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It's still pending... - A coming issue will Managing Editor: HAL DRAPER also contain a round-up review of articles on the anniversary Business Manager: PAUL BERN in the periodical press, reading from left to right There are two more essays which we want to excerpt from Trotsky's book Problems of Life (see the first, "Not by Poli­ tics Alone .... ", in this issue) .... One discusses the effect of TABLE OF CONTENTS the Russian Revolution on the institution of the family, and the other is on the 'church and the movies as channels of edu­ cation and propaganda. .. They're ready but unscheduled. NOTES OF THE MONTH ........................................... ~ The current series of articles by James T. Farrell on the great Irish revolutionist, James Connolly, will remind our readers of Farrell's interesting article on James Larkin last TOWARD A RE-UNITED INDIA ............................ 10 year .... Both will appear as part of a book to be entitled Irish Essays~ which will also discuss James Joyce among others. By Henry Judd Among our contributors in this issue ... Luis 'Velasco is a South American Marxist who has been a frequent contribu­ tor to the NI. We should mention, perhaps, that his thought­ PERON: ARGENTINE SUB-IMPERIALIST .......... 14 provoking article in this number was written primarily as a By Luis Velasco discussion of social-structural changes in Latin America, not as a discussion of Peron the individual. ... Henry Judd is a mem­ ber of the NI editorial staff and at present acting editor of WHAT'S AHEAD FOR PALESTINE? ...................... 18 Labor Action~' author of India in Revolt. As readers of both publications know, he is the leading American Marxist anal­ By A I Findley yst of the problems of India.... James M. Fenwick runs the column "Off Limits" in Labor Action on matters of interest to GIs. He is also the Newark organizer of the Workers Party. 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CJ Remittance enclosed. D BiD me. THE NEW INTERNATIONAL A Mont." Organ of Revolutionary Marxism VOL XIV JANUARY. 1948 NO. 1 NOTES OF THE MONTH Truman's Christmas Gift and Altgeld's Anniversary-Parti. tion and the Division of the Globe - Leon Blum's "Third Force"-Compulsory Free Trade at Havana-The Politics of Anti·'nflation-Why Wallace Is Running Altgeld and Amnesty. There were two events in De­ individual conscientious objection as a means of opposing war, cember which were outwardly unconnected but deserve to be but we are obliged to denounce Truman's Christmas gift as a mentioned together. One was the centenary of the birth of piece of detestable hypocrisy and spiteful vengeance (more John Peter Altgeld on December 30, 1847. At a memorial meet­ than two years after the war is safely won for Wall Street, ing in Chicago his name was lauded by men who, a half cen­ tool). Thanks for nothing, Mr. President I tury earlier, would have been among the mob hanging him in effigy (we mean Republican Governor Dwight Green, for • example). Three Partitions. It happens that there are two articles For Altgeld was the Illinois governor who in 1893 brought in this issue both of which deal with the necessity of national the hell-fire of the bourgeois world down on his head by par­ re-unification-in Palestine and in India. THE NEW INTERNA­ doning three men-three anarchists. These were the victims of TIONAL has dealt before with the same question in partitioned the famous Haymarket Affair of 1886; or rather, those three Germany. Here are three major areas of the world where the of the frame-up victims who were not hanged like Parsons and aftermath of the imperialist war has created artificial state August Spies in the lynching spree that followed the explosion boundaries where none existed before, dividing and splitting. of the bomb during the demonstration for the eight-hour day. It is symptomatic of the degeneration of the capitalist world A year later Altgeld refused to use the National Guard to we live in. break the "Debs Rebellion," the great Pullman strike; Presi­ Before the First World War the classic example of a par­ dent Cleveland had to send in federal troops to do the dirty titioned country was unhappy Poland, parceled out to Russia, job. The bourgeoisie has taken forty-six years to forgive him, Germany and Austria. Liberal, not to speak of radical, opin­ now that he is quiet and dead. ion pointed to it as a living accusation against imperialism. We are well aware that Altgeld was not the knight in shin­ But even after that imperialist war and the equally imperialist ing armor he has sometimes been depicted, that he knew also treaty of Versailles, one Poland emerged. Today we have four how to be a conniving politician and an opportunist. He was, Germanies, two Pales tines, and two and a half Indias. Where after all, only a liberal bogged down in the sticky business of before Lenin spoke of the division of the world by the im­ being a "practical" operator in capitalist politics. But in the perialists, they are now dividing the divisions. One product light of the second December event we want to mention, his clearly not manufactured by the United Nations is-united name is a rather honorable one. nations. President Truman also faced a problem of pardoning men Capitalism is in retreat from its early-day task of furthering in jail, or men who had been under arrest during the war, for national unification and erasing petty national boundaries. no crime committed: the conscientious objectors of World The unification of Italy and of the German states was the War II. Just before Christmas, he made known his glad cheer: achievement of nineteenth-century capitalism; the fratricidal an amnesty (full pardon) for only 1,523 out of 15,805 cases warfare of Arab against Jew and Hindu against Moslem is the reviewed. Clemency was extended to religious COs, but the achievement of capitalism today. But this does not simply political and non-religious COs were explicitly excluded from represent a reversion to an outlived state of affairs; history the benefaction and their appeal rejected. does not really repeat itself, since the context changes. The On what ground was the distinction made? The Presi­ atomization of peoples now under way is only the other face dent"s committee said: these men have dared to put their own of the coagulation of world power into two great clots, Amer­ political or social views above the wisdom of the state-imper­ iran and Russian. missible, a bad example. But did not the religious variety also We remember the absolute monarch who wished that the put their own views and interpretations above not only the people, that great beast, had but one neck so that he could state but also their own church, which in most cases did not cut off its head in one stroke. The hydra heads of modern im­ tell them to refuse arms? perialism are reducing themselves more and more to only a As is well known, we do not agree with the futile policy of pair.