The Militant CONTENTS BY ISSUE (1932) Volume V No. 1 [No. 97] Saturday, January 2, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Mass Meeting for Marine Workers Defense - New Forces join Defense Committee The Struggle for Power in Germany by Albert Glotzer Martial Law At Foochow The Geneva Disarmament Bluff «Dissarmament» Conference Will Expost Imperialist Revalries and Aims Against the Soviet Union Trotsky Pamphlet on International Situation Japs Use Russian White Guars to Provoke Soviets by Martin Abern In the Needle Trades: Tasks Before the Plenum of the Neelde Trades Industrial Union by Syliva Bleeker New York Open Forum The Economic Month by B. J. Fields In the Workmen’s Circle by B. J. Fields Carpenter’s Local Support Marine Defense by W. H. H. Propects for Jewish Paper Bright - Unser Kampf Stalin and the Chinese Revolution - Facts and Documents by Leon Trotsky Imprisoned for Chalking Communist Slogans Mother Mooney Denoucnes Gov. Rolph by Mary Mooney Entertainment in New York for Young Spartacus A Sojourn With comrade Leon Trotsky - Five Weeks in Kadikoy by Albert Glotzer Successful Banquet for Press Held in Mpls. Attention! Mineapolis Open Forum? Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Evidence Made To Order Foreign Language Problems Where Did They Learn Volume V No. 2 [No. 98] Saturday, January 9, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Our Martyrs: Liebknecht and Luxemburg by Joseph Carter Open Forum Japanese-American Conflict - The Recent Manchurian Incident as a Factor in World Politics by Sam Gordon Capialist Polticians Favor Russian Credits; Stalinists Mark Time The Empending Danger of Fascism in Germany - A Leter to a German Communist Worker on the United Front Against Hitler by Leon Trotsky Opposition Leader Attested in Argentina Mooney Conference in Belleville Japanese Communist Wins Voluntary Departure to Russia Stalin Makes Party History to Order - Killing a "Dead Trotskysm’ for the 1,000th Time by E. G. With the Opposition in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl The Red Movement in Bulgaria Philadelphia Mass Meeting Swabeck Tour Results Developments in the Spanish Revolution by L. Fersen A Series of Articles on Span new Trotsky Pamphlet Coming Under the Banner of Marxism: Opposition in Engliand - Party member from Nucleus to Fight for Leninism Entertainment for Young Spartacus Communism of Fascism in Germany? Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Proletarian Party Splits Bombs for New Years Volume V No. 3 [No. 99] Saturday, January 16, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Bankers and Jobless Relief - the Tammany Government Machine is Whipped into Line by H. P. Open Forum Japs Subsideize Russian Whites - Hire Semenov, Notorius Cossack Adventure in Mongolian Drive Is Stalin preparing another 1923 Germany by Max Shachtman Russian Opposition Persecuted - A Letter from Moscow New York Banquet Feb. 6 to Greet «Unser Kampf» and Three Returned Comrades Stalinists Disrupt Mooney Confab Condemn M. N. Roy to Exile Trotsy’s ‘History’ Out Soon Marine Defeense Meet - Hundreds Gather to Protest «Dynamite Plot» Frame-Up Rosa Luxemberg - On the Anniversary of hHer “Assissination by the German Social Democrats” by Maurice Spector The Precioius Heritage of Rosa The Obsole Craft System in the Railroa Brotherhoods by A. E. Swabeck Tour How to Make the Kentucky Miners’ Defense Really Effective by A Delegate Revolt Brewing in India - Ghandi Holds Masses in Check by Reformist Maneuvers by Sam Gordon Thaelmann’s Belated Self-Criticism - the Leader of the German Communist Party «Examines» Some of Its Mistakes by W. M. The Results of the Toronto Election by S. Green Government Repression in Republican Spain by Ramos Minneapolis Open Forum Stifling the Labor Defense by R. Ulchin German Opposition The Swabeck Meeting in Younstown by Frank Cheloff The Spanish Articles What is Fascism? - Extracts from a letter to a Comrade by L. Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Darrow and the Scottsboro Case United Front Prospects Volume V No. 4 [No. 100] Saturday, January 23, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Forward to Lenin’s Way! - The Left Opposition Alone Carries on the Works of Ilyitch Open Forum Lenin’s Last Words to the Party by Lenin, Jan. 4, 1923 Left Opposition in Appeal to Needle Trades Worekrs for United action in Struggle signed by Nedles Trades Workers, members of the Communist League of America (Opposition) New Trotsky Pamplet Out Hitler Prepares to Strike - Stalinist Leadership Impotent in Face of Impending Struggle by Sam Gordon A Review of the Recent Nation Tour - The Sweep of the Economic Crisis; Its Effects on the Revolutionary Movement by Arne Swabeck A Setback for Stalinism by W. H. H. One the Question of the State by Marin Abern Resurge of Mine Struggle - Miners Learning, Gahtering Forces for Coming Fight by Gerr Allard The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat by Andres Nin For Communist Action! - Documents of the German Left Opposition Shachtman Lectures at Opposition Forum A Correction In Spain: «The Democratic Republic of the Workers» - A First Hand Account of Conditions Under the Socialist-Republican Regime by Max Shachtmn The Proletarian Party Opposition by Hugo Oehler Unemployment and Communism Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Another Defeat in Kentucky A Sorry Adventure Volume V No. 5 [No. 101] Saturday, January 30, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the German “Situation” Statement by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Open Forum—Germany - Fascism or Communism by Albert Glotzer Japanese Invade Shanghai! - War Threat in the Far East and Against the Soveit Union by Sam Gordon Utilize Fe. 4 Meets to Build Jobless Movement by Arne Swabeck Thr Recent Outbreaks in Spain by Max Shactman Bureaucracy in the R. R. Brotherhoods by A. E. ‘Father’ Cox Gets Free Hand in Pittsburgh by I. Archy Unser Kamf Off the Press Lovestone Splitter Calls for Unity by Max Shachtman Unemployment and the Party by T. Stamm Young Spartacus Out Chicago Stalinists Disrupt Conference and Statement of the Chicago Opposition In Spain: The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat by Andres Nin In Bulgaria Rublings in the German Social Democracy by Erwin Baur A Letter to a Comrade: Left Opposition and th Branlerites by Leon Trotsky In K. C. Opposition Book Review: Lasalle by Arne Schirokaur A Communication - on the Kentucky Miners Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Father Cox Attacking the Marine Workers Defense A Progressive Tendency Volume V No. 6 [No. 102] Saturday, February 6, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Railroad Wage Cut by Arne Swabeck New Developments in the Far East by Sam Gordon Statement of the Marine Workers Defense «Uprising» of Nov 7 - by Leon Trotsky Build the Opposition Press! «Reconstruction Finance Commission» Ruse by H. Stone Organization Notes For a Fighting Unity of the New York Food workers by a Foodworker The Struggle of the Rail Road Workers by Hugo Oehler I. L. D. in Boston by C. Shechtet Amter Speaks on the Radio by T. Tamm Terror Agains the Greek Opposition by Pali Ton Taxeon History Made to Order al la Stalin by M. Mill Left Opposition in Toronto German Opposition Documents - False Strategy—False Tactics A Letter from Germany Spain’s Bourgeoisie on the Offensive by Max Shachtman Resolution of the Marxian Y. C. Correction Volume V No. 7 [No. 103] Saturday, February 13, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck N. Y. Dressmakers Strike - Workes’ Unity Against the Common Enemy Imperiative by arne Swabeck Open Forum on Imperialist Agression in China—the Danger of War by Max Shachtman Imperailists Meet at Geneva - French and Americans Wrangle for Lead in Struggle against U.S.S.R. by Sam Gordon Is Trotsky’s Lief to be Kept in Danger? Holadelphia Oppositionists Sentenced Com. Glotzter’s National Tour Help Build the Opposition Press! Pay Reductions in the Building Trades - A Blow at the Workers’ Standard Throughout All the Trades by Arne Swabeck Morentstern and Goodman Sentenced R.R. Fakers & Bosses Join Hands - To Improve the HEalth of «Our» Industry by A. E. The Minneapolis Branch of the Left Opposition in the Fight for the Unemployed by the Communst Leauge of America (Opposition) Mpls. Branch The Annual Heresy Trial by T. Stamm Tampa Tobacco Workers Struggle Evictions German Opposition Forges Ahead - Growing Sentiment for a United Struggle against Fascism by Permenente Revoluiton The Spit in the Brandler Group by Marsh Changes in Policy of French Imperialism by La Verite Reactionary Policies and the Working Class Movement in Spain by Henri Lacroix In Spain: The Socalists and State Power - Reformists Maneuver to Av oid Responsibility before the Laboring Masses by Max Shachtman N. Y. Open Forum Comrades Trotsky’s Letter to the Nationl Sections by Leon Trotsky Pioneer Publisher Notes Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon I. W. W. Wisdom Lassalle Volume V No. 8 [No. 104] Saturday, February 20, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Labor Fakers Before Congress - A. F. of L. Bureaucrats Final Recognize the «Dole» by Arne Swabeck World Powers at Loggerheads - Japanese Repulsed in China as Laval Cainet Falls in Paris by Sam Gordon The Jailed Marine Workers and the I.L.D. by Jack Solderberg Opposition Victim of the White Terror in Greece Glotzer Meetings The Presential Elections in Germany by Albert Glotzer Aid in Our Circulation Drive From the Needle Strike Front N. Y. Open Forum Oganization Notes The Simms Trial Book Review on Unemployed Councils in St. Petersburgh in 1906 After tje R. R. Wage Cut by A. E. The Character of Fascism - An Analysis of the Composition of the HItlerite Camp by Ewrin Bauer in Berlin The Government Reprisals in Greece —Sharp Changes in Foregign Poliy of the French Imperialists— by La Verite The Stalinists in Bulgaria - Use Violence against Oppositions in the Prisons by D. Gatcheff The Right Wing of Spanish Communism - The Truth Concerning the Actualy Policy and Inflience of the Maurin Group by Max Shachtman The Litvinoff Stand on Disarmament by Albert Orland Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Learn from the Workers United Front in Practice Morgentstern and Goodman Volume V No. 9 [No. 105] Saturday, February 29, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Germany Before the Elections by Sam Gordon New York Dress Strike Grows - Workers’ Militancy Attains Unity on the Picket Line The Glass-Steagall Bill—A measure to Aid the Bankers by H. Stone Canadian Workers Fight Against Reaction Glotzer Meetings Our Press Needs Your Help! John L. Lewish Continues His Betrayals - A Review of the Thirty-second Convention of the United Mine Workers of America Lovestonites in the Workmens’ Circle by J. B. Is Mooney to Stay in Jail? Reactionaries Make Capital of Stalinists’ Blunder by T. Stamm A Letter from Our Class War Prisoners by Goodman and Moregenstern The Character of Fascism - An Analysis of the Composition of the HItlerite Camp by Ewrin Bauer in Berlin Lessons of the Recent Events in Sain - An Official Document of the Spanish Left Opposition and the Results on the Struggle by the Left Communists Opposition of Catalonia The Latest Anti-Trotsky Campaign by Sam Gordon Proletarian Party Opposition - Some Fundemental Problems of the Future Course Discussed by Arne Swabeck Pioneer Publisher Notes A letter from a Militant «Pravda» on Second 5 Year Plan - A National Socialist Utopia or a Leninist Conception of Socialist Economy by Max Shachtman Volume V No. 10 [No. 106] Saturday, March 5, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Dress Strike Settlement - Some Lessons the Left Wing Must Draw from It by Arne Swabeck Fale {eace Gestures in Far East - Imperialists Jockeying for Position in Coming World Clashes by Sam Gordon Lovestonites Disrupt Rank and File Moveement in A.C.W. Union by Albert Orland Shachtman - Tresca Debate Glotzer tour Meets Succes Lenin and Trotsky in 1905 - On Some Stalinist Distortions of History by Hugo Oehler A Story of Boss Violance in the Illnois Mine Fields by Germinal The R.R. Workers and the Wage Cuts - A Militant Looks at Conditions in his Industry and Revew the Past by A. M. Agitator The Militant Subscrption Drive Lectures on the Hisotry of the Communist International «Young Spartacus» No. 4 Out German Political Scene by E. Bauer The Spanish Communit Party in the Revolution by Max Shachtman Kreek Oppositions Victim of Terror Book Review: The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky reviewed by Sam Gordon Rakovsky on the Five Year Plant by Christian Rakovsky Uphold Our Revolutionary Classics! by Arne Swabeck NY Paris Commune Affair A Lecture of Interest to Jewish Workers Volume V No. 11 [No. 107] Saturday, March 12, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Sunday’s Election in Germany - The Alignment of Forces in the Camapaign Struggle by Arne Swabeck Trotsky’s Discussions on the World Situation Ford Thugs Massacre Starving workers - Police give Workers Lead instead of Bread Press Circulation Drive N.Y. Paris Commune Affair The Economic Month - Further Decline in Production and Workers Living Standard by H. Stone Organization Notes Railroads & Strike Policy - The Strike Weapon and