CONTENTS BY ISSUE (1932) 1 Jan 2, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Mass Meeting for Marine Workers Defense -New Forces Join Defense Committee The Struggle for Power in Germany by Albert Glotzer The Basis for Fascism Fascist Growth and Threats The Capitulationist Policy of the Party For a United Front Against Fascism Martial Law At Foochow The Geneva Disarmament Bluff -"Disarmament" Conference Will Expose Imperialist Rivalries and Aims Against the Soviet Union by Martin Abern The Cost of Militarism A Fake Disarmament Conference The Proposal of the Soviet Union Imperialist Rivalries A United States of Europe or a Soviet United States of Europe The Fundamental Struggle: For Capitalism or Communism Pacifism--A Middle Class Movement Militarism and War: A Class Problem Trotsky Pamphlet on International Situation Japs Use Russian White Guards to Provoke Soviets In the Needle Trades -Tasks Before the Plenum of the Needle Trades Industrial Union by Sylvia Bleeker A Genuine United Front Imperative Lovestone for Liquidation Issues of Struggle Must Be Posed Opposition Points the Way New York Open Forum (Albert Glotzer speaks on his visit to Trotsky) The Economic Month by B.J. Fields In the Workmen's Circle -The Membership Begins to Awaken by J.B. The Paterson Strike and the W.C. Scabs Socialist Party Supports Scab Members A Movement for a Special Conference Carpenter's Local Supports Marine Defense by W. H. H. Prospects for Jewish Paper Bright (Communist League of America (Opposition) Jewish organ to be called "Unser Kamf") Philadelphia -Mass Meeting (A lecture by Arne Swabeck on "The Economic Crisis and Communism") In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Stalin and the Chinese Revolution -Facts and Documents by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) How Did the Shanghai Overturn Occur? The Organizers of the "Influx of Workers and Peasants Blood" Stalin Repeats His Experiment With the "Left" Kuo Min Tang Against the Opposition--For the Kuo Min Tang! Stalin Once Again Disarms the Workers and Peasants * Imprisoned for Chalking Communist Slogans Mother Mooney Denounces Gov. Rolph by Mary Mooney Entertainment in New York for Young Spartacus A Sojourn With Comrade Leon Trotsky -Five Weeks in Kadikoy by Albert Glotzer Successful Banquet for Press Held in Mpls. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Evidence Made To Order * Foreign Language Problems * Where Did They Learn? 2 Jan 9, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Our Martyrs -Liebknecht and Luxemburg by Joseph Carter Japanese-American Conflict -The Recent Manchurian Incident as a Factor in World Politics by Sam Gordon Clarity on War Danger! Capitalist Politicians Favor Russian Credits; Stalinists Mark Time The Impending Danger of Fascism in Germany -A Letter to a German Communist Worker on the United Front Against Hitler by Leon Trotsky -Where Lies the Mistake in the Present Policy of the German Communist Party What Does Hitler Want? What is Concealed Behind Hitler's Stratagem? We Must Plan According to the Shorter Perspective Thaelmann Considers the Victory of Fascism Inevitable Once Again: The Russian Experiences Is Bruening the "Lesser Evil"? It is not a Question of the Workers Who Have Already Left the Social Democracy But of Those Who Still Remain With It We Must Force the Social Democracy Into a Block Against the Fascists A Good Quotation from Lenin Opposition Leader Attested in Argentina Mooney Conference in Belleville Japanese Communist Wins Voluntary Departure to Russia Stalin Makes Party History to Order -Killing a "Dead Trotskyism" for the 1,000th Time by E.O. With the Opposition in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl The Red Movement in Bulgaria Philadelphia Mass Meeting (Lecture on "The Economic Crisis and Communism" by Arne Swabeck) Swabeck Tour Results Kansas City by George Clarke Chicago, Ill. by J.S.G. Our Mind is Unchanged (The Militant proposes that "Revolutionary Age" should change its name to "Victorian Age" instead of the planned "Workers' Age") Death Penalty for Anti-Imperialist Agitation In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Developments in the Spanish Revolution by L. Fersen Overthrow of Monarchy Inevitable Change in Spain Reactionary The Deception of the Cortes Left * A Series of Articles on Spain * Under the Banner of Marxism -Opposition in England -Party Members Form Nucleus to Fight for Leninism by -S. Entertainment In New York for Young Spartacus New Trotsky Pamphlet Coming Communism of Fascism in Germany? Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Proletarian Party Split * Bombs for New Year's 3 Jan 16, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Bankers and Jobless Relief -The Tammany Government Machine is Whipped into Line by H. P. Increased Fare Fight Cutting Down Relief The Bankers' Idea Japs Subsidize Russian Whites -Hire Semenov, Notorious Cossack Adventurer in Mongolian Drive Semenov at Work Is Stalin Preparing New 1923 in Germany by Max Shachtman The Advance of the Fascists Boastful Claims and Sorry Realities What Stalin Once Advised The Party Ranks Must Speak! Russian Opposition Persecuted -A Letter from Moscow New York Banquet Feb. 6 -To Greet "Unser Kamf" and Three Returned Comrades Stalinists Disrupt Mooney Confab by Thomas Stamm Condemn M.N. Roy to Exile Trotsky's "History" to Be Out Soon Marine Defense Meet -Hundreds Gather to Protest "Dynamite Plot" Frame-Up by -S. Rosa Luxemburg -On the Anniversary of Her Assassination by the German Social Democrats by Maurice Spector Imperialism and Social Democracy Bernstein's Revisionism The Struggle Against Opportunism The Russian Revolution The Precious Heritage of Rosa by James P. Cannon The Obsolete Craft System in the Railroad Brotherhoods by A. E. Bureaucratism and Class Collaboration Swabeck Tour Swabeck in Philly by L.G. Successful Pittsburgh Meeting How to Make the Kentucky Miners' Defense Really Effective In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Workers and Revolutionary Movements * Revolt Brewing in India -Gandhi Holds Masses in Check by Reformist Maneuvers by Sam Gordon A Shrewd Mahatma Signs of Militancy * Thaelmann's Belated Self-Criticism -The Leader of the German Communist Party "Examines" Some of Its Mistakes by W. M. Thaelmann's Self-Criticism * The Results of the Toronto Election by S. Green The Communist Ticket A Safe and Sane Candidate The Party Program * Government Repression in Republican Spain by Henri Lacroix (With a letter from Ramos to Max Shachtman about the situation in Spain) Stifling the Labor Defense by R. Ulchin German Opposition Organization Growing Adopt Political Resolution The Swabeck Meeting in Youngstown by Frank Cheloff The Spanish Articles What is Fascism? -Extracts From a Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Darrow and the Scottsboro Case * United Front Prospects 4 Jan 23, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Forward in Lenin's Way! -The Left Opposition Alone Carries on the Work of Ilitch Lenin's