1928-1929 The Militant Complete Contents 1928 1 Nov 11, 1928 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 Shachtman For the Russian Opposition! -Against Opportunism and Bureaucracy in the Workers Communist Party of America! -A Statement to American Communists by James P. Cannon, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman Trotsky and Radek Seriously Ill M. Spector Expelled in Canada Trade Union Questions Pamphlets Coming Concerning Our Expulsion -A Letter to a Comrade by James P. Cannon The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky A Program of International Revolution or a Program of Socialism i One Country General Structure of the Program The United States of Europe More Open, More Ruthless, Than in the Period of Boom Slogan of a Soviet United States of Europe The Criterion of Internationalism Foreword (To article above) The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind) Overestimation of the Reserve Powers of American Imperialism Underestimation of the Leftward Drift of the Masses Lack of Perspective of Struggle Our Next Issue The Fortress of the World Revolution Slogans for Today by m.s. [Max Shachtman] The "Outlook" Expose Subscribe! 2 Dec 1, 1928 The Party "Discussion" Opens! by James P. Cannon Swabeck, Glotzer Join Opposition; Expelled Wholesale Expulsions from the Party Begin Minneapolis Kansas City Philadelphia Y.W.(C.)L. Canada New York City The "Ideological" Campaign The Results of the Election by Max Shachtman The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Theoretical Traditions of the Party Foreword (To article above) Spector's Statement to the Canadian Party by Maurice Spector In the Next Issue -"The July Plenum and the Right Danger" by Leon Trotsky The Right Danger in the American Party submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Failure to Orientate Towards New Unions and the Organization of the Unorganized Resistance to Orientation of Active Struggle Against Lewis Machine and for Building New Union in Mining Industry Help Publish the Suppressed Documents of the Russian Opposition! Trotsky's Book and its Bourgeois Critics -The Real Situation In Russia by Leon Trotsky translated by Max Eastman reviewed by James P. Cannon Trotsky, Wolfe and The Forward 3 Dec 15, 1928 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 Shachtman Maurice Spector The July Plenum and the Right Danger by Leon Trotsky T.J. O'Flaherty for the Opposition Whither Foster? Gangsterism! The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism oif Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Last Issue) Where is the "Social Democratic Deviation" The Dependence of the U.S.S.R. on World Economy The Antagonism Between the Productive Forces and the National Boundaries as the Cause of the Reactionary Utopian Theory of Socialism in One Country Foreword (To article above) The Struggle in the Y.W.L. by S. Lovestone Smashes the Right Danger Notice (Maurice Spector has joined the staff of "The Militant" as Associate Editor) The Right Danger in the American Party submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Insufficient Appreciation of Leading Role of Party and Failure to Build It Opportunist Application of United Front Policy It Can and Will Be Done ("The Militant" will publish despite the doubts of opponents) Letters from the Militants * Kansas City by A.A. Buehler * Vincent Dunne by Vincent R. Dunne * From a Young Coal Miner by Gerry Allard * From the First Communist Legislator by A.C. Miller * The Cleveland Expulsions by Elmer Boich * "You Are Worse Than Fascists" by John Minella "Singing Jailbirds" The Expelled Central Executive Committee Canada New York Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit Chicago Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) Kansas City New Haven 1929 1 Jan 1, 1929 Our Appeal to the Party Members (Speech of James P. Cannon at the Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, Monday, December 17, 1928) Pepper Reports Against Us For the Russian Opposition Bureaucracy and Gangsterism The De-Proletarianization of the Party The Issue of the Party Democracy The Basis of Party Unity A Burglary - Its Political Meaning A National Organization Tour The Draft Program of the Comintern - A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Fundamental Differences Between National Reformism and Revolutionary Internationalism The Theory of Socialism in One Country as a Source of Inevitable Social Patriotic Blunders Cleveland by John Foley Karl Radek's Appeal for Trotsky -To the Central Committee C.P.S.U. by Karl Radek Vindicating the Trotsky Platform by Martin Abern The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) The Opportunist Mistakes in the Election Campaign Opportunist Mistakes in Labor Party Work Failure to Build the T.U.E.L. Pacifist and Petty-Bourgeois Liberal Tendencies in the Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Work Underestimation and False Conception of Work Among Negro Masses Letters from the Militants * New Haven by Samuel Gendelman * A Reaction to Gangsterism by John Justin * A Worker Talks to the Bureaucrats by M.L. Malken * The Affair on Union Square by Pauline Gutringer The Expelled New Expulsions Canada Philadelphia Cleveland Chicago Springfield, Illinois Who Are the Expelled Communists James P. Cannon Martin Abern 2 Jan 15, 1929 Lenin Day Cleveland Meeting Great Success The Platform of the Communist Opposition The Central Committee Orders Another Burglary! Malkin and Franklin Go to Prison Farewell Note From Comrade Malkin by M.L. Malkin [Maurice L. Malkin] Photograph of Maurice L. Malkin Malkin's Statement by Maurice L. Malkin Arrest Philly Comrades The Crisis in the German Party by M.S. [Max Shachtman] A Muddler on an American Scale by A. Lozovsky The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Results and Prospects of the Chinese Revolution--Its Lessons for the Eastern Countries and for the Whole of the Comintern On the Nature of the Colonial Bourgeoisie Lenin's Last Words to the Party -The Testament of Lenin Sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Suppressed by the Stalin Regime by Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin The New Needle Trades Workers' Union Appeal to the Convention -To the Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist ) Party of America by James P. Cannon, Martin Abern, Arne Swabeck and Max Shachtman "William Randolph" Lovestone and "Abe" Pepper Expose Us The Letter the Daily Worker Did Not Print by Frederick N. Sard Towards a Weekly The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Opportunist Errors in Cooperative Work Denial of Right Danger and Militant Attack Against Left The Rejection of Self-Criticism Right Wing Internal Factional Regime The Social Composition of Lovestone Group Summary and Proposals An International Conference For the Expelled Oppositionists Henry Corbishly Released! Letters from the Militants * A Letter From a Miners' Leader by Joe Angelo * Our N.Y. Mass Meeting * A Revolutionist Against Gangsterism by Giovanni Pippan * "Hot Spur Harry" George Opposition Meeting in Boston The Expelled Canada New York Philadelphia St, Louis Who Are the Expelled Communists Maurice Spector Max Shachtman 3 Feb 1, 1929 Trotsky's Deportation by M.S. [Max Shachtman] A Letter From Trotsky's Wife by Natalia Ivanovna The Struggle in the Coal Fields by Arne Swabeck The Miners' Fighting Spirit Gambling With the Workers' Interests The New Union Must Lead Struggles On the Eve of the Party Convention The Fake Discussion A Factional Excrescence The Role of the Foster Group Opposition Meeting in Boston On the Situation in Russia -A Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky The Method of Stalin The Position of the Right Wing The Threat of Bonapartism The "Advice" of the Capitulators Applying the Opposition Platform The Masses at the Crossroads The Slogan of the Secret Ballot Perspectives of the Struggle Historic Mission of the Opposition Foreword (To the above article) by the editor [James P. Cannon] Miners Protest the Expulsions signed by George Voyzey, Joseph Angelo, Roy Jones, Stanley Horbut, Leone Michelangeli, Domenico Domini and A. Shimkous The Minneapolis Meetings by Vincent R. Dunne The Mink Curtis Arrested in St. Louis Trotsky's Criticism of the Draft Program to be Continued Letters From the Militants * From Sing Sing Prison by Maurice L. Malkin * From a Non-Party Militant by Walter F. Sukut * An Expelled Miner by Gerry Allard * For Open Discussion of Issues by Jos. E. Kucher Fight the Splitters with a Weekly Militant The Expelled Canada Chicago Colorado New York City Cleveland Who Are the Expelled Communists Carl Skoglund 4 Feb 15, 1929 The Platform of the Communist Opposition -Addressed to the Sixth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party by James P. Cannon, Arne Swabeck, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman The Position of the Russian Revolution Revision of Leninism and the Crisis in the Comintern The Smoke-screen of "Trotskyism" War Danger and the Defense of U.S.S.R. The Role of American Imperialism The Present Economic Situation and the Working-class Results of the Elections Struggle for a Class Movement of the American Workers Trade Union Policy The Perspective of a Labor Party Work Among Negroes The Stalinization of the American Party Self-Criticism Party Democracy Americanization in the Bolshevist Sense The Party, the Groups and our Perspectives Lovestone Gangsters Stage Riot at New York Meeting to Protest Against the Deportation of L.D. Trotsky Other Meetings of the Opposition 5 Mar 1, 1929 War, Kellogg Pact and the Soviet Union by Max Shachtman Protest Trotsky's Deportation Who Supports Trotsky? Hail to the New Chief? The Communists and the "Progressives" by James P. Cannon Where to Buy The Militant On the Legend of "Trotskyism" * Dear Comrades! by Leon Trotsky * Letter from Preobrazhensky by A.E. Preobrazhensky * Letter from Piatakov * Letter from Elzin by E. Elzin * Letter from Radek by Karl Radek * Letter from Trotsky (Commenting on Radek's Letter) by Leon Trotsky Epitaph for a Scoundrel -Pages from the Record of John Pepper by Ladislaus Rudas, President of the International Lenin School of Moscow Pepper Before the War Pepper During the War Pepper the Social