it’s Rejection by the Misleaders United Front of souterhn Miners Imperaitve Support «Unser Kamf» «Young Spartacus» No. 4 Party and C.I. in England A Few Lessons of Anarchist Uprising in Spain by Hugo Oehler Rakovsky on the Five Year Plant by Christian Rakovsky The Communists and the Agrarian Crisis by Hugo Oehler Youth Club Activities: Youth Class Young Spartacus Affiar: Youth Affiar Book Review of «The Stretegy of World Revolution&##187; written by Leon Trotsky reviewed by G. R. Lectures on the Hisotry of the Communist International Gotzer’s National Tour Volume V No. 12 [No. 108] Saturday, March 19, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lenin on the Paris Commune New Trotsky Series on Germany Starts Next Week After the Massacre in Detroit Remember our Prisoners Results of the German Elections - Gains of Reaction Serious Warning against Stalinist Policy by Sam Gordon New York Marine Workers Go to Trial Next Weeks Forum The Communists and the Agrarian Crisis by Hugo Oehler Our Subscription Drive Attention Greek Workers! Letters from The Militants Drug Clerks Organize by L. D. The Dress Strike in Boston by J. C. Stalinist Flattery or Marxist Education by Paul Schwalbe Another Expulsion from the I. L. D. by herbert Capelis A Shanghai View on Chinese Events by C. Frank Glass «Stalin and His Creatures» - The New Atni-Trotsky Camapign by Monyak The German Opposition at Work by R. Well Classic Marxism The World Revolution and Its Revolutionary Implications by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon The Threat of Illegality The Situation and Its Tasks A False Slogan Volume V No. 13 [No. 109] Saturday, March 26, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Rebel Miners in Action! - New Movement in the Anthracite Growing Rapidly by Arne Swabeck A Statement of the International Left Opposition The «Revolt» in Congress - An Indication of Radical Changes in Bourgeois Politics by Sam Gordon The Workers’ United Front in Canada S. Green Open forum on Amerca’ Attempt to Get Out of the Crisis by Al Glotzer The Raids on Hitler’ Nazis n Prussia What Next? by Leon Trotsky Statement by Gerry Allard - Answers Stalinist Slanders The Militant Needs YOUR Help Now! New York Classes Swabeck’ Class In Marxism «Soviet’ Challenge» at the Acme Theatre Letters from The Militants Pocket Book Workers Prepare for Strike by N. Davis Farmer-Laborites in Minn. by Sara Avrin left Opposition ACtivies in the Middle West Opposition Greeks Answer «Emrpos» For the Unity of Spanish Communism - An Open letter of the Spanish Left Opposition Addressed to all Communists Hail the Fourtheenth Anniversary of the Red Army! A Decree of the council of Poeple’ Commissars - 1918 Volume V No. 14 [No. 110] Saturday, April 2, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Marine Workers on Trial Open Forum: The Communist Party and the Working Class Movement by Arne Swabeck Scottsboro Verdict Must Be Smashed by T. Stamm What Next? - Chapter 1: The Rold of the German Social Democracy by Leon Trotsky Germany after the Presendential Elections by R. Well Open Letter to the C. E. C. of the U.S.S.R. by L. Trotsky Heart’ Program and the Petty-Bourgeoisie by Hugo Oehler Minneapolis Attention Second Month of Militant Drive Letters from The Militants Among the Drug Clerks by J.D. On the Waterfront by P. S. N. Y. Auto Workers by Gadfly Resolution of the N. Y. Carpenter’ Union In Honore of M. Winchewsky For Communist Unity - An Open Leter of the Spanish Left Opposition New Tendencies in French Politics - Woulrd Crisis Reveals Long Latent Condradictions Between Social Classes by Pierre Frank Spartcus—Y. P. S. L. Debate The New Book on Germany Fifty Years of Israel Amter Impressions of a National Tour by Albert Glotzer Tag Day for Marine Defense Volume V No. 15 [No. 111] Saturday, April 9, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Trade Relations with the U. S. S. R. by Arne Swabeck Open Forum: Where is American Socialism Going, by Max Shachtman Stool-pigeon Discredited at Marine Trial Open Letter to the C. E. C. of the U. S. S. R. by Leon Trotsky Minters Resist new Onslaught - Unification of Rebel Movements Urgent Duty of Revolutionary Party Hitler Scoffs at Threat of «Outlaw» Nazis Militant Drive Yields Results Letters from The Militants Opposition Branch Formed in Newark Free Speeh in the Party? by S. A. Trotsky Meeting in Deluth by C.C. The Struggle around the Volkszeitung Attention Y. C. L.-er! Minneapolis Open Workers Forum German Opposition Shows the Way - Communist of Bruchal Apply Genuine Leninist United Front Tactic Germany After the Presidential Election by Rman Well A Letter from Czeckoslovakia by O. Friedman A Debate in the Bronx Book Review: The Strange Career of Of Mr. Hoover—Under Two Flags written by John s. Hamil reviewed by Albert Glotzer Democracy and Fascism by Leon Trotsky Help Defend Kentucky Miners! Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Scottsboro Why So Hot? Volume V No. 16 [No. 112] Saturday, April 16, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck War and Social Chauvinism - Alarm Signals Against Jingoist Trends in the Communist Party by Max Shachtman Open Forum on the Negro Question by James P. Cannon Biased Judge Convicts Marine Workers Crucial Moment Nearin in Germany! - Statement of the National Committe, Coommunist League of America (Opposition) Foodworkers Roused Against Bureaucrats Organization Notes Letters from The Militants Two Reformist Meets by Carl Cowl Movie Chains Try to Smash Union by T. Stamm Back Issues of The Militant Wanted Militant Drive at Half Way Mark In the Cadanian Movement: The Turin in the Industrial Union by M. uarter In the Cadanian Movement: Governmental Red Baiting by S. Green What Really Happened At Shanghai by R. Well Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - 1923 by M. Shachtman Developments in Spain by Henri Lacroix The Mooney Case and the Party Democracy and Fascism by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Left-Wing Victory or Treacherous Bargain? What Happened to the Comany Union Theory? Why Did the Right Support the Left? Volume V No. 17 [No. 113] Saturday, April 23, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck New State in Needle Trade Fight - A Campaign for Unity is Now the Order of the Day by James P. Cannon Open Forum on The Menace of Fascism in Germay by Arne Swabeck The Intensified Wage Cut Drive Failure of the Danube Union Conference by Albert Orland Left Oppositionist Speaks from the Tribue of the Prussian Diet: Speech of Comrade Seipold in the Landtag Greek Oposition Holds Convention Opposition Press Drive May 1 - June 1 Economic Crisis Continues to Deepen by