Last Words to the Party by Vladimir Ilitch Lenin, Jan. 4, 1923 Left Opposition in Appeal to Needle Trades Workers for United action in Struggle United Action is Imperative Why Hitler Promises New Trotsky Pamphlet Out Hitler Prepares to Strike -Stalinist Leadership Impotent in Face of Impending Struggle by Sam Gordon Hitler and the Weimar Constitution Why Hitler Promises Private Debts Payment For Attack on the Soviet Union Thaelmann & Co. Prepare for Capitulation Fascists Prepared for Struggle Left Opposition in Appeal to Needle Trades Workers for United Action in Struggle United Action is Imperative A Review of the Recent Nation Tour -The Sweep of the Economic Crisis; Its Effects on the Revolutionary Movement by Arne Swabeck Meetings in the Mine Field St. Louis Crowd Responsive The Tour Further West Minneapolis Movement Growing Excellent Meeting in Chicago Winding Up in the East A Setback for Stalinism by W. H. H. On the Question of the State by Marin Abern Class Society and the State The Proletarian State The Soviet Government Today The Viewpoint of the Opposition Resurge of Mine Struggles -Miners Learning, Gathering Forces for Coming Fight by Gerry Allard Causes for Retreat The Miners' Educational Leagues The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat by Andres Nin The Socialists and Democratic Illusions Leroux, the Spanish Miliukov Whither, the Party Bourgeoisie? For Communist Action! -Documents of the German Left Opposition Shachtman Lectures at Opposition Forum A Correction In Spain: "The Democratic Republic of the Workers" -A First Hand Account of Conditions Under the Socialist-Republican Regime by Max Shachtman The Conditions of the Workers The Misery of Unemployment The Two Revolutions The Proletarian Party Opposition by Hugo Oehler Unemployment and Communism by Thomas Stamm Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Another Defeat in Kentucky * A Sorry Adventure 5 Jan 30, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the German Situation by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) What Will Decide? The Ruinous theory of Stalinism What a Fascist Victory Means Act Before It is Too Late Japanese Invade Shanghai! -War Threat in the Far East and Against the Soviet Union by Sam Gordon Undeclared Open War Anti-Soviet Advances Chinese Experiences Not Forgotten All Out On Feb 4! Utilize Feb. 4 Meets to Build Jobless Movement by Arne Swabeck Possibilities for Movement Growing Failures Should Be Recognized Some Practical Steps Forward The Recent Outbreaks in Spain by Max Shachtman "Law for Defense of Republic" The Arnedo Massacre Bureaucracy in the R. R. Brotherhoods by A. E. (Continued from the January 16, 1931 issue) The Brotherhood Bureaucracy Nothing Done to Rebuild the Unions "Father" Cox Gets Free Hand in Pittsburgh by L. Archy Unser Kamf Off the Press Lovestone Splitters Calls for Unity by Max Shachtman Unemployment and the Party by Thomas Stamm (Continued from last issue) Young Spartacus Out Chicago Stalinists Disrupt Conference by --J. Statement of the Chicago Left Opposition In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain: The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat by Andres Nin * In Bulgaria * Rumblings in the German Social Democracy by Erwin Bauer * A Letter to a Comrade -Left Opposition and the Brandlerites by Leon Trotsky In K. C. Opposition by --C. Book Review -Lasalle by Arne Schirokauer by --M. GTN. A Communication (About the Kentucky Miners Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Father Cox * Attacking the Marine Workers' Defense * A Progressive Tendency 6 Feb 6, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Railroad Wage Cut by Arne Swabeck A Class Approach Necessary New Developments in the Far East -Western Imperialists Register Protests as Japs Hold on to Booty by Sam Gordon Statement of the Marine Workers Defense The Work of the Defense Committee How the Disrupters Acted at the Time of the Arrest The United Front Policy of the Defense Committee The Attempt to Disrupt the Legal Defense on the Eve of the Trial The Fraudulent Issue of "Class Struggle Defense" The "Uprising" of Nov 7 by Leon Trotsky What Really Happened? Build the Opposition Press! "Reconstruction Finance Commission" Ruse by H. Stone The Importance of Bank Stability The Trends to be Counter-Balanced A Dole for Bankers--Starvation for Workers Organization Notes * Buffalo P.P. Opposition Endorses Left * Kansas City, Mo. * Philadelphia, PA. For a Fighting Unity of the New York Food Workers The Mistakes of the Past The Struggle of the Railroad Workers by A.E. Brotherhood Officials Too Busy Enjoying Their Big Salaries to Organize the Workers The Recent Wage Cut (Of the railroad Workers) by Hugo Oehler I. L. D. in Boston by Charlotte Shechet Amter Speaks on the Radio by Thomas Stamm A Fatal Interview The Capitalist Solution Amter Fails Miserably In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Terror Against the Greek Opposition from "Pali Ton Taxeon", the organ of the Greek Left Opposition The Crimes of the Capitalist Prisons Must be Brought to Light The Victims of Capitalist Atrocities Are in Danger * History Made to Order al la Stalin by M. Mill Stalin Creates a History of Apologetics A Red Historian Dares Quote Lenin Through Ten Editions Stalin Does a Bit of "Rearming" * Left Opposition in Toronto * German Opposition Documents -False Strategy--False Tactics Dangerous Perspectives * A Letter from Germany No United Front! Winning S.P. Workers Spain's Bourgeoisie on the Offensive by Max Shachtman (Second in a series of articles on Spain by the author who has recently returned from Spain) An Atmosphere of Suppression Legalizing an Organization The Government and Strikes A Dictatorial Power Resolution of the Marxian Y. C. Correction 7 Feb 13, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck N. Y. Dressmakers Strike -Workers Unity Against the Common Enemy Imperative by Arne Swabeck Imperialists Meet at Geneva -French and Americans Wrangle for Lead in Struggle Against U.S.S.R. by Sam Gordon Common Action Among Imperialists Is Trotsky's Life to be Kept in Danger? Philadelphia Oppositionists Sentenced Com. Glotzter's National Tour Help Build the Opposition Press! Pay Reductions in the Building Trades -A Blow at the Workers' Standard Throughout All the Trades by Arne Swabeck Morgenstern and Goodman Sentenced -A Letter From the Two Philadelphia Defendants R.R. Fakers & Bosses Join Hands -To Improve the Health of "Our" Industry by A. E. Labor Bureaucrats Play the Role of Puppets Now Listen to "Davy" "Dan" Joins with "Davy" The Minneapolis Branch of the Left Opposition in the Fight for the Unemployed by the Communist League of America (Opposition) Minneapolis Branch Minneapolis, Minn. Statement: Save February 4th Victims The Annual Heresy Trial by Thomas Stamm Tampa Tobacco Workers Struggle Evictions In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Opposition Forges Ahead -Growing Sentiment for United Struggle against Fascism from Permanente Revolution, January 