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FEBRUARY, 1944 THE COMMUNIST A MAGAZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM-LENINISM EDITOR: EARL BROWDER CONTENTS Statement to the Press by the National Com­ mittee of the Communist Party 99 Marxism Arms Communists to Meet and Solve Issues Today Earl Browder 102 Decisions of the National Committee of the Communist Party . 107 The Outlook for a Durable Peace Eugene Dennis . 109 Not "In Spite of" But Because Robert Minor 122 New Problems of Communist Organization John Williamson 131 Teheran and the Wage Policy Issue Roy Hudson 140 American Capitalism and Teheran Gilbert Green . 148 George Washington-Patriot and Statesman . Carl Ross 153 Lenin and the Soviet People's Patriotic War . Zinaida Smirnova . 163 Poland and the Coming Stage of the War Eugene Tarle 167 The Most Important Stage in the Development of Friendship Between the, U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia . 170 Forging Negro-White Unity John Pittman 174 Historic Documents 182 Entered as second class matter November 2, 1927, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE COMMUNIST is published Monthly by Workers Library Publishers, Inc., at 832 Broadway, New York 3, N. Y. (mail address, P. 0. Box 148, Station D), to whom subscriptions, payments and correspondence should be sent. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year; $1.00 for six months; foreiun and Canada $2.50 a vear. Single copies 20 cents. PRINTED IN THJI U.S.A. PAMPHLETS ON THE WAR Moscow, Cairo, Teheran, by Earl Browder .......................... $.03 Jewish Unity For Victory, by Alexander Bittelman .................. .10 A Talk About the Communist Party, by Earl Browder ........ .03 The Path Dimitroff Charted, by V. J. Jerome ...................... .05 Soviet Democracy and the War, by William Z. Foster.......... .05 George Dimitroff, with introduction by Earl Browder............ .10 The Soviet Union-A Family of Nations ------------------------------ .I 0 Organized Labor in the Soviet Union, by Edwin S. Smith........ .10 Drama in Wartime Russia, by H. W. L. Dana...................... .15 Soviet Trade Unions and Allied Labor Unity by Wi'lliam Z. Foster ...................... :................................... .05 Teheran and America By EARL BROWDER Report to the Plenary Meeting of the National Committee, Communist Party January 7, 1944. Price Five Cents WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Station D (832 Broadway), New York 3, N.Y. [This issue of The Communist is York. This report reviews, in the in its major part devoted to the pro­ light of the Moscow-Cairo-Teheran ceedings of the plenary meeting of Agreements, the role and obligation the National Committee, Commu­ of our nation and its working class, nist Party U.S.A., held in New York in the win.. ing of the war and in on January 7, 8 and 9, 1944. Included the establishment of an orderly and are the National Committee State­ peaceful post-war world. Close ment is"ued to the press; the sum,. study, full understanding and wide mation speech of the General Secre­ popularization of the report, and the tary, Earl Browder; excerpts from National Committee Plenum discus­ the speeches of Comrades Dennis, sion and decisions, based thereon, Minor, Williamson, Hudson, and are essential for the strengthening Green; and the unanimously of national unity, for a win-the-war adopted decisions of the National victory in the 1944 elections, and in Committee. The report given by meeting the many complex war­ Comrade Browder, in behalf of the time and post-war problems of the Political Committee, was published U.S.A. The March issue will con­ in full in the Worker of January tain further speeches by Communist 16, 1944, and is now also available leaders at the National Committee in pamphlet form, under the title meeting, including the addresses of Teheran and America, published by Comrades James W. Ford and Rose Workers Library Publishers, New Wortis.-The Editors.] STATEMENT TO THE PRESS BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY* N UNPRECEDENTED situation war and the outlook for a long pe­ A in the world and within our riod of world peace and orderly country has been created by. the post-war reconstruction. favorable course of the military ac­ The defeat of the Axis, the tion and by the international agree­ smashing of the Hitler and Quisling ments of the United Nations coali­ regimes and their replacement by tion which assure victory in the democracies in continental Europe will fundamentally and favorably • Adopted unanimously by the National Com· mittee on January 9, 1944, at the concludin11 alter the prospect for the future, IHSion of its Plenary Meeting, on the R'!J>ort while the destruction of the im­ of Earl Browder, General Secretary of tho c.m. munito Party. perialist regime of Japan will still 99 100 STATEMENT OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE further release the forces of na;. • • • tiona! liberation and democracy of the peoples of Asia. It is beyond question that the The Moscow, Teheran and Cairo post-war reconstruction, like pro­ agreements give a program to ban­ duction for the war at present, will ish the specter of civil wars and be carried out under the system war between nations for several of free enterprise. generations. The Communist Party commits it­ Not only a prolonged world peace self in full good faith to work with without precedent in history, but the overwhelming majority of our also a flourishing of economic rela­ nation for the most successful real­ tionships of cooperation and a de­ ization of our enormous national velopment of economic well-being task of war and post-war construc­ and social reforms, is the prospect tion on this basis. open for the world. It is equally evide:p.t that the po­ Within our country the extension litical issues of this time will be of the United Nations coalition into decided within the form of the two­ the post-war period of reconstruc­ party system traditional in our tion provides the basis for the suc­ country. In this framework can be cessful reconversion of our indus­ fought out and won the necessary t:dal plant, enormously expanded in struggle of the American people to war production, to normal opera­ safeguard our country's victory and tion-to the benefit of labor, the the preservation of its institutions . farmers and capital. For labor the through such measures as the res­ program calls for full employment toration of universal suffrage to the and orderly social progress through Southern people, the elimination of the instruments of collective bar­ anti-Negro and all other undemo­ gaining and the reform and full use cratic restrictions in the primary of the democratic political machin­ elections, and a total removal of all ery uhder our Constitution. anti-labor laws and racial discrimi­ The Moscow and Teheran agree­ nation. ments enable our government to The Communist Party's contribu­ carry out a policy of international tion in the election will be to aid accord in respect to world agricul­ the struggle for the unity of the tural prices and marketing and people in support of the nation's therefore an effective national re­ war policies, without partisan or sponsibility for sound economy in class advantages. agriculture. A farm economy of The win-the~war policies of the abundance, with capacity produc­ nation are under challenge in this tion for the post-war rehabilitation election. A rejection by the people under arrangements made by our of all defeatist attacks on the Presi­ government, banishes the specter of dent's and the nation's war policy a return to an enforced scarcity, is an inseparable part of the suc­ unprotected income, foreclosures cessful and speedy victorious con­ and a~icultural ruin, clusion of tile war.