1931 The Militant Volume 4 1 Jan 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Fight Back the Boss' Offensive! by Sam Gordon The Theory of Capitalist Offensive "Order Prevails Throughout Spain" -Andres Nin, Leader of the Spanish Left Opposition, Arrested and in Danger by S. An Unstable Dictatorship Nin in Danger! Comrade Kote Zinzade's Life in Danger! Malkin Welcomed Back Danville Strike Prospects -A.F. of L. Leaders Prepare the Surrender of the Workers Struggle by Sylvan A. Pollack Policy Leads to Sell-Out N.T.W.U. Has Virtually Disappeared Cachin's Forty Years of Service Militant Goes to New Headquarters An Open Forum Lovestone Prepare the Front with Musteism by Max Shachtman Lovestone's First Accusation How the Estimates Have Been Tested Gitlow on the Progressives Who Are the Mustes What Next -On the Campaign Again st the Russian Right Wing Who is to Be Responsible for the Past The Faction of Toadies The Task of the Opposition The Red Fleet Visits Greece How Stalin Fought Blood-Letting In the Next Issue What Is to Be Learned from the Moscow Trial? by Leon Trotsky The Opposition and the Five Year Plan What the Sabotagers Aimed At Pravda and the Planning Commission Imperialist Gunpowder in the Air by Paul Sizoff After the Versailles Peace 1914 and 1930 The Role of America The Real Danger A very Obliging Reply The Bloc of the Left and the Right by Leon Trotsky Stalin and the Bloc with the Right The Problem of the Regime Stalin's Juggling of Figures What the Right Wing Thinks Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution -A Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Need for Democratic Slogans The Correctness of Trotsky's Views Doongping, or, the Stalin School Orientalist Speaks Up by Joseph Carter Molotov on the Skids! In the Amalgamated -A Worker on Hillmanism by Albert Orland A Ten Year Struggle False Remedies The Fantasy of the Forum Attention! How Stalin Protected the Blood of Bucharin Belgian Group Splits 2 Jan 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Labor Faces Year of Fight to Live by Sam Gordon The Decline in Workers' Income The Bank Failures A New "Relapse into Trotskyism" in Russia by Senine A Terrible Traitor Who Teaches Leninism Hoover Attacks Labor Press Molotov Takes Rykov's Place by M. Mill Why Stalin Dumps the Right An Open Secret New Right-Center Bloc? Contributions The Sponsor Plan International Bulletin of the Left Opposition Coming Out in English Have You These Missing Copies Aaron Gross (Obituary and activist history) In the International -"Austro-Opportunism" by Jan Frankel Julio A. Mella by Russell Blackwell Exiled from Cuba Mella Against the Right Wing The Class in Marxian Economics Thermidoreanism and Bonapartism by Leon Trotsky Possible Successors to Soviet Rule Thermidor: in France and Russia Differences and Similarities Exit Weisbord.... Lovestone Looks With Favor at the Socialist Party by Max Shachtman Zimmerman Discovers the Virtues of Levy Lovesone Discovers the Revolt in the S.P..... Zam Discovers the Difference Between S.P. and S.L.P. Manuilsky on "Democratic Dictatorship" -A Retreat in Full Disorder Russia and China Manuilsky's Democratic Tasks The Tutor of Manuilsky A Ferment in the German Right Wing Group The Russian Bolshevik-Leninists on the Present Situation by Christian Rakovsky, V. Kosslor, and N. Muratov The Class Relationships The Middle Peasant in the Collectives The Demands of the Opposition The Poor Peasant's Unions Introduction by Leon Trotsky (To article above) The Union of Peasant Poor Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution a Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Question of "Feudal Remnants" The Slogan of Soviets The Policy of Armed Uprisings 3 Feb 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lenin Lives in the Work of the Opposition Lenin's Will Must Be Carried Out by the Party! by V.I. Lenin Kote Zinzadze is Dead! Towards the New York Dressmakers Strike by Sylvia Bleeker The Assault of the Bosses Party Policy and Ours The Lack of Preparation What Should be Done? Gold On the Skids The Strike -- As We Go to Press What is Happening in the Soviet Union Today? by N.N. At the End of August Beginning of September November Olgin: Now and Then Towards a Concrete Program of Action -The Communists and the Unemployment Crisis by Arne Swabeck Hoover's Promises Economic Cycles of Capitalist Production Present Status of Working Class Movement From Wrong Estimates Flow Wrong Conclusions Playing into the Hands of Reformism What Must Be Done? Notes of a Journalist by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) The Knights of Anti-Trotskyism Heckert Teaches Liebknecht The Stalinist Recruitment The Greatest Crime The Opposition Yesterday "Everybody Remembers" The Mystery of Repentance The Bald-Headed Communist Youth The Trend of the Economic Crisis by Albert Glotzer The Party and the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Strength of Our Party is Our Strength The Role of the Thalmanns Defeat of the Opposition Weakens Party Father Manuel and Comrade Epstein by Charles Curtiss Our New Pamphlet A Policy for the Amalgamated Left Wing by Albert Orland The Present Line and Its Main Features Basic Mistakes of the "Third Period" Ideology The "New" Change of Tactics What Is to Be Done? Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution a Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) Norwegian Fascists and Comrade Trotsky In the League Open Forum Weisbord and the Liquidators A Word from Berlin Proletarian Party Meet 4 Feb 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck United Front on Unemployed by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Mooney's Betrayal by the Labor Bureaucrats by Max Shachtman The Treachery of the Bureaucrats The Agents of the Frame-Up False Steps in the New York Dressmakers' Strike Preparations On the Illinois Miners by Gerry Allard On Angelo's Article On Howat The Weisman Case -The Case of Weisman and Bureaucratism Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy by Arne Swabeck Recent Strikes in England Coal Miners in Struggle MacDonald Again "For Labor" What Has Become of Minority Movement? At the Fresh Grave of Kote Zinzadze by Leon Trotsky The Demagogy of the German National Socialists by Roman Well Reformism and Fascism The Ghezzi Case American Syndicalism and the Problems of Communism by James P. Cannon The I.W.W. as a Revolutionary Movement The Shortcomings of the I.W.W. Tasks of the Marxists Lovestone and Brandler The "Left" Saviors of Reformism in the Socialist Party by Max Shachtman The Sources of the "Left" Wing Who Are the "Militants" Defenders of Bourgeois Democracy The "Dictatorship" Debate Cannon Lecture in Boston Voices of Protest from the Bolsheviks in Exile by the Kansk Group: Arronovsky, Bardunal, Zagovsky, Zaichuk, Kugmainskaia, Michollov, Romansko, Razovenos, Suvitsky, Sovkin, Fortushkin and Smith The Prisons for Oppositionists Physical Destruction of Left Opposition The Desperate Methods of Centrism The Demands of the Opposition Organization Notes * Kansas City, Mo. * Minneapolis, Minn. * Toronto, Canada * Philadelphia, Pa. * Our Subscription Campaign * Chicago, Ill. * Our New Propaganda Literature * Resolution on Program of Expanded Activities for 1931 adopted by the National Committee Communist League of America The Legend of the Public Works Panacea by Harry Strang No Gains Asked Little Change Recorded Over 1930 Brandt Offers Little Hope 5 Mar 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Blumkin...-One Year After His Murder "Communists and Progressives" Lawrence on Strike! -Textile Workers Rebel Against Wage-Cut and Speed Up System by Arne Swabeck Two Philly Oppositionists Held for Sedition by C. Stalin Acts Fire Destroys Trotsky Home Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * How the Miners Were Defeated * Miller Goes Over to Muste * Trifling With the Negro Question Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy by Arne Swabeck Workers Divided in the Strike A Caricature of Strike Strategy Recent German Experiences A Sample of Party Strategy Organization Notes * New York * Philadelphia * Our Program for Expansion * Roll Call on the Program of Expansion * Get After Those Subs!! For the Program of Expansion by James P. Cannon The Two Thousand Dollar Fund The Progress in New York The Second National Conference What the London "Workers" Won't Print (A letter from David Davis to the editor of the "Daily Worker" that was censored) On the "Sectarians"... The Right Wing Liquidators and the S.P. "Militants" by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) Lovestone and the Stanley Group "Frontier Guards for the Soviet Union" The Mechanics of Liquidationism The International Conference of the Rights By Kurt Landau Is There an International Right Opposition? Results of the Minneapolis Special Election Appeal to the Party Members in the Needle Trades -For a United Front of the Party and the Left Opposition Against the Reactionaries, the Pseudo-Progressives, and the Right Wing Liquidators (the Lovestoneites) (From The Needle Trades Group, Communist League of America (Opposition), Sylvia Bleeker, Secretary) Indications of