16, 1932 * The Split in the Brandler Group by Marsh * Changes in Policy of French Imperialism from La Verite * Reactionary Policies and the Working Class Movement in Spain by Henri Lacroix "The Law for the Defense of the Republic" The Workers' Solution In Spain: The Socialists and State Power -Reformists Maneuver to Avoid Responsibility Before the Laboring Masses by Max Shachtman The Socialists in the Coalition The Purpose of a "Socialist" Government The Attitude of the Socialists The Reformists Fear the Consequences What is the Official C.P. Doing From Comrade Trotsky's Letter to the National Sections by Leon Trotsky Greece Russia The January Conference of the C.P.S.U. Pioneer Publisher Notes The Draft Program Certificate Holders Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * I. W. W. Wisdom * Lassalle 8 Feb 20, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Labor Fakers Before Congress -The A.F. of L. Bureaucrats Finally Recognize the "Dole" by Arne Swabeck World Powers at Loggerheads -Japanese Repulsed in China as Laval Cabinet Falls in Paris by Sam Gordon The Jailed Marine Workers and the I.L.D. by Jack Soderberg Oppositionist Victim of White Terror in Greece Glotzer Meetings (National tour schedule, his subject is "What is Europe Heading For?") The Presidential Elections in Germany by Albert Glotzer Aid in Our Circulation Drive Young Spartacus Affair From the Needle Strike Front Organization Notes Our Second National Tour The Simms Murder Book Review -Unemployed Councils in St. Petersburg in 1906 by Sergei Malyshev, Workers Library Publishers by G.R. After the R. R. Wage Cut by A. E. Complete Harmony Prevails at the Wage-Cutting Meet In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Character of Fascism -An Analysis of the Composition of the Hitlerite Camp by Erwin Bauer (Berlin) * The Government Reprisals in Greece * Sharp Changes in Foreign Policy of the French Imperialists from La Verite * The Stalinists in Bulgaria -Use Violence Against Oppositionists in the Prisons by D. Gatcheff The Right Wing of Spanish Communism -The Truth Concerning the Actual Policy and Influence of the Maurin Group by Max Shachtman The Litvinoff Stand on Disarmament by Albert Orland Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Learn from the Workers * United Front in Practice * Morgenstern and Goodman 9 Feb 29, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Germany Before the Elections by Sam Gordon New York Dress Strike Grows -Workers' Militancy Attains Unity on the Picket Line The Glass-Steagall Bill -- A Measure to Aid the Bankers by H. Stone Canadian Workers Fight Against Reaction Glotzer Meetings Our Press Needs Your Help! John L. Lewis Continues His Betrayals -A Review of the Thirty-second Convention of the United Mine Workers of America Lovestoneites in the Workmen's Circle by J. B. The Lovestoneites play Their Role Is Mooney to Stay in Jail? -Reactionaries Make Capital of Stalinists' Blunders by Thomas Stamm A Letter from Our Class War Prisoners by Leon Goodman and Bernard Morgenstern In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working class and Revolutionary Movements * The Character of Fascism -An Analysis of the Composition of the Hitlerite Camp by Erwin Bauer (Berlin) (Continued from last issue) The Struggle Against Social Democracy, and the United Front Thaelmann Fails to Correct False Views Dangers of Calling Present Condition Fascism Basis For False Analyses and Tactics * Lessons of the Recent Events in Spain -An Official Document of the Spanish Left Opposition on the Results of the Struggle by the Left Communist Opposition of Catalonia, Jan. 26, 1932 * The Latest Anti-Trotsky Campaign by Sam Gordon Proletarian Party Opposition -Some Fundamental Problems of Its Future Course Discussed by Arne Swabeck Some Serious Progress Already Made Will This Group Continue in a Progressive Direction Pioneer Publisher Notes Whither England Pamphlet on Germany Bound Volume of Pamphlets History of the Russian Revolution A New Book on China A Letter from a Militant by W.S. "Pravda" on the Second 5 Year Plan -A National Socialist Utopia or the Leninist Conception of Socialist Economy? by Max Shachtman The Disregard for the International The Second Five Year Plan What Socialism Means Socialism and the World Economy Paris Commune Celebration 10 Mar 5, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Dress Strike Settlement -Some Lessons the Left Wing Must Draw from It by Arne Swabeck The Serious Weakness of Two Separate Strikes Fake Peace Gestures in Far East -Imperialists Jockeying for Position in Coming World Clashes by Sam Gordon Lovestoneites Disrupt Rank and File Movement in the A.C.W. Union by Albert Orland Who Will Organize the Revolt? The Necessity of a Correct Policy Shachtman - Tresca Debate Glotzer Tour Meets Success Lenin and Trotsky in 1905 -On Some Stalinist Distortions of History by Hugo Oehler On the February Revolution Trotsky and the Peasantry Lenin on Colonial Revolution The "Democratic Dictatorship" A Story of Boss Violence in the Illinois Mine Fields by Germinal The R.R. Workers and the Wage Cut -A Militant Looks at Conditions in his Industry and Reviews the Past Must Acknowledge Mistakes Unity Solidarity a Crying Need The Militant Subscription Drive Lectures on the History of the Communist International "Young Spartacus" No. 4 Out In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Political Scene by Erwin Bauer Nazi Terror Increases United Front is Only Solution * The Spanish Communist Party in the Revolution by Max Shachtman Manuilsky Admits Errors * Greek Oppositionist Victim of Terror Organization of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Archio-Marxist Left Opposition) "An Attack Against the Police" The Memorial Meeting Book Review -"The History of the Russian Revolution, Volume 1, The Overthrow of Tzarism" Translated by Max Eastman, Published by Simon and Shuster, Inc. New York, review by Sam Gordon Rakovsky on the Five Year Plan by Christian Rakovsky Uphold Our Revolutionary Classics! by Arne Swabeck N.Y. Paris Commune Affair A Lecture of Interest to Jewish Workers 11 Mar 12, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Sunday's Elections in Germany -The Alignment of Class Forces in the Campaign Struggle by Arne Swabeck The Working class Divided in Two Main Groups Growth of Fascist Reaction a Threat to Whole Working Class Is the Way Out Through a Fascist Dictatorship Communist Party Fails in Great Possibilities German Left Opposition Appeals to Party for United Front Policy Trotsky's Discusses World Situation (Reprint of an interview with Leon Trotsky) -Trotsky Answers Some Fundamental Questions -Gives Views on Problems of Communist Movement in Soviet Russia, Europe and the United States Appraisal of Five-Year Plan Soviet Russia and the Capitalist World Attitude Toward the Stalin Regime Weakening of Bureaucracy Predicts His Party's Return For Support of Bruening?