T. Stamm Debate Militant Affair In the Canadian Movement: Canadian miners by S. Green Letters from The Militants Among the Unemployed by W. K. From a Ford Worker Appeal of the S. A. P. Statement on the Situation in the International Left Opposition by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Execution of the Scottsboro Boys Stayed by T. Stamm Bureaucratic Ulimatism by Leon Trotsky Volume V No. 18 [No. 114] Saturday, April 30, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Shall Tom Mooney Stay in Jail? To the Readers of the “The Militant” Debate: Socialism vs Communism Demonstrate on May Day! After the Recent Elections in Prussia by Sam Gordon The State and Trade Unions in Canada by Maurice Spector Marine Workers Sentenced to Jail Militant Affiar The Stalinist-Lovestone Unity Negotiations Letters from The Militants Once More on the Bronx Co-operatives From an Illionis Miner The First Week of the Press Drive Lovestone and the «Psuedo-Revolutionaries» by Max Shactman Appeal to the S. A. P. - The Left Opposition Addresses the Centrist Party Congress Opposition Press in Czecho Slovakia The Bureaucrats Analyze the Elecitons - How the Rank and File Party Members React to their Analysis by Die Permanente Revolution The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler Bureaucratic Ulimatism by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon “Under Rank and File Leadership” Lenin on Leaders and Masses The Role of the Consious Worker Volume V No. 19 [No. 115] Saturday, May 7, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck S. P. «Lefts’» Program by Hugo Oehler Debate: I. W. W. representative, Communist representative: Is the Program of the I. W. W. Sufficient for the Emancipation of the Working Class? The Strike in the N. Y. Building Trades by Arne Swabeck Bourgeois Left Gains in French Elections Weekly Militant Depends Upon suces of $1,000 Drive Stalinist-Lovestone Unit Negotations The State and the Trade Unions in C anada by Maurice Spector The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler Press Drive Under Way—2nd. Week Letters from The Militants A. F. of L. Fakers Betray Sign Writers by T. Stamm To the Greek Party members and Sympathizers by the Editorial Board of Communistes Germany: For a Turn in the Policy of the C. P. G. German Sketches by E. Bauer Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - the German Revolution of 1923 and the «Lessons of October» by Max Shachtman Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the «United Front» by Leon Trotsky Oppositionist Speaks at Party United Front Meeet On the Anniversary of Marx’s Birth by Arne Swabeck Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Centrist-Right Wing Unity? Weisbord Blows the Whistle Volume V No. 20 [No. 116] Saturday, May 14, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Comrades, Readers, Friends! The Party and the May Day Demonstration Bring the Unity Negotiations into the Open! by James P. Cannon Militant Builders Tom Mooney Must Be Freed! by T. Stamm The Police Shootings in Melrose Park France After the Parliamentary Elections Organization Notes make Our Press Drive a Success Letters from The Militants Once More on the Bronx Co-operatives A Criticism of the Needle Trades Article by A. Borjarksy The Bureaucrats Act Against Oppositionist on the Waterfront by Paul Schwalbe From A Rail Road Worker German Sketches Int. Right Wing on Verge of Disruption - Leader of Czech Group Protest Brandler-Thalheimer Slanders Against Trotsky The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler Spartacus Youth Clube Notice Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - the German Revolution of 1923 and the «Lessons of October» by Max Shachtman Letters from The Militants Reply to Comrade Borjarksy by James P. Cannon Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the «United Front» by Leon Trotsky On the Anniversary of Marx’s Birth by Arne Swabeck Volume V No. 21 [No. 117] Saturday, May 21, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Congress Talks Unemployment Relief - For the Workers - Only the Jingle of overnment Coin by Arne Swabeck Help Save Our Weekly Militant More About the Unity Negotiations Morganstern and Goodman Released Beet Workers Go on Srike in Colorado The Political Crisis of Japanese Imperialism The Philadelphia Convention of the I. L. G. W. U. by Albert Orland Opposition Youth Debate Anarchist Group The Minnesota Convention of the C. P. by a League Delegate The Depression Hits South Carolina by Guy Southworth Letters from The Militants Among the Italian Workers of Chicago by Joe Left Winger Expelled from I. L. G. W. U. by Harry Milton Militant Builders Minneapolis Branch Challenges Wobblies Put the Press Drive Over the Top! Greet the Return of Our Class War Prisoners! From the Left Opposition in South America by Pedro A. V Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Reactionary Theory of Socialism in One Country by Max Shachtman Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the «United Front» by Leon Trotsky N. Y. Picnic St. Louis, Attention Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon Ungrateful Government The "Negotiators" Smoked Out For the Release of the Scottsboro Boys Volume V No. 22 [No. 118] Saturday, May 28, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck «Socialists» and their Line of Action Rush Funds to Save Weekly! For the Communist Unity of Our Party! By the National Committee of the Communist League of America Jack MacDonald Joins the Left Opposition - Statement of the Former Natioanl Secertary of the Communist Party of Canada by J. MacDonald The National Convention of the S. P. Aid Beet Strike! Letters from the Militants Militant Builders New York Attention! Situation in Pocket Makers Union by N. Davis The Bosses Tax Problem by Hugo Oehler Finish the Press Drive with Donations! Statement of Greek Comrades on «Empros» by Editoral Board of Communistes The Half - Turn in the German Party by Permente Revolution The Confernces of the Spanish Opposition by Max Shachtman Trotsky and Brandler; or Lovestone and Principles Welcome Back, H. A. Wicks! Centrism «In General» and the Centrism of the Stalinist Bureaucracy by L. Trotsky Volume V No. 23 [No. 119] Saturday, June 4, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck For a Communist Campaign in the Elections Scpttsboro Boys’ Execution Stayed Bruening Goverment Falls - German Working Class Faced with Immediate Fascist Onslaught by Sam Goron Mr. Seabury «Exposes» Tammany-Walker by Clarke The C. P. Nomating Convention at Chicago Government Repression in Spain Hits Left Opposition Andres Nin Arrested in Barcalona: BULLETIN