the Turn Preliminary Steps for the Left Wing The Theories of "Social Fascism" The Lovestone Liquidators One Step Forward Has Been Taken The Young Vanguard * What is the Situation in the Y.C.L.? by George Ray * Kaganovitch Teaches! The Dilemma of the War Department Youth Notes by Joseph Carter Hear! Hear! 6 Mar 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck In Prison. -A Letter from Exile by H.H. "Progressives" Meet -Middle Class Impotence Can't Solve the Burning Problems of Labor Anti-Communist Repression Spreads Throughout the Country * I.L.D. Refuses to Aid Philly Defendants by K.M. Whitten * Police Raid Minneapolis Opposition Forum Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * More Treason to the Miners * "Against Exaggeration" * Miller's Manifesto * A Great Step Forward Our Subscription Drive The Strike Strategy of the Left Wing by Arne Swabeck What Strike Strategy is Not The United Front Policy in Strike Strategy Clarity of Strike Issues The Anti-Red Drive in Greece The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky Mass Enthusiasm in the Civil War How the Economic Turn Was Carried Out Stalin's "Catching Up With and Surpassing" Stalin's Speech on the Five Year Plan by M. Mill Gandhi Make His Peace with Imperialism by Albert Glotzer Elections in the Amalgamated: What For? by Albert Orland Abolishing Elections Rank Corruption The Stalinists in the Hungarian Bureau Run Amuck by Thomas Stamm Charges of Corruption Supporters Turn into "Fascists" Overnight Beware of Dangers The Militants' Bookshelf -Lenin and the Iskra Period by James P. Cannon (Volume IV, The Collected Works of Lenin) The Iskra "Declaration" Lenin the Orthodox Marxist "Where to Begin" The Role of a Newspaper The Repression in Spain Organization Notes * Boston * Chicago * St. Louis, Mo. * From the National Office * The Program of Expansion Campaign * Roll Call on the Program of Expansion Paris Commune Affair Letters from the Militants * Stalinist Decay in England by Black Diamond * The Individual and the Revolution by H. Mashow * The New York Open Forum by George J. Saul 7 Apr 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Illinois Mine Workers in Revolt -Rank and File Rebel Against Fishwick-Lewis Agreement; New Union Call Issued, by Arne Swabeck What Has Happened in Illinois? by Joseph Angelo Help Rebuild Trotsky's Library! (With a photograph of Trotsky at his work-desk pre-fire) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Herberg Quotes Trotsky * Lawrence Gives the Signal * The Trade Union Turn * The Death of John Donlin For Economic Collaboration with Russia by Sam Gordon The Slogan of the Six-Hour Working-Day by Arne Swabeck A "Visionary" Slogan The Workers' Resistance The Miners and Railroad Workers The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Have We Entered into the "Period of Socialism"? Four Years or Five? Past Mistakes and the Fate of the Plan The Philadelphia Cases The Communists and the Progressives by James P. Cannon Toward a Left Opposition Movement in Great Britain by Spartacus In the Next Issue Dressmaker Strike Ends by S.J. The Agrarian Congress in Puebla by Russell Blackwell Los Angeles "Radical" S.P. by Charles Curtiss The European Grain Meet -The American Big Stick Succeeds in Disrupting the Conference by Harry Strang "Too Much Wheat" The Price Decline "Sustained Prosperity" by George Ray Communist Tasks and the Workmens Circle by J.B. Opposition Lecture at Brookwood Expansion Program Headway Organization Notes * The Sub Drive For 500 New Subscribers and Renewals Special Offers * The Symbol Must Be Protected! * Expansion Program Roll Call on the Program of Expansion 8 Apr 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Republican Revolution in Spain by S.-n. Ill. Miners' Convention by Max Shachtman The Unity of Fishwick and Lewis The Blunders of Stalinism Confusion Instead of Policy The Left Wing Must Act Penn. Sedition Act Seeks Victims Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * A Dangerous Situation * Communism and Syndicalism * Lying as a Political System * The Oppositionists at the May Day Conference May Day Meeting in Cleveland The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The U.S.S.R. and the World Market Conclusion The Trial of the Russian Mensheviks -The Real Disposition of the Figures on the Political Scene by Leon Trotsky Who Are the Menshevik Defendants? The Two Fundamental Lines International Bulletin No. 2 Out! Notes of a Journalist by Alfa (Leon Trotsky Stalin and the Comintern Whose Phonograph is This? What Has Happened in the Chinese Communist Party In the Next Issue N.Y. May Day Conference -Opposition Delegates Heard Despite the Stalinist Bureaucracy by R. Hungarians Struggle Against Corruption by Y.S. A Wrong Point of Departure More Examples of Running Amuck Communist Tasks in the Workmens Circle Defend the Philly Militants! Clem Forsen, St. Paul TUUL Head, Expelled Organization Notes * The Subscription Drive * Organization Program Slogan of the 6-Hour Day -Discussion Article by John Mihelic The I.W.W. and the Unemployment Problem by Hugo Oehler A Step Forward 9 May 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Workers, Out on May Day! from the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Miners' Revolt Checked at Muste Convention by Hugo Oehler Smash the Scottsboro Frame-Up! by G. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Miners' Convention * The Road to a New Union * The Affair at City College Correction Next Steps in the Needle Trades by Sylvia Bleeker The Daily Worker Explains Some Differences by S. The Case of Riazanov by Leon Trotsky The Marxist Riazanov a Menshevik? The Menshevik "Collaborators" and the Marx-Engels Institute The Plebiscitary Regime...and Its Victims Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party The Theory of Stalinism and the Revolution in Spain by Max Shachtman The National-Socialist Conception Stalin on Spain An Objection Answered Organization Notes * Philadelphia * Minneapolis * Other Cities * How About Those Subs.? * Our Program of Expansion The Slogan of the Six-Hour Day -Discussion Article (Continued from last issue) 1886 and Today by John Mihelic Spring Festival of New York Opposition Branch In Our Next Issue Letters from the Militants * On the Party's Turn in the Needle Trades -Boston by Jenny * Musteism and Stalinism at the Miners Convention -Christopher, Ill. by Gerry Allard * The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Carpenters' Union -New York by W.H.H. Letter of a Deported Oppositionist The Young Vanguard -Youth Notes * The Young Vanguard * Y.C.L. Convention * The Free Youth * Indian Youth Executed * Against the R.O.T.C. The Young Communist League Convention by George Ray For a Genuine Discussion The Real Situation The Root Causes 10 May 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Revolutionary Progress in Spain - The Tasks of Spanish Communists by Andres Nin The Republican Government Who Will Carry Through the Democratic Revolution? The Weekly by July 1st! The Militant and the Events in Spain What is Happening in Spain -A Letter from Barcelona -Recent Events by J. Obin The Interest in "Moscow Affairs" Demagogy of the Republicans Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Now for the Weekly Militant! * Fighting for Free Speech * What About Morgenstern and Goodman? * The Right Wing Capitulators * The White Collar Unemployed Results of the Illinois Miners' Revolt by Arne Swabeck Serious Weaknesses Still Prevail Which Position Proved Correct? The Right Wing and the Center Make Their Position Clear The Position of the Left Opposition What of the Future? Who Has the "Leopard's Spots"? by John Mihelic Question of Leopards The Question of Trade Union Unity by Leon Trotsky The Bolsheviks and the Trade Unions Reformism and the Working Class The Problem of the United Front "America Conquers Britain" by S. Green The Rise of America The Decline of England The Fight for Supremacy The Clash The Times and the Daily Worker on Trotsky by George Ray Unemployed Cutters Rebel by Albert Orland Condition of Unemployed The Workers' Demands The Accomplishments So Far Immediate Relief Needed Weisbord: Cult of Confusionism by S. In the Next Issue Seasonal Improvement -- Where? b y Albert Glotzer Seasonal Rise Slight Wage Cuts Increased 11 Jun 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Next Month The Weekly! -An Appeal to Our Readers Rally to the Defense of the Scottsboro Boys! -A United Working Class Front Will Prevent a Legalized Lynching by R.T. Ten Commandments of the Spanish Communist by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Bolshevik Organization * The Struggle Against "Left" Reformism * What is Socialism? The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern The Estimation on the U.S.S.R. The Colonial Question in China and in India Two Criticisms of the 6-Hour Day Slogan by Arne Swabeck Does the Party Oppose this Slogan? What Are Mihelic's Errors? M. Malkin Expelled From Opposition by the New York Branch Communist League of America (Opposition) Boston Lecture First of May in Madrid by J. Obin The Bourgeoisie and the Spanish Revolution by L. Fersen Papal Drugs