Democrat Pepper and the Bolsheviks Pepper Imprisons Bela Kun Pepper Turns Commissar! The Communists Force Pepper's Resignation Pepper Wants a Second Party Chicago Comrades Protest The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Previous Issue) Join the Campaign for a Weekly Militant Platform of the Communist Opposition (Continued from previous issue) The Party Organization Trade Union Factions Agrarian Work Young Workers League Philadelphia Meeting Cannon Meetings in Boston Letters from the Militants * A Voice from Prison by Maurice L. Malkin * A League Member on the New York Meeting by Paul Green * From a Detroit Communist by Alex Schriber * A Minneapolis Militant by Oscar Coover Picture of Oscar Coover with the caption "Slugged by Lovestone-Foster gangsters at Minneapolis meeting) * Proletarian Youth Against Gangsterism -A Statement to Down-Town Unit No. 2, Young Workers League of N.Y. signed by Joe Burton, Mac Kudler, Irving Spreiregen. Joseph Fox, Harold Robins and Jean Tishman Copies of First Issue of Militant Wanted New Expulsions Boston New York St. Louis Detroit Richmond, California Williston, N. Dakota Birmingham, Alabama Toronto, Canada Who Are the Expelled Communists Vincent R. Dunne Helen Judd 6 Mar 15, 1929 The Results of the Party Convention by James P. Cannon The "Issue" at the Convention The Mobilization Against Foster A Free-For-All Fight The Open Letter of the E.C.C.I. The Question of "Americanization" "Methods of the Bourgeois Parties" New York Workers Protest Trotsky's Exile -Stalinists Plan Pogrom -- and Stage Fizzle Who Supports Trotsky? -More on Counter-revolution's United Front with Trotsky Youngstown Meeting Minneapolis is Leading in the Weekly Drive The Civil War in Mexico by Max Shachtman Some Remarks on the Sixth Congress by Leon Trotsky Activity in Cleveland by Elmer Boich The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky Stages of the Chinese Revolution Stalin Versus Bucharin -The New Struggle in the Russian Communist Party Where to Buy THE MILITANT New Material From Comrade Trotsky Call for a National Conference of the Opposition from The National Action Committee by J.P. Cannon [James P. Cannon] New Pamphlet Soon Letters from the Militants * From a Minnesota "Renegade" by C.R. Hedlund * The "Organizers" Who Disorganize by Martin C. Payer, Sec'y Local Opposition New Expulsions New York City Springfield, Ill. Cleveland Who Are the Expelled Arne Swabeck Albert M. Glotzer 7 Apr 1, 1929 Trotsky's Reply to Stalin -To the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - To the Executive Committee of the Communist International by Leon Trotsky Comrade Trotsky to the American Opposition Next Steps in the Struggle -Material for the National Conference Discussion by James P. Cannon Boston Works for a Weekly Militant Fund A New Dawes Plan for the Old by Max Shachtman An Opposition in England Read Now -The Draft Program of the Communist International by L.D. Trotsky With an Introduction by James P. Cannon Industrialization and the Peasantry by Martin Abern Two Meetings in Chicago After the Dress Strike Will Hoover Recognize Russia? Il Duce Speaks up for Stalin The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Democratic Dictatorship or a Dictatorship of the Proletariat Stalin Gains a New Friend A Comrade for Minor Where to Buy THE MILITANT What! No Unity? Letters from the Militants * A Letter From a Communist Farmer by A.C. Miller * Activity in Kansas City by A.A. Buehler * Kruse Crushes Trotsky in Chicago by Walter P. Sukut * The Work in St. Louis by Elmer McMillan * He Writes What Many Think * To All Esthonian Communists! by P. Schwalbe, Secretary, Esthonian Group ("Esthonian is a variant spelling of "Estonian.") * Another Boston Meeting Who Are the Expelled Communists Joseph Keller Anthony Refugee B. Morgenstern 8 Apr 15, 1929 Four Days With Trotsky -An Interview with the Bolshevik Leader who Was Exiled to Constantinople by Maurice Paz -- Paris Another Stalinist Pogrom in New York Stalinites Begin the Attack The Organization of the Pogrom Let the Workers Judge Them The Labor Revolt in the South Native Americans in Revolt Tactics of the Communists Philadelphia in Campaign for Weekly The Coming Election in Great Britain by Maurice Spector The Loyal Oppositions England's Economic Position Weakness of Communist Party The Anglo-Russian Committee Trotsky on England Organize the Unorganized Communists by James P. Cannon Some Membership Figures Loss of the Revolutionary Syndicalists Revolutionary Workers With Us The Illinois Miners Convention by Arne Swabeck The Weak Opposition The Status of the Left Wing The Task at Present The Splitters at Work -The I.L.D. and the T.U.E.L. Removed from the I.L.D. Attempt to Remove Voyzey What Will Be the Result? Mass Meeting in Trenton The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Adventurism as a Product of Opportunism Canada's Protest Against the Deportation To the Y.W.L. Convention -A Statement of the Expelled Communist Youth The Struggle of the Opposition The Situation in the American League The "Accomplishments" of the Present Leadership The Capitulators in the Minority For the