates. character. j But the Soviets formed in Berlin Instead of a provisional commit­ Right wing S.P.-A.F. of L. clique. $90.00 in cash was raised at this Upon our delegate’s insistence to Then commenced the real provo­ and Vienna in early 1918 were tee on the narrow foundation of Since Muste was ousted from meeting. A joint committee of the patrieipate, a party member, Ka- cation of the meeting. Rabid young' crushed. The policy of “ No peace, Stalinism and the adoption of a Brookwood, the faculty is silent. Left Opposition and all its sym­ ramanlis by name, assisted by three Stalinists approached our delega-' no war” that is, the termination draft program, asking other groups They do not want to commit them­ Musteite Quits pathetic organizations present was others,, used physical force to eject tiOn, taunted them with insulting1 of the war without an actual and tendencies TO COME TO US, selves as to whether they are for formed to carry on the work of our comrade from the hall. remarks and tore literature from treaty, failed to arouse the natural the Left Opposition miners’ frac­ a change in Brookwood’s curricu­ Youngstown, O.— George Perkins, gathering in the pledges of the Our club has sent a letter to their hands and threatened physi­ class allies of the Soviets. The tion proposed that we elect a ne­ lum or policy. A t the recent gradu­ local CPLA organizer, boycotted an various comrades as they are able the committee demanding an ex­ cal violence. The Spartacus Youth German army advanced even though gotiations committee and that this ation exercises not a word was men­ election of the Austintown Unem­ to meet them and to canvass the planation. This letter has not been Club held its ground when sund- Soviet Russia had declared the end caucus GO TO THE OTHER LEFT tioned about the future policy of ployed League in which he had con­ absent members for pledges. answered to this day. F irst the denly it found itself (surrounded of the war and withdrawn its WINGERS, and that together, these Brookwood. The faculty is pussy­ sented to be a candidate by leaving Comrade Cannon w ill be back in' Stalinists tried to use this com­ by a cordon of uniformed self styled troops from the front. No alterna­ forces, upon a broad foundation, footing and supporting the S. P. the meeting after stating he was Chicago on June 9th, at which time mittee as a suiter-organization by “ red front fighters” who fenced off tive was open: Lenin proposed the through the united front, call a quietly. The faculty staff consists opposed to the way in which the he w ill speak at a mass meeting means of which to liquidate all the Spartacus Youth Club delega­ signing of a peace treaty with Ger­ meeting where a provisional com­ of S. P.’ites. Mark Starr is a mem­ League was functioning and there­ in Humboldt Hall, 2231 W. Division the participating organizations. tion from the rest of the demonstra­ many—a “ T ilsit Peace.” * mittee is established. In the ber of the S. P. in Poughkeepsie. fore lie would not function on the Street, on “ The Tragedy of the Secondly, they entered into an al­ tion. They claimed the reason for “ Russia and Germany at Brest meantime, as a first step the L. O. Why in Poughkeepsie? The answer executive committee if elected. German Proletariat.” We invite all liance with the Greek church, with this unheard of action was to pro­ Litovsk” was published by the Rand miners proposed that we organize is that in New York the S.P. is Perkins, who is also a vice presi­ Stalinists to attend this meeting to the Greek bishop using them for tect (!) us from violence, but their School of Social Research. After Left wing groups in as many corrupt, but not in Poughkeepsie. dent of the Ohio Unemployed learn what a correct united front the advantage of the church. And motives were obviously sinister. the present batch is disposed of locals as possible. J. C. Kennedy and Saposs are lec­ League, was one of the organizers tactic is and how to apply it, and finally, in order to cover up their The YCL leaders, when approached by Pioneer Publishers there w ill be The Left Oppostion miners frac­ turing and participating in S. P. along with Karl Lore of the Aus­ to answer for their misleadership adventurism and irresponsibility, and asked the reason for this hos­ no more copies available. It orig­ tion w ill do all that is possible to activities. Saposs was also one who tintown organization. helped Muste to oust Calhoun from of the German proletariat, if they they reorganized the committee in tile maneuver, shunned an answer inally sold at one dollar a copy. iron out the difficulties created by Along with Mrs. Grace Mettee, the headquarters of the Needle Brookwood. can. We w ill carry the campaign or shifted the responsibility though We are selling it for 25c. (twenty the Stalinites and' bring all Left one of two who “walked out” with from this point on to a successful Trades Workers Industrial Union, they had undoubtedly inspired it. five cents) each, 15c (fifteen cents) wing tendencies into one broad Moreover, at graduation day, when the annual meeting of the him, Perkins recently took the culmination with a picnic to be so that it is composed of party The demonstration, luckily for the in groups of ten or more. Order united front Left wing group. The initiative and leadership in a very held the latter part of June. members qpd members of party Stalinists, ended without any alter­ now before it is too late! Left Opposition miners fraction at fellowship took place at Brookwood, an interesting incident occured. poorly prepared and miserably affiliates only. A week ago they cations. the same time realized that many conducted protest “ strike” for more This campaign marks a definite announced in the Empros that a This reversion of the Stalinists of the other Left wing tendencies The Right wing which always hol­ step forward in the work of the * The'reference is to the “ Tilsit relief that supped the energy of conference was held on May 18 . . to the gangster tactics of the “ third Peace” imposed by Napoleon the w ill not go as far as we desire. lered for the last few years that Left Opposition in Chicago as well the Communists are about to cap­ the organization and scattered its This exposes the hypocrisy of the periodf will only bring disgrace First on Prussia in 1807. Inevitable, But at the same time we realize forces. We supported the “ strike” as nationally. Definte plans were' whole policy of the Stalinist bu­ upon themselves and discredit their that only the inclusion of the ture Brookwood, lined up the gradu­ made to secure a permanent head­ it was accepted by the Prussians, insofar as tlie rank and file work­ reaucrats. They talk united front motives in the united fyont. We broadest layers w ill be able to de­ ating class and elected a hundred quarters and to draw new members and used as a breathing spell in ers were in favor of it; yet at the and use splitting tactics. They use warn again that this road w ill lead which to prepare their own “ war feat the Right wing, the Operators percent Right wing clique as offi­ into the branch from the many cers of the National Fellowship. same time we pointed out its un­ revolutionary phrases but act no to disaster and isolation from the, of independence” 1812-1814, which and their Lewis agents. preparedness, its weaknesses and sympathizers we have won in the different from the reactionaries. broad masses of the toiling youth. . — HUGO OEHLER This is the same clique which func­ course of our work during the last brought about Napoleon’s downfall. therefore the likelihood that it — J. BANANOS tioned for' the last few years as a few years. The Left Opposition is CPLA fellowship. The Right wing would not succeed accomplishing preparing to play its role in the Statement of Chicago Branch to National Jobless M eet gang refused to give any represen­ its aim. In opposition to this ad­ important struggles that lie ahead. tation to the Left wing group. They venture we proposed a campaign to STREET MEETINGS TO ALL DELEGATES TO THE the working class lies in the abo­ nizational independence, refrains increase the local active member­ — R. S. The New York Br'anch is holding did it because the Left wing group, NATIONAL UNEMPLOYED lition of capitalism. from slander and personal attacks under the leadership of Sam Fisher, ship and also to help build up Un­ open air street meetings on current employed Leagues in Youngstown CONFERENCE Towards the acheivement of this against each other, but maintains demanded and fought for a change working class problems Thursday, goal, it is necessary first of all to the right of minority expression The small group, including our­ SUBSCRIBE TO THE MILITANT! GREETINGS ! in Brookwood’s policy, curriculum, Friday and Saturday evenings in put the working class in motion in and freedom of criticism. Under selves, that stuck to the organiza­ A H a lf Year sub to the M ilitan t Manhattan, the Bronx and Brook­ and representation. Here are -but The Communist League of Amer­ a struggle for its immediate needs. no circumstances can the United a few points that the Left wing tion in tlie critical period following is $1. On a Club Plan with three lyn. Our sympathizers and friends ica (Left Opposition) wishes to This conference must adopt a pro­ Front exclude or bar any unem­ advocated. the “ strike” considered it necessary others it is only 50 cents. are urged to attend. to adopt a new constitution that address the following statement of gram of action for the struggle for ployed organization from participa­ 1. We stress the need for Brook­ these immediate demands. The dele­ tion. Should the leadership of any wood to have a non-sectarian would replace the old individual its views to the delegates assembled “leadership” with a reorganized in this conference: gates and