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(1929)


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Volume II No. 1 January 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

Associate Editors:

An Appeal to Party Members (speech of James P. Cannon)

A Bulgary —Its Political Meaning by James P. Cannon

A National Organization Tour

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

Karl Radek’s Appeal for Trotsky (by Karl Radek).

Vindicating The Trotsky Platform by Martin Abern

The Right Danger in the American Party (continued from last issue)

Letters from The Militants

The Expelled


Volume II No. 2 January 15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Lenin Day

Cleveland Meeting Great Success

The Platform of the Communist Opposition by James P. Cannon

The Central Committee Orders Another Burglary!

Malkin and Franklin Go to Prison

Farewell Note from Comrade Malkin

Malkin’s Statement 1926 by Maurice L. Malkin

The Crisisin the German Party By Max Shachtman

A Muddler on an American Scalle—by A. Lozovsky

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

Lenin’s Last Wordsto the Party by V.I.Lenin

The New Needle Trades Workers Union

Appeal to the Convention by James P. Cannon, Martin Abertn, Arne Swabeck and Max Shactman

’William Randolph’ Lovestone and ’Abe’ Pepper Expose Us.

The Letter The Daily Worker Did Not Print.

Toward a Weekly

The Right Danger in the American Party (continued from last issue)

An Internationl Conference for the Expelled Oppositionists

Henry Corbishly Released!

Letters from The Militants

The Expelled


Volume II No. 3 February 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Trotsky’s Deportation

A Letter from Trotsky’s Wife

The Struggle in the Coal Fields By Arne Swabeck

On the Eve of the Party Convention

On the Situation in Russia—A Letter to a Comrade—By L. D. Trotsky

Miners Protest the Expulsions

The Minneapolis Meetings

The Mink

Fight the Splitters with a Weekly Militant

Letters from The Militants

The Expelled


Volume II No. 4 February 15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Platform of the Communist Opposition by James P. Cannon, Arne Swabeck, Martin Abern and Max Shactman

Lovestone Gangsters State Riot at New York Meeting to Protest Against the Deportation of L. D. Trotsky


Volume II No. 5 March 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Opposition group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

War, Kellogg pact and the Soviet Union By Max Shachtman

Who Supports Trotsky?

Hail to the New Chief

The Communist and the “Progressives” by James P. Cannon

Where to buy The Militant

On the Legend of “Trotskyism” Letters to the Militant

Epitaph for a Scoundrel, pages form the Record of John Pepper

Chicago Comrades Protest

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

Join the Campaign for a Weekly Militant

Platform of the Comunist Opposition

Letters from theMilitants:


Volume II No. 6 March 15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Opposition group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

The Results of the Party Convention by Jame P. Cannon

New York Workers Protest Trotsky’s Exile, Stalinites Plan Pogram—And the State fizzle

Who Supports Trotsky? More on the Counter-revolution’s United Front with Trotsky

Minneaplisis Leading in the Weekly Drive

The Civil War in Mexico By Max Shachtman

Some Remarks on the Sixth Congress by L. D. Trotsky

Letter: Activity in Cleveland

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

Stalin versus Bucharin, The new Strugle in the Russian Communist Party

Call for a National Conference of the Opposition, by James P. Cannon

Letters from theMilitants:


Volume II No. 7 April 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Opposition group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Trotsky’s Reply to Stalin (December 16, 1928)

Comrade Trotksy to the American Opposition

Next Step In the Struggle, Material for the National Conference Discussion by James P. Cannon

Boston Woorks for a Weekly Militant Fund

A New Dawes Plan for the Old By Max Shachtman

An Opposition in Engand

Industrialization and the Peasantry by Martin Abern

Two Meetings in Chicago

After the Dress Strike

How will Hoover Recognize Russia?

Il Duce speaks up for Stalin

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

Stalin Gains a New Friend

What! No Unity?

A Comrade for Minor

Where to Buy the Militant

Letters from the Militants:


Volume II No. 8 April 15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Opposition group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Four Days with Trotsky, an Interview with the Bolshevik Leader who was Exile to Constantinople by Maurice Paz

Another Stalinist Pogrom in New York

The Labor Revolt in the South by James P. Cannon

Philadelphia in Campaign for Weekly

The Coming Elections in Great Britain by Maurice Spector

Organize the Unorganized Communists by James P. Cannon

The Illinois Miners Convention By Arne Swabeck

The Splitters at Work: the I.L. D. and the T.U.E.L.