for Labor by Herbert Capelis The Duluth Dock Strike by F. The Strike Starts Well Absence of Sound Leadership In Defense of Scottsboro Stanley Disappoints Lovestone Browder Gets the Call Resolution of the International Secretariat on the Weisbord Group Organization Notes by David Davis * Philadelphia * New York * Boston * The Movement in Los Angeles by Max Geldman * A "Non-Party" Organization -New York by J. * From an I.W.W. Member - Minneapolis Militant Sub Drive -Only One Month Left for Subscription Drive The Young Vanguard * Back of the Air Maneuvers by George Clarke * Yipsels and National Youth Day by F. Student Youth and the Workers Movement by Albert Glotzer 12 Jun 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Miners on the March! -Thousands on Strike Against Wage Cuts in Western Pennsylvania by Arne Swabeck Next Issue-The Weekly The Spanish Bourgeoisie Acts -- Against Labor -The Spanish Bourgeoisie Gets into Action by M. Mill The Role of the Bourgeoisie The "Crime" of the Expelled Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Strike Strategy * Assembling the Future Staff The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern by Janin (Continued from last issue) The A.F. of L. and the Wage-Cut Drive by Arne Swabeck Communism and Syndicalism in Spain by Hugo Oehler The General Strike "Freedom" and Dictatorship The Strangled Revolution by Leon Trotsky An Unforgettable Picture Garine's False Radicalism Tcheng Dai and Hong The Weakness of the Masses America's "Pacifism" in Europe and...Litvinov's by Max Shachtman Germany's Plight The American Plan A Congenial Commissioner At One Single Blow! The Unification of the Chinese Opposition (by the Secretariat of the Left Opposition of the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary Chen Du-Siu) The Party's Unemployment Drive by Thomas Stamm The Stalinist Analysis The Party's Demonstrations The Decline of Support Organization Notes * The Militant Sub Drive * Program of Expansion Campaign * Reactionary Fanaticism by James Economou Letters from the Militants * How the I.L.D. Defends Opposition Workers by Leon Goodman * Shall We Subordinate Social Insurance Fight? by John Mihelic The Young Vanguard Appeal to the League Convention by the National Youth Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Against Class Collaboration Policies The Situation in the Y.C.L. The Militant -Official Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) 12 Jun 15, 1931 (Supplement) Positions and Perspectives of American Imperialism Problems of American National Economy Capitalist Readjustment The Function of the N.R.A. International Problems Soviet Union & U.S. Imperialism Capitalist System in Decay The Insoluble Contradiction Draft Thesis of the N.C. of the Communist League for the Third National Convention (By the National Committee, Communist League of America) Class Relations in the United States Position of the American Farmer The New Deal and the Unions Work Within Mass Unions Great Tasks for New Party 13 Jul 4, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Revolver at the Head of France -The Hoover Reparations Debt Scheme by Max Shachtman The Crisis in the Young Plan A Solution of the Crisis? "Permanent Revolution" Barred in Canada Miners Strike against Wage Cuts and Starvation Conditions by Arne Swabeck The Heavy Strike Toll Relief Urgent An Appeal for Communist Unity in Spain by Leon Trotsky, April 24, 1931 Philadelphia Oppositionists Convicted of Sedition In The International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements -Two Social-Democratic Congresses, the Collapse of the "Lefts" * The French Socialists and National Defense * The Sanction of Betrayal at Leipzig by Sam Gordon * The Provisional Government in Action by Henry LaCroix * League Activities Organization Notes Our Subscription Campaign Our Program of Expansion Campaign On the Workers Front * Opposition Appeals to Milliners * Cleveland Party & Unemployment by George Clarke * Illinois Miners on the March by Gerry Allard * The Unemployment Councils at Work by Thomas Stamm * Where Does British Labor Stand? by Arne Swabeck In Europe The Essential Question of Destiny of England Where is the Proletarian Vanguard? MacDonald Preparing the Road * The Second Convention of the C.L.A. (Opposition) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Capitalist Offensive * The Union Square Meeting A New Slander Against D.B. Riazonov by Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis -- What Next? by B. J. Field Data on Manufacturing Industries 1919-1929 14 Jul 11, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Off the Leninist Path -Stalin's New Economic Policy by Max Shachtman How the New Policy is Made How Lenin Viewed the Problem The Opposition's Warning Shall Eight Die? 23,000 West Virginia Miners Are Out in New Strike Wave -Forward to a United Front of the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and W. Va. Miners by Arne Swabeck The Need for the United Front Rush Relief! On Guard Against Betrayal! -Hillman's New Racket - The "Campaign" Against Racketeering by Albert Orland Who Are the Racketeers? Bosses with Hillman A Real Challenge For a United Defense: -Movement Begins for the Defense of the Two Philadelphia Oppositionists United Front Imperative In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Spanish Masses in Motion -- Where Is the Communist Party? By Henry Lacroix The Strikes The Partial Election of May 31 Financial Panic In the Communist Party * The British Scene -England's Economic Plight by Arne Swabeck Growing Conflict in World Market Growing Conflict at Home * The Archio-Marxists In Action -Left Opposition Leads the May Day Struggles in Greece Demonstration Disrupted * Polish Social Democrats Capitalize on the Blunders of Stalinism by Felix Reasons for "Radicalization" Results of "Social Fascism' Theory Where is the Communist Party? On the Workers' Front: * Rank and File Struggles in the New York Carpenters' Union by W.H.H. A Reactionary Proposal Toward Mass Demonstrations Seven or Six Hour Day? Lessons for the T.U.U.L. * Auto Workers Reject a Cut by Gadfly * The Background of the Coal Strike by Harry Strang Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Overlooked German Situation * "Saving-Germany" For Whom? * Reviving "The Appeal to Reason" Manuilsky Makes an Unintentional Admission by S.-n. Thaelmann and the "People's Revolution" by Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis -- What Next? by B. J. Field (Continued from last issue) Ways Out? Political Perspectives 15 Jul 18, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Spanish Revolution On the Order of the Day for the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky Two Basic Questions Democratic Slogans The Lessons of China Relief and Defense for the Striking Miners Rank and File Illinois Miners Ready for a New and Militant National Movement by Gerry Allard The Policies of the Stalinists Immediate Task of the Left Wing Combine the Miners' Struggle into a United Front! -The Stalinists Are Pursuing a Sectarian Policy Which Keeps the Insurgent Movements Separated by Max Shachtman What is Happening in the Coal Fields? What Should the Left Wing Do? Do Not Be Deceived by Cheap Phrases The Mistake is Being Made Now -- Correct It Now! Acute Crisis Shakes Germany and Central European Lands -Whole Communist Movement of Europe Now Put to the Test by Sam Gordon I.L.D. Sabotages the Opposition Defense -I.L.D. Sabotages Class Defense of Goodman and Morgenstern Engdahl's Falsehoods In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Germany -The Latest Decree Against the Workers by F. Policy of German Bourgeoisie The Aims of the Decree * Clearing Away the Petty Bourgeois Fog -On the Road to Proletarian Revolution in Spain by Estaban Bilbao * Argentine -Uriburu Dictatorship Strangles Labor by R.G. * For the Spanish Opposition Press * The British Scene -MacDonald and Rationalization by Arne Swabeck A Campaign of Wage Slashing * In France -Economic Crisis and the Strikes by Pierre Frank On the Workers Front * In the New York A.F. of L. by Gadfly * Ban "Class Struggle" Organization Notes New York Cleveland Philadelphia St. Louis The Expansion Program Campaign Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Even a Browder Can Learn * Our Revolution U.S. Crisis Past & Present by B. J. Field The Early Crises The Panic of 1873 World War and 1914 Crisis "Solutions" in the Past 16 Jul 25, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stalinism and the German Crisis -The "Daily Worker" Contributes Three Errors To a Serious Question by James P. Cannon Another Form of American Hegemony Imperialists and a Fascist Dictatorship Second League Conference Demonstrate on August 1 Against Imperialist War! Pittsburgh Convention Shows Need for Unity of Fighting Miners by George Clarke A Militant Conference A Fosterite "United Front" Question of National Strike Patterson On Strike -N.T.W. Must Take Initiative in United Front of All Silk Workers by Max Shachtman Terror in China -Arrest Opposition Heads -13 Communists in the Hands of the Butcher Chiang Kai-Shek by N.S. Pointed Questions to the I.L.D. Results of the