--A Stalinist Slander The Present Crisis: Its Effects on Europe and America Ford Thugs Massacre Starving workers -Police Give Workers Lead Instead of Bread Action Teaches Lessons Relief Struggle Growing Government Persecution Coming Press Circulation Drive N.Y. Paris Commune Affair The Economic Month -Further Decline in Production and Workers Living Standard by H. Stone Organization Notes Cleveland, Ohio Minneapolis, Minn. St. Louis, Mo. Railroads & Strike Policy -The Strike Weapon and Its Rejection by the Misleaders by A.E. Strike Policy vs. Cooperation Policy United Front of Southern Miners Imperative Support the Relief and Defense! United Front Necessary Support "Unser Kamf" "Young Spartacus" No. 4 In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Party and C.I. in England * A Few Lessons of the Anarchist Uprisings in Spain by Hugo Oehler * Rakovsky on the Five Year Plan by Christian Rakovsky (Continued from last issue) * The Communists and the Agrarian Crisis Agrarian Development Under Capitalism The Agrarian Crisis Effects of the Land Crisis Youth Club Activities -Youth Class Young Spartacus Affair -Youth Affair Book Review -"The Strategy of World Revolution" written by Leon Trotsky, review by G. R. Trotsky on the Character of Our Epoch The Illusions of the Anglo-Russian Committee Lectures on the History of the Communist International Glotzer's National Tour 12 Mar 19, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lenin on the Paris Commune New Trotsky Series on Germany Starts Next Week After the Massacre in Detroit Remember our Prisoners Results of the German Elections -Gains of Reaction Serious Warning against Stalinist Policy by Sam Gordon New York Marine Workers Go to Trial The Communists and the Agrarian Crisis by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) Our Subscription Drive Attention Greek Workers! Letters from The Militants * Drug Clerks Organize by I.D. * The Dress Strike in Boston by Joe Carter * Stalinist Flattery or Marxist Education by Paul Schwalbe * Another Expulsion from the I. L. D. by Herbert Capelis In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * A Shanghai View on Chinese Events by C. Frank Glass * "Stalin and His Creatures" -- The New Anti-Trotsky Campaign by Monyak * The German Opposition at Work by Roman Well Political and Organizational Activity Literature and Press Class In Marxism The World Crisis and Its Revolutionary Implications by Leon Trotsky from "Germany--the Key to the International Situation." The Spanish Revolution The Situation in England France The United States Japan China Manchuria Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Threat of Illegality * The Situation and Its Tasks * A False Slogan Back Numbers of "Militant" Wanted 13 Mar 26, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Rebel Miners in Action! -New Movement in the Anthracite Growing Rapidly by Arne Swabeck Vote Stealing and Convention Packing Mine Strikes Elsewhere Rumblings of New Revolts Revolts Localized--Not United A National Perspective for a United Front A Statement of the International Left Opposition -Statement on the Recent Decree Depriving Comrade Trotsky of Soviet Citizenship (From the International Secretariat of the Left Opposition) The "Revolt" in Congress -An Indication of Radical Changes in Bourgeois Politics by Sam Gordon The Workers' United Front in Canada -The Working Class United Front Against Reaction in Canada by S. Green The Turn in Policy Perspectives The Raids on Hitler's Nazis in Prussia What Next? by Leon Trotsky (The introduction to Trotsky's new book on Germany) Statement of Gerry Allard -Oppositionist Answers Stalinist Slanders Differences With the Party The "Militant" Needs YOUR Help Now! Swabeck's Class in Marxism "Soviet's Challenge" at the Acme Theatre Letters from The Militants * Pocket Book Workers Prepare for Strike by N. Davis * Farmer-Laborites in Minn. by Sara Avrin * Left Opposition Activities in the Middle West * Opposition Greeks Answer "Empros" In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * For the Unity of Spanish Communism -An Open Letter of the Spanish Left Opposition Addressed to all Communists * Hail the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Red Army! The Truth About the Birth of the Red Army A Decree of the Council of People's Commissars Rakovsky on the Five Year Plan by Christian Rakovsky (Continued from last issue) A Decree of the council of People's Commissars, January 15, 1918 14 Apr 2, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Marine Workers on Trial Scottsboro Verdict Must Be Smashed by Thomas Stamm What Next? -Chapter 1: The Role of the German Social Democracy by Leon Trotsky Germany after the Presidential Elections by Roman Well Open Letter to the C. E. C. of the U.S.S.R. by Leon Trotsky A Thermidorean Trick An Expression of Impotence Hearst's Program and the Petty Bourgeoisie by Hugo Oehler Wants Cheap, Efficient Government The Middle Class Demands Jingoism Breaks Through A Dangerous Stalinist Slogan Anti-Working Class Program Second Month of Militant Drive Letters from The Militants * Among the Drug Clerks by J.D. * On the Waterfront by P. S. * N. Y. Auto Workers * Resolution of the N. Y. Carpenters' Union Proposals for an Agreement With the Employers Organizational and Relief Demands * In Honor of M. Winchewsky In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * For Communist Unity -An Open Letter of the Spanish Left Opposition (Continued from last issue) * New Tendencies in French Politics -World Crisis Reveals Long Latent Contradictions Between Social Classes by Pierre Frank The Seventh Convention of the C.P.F. Progress for the Left Opposition Spartacus--Y.P.S.L. Debate The New Book on Germany Fifty Years of Israel Amter Impressions of a National Tour by Albert Glotzer Tag Day for Marine Defense April "Young Spartacus" Out! 15 Apr 9, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Trade Relations with the U.S.S.R. by Arne Swabeck American Imperialist Aggression The Question of Soviet Trade Relations Demand U.S. Credits to the Soviet Union Stool-pigeon Discredited at Marine Trial Open Letter to the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R. by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Miners Resist New Onslaught -Unification of Rebel Movements Urgent Duty of Revolutionary Party Strikes Growing in Other Fields Can the Isolated Movements Be United? What Should the National Miners Union Do? Hitler Scoffs at Threat to '"Outlaw" Nazis Militant Drive Yields Results Letters from The Militants * Opposition Branch Formed in Newark * Free Speech in the Party? by S. A. * Trotsky Meeting in Duluth by Charles Curtis * The Struggle around the Volkszeitung * Attention Y.C.L.-er! In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Opposition Shows the Way -Communist of Bruchal Apply Genuine Leninist United Front Tactic The C.P.G. in Forst Joins the L.O. How the Party Bureaucracy "Liquidates" the L.O. in Bruchsal The Lying Methods of the Stalinist Bureaucracy * Germany After the Presidential Elections by Roman Well (Continued from last issue) * A Letter from Czechoslovakia by O. Friedman The Economic Situation Political Developments Present Political Currents The Policy of the Left Opposition Debate in the Bronx Book Review -The Strange Career of Of Mr. Hoover--Under Two Flags, written by John S. Hamil, reviewed by Albert Glotzer Democracy and Fascism by Leon Trotsky Help Defend Kentucky Miners! Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Scottsboro * Why So Hot? 16 Apr 16, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck War and Social Chauvinism -Alarm Signals Against Jingoist Trends in the Communist Party by Max Shachtman Biased Judge Convicts Marine Workers Crucial Moment Nearing in Germany! -Statement of the National Committe, Communist League of America (Opposition) What Vote Indicates Growing Resentment of Workers Foodworkers Roused Against Bureaucrats Organization Notes Newark, N.J. N.Y. Activities Letters from The Militants * Two Reformist Meets by Carl Cowl * Movie Chains Try to Smash Union by Thomas Stamm Back Issues of The Militant Wanted Militant Drive at Half Way Mark Unser Kamf and Young Spartacus In the Canadian Movement * The Turn in the Industrial Union by Maurice Quarter * Governmental Red Baiting by S. Green In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * What Really Happened At Shanghai by Roman Well * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition: - 1923 by Max Shachtman The Program for Worker's Democracy Trotsky's Intervention * Developments in Spain by Henri Lacroix The Mooney Case and the Party Democracy and Fascism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Left-Wing Victory or Treacherous Bargain? * What Happened to the "Company Union" Theory? * Why Did the Right Support the Left? 17 Apr 23, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck New State in Needle Trade Fight -A Campaign for Unity is Now the Order of the Day by James P. Cannon What the Election of the Left Wing Delegates Signifies What the Past Developments Teach "Unity From Below" or Genuine Unity? The Slogan as a Challenge to the Progressives The Intensified Wage Cut Drive Another Privileged Trade Bill Failure of the Danube Union Conference by Albert Orland The Solution Lies in the Proletarian Revolution The Slogan of a Soviet United States of Europe Left Oppositionist Speaks from the Tribune of the Prussian Diet -The Voice of the International Left Opposition in the Prussian Parliament (Speech of Comrade Seipold in the Landtag) On the State Budget Greek Opposition Holds Convention Opposition Press Drive May 1 - June 1 Campaign Schedule Appeal to Sympathizers Economic Crisis Continues to Deepen by Thomas Stamm Debate (Socialism vs. Communism) Militant Affair In the Canadian Movement -Canadian Miners by S. Green Letters from The Militants * Among the Unemployed by W. K. * From a Ford Worker The Massacre Model In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Appeal of the S.A.P. -The Left Opposition Addresses the Centrist Party Congress Struggle Against Pacifism! Does the "Declaration of Principles" Create Clarity? "Socialism in One Country" or Revolutionary Internationalism Statement on the Situation in the International Left Opposition by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Execution of the Scottsboro Boys Stayed by Thomas Stamm Bureaucratic Ulimatism by Leon Trotsky Relation of Party to Class Unconditional Independence of C.P. Under All Historical Conditions Correct Conception of the United Front Bureaucratic Ultimatism Leads to Negation of the Party 18 Apr 30, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Shall Tom Mooney Stay in Jail? To the Readers of the "The Militant" Debate: Socialism vs. Communism Demonstrate on May Day! After the Recent Elections in Prussia by Sam Gordon Wherein Lies the Responsibility of the Social Democrats? What Does the Left Opposition Propose? The State and Trade Unions in Canada by Maurice Spector Marine Workers Sentenced to Jail Militant Affair The Stalinist-Lovestone Unity Negotiations! Letters from The Militants * Once More on the Bronx Co-operatives * From an Illinois Miner The First Week of the Press Drive Militant Builders Lovestone and the "Pseudo-Revolutionists" by Max Shachtman Utilizing Capitalist Antagonisms The Meaning of an Alliance Economics, Politics and War Appeal to the S.A.P. -The Left Opposition Addresses the Centrist Party Congress (Continued from last issue) from the Executive Committee of the Left Opposition of the C.P.G. (Bolshevik-Leninists) National Socialism vs. Leninism The Anglo-Russian Committee United Front and Cartels What Constitutes a Revolutionary Policy Opposition Press in Czechoslovakia In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Bureaucrats Analyze the Elections -How the Rank and File Party Members React to Their "Analysis" from "Die Permanente Revolution" The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler The Problem of Labor Power The New Role of the Negro Bureaucratic Ultimatism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * "Under Rank and File Leadership" * Lenin on Leaders and Masses * The Role of the Conscious Workers 19 May 7, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The S.P. "Lefts'" Program by Hugo Oehler Debate -I.W.W. Representative, Communist Representative -Is the Program of the I.W.W. Sufficient for the Emancipation of the Working Class? The Strike in the N.Y. Building Trades by Arne Swabeck Conditions of the Unions Must Prepare to Resist Bourgeois Left Gains in French Elections Weekly Militant Depends Upon Success of $1,000 Drive Stalinist-Lovestone Unity Negotiations In the Canadian Movement -The State and the Trade Unions in Canada by Maurice Spector (Continued from last issue) Conspiracy and the Right to Strike Sympathetic Strike Illegal Picketing is a Crime and a Tort "Incitement to Breach of Contract" The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) Press Drive Under Way -- 2nd. Week Letters from The Militants * A.F. of L. Fakers Betray Sign Writers by Thomas Stamm * To the Greek Party Members and Sympathizers, by the Editorial Board of "Communistes" In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * For a Turn in the Policy of the C.P.G., from "Permanente Revolution," April 15, 1932 * German Sketches by Erwin Bauer Minister of the Interior Groener * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The German Revolution of 1923 and the "Lessons of October" by Max Shachtman The German Situation in 1923 Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the "United Front" by Leon Trotsky Oppositionist Speaks at Party United Front Meet On the Anniversary of Marx's Birth by Arne Swabeck Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Centrist-Right Wing Unity? * Weisbord Blows the Whistle 20 May 14, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Comrades, Readers, Friends! The Party and the May Day Demonstration by Arne Swabeck Experiences from Recent Struggles What is the Policy Pursued? Oppositionists Slugged in Minneapolis on May Day by --RA. Bring the Unity