Opposition Platform! Where to Buy THE MILITANT A Page of Letters from the Militants * "Have Backbone in Principle" by K. Czapko * The Situation in Youngstown by Charlie Byrne * From a Non-Party Rebel by Arvid S. Carlson * Greets Progress of Youth by Gerry Allard * An Answer to Gangsterism by Helen Horn * From an Iowa Fighter by I.A. Blasutch The Expelled New York City Wilmington, Del. Toronto, Canada The Opposition in Cleveland Sixty-three Bolsheviks on Hunger Strike in Russian Prison Gangsterism in Philadelphia Trotsky Cannot Enter Germany New Material from Trotsky 9 May 1-11, 1929 Letter to the Russian Workers by Leon Trotsky The "Armed Struggle" Slander The Strength of the Soviet Power The Banishment from Russia Lenin's Testament The "American Dollars" The War Against the Leninists Com. Trotsky on Jay Lovestone, Foster, Pepper and Our Tasks Today! -In the Next Issue May Day -- and After American Imperialism The American Labor Leaders The Fight for a Class Movement For Unity and Solidarity The Tasks of the Communists Our Conference and the Trade Unions by James P. Cannon The Importance of our Conference The Trade Union Question Our Conference and the Progressives Our May Day Meetings The Minneapolis Elections -Comrade C.R. Hedlund Is Our Candidate for Mayor by Vincent R. Dunne In Spite of the Split Shady Proposals of the Lovestoneites Our Candidate The Lost Leader Uniting the Textile Struggles by M.S. [Max Shachtman] The Successes Achieved The Task of the Militants A Letter to International Labor Defense by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Rose Karsner Stalin Praised by Labor's Foe The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Soviets and Revolution The Stalin-Rykov Wage Policy -A Leaflet of the Russian Leninists-Bolsheviks Comrades! Workers! In the Next Issue More about the T.U.E.L. Form Opposition Group in China Two Fables A Fable by Krylov A Fable by Moissaye J. Olgin A Page of Letters from the Militants * An Illinois Coal Miner by Joseph Angelo * A Worker on an Oppositionist by M.B * A Pittsburgh Worker by James Sifakis * From a Steel Worker by Denis Plarinos The Expelled New York City Boston Chicago Who Are the Expelled Communists O.R. Votaw Julius Rosen Sol Lankin Joseph Friedman An Appropriate Appointment.... The Splitters in St. Louis Trotsky and the Fascisti 10 June 1, 1929 Conference of the Opposition Communists -Formation of the Communist League of America {Opposition} by James P. Cannon Disputed Questions General Summary Opposition Progress in Minneapolis Vote Tasks of the American Opposition -A Letter from Comrade Trotsky -To the American Bolshevik-Leninists (The Opposition) -Editors of "The Militant" by Leon Trotsky The Party is "United" Again! -Latest "Open Address" of the E.C.C.I. The Motive of the Decision The New Leadership Another Factional War The Duty of the Opposition What the T.U.E.L. Conference Should Do by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Bittelman on the Cross -A Hard Luck Story Stalin in the Canadian Communist Party by Maurice Spector The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Max Comes Clean The Expelled Guelph, Ontario Chicago Detroit Boston Mass Meeting in Boston The Building Trades Situation by M.A. [Martin Abern] Reasons for Decline The Public Works Illusion Fight for Mooney and Billings Twelve Years in Prison Only the Workers Can Free Them In Jewish -The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky Help the Imprisoned Bolshevik-Leninists! by T.T. 11 Jul 1, 1929 Gastonia New Split Begins -Lovestone is Expelled Banquet for Balbo -Exile for Trotsky Party Members Protest Balbo's Reception A Letter on the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky What Capitulation Means The Use of the Bourgeois Press The Progressives Meet Socialists at the Conference Role of Progressive Leaders False Tactics of the Party Plain Talk Needed Note The British Labor Government by Maurice Spector The MacDonald Program The Defeat of the Communists Revolutionary Perspectives in India -A Letter to Trotsky by F. Dingelstaedt The Nature of Indian Industry Proletariat Independent Small Producers Groups "Outside the Classes" Bourgeoisie Grand Total Proletariat Must Lead the Struggle The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) The Question of the Character of the Chinese Revolution On the Reactionary Idea of Workers' and Peasants' Parties for the East Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party Bucharin's Air Journey Bucharin and Tomsky Resign Bucharin's Platform and Kamenev's Whom Piatakov Will Obey! The Capitulators and the Deportation Zinoviev and Stalin The Rights Dare to Criticize the Master! by G.G. The Daily Worker Eats Crow Putschism and May Day in Berlin by Max Shachtman Into a Putschist Swamp Into Zoergiebel's Trap The Attack by the Police The Party Continues With Self Delusions The Collapse of the Protest Strike The Defeat in Saxony The "Left" Zig-Zag of Centrism Losovsky Versus Losovsky The Losovsky of Yesterday The "New Line" in the United States The "United Front With One's Self" The Needle Trades Situation The Young Plan How German Workers Must Be