Spanish Elections -The Victory of the Socialists and the Tasks of the Communists by Leon Trotsky The Socialist Victory Weakness of Spanish Communism The Slogan of Soviets Stalinist Slander In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -Day by Day Influence of Left Opposition The Opposition and Maurin The Relation of Forces * Clearing Away the Petty Bourgeois Fog -On the Road to the Proletarian Revolution in Spain by Estaban Bilbao (Continued from last issue) The Need for a Party * In France -Economic Crisis and the Strikes by Pierre Frank (Continued from last issue) Failure of the Communist Party * The British Scene -MacDonald's "Victories" by Arne Swabeck Struggles Looming The "Third Period" in England MacDonald's Imperialist Policy On the Workers Front -After the Pocketbook Makers' Strike by N. Davis The Agreement Call for Second National Conference of the Communist League (Opposition) Thesis for the Pre-Conference Discussion Crisis in the United States and Its Effects on Labor The Prospects for the American Working Class Movement Social Reformism and the Perspective of the Revolutionary Movement The Position of the Communist Movement and the Tasks of the Party The Left Opposition and Its Role in the Movement Problems of the Spanish Revolution by Leon Trotsky The "Intermediate Revolution" Communists and Socialist Workers Help the Press of the Spanish Opposition Attention, Youth! 17 Aug 1, 1931, New Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Nine-Tenths of Our Activities for the Revolution in Spain -On the Maurin Group in Catalonia and the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Federation in the Elections Unity a la Maurin Spain: The Revolution Day by Day -In the Communist Party of Spain by Henry Lacroix Persecutions Against Us In the Midst of the Elections The Strikes The Second Congress of the N.C. of L. Send Generous Aid to the Spanish Left Opposition Silk Revolt Growing -Policies of All Elements under Test of the Struggle in Paterson by James P. Cannon After The London Conference -The Buck is Passed to Germany by J. B. Fields Wage-Cuts -White House OK's the Drive The British Scene -The Unemployment Problem by Arne Swabeck The Serious Unemployment Situation The Communist Party and Unemployment The Anti-Trade Union Act What Does the Balance Sheet Show? The Catalonian Federation's Platform by Leon Trotsky Menshevik Criticism Spanish Kuo Min Tangism Alfa -Notes of a Journalist by Leon Trotsky Manuilsky, the Leader of the Comintern Auerbach Caught With the Goods Notes from the Editor Discussion Articles -The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose Unity and Differences Role of Centrism Prospects for Future Call the Troopers Weisbord --- No Comment! A Proposal to Gitlow Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * A Welcome Reversal * Again the Union Square Meeting * Field Organizers of the Opposition Behind the Miners Strike -Economic Decay in Soft Coal by B. J. Fields Where Coal Comes From Shift of Coal Fields Key Position of West Va. Reason for Market Loss Financial Concentration Mechanization of Mines Bucharin and the Permanent Revolution The Permanent Revolution in Lenin's Time 18 Aug 8, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The New Musteite Party -The C.P.L.A. Prepares a Home for the Political Homeless Socialists and Communists The Sponsors of the Party After the Lamont Letter -Wage Cut Drive -Class Struggle or "Peace" by Sam Gordon What Is the Situation of the Workers at This Juncture? Per Capita Earnings Employment Mining and Textile Strikes in Danger -Stalinist Failure to Apply United Front Threatens Strike by S. The Party on the Mine Strike The Paterson Strike Hillman Brings the Tailor Strike to an End by Albert Orland A New Betrayal A Slander! -Blackguards and Assistants by Leon Trotsky Andres Nin Calls for the Spanish Opposition Press by Andres Nin In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -The Struggle Day by Day by Henry Lacroix The Successes in Andalusia The Elections * Germany -The Impotence of the Communist Party in the Face of the Crisis What Is the Party Doing? The Party and the "Left" Socialist Leaders * In Greece -Repression Against the Opposition Anti-Semitic Disturbances in Salonika Discussion Articles -The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose (Continued from last issue) The I.W.W. Education and the Young Communists by George Ray Organization Notes Our Recent Activities Our Expansion Program Fragments of Truth from Under the Garbage of Slander by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Wage Cuts and Strikes * They Say it With Flowers Stalin in 1921 -More About the Theory of Socialism in One Country Before Lenin's Death by S.-n Stalin in 1925 And Stalin in 1921 Problems of the Spanish Revolution -Mistakes of Comrade Maurin by Andres Nin An...Uncomfortable Position Why Maurin Is Not with the "Trotskyists" The "National" Character of the Spanish Revolution 19 Aug 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Wage-Cut Offensive -Toward Sharp Working Class Struggles of Resistance by Arne Swabeck Trotsky Greets Weekly Militant by Leon Trotsky After the Massacre -Chicago Opposition Condemns Murders of Negro Workers by Chicago Branch Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Wickersham's Exposures -Capitalism's Agents Reveal a Few of Its Festering Sores Mass Arrests In Silk Strike -Left Wing Makes a Half Turn to Unity After Prussian Elections -Stalinists Trail Behind Demagogues of the Hitlerite Camp Almost 1,000 Pesetas Already Sent for the Spanish Opposition Press For Our National Conference -Draft Thesis on the Youth Question Youth in America The Effects of the Crisis The American League Opponent Youth Organizations The Work of the Opposition The British Scene -The Danger of Left Reformism by Arne Swabeck A General Political Fermentation The I.L.P. in the Past Discussion Articles -The Double Task of the Left Opposition by Hugo Oehler Wrong Views The Pressure of the Left The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose (Continued from last issue) Dizziness...From Failure In the A.C.W.A -Cliques Gird for Spoils by Albert Orland Hillman-Beckerman Struggle Clique Conflicts in the Strike Towards a Split Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * Free Speech and the Labor Movement * What is a Renegade? Leon Trotsky Writes on Stalin's Latest Speech -A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers by Leon Trotsky The Five Year Plan in Four Years The Problem of the Working Force Problems of the Spanish Revolution Ð Mistakes of Comrade Maurin by Andres Nin 20 Aug 21, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lovosky Unloads the Blame...-The Lesser Losovskys in their Old Role of "Whipping Boys" by James P. Cannon Trotsky's Letter to the Pravda by Leon Trotsky 78 Trotsky Voters in Santander The Revolution in Spain -Conflict of Tendencies in the Ranks of the Working Class -Madrid Letter by Henry Lacroix The Forces of the Spanish Party Panic in the Two Independent Federations The National Congress of the Socialist Party The Communist Opposition in the N.C.L. The New Persecutions Against Us Our Progress Spanish Opposition Press Fund Increasing Mine Strike Called Off -Opportunity for National Movement Missed by Party Blunder The Heavy Odds Speak Out Frankly Our Proposals Try 35 Kentucky Miners -Red-Baiting is Prominent Feature of New Frame-Up Attempt In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Germany -Communist Suppression by Roman Well Abolition of Press Freedom * The British Scene -The Bankruptcy of British Stalinism by Arne Swabeck Pollitt Recites the Failures The Party Leadership Views "Simplifying" the Problems of Revolution The Future Holds Great Possibilities Opposition at Boston I.L.D. Conference Discussion Articles: * Reforms and Immediate Demands by Hugo Oehler The Position of Negation False Abstractions When Bosses Grant Reform The Communist Task * The Meaning of the American Crisis by B. J. Field The New Facts as Base Theories of Self-Cure The Agrarian Crisis * Shortcomings in the Youth Thesis by Lillian Bord Equal Pay for Equal Work A Nucleus in the League Youth Clubs Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * Bernard Shaw on Russian * Debating the Dole Leon Trotsky Writes on Stalin's Latest Speech -A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers (Continued from last issue) Socialist Enthusiasm and Piece Work A Personal Revelation 21 Aug 29, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The End of the Labor Cabinet -Wall Street Cracks the Whip and MacDonald Jumps by Max Shachtman MacDonald and the Dole The Collapse of the Cabinet 34 Kentucky Miners Framed; 18 On Trial in Pennsylvania -Unity of Conflicting Defense Movements Needed to Strengthen the Struggle 18 on Trial in Washington Bureaucrats Sabotage United Front in Chicago Jobless Conference by Martin C. Payer M. Payer arrested in St. Louis Anti-Communist Arrests in Canada -Communist Party Leaders Seized and Held by Dominion Authorities under Sedition Act by Maurice Spector Canada In the Crisis Police terror in Toronto A Trial Out of the Past Half-Hearted Stalinist About Face On