lHE U.S. S. R. AND I . THE ANGLO-SOVIET- AMERICAN FIGHTING, A LLI ANCE · JOSEPH STALIN • O N~. YEAR SINCE } PEARL ~ARBO R EARL BR.OyYDER • / .. ·STALIN AND TH E PATRIOTIC WAR r IKHAJL KALININ . \ e . THE C.I.O. CONVENTION 1 "' ROY HUDSON • • THE 1942 ELECTIONS-AND AFTER MILTON HOWARD • THE STUDY OF MARXISM .. LENINISM SAM DON ' ... I'" ' ' _. \ . '\ iJ Vi cto r y~And Af ter · > • r By EARL BROWDER Earl B rowd e~·s new book, VI_PTO RY-.A,ND AFTE~ represents , . fim ro u n d, &d-J~t and complete .statement o{ the Comm u ni~ position on th ~ inost vital q'u,estions of the war'~ YICTORY-AND AFTER Is e cld re~d to the entire nation, not prl~arily to confirmed C~mm u nl sta . , ,... ' - ' I scores of out.+ond,­ 'I Becau" close to four million Americans-and ing working class leaders of Europa, ~Ia end Lotin Ame ~ lca.....petl · tioned for tke authot'a freedom\· because he is tile leader of a Party i wh ich' is playing an i11c: reasi ngly decisive role for n.tio nal unity end victory, thia book by the foremost apok.smen of the C9mmunist Per4 wiU 'receive public: attention far beyond the circles of his own mi nority party, and will be r&a d by most 1)pen-milfded •thi nkers of 11 11 shades _ of political opinion in thit United State"S. -, \' 1 /' VIctory-And After Is a basic: Marxist work, applyi ng in • IM n, m a ~ne r 'the leni,11_ist th e,?rY' ~ n d m-ethod to the solution of,the ,mosf presslng - ~ roblema arising from the war, and In ib enalysis of the con­ ditions re qui r~t d for cvic:fory a'nd what to do with victory when we h•ve won it. , The ; .ture and charec:t~r of the war; t~e stfat~ gy ra­ re d for victory; probla_,ms . of netlonel unity a~d the attitude to the ~ul 1 w•r effort of ' the ~mlnunist , Socialisl, Republican and D'emoc:Jeflc: parties: +.he probJem ~f the c:'olonial end smaller countries sud! es C hi nl, h~e~la, Africa, latin Alnerlce; lndustr,ial p ,~ductton and thl role of labor In a' 'fter ecollofTiy: the question ,of relations betwee~ tht cepltaUs! ~o u n trl es a ~ t_he soc:ialilf S<}viet • Union ; for. the war effort end the poat-war rec:on5truc:tlon, all thes• .,. /deolt with authoritetively In thll new wor~. ; ' ,;' , I I I .._ :Special Popular Eqifion, SOc:. '· 'I ,-" I . \I " ' - ' J r VfORKERS LIBRARY PUB LIS ~E~S ( P. 0. Box f-48, Station 0 (832 Broadway), 't New York, N. Y. '') I • I ,, ( ,, '. VOL. XXI, No. 11 DECEMBER, 1942 THE COMMUNIST A MAGAZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM-LENINISM EDITOR: EARL BROWDER CONTENTS The U.S.S.R. and the Anglo-Soviet-American Fighting Alliance . Joseph Stalin 963 One Year Since Pearl Harbor . Earl Browder . 976 The C.I.O. Convention Roy Hudson 985 Stalin and the Patriotic War Mikhail Kalinin 1000 The 1942 Elections-And After Milton Howard 1005 The Pacific Front in the Global War James S. Allen 1012 The Study of Marxism-Leninism and the Role of the Party in Promoting National Unity Sam Don. 1021 What About Hitler's Finnish Ally? . Jessica Mattson 1039 The Free Germans to the German People Paul Merker 1051 Index-1942 1057 Entered as second class matter November 2, 1927, at the Post Of]ice at New YOTk, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE COMMUNIST is publi&hed Monthly by Workers Library Publishers, Inc.,. at 832 Broadway, New York, N. Y. (mail address, P. 0. Box 148, Station D), to whom snb­ scriptions, payments and correspondence should be sent. Subscription rate: $2.00 4 year; $1.00 for six months; foreign and Canada $2.50 a year. Single copies 20 eents. PI.INTBI> IN THB U.S.A, .... ••9 THE LIFE STORY OF A WORLD FIGURE- JOSEPH STALl N A SHORT BIOGRAPHY This authoritative life story of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union and of the Bolshevik Party, provides the best general account of the practical and theoretical contributions made by Stalin to the success of the October Revolution of 1917, and to the subsequent building of socialism on one-sixth of the world. Starting with Stalin's childhood and youth, this biography traces his activities as a revolutionary in his native Georgia, his meeting and lifelong collaboration with V. I. 