Negotiations into the Open! by James P. Cannon Militant Builders Tom Mooney Must Be Freed! by Thomas Stamm The Police Shootings in Melrose Park France After the Parliamentary Elections Organization Notes Make Our Press Drive a Success Letters from The Militants * A Criticism of the Needle Trades Article by A. Borjarksy * The Bureaucrats Act Against Oppositionist on the Waterfront by Paul Schwalbe * From A Railroad Worker by A.E. In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Sketches by Erwin Bauer Lieutenant Scheringer Comrade Pruegel * Int. Right Wing on Verge of Disruption -Leader of Czech Group Protest Brandler-Thalheimer Slanders Against Trotsky by Nuerath * The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) Spartacus Youth Club Notice Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The German Revolution of 1923 and the "Lessons of October" by Max Shachtman Reply to Comrade Borjarksy by James P. Cannon Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the "United Front" by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) On the Anniversary of Marx's Birth by Arne Swabeck 21 May 21, 1932T Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Congress Talks Unemployment Relief -For the Workers - Only the Jingle of the Government Coin by Arne Swabeck Help Save Our Weekly Militant! More About the Unity Negotiations by --P. Morganstern and Goodman Released Beet Workers Go on Srike in Colorado The Political Crisis of Japanese Imperialism Effects of the Crisis The Assassination of the Premier What is Behind the Terror The Danger of War Against the War Danger in U.S. The Philadelphia Convention of the I. L. G. W. U. by Albert Orland The Anarchist-Lovestone Bloc and the Left Opposition The Tasks of the Left wing Opposition Youth Debates Anarchist Group (On the topic of "Is a Proletarian Dictatorship Necessary?") The Minnesota Convention of the C. P. by a League Delegate The Depression Hits South Carolina by Guy Southworth "A Smiling Providence" Providence Still Smiles Letters from The Militants * Among the Italian Workers of Chicago by Joe * Left Winger Expelled from I. L. G. W. U. by Harry Milton Militant Builders Minneapolis Branch Challenges Wobblies by --C. Put the Press Drive Over the Top! In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Greet the Return of Our Class War Prisoners! * From the Left Opposition in South America by Pedro A. V * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Reactionary Theory of Socialism in One Country by Max Shachtman How the "Theory" Arose The Effects of October 1923 The Stalinist "Adjustment" The Theory as a Fruit of Pessimism The Essence of the Opposition's Struggle: Marxian Internationalism Internationalism as a Necessary Development What Internationalism Requires in the U.S.S.R. Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the "United Front" by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) N.Y. Picnic St. Louis, Attention (Announces a study class on the "Fundamentals of Communism") Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Ungrateful Government * The "Negotiators" Smoked Out * For the Release of the Scottsboro Boys 22 May 28, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The "Socialists" and their Line of Action by Arne Swabeck Rush Funds to Save Weekly! For the Communist Unity of Our Party! By the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) to the C.E.C. of the C.P.U.S.A. Jack MacDonald Joins the Left Opposition -Statement of the Former National Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada by Jack MacDonald The National Convention of the S. P. by George Clarke Aid Beet Strike! Letters from the Militants New York, N.Y. Militant Builders New York Attention! (Announcing the picnic celebrating the release of Morgenstern and Goodman) Situation in Pocketbook Makers' Union by N. Davis The Bosses Tax Problem and the Workers by Hugo Oehler Finish the Press Drive with Donations! Statement of Greek Comrades on "Empros" by the Editorial Board of Communistes In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Half-Turn in the German Party from "Permanente Revolution" * The Conference of the Spanish Opposition by Andres Nin * Trotsky and Brandler; or Lovestone and Principles by Max Shachtman An Expert on "Principle" Trotsky on Brandler Lovestone and Brandler Welcome Back, H. M. Wicks! -Expert on Renagacy Returns from Long Absence 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 Centrism "In General" and the Centrism of the Stalinist Bureaucracy by Leon Trotsky 23 Jun 4, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck For a Communist Campaign in the Elections The Central Issue: Unemployment The Communist Task in the Elections For Internationalism in the Struggle The Demand for Long Term Credits Scottsboro Boys' Execution Stayed Bruening Government Falls! -German Working Class Faced with Immediate Fascist Onslaught by Sam Gordon Mr. Seabury "Exposes" Tammany-Walker by George Clarke The C.P. Nominating Convention at Chicago Government Repression in Spain Hits Left Opposition -Strikes and Repression in Spain Andres Nin Arrested in Barcelona -Bulletin Chicago Debate (L.O. vs. YPSLs) Bound Volume of the Militant for Sale Highlights of Socialist National Convention -A Report of the Reformist Meet in Milwaukee by Norman Satir Milwaukee, Wis. Policy on the Soviet Union Fight Over National Chairman Comic Incident on Floor Letters from The Militants * Street Carmen Facing Strike in St. Louis by G. Roberts * From Negro Comrades in South Africa The Results of our Press Drive Militant Builders Pioneer Press Notes In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Party and the French Elections -Right Wing Renegades Exploit the Mistakes of the Stalinist Bureaucrats from "La Verite" * The I.L.P. and British Communism by Anglicus What is the I.L.P.? * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Anglo-Russian Committee and the British General Strike by Max Shachtman The Swing to the Right The Standpoint of the Opposition The Stalinists and the A.R.C. N.Y. Opposition Offers Cooperation in Elections to the Communist Party Centrism "In General" and the Centrism of the Stalinist Bureaucracy by Leon Trotsky (continued from last issue) Danger of Workers' Bureaucracy The Functionary Replaces the Bolshevik Wherein Lies the Strength of the Revolutionary Party Coarseness and Disloyalty Characterize the Bureaucrat Trotsky on the Disarmament Conference -In Reply to Questions Posed by the Chicago Daily News Bound Volumes of Pamphlets for Sale Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Right Wing in a Blind Alley * The Case of J. T. Murphy 24 Jun 11, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Communist Party Election Platform by Arne Swabeck House Passes Anti-Alien Bill Fascists Moving to Power in Germany The Veterans' March on Washington The "Socialist" Revolt in Chile The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the Working Class by Arne Swabeck Trotsky Greets "Unser Kamf" Book Review: Russia: Market or Menace? by Thomas D. Cambell reviewed by Carl Cowl Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Notes Film Review: Not "Alone" Comrade! by Jack Weber Letters from the Militants -A Foodworker Writes About His Union New York, N.Y. On the Financial Question In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * A Letter From England by Anglicus * Trotsky's Pamphlets * Trotsky On the Labor Party Question May 19, 1932 * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Anglo-Russian Committee and the British General Strike by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) The Test of Events The Demands of the Opposition June "Young Spartacus" Out For an 8 Page Paper N.Y. Spartacus Youth Club Meets On the Slogan of "Rank and File Leadership" by James P. Cannon Anarchist Conception of Leadership History of the Slogan Control of Leadership Role of Leadership in Strikes and Unions Democratic Centralism in Unions Trotsky on Rank and File Control Strike Strategy by Leon Trotsky Criticism and Self-Criticism What is a "Red United Front" 25 Jun 18, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem Slogans in the Elections -Must Link Up Communist Goal with Immediate Demands Left Opposition Excluded C.P. Platform Deficient Slogan is Workers' Government Relief for Workers Also G. O. P. Meets in Chicago Confab by George Clarke Brown Shifts Legalized -New Decree Forms Part of the Anti-Working Class Move What the Decree Calls For First Signs of United Action Clear Words Needed Workers in Fight Against Forced Labor in Minneapolis by Communist League of America (Opposition) Minneapolis Branch Minneapolis, Minn. Resist Forced Labor Open Letter Capitalist System Real Cause German Paper Interviews Trotsky by Leon Trotsky Youth Meetings in N. Y. Letters from The Militants * News from Canada by Maurice Quarter Toronto Ontario Labor Fakers Have Hot Time * Party Member Joins Opposition * Workers Fight Bureaucracy by Coover Henry Ford Counsels Workers to Return to Feudal Serfdom by Guy Southworth The Drug Clerks and the Class Struggle by L. Dreyer Back Numbers of Militant Wanted Militant Builders In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Situation in Italy and the C. P. -The Fascist Dictatorship in the Throes of the Economic Crisis by Santini * New Issue of Greek Paper * The Organizational Progress of the German Left Opposition Gelsenkirchen Berlin -Meeting of the Members of the Northwest District Leipzig * A Letter From a Polish Comrade * Coal Miners Strike in Czechoslovakia * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Max Shachtman The Stalin Theory The "Bloc of Four Classes" The Smashing of the Opposition Stalinist Ministerialism Strike Strategy by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Unemployed and Employed Must Be United Luxemburgism--Or Bureaucratic Villification For the Defensive or For the Offensive 26 Jun 25, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem * It's the Worker Who Always Pays * The Elephant Never Forgets * Bolter Borah Cannot Swallow Booze Plank * What Makes the Jackass Wild? * The Socialist Party Also Run * Then They'll Have No Brains at All A New History Making Trotsky Book -Problems of the Chinese Revolution by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by S. Suppressing the Documents The Value of Marxism China and Russia Leninist Turn Imperative in Germany! -United Mass Action - Not Parliamentary Opportunism - Will Defeat Fascism by "The Militant" A First Hand Account of Events on the "Bonus Battle Front" Washington D.C. Diseases Rampant Vets in Militant Mood The Unemployment Situation, the Economic Crisis and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck Credit System during Crisis Operation of Loan Capital Credit and Industry Where are the Markets? Letters from The Militants * Oppositionist Seated at Philly Conference by Leon Goodman * Party's N.Y. State Nominating Convention The Recent Beet Strike in Colorado by George Saul The Drug Clerks and the Class Struggle by L. Dreyer Militant Builders Wage Cut for Federal Gov't Workers by George Clarke Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -Industrialization and the Collectivization of Agriculture in the U. S. S. R. by Max Shachtman The Origins of the Struggle First Reactions of the Bureaucracy The Slogan: "Enrich Yourselves" The Platform of 1927 Opposition Pilots Advance The Arrests in Spain (by "our Correspondent") Prize Contest! Pamphlets Wanted! Picnic! Picnic! -For the Benefit of the Spanish Youth Opposition Paper The Slogan of the Defense of the U. S. S. R. by Hugo Oehler Purpose of Slogans Right & Centre Misuse Slogans Scare Headlines on Manchuria Civil War in Germany A Political Biography of Stalin.... by Leon Trotsky Back Numbers of Militant Wanted 27 Jul 2, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem Crime is Gaining All the Time Reps. and Dems. Send Rival to Nut Ward Is William Green Seeing Red? O'Neal and Thomas in Tit for Tat Game Daily Worker Bares Diabolical Plot Lausanne Conference Near Collapse -German Reaction Aggressive by Sam Gordon Closer to the Proletarians of the "Colored" Races! by Leon Trotsky Arrest W.Z. Foster in Los Angeles -Released Although Charged with Criminal Syndicalism Alexander Rosanoff (Obituary) Demagogues and Bankers Clash in Chicago --What is Behind the Clique Fight at the Democrats' Meet by George Clarke Persecution of our Spanish Comrades The Zurich Congress of Reformist Int'ls -New Situation Brings "Left" Turn on Part of Amsterdam Letters from The Militants * The Pocketbook Makers Fight the Racketeers by N. Davis * The "Labor" Governor of Minnesota by O. M. Among the Greek Workers in N. Y. by the Editorial Board of "Communistes" Trial of the National Herald Our Healthy Criticism Spartacus Club and Labor Defense Organization Notes Youth Activities New York Young Spartacus Chicago, Ill. Y.C.L.'ers Declares for Left Opposition by Irving Bern France Under the Regime of Herriot from "La Verite" The Lausanne Conference Herriot's Internal Policy The Struggle Within the Working Class Change in the Policy of C.P. is Needed Growth of the Spanish Left In Badajoz In Corunia Another Group Organized in Hombres In Puenteduema In Tejares (Salamanca) Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman The End of the Ebb-Tide The Campaign Against the Right Prize Contest Organizational Progress of the German Left Opposition Gelsenkirchen (Ruhr) Berlin Brandler and Stalinism Spandau.