Issue of Credits to Soviet Union Increase the Spanish Press Fund to 200 Dollars! Draft of the Thesis on the Trade Union Question The Prospects for the New Militant Unions The Position and Perspectives of the A,F. of L. Unions The Trade Union Policy of the Lovestone Group The Status of the New Industrial Unions Conclusion Discussion Articles * Social Reform and a Labor Party by Hugo Oehler * The Meaning of the American Crisis by B. J. Field (Continued from last issue * Prospects for the Outcome of the Crisis by H. Stone Politics and Economics The Factors at Work Effects on Producers' Goods Foreign Trade In the Struggle of the Shoeworkers The Case of Lieut. Scheringer Organization Notes Boston Minneapolis Chicago New York Our Program of Expansion Campaign The Left Opposition on the Parliamentary Tribune -Comrade Seipold's Speech in the Prussian Landtag German and America Proletarian Revolution Only Hope Revolutionary Flames in Spain The "Freest Republic" 22 Sep 5, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Consolidate The Weekly! -New York Gives new Impetus to Expansion Program Fund by James P. Cannon First Results I. Y. D. All Out! by Joseph Carter Gordon Arrested at Boston Meeting Credits for the Soviet Union -Stalinists Change their Stand but Evade Most Essential Points by S. What We Demanded Stalinist Objection The Need of Credits Our Spanish Fund Mooney Appeals! -All Efforts Now for a Broad and Genuine United Front Move by Arne Swabeck The Need for Action The Communist Duty A Call from Prison (San Quentin, August 20th 1931) by Tom Mooney Offer Aid in Party Election Fight by H. Stone The Anarchists in Spain -The "Turn" of the Syndicalists and Macia's Nationalism by M. Mills The Anarcho-Syndicalists In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * U.S.S.R. -From Moscow & Deportation * In Spain -The Events of a Fortnight by Henry Lacroix The Incidents at Seville The Labor Organizations During the Recent Disturbances The Socialist Ministers The Repression Continues * A Letter from Berlin at Election * Germany -The Plebiscite's Real Results The Figures Speak Further "Victory" Proof Toronto -The Canadian Red Raids by Maurice Quater Discussion Articles: * Some Shortcomings of the Thesis by Joseph Carter Change on Labor Party The Economic Crisis * To Improve our Will by Clem Forsen * The Thesis and the Crisis by Hugo Oehler Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Where is the British Communist Party? * The Return of Gerry Allard The Anonymous Factional Struggle in The Party by Max Shachtman An Anonymous Struggle Browder vs. Dunne and Foster Maurin and the Anarcho-Syndicalists by Leon Trotsky Lovestone 10 Years Ago by Marsh 23 Sep 12, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The I.L.D. "Acts" on Moony -The Appeal for a United Front Evaded by the Stalinists by Max Shachtman A Significant Appeal A Radical Mistake Change the Course! 2nd National Conference, Sept. 24 Demand Trotsky's Return -French Red Union Congress Votes for Appeal to the Soviets Steel Wage Cuts Forecast -Analysis Shows Steel Barons' Plans to Slash at Workers by B. J. Fields A Contacted Market Wage Declines Complete the Expansion Fund Program! Jobless Spurned by Roosevelt, Hoover -Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Hoover's "Plan" The Crux of the Problem Split Threatens A.C.W. -Cliques Expose Each Other While Left Wing Marks Time by Albert Orland Hillman's Maneuvers The Party Policy In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -The Opposition and the National Question * Greece -The Elections in Mytilene Morgenstern-Goodman and the I. L. D. Discussion Articles: * A Reply to the Discussion by James P. Cannon A Discredited Idea Distorted History Repeating Slander False Viewpoints * Problems of Our Perspectives by Arne Swabeck Fundamentals of Present Crisis The Basis of Possible Revival Further World Market Expansion America's Role in the World Market * Contradictions of the Agrarian Crisis by W. Krehm Effects of "Return to Normal" Attempts at Organization A Revolutionary Force Our International Bulletin The Young Vanguard * Youth Notes by Joseph Carter Our Youth Thesis The Y. C. L. * The Question of Youth in Industry * Our Tasks by George Ray Struggle of the Boston Shoeworkers In the Ranks of the Party -The Startling Turnover in the Party The Sharp Decline The Roots of the Evil A Picture of the Party's Inner Life How Articles "Happen" to Be Written I.Y.D. in New York What IS International Youth Day? by Joseph Carter 24 Sep 19, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stop Making a Football Out of the Mooney Case! by Max Shachtman The Stalinist Plan A Novel Committee For a Genuine Movement Arne Swabeck Injured in Accident British Seaman Revolt Against Wage Cuts I. L. D. Threatens Expulsion -Hacker Announces that All Oppositionists Will Be Expelled Opposition's Proposals Protest the Splitting Proposal! "Comunismo" Barred From Canada Nat'l Conference to Open Thursday The Latest Events in Spain -Turmoil Among the Socialists, Splits Among the Communists -Events of the Week by Henry Lacroix Social Democracy Frenzy The Catalonian Statute For the Unification of the C.P. In the Communist Party Unemployment Increases We Need Another $600.00 for the Fund In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * France -French Foreign Policy is Modified * After the Labor Government's Fall -New Nat'l Government -London Letter by Anglicus The Labor "Opposition" The Plight of the Party American Bankers and the Crisis Some Stalinist "Leninism" Germany -Bruening, France and the Communists Discussion Articles * Tasks of Our National Conference by James P. Cannon * The League and the Problem of the Youth by Joseph Carter * The Youth Thesis by Albert Glotzer * Perspectives of the American Crisis by B.J. Fields Maurin and the Catalonian Question by M. M. and Leon Trotsky Resolution on the International Left Opposition M. N. Roy Arrested in India Against National Communism (Lessons of the "Red" Referendum) by Leon Trotsky How Everything is Turned Upon Its Head The "United Front", But With Whom? The Question of the Relation of Forces Let Us Look Back at the Russian Experience With Blown-Out Lanterns 25 Sep 26, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Our Second Conference -A Milestone in the Progress of the American Opposition Our Position Confirmed War Clouds Dark in Manchuria Steel Wages Slashed Throughout Land A Signal to the Bosses Organize the Fight! Expulsions Campaign Begins in I. L. D. by Harry Milton Refused Admission R.R.s Prepare Wage Cuts by B. J. Fields Position of Labor Leaders Freight Rate Decline Expansion Program In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -Progress of the Left Opposition by Juan Andrade The Propaganda Tours Our Weekly Organ The Spread of Our Literature * Germany and the Approaching Winter by Ervin Bauer The Development of German Fascism The Present Method of Domination and Strategy of the Bourgeoisie * The Floating Baron * Who is Malkin? * Greece -The Opposition and The Party by P. Psakis Davios (The Torch) Persecutions and Action International Labor Defense Federation of Food Industries Party Membership Mitylene By-Election Labor's Perspective in the Struggle for a Respite by Arne Swabeck Mobilizing the Labor United Front by Sam Gordon Double Responsibility Foreign-Born Workers How the Life of the Y. C. L. is Strangled The "Inner Life" Hullabaloo and Noise A Letter About the Spanish Revolution by Leon Trotsky Party Breaks Meet in Malden by Sam Gordon Against National Communism! (Lessons of the "Red" Referendum) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) "The People's Revolution" Instead of the Proletarian Revolution "People's Revolution" as a Method of National Liberation The School of Bureaucratic Centrism As the School of Capitulations "Revolutionary War" and Pacifism How Marxists Should Deliberate 26 Oct 10, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Reply of the Steel Workers -Preparations to Resist Wage Cuts on the Order of the Day by Arne Swabeck Wages and Living Costs Past Experiences 23,000 Strike in Lawrence, Mass. -Will Left Wing Repeat Errors? Hoover Announces New "Crisis Cure" Where is Rakovsky? What About Paterson? -The Stalinists Unload Responsibility for Their Bankruptcy Second National Conference Marks Step Forward by Arne Swabeck The Political Report On the Soviet Union Conference Achievements In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * British Crisis Sharpens -Militant Correspondents Describe Moods of the Workers by Anglicus Parliamentary Opposition The Party * A Letter from Cornwall by Millicent Shooter * Germany -The Coming Winter by Ervin Bauer (Continued from last issue) The Policy of the German C.P. * U.S.S.R. -Letters from Oppositionists by P. * From an Economic Director * A View of the Struggle in Madrid by Ray Secr't Greets Conference -Increasing Problems for the International Left Opposition by M Mill (For the International Secretariat) A Ferment in the Chicago Y. C. L. by Youth Committee, C.L.A. (Opposition) Chicago Branch Against National Communism! -Lessons of the "Red" Referendum by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Why