representatives of unem­ unemployed organization attempt to character in order that it should ployed organizations from all parts prevent the entry of its organiza­ be able to serve most effectively collective leadership. This was done. You are gathered here as the And since the old “ leaders,” Per­ repfesentatives of the victims of of the United States, assembled tion into the United Front, contin­ as a clearing house for various ten­ here are carrying on a fight for ued efforts must be made to force dencies in the American Labor kins and Mettee, were not specially ! the most advanced productive sys­ consulted in this effort of the rank Special O f f e r i tem in the history of mankind, immediate relief and unemployment them into the united front. In con­ Movement. insurance. These are necessary formance with the above, this con­ 2. Brookwood should be. primar­ and file to Curb the disastrous where in the midst of abundance, leadership of one or two, the latter millions go hungry and in the need first steps. But it would be wrong ference must dissolve to effect a ily a working-class college whose to confine the struggle of the un­ United Front with the Unemployed teaching should be based on Marx­ apparently intend to try to smash of the barest necessities of life. the League by one means or’ an­ The workers standard of living has employed only to these demands. Councils which have been excluded ism and the class struggle. In addition to these, the Commu­ from this conference. 3. It is vital that the curricu­ other. RUSSIA & GERMANY been reduced to a starvation level. Neither their slander, their boy­ This is not due to an inability to nist League of America (Left Op­ 2. As soon as a working agree­ lum should include a symposium or position) propose to the confer­ ment can be had between the vari­ seminar led by leaders of the vari­ cott nor the cowardly, ignorant and produce sufficient commodities to reactionary red-baiting campaign meet the needs of society, but be­ ence the consideration and adoption ous unemployed organizations, in ous political groups in the Ameri­ At BREST-LITOVSK of the following concrete slogans the general development of the can Labor Movement in order that of Mrs. Mettee (which the Musteite cause capitalist production is pro­ Perkins supports by his jsilenee) duction for profit and not for use. and organizational steps: united front, steps should be taken the student should have a', clearer 1. For immediate relief and so­ for the amalgamation of these perspective of the whole political w ill break the League. The new Because the means of production executive committee must win -the cial insurance at the expense of the organizations into one national field In which they intend to serve. By Ju d ah L. Magnes are privately owned capitalist ap­ active support of the unemployed bosses and their government. unemployed organization. The ac­ 4. Equal representation for the propriation upon the foundation of with a practical, constructive pro­ socialized production is an inherent 2. For the 6 hour day, 5 day complishment of this task would student body and the fellowship to week with an increase in wages. increase the fighting ability and the Brookwood board of directors, gram; the rank and file must back contradiction which cannot be up the executive committee in its 3. Fight fo r higher wages and class pressure of the workers mani­ and the cooperative committee, etc. A day-to-day documentary study of the negotiations between solved within the frameworks of effort to rebuild the League on a fold. Such an organization must Is it a wonder the Right wing the capitalist mode of production. increased wages to combat infla­ firm foundation. the German imperial staff and the Bolshevik delegation headed agree upon a minimum program of who follow the footsteps of Muste This is especially true now when tion. — H. N. by comrade Trotsky. Lenin, Trotsky, Kamenev, Karakban and the accumulation of capital pro­ 4. For the recognition of and the action, must permit minority ex­ were scared to death by "those proposals? others move and speak through the 192 pages of the book. What ceeds in the period of capitalist extension of long term credits to pression, and must prevent discrim the Soviet Union. ination against any organization Muste and Saposs did not want DRAFT PROGRAM WANTED they said and did is quoted from documents and the sources decay. The present crisis with its 16 To attain the necessary strength because of political opinion. It a radical change for Brookwood. We are n receipt of requests for are given. million unemployed is a normal de­ to struggle for these demands we must further prevent discrimination The difference between the two is copies of the D raft Program by velopment of capitalism. A stage propose the following organiza­ against race, color or creed. th is : Muste had Brookwood for comrade Trotsky, As our comrades Cloth Cover Originally $1.00 Now .25 of war or revolution represents an tional steps: 3. In addition, efforts must be the last few years under CPLA in­ know this basic document is out 1. The application of the United directed towards the unification of fluence. The Saposs group is keep­ of print and unavailable. They are Postage—.06 extra per copy intensification and higher stage of the economic crisis. The efforts of Front tactic as the means of uni­ the struggle of the unemployed ing Brookwood under th S.P. and wanted now, not for sale, but for the ruling class to solve these con­ fying the various unemployed or­ workers with the employed and in the A.F. of L. influence. A t present our classes. tradictions w ill shift the burden of ganizations (Workers Committee on cooperation with all working class Brookwood is “ saved” from Com­ We are going to reprint it. But the crisis even more heavily upon Unemployed, Unemployed Councils, organizations. munism, and the fellowship from that w ill take some time yet. In -PIONEER PUBLISHERS- the backs of the working class, both Unemployed Leagues, Workers’ May 13, 1933 , Left wing influence. the meantime copies are urgently needed fo r classes. Comrades who 84 EAST lOtb STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. employed and unemployed. I t be­ Leagues, etc., etc.) should be put Chicago Branch The Brookwood faculty and their comes clear'er day by day that a into effect. In this United Front, Communist League of America CPLA fellowship clique were vic­ | have copies they don't need are genuine solution to the problems of each- organization retains its orga- (Left Opposition) torious. One more victory like this asked to send them in at once. SATURDAY JUNE 3. 1933 THE MILITANT PAGE 3 Trotsky to the Austrian S. D. Opposition SUB DRIVE Stalin Diplomacy & Marxian Fundamentals proletariat could be saved from Several Austrian social demo­ A Reply to Some Concrete Danneberg, Seitz and Co., (all of Well it’s over! What’s the re­ (ConPage i) Reactionary Policy and crats, in opposition to the!? leader­ them must be called by their sult? We have pushed the sub­ Fascism! This could not nave been preventing wars” (see the Charter said in a more cynical, more brutal ship, have done me the honor of Questions names) have betrayed the Austrian scription list up considerably. I t ’s Practical Dangers proletariat just as Weis and Co for Peoples’ Rights submitted by fashion. It shows not only the asking me for political advice or a couple of hundred subs larger Litvinoft at Geneva last February) betrayed the German proletariat, than it was. And the paper is a moral conscienceless, but also the answers to several concrete ques­ pline, the statutes and the unity of had of necessity to become things to live in peace and friendship with political narrowmindedness of Stal­ tions. Needless to say, I am wholly Only such a candid and categoric b it more widely read geographi­ every government, even an openly the party. declaration w ill make the indepen­ which could replace the world inism. Therewith the bankrupt ready to answer the questions put cally. A number of new sub getters counter-revolutionary government. 5. The opposition poses for itself dent intervention of the opposition »evolution. dissipaters of the world revolution to me, w ithin the lim its prescribed have made their mark on these the task of “ saving the party,” clear to the workers and at the The leading Soviet statesmen and And now, after the party has been confess that they have never de­ by my absence from the scene of scrolls. Outstanding is the work of What are we to understand by same time inspire confidence and diplomats became disinterested in destroyed, Stalin hands out gigantic veloped any serious plans of saving immediate struggle. comrade Caplan of Kansas City that: the tradition of Austro- seriousness in its intentions. the policies of the revolutionary orders to Fascst Germany, which the Soviet Union from destruction! 1. The idea is apparently wide­ Marxism, its political course, its who romped into first place. An­ parties. In ' this whole last period, in gratitude “ straightens out” the 8. The fundamental political other “ new-comer” is comrade Kotz H itler w ill become the super- spread among the Austrian Left bureaucratic apparatus? But we formulations of the document are trorn 1928 to 1933, a period alive Derop (the reference is to the raids Wraugel. The colonial and corridor social democrats that all is irre- must, on the contrary, put an end of Newark who tied with comrade with struggles of the greatest pro­ on the Soviet Oil Trust Represen­ unclear, have a tendency toward Capelis of New York for third problems can he solved only on the trieveably lost already. Such a to all of this as rapidly »and as portions, not a single congress of tative in Germany, which took prostrate hack of the Soviet Union. compromise and risk the danger of place. Comrade Dunne of Minnea­ pessimistic manner of judging a thoroughly as possible. I t is im­ provoking confusion among the the Comintern has been called. In place on the pretext of weeding out The whole world knows this today, polis h it second place. this same period neither Stalin nor priori is theoretically false and po­ possible to save the social demo­ workers, the Communists inside them—Ed.) only the Stalinists remain blind and litically impermissible. Doubtless Here is the final standing: any other leading Soviet statesman for him, And Soviet diplomacy re­ cratic masses from disintegration a) The declaration demands believe—like the social democrats the most favorable moment for1 and political corruption without A. Oaplan ...... 