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

To the Y.C.L. Convention, A Statement of the Expelled Communist Youth

Where to Buy The Militant

New Material from Trotsky

A Page of Letters from the Militants:

Trotsky Cannon Enters Germany

Sixty-three Bolsheviks on Huger Strike in Russian Prison

Gangertism in Philadelphia


Volume II Nos. 9-10 May 1-15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Opposition group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Letter to the Russian Workers By L. D. Trotsky March 27 1929

May Day—and After Our Conference and the Trade Unions by James P. Cannon

Our May Day Meetings

The Minneapolis Elections, Comrade C.R. Hedlund is Our Candidate for Mayor by Vincent R. Dunne

The Lost Leader

United the Textile Struggles By Max Shachtman

A Letter to International Labor Defense by JC, MS, Rose Krasner

Stalin Praised by Labor’s Foe

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

The Stalin-Rykov Wage Policy, A Leaflet of the Russian Leninist-Bolsheviks

More Abut the T.U.E.L.

Form Opposition Group in China

Two Fables

A Page of Letters from the Militants:

The Splitters in St. Louis

An appropriate Appointment

Trotsky and the Fascisti


Volume II Nos. 10 June 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Conference of the Opposition Communists by James P. Cannon

Formation of the Communist League of America {Opposition}

Opposition Progress in Minneapolis Vote

Tasks of the American Oppposition, A letter from Comrade Trotsky

The Party is ‘United’ Again! Latest ‘Open Address’ of the E.C.C.I.

What the T.U.E.L. Confernce should do.

Bittelman on the Cross, A Hard Luck Story

Stalinism in the Canadian Communist Party by Maurice Spector

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals by Trotsky

Max Comes Clean

The Expelled

Mass Meeting in Boston

The Building Trades situation by Martin Abern

Fight for Mooney and Billings

Help the Imprisoned Bolsehvik-Leninists!


Volume II No. 11 July 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

The Fight for Gastonia

New Splits Begins: Lovestone is Expelled

British Labor Government

Trotsky on Radek

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals By L. D. Trotsky

The Progressive Conference By Arne Swabeck

May Day Putsch in Berlin By Max Shachtman

Revolutionary Perspectives in India A letter to Leon Trotsky

Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party By Leon Trotsky

Lovosky versus Losovosky Banquest for Balbo - Exile for Trotsky

A Letter on the Capitulators, May 23, 1929 L. D. Trotsky

Daily Worker Eats Crow

Thh Young Plan


Volume II No. 12 August 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

War Clouds in the East China Provokes Russia

First of August! What will “International Red Day” Bring?

Gastonia in Danger

England Bars Trotsky

The End of the Cloakmakers Strike

War in the Independent Workmen’s Circle by L. Schlosbert

The Crisis in the Communist Party by James P. Cannon

Karl Radek and the Opposition By L. D. Trotsky May 26, 1929

The Theses of Comrade Radek by Leo D. Trotsky Alma-Ata, July 17, 1928

Draft Program of the Comintern: A Criticism of the Fundementals By L. D. Trotsky

The Secret Resolution Against Bucharin—Editors

The Right and the Party Regime

Remember Comrade Malin

The New Progressive Movement By Arne Swabeck

Vincent St. John by James P. Cannon


Volume II No. 13 August 15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

United front for Gastonia! Fight the Frame-up! Defend the Right to Organize and Strike!

Danger Signals in the East

Where is the Left Wing Going? An Answer to William Z. Foster with a Footnote on his Political Biography By James P. Cannon

2 Years After Sacco and Vanzetti

Bucharin Formally Ousted

Peace Talk, Moke-screen for War

Who is Leading the Comintern To-day? By L. D. Trotsky

Summing up the Fur Strike

From Gombers to Stalin (the evolution William D. Foster)

On the International Right Wing. A Letter to Boris Souvanrine By L. D. Trotsky Contantinople, April 25, 1929

The Rumor Factory

Lovestone Appeal to Party By Max Shachtman

All Quiet on the Unity Front

The Afetermath of ‘Red Day’.