Was the Party Silent? What Does Stalin Say? What Does "Pravda" Say? A Syndicalist Voyage to the Ranks of Stalinism by Martin Abern Catching Up With the Revolution Scarlett on the Field of National Socialism The Struggle Against Bureaucracy Conference Acts on Weisbord Issue is Skipped Expulsions Begin in Spartacus Club 27 Oct 17, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck ILD Mooney Meet Ousts Left -Opposition Delegates Unseated by Bureaucratic Machine by G.C. Protest Expulsions in Greek Club To Party Members and Sympathizers War Threatens in Manchuria -Japan, China, U. S. and Soviet Union Are Involved by Nipponese Military Attack Japan and China The Position of the U.S. The American Game Jurisdictional Disputes Disrupt A.F.L. Building Trades Dept. by Arne Swabeck U.S. Confronts Banking Crisis by B. J. Fields The New Mechanism Controlling the Deflation Paper and Gold Effects of Deflation Government Bonds Minneapolis I.L.D. Pursue Ruinous Policy of Sectarianism and Expulsion by M. G. Plans Laid for Systematic Youth Work Organization Notes Militant Builders Our Expansion Program Constitution is Revised -National Conference Strengthen the Statutes of the League Name Purpose International Affiliation Membership Organization Administration Dues and Initiation Fee Discipline Qualifications for Election Conferences Fractions Chicago Unemployment Conference by Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Chicago Branch The Party's Election Campaign by Reva Craine The Struggle for Trade Union Unity in Spain by Henry LaCroix The Struggle for Trade Union Unity Up to 1926 Deception and Uncertainty Misery, Class Struggle and Trade Union Unity Editorial Notes -Furriers Unity by James P. Cannon Who is Christian Rakovsky? A Letter to Comrades by Leon Trotsky -The Question of Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky 28 Oct 24, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Green and Co. at Vancouver -A.F. of L. Officialdom Continues to Serve Its Master by Arne Swabeck Growing Revolt Against National Government Marks British Scene by Anglicus A Turn-About Establish an English Opposition! The Party and the Election Fighting--for Votes! Division and Doubt The Case of the Meerut Prisoners Banking Crisis in the U.S. -Attempt to Defend Gold Standard Proves to be Costly by B. J. Field Small Banks Failed Bank Assets Financial Effects of the Crisis Increased Gold Need Vote Communist in the Elections! -Support the Candidates of the C.P.U.S.A. Opportunities for Progress Opportunist Blunders Funds are Needed Immediately On the Workers' Front * Lessons from the Furriers' Fight for the Coming Dressmakers' Struggle by Syliva Bleeker Conditions of Workers Coming Dress Strike * The Government Civil Service Applies Hooverism to the White Collar Slave by Martin Abern Low Wages of Civil Service Workers U.S. Government Increases Hours Need to Organize "White-Collar" Workers Stalinists Again Oust Left Opposition at Chicago Unemployment Conference by Hugo Oehler A Few "Pages from Party History" Youth Will Issue "Young Spartacus as Organ by Martin Abern In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements C. P. Policy in England -The Stalinists' Sterility Before the Problem of the United Front by Arne Swabeck Serious Currents Within Labor Opposition C.P. Leadership Impotent Adding New Confusion The United Front Policy Now is the Time to Apply Lessons of Past Experiences Silence in the Ranks of the Party on the Tom Mooney Case The N.T.W.I.U at Work in Boston by C. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Laying the Foundations * Hail Young Spartacus! A Letter to Comrades -The Question of Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Two Ways Out Necessary Preparations 29 Oct 31, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite Employed and Unemployed in Relief Struggle by Arne Swabeck Opponents Divert Unemployed Issue Into False Channels Unemployed and Employed Must Be United in Struggle Party Recognizes Narrowness of Unemployed Movement For a United Front In the Next Issue -On the Manchurian Events! Railway Bosses Drop their Masks by B. J. Fields England Goes to the Polls by Caius Gracchus Labour Party Battles for Capitalism Tories Shift to Protection "Issue" Chicago I.L.D. Persists in Isolation Policy Greek Opposition Active Among British Sailors Trotsky Greets "El Soviet" by Leon Trotsky Banking Crisis in the U.S. -Perspectives of Future Finance Developments (Continued from previous issue) Rush Funds to The Militant! On the Workers' Front * The Morgenstern-Goodman Case and the I. L. D. -The Defendants Present a Statement of the Facts by Leon Goodman and Bernard Morgenstern I.L.D. Refuses to Aid Class War Victims Convicted on Sedition Charges Rally to Defendants * Penn. Sedition Victim Dies in Cell * Siskind's Report: Party Failures and New "Plans" New Plans * Serious Unemployment Problems Suffer Because of Stalinist Maneuvers -Left Opposition Brings Program Before Chicago Conference by C.C. [Charles Curtis] "Slip Up" of the Machine Opposition on Floor Rubiczki in Frenzy Opposition's Program The Machine "Repaired" * The Bureaucracy in the I.W.O. New International Bulletin Out on Sale In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Situation in Germany -The Elections in Hamburg by M. * Notes from Berlin * A Communist Party -The Problem of the Revolution in England by F. A. Ridly British Situation is Beyond Reform Objective Conditions Favorable to Revolution Prepare for Third Annual Dance Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * An Apologist for Stalinism * The Dressmakers Symposium From an I. L. D. Delegate The Opposition at Party Forum by H.C. The Party on the Philippines by A. Our Own Interview with Ben Gitlow 30 Nov 7, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck After the British Elections -Preparing the Road for Sharpened Future Struggles by Arne Swabeck The Labor Party Prepared for Present Situation Does MacDonald See His Finish? New Relations and Labors' New Road Manchurian Events and the Communists by Niel-Sih The Resistance of the Chinese Masses Kuo Min Tang's Shaky Position Influence of the Past on Present Chinese C.P. The Protective Ambiguity of the Stalinist Formulas The Weakening of the Party Apparatus Actual Conditions in the "Soviet" Areas Mismanagement in Peasant Affairs Progress and Hardships of the Left Opposition Hail 14 Years of Soviet Rule! -Fight to Preserve the Traditions of the Bolshevik October by Martin Abern The Proletarian Dictatorship is Established The Epoch of Wars and Revolutions Carrying Out the Program of Communism Lenin Dies; Stalinism Rises Stalin and Menshevik Hopes The Opposition Platform Serves the Workers' Interests The Conditions in the Factories The Changes in the Communist Party The Development of National Socialism Soviet Russia -- The Fortress of World Revolution The Platform of the Opposition--And the Future Preserve the Weekly Canadian Party Leaders on Trial The Decisions of the Defense Conference The Regime of Police Terror "El Soviet" Out On the Workers' Front * A Union Delegate on the Mooney Meet by W.H.H. Hacker Lies * In Sec. Two C.P. A Rank and Filer Speaks Up * Amter Proscribes Opposition at Forum Amter Proscribes Oppositionist *Work in the I. L. D. -Opposition Active Despite Bureaucrats Litvinov In Turkey The Party Discusses the Negro Problem by Herbert Capelis Policy on the Negro Question The Negro and the Class Viewpoint In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Letter from Germany -The New Party Turn -The Menace of Fascism Increases by Ervin Bauer Fascism Again Shows Its Fangs The Communist Party Changes Its Course Social Democrats Discussing Russo-German Relations The Social-Democratic Opposition and the New Centrist Party * In Great Britain -Developments in England and Ireland by Anglicus Developments in England and Ireland More "Self-Criticism" The Irish Ferment Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Amter Will Get Your Money Back? * The Opposition on the Offensive For Clarity and Action -"Young Spartacus" to Appeal to Membership of Y.C.L. by G. R. We Must Reach Y.C.L. Activities in the Ranks of the Opposition New York Classes Begin Study Group Chicago Classes Greek Left Opposition in Appeal to British Sailors by the Archio-Marxists, Bolshevik-Leninists of the Left Opposition of Greece The Appeal to the British Sailors Proletariat Greets Sailors' Strike 31 Nov 14, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Meaning of the Elections -A Victory for Capitalism; a Defeat for Official Communism by Martin Abern The Capitalists Win Again The Bosses Look Now to the Democrats The Elections in New York The Petit-Bourgeois Appeal of the Socialists The Communist Party Vote The Communist Objective in Elections The N.Y. Party Program What Kind of Demands Should be Raised Win Workers to Communist Principles The Central Committee on the Elections The Party Pays the Price of Wrong Theory Jap War in Manchuria Menaces Soviet & World Proletariat -American Imperialists Join in Preparations for World-wide Conflagration by Martin Abern Behind the Smoke-screen of Japanese Imperialism Imperialist Provocations and