24 has as much as uttered a single news the friendship treaty conclud­ did in the Weimar constitution—in struggle has been allowed to slip that the bourgeois republic be re­ word on the German problems. ed with Itathenau. the proclamation of an uncompro­ placed by a workers democracy. V. Dunne ...... 12 the teeability of the non-aggression by. But the struggle can also be No, on the basis of the workers’ mising struggle against Bauer and What is “ workers democracy?” A G. Kotz ...... 7 H itler Germany has been isolated pacts. carried on in less favorable condi­ Co. This struggle must inevitably H. Capelis ...... 7 state, they have conducted a bour­ for a while insofar as its foreign Stalin Diplomacy in the Far East tions and victory obtained, never­ fight can be conducted either for geois foreign policy. “ The Soviet lead to split. The task is just how the reestablishment of the bourgeois K. Czapko, Bethlehem.. 6 IKfiicy is concerned. The great A ll that is reactionary in the theless. The pessimists invoke the to consummate this split with the J. Ruby, Chicago ...... 5 Union is everything, the world powers do, to be sure, want to theory and practice of “ socialism unfavorable state of mind of the democracy or for the proletarian revolution is nothing,” that is the greatest advantage for the prole­ dictatorship. The slogan “ workers D, Marcus, N. Y...... 4 utilize H itler for the general at­ in one country” also romes to the masses. Doubtless, everything that tarian revolution. J. Hamilton Chicago .. 3 unexpressed principle of Stalinist tack against the Soviet Union, but fore in the behavior of Soviet di- could have been done from above democracy’1 is an impermissible poley. 6. Does that mean that the enigma in revolutionary politics. H. Oehler, Chicago ____3 they-only assign to him a modest olomacy in the Far Eastern con­ has been done to discourage and Austrian social democratic opposi­ W. Konikow, Boston ... 3 In reality, the Soviet Union, w ith­ role in this. The present hostili­ flict. Instead of maintaining its demoralize the workers. But the b) The declaraton nowhere tion shall Immediately leave the speaks of what the political slogan We do not list here the comrades out a concretely pursued aim of ties serve merely to show the loud­ duty-bound loyalty to the Chinese spirit of the masses is a variable party and create a new one? No, who dug up less than three subs. world revolution, is nothing, and mouthed Fascists back to their proletariat and instead of thereby magnitude. If a fighting and en­ (democracy or dictatorship) shall that is not my opinion. Today, when be which under present circum­ It would require a whole column. doomed to decline. The world bour­ proper places. In reality, the Big creating for itself a jjowerful ally couraging Left faction raises its the Opposition has not yet presen­ Although the drive is over we are geoisie has realized this much Powers' pact is being formed against imperialist Japan, Stalinist voice in time, the state of mind stances can only be realized by the ted itself before the working armed strength of the workers. going to continue listing the subs better than the narrow-minded against the Soviet Union, since in­ diplomacy lias to make the greatest of the masses Can change. The masses, such a split would only as they come in. And we’ll be Stalinist bureaucracy. That is why j ternational capitalism sees in the concessions to the torturer of conflict between the Nazis and the c) The declaration does not facilitate the task of Bauer and pose the slogan of workers’ and some more drives. In the meantime it staked everything on the attempt eloonization of Russia the way out China, to Imperialist Japan, for the government can be a favorable sit­ Co. Here also the first step should carry on. Sub getting is a day to take the Comintern out of the toward a new conjuncture. Faced sake of its . “ fundamental peace uation for the intervention of the soldiers’ councils; however, the be: to speak out what is. sabotage _,of the official apparatus to d tty task of all our1 comrades. hands of the Soviet Union, even if with this tremendous danger, the policy“—as if the existence of the workers. A revolutionary should One phase of the drive could it had to pay with small conces­ Stalinist democracy merely sticks Soviet Union had done away with not give up a position for lost so 7. From this point "of view, the of the social democracy and the draft declaration of the social de­ trade unions w ill only crush the have been a little better. There sions for this achievement. its head into the sand. The diplo­ the international class struggle. long as it is not in the hands of weren’t enough year subs. Now, The Stalin diplomats, led by op­ mats of the Soviet Union have lost Y'es, the “revolutionary diplo­ the enemy. mocratic opposition, which has been workers councils; the slogan of sent to me, is altogether inadequate. workers’ councils opens up the road of course, all subs are welcome ir ­ portunist policy and practice, have confidence in the forces of the world mats” were of late even prepared 2. The social democratic leader­ This document criticises the party to the army for the workers. respective of their duration. But seized upon these small advantages proletariat. But they do have faith to recognize the vassal state of ship true to its traditions, has com­ leadership instead of notifying it The situation can rapidly change. year subs are the best. They do (credits, favorable trade agree­ in the contradictions among the Manehlikuo and to sell it the Chi­ pletely capitulated before Dolfuss, of an uncompromising struggle Many things said above can quickly not cost as much to circularize as ments) and for their sake have neg-„ imperialist powers themselves, they nese Eastern. (The vassals of that is, before Fascism. Only the against, it, before the party masses. alter. But one thing can be said a half year sub which has to be| lected the policy of the revolution­ seek friendship with Hitler. At the Japan ignored this proposition and social democratic opposition can The word betrayal must be spoken with certainty: all half-measures, circularized twice a year. And they| ary party, as was the case in conclusion of the Berlin treaty, confiscated the railroad, so as to call forth a sharp turn in the state out. It might be said that this every word left unsaid on the part bring in more money at one time Germany, even went so fa r as to Isvestia wrote on May C, 1933: lie better able to seize Vladivostok of mind of the toiling masses. But word has been much abused. lit of the social democratic opposition which is a great help. | give it up altogether. I t cannot “ Public opinion in the Soviet and Irkutsk from the Soviet Union for that it must first of all rise the new situation the Austrian will infallibly profit the party To push this phase of the work be forgotten that Litvinoff declared Union has never set forth any plans in the near future.) The Soviet to the height of its historic task. workers w ill examine this word in leadership and in the last analysis, along we are offering a free copy demonstratively in Geneva last directed against the present politi­ Union denied the report officially, Is that possible? I t is useless to a new light, particularly when it Fascism also. of The Only Road by comrade February—shortly after the ap­ cal current in Germany.” but the conservative Temps has speculate. Action decides in this comes from the Left social demo-y — L. TROTSKY Trotsky to every comrade and pointment of Hitler as Chancellor That means the Stalinists have been in a position to prove that case. crats. It must be stated that Bauer, Frinkipo, March 3, 1933. triend who sends in a year sub to —that the Soviet Union is prepared never considered how the German the report of the proposition rested 3. One of the correspondents tile Militant.. on facts. The French Ambassador writes me: "You w ill no doubt had it confirmed by the Japanese demand that we join your organi­ Foreign Minister! Thus, the in­ zation.” No, today the question is ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER Litvinoff and - - Herriot ternational bourgeoisie is better not j>osed so abstractly. The or­ Organize Australian Opposition TO THE MILITANT? informed about the policy of the ganization of the Left Opposition Soviet Union than the working Are you a subscriber to the class, whom a certain Michael (Bolshevik-Leninists) stands, on the our own experiences of the line of M ilitant. Or do you get your copy The New York Times of May 23 diction into which the Stalinist ground of a definite international (Continued from page 1) reports the following telegram of Hollay tells in the Basle Rundschau the C. I. as perpetrated in this from a friend or fellow worker? strategy of opportunist maneuver­ ( Stalin organ) : program which has stood the test abstract. No attempt is made by congratulations from Litvinov to ing with the world bourgeoisie has the leadership to give a concrete couutry, we have arrived at the As far as we can determine with "The Soviet