TaEREW A MONTHLY ORGAN OF REVOLUTIONARY MARXISM Barcelona and France By Felix Morrow W.P.A. and Armaments By The Editors • Le.on Trotsky on Diego Rivera on Karl Kautsky Haya de la Torre • The Paradox of Australian Capitalism By Stan Bollard Zionism and the Arab Struggle TWENTY CENTS • FEBRUARY 1939 4. EVERYBODY! ! At Home TI-IE NEW INTERNATIONAL Party and Y.P.S.L. Units: Or­ ganize subscription campaigns. It A MONTHLY ORGAN OF REVOLUTIONARY MARXISM is easy to obtain subscriptions for THE January issue of the NEW the NEW INTERNATIONAL if only INTERNATIONAL has stirred up, as Volume V February 1989 Number 2 (Whole No. 29) the Party and Youth comrades expected, considerable discussion Published monthly by the New International Publishing Company, 116 University will proceed systematically to call and controversy, to the mutual Place, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8547. 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And get I t is now up to the magazine TABLE OF CONTENTS your friends to read and sub­ agents and friends of the NEW The Editor's Comments ........................................................ 35 scribe! Proceed to carry out the fore­ INTERNATIONAL to do their ut­ Barcelona and France's Future, by Felix Morrow ................ 38 most to keep as many as possible going requests, and the Manage­ of the new readers as regular Zionism and the Arab Struggle, from The Spark ................ 41 ment and Editorial Board promise the continuatioh of an acknowl­ readers. This can be done, or ac­ Haya de la Torre and Democracy, by Diego Rit1era.............. 45 complished better, if the comrades edged magazine of quality, and, we and sympathizers will keep in The German Left and Bolshevism, by IValter Held ............ 46 hope and aim, a bigger one. touch steadily with those readers Behind the Farmers' Vote, by David CowleJ.. ...................... 49 who obtained the magazine the * * * NEW ORDERS first time with the January num­ Karl Kautsky, by Leon Trotsky ............................................ 50 ber. Is Austria a Nation? by Charles Crompton ........................ 5~ Jersey City, N. J., Mike G., agent, five copirs. Johannesburg, * * * A Letter and Some Notes, by Victof Serge and The Editors 53 South Africa, J. M., agent, 24 This column has often indicated copies. (Three agents in Johannes­ the great prestige the NEW IN­ Reading from Left to Right, by Dwight Macdonald ............ 55 burg-J. M., M. S., and L. 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