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Workers Party Calls a Ll Revolutionary Workers to Join the Socialist Party People's Front Moves to Cripple Strike Movement in France - - -— .... _ , . ■ gf-" > .... -■ ----------- 1 " 1111 — 11 = ? See Page Four NEW MILITANT Official Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S. VOX. 2 f NO. 2 2 I[WHOLE NO. 74] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1936 PRICE 3 cents' Workers Party Calls A ll Revolutionary Workers to Join the Socialist Party •T H E Cleveland convention of the Socialist Party Roosevelt camp; comfortable, aging Philistines, stem finally smashed the Old Guard domination, and the and implacable only against revolutionists and mili­ Old Guard withdrew. By rejecting the Old Guard, tants,— for a decade and a half these traitors poured the convention ratified the slogan of an inclusive, dem­ their poison into the minds and hearts of Socialist ocratic party, open to all who stand for the goal of Statement of workers. The socialist worker, seeking a way out from socialism and who are willing to work loyally within capitalism, could find guidance, in all those years, only the framework of the party. ip the venal and corrupt Jewish Forward or its Eng­ From these two significant developments we draw lish version, the New Leader. The worker or student two conclusions: National Committee seeking to learn something of scientific socialism was 1. By breaking with the Old Guard and by open­ delivered into the hands of the Algernon Lees and the ing its doors to revolutionary workers, the Socialist The Cleveland convention of the Socialist Party midst the rounded views of consistent revolutionary Rand School! Groups of workers engaged in struggle Party becomes the. best rallying ground for the revo­ has brought to an organizational climax the internal M arxism . against repressive administration in their unions, if lutionary forces in building the party of the American struggle which had arisen out of the Leftward devel­ they were naive enough to bring their problems to the A t its last convention, the National Committee proletarian revolution. opment in the party. The break with the Old Guard Julius Gerbers, were betrayed to the bureaucrats not of the Workers Party was Ibstructed to follow 2, Taking the militant Socialists at their word, shifts the center of gravity to the Left and facili­ only by being restrained from struggle, but also by the closely the developments within the Socialist Party the revolutionary workers outside the Socialist. Party tates the growth and activity of the party. This, direct process of stool-pigeoning. The Old Guard gave and was given full power to take appropriate action should immediately join it. , as well as the militant position the party has taken aid to not a single one of the important struggles for in the event of a favorable outcome of the internal Acting on these conclusions, the National Committee on the crucial question of imperialist war, confronts democratic rights on behalf of political prisoners! ■of the Workers Party, exercising the authority ex­ struggle. By virtue of this authority, the National revolutionary workers throughout the country with They did not lift a finger to aid the organization of pressly given to it by the party convention, has form­ Committee herewith decides to dissolve the Workers the millions of unemployed. Under their regime, the a new situation. The composition of the Socialist ally dissolved the organization and all its members are Party as a separate organization and calls upon all Socialist Party had all the vices of the European So­ Party today is no longer what it was under the joining the Socialist Party. The Spartacus Youth its members to enter the ranks of the Socialist Party cial Democracy without even the advantage of being domination of the Old Guard. Into its ranks have League has taken similar action to join the Young )f America. It appeals to all revolutionary workers the p a rty o f the masses. entered a new generation of class-conscious mili­ People’s Socialist League. to follow this example. tants, inspired by the spirit of the class struggle, These conclusions, and the actions proceeding from Degeneration of the Communist Party them, are the result of a careful and concrete analysis who want to make the party a party of revolution­ The comrades who have been grouped in the of the course of development of the Socialist Party ary Marxism. They represent a movement of great Workers Party join not as a separate faction, and Now the Socialist workers are freed of this horrible* during the last two years. potentialities for the cause of a mass party of social­ take their places side by side with the militant parasitic excrescence. A t first thought, indeed, it ap­ ist revolution in the United States. lighters in the ranks of the S.P. with the aim of pears incredible that thousands of militant workers building it into a mass party of revolutionary