Union w ill not deli­ of the great historical events in a conclusion that our attack against any degree of accuracy, it appears Herriot “for his championship of plunged the C. I. series of countries (USSR, China, lead and guidance to the party ver its locomotives and railroad opportunism may have to be exten­ that, at least in New York, ther'e the Franco-Soviet non-aggression Great Britain, Spain, Germany, members in their daily struggles. trains to the Manchurian lackeys ded fyrther than the leadership • of are four readers of the M ilitant for pact which the French parliament etc.) We w ill naturally be very They are unknown to the workers. of Japanese imperialism, It will the party in this country. every copy. Why should that be ratified last week” : If the number on happy if the further1 development They never give a lead in demon­ “We are not forgetting that this 176 know how to defend the property strations. They have no mass so? One reason is the terror in your wrapper is . of the workers and peasants, of the of events brings the social democra­ However, until we are in posses­ the party which the Stalinist document, whose value in bringing tic opposition closer to us. On our leaders in their ranks. They sit your subscription has expired. liberated Soviet peoples. Should the sion of sufficient data, we cannot bureaucrats have instituted against our peoples closer together and in side, we are ready to do everything above and wait for a spontaneous I f you want to get the M ili­ Japanese imperialists, whose hands come out openly in an attack on all who manifest any sympathy furthering the true consolidation of to< facilitate and to hasten this move from the masses. They avoid tant promptly every week already drip with the blood of the the line of the C. I. To do so with the ideas of the Left Opposi­ general peace w ill continue to grow, rapprochement through the means the struggle morally and physically. would be only to fall into the trap bears your name. Thus you re­ renew your subscription at Chinese people, lift them arrogantly tion. But that is breaking down. once: $2 per year for fifty of comradely discussion, reciprocal Organize the Opposition that the leadership here has so main, in your indefatigable struggle against the Soviet Union, the Red two weekly issues; $1 a half criticism. But that demands a Bo serious has the position be­ kindly laid for us. We require Another reason is the unemploy­ for peace the faithful artisan of Army w ill give them their just de­ relatively long perspective. In the come that we have commenced to facts! We cannot afford to lose ment situation. Many workers can­ this work which began ten years year for twenty six weekly serts.” issues. appreciation of the next, immediate definitely organize the opposition to even the first round of the conflict. not afford to subscribe. ago.” Strong in words, but weak in. But there are a good number of tasks of the Austrian social demo­ the party leadership. Many of us THE MILITANT deeds, this is how Stalinism looks Can you send us a clear analysis other workers who are indifferent Four days earlier the Times re­ cratic opposition we must above all are outside the party, having been ported the discussions on the pact 126 East 16th St. N. Y. C. on the international arena. The analyze the present situation in expelled for our criticisms, others of the international situation from to the question of a subscription theory of socialism in one country your angle so that we can clarify simply because no one has ever in the French Chamber of Depu­ Austria and in the Austrian social are still on the inside but cannot ties : which struck the Stalinist blind as democracy. move without sharing the -same fate our position here? We have good approached them about it. Let us to the close interconnection of in­ make the attempt here. The M ili­ “ Many deputies, including Jac­ 4. The social democratic oppo­ as us. We have formed a provi­ 'support and are confident of suc­ ternational class struggle with the sional secretariat and are complet­ cess if w'e only approach the work­ tant appears every week—fifty-two ques Doriot, tlie Communis! leader, T H E MILITANT foreign policy of the Soviet Union, sition can bring about a Change in times a year. 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Doriot, himself attemp­ Under the act of March 3 1879. ate danger to the existence of the and if it is not getting ready to a member of your editorial board ted during the debate to diminish capitulate befor'e the party leader­ Now, however, another factor1 as I am not acquainted with the Take the question from the angle Published weekly by the Communist Soviet Union itself. of a half year sub. Twenty-six the importance of the gesture by ship, which capitulates before Fasc­ creeps in. The C. I. has endorsed activities of the authorities in your League of America (Opposition) This theory must be irrevocably the expulsion of several of the issues cost $1.30 on the newsstands. saying that it indicated only that ism. In other words, they must country regarding revolutionary France was fearing collapse of the a t 126 East 16th St., N. Y . 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Sec. half year subs. have the two faces of the contra- Foreign $2.50 5 cents per copy (Continued from last issue) munist party and the social demo­ The New Turn cratic party are destroyed. I t Is The formula and practice of the GERMAN LABOR WRITHES UNDER THE WHIP OF THE FASCISTS Austria’s turn next. There Fascism united front from below also be­ is preparing its forces and gather­ ing its strength while the working came untenable by the logic of ine united front and moved the different today. “The united front was correctly action on the occasion of the con- antagonisms of capitalist society events, and—what irony of “ fate” class leadership Is failing as mis­ stitution of the National Socialist are not diminishing but sharpening. pursuing Stalinism—an important masses forward to an extent which The series of previous failures, understood by the masses but it erably as in Germany. The Comin­ part of this whs the fact that would have gradually enabled them the many stupid blunders, the whole was sabotaged by the Central Com­ government. Together with an im­ They w ill become many times more tern also here had the duty to pro­ the initiative to offer an organiza­ to tear into the foundation of Stal­ system of false orientation, policy mittee. I w ill prove that by our portant factory committee and the accentuated in Germany by the ex­ pose a united front to the Second International and put the question tional united front had been left inist policy, at least in Germany. of tneory of Stalinism, brought the district. There existed a united S.A.P, we had established a united istence of the Fascist regime. To front committee and we invited a ll of the defense of the Austrian to the Second International. But German party to its fatai position front built on a broad basis with But, as we know, the party leaders the reformist organizations to par­ perform its mission, it w ill pursue working class on the very top of In giving up the “united front from of ’impotency in face of the Fascist the social democratic workers, in then tenaciously opposed any such ticipate in united struggle. The the attacks upon the present trade the agenda. If Austro-Marxism below” the Stalinist leaders made onslaughts. Some German com­ eluding the lower functionaries. I t change, branded it as counter revo­ social democrats asked us for ne­ unions much further. A strug­ follows its German brethren to an­ a volte face and decided that in rades even today seek to partly had- organized a powerful mass lutionary and removed or expelled gotiations but submitted unaccept­ gle to destroy the workers organi­ nihilation it w ill mean to the Sec­ approaching the socialist leaders absolve the party from guilt in its self-defense corps, it conducted reg­ comrades who tried to apply the able conditions. We nevertheless zations is not performed only by ond International the loss of its for united action they would re­ present catastrophe by saying; “ It ular weekly discussion meetings, united front on a local scale, as went to carry on negotiations and murder, by arresting, and by break­ two strongest and socialistically nounce the fundamental political was not unwilling to fight but it functionaries of both parties Came ing things up; but it is also ac­ right of mutual criticism. we shall show by some concrete together to confer about matters we declared: To every one of these developed parties—in other words examples. was unable to fight.” Precisely that companied by the inevitable attacks a perspective of practical extinc­ These examples alone are suffi­ is the issue. The party was unable and joint demonstrations against points with which the working class is in accord for a struggle against upon the workers standard. tion. And the Communist Inter­ cient to prove Stalinism as utterly Now, however, the events in re­ to fight because its leadership over Fascism were held. The sub-district the Nazi government, the conditions national? Yes, to the Comintern oblivious of a Marxian policy or of gard to this specific question have a long period of time, by its bu­ committee reacted to this by re­ That is certain to be expressed a revolutionary strategy. It swings moving all our local party func­ submitted by you means a practical in attacks upon the working condi­ the German party meant as much already moved beyond its timeliness reaucratically imposed false policy, if not more than the German social in jerks and spasms from one op­ in Germany itself. By this we do not theory and concept, had succeeded tionaries, among them old and tried prevention of united action. The tions gained, upon the wage