Chicago Debate Bound Volume of the Militant for Sale Highlights of Socialist National Convention - A Report of the Reformist Meet in Milwaukee by Norman Satir Letters from The Militants Street Carmen Facing Strike in St. Louis by G. Roberts From Negro Comrades in South Africa The Results of our Press Drive Militant Builders Pioneer Press Notes The Party and the French Elections - Right Wing Renegades Exploit the MItakes of the Stalinist Bureaucrats by La Verite The I.L.P. and British Communism by Anglicus Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Anglo-Russian Committee and the British General Strike by Max Shachtman N. Y. Opposition Offers Cooperation in elections to the Communist Party Centrism «In General» and the Centrism of the Stalinist Bureaucracy by L. Trotsky Trotsky on the Disarmament Confernce Bound Volumes of Pamphlets for Sale Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon The Right Wing in a Blind Alley The Case of J. T. Murphy Volume V No. 24 [No. 120] Saturday, June 11, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Communist Party Election Platform by Arne Swabeck House Passes Anti - Alien Bill Fascists Moving to Power in Germany The Veterans’ March on Washington «Socialist» Revolt in Chile The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the Working Class by Arne Swabeck Trotsky Greets ’Unser Kamf’ Book Review: Russia: Market or Menance by Thomas D. Cambell reviewed by Carl Cowl Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Film Review: Not "Alone" Comrade by J. Weber A Foodworker Writes About His Union A Letter From England by Anglicus Trotsky’ Pamphlets Trotsky On the Labor Party Question may 19, 1932 Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Anglo-Russian Committee and the British General Strike by Max Shachtman June «Young Spartaucs» Out For an 8 Page Paper N.Y. Spartaus Youth Club Meets On the Slogan of «Rank and File Leadership» by James P. Cannon Strike Strategy by Leon Trotsky Volume V No. 25 [No. 121] Saturday, June 18, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot Slogans in the Elections - Must Link Up communist Goal with Immediate Demands G. O. P. Meets in Chicago Confab by Clarke Brown Shifts Legalized - New Decree Forms Part of the Anti-Working Class Move Workers in Fight Against Forced Labor in Minneapolis by Communist League of America Minneapolis Branch German Paper Inteviews Trotsky by L. Trotsky Youth Meetings in N. Y. Letters from The Militants News from Canada by M. Q. Party Member Joins Opposition by Party Member Workers Fight Bureaucracy by Coover Henry Ford Counsels Workers to Return to Fueal Serfdom Books by Trotsky The Drug Clerks and the Class Struggle by L. Dreyer Back Numbers of Militant Wanted Militant Builders The Situation in Itally and the C. P. - The Fascist Dictatorship in te Throes of the Economic Crisis by Santini New Issue of Greek Paper The Organizational Progress of the German Left Opposition A Letter from a Polish Comrade Coal Miners Strike in Czechoslovakia Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Max Shachtman Strike Strategy by Leon Trotsky Volume V No. 26 [No. 122] Saturday, June 25, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot A New Hitory Making Trotsky Books Leninist Turn Imperative in Germany! - United Mass Action - Not Parliamentary Opportunism - Will Defeat Fascism by The Militant A First Hand Acounts on Events on the «Bonus Battle Front» by Ex-Soldier The Unemployment Situation, the Economic Crisis and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck Letters from The Militants Oppositionist Seated at Philly Conference by Leon Goodman Party’ N. Y State Nominating Convention The Recent Beet Strike on Colorado by G. Saul The Drug Clerks and the Class Struggle by L. Dreyer Militant Builders Wage Cut for Federal gove’t Workers by Clarke Few of China Book by S. Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - Industrialization and the Collectivization of Agriculture in the U. S. S. R. by Max Shachtman The Arests in Spain by our Correspondent Prize Contest! Pamphlets Wanted! Pinic! Picnic! The Slogan of Dfense of the U. S. S. R. by Hugo Oehler A Political Biography of Stalin… by Leon Trotsky Back Numbers of Militant Wanted Volume V No. 27 [No. 123] Saturday, July 2, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot Lausanne Confernce Near Collapse - German Reaction Agressive by Sam Gordon Closer to the Proletarians of the ‘Colored’ Race! by Leon Trotsky Arres W. Z. Foster in Los Angeles - Released Although Charged with Griminal Syndicalism Alexander Roseoff Demagoues and Banker Calss in Chicago - What is Behind the Clique Fight at the Democrats’ Meet by Clarke Persecution of our Spanish Comrades The Zurich Congess of Reformist Int’ls - New Situation Brings «Left» Turn on Part of Amsterdam Letters from The Militants The Pocketbook Makers fight the Racketeers by N. Davis Tje «Labor» Governor of Minnesota by O. M. Among the Greek Workers in N. Y. by Editorial Board of Communistes Organization Notes Youth Activities France Under the Regime of Herriot by La Verite Growth of the Spanish Left Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman Prize Contest Organizational Progress of the German Left Opposition A Correction The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck An Open Letter to the Party District Committee by H. Capelis. A Political Biography of Stalin… by Leon Trotsky Volume V No. 28 [No. 124] Saturday, July 9, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On The Spot Vote for Foster-Ford - Support the Communist Candidates Against the Bourgeois Parities! One Dead in Fascist Riots Dies Bill Threat to Foreign Born Smash Hitler Now! - A Striking Parallel by Leon Trotsky Franco-German Anti-Soviet Alliance Being Fomred at Laussane Stalinism in Straits; Opposition on Upsurge by Leon Trotsky Successful League Meet - 400 Hear Opposition Speakers in Bronx Despite Stalin Gangs Geneva ‘Peace’ Swindles - Chain Formed by Hoover, Socialists, Litvinov, Barbusse & Co. by Max Shachtman Questions on China Militant Builders A New Turn in the T.U.U.L. by Hugo Oehler Pioneer Publisher Notes The Spanish Opposition Conference by Henri Lacroix Spanish Opposition Youth Makes Appeal by Eugenio F. Grannell A Letter from China by Y.M.T. Wit the Food Workers by Foodworker Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman An Admission of Bankruptcy by Sam Gordon Stalin’ Poliical Biography by Leon Trotsky The Book on China Volume V No. 29 [No. 125] Saturday, July 16, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On The Spot A Warning Out of the Past Socialist Edict Paves Road for HItlerites New York Branch