and youth could have joined the Socialist movement Turning Point at Detroit The Workers Party, formed to advance the in­ socialism. We aim to work loyally and devotedly in while the Old Guard ruled the party. They joined, of terests of revolutionary internationalism, cannot The Detroit convention of the Socialist Party in the ranks of the Socialist Party and to observe dis­ course in spite of the Old Guard. The main influ* has stand apart from this movement. It is fully con­ 1934 marked a decisive turning point in the history cipline in action. We enter the Socialist Party as come since 1928. That influx was only possible because scious of the tremendous importance of this move­ o f the movement. The Declaration of Principles then we are, with our ideas. We assume all the obliga­ of the degeneration of the Communist Party. ment for the future of the American and interna­ adopted, despite the ambiguity and confusion of its tions and duties of party membership and ask no The revolutionary workers have been joining the So­ formulations, made a sharp break with the classical tional working class and of the fact that this cialist Party since 1928 because the relative autonomy special privileges. On the basis of equal duties and reformism of the post-war Social Democracy, and gave movement can be advanced more speedily and of state and local organizations made it possible for equal rights we obligate ourselves to work loyally evidence of a determination not to repeat the terrible consistently in the direction in which it has traveled them to function in it, even though under fearful han­ and devotedly to build the Socialist Party into a mistakes and crimes of the parties which had led the only by the closest, most loyal and direct contact dicaps. In the Communist Party, they could not func­ powerful, united organization in the revolutionary A u s tria n and German masses to the yoke of Fascism. w ith it. tion at all. It is no mere coincidence that the Socialist The Waldmans, Pankens and Oneals rightly charac­ struggle for socialism. Party has grown precisely in the years since the Com­ Unlike the Communist (Stalinist) Party, which terized the document as a break with “democratic NATIONAL COMMITTEE, munist Party, yoked to the “national Socialism” of Socialism,” i.e., the cowardly and treacherous Social- has sunk deeper and deeper into the mire of reform­ Stalin, ceased in actual fact to be a party. It is no WORKERS PARTY OF THE U. S. Democratic reformism of the war and post-war years. ism and social-patriotism, the Socialist Party has accident that the growth of the Socialist Party began Though the leftward tendency of the Socialist Party freed itself from the strangulating domination of in the same year that we, then the Left Opposition, has not achieved programmatic clarity and, in some the Right wing and has advanced towards the posi­ were expelled from the Communist Party.' The C. P. respects, retrogressive steps were taken at Cleveland, tion of revolutionary-Marxism on a number of basic became nothing more than a rigid apparatus-clique; nevertheless the general trend of the party, as mea­ questions, notably on the question of war, the cen­ The National Committee of the Spartacus Youth even the memory of party democracy disappeared; sured by the activities of its membership and the in­ tral question of our time. League endorses the declaration of the Workers scoundrels and nonentities were appointed by Stalin creasing violence of its collisions with the extreme Party. By the authority of the last convention, and consecrated overnight as “beloved leaders” ; party right wing of the party, is undoubtedly progressive. Unlike the Communist Party, in which the bu­ the National Committee hereby formally dissolves policies are infinitely closer to those of the Old Guard This is to be seen, for example, in the fruitful work of reaucracy has stifled every last remnant of party the Spartacus Youth League and calls upon all its than to those of militant Socialism. From this repel­ the Socialist militants among the unemployed— a field democracy, outlawing all views contrary to those members and sympathizers to take their place in the lent caricature of a revolutionary organization, an or­ completely neglected in the past; in the tendency to imposed upon the ranks by an appointed officialdom, ranks of the Young People’s Socialist League. ganization neither revolutionary nor a party, thou­ coordinate the work of Socialists in the trade unions, the Socialist Party openly takes a stand for internal sands of revolutionary workers recoiled. Instead, they despite the resistance of party reactionaries allied with democracy, welcomes revolutionists into its ranks NATIONAL COMMITTEE, joined the Socialist Party. From the first they chafed the trade union bureaucracy; in the firm stand of the and offers the possibility of putting forward in its SPARTAOUS YOUTH LEAGUE.
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