level, posite position to another, forced class fighters. The district leader­ negotiations stranded because the upon the unemployment insurance, democracy meant to the Sec­ at all mean to assert that nothing in finally disarming the party. And ond International. In this the by the blow of events. Naturally further can be done. Quite the when the vanguard is disarmed, the ship (Brandenburg) covered and socialist leaders would not budge. social insurance and so forth. The The next day there took place in Comintern, under the Stalin regime, it cannot maintain working class contrary. What must be brought mass faces certain defeat. In all of protected the sub-district commit­ general statement previously often our city the greatest demonstration has now suffered its most fatal confidence and it becomes entirely out, however, is the fact that the its objective consequences this Can tee. A hunt for Trotskyites began repeated by party leaders who felt seen to t a long time directed blow. The party of the Soviet Union impotent of giving any leadership German social democratic leader­ mean nothing else than Stalinism with the slogan: ‘Those who have confident that “ H itler1 would soon against the government and also is so immersed in the false theory whatever in a serious revolutionary ship after the Consolidation of the having experienced its August 4th any relations with Trotskyists will get out of business,” to the effect situation. Any old hand organ can be summarily expelled.’ The biggest against the sabotage of the social that he has no favorable economic of “ Building Socialism in One H itler dictatorship have broken in Germany. Country,” that it organized not one change its tune by merely turning with their own International, the part of the membership became democrats. Despite this outstand­ perspective ahead of him, id, of a syiall switch, but it remains Lessons of Some Practical stirred and asked: ‘We should dis­ ing success the district leadership- course, true in its historical sense. single demonstration in support of Second International, over the issue its German class brothers during nevertheless a hand organ. Cen­ of opposing the latter’s protest Experiences cuss with the Nazis ■ but not with removed the sub-district commit­ But it does not preclude that Ger­ tee.” many w ill in this present period their hour of greatest need. The trism with its turns, half-turns and against the dictatorship. In this Many comrades, party member's, our own comrades.’ Protest reso­ false turns nevertheless remains lutions were adopted but filed by These simple reports are impor­ experience a Certain upward eco­ party of the Soviet Union is par­ they hoped to ease the road for discuss freely with us the experi­ alyzed by the dead weight of Centrism. themselves personally. Though the district office never to be tant documents. They should serve nomic conjuncture. A reduction of ences of the past mistakes. In this unemployment would inevitably tend Stalinism. Even this change in the united H itler cannot at all use these mis­ they are also trying to draw the answered.” as enlightenment for Communiste front tactic, partial as it is and everywhere. to increase the working class de­ Enormous tasks are arising fo i erable creatures, except insofar as lessons which may be appropriated Another party member could, in the Left Opposition. The sporadic with its falsity to ,}>oot, still rests they can serve for the future de­ What is to be Done Now? mands as well as the struggle for for the future. Their reports are his report, make a valuable contrib­ these demands. activities now carried on by the within the framework of Stalinist struction of the working class particularly illuminating as to how ution which graphically illustrated However1, an entirely new situ­ theory and policy. In other words, remnants of the German Commu­ movement, they have capitulated the Stalinist tactic worked out in how . a united front correctly ap­ ation exists now in Germany and In general, the Capitalist econom­ nist Party do not signify Its re­ the partial change rests upon its completely to him. the practical activities. One com plied, w ill serve effectively to un­ only fools w ill pay any attention ic system is developing its relation old false foundation. The united cuperation on a new and illegal That means that they have to rade from Berlin, Heligensee re­ mask the social democratic leaders. to the Fascist boasts of abolishing of forces not favorable to the basis, but merely reveal the rear front tactic cannot, of course, ex­ lates : He relates from Dessau: “We took the class struggle. The internal Fascists but favorable to the work­ press the sum total of revolutionary all intents and purposes put the end of its former. legal condition. final touches to the liquidation of ing class. Thus the knights of the What must therefore now be done policy and although it was at the Swastika, despite their easy vic­ present period the most acute their, own organization. One can was well expressed in the statement tory, w ill yet have the greatest dif­ of a German Left Oppositionist: question it makes up nevertheless therefore no more speak of a united by Arne Swabeck ficulties ahead of them. Their “ Above all we must immediately only a part of the whole Content of front in Germany £rom organization suppressions and repressions w ill issue the directives for the build­ a Marxian policy. , But’-here it is to organization as far as the social Worker’s Pocket Series Unemployment and the undoubtedly assume yet more vio­ ing of a new party. None of the necessary to add that in changes of democratic party is Concerned. It is now necessary to commence on a American Working Class lent forms. But it w ill not Continue parts of the old apparatus w ill do strategy or tactic in a revolutionary to remain a one sided affair. There for the future. I have discussed situation, when events usually new foundation. A timely, and a 24 pages 5c are certain also to be struggles in this with many class conscious move with lightning speed, the real change, by the Communist By Leon Trotsky party, however, Could unquestion­ the near future. What leadership, workers, sterling fighter's, and they question of time becomes an im­ Postage: lc extra per copy then, fo f the German working ably have brought the millions of are quite unanimous in asserting portant element: sometimes a mat­ In Defense of the Russian Soviet Economy in Danger class? emphatically: ‘yes, the building of ter of life and death. And in this social democratic workers into Have we fully comprehended the a new party Is an imperative instance it was a matter of life united action with the Communist Revolution Pioneer Publishers workers, avoided the heavy price 48 pages 5c [ 72 pages 10c extent, the scope and the implica­ necessity.” and death. Even this partial Change, 84 East 10th StNew York tions of the defeat in Germany? — ARNE SWABECK if made in time, could perhaps the proletariat now has to pay, and The two workers’ par tins, the Com- April, 1930 have given the impulse to a genu- matters might have looked entirely PAGE 4 TH E M I LET ANT SATURDAY, JUNE3, 1933

first of all by the tremendous quan-! tity of goods in the hands of the1 state, which are put into Icircu-' Problems of the Soviet Regime lation at fixed prices.” If this phrase Unemployment & Political Parties has any meaning at all it can be (Continued from last issue) (money) turnover of all that pro­ only that Soviet money has ceased (Continued from page 1 ) Moreover, this can and must be (The Degeneration of The Reactionary Character done while maintaining the disci­ 3. Official Explanation of ductive energy which is now being being money; it no longer serves the united front unemployed move­ pline of action of the united front. Bureaucratic Terror Theory and the Theory used up within the lim its of the to measure values and by that the ment. Other issues exist, but unless of the Lovestone Policy “ Some comrades,” Stalin said at village and the walls of a private fixation of prices: “stable prices” this question is given a clear an­ A united front movement is or­ of Degeneration) Among the Jobless ganized to achieve certain Imme­ the January Plenum of the C. C. dwelling. are fixed by government; power; swer, the movement of the unem­ diate objectives. In the case of “ understood the thesis on liquida­ Money Socialized Under Planned the Chernovetz is only an account­ ployed can easily disintegrate and Mooney and Billings to achieve the tion of classes, creation of a class Economy ing tag of planned economy. This founder. Under the best of condi­ away. Different functions of money, and is the aim of all capitalist freedom of Mooney and Billings ; in less society and withering away of Taking complete stock of all the idea is entirely parallel and equi­ tions, an unemployed movement is as those of the state, expire by politicians, and their lieutenants in the case of the Scottsboro defen­ the state as justification for lax­ productive forces of society, the so­ valent to the idea of the “ liquida­ the most difficult of all movements different deaths. As a means of ihe ranks of labor—the Greens, dants, to free the Scottsboro boys ; ity (V) and placidity ( V), justifica­ cial state must know how to appor­ tion of classes” and “ entry into the to hold together because of the nat­ private accumulation, usury, ex­ tion and use them in a manner realm of socialism.” Consistent in Wolls, Lewises, etc.