A Stalinist Provocation


Volume II No. 14 September 15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

The T.U.E.L. Conference at Cleveland

No Illusions on the Gastonia Trial

Loveston’s Burglaries

An Apologetic Progressivism

A Weekly by Nov. 7

Party Splitters and Gastonia

Another Rumor Nailed

Piatnitsky’s Figures

Wicks Speaks Up A Warrior Against Trotsky

Unity Front Is roadened

2 new Opposition Papers

A victory for US in Austria

Words Forgot; Yaroslavsky on Trotsky

The Sino-Russian Conflict and the Opposition By L. D. Trotsky Contantinipole, August 4, 1929

The Inustrial Situation By Arne Swabeck

A Gaster Assault

Who is Leading the Comintern To-day? By L. D. Trotsky

Hey! What’s This?

Plenum Coming

The Cult of ‘Third Period’ by Maurice Spector

Glogans for Gastonia

The Next Issue

The Party’s Election Program in New York

Party Progress; the 3rd Period Hits St. Louis

Two Letters from Afar

Communist League Activities


Volume II No. 15, October 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

The Drive for the Weekly

Lynch Lw in Gastonia

Chiang Kai-Shek’s War Drive

Mass Meeting The Crisis in the American Communist Mavement (sic)

The T.U.U.L Conference

Cleveland and Unorganized Labor by James Young

A Lovestone Paper Coming

"Burglary Bolshevism"

AT LAST! A New Bucharin....

The 5-Year Plan: How Stalin Builds Socialism.

Once Again: On Brandler and Thalheimer By L. D. Trotsky Constantipole, June 12, 1929

Malin’s "Statement"

Palestine—Pogrom or Revolution? By Max Shachtman

Who is Leading the Comintern To-day? By L. D. Trotsky

10th Plenum of the communist International

How Not to Build New Unions.

The Cult of the ‘Third Period’

All’s Well in the Party, Says the Daily Worker!

Good-by Pepper! The Passing of an Adventurer

Letters from the Argentine and from England

Communist League Activities


Volume II No. 16 October 15, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

The Massacre at Marion

The ‘Impossible’ Weekly

Vote Communist!

Holland Bars Trotsky

Party Plenum Opens

Hoot! MacDonald

Briand’s Plan for a United States of Europe By Arne Swabeck

Lovestone Issues a Dishonest Document

Who is Leading the Comintern To-day? By L. D. Trotsky

The Mine Battle Corruption in Illionois Union by Joseph Angelo

New Opposition Among Russian Youth

The R.R. Unions A split-up Labor Movement by C.R. Hedlund

The Removal of Bucharin By Maurice Spector

The Conflict in the Muste Group

Thaelmann on the Toboggan

A Lecture in Boston

Unemployment in the Auto Industry

The Clothing Strike by Carl Cowl

Letters from The Militants

Communist League Activities

Working for Gastonia


Volume II No. 17 November 1, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector
    Arne Swabeck

12 Years of Red Russia!

Class Justice and Revnge of the South

Next Number the Paper is the Fist Issue of the Weekly Militant

The A.F. of L. Convention

Comrade Rakovsky’s appeal—Stalin’s reply

Our Russian Organ

What MacDonald ‘Accomplished’ here

Three Conference for Defense of Gastonia

Who is Leading the Comintern To-day? By L. D. Trotsky

Once Agains—Palestine!

The Coming Dress Strike A Talk with the Left-wing Needle Trade Union members

Wicks at large Again

A Cowardly Paper


Volume II No. 18 New York, N. Y. Saturday, November 30, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector
    Arne Swabeck

The Illinois Miners’ Struggle

Crash in the Stock Market

The confernce in Bellevill by Joseph Angelo

The N.Y. Vote - A warning Sign

What’s Happening in China? A Question that every Communist Must Ask Himself and Answer by L. Trotsky Prinkipo, November 10, 1920

Schlesinger Prepares His Dress Strke While Foster Almost Changes the Line - with the Help of the Cable from Losovsky

Througout the World of Labor

On the Twelth Anniversary of the Russian October by L. D. Trotsky Constantinople, October 17, 1929

The New Unions and the Communists By James P. Cannon

Minneapolis for Gastonia

Minneapolis Classes Open

Who is Leading the Comintern To-day? By L. D. Trotsky

A Stalinist Defeat in Staunton by Albert Glotzer

The Daily Workers Lies Like Hell! A Letter Sent by the Staunton Miners’ Conference to the Poison Pen Artists

An Authoried Statement

Letters from the Militants

Where to Buy the Militant


Volume II No. 19 New York, N. Y. Saturday, December 7, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector
    Arne Swabeck