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AND THE ANGLO-SOVIET­ AMERICAN FIGHTING ALLIANCE BY JOSEPH STALIN ADDRESS BEFORE THE MOSCOW SOVIET OF WORKING PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES, ON NOVEMBER 6, 1942, ON THE OCCASION OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION. OMRADES: We are today cele­ I. Organizational Work in the Rear Cbrating the twenty-fifth anni­ versary of the victory of the Soviet The peaceful, constructive work Revolution in our country. Twenty­ of our directing organs in this five years have elapsed since the period consisted in shifting the base Soviet system was established in of our industry, both war and our country. We are now on the civilian, to the Eastern regions of threshold of the next, the twenty­ our country, in the evacuation and sixth, year of the existence of the establishment in their new places of Soviet system. industrial workers and the equip­ At meetings in celebration of ment of plants, in extending crop anniversaries of the October Soviet areas and iilcreasing the wiilter crop Revolution it is customary to pass area in the East, and lastly, in the in review the results of the work of radical improvement of the work government and party organs for of our industries producing for the the past year. It is on these results front, and in strengthening labor for the past year-from November discipline in the rear, both in the of last year to November of the cur­ factories and in collective and state rent year-that I have been author­ farms. ized to make this report to you. It should be said that this was a The activities of our government most difficult and complex work of and party organs during the past organization on a large !?Cale, on the period have proceeded in two di­ part of all our economic and admin­ rections: In the direction of peace­ istrative people's commissariats, ill­ ful construction and the organiza­ eluding our railways. However, we tion of a strong rear for our front, managed to overcome the difficul­ on the one hand, and in the direc­ ties. And now our factories, collec­ tion of carrying out defensive and tive farms and state farms are in­ offensive operations of the Red disputably, in spite of all difficulties Army on the other. of wartime, working satisfactorily. 963 964 THE U.S.S.R. AND ANGLO-SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS Our munitions factories and allied of the Red Army against the Ger­ enterprises are conscientiously and man-fascist troops. punctually supplying the Red Army Hostilities on the Soviet-German with guns, trench mortars, aircraft, Front in the past year may be di­ tanks, machine-guns, rifles and am­ vided into two periods: The first munition. Our collective farms and period was chiefly the winter period, state farms are likewise conscien­ when the Red Army, having beaten tiously and punctually supplying off the Germans' attack on Moscow, the population and Red Army with took the initiative into its own foodstuffs, and our industry with hands, passed to the offensive, drove raw materials. back the German fascist troops, It must be admitted that never and in the space of four months ad­ before has our country had such a vanced in places over 400 kilometers; strong and well-organized rear. As and the second period, the summer a result of all this complex organ­ period, when the German fascist ization and constructive effort not troops, taking advantage of the ab­ only our country but also the people sence of a second front in Europe, in the rear have themselves been mustered all their available reserves, transformed. They have become pierced the front in the southwest­ more efficient, less slipshod, more ern direction and, taking the initi­ disciplined, they have learned to ative into their own hands, in the work in wartime fashion and have space of five. months advanced in come to realize their duty to the places as much as 500 kilometers. Motherland and her defenders at the The hostilities in the first period, front--to the Red Army. Bunglers especially the successful operations and slackers with no sense of civic of the Red Army in the Rostov, Tula duty are growing fewer and fewer and Kaluga areas, at Moscow and at in the rear.