—to keep the and likewise, with the objects of tion for the counter-revolutionary ural looseness of organization, state working class out of politics, that ploitation—money expires parallel most advantageous for society. his half-heartedness, Stalin does not each united front movement that is theory of the slow extinguishing of of employment, etc., that conditions is, working class politics and ac­ with the liquidation of classes. As Money as the means of economic dare, however, to reject the theory built. the class struggle and weakening a means of exchange, standard of its existence. tion. These frauds and deceivers of state power.” Vagueness of ex­ accounting evolved by capialism is of a gold reserve completely. No, ¡Shall the political parties, for in­ measurement of labor value, regu­ not thrown aside but socialized. a gold reserve “ also” does not harm The first question that must be have said to the workers: look only stance, be excluded from dirèct pression serves Stalin in this case, lator of the social division of labor, answered is the political question: to your bread and butter, the eco­ as in so many others, to cover up Socialist constructon is unthinkable but its importance is only a sec­ participation in the Mooney United money is gradually dissolved in the without the inclusion, in the planned ondary one. A t any rate, it is the matter of organic participation nomic side; and the not very far- Front movement? The revolutionary the logical gaps. A programmatic planned organization of social eco­ of the political parties and groups seeing 1WW and syndicalist echo “thesis” on the liquidation of class­ system, of the personal interest of needed for external trade, where would say, no. The capitalist nomy, ft finally becomes an the producer and consumer. And payment must be made in specie. of the working class in the united the admonitions of the bourgeois politicians say, yes, for many es in the future need not mean as liberal and working class opportu­ accounting slip, a check for a cer­ this interest can actively manifest But for the well-being of the in­ front- movement of the unemployed. reasons. And then these latter, at yet, it is understood, the exting nists to evade or keep away from tain portion of social goods for the itself only when it has at its dis­ ternal economy, stable prices fixed At the national conference of a pioper moment, find ways and uishing of the class struggle in the gratification of productive and per­ the decisive, the political question. present. But it is not a question posal a trustful and flexible wea­ by the secretariat of the Central unemployed movement groups in means for a Jimmy Walker to step sonal wants. pon : a stable monetary system. The Communist Position of a theoretical thesis but of an Committee or by its assignees are Chicago and at local conferences in and represent himself as Moo­ Increase in the productivity of Every movement of the working officially proclaimed fact of the The parallelism of both processes sufficient. in New York, representatives of the ney’s and labor’s savior. labor and improvement in the qual­ class is bound to have impressed liquidation of classes. Stalin’s of withering away, that of money That the rate of decline of the Lovestone group came out for non­ Stalinist Errors ity of goods, in particular, are ab­ upon it a political ideology. That sophism consists in the fact that and" that of the state, is not ac­ purchasing power of bills of ex­ participation organizationally of the And certainly in the case of the solutely unattainable without an outlook is determined essentially by he times the idea of the inevitable cidental ; they have the same social change depends not only on the political parties or groups in the exact measuring instrument which ihe general conditions and outlook unemployed, of far greater signifi­ strengthening of state power in the roots. The state remains a state number of revolutions of the print- unemployed movement, in essence, cance than the Mooney issue, the penetrates freely into all the pores prevailing within society ; w ithin transitional epoch between capita­ so long as it has to regulate the press but also on “the quantity their position was that the inter­ possibilities for educating and of economy, that is, without a the labor movement itself, it is lism and socialism, an idea which, relations between various classes of goods” is known to any student ests of the unemployed can best winning the wqrkerp to a class stable monetary unit. largely determined by the political following Marx, Lenin advanced and strata, each of which draws of economies. This law is applic­ be served if the united front is viewpoint are at hand. Nothing If capitalist economy which force that most intelligently and for the explanation of the necessity up its accounts, endeavoring to able to capitalist as well as to made up organizationally only of is to be gained in such instances reached its unstable proportions conciously makes its class outlook of the proletarian dictatorship in show a profit. The final replace­ planned economy. The difference is the various organizations of the by "hiding the face” of the move­ with the aid of wasteful fluctua­ and program felt upon the workers. general, to a definite period of ment of money as a standard of that in planned economy it is pos­ unemployed: Unemployed Councils, ment. The official Communist party tions of the conjuncture, needs a Communists take it for granted the dictatorship, after an allegedly value by the statistical registration sible to hide inflation, or at any Association of the Unemployed, (Stalinists) has gone in for that of live productive forces, equipment, stable monetary system, the more that every movement of the work­ already accomplished liquidation of rate its results, for a much longer Workers Leagues, etc. The political also a great deal lately, and in each raw materials and needs w ill be­ so is such a system necessary for parties and groups must be kept ers must be penetrated and frac­ all capitalist classes. period. The more terrible there­ tions organized therein : trade instance the Stalinists have been come possible only at the stage the preparation, make-up and regu­ fore w ill be the day of reckoning! out and also, even labor unions wrong. Their outstanding error To explain the necessity for the when social wealth w ill free all lation of planned economy. I t is should be represented only frater­ unions, cooperatives, fraternal or- further strengthening of the bureau­ In any case, money regulated by ganizations, etc. Why exempt th e ,an^ crime is their formal efface- the members of society from the insufficient to build new enter­ administrative prices fixed for nally in the united front. cratic machine, ¡Stalin said at the necessity of competing with each prises ; an economic system must organizations of the unemployed? j ment from the leadership of the goods loses the ability to regulate What justification or reason can struggle against imperialist^ war same plenum: “The Kulaks are other for the size of the dinner- familiarize itself with them. This But the mere posing of the issue routed as a class but not finished such prices and consequently the by the Lovestone Right Wing is there be for the formal exclusion and for the defense of the Soviet pail. means testing in practice, adapting ability to regulate plans. In this Union. What needs to be remem­ off.” I f we should accept this This stage is fa r off yet. The role and selecting. The mass, natiori- sufficient reason for taking up the of the forces that really determine, formula, it would seem that to fin­ field as in others, “ socialism” for matter of relations of political for good or bad, the functioning bered is: tile political party joins of money in Soviet economy is not! wide check-up of productivity can the bureaucracy consists of freeing the unemployed United Front. The ish the routed Kulaks off, a more only not completed but in a certain' mean nothing else but a test by forces to the unemployed, or for and outcome, w ithin lim its of the concentrated dictatorship is neces­ its will from any control: party, that matter of any other move­ objective situation, of the united Unemployed Council or group does sense, is only about to be developed means of the rouble. To erect a' Soviet, trade union, or money . . . not join the party. sary in the literal expression of to completion. The transition per- j plan of economy on a slipping ment of labor. It has to be said front of the unemployed movement? A Purely Bureaucratic Economy Stalin—“ to finish off the remnants iod, in its entirety, means not the, valuta is the same as to make a plainly that Lovestonite proposal, Who is being fooled, what is being The Unemployed movements w ill of tile dying classes.” The finished curtailment of the turnover of blue print of a machine with a Present Soviet economy is neither howsoever intended, is an outright gained by the exclusion of the in­ assert themselves politically. W it­ expression is, in its way, given to goods, but, on the contrary, an ex­ loose compass and a bent ruler. a monetary nor a planned one. It reactionary one, completely in line telligence, the political force, the ness Seattle» and other places. The this paradox of bureaucratism by treme expansion thereof. A ll This is exactly- what is taking is an almost purely bureaucratic with the proposals and objectives class expression of any movement? point is, shall the opportunists and Molotov, who has, in general, a branches of economy are trans­ place. The inflation of the Clier- economy. Exaggerated and dipro- of the A. F. of L. and other fakers Nobody; least of all, the unem- fakers take over the political and fatal inclination to develop the idea formed, are growing and must de­ vonetz is one of the most pernicious portionate industrialization under­ in the labor movement. ployed. Not maneuvers, but plain, class direction of the' unemployed? of Stalin to completion. "In spite termine their relation to each other consequences and also instruments mined the foundations of agricul­ This is a politically functioning direct speech and