Picnic Ive Expelled from Y.C.L. - Chicago Communist Youth fight Campaign Aagainst Opposition Hoover & Unemployment - Republican Party Platform Ingores Vital Problem of Jobless by Clarke The Barbusse Congress by Leon Trotsky June 13, 1932 I See War Wtih Germany by Leon Trotsky Youth Notes Pioneer Publishers Notes The Crisis in the A. C. W. - Independent Cloathing Workers Union Formed in Canada The Civil War in Chile - Motive Forces Behind South American «Revolutions» by Alberto Gonzalez The Stalinists and the Waterfront Work by B.F. Why not the 4 Marx Bros.? (Not to Speak of Greta Carbo) Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman Aftermath of Lausanne - European Powers Seek United Front Against United States by Sam Gordon The «Bonuseers» at Washinton The Census Report and the Middle Class by Hugo Oehler Volume V No. 30 [No. 126] Saturday, July 23, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot Communism or Pacifism - The Party and the Barbusse Congress Germany on the Eve of Civil War - The Party Answers Our Warning - The Fate of the World Revolution Hangs in the Balance 15,000 Workers Strike - Textile and Furnitur Plants Shut Down in North Carolina Workes Shot in Illionois New York Painters Out on Strike by K. The Massacre of St. Louis Workers - Left Opposition Calls on Party for Form a Workers United Front by Martin Payer The Dollar Versus the Pound - Wall St. and Lombard St. Fight for World Supremacy by Hugo Oehler Pioneer Publisher Notes The Civil War in Chile - Motive Forces Behind South American «Revolutions» by Alberto Gonzalez What Is Happening in he Soviet Union: A Letter from Moscow Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman Problems of the Unemployed by Arne Swabck The Fascist Firing Squads in Action From Maggiora to Sbardellotto and Bovone by Feroci Volume V No. 31 [No. 127] Saturday, July 30, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck ’What Next?’—Book of Hour All Out on Aug. First - Demonstrate against Impeiralist War and Hilterist Menace Bullets and Gas for the Vets! - Hoover and Co. Make a Repayment for Soliders’ Services by T. Stamm Hoover and the «Relief» Bill by Herbert Capelis Eleenth Hour in Germany - Socialists Restrain Workers: Stalinists still Reject United Front New York Branch Starts Important Drive The Civil War in Germany: The Fascist Terror is Let Loose! Spontenous Unted Front Developing The German Communist Party and the United front - Is It Really Possible to Establisha Unified Proletarian Front Against the Growing Danger of Fascism? A Letter to Party Members What Is Happening in he Soviet Union: A Letter from Moscow by M. Pioneer Publisher Notes Organizing the Jobless - The Need for Change of Course in the Official Party Policy by Arne Swabeck Forgotten Words: Lenin and the War Danger — Introduction to the Hague Anti-War Conference by Lenin The Stalinists and Barbusse «The Foundations of Socialism» by Leon Trotsky Volume V No. 32 [No. 128] Saturday, August 6, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Mooney Case Now 16 Years Old Militant in Dangers! - Immediate aid Must Be Sent if We Are not to Suspend Martial Law for Indiana Strike Communists Gain in Reichstag Elections - Leninist United Front Tactics Vindicated by Sam Gordon The New York Picnic A Sham Turn on Barbusse All Eyes on Germany! - A Manifesto of the Communist League of America (Opposition) - The Hitler Danger is a Danger to the Working Class of the Whole World Police, Troops and Vetes - Eye-Witness Acccount of the Wash. Massacre of the Monuseers Letters from the Militants A Scandal in the Red Food Workers’ Union by Foodworker A Run-in with the Party in Deluth by C.C. Opposition Progress in Africa by T.W.T. Extracts from Earl Browder’ Biography German Left Will Issue Weekly American Foriegn Trade and the Question Credits fo the Soviet Union by T. Stamm New York’ Aug Meet Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Notes Great Britain and the U. S. at Ottawa by Albert Glotzer The Vets in Washington by Jerdick Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition - Burning Questions of Bonapartism and Thermidor by Max Shachtman Opposition Delegats for United Front at Party’ Anti-Injuction Conference by Herbert Capelis Hands Off Rosa Luexmeberg - Reply to the Slandering of a Revoutionist by Leon Trotsky The Socialist Party and Unemployment by Clarke Fascism—U.S. and German - It was Discovered in U.S. and Ingored Wher it Really Was Volume V No. 33 [No. 129] Saturday, August 13, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Party Members! Militant Workers! Left Opposition Aone Raises the Voice of Lenin at N. Y. Congress Against the War - Stalinists Unite with Liberal Pacifists to Reject Resolution of League Delegation on Fight Against the War Dangers by Max Shactman The Hitlerites at the Gates! Alarm Signal! - Fascism Must Not Take Power Without Armed Resistance Trotsky Elected to Anti-War Meet Monarchist Pustch In Spain - Militarist Coup in Seville and Madrid in is Quickly Crushed Lessons of the Bonus March by T. Stamm A Letter to Roger Baldwin - The Stalinist-Pacificist Relations at the Anti-War Conference by James P. Cannon The Party and the 6-Hour Day Slogan by Hugo Oehler Militant Builders Portrait of a Youth Hands Off Rosa Luexmeberg - Reply to the Slandering of a Revoutionist by Leon Trotsky Ferment in the British Party - Open Letter from Comrade Stewart Purkis to Harry Pollitt Volume V No. 34 [No. 130] Saturday, August 20, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck «I Must Speak Out» Warns Party on Germany - Leading C. P. Member Appeals for United Front against Hitlerism by Sebastian Pappas Seb. Pappas Expelled Opposition Campaign On Germany by T. Stamm The Only Road: Von Papen & Hitler - Bonapartism and Fascism by Leon Trotsky August 22: Figth Anniversary of the Murder of Sacco”Vanzetti Illionois Miners Revolt Spreads Thru State - Thousands of Miners on Strike against Lewis Machine and Wage-Cuts by Arne Swabeck New York Tailors on Strike by Albert Orland Stalinists Split Trade Unions in Spain - Third T. U. Center Formed Bolshevik-Leninists Head Miners Strike on Belgium - Left Oppositionists on the Charleroi Firing Line! Bound Volumes of Comrade Trotsky’ Pamphlets French Opposition’ German Campaign - Bureaucrats Resort to Violance Who Was Actually "Caught"? A Conversation with a Party Member on the Question of the German Situation by A.K. The Opposition and the N.Y. «United Front» Unemployment Confab by T. Stamm Whol Is Leading the Barbusse Congess by S. A Letter to the Workers of Zurich - Trotsky Replies to the Calumny of the Social Democrats by Leon Trotsky The Theory of Permanent Revolution