Hoover’s Building Plan Swindle

Congress Opens - For the Master

Lots of Promises for the Jobless By Martin Abern

U.S. Intervenes in Sino-Suss Conflict

Disarmament and the U.S. of Europe by Leon Trotsky October 4, 1929

Stalinists Raid the Co-ops The Party Wins Another "Victory" in Superior by Vincent R. Dunne

The Thieves Fall Out in the Miners Union by Arne Swabeck

Throughout the World of Labor

Browder’s Dazzling “Logic”

A Most Remarkable Corpse

Is the A.F. of L. Becoming Progressive? By Arne Swabeck

The Communist Defeat in Czecho-Slovakia by H. Lenorovics

The Capitulation of Bucharin. What are the Prospects fo the Right Wing Now? by Max Schactman

The Party’s Aventure in the I.W.C.

Where to Buy The Militant


Volume II No. 20 New York, N.Y. Saturday, December 14, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector
    Arne Swabeck

Illionis Miner Out on Strike

Bill Green’s Pledge to Hoover

Chiang Kai-Shek’s Collapse

Haiti in Revolt - 5 Killed, 20 Wouldedby U.S. Marines in the First Encounter

Schlesinger’s Bright Ideas-He “Abolishes” the Class Struggle; the Stalinists Are Still Deciding “the Line”

The Textile Union-The Party chops Off Another Head

“The Freest Country in the World”

Wilson’s Siberian Adventures Ends

Throughout the World of Labor

Communism and Syndicalism By L. Trotsky

Greetings Sent to the Weekly

“Hoover Brings You Peace and Plenty” by Max Shachtman

Why we Publish The Militant

Party Defeated in I. W. C. - Stalinist Policy of Independent Workman’s Circle Ends in Bad Retreat

The Party cliques are Still Busy

A Report on the Russian Situation by the Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker

Prosperity as Usual

Letters from The Militants

Constitution of the Communist League

Where to Buy The Militant


Volume II No. 21 New York, N.Y. Saturday, December 21, 1929 (Full PDF version)
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector
    Arne Swabeck

Illinois Miners On the March!

Labor Fakers Sold out Mooney

The Auto Show and the Auto Slaves

Opposition Group formed in Argentine

Hoover’s Build Panacea

Minneapolis A B C Class

America’s Record in Haitin

Hot Time Does Fly in the Russian Party!

"Unanimous!" a Meeting of a Party Conference by Michael Kolzov

The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by L. D. Trotsky

Throughout the World of Labor

Lovestone and the Russian Revolution by Max Shachtman

Friendly Advice to an Unfriendly Critic

Hail the Weekly Militant! Minneapolis Branch of the Communist League of America

The Russian Opposition Replies to the Capitulators by Christian Rakovsky

Letters from the Militants


Volume II No. 18 Saturday, December 28, 1929 New York, NY
THE MILITANT
Semi-Monthly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editor:

    James P. Cannon

Associate Editors:

    Martin Abern
    Max Shactman
    Maurice Spector

Marion Killers Freed -Acquit Deputies Who Murdered Six Strikers

Minters of Illinois fought Big Odds by Arne Swabeck

Naval Conclave Sure to Crash

Unemployment Grows with Business Decline by Harvey O’Connor

The Mooney Frame-Up-Governor Pass Buck Again

The Real “Risks in Inudstry” - More Mine Deaths in W. Va

The Communit Chest Drive - Hi-jacking Labor in Texas

The McAlester Mine Distater

Poor Scabes: coal Co. Raises Rent

More Hoover Prosperity- Southern Sawmills Shut Down by Jack Metter

Industrial Accidents Mount

Naval Conference Farce

Auto Wage Cuts - Pontiac Workers Seriously Affected

On Hooliganism - (Today and Yesterday)

The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by L. D. Trotsky

Throughout the World of Labor

The Thoeory at the Root of Lovestoneism

What Now? The Bolshevik Opposition and the C.P.S.U.

Stalin - The “Second Lenin’s”50th Year

Browder: The New Defender of Stalinism

How Many Times Can a Dead “ism” Die?

Mass Speaks at Open forum in Detroit

Ingraditute

Christmas for Labor by Grace Hutchins

Greetings to the Weekly Militant

Where to Buy the Militant

Louisiana Standard Oil

Chain Gan for Jobless

Where Sacco and Venzetti Were Murdered


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