direction to the This must not be. of the fact,” said he at the January qualitatively and quantitatively. of the bureaucratic disorganization tural economy. The peasantry tried age, as never before. Every group, unemployed, on the immediate and The next logical step of those Plenum, “ that the forces of the Many products, which under capi­ of Soviet economy. to find salvation in collectivization. one could almost say each individ­ ultimate class solution of unem­ who would exclude the political remnants of the bourgeois classes talism are accessible only to the The Official Theory of Inflation Very early experience showed that ual, whether stupidly or' intelli­ ployment is the way to advance parties from direct organizational of our country melt, their resistance, few, must be produced in immeas­ The official theory of inflation a collectivization of despair is not gently, solves its problem in terms the cause of the workers. Direct part in the unemployed united anger and fury grow, knowing no urably greater quantities. The liq­ stands at the same level as the yet a socialist collectivization. The of class and government—that is, participation of the Communist front is to exclude the trade and bounds.” The forces melt, but the uidation of the peasant economy, official theory of the dictatorship further decline of agricultural eco­ class interest and class power. The party, the Communist League of labor unions. And the Lovestone fury grows! Molotov does not sus­ with its internal consumption, the analyzed above. “ The stability of nomy struck a hard blow at indus­ political question enters, and America (Opposition), the socialist group proposes exactly this! pect, it seems, that the dictator closed family economy means the Soviet valuta,” said Stalin at the try. To support unreliable and rightly so, into every step and party, etc., is a test for all the ten- Yet the failure of the labor un­ ship is needed against force and transition to the field of social 'January Plenum, “is guaranteed disproportionate tempos, a further action of the workers. I t has been deneies within the labor movement. ions to rally behind a united front not against fu ry : fury which is intensification of pressure on the of the unemployed is a basic cause not armed by force ceases to be proletariat became imperative. In­ of the movement’s weakness today. dangerous. dustry, freed from the material The -unions ¡and the unemployed Class Enemy Powerless— The Meaning of the Farm Revolt control of the producer, took on I . L . D . D is tric t W o r kers M eet must be linked organizationally for a super-social, that is, bureaucratic the objectives of the united front. Why the Repression? Character. In consequence of which New York—On Sunday, May 21, In the discussion which followed Moreover, such a correct relation “ It cannot be said,” Stalin admits (Continued from Page 1) ( which in effect attempts to win the it lost the ability of satisfying a district meeting of the function­ within the united front should be on his part, “that these former human wants even to the degree the report, not a single person tina, Australia,—these characterised fuPPort of fa™ °.n,tlle sa“ e aries of the I.L.D. took place at an excellent means for organizing people could change anything in ’ large ,,asis a3 lnflatlon (by raising prices to which it had been accomplished touched upon this important ques­ the unorganized unemployed, which the present situation of the USSR American agriculture to . .. ,, , Irving Plaza. The meeting had extent in the so-called “ good” years, of farm products and so reducing by the lessJ^elopedl^caprtaHrt ,ipen * a„ wl to discliss the now turn tion. They either did not under­ means the overwhelming bulk, into by their damaging and thieving the burden of debt). Under such a and led to devastating intensifica­ industry. Agricultural economy re­ i in I.L.D. policy. A turn in the stand it, or did not consider i t the unions. An unemployed work­ machinations. They are too weak tion of the agrarian crisis since slogan, the farmer can gain, but taliated on the impotent cities with policy of an organization is a very important enough, or maybe it was er is no less a worker because he and impotent to resist the measures the cyclical crisis began in 1929. the worker w ill lose, unless genu- a war, . of . exhaustion. , . .. Under ,. the serious and important step and a lack of faith. The ball was tossed is unemployed, and there is not less, of the soviet power.” I t seems clear Perspectives for Agriculture ine steps toward workers’ control ,constant . ,,burden . ,of disproportionsL ‘ , should . arouse___ . the „ interest and re- back and forth from the section to but more need to organize him into that if all that is left from these between their productive efforts and There are at least two probable of production are taken. spouse of at least the leading mem­ the district and back. The section a labor union in his interest as former classes are “ former people” ; the worsening conditions of exis­ organizers blamed the district for well as in the interest of the em­ perspectives : the mechanization and The joint action of workers and bers of the organization. However if they are too weak "to do any­ concentration of the farm into tence, workers, kholhoz members out of the 300 functionaries (branch lack of guidance and the district ployed worker to preserve and farmers in resisting the foreclosure and individual peasants lose inter­ thing (!) to change the situation larger units, and the degradation executive members, section rep­ representatives in turn “ proved' better working conditions. of mrtgages on farm points to an est in their work and are filled In the USSR”—that from this of the farmer into a peasant, thru resentatives, etc.) of the district, this false and “showed” that it was Lastly, from a fundamental view, should have followed both the ex­ immediate tactical line of militant with irritation against the state. the incompetence and negligence of why do the Communists bring all similar average holdings (the av­ class struggle. Joint strike com­ there were only about 75 to 100 tinguishing of the class struggle From this, and from this alone, present at this meeting and even the section itself. The rank and1 possible support on behalf of the erage for the whole United States mittees of workers and farmers, and not from the malicious w ill of and the easing of the regime. No, today is 50 acres or 20 hectares this small number dwindled to file was too bewildered to even take unemployed? Because we must de- Stalin argues: “ the former people joint committees for the regulation the “ fragments” flows the necessity the floor. In such manner was this' velop, in whatever way is permitted, per farm), longer hours, harder of prices and production, can as­ about 40 after' the recess. can play us-some tricks.” But revo­ for the introduction of coercion into This lack of response is merely vital question confronting the IL D their political, their class conscious- work, smaller returns, heavier' in­ sume „great importance if they are all cells of economic life (strength- discussed. lutionary dictatorship is needed debtedness. Capitalism in industry a reflection of tlje condition of the ness. Otherwise, the actions and not against impotent tricks but orientated clearly toward a pro­ eneing of the power of shop mana­ aims of the unemployed w ill prove has produced both the Ford plant gram of workers’ ocntrol of pro­ I.L.D., which can best be described In his summation, Balliam ad­ against -the danger of capitalist gers, laws against absentees, death as stagnation. This fact is so glar­ mitted that he had not dealt with valueless in a lasting sense. The and the sweatshop; on the farm, duction. At the same time, the penalty for spoliation of kholhoz restoration. If, for the struggle it is tending toward both the ingly obvious that it has not es­ the question of the Right wing class question must be raised, even steady flow of revolutionary agi­ property by its members, war meas­ as in the trade unions, or the really with powerful class enemies, it was “ Gigant’ and the small holdings. caped the attention of even the top unions, but that was not because tation and propoganda must be ures in sowing campaigns and har­ worth-while and positive side of necessary to put into use the steel- The significance of the recent re­ leadership, which is so busily en­ he did not think it important—he clad fists, against “tricks” of for­ kept up, to strip away the demo­ vest collections, forcing of individ­ the unemployed movement w ill be volts is that to a limited extent cratic and bourgeois illusions of gaged in faction fights for leader­ did not state just why he had omit­ mer people the little finger will do. ual peasants to lend their horses ship, constantly changing its form ted it—he was all for activity with­ dissipated and disappear, and hard and in certain localities, the first the farmer', and show him that the to kliolhozes, the passport system, work w ill have gone to naught. But here Stalin introduces still steps to the collaboration of the capitalist system has nothing but of organization so as to either in the Right wing unions. another element. The dying rem­ political departments in the kholhoz eliminate certain individuals, of But that is not enough. It is We have to develop class con­ worker and the farmer in open mil­ two hopeless alternatives to offer village, etc., etc.) scious and revolutionary workers nants of the routed classes “ appeal itant struggle against the parisitic secure vantage ponts for others. necessary that a thorough discus­ him, the life of an exploited tractor in the unemployed movement, while to the backward strata of the popu­ banker have been taken. The far­ Parrallelism between the fate of And what