and American Imperialism - The Conflict Between Proletarian Internationalism and Stalinist National Reformism by Hugo Oehler Volume V No. 35 [No. 131] Saturday, August 27, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stalinists in Monsterous Fame-Up Against left Oppostion - Bureaucrats «Answer» Our Policy by Inciting to Pogrom by the National Committee of the Communist League (Opposition): Emergency Call Left Opposition Deamnds an Open Hearing on the Stalinist Frame-up Slander the Opposition as Murders of Two Workers at N. Y. Street Meeting With the Embattled Miners - Diggers Reply to Terror with Increased Militancy - Defy Bosses, Fakers and Police in Termendous Advance by Germinal Party Holds First Meeting on Danger of German Fascism Leon Trotsky: Let Us Reenforce Our Offensive! The Communist and Election Activity - A Criticism of the Stalinist Methods in he Campaign by Hugo Oehler German Campaign of Czech Opp. by K. Schmidt The Convention of Father Cox’ Quasi-Fascist «Jobless Party» by Martin Payer Expulsion of Carl Coster - Mink and Bueacracy Run Rampant on the Waterfont by P.S. A Suppressed Stalinist Document Exposed! Resolution Submitted by the American Comm. for the World Congress Against War The «Daily Worker» and the Miners’ Strike «Hoover Cities»—An American Idyll of 1932 by Carl Cowl N.Y. Picnic Lovestonites Play Lackies in the Doll Strike Our Succesful Anti-War Meet in New York A Declaration of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Left Opposition of the Comintern) Volume V No. 36 [No. 132] Saturday, September 3, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck With the Embattled Miners - Massacre Striking Miners Franklin county, Illinois - Coal Diggers Gather Their Forces After the Slaugther by Germinal The Stalinists Bureaucrats Back Out On Burder Frame-Up Hearing Fasicscts Waitig Ready to Strike - Clara Zetkin CAlls for Internaitonal Solidarity Against Fascism Youth Hold Anti-War Meeting The Political Program of the Petty Bourgeoisie by Leon Trotsky «Farmers Holiday» in Iowa - A New and Militant of Middle Clas Revolt by Hugo Oehler Appeal for Funds! Strike in Lancashire Mills - Big Wave of Struggle of British Worekrs Rising Joe Colbert - Labor’ Martyr by Gerry Allard The Left Opposition At Work by Carl Cowl Unemployed Activity in Retrospect by Thomas Stamm With the International Left Opposition Some Experiences of the Illionis Minter’ Struggle and the Policy of the Communists! A Letter from China Militant Builders The New York Marine Workers Revolt Against the Stalinist Bureaucrats by J. Johanssen Pioneer Publisher Notes Leading Functionary Exposes Stalinism in Greece by J. Bamkasas Party Voices on the Frame-Up Volume V No. 37 [No. 133] Saturday, September 10, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Help Maintain the Weekly Militant Stalinists Reject Offer of Hlep Miners Form New Yunion - Raise Struggle to New Highs - National Unity—Aim of Militant Illinois Body by Germinal Communist League Greets New Progressive Miners Union by Communist League Police Act on Stalinist Frame-Up British Left Comes Out Openly in Fight for Leninist Policy by the Balham Group Class Struggle in Germany: Hitler and Junkers Vie for Power in Germany by Sam Gordon Allard Answers Party Bureaucrats by Gerry Allard Sept. Young Spartacus Out Comrade Trotsky’ Letter to the Weisbord Group Unemployed Activity in Retrospect by Thomas Stamm Pioneer Publishers Notes Militant Builders Alliance or Struggle Between Social Democracy and Fascism? by Leon Trotsky On the Proletarian Revolution in the United States by Hugo Oehler Volume V No. 38 [No. 134] Saturday, September 17, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck New Wage-Cuts Start - Accentuated Attacks on Workers Prelude to 4th Crisis Year Six Votes Against 2 Thousand - Stalino-pacifism Wins in Amsterdam Urgent Appeal Unity is Urgent need of Illinois Miners - National Class Struggle Union Will Win! by Joe Angelo Where is the 7th World Congress? - What is Happening in the C. I.? An Open Letter to John Watt - Standpoint of the Left Opposition to Pressent Miners’ Struggle by Joseph Angelo «Pacificism» at Work in Gran Chaco Trotsky Barred from Czechoslovakia The Opposition at Work Shachtman’ Meetings in Chicago Opposition Expands its Activities N. Y. Picnic a Success The Four Portraits of Chiang Kai-Shek by Leon Trotsky A Reply to Comrade Allard Japan! Full Report On Amsterdam Congress Letters from The Militants Shipstead Exposes His Bankruptcy by O. M. Another «Leaders» Against War by W. A. Nelson Collier Weisbord’ Reply to Trotsky’ Letter - Statement of the Communist League of Struggle Outcome of Belgium Miners Strike by Nora The Elections in Greece - Left Opposition Holds Aloft Banner of International Communism by Ar Caldis The Checking of the Stalin-Thaelman Policy Against Their Own Experience by Leon Trotsky On the Proletarian Revolution in the United States by Hugo Oehler Volume V No. 39 [No. 135] Saturday, September 24, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Militant Sub Drive - Our Club Plan Spartacus Affair The Militant Appeals Urgently for Aid from All Its Supporters Terror Rules in Illinois Coal Field - Official Party Leaders Forced to Abandon Sectarian Attitude Toward New Union Significance of the N.M.U. Offer of a United Front Progressive Miners Union Under Severe Attack by Comody Frame-Up Challenge Stays Unanswered by Party by Arne Swabeck Chicago Stalinists Echo Barbusse by J. Giganti League to Open School - First Four Courses Will Begin in Nyew ork City Next Month Barbusse-Stalin Congress - Stalinists and Opposition - The Barbuess «Charter» Weisbord’ Reply to Trotsky’ Letter - Statement of the Communist League of Struggle Russian Bulletin JAPAN: Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber Thaelmann’s Twenty-One Mistakes by Leon Trotsky Young Spartacus Aid In Picketing of Rex Strike Volume V No. 40 [No. 136] Saturday, October 1, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck One Road for Miners - The Class Foundation at the Gillespie Convention by Arne Swabeck Two More Expelled for «Trotskyism» Lew Gansters Fail to Cow Miners - Springfield Miners Resist Strike-Breaker Mobilization by Jack Marmondy Which Political Party Shall the Miners Support in the Coming Elections by Clarke Problesm Before the Gillespie Convention of the Progressive Miners of America by Joseph Angelo Moscow Letter: Crisis in the Soviet Economy - Stalinism Engagers Alliance between Town and Country by N, M Berlin Letter: New Step Toward Fascism - Struggle for Democratic Rights Now on Agenda in Germany by Roman Well Militant Sub Drive - Our Club Plans Leters from Militants