Squeezed A Center for World Exchange False Hopes for Stabilization Trotsky the Millionaire 12 Aug 1, 1929 War Clouds in the East -China Provokes Russia First of August! -What Will "International Red Day" Bring (This document has been prepared and signed by the editors of the new international magazine "Opposition" soon to appear) Comintern Policy in England Germany and China False Estimate of the Situation A New Growth of Reformism "Red Day" Condemned to Failure Irresponsible Slogans What is to be Done? Gastonia in Danger England Bars Trotsky The End of the Cloakmakers Strike by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Facts About the Settlement Organizing the Bosses Errors of the Left Wing Prepare for the Future War in the Indep't Workmen's Circle by L. Schlosberg, Ex-National Executive Committee, Independent Workmen's Circle The Crisis in the Communist Party by James P. Cannon The Stalinists and the Right Wing The Opposition and the Right Wing Failure of New Leadership Strengthening the Right Wing The Way Out of the Crisis Karl Radek and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky Radek's Impulsiveness Radek's Right-About-Face The Theses of Comrade Radek by Leon Trotsky The Anti-Kulak Agitation Fraudulent Self-Criticism Problem of the Comintern The "Value" of the C.I. Program The Chinese Revolution The Draft Program of the Comintern by Leon Trotsky The Benefits Obtained from the Farmers' and Peasants' International Must Be Probed The Secret Resolution Against Bucharin adopted by the last Plenum of the C.C. of C.P.S.U. Foreword Stabilization and the Right Wing The Right and the Party Regime The Organization Removals Remember Comrade Malkin The New Progressive Movement by Arne Swabeck New Spirit in Old Unions Beginning of Revolt Left Wing Tactics Vincent St. John (Obituary) Tempus Fugit 13 Aug 15, 1929 United Front for Gastonia -Fight the Frame-up! Defend the Right to Organize and Strike! by the National Committee, The Communist League of America (Opposition) 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 The Real Differences The Progressives The Slogan of Unity Foster's Zig-Zag Record 2 Years After Sacco and Vanzetti The Lesson of Class Justice The Movement Must Be Revived Bucharin Formally Ousted Peace Talk -Smoke-screen for War A World Armed to the Teeth America's "Pacifism" in Europe Who Is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky Theoretical Dishonesty Bela Kun and Pepper Varga Manuilsky Valetsky Summing Up the Fur Strike The Failure to Estimate the Defeat Foster On Retreats New Unions and the Communists From Gompers to Stalin (The evolution of William Z, Foster) Foster and Gompers Foster and the War On the International Right Wing -A Letter to Boris Souvarine by Leon Trotsky Position of the Brandler Group Thalheimer on the Russian Discussion The Secret Ballot The Vacillators The Rumor Factory Lovestones Appeal to Party by Max Shachtman The "Speculation" on Bucharin and Stalin Lovestone's Cablegram Bedacht on Goldfarb-Bennett All Quiet on the Unity Front I.L.D. Reorganized Again Chicago Gets a Graduate The Aftermath of "Red Day" The Masses and "Red Day" The Phrasemongers Rant A Stalinist Provocation 14 Sep 15, 1929 The T.U.E.L. Conference at Cleveland -A Forecast of the Work of the "New Trade Unio Center" by M.S. [Max Shachtman] No Illusions on the Gastonia Trial Lovestone's Burglaries An Apologetic Progressivism Party Splitters and Gastonia Another Rumor Nailed Piatnisky's Figures A Weekly by Nov. 7 Wicks Speaks Up -A Warrior Against Trotsky Bares Underhand "Red" Plot to Use Unions to Ruin United States Government Breaks With Party Work for American Legion No Use for "Reds" Expelled for Defeat United Front is Broadened 2 New Opposition Papers A Victory for Us in Austria Words Forgot -Yaroslavsky on Trotsky How Yaroslavsky Once Wrote A "Leader of the Revolution" The Sino-Russian Conflict and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Industrial Situation by Arne Swabeck The Textile Workers On the Railroads Building and Automobiles The Ripening Movement The "New Line" and Leninism A Gangster Assault -An Oppositionist Beaten in the Union Office Who is Leading the Comintern Today by Leon Trotsky Warski Klara Zetkin Smeral Kolaraov Kuusinen Petrovsky-Bennett Hey! What's This? Plenum Coming Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) -In Russian The Cult of the "Third Period" by Maurice Spector The Fifth Congress Juggling With "Periods" Slogans for Gastonia I the Next Issue The Party's Election Program in New York Party Progress -The 3rd Period Hits St. Louis by Martin C. Payer Two Letters From Afar * A Letter From Alfred Rosmer by A. Rosmer [Alfred Rosmer] * From the Chinese Opposition by P. for the Action Committee of the Chinese Opposition The Sacco-Vanzetti Meetings Communist League Activities New York City Chicago, Ill. Minneapolis, Minn. St. Louis, Mo. Birmingham, Ala. Richmond, Ca. Boston, Mass. Kansas City, Mo. Williston, N.D. 15 Oct 1, 1929 The Drive for the Weekly Lynch Law in Gastonia Chiang Kai-Shek's War Drive Mass Meeting -The Crisis in the American Communist Movement (Speakers James