better method could sion in all branches take place and chauffeur on a huge ranch, or that money and the fate of the state at the same time working militantly lation and mobilize them against mer has hitherto put forward class of a down-trodden, - super-exploited there be to explain away this that the membership fu lly under­ the Soviet power” . . . But have looms up before us in a new and lethargy among the membership stand and realize the serious mis­ to achieve the immediate demands demands such as inflation, which peasant. Only in a workers’ state of the united front. A ll elements the backward strata grown in the have tended to separate his class brilliant light. Disproportions of than by an orgy of self-Criticism? takes of the past, who is responsible developing toward socialist society economy lead the bureaucracy to can try their hand at the task. But period" of the first five year plan? interests from those of the worker. can there be hope for the farmer, The self criticism was carried on for them and what must be done I t would seem, not. Does it mean the road of ever growing paper in the best Stalinist, that is con- now. It is only on this basis—and the Communist is the historical in­ Inflation relieves the burden of and his basic task is to help the strument for that task, functioning that their attitude toward the state debt of the agrarian bourgeoisie, money inflation. Discontentment of fusionist, mariner. John Ballam, not on orders of turns from above workers’ revolutionary party to the masses with the material re­ through his party or group. This changed for the worse? That but also raises the cost of living create this essential condition for District Organizer, in his first re­ —that the ILD can actually make would mean that the “maximum sults of economic disproportion's port criticized the membership for a new start along a correct path. is the standpoint of the Left Oppo­ for the worker and so reduces his the taking over of power and the sition. strengthening of state power' pushes the bureaucracy on the road its low political level, criticized the real wages. construction of the workers’ gov­ — F. — MARTIN ABERN (more correctly repressions) is The official party, while rejecting of open coercion. Economic plan leadership because it does not ernment in the present United ning frees itself from value control necessary fo r the struggle against inflation, has put forward a slogan, States of America. function collectively. He admitted the growing discontent of the “ Higher' prices for the farmer, as bureaucratic fancy frees itself that the I.L.D. had put legal de­ masses. Stalin adds: “ through the lower prices for the worker,” — B. J. FIELD from political control. The rejec­ fense first and mass pressure sec­ mobilization of the backward strata tion of “objective causes,” that is, ond—an outright admission of the of the population, ‘fragments’ of of material limits for the accelera­ failure of the I.L.D. to accomplish counter-revolutionary opposition ele tion of the tempos as well as the that for which it was created. “ A ll W ORKS by TROTSKY ments from the Trotskyites and Nazis, Poles Plot War O n the Morgan 'lnquiry' rejection of the gold basis of Soviet these shortcomings,” he said, “must Right wingers may again stir and money, represent “ theoretical” rav­ be remedied and the I.L.D. must come to life.” Such is the final (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from page 1 ) ings of bureaucratic subjectivism. become a mass organization and not argument: since the fragments Stalinist System Exhausted a Legal Aid Society and a collec­ has la id 'it open to decay from with­ gatipn, show, that they were quite ON GERMANY (only fragments!) may stir (so far in by the adventuristic reeling of ready to “ reciprocate.” And they I f the Soviet monetary system tion agency.” they only may) . . . the greatest bureaucratic centrism. have! A. mere glance at the bank withers away, it withers away not Why is the political level of the The ONLY ROAD WHAT NEXT? in a socialist sense but in a capita­ membership been so low? Isn’t it concentration of the dictatorship is The fortress of the world • revolu­ ing holiday proclaimed by Woodin cover list one: in the form of inflation. because it has been miiseducated 100 pages 25 192 pages paper .35 necessary. tion is in danger. By the perfidy and the “ diplomacy” .of Norman cloth over .65 Money ceases to be a working tool along Stalinist lines? Why is there Postage—.06 extra per copy Entangled hopelessly in the of non-aggression pacts, by the H. Davis, ambassador at large for Postage—.06 extra per copy “fragments” of his own ideas, Stalin trust it gives to the conflicts of the U. S. is proof sufficient that of planned economy and becomes a no collective leadership in the ILD? tool of its disorganization. It can Isn’t it because the bureaucratic unexpectedly adds: “ Of course, we world imperialism, Stalinism is J. P. does not scatter his money ON RUSSIA have no fear of that.” Then why only throwing dust into the eyes of idly. Every dollar1 given to a gov­ be said that the dictatorship of the regime in the IL D nurtures clique leadership in which appointments be frightened and frighten others, the workers. I t is only undermining ernment official brings results! proletariat withers away in the PROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF U.S.S.R and dismissals “ from above” play if “ we have no fear of that.” And the worker's’ fatherland and the The inquiry in Washington, de­ form of bureaucratic inflation, that Price .15 Postage— .01 extra per copy a large part? why introduce a regime of terror cause of world revolution. spite the facts brought to light, is is in the extreme swelling of co­ Comrade Ballam should put the against the party and the prole­ If workers’ Russia is to live, a circus of such dimensions as would ercion, persecutions and violence. ON SPAIN The dictatorship of the proletariat blame squarely where it belongs— tariat if it is only a matter of Stalinism must go. If the land of make the great showman, Barnum, THE SPANISH REVOLUTION IN DANGER the Soviets is to light the way for look like a miserable piker. The is not dissolved in a classless so­ on the line of the third period sec­ impotent fragments incapable of tarianism—which the membership Price .15 Postage— .01 extra per copy “ changing anything in the USSR?' world revolution, the reactionary avowed purpose of the investigation ciety but degenerates into the theory of socialism in one country omnipotence of bureaucracy over has been carrying out only too ON THE TRADE UNION QUESTION A ll this piling up of confusion, is to reform the banking laws so faithfully. must be thrown overboard. that the “little fellow” will have society. leading to pure ’ nonsense is a con­ The comrade from the Left Oppo­ COMMUNISM AND SYNDICALISM sequence of the inability to tell Back to the line of Marx and a chance. In this connection it is In the sphere of money inflation sition speaking in the discussion, Price .15 Postage— .01 extra per Copy the truth. In reality, Stalin-Molo- Lenin—bajek to the Marxist per­ interesting to note that the banking as in that of bureaucratic arbit­ spective of the permanent revolu­ bill which is to do that has been rariness is summed up all the pointed out that Ballam had failed tov should have said: due to the completely to mention work within tion ! Return the exiled Bolshevik- proposed and drafted by the most falseness of the policy of centrism ON THE THEORY OF SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY growing discontent of the masses the Right wing unions; that it was and an ever stronger gravitation of Leninists, Trotsky, Rakovsky and ardent proponent of Morgan in the in the field of Soviet economy as AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION well as in the field of the interna­ due to the absence of a Left wing the workers to the Left Opposition, their comrades, to the post of investigation, Senator Carter Glass, tional proletarian movement. The w ithin the reformist unions, which the intensification of repressions is struggle which they held in the Virginia millionaire newspaper pub­ THE STRATEGY OF THE THE PERMANENT victorious October! That is the lisher. Stalinist system is exhausted to coqld exert pressure, that the necessary for the defense of the leaders of these unions have been WORLD REVOLUTION REVOLUTION command of the hour. Like the Pujo investigation under the end and is doomed. Its break­ privileged positions of the bureau­ up is approaching with the same able to sabotage the Mooney, .25 180 pages paper cover .50 cracy. Then everything would easily Every Communist worker who the “ Now Freedom” of Wilson the cloth cover 1.00 sees the danger; to whom the Four Pecora inquiry of the “New Deal” is inevitability with which the victory Scottsboro and other struggles Postage— 06 extra per copy fa ll into place. which the Left-wing is carrying on. 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It is only in PIONEER PUBLISHERS bring new vigor, a new source of Comrades who can turn in extra denouement is approaching. But the state in the transitional epoch. this manner that the IL D can win strength to the proletarian army, copies of Since Lenin Died by M a x ilast word has not yet been spoken. Money, just as the state, represents back the confidence and prestige 84 EAST 10th STR EET, N . Y . C. a direct heritage of capitalism,: it which is sorely in need of it. Eastman, are asked to do so. They ^be October revolution will yet w ill be refunded the original cost, hnow how to fend for itself.__ which it once enjoyed and become must disappear but it cannot be -Act while there is still time to a really functioning organization. abolished by decree, it withersact! — s- G- price. ‘ — L. TROTSKY