New York Gets Barbusse Congress Report by C. Socialists, Police Clubs and the Reds by a Worker The Fight For Militant Unions in Canada by M. Quarter The Opposition at Wick’s Meetings by James Sifakis Spurts Ahead! League Replies to Weisbord Letter Madrid Letter: Checking Sanjuro’s Coup - The Spanish Proletariat Replies to the Monarchist Insurrection by H. Lacroix Japan: Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber I. W. O. Expells Three for «Trotskyism» Letter from Party Member Volume V No. 41 [No. 137] Saturday, October 8, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Miners’ Convention - Ravages of Lewism; the Positions of the Communist Groups by Arne Swabeck Elephant, Donkey and "Socialists" compete for Election Honors by Thomas Stamm Saturday: All Out to Union Swqure - For Scottsboro! Scottsobor Case Up in Supreme Court - Only Mass Action Can Save Framed-Up Negro Boys! Opposition Youth Calls Scottsboro Meeting Illinois Conference Opens - Miners are Militant but Right Wing Forces are Organized by Charles Curtis Convict 6th Harlan Miner - 5 Now Serving Life Tems while 37 Others Still Await Trial Program of Action of the League o the Uemployment Situation Letters from the Militants All Eyes on Davenport by Brady Free Speech Struggle in Chicago by Nathan Gould Tour of Unser Kamf New Headquarters Banquet Militant SubDrive - Our Sub Plan League Replies to Weisbord Letter Japan: Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber «On Socialism in One Country» by S. On Hopeless Idiots A Picture of the Part from Inside - What the Party Bulletin Says About the «Achievments» by Max Shachtman Volume V No. 42 [No. 138] Saturday, October 15, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Zinoivev Expelled Again - New Expulsions Denote Dangerous Crisis for Stalinist Regime by S. Right Wing Wins at Gillespie Mine Workers Conference by Arne Swabeck Some Lessons of the Gillespie Conference Lytton Report Aims at Partioning China Among the Imperialists Bandit Powers by H. S. In the Elections: ‘Labor’ or C.P. Ticket? - Lovestonites propose a Reformist ‘United Labor’ Slate by Arne Swabeck Leon Trotsky: The Peasnt War in China - The Standpoint of the Red Proletariat in the Present Situation Banquet Saturday to Celebrate New Headquarters and School Opening Letters from the Militants The Strike of the Embroiderers by Stitcher Elections in Pocketbook Makers Union by N. Davis Shachtman in Boston Literature for the International Workers School Attack in Union Square new York by P. Militant Sub Drive - Our Club Plans A Double Anniversary The Power Trust and the Elections by Hugo Oehler Highlights at Gellespie by Arne Swabeck International Schoool to Open JAPAN: Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Road to Socialism - From The Only Road by Leon Trotsky Volume V No. 43 [No. 139] Saturday, October 22, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Von Paper’s Election - Our Appeal for United Front Struggle of he German Workers School Term Opens needle Trades Convention Gets Left Opposition Resoltuion Miners’ Relief! German Organ Suppressed 12th Plenum of the E.C.C.I. - The Need of the Hour: A Democratically Convened Congress Our Russian Revolution Celebration Chen Du-Hsu Arrested - Seven Bolshevik-Leninists Seized in Raid in Shanghai Letters from the Militants Socialist Meetings in Youngstown by G. P. Opposition Debates Socialists by M. Koehler With the Greek Workers, New York The Opposition at Work Militant Builders Our Anniversary Number A National Revolution in the South? - Discussion Article on the Negro Question by Hugo Oehler Highlights at Gillespie by C. Curtis JAPAN: Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber What They Say in Prague About the United Front by Leon Trotsky Pioneer Publisher Notes Achives of the Opposition: Marx and the Peace Conference Proletariat and Peasant War in China - A Letter to the Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists by Leon Trotsky Volume V No. 44 [No. 140] Saturday, October 29, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Miners Face Big Task - Progressive Miners of America much be Class Union by Arne Swabeck Protest Meeting Open Forum Vote Communist! - Against the Part of the Petty Bourgeois Reformism New Militant Joins the Ranks of the Left Opposition b George J. Papcun Declearation by Pappas Dead Hand at I.L.D. Meet - Feature of Convention is Absence of Discussion by Members by Charlotee Schechet Letters from Militants - Jobless United Front in Chicago by Jospeh Gigantl Help the Illinois Miners Militant Builders - Our Club Plan The Left Opposition in Canada by S. The Stalinists at the Twelfth Plenum by Hugo Oehler JAPAN: Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber Archives of the Left Opposition - The Legend of Brest-Litovsk Two Press Comments on Russia What They Say in Prague About the United Front by Leon Trotsky Meetings Browder on the Chinese Revolution - The Arrest of Chen Du-Hsiu and the Apologist of Stalin by Max Shachtman Protest! October Young Sparacus Now OUT Volume V No. 45 [No. 141] Saturday, November 5, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck September Plenum of C.I - Some Fleeting Marginal Obsercations on the 13th Plenum by Leon Trotsky Emergency Number! Class Against Class in the Presidential elections - Communist Vote Will Test the Policy of the Stalinists by Hugo Oehler Hunger March in London - British Working Masses Make New Turn Toward the Left by Arne Swabeck The New March on Washington by Hugo Oehler Fight in Illinois Sharpens - Armed Forces of Operators Mobilized Against the Miners by Joseph Angelo N. Y. Greek Workers Organize Club The Militant Club in Chicago by R. The Murder of Andrew Ganis by Carbody Compensation Racket in new York by J.R. Stalinists Expel Philly Militant by Lou Rogers Archives of the Opposition - Trotsky’s; Letter to Olminsky by L. Trotsky Volume V No. 46 [No. 142] Saturday, November 12, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Volume V No. 47 [No. 143] Saturday, November 19, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Volume V No. 48 [No. 144] Saturday, November 26, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Volume V No. 49 [No. 145] Saturday, December 3, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Volume V No. 50 [No. 146] Saturday, December 17, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Volume V No. 51 [No. 147] Saturday, December 31, 1932, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shactman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Militant Main Index | Encyclopedia of Trotskyism | Marxists’ Internet Archive Last updated on 15 January 2008