Soviets' Policy of Peace The Dual Task of the Moment Defeat the Aims of the War Lords! Russ. Oppositionists On Hunger Strike! by N.M. What Laval Achieved by His Visit by Arne Swabeck What are the Specific Relations? The Preparations for These Conflicts The French Bourgeoisie a Worthy Ally The Militant Starts Its Fourth Year Give Assistance Today! On the Workers' Front * The Canadian Trials and the Opposition -Maurice Spector Addresses the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada by Maurice Spector Involuntary Exemption from Persecution Why Revolutionists Are Proscribed Reinstate the Left Opposition! *St. Louis Opposition Active in Mooney Movement by H. L. Goldberg Stalinists Disrupt United Front Conference I.L.D. Holds Sectarian Meet Opposition Calls for Mooney United Front * Stalinists Slander Expelled Greek Workers * Furriers Need Real Move for Unity by Robert Brilliant Demand Elections with Participation of All Registered Furriers Left Wing Must Support Striking Dress Furriers In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The General Strike in Barcelona -The Failure of the Anarchist Policy and the Revolutionary Strategy of the Communists by Andres Nin Strikes Under Present Conditions The Character of the September Strike What Should Be Our Attitude to "Chaotic" Movements? For Factory Councils The Experience of the Guerrilla Fight The Strike and Democratic Illusions The Internal Crisis of the C.N.T. Trotsky on Opposition and the Party in Spain by Leon Trotsky Our Relation to the Party Growth and Scope of the Opposition Editorial Notes * Where is the Mooney Movement? by James P. Cannon * The Economic Month by B.J. Fields "Young Spartacus" Out this Month! The Opposition Forum Very Significant Facts! -- by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) The Apparatus Men are Nervous Attend "Militant" Anniversary Dance 32 Nov 21, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Canadian Party Trial -The Government Outlaws the Communist Movement by Maurice Spector The Offensive Against the Workers Prosecution Mobilizes Its Heavy Artillery The Crown Spy a "Sensation" S.O.S! Help the Militant! An International Paper Japanese Imperialists Press On -Unite the Working Class Against the Capitalist War Plots by Martin Abern The Japanese Demands Situation Remains Critical Japan Determined to Dominate Manchuria The Capitalist Powers Want Their Booty The Aims of the Chinese Bourgeoisie American Imperialism at Its "Job" Tactics for the Communists White Guards Plot Against Trotsky Demonstration in Athens Against Terror Opposition in Drive for Jewish Paper The Role of the Press Next Step--A Jewish Paper Raise Funds On the Workers' Front * A "New Era" in A. C. W. by Albert Orland Hillman in a Deal with the Racketeers No Changes in Policies * Results of I. L. D. Methods in St. Louis by Charles Mahler Opposition Proposes Mooney Demonstration The Communists Must Lead and Unite Movement * The New York Opposition Forum * "Young Spartacus" is Out * Soviet Celebration in Staunton, Ill by H. L. Goldberg Tash Bungles Again * The Movement for Mooney in Boston by C. Shechet What the Conference Did The Lawrence Strike Rallying a Mass Defense Movement * Before the Party Control Commission by Leon Logan Party Member, Section Two, Unit 3, District Two At the Nucleus Meeting The Party--Against Lenin on the United Front Follow the Road of the Left Opposition * Engdahl on the Mooney United Front by Herbert Capelis A Negro Worker Protests In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * England -Conservatives Press Attack on Labor -Consequences of the Elections in Great Britain and Prospects for the Communists by Anglicus The Conservative Attack on Labour The Results for the Communists Prospects * The Repressions in Spain by Henry LaCroix * The Rise of Fascism in Britain by Caius Gracchus The Conservatives and Fascism The Road to Fascism * Russian-German Trade Relations by Leon Trotsky * On Soviet Germany and Soviet Russian Relations by Leon Trotsky * In Spain -The Political Situation -The Socialist-Republicans Support the Church by Henry LaCroix The Church Remains a Power Under the Republic New Laws Against the Workers The Masses Demand Bread Militant Dance This Saturday Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Case of Dreiser * The End of the Lawrence Strike Organization Notes Educational Activities Mooney Greets Soviet Russia Demonstrations in Soviet Russia Build a United Front Movement for Mooney Factory Councils in Germany and Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky The Employed and Unemployed The German "Ultra-Lefts" Phila. Defendants Appeal 33 Nov 28, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The War in Manchuria -Chinese Masses Develop Struggle Against Exploiters by Martin Abern The International Commission of Inquiry Japan Achieving Objectives Kuo Min Tang Uniting Bourgeoisie Chinese Toilers Organizing Resistance The Marine Workers Tortured in Jail -Defendants Plead Not Guilty to Charges in the New York "Dynamite Plot" by James P. Cannon A Letter from One of the Defendants by John G. Soderberg, Secretary-Treasurer, I. T. B. U. Swabeck Starts On National Tour Rail Bosses Drive for Wage Cuts by Arne Swabeck How the Capitalist Pressure Works Will There Be a Repetition of the Past? What About the Left Wing Movement? El Soviet Confiscated Urgent! -Help the Militant On the Workers' Front * The Tom Mooney Case -Walker and the Labor Fakers in Attempt to Derail the Class Issue by Arne Swabeck * Mooney Meet at Staunton, Ill. by John Scott Elect Committee to Initiate Movement * A Record of a Party Bureaucrat Soulounias's "Record" in Labor Struggles The Decision of the Central Control Committee * Build the Communist Youth Movement -"Young Spartacus" to Work for Clarity and Action by Martin Abern The Low Level of the Y.C.L. To-day The "Leadership" of Mineriches and Greens The Dismal Y.C.L. Paper--"Young Worker" Trotsky on the Youth For Clarity and Action The Course of the Communist Youth Opposition In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Soviet-U.S. Trade Relations -The Slogan for Long Term Credits by Martin Abern The Campaign Against the Soviets Amtorg Asks for Better Credits The False Doctrine of Stalin Immediate Demands For Working Class Unity * Mechanical Reorganization of the I.L.D. by R. Ulchin The Meaning of the Re-Organization Violations of the I.L.D. Constitution Rank and File Protests * In Spain -A Reactionary Gov't by Henry LaCroix The Role of Demagogues and Charlatans * Greek Manifesto Move for New Trial in Phila. Case Jewish Paper Activities In the Next Issue The Reply of Trotsky to Weisbord by Leon Trotsky Militant Builders The Chinese Revolution -The Permanent Revolution & the Canton Insurrection by Leon Trotsky The Objective Conditions on the Eve of the Insurrection The Duplicity of the E.C.C.I. The False Comparison Between Moscow, 1905 and Canton, 1927 An Inopportune Insurrection The Tasks of the Leadership Rebuild the Chinese Communist Party Editorial Notes -The Membership Campaign by James P. Cannon 34 Dec 5, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Events in Manchuria -Japanese Achieving Objectives -Kuo Min Tang Attacks Rising Workers' Movement by Martin Abern The Chinese Bourgeoisie Capitulate Before the Imperialists The Oppression Against the Chinese Masses Relations With the Soviet Union The Importance of Chinchow Revive the Workers' Movement in China News from the Far East -China Seeks to Renew Soviet Relations Demand for Renewed Relations Increases Class Basis of the Anti-Japanese Boycott The Exploiters Band Together Chinese Police Attack Demonstrating Workers Militant Situation is Critical Marine Workers' Defense is Organized -Militant Workers Rally to the Defense of Soderberg, Bunker and Trajer Statement and Appeal of the Marine Workers' Defense Committee They Have Not "Confessed" The Role of an Agent Provocateur The Want to Destroy the Boatmen's Union Bestial Third Degree Torture Our Duty of Solidarity A Letter From the Defendants by J. Soderberg, Wm. Trajor, T. Hunker, Members of the I.T.B.U. Entertainment for "El Soviet" Swabeck National Tour Well Under Way Book Review -"Lenin" by Prince D.S. Mirsky--Little Brown & Co. by Martin Abern The Prince's Hero Is--Stalin The Defendants Before the Docks in Canada -The Government Aims to Attack All of the Communist Forces; An Evaluation of the Defense by Maurice Spector The Prosecutions Material Party History Trade Union Policy Bruce's Testimony Buck's Arguments Prosecution and Judge in Joint Attack Aim to Attack All Communist Groups Evaluation of the Defence Other Shortcomings of the Defense The Work of the Greek Opposition -The Archio-Marxists Lead the Workers in the Class Struggle by A. S-in The Press Political Activities Unemployment Elections Trade Unions Organization Formation of Cadres Spartakos The Slogan of Our Organization Differences with the Party on Concrete Political Questions Political Banditry in the French Communist Party -The Party is Conducting Factional Struggles Without Principles or Platform by Max Shachtman Revelations of the Party Conference of Paris Preparations For Another "Decisive Turn" Another Scapegoat is Discovered Explaining Away the "Excesses" of Stalinism Who Are "The Group"? Sordid Practices Revealed Who Are the Fighters Against the Left Opposition? What Needs to be Done Jewish Workers Attention Chicago Lectures Chinese Communist Gets 10 Years Communist Beheaded The N.Y. Forum Stalinist Attack on Greek Worker Boston Meeting A Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky -The British Election and the Communists Traditions of the English Proletariat The Laborites Use the Stalinites Tasks of the British Left Opposition Cannon to Speak before I.W.W. Notes From England Illinois Miners on the Go for Tom Mooney by George Clarke 35 Dec 12, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition]0 Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The N. Y. "Dynamite Plot" -Marine Union Supports Defendants by James P. Cannon Left Opposition Holds First Public Marine Defense Meet The Exploitation of the N. Y. Harbor Boatmen by Jack Soderberg, Secretary-Treasurer of the I.T.B.U. Miserable and Degrading Living Conditions The Union is Formed Urgent! -Help the Militant Railroads in Wage Cut Drive -Mobilize Railroad Workers in Struggle for Six Hour Day by Martin Abern The Wage Cuts Begin Bosses Sharply Reject Six Hour Day Six Hour Day is Rallying Brotherhood Heads Are the Allies of the Bosses Preparing Sell-Out Through Board of Mediation Conditions of Railroad Labor Heads and Bosses Congratulate Each Other Railroaders! Prepare for Struggle The Economic Month by B. J. Fields For the 6 Hour Day -No Pay Reduction -The Importance of the Struggle for the Shorter Work Day by Hugo Oehler The Main Slogans The Importance of the Struggle To Reduce Working Hours Reduction of Hours Is Strong Blow Against the Bosses Party Policy Makes Easier the Role of Reformists and Fakers Confusion among the Furriers by Robert Brilliant Gold's Remarks A Protest From the Ranks Progress for Jewish Paper In Minneapolis Red Christmas in Affair in N.Y. Meetings in Staunton, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo., Arranged for Swabeck Kansas City Meeting for Swabeck Study Class in Kansas City In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Black Shirt Dictatorship -The Problems of Revolutionary Struggle in Italy by Feroci The Difficulty In Spreading Information The Issue: Fascism or Communism Lessons From Various Countries * England at the Cross-Roads by Anglicus The Changed Political Outlook * Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects Relative Mildness of the French Crisis in 1930, Increasing Sharpness in 1931 Historical Background of French Capitalism Tables for "Perspectives of the Economic Crisis of France" * Economic Crisis Hits Workers of Greece by P. P. Worsening of the Workers' Situation Trade Union Unity International Labor Defense The Terror Tasks of the Left Opposition in England and India -Some Critical Remarks on an Unsuccessful Thesis, November 7, 1931, by Leon Trotsky The Kerensky Period for Great Britain The British Trade Unions--Their Past and Future The Road of the Workers Toward Revolution Lenin's Dictum: Work in All Labor Organizations The Left Opposition and the Comintern The British Communist Party The Movement in India First Tasks First Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * On Which Side? * The Opposition on the Eve of Great Advances 36 Dec 19, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Marine Defense Works Grows -New Forces Come to the Assistance of the Defendants Youth Organizations Support Marine Defense (Exchange of letters between Maurice Goldbloom, Acting Chairman, N.Y. District, Intercollegiate Student Council, League for Industrial Democracy and Lillian Bord, Secretary, Marxian Youth Club.) Japanese Entrenched in Manchuria -Provocation Against Soviet Union Fails; China Protest Grows by Martin Abern Nothing Settled The Movement in China The Kuo Min Tang Betrayers The Communist Party Christmas Eve Affair Write to the Prisoners Chinese Labor Federation Blocked Minneapolis -Attention! (Lectures, Meeting and Banquet for Arne Swabeck) Hoover's Message to Congress Demonstrates Capitalist Bankruptcy by Martin Abern A Bankrupt Capitalism The World We Live In Marx and Engels Corroborated Hoover's Internationalism The Facts and Results of Mass Unemployment Hoover is for Wage Reductions Significant Figures Functions of Government and Taxation Building a Movement Against Capitalism Railway Union Heads Betray Workers by Sam Gordon The Sell-Out at Chicago Strike Votes For The Six Hour Day--Against Wage Cuts News from China * Effects of Anti-Japanese Boycott on Sino-Japanese Trade Sharp Drop Since Jap Invasion * Kuo Min Tang Bans Strikes * Shanghai Police Suppress Strikes * Chinese Communists Celebrate November 7; Many Arrests The Needles Trades in St. Louis by Caroline Anderson Elementary Work is Needed Minneapolis Opposition Holds Open Forum New York Forum Entertainment for "Communistes", Greek Opposition Paper on Saturday, December 19. Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects by B. J. Fields (Continued from the previous issue) Relative Backwardness of French Industry In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The French C.G.T.U. Congress -Issue of Trade Union Unity Confounded by Stalinists by Felix "Self-Criticism" Monmousseau Reports The Issue of Trade Union Unity Minority Delegates Propose Correct Line Rush Through Agenda Left Opposition Has Correct Path * A Letter to Andres Nin -The Catalonian Separatists, Soviets, and the Communists by Leon Trotsky, Sept. 1st 1931 The Slogan of Soviets Workers' Control The Separatist Movement and the Iberian Soviet Federation * In Germany -A Very Dangerous Strategic Error -Policy of the Communist Party Hastens Fascist Menace by Ervin Bauer Proletariat Develops United Front Against Fascism C.P. Fails to Carry Out United Front Towards S.P.D. False Strategy of C.P. Holds Grave Dangers for Workers Stalinist Policy Leads to Capitulation Before Enemy The Menace of German Fascism Fight to Remove C.P. Policy of Despair What Is A Revolutionary Situation? -The Decisive Importance of the Communist Party by Leon Trotsky, Nov. 17, 1931 The Beginning of a Revolutionary Situation The Changing Outlook of the Classes The Rate of Development The Decisive Importance of a Matured Communist Party What is Coming? Swabeck National Tour Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The "Hunger March" * The Kentucky Miners * Greetings to "Communistes" * The Canadian Communist Trials Chicago Opposition Meets Prisoners Fund Dance 37 Dec 26, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Persecution of Left Opposition -Stalin Works for the Physical Destruction of the Bolshevik-Leninists Who Are The Opposition? List of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Left Opposition) in the Verchne-Uralsk Prison The Militant is in Danger! Will you Help? The Conspiracy Against the R. R. Workers by Albert Glotzer Labor Officials Betray Workers Workers Must Organize Resistance Notice -New Pamphlet on Germany by Leon Trotsky The National Tour (Of Arne Swabeck) Menace of Fascism Imperils Germany -United Front of Masses Needed to Ward off Danger by Sam Gordon How the Bourgeoisie Copes With the Crisis The World Imperialists and German Fascism Hitlerism: Farce or Menace? The Significance of the Thaelmann Article Marine Workers to Hold Defense Meet A Letter From Reilly (One of the original defendants in the marine workers' case) Cantonese Continue Capitalist Policy -Chinese Proletariat Must Develop Struggle for Democratic Rights by Martin Abern The Canton Bourgeois Clique The "Achievements" of Stalin and the Browders The Struggle For Democratic Rights The Soviet Union and the Imperialists For Communist Unity Correction Going the Rounds in Moscow Free Speech Fight in Denver Swabeck Meetings in St. Louis and Stanton by Thomas Stamm In St. Louis Mooney Protest Growing Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects by B. J. Fields (Continued from previous issue) Special Factors in French Post-War Crisis Perspectives In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The British Scene -National Government in Sharp Attack On the Workers' Standards by Anglicus National Government Lowers Workers' Standards Prepare for Struggles * In India -The Significance of Kashmir by "A" Living Conditions in Kashmir Britain Wants Kashmir's Oil Britain Supports Pan-Islamic Movement in India * The Left Opposition in Switzerland by Walter Nelz Publish Newspaper Composed of Young Comrades * French Evict Chinese * Hankow Communists Executed * War Chief Admits Failure Against Reds Stalin and the Chinese Revolution -Facts and Documents by Leon Trotsky The Block of Four Classes The Perspectives of the Revolution According to Stalin Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek The Strategy of Lenin and the Strategy of Stalin The Government of Chiang Kai-Shek as a Live Refutation of the State Second Issue of Young Spartacus is Out New York Open Forum China's Silk Industry Stagnant Attention! Minneapolis Open Forum Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * The Downfall of Volkszeitung * How They Play With the Great Slogans * A Race with Time