P. Cannon, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman The T.U.U.L. Conference by S. The Delegation at Cleveland A Forum Against the Opposition A New Federation of Labor The "Leftists" as Opportunists Cleveland and Unorganized Labor by James Young A Lovestone Paper Coming "Burglary Bolshevism" At Last! News of Bucharin.... The 5-Year Plan -How Stalin Builds Socialism Once Again: On Brandler and Thallheimer by Leon Trotsky Malkin's "Statement" Palestine -- Pogrom or Revolution? by Max Shachtman Palestine and the Empire The Nationalist Misleaders The Arab Congress The Role of the Forward The Arab Leaders The Freheit's Zig-Zag Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Martinov 10th Plenum of the Communist International How Not to Build New Unions The Cult of the "Third Period" by Maurice Spector (Continued from last issue) The Comintern Rights Ultra-Left Adventurism of Centrists "Class Against Class" 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 * To Martin Abern by R. Guinney from Buenos Aires * From Helston, Cornwall, England by M.S. Communist League Activities Toronto, Canada New Haven, Conn. Philadelphia, Pa. Springfield, Ill. Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago, Ill. Kansas City, Mo. New York, N.Y. Boston, Mass. 16 Oct 15, 1929 THE MILITANT Published twice a month by the Communist League of America (opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Massacres at Marion * The Trial at Charlotte * 5 Workers Murdered The "Impossible" Weekly Vote Communist! from the National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) Holland Bars Trotsky Party Plenum Opens Hoot! MacDonald Briand's Plan for a United States of Europe by Arne Swabeck Briand's Proposal Trotsky and the Slogan The Soviet U.S. of Europe Lovestone Issues a Dishonest Document Beg Pardon! Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Lenzner Losovsky Raskolnikov Roy Katayama The Mine Battle -Corruption in Illinois Battle by Joseph Angelo New Opposition -Among the Russian Youth The R.R. Unions -A Split-up Labor Movement by C .R. Hedlund The Removal of Bucharin by Maurice Spector The "Infallible Old Guard" The Centrists and the Right The Conflict in the Muste Group The Sentiment in the Ranks The Fear of Green by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Thaelmann on the Toboggan A Lecture in Boston -"Pogrom or Revolution in Palestine" by Max Shachtman Unemployment in the Auto Industry by Barney Mass A Bad Habit We Made A Little Mistake A New Opposition Paper The Clothing Strike in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl Letters From the Militants * The T.U.U.L. Conference by Rebecca Sacharow * Activities in Minneapolis by Vincent R. Dunne * The Strike in K.C. by Charles Curtis * The Party in Pittsburgh by James Sifakis Communist League Activities Minneapolis, Minn. Boston, Mass. Toronto, Canada Pittsburgh. Pa. Chicago, Ill. New York, N.Y. St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Kansas City, Mo. Richmond, Calif. Working for Gastonia letter from Communist League of America (Opposition) Chicago Branch, Per Arne Swabeck 17 Nov 1, 1929 12 Years of Red Russia! Class Justice and Revenge in the South Next Number of the Paper Is the First Issue of the Weekly Militant The A.F. of L. Convention by Maurice Spector Comrade Rakovsky's Appeal -- Stalin's Reply (A letter by N.B. and a report on subsequent developments) Our Russian Organ Minneapolis Meeting What MacDonald "Accomplished" here by Max Shachtman Three Conferences for Defense of Gastonia Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The "Rallies" Bucharin Stalin Once Again--Palestine! The Coming Dress Strike -A Talk with the Left-wing Needle Trades Union Members A Cowardly Paper Wicks at Large Again "Let Not Thy First Page Know What the Second Page Sayeth" Next Steps in the Textile Field The Left Wing and the Workmen's Circle A Party Plenum of Cliques -The Mechanics of the Coming Struggle within the Party Nadir Khan, Liberator of Afghanistan, Will Convoke a National Assembly The Real Situation in Russia Letters From the Militants * The Lewis-Farrington Fight by Joseph Angelo * Purging the Canadian Sportsmen by Maurice Quarter * From an American in Berlin by S. Gordon [Sam Gordon?] Communist League Activities * Suspension of O. Carlson from the Communist League * St. Louis Meeting 18 Nov 30, 1929 The Illinois Miners' Struggle * Crash in the Stock Market The Causes of the Crash Where the U.S. Will Press * The Conference at Belleville by Joseph Angelo A Convention of Speeches Watt's Speech Angelo Urges Bolters Return Stalinism and Union Democracy Trotsky Greets the Weekly Militant The N.Y. Vote - A Warning Sign S.L.P. Beats C.P. Why the Falling Vote? What's Happening in China? -A Question That Every Communist Must Ask Himself and Answer by Leon Trotsky Zinoviev's Analogy The Perspective of the Adventure Schlesinger Prepares His Dress Strike -While Foster Almost Changes the Line--With the Help of a Cable from Losovsky The Class Struggle is Over! Yesterday's Wisdom Now a Trap A New Address Throughout the World of Labor * The Czecho-Slovakian Elections by H. Lenorovich Bulletin * The E.C.C.I. Plays with the Life of the Austrian Party by Kurt Landau * The Labor Movement in Greece by M. Klados * The Chinese Communists and the Sino-Russian Conflict On the Twelfth Anniversary of the Russian October by Leon Trotsky The New Unions and the Communists by James P. Cannon The Foster Wrecking Crew The Need for Workers Democracy The Mechanical Control Disease Minneapolis for Gastonia Hedlund Speaks on Case Minneapolis Classes Open The Next Issue Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Stalin and the Emigrants The Three Basic Lines The Stalinist Defeat in Staunton by Albert Glotzer Protest Daily Worker Lies Watt Declares Position The Daily Worker Lies Like Hell -A Letter Sent by the Staunton Miners' Conference to the Poison Pen Artists by Edw. C. Morgan, Sec'y Sub-District Conference, National Miners Union Demands Retraction Daily Worker Falsehoods An Authorized Statement Letters From the Militants * The Belleville Conference by Elmer McMillan * Party Progress in Boston by L. Schlossberg * Amter's Shop Bulletin by Charlie Bryne * Stalinist Destruction by John Mihelic Where to Buy The Militant 19 Dec 7, 1929 THE MILITANT Published Weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Hoover's Building Plan Swindle -Lots of Promises to the Jobless by Martin Abern Hoover "Stabilizes Capitalism" How About the Unemployed? The Public Works Panacea` Organize to Fight! Congress Opens -For the Master A Christmas Gift to the Boss The Wage Cut Drive U.S. Intervenes in Sino-Russ Conflict Disarmament and the U.S. of Europe by Leon Trotsky How Can Europe Be United? Disarmament a la American The Imperialist Dictatorship of America The Soviet United States of Europe Stalinists Raid the Co-ops -The Party Wins Another "Victory" in Superior! by Vincent R. Dunne The Hi-Jackers at Work Reckless Party Adventure No Turning from the Left! The Thieves Fall Out in the Miners Union by Arne Swabeck Wrecking a Great Union Possibilities of New Union What Kind of a New Union Throughout the World of Labor * Before the Capitulation of Bucharin by R., update by P. * The Conference of the German Right Wing by F. ST. The Aftermath in Palestine by J. Pera * Quotes From Moscow Worker (No. 209, September 11) Moscow Worker (No. 208, September 10) Moscow Worker (No. 210, September 12) Youth Pravda (August 25) Browder's Dazzling "Logic" A Most Remarkable Corpse Is the A.F. of L. Becoming Progressive by Arne Swabeck Lewis and Woll to the Rear The Scripps Editorial The Convention and the South Furuseth Bursts Out The Next Issue The Communist Defeat in Czecho-Slovakia by H. Lenorovics The Shift in Class Relations The Fascists Gain A Stalinist "Mass Party" "The Party Masses Are to Blame" Where the Fault Lies The Capitulation of Bucharin -What Are the Prospects of the Right Wing Now? by Max Shachtman Bucharin Will Fight the Right! The Roots of the Right Wing How the Right Can Fight A New Right-Center Bloc The Party's Adventure in the I.W.C. A Reaction Sets In Left Wing Workers vs. C.P. Where to Buy The Militant 20 Dec 14, 1929 Illinois Miners Out on Strike Bill Green's Pledge to Hoover Five New Cruisers by 1933 Accorsi Trial Opens Haiti in Revolt! -5 Killed, 20 Wounded by U.S. Marines in First Encounter Hoover the Peace Lover Enter: the Nat'l City Bank Chiang Kai-Shek's Collapse Schlesinger's Bright ideas -He "Abolishes" the Class Struggle; the Stalinists are Still Deciding "the Line" Schlesinger Praises Tammany A Strike--But Not For Wages An Imperative Question "The Freest Country in the World" (Examples of that "freedom" at work) Wilson's Siberian Adventure Ends The Textile Union -The Party Chops Off Another Head Throughout the World of Labor * The Real Victor in the German Elections by Kurt Landau * A Letter from Stalinist Exile by A.B, A Letter to the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition * Tardieu, the Man of the Hour by P. Naville Communism and Syndicalism by Leon Trotsky The Party and the Trade Unions Revolutionary Syndicalism and Communism The False Principles of Syndicalism The Real Autonomy of the Trade Unions Is Not Assailed by Party Leadership The Character of the Party's Direction Depends Upon Specific Conditions The Political Independence of the Trade Unions is a Myth The Syndicalist League, Embryo of a Party The Proletariat Does Not Demand the "Autonomy" of the Trade Unions but a Correct Leadership The Fetich of Trade Union Unity ("fetich" is a variant or misspelling of "fetish") The Character of the Trade Union Opposition The Policy of the Communist Party The Tasks of the Communist Left To Be Sure! To Be Sure! But That Was in the Second Period! (From a speech of Stalin at the 14th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, December 1925) Greetings Sent to the Weekly From Chicago From Minneapolis by Vincent R. Dunne From Kansas City by A.A. Buehler From Boston by Antoinette Konikow "Hoover Brings You Peace and Plenty" by Max Shachtman What Price Kellogg Pact? U.S. Naval Progress For Workers at Home Build! But How? Hoover Offers No Solution The Struggle For Markets Why We Publish The Militant A Rallying Point Party Defeated in the I.W.C. -Stalinist Policy in Independent Workmen's Circle Ends in Bad Retreat Boston The Progress in the Past The Punitive Expedition! The Latest Agreement Against Fake "Impartiality" 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 * 3rd Period Hits Daily Worker by K. Wilkes * Moving Ahead in Minneapolis by Carl Skoglund * Daily Worker Expert by R.G. * The Sports Movement in Canada by Maurice Quarter Constitution of the Communist League Name Purpose Membership Organization Administration Dues & Initiation Discipline Conferences Where to Buy The Militant 21 Dec 21, 1929 Accorsi Frame-Up is Smashed Evidence is Too Shabby Prosperity As Usual Pea-ce Soup A La Hoover (Political Cartoon Labor Fakers Sold Out Mooney Mooney the "Trouble-Maker" The Fakers' Private Opinion Illinois Miners on the March! -Cossacks Used, but the Miners Don't Scab by Arne Swabeck Capitalist Solidarity Strike Shortcomings Rally All Support! The Auto Show and the Auto Slaves by Peter Hansen Cars for the Leisure Class Ford's "Paradise" for Labor Opposition Group Formed in Argentina! by R. Guinney Hoover's Building Panacea America's Record in Haiti -Extracts from Dr. Ernest Gruening's Senate Testimony on Haiti in 1925 U.S. Wants Haitian Customs Haitian Revenues Seized Slave Laws by U.S. Marines "Unanimous!" -A Meeting of a Party Conference by Michael Kozlov How Time Does Fly in the Russian Party! The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky Groupings in the Left Opposition Formalism Instead of Marxism Revolutionary Aid or Imperialist Intervention Pacifism instead of Bolshevism Throughout the World of Labor * The State of Mind of the Capitulators * Hugenberg's Victory at Kassel by Volkswille * The Movement in South America by R. Guinney Lovestone and the Russian Revolution by M.S. [Max Shachtman] The Revolution and the International "A Tail to a Russian Kite" Lovestone Wants "Information" The Choice Must Be Made Friendly Advice to an Unfriendly Critic Remember Mr. Bessedovsky Hail the Weekly Militant! The Russian Opposition Replies to the Capitulators by Christian Rakovsky Between Two Fires Defects in the Opposition Arguments of the Capitulators Radek is "Always Ready!" What Radek & Co. Overlooked Letters From the Militants * An Oppositionist in Berlin by S. Gordon [Sam Gordon?] * Stalinist Progress in K.C. by John Mihelic * Working In Grand Rapids by Fred Wedler The Fight of the Chicago Cleaning Shop Workers The Bosses' Anti-Union Drive Bosses Declare a Lockout 22 Dec 28, 1929 Marion Killers Freed -Acquit Deputies Who Murdered Six Strikers Naval Conclave Sure to Crash France Wants Submarines Thieves Cannot Agree Unemployment Grows with Business Decline by Harvey O' Conner Heavy Business Decline The Mooney Frame-Up -Governor Passes Buck Again The Real "Risks in Industry" -More Mine Deaths in W. Va. Miners of Illinois Fought Big Odds by Arne Swabeck Was Strike a Mistake? A Communist Scare Coming Foster on Strike Strategy! Fishwick's "Progressivism" A Community Chest Drive -Hi-jacking Labor in Texas The McAlester Mine Disaster Poor Scabs! -Coal Co. Raises Rent More Hoover Prosperity -Southern Sawmills Shut Down by Jack Mette Industrial Accidents Mount Did y' renew your sub? Naval Conference Farce -Japanese Delegation Visit Indicates the "Disarmament" Prospects "Disarmament": A Farce Japan's Demands Whom Japan Fears The British Viewpoint The French Become Pious! On Hooliganism -- (Today and Yesterday) Auto Wage Cuts -Pontiac Workers Seriously Affected Can't Make Room and Board Fifty Percent Wage Cuts The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Last Issue) Why Doesn't Louzon Decide to Go the Whole Way? Are Socialist "Concessions" Admissible? Mistake in Principle in Estimating the Chinese and Russian Revolutions The Question of the Permanent Revolution in China Throughout the World of Labor * Christmas for the German Workers by Ed Falkowski * Native Resentment in South Africa by S.B. * Tardieu's Attack on Humanite from Verite The Theory at the Root of Lovestoneism Spurious vs. Real Internationalism A Nationalist Theory Trotsky's Warning What Now? -The Bolshevik Opposition and the C.P.S.U. -By the Editors of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition The Intentions of the Declaration A Regime of Systematic Deception Stalin -The "Second Lenin's" 50th Year` Semi-Social Patriotism Conflicts with Lenin Lenin's Bomb Against Stalin The Hero of the Period of Reaction How Many Times Can a Dead "ism" Die? Browder -The New Defender of Stalinism by Mih (Mihelic?, rest of signature illegible) The Party's Don Quixote Fifteen Well Spent Years Mass Speaks at Open Forum in Detroit Ingratitude Lovestone's Useful Work Morons Wanted--Not Workers! Christmas for Labor by Grace Hutchins A Publicity Stunt Starvation Conditions Too Hungry to Move Louisiana Standard Oil Signs Contract with Itself Chain Gang for Jobless Where Sacco and Vanzetti Were Murdered Greetings to Weekly Militant by John Mihelic Where to Buy The Militant link to John Mihelic archive collection: http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/mihelic.xml (at Western Connecticut State University) ---------------------------------