-- United Front Achieved in Breslau Will They Liquidate the Splitting Trade Union Tactic Correction The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck An Open Letter to the Party District Committee by Herbert Capelis A Political Biography of Stalin.... by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) 28 Jul 9, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On The Spot by Ridem * Trotsky Writes on the Problems of the Chinese Revolution * The Fat Man's Day is Coming * Bryan's Son is Chip of Old Blockhead * Zagaria is Out but Wicks Remains * There is Still Some Money at Large Vote for Foster-Ford -Support the Communist Candidates Against Bourgeois Parties! Booze for Bread Socialist Reformism Vote Communist! One Dead in Fascist Riot Dies Bill Threat to Foreign Born Smash Hitler Now! -The Fascist Danger: A Striking Parallel by Leon Trotsky Capitulation The Main Enemy The Shame-Faced Turn The United Front Against Fascism Strike Unitedly A Complete Revision Needed Franco-German Anti-Soviet Alliance Being Formed at Laussane A Turn is Being Made Stalinism in Straits; Opposition on Upsurge by Leon Trotsky Redoubled Blows at the Opposition The "United Front": Who with Whom? The Opposition is Invincible! Successful League Meet -400 Hear Opposition Speakers in Bronx Despite Stalin Gangs Geneva "Peace" Swindles -Chain Formed by Hoover, Socialists, Litvinov, Barbusse & Co. -The Social Democrats Support Hoover; Hoover is Endorsed by Litvinov; Litvinov is Backed by Barbusse; Barbusse is Supported by the New Republic; the New Republic is Attacked by the Daily Worker; and the Daily Worker Flounders in the Swamp by Max Shachtman America's Shrewd Pacifism Socialists Rally to Hoover Litvinov Welcomes the U.S. Plan A Masquerade of Stalinism Questions on China Militant Builders A New Turn in the T.U.U.L. by Hugo Oehler Another New Turn The Factory Basis In Preparation for the Offensive Pioneer Publishers Notes What Next? Bound Volumes The Spanish Opposition Conference by Henri Lacroix Madrid, Spain The Police and the Conference Governmental Repression The Opposition's Growth Spanish Opposition Youth Makes Appeal by Eugenio F. Grannell For the National Committee of the Left Communist Opposition Youth of Spain A Letter from China by Y.M.T. With the Food Workers A Bureaucratic Reply The Party Workers Hit Back The Managers Sit Pretty Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) The Kulak Uprising An Admission of Bankruptcy by Sam Gordon A Damaging Admission Brandler's View A Right Wing Lie Stalin's Political Biography by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Book on China Extra! Extra! Fink Discovered in S.L.P.? 29 Jul 16, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On The Spot by Ridem * Let's Shake Hands on This * Smith May Keep His Shirt On * Olive is Wasting Her Oil * Whoever Wins We Are for This Fight * The Rascally Poor Simply Won't Be Good A Warning Out of the Past Socialist Edict Paves Road for HItlerites -Communists Must Form United Front Now New York Branch Picnic Five Expelled from Y.C.L. -Chicago Communist Youth Fight Campaign Against Opposition Hoover & Unemployment -Republican Party Platform Ignores Vital Problem of Jobless by George Clarke Jobless in Extreme Need Hoover's Grand Scheme Relief "Un-American" The Barbusse Congress -The Barbusse Congress Against War by Leon Trotsky June 13, 1932 I See War With Germany by Leon Trotsky Hitler Will Need Allies War Would Be Inevitable Russia Must Be Prepared Youth Notes July Issue of Young Spartacus New York Pioneer Publishers Notes Bound Volumes Publications in Foreign Languages Earn a Free Copy of "Problems of the Chinese Revolution" Opposition Challenge Still Unanswered - Letter to the Communist Party, New Jersey District 7, signed by Louis Nagy, Secretary of the Newark Branch, Communist League of America (Opposition) The Crisis in the A. C. W. -Independent Clothing Workers Union Formed in Canada by Albert Orland Hillman's New "Militancy" Collapse of "Higher Strategy" Hillman Sunk in Montreal Autocracy in the Union The Civil War in Chile -Motive Forces Behind South American "Revolutions" by Alberto Gonzalez The Stalinists and the Waterfront Work by B.F. New York Fiasco of Bureaucrats For a Fighting Opposition Why not the 4 Marx Bros.? (Not to Speak of Greta Garbo) Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Ultra-Left Zig-zag in the Comintern and the "Third Period" by Max Shachtman The Turn at the Ninth Plenum Stalin and the Right Wing Aftermath of Lausanne -European Powers Seek United Front Against United States by Sam Gordon What the Agreement Consists of The Significance of the New Entente The "Bonuseers" at Washington by G.D. Veterans Stick Bonuseers Still Deluded What Is Our Task? The Census Report and the Middle Class by Hugo Oehler Labor Shifts Non-Workers Gainfully Employed Middle Class in U.S. Regain Proletarian Base First 30 Jul 23, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem * Bata Quits a Batty System * Krueger Rose From and Went to the Bottom * Krueger, Insull, Capone --All Self-Made Men * Bata Believed in Ford Methods * Brother Doak Sound Optimistic Note * Dog and Canary Greet Roosevelt Nomination Communism or Pacifism -The Party and the Barbusse Congress Germany on the Eve of Civil War -The Fate of the World Revolution Hangs in the Balance! The Workers Strive for Unity Communist Clarity Imperative The Class Line-Up--International The Party "Answers" Our Warning 15,000 Workers Strike -Textile and Furniture Plants Shut Down in North Carolina Strike After Wage Cut The Stalinist Course Workers Shot in Illinois New York Painters Out on Strike by K. The Massacre of St. Louis Workers -Left Opposition Calls on Party for Form a Workers' United Front by Martin Payer Jobless Position Acuteness Police Bomb Workers St. Louis "Self-Criticism" "The General Line" Belgian Diggers Resist Wage-cut by L. Lesoil The Dollar Versus the Pound -Wall St. and Lombard St. Fight for World Financial Supremacy by Hugo Oehler Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Notes Just Arrived from England! What Next? Problems of the Chinese Revolution Publications in Foreign Languages Bound Volumes of Trotsky's Pamphlets The Civil War in Chile -Motive Forces Behind South American "Revolutions" by Alberto Gonzalez (Continued from last issue)\ First Meeting in Anthracite What Is Happening in he Soviet Union -A Letter from Moscow The All-Embracing Collectivization New York Branch Picnic Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Ultra-Left Zig-zag in the Comintern and the "Third Period" Third Period and Social Fascism A Convenient Theory Problems of the Unemployed by Arne Swabeck The Party Councils The Reformist Dilemma Capitalist Income Democratic Party and Unemployment by George Clarke Problems of Democrats Unemployment Insurance The Fascist Firing Squads in Action From Maggiora to Sbardellotto and Bovone by Feroci The Weapon of Terror Fascism Losing Support Task of the Party 31 Jul 30, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck "What Next?" -- Book of Hour -"What Next?" by Leon Trotsky reviewed by Sam Gordon From Harzburg to Von Papen Lessons of the Past A Critique of Stalinism The Leninist Program Unfolded All Out on Aug. First -Demonstrate Against Imperialist War and Hilterist Menace Imperialism on a Volcano The Threat of Hitlerism Bullets and Gas for the Vets! -Hoover and Co. Make a Repayment for Soliders' Services by Thomas Stamm The Veterans' Progress Communist Opportunities 200 at German Meeting Hoover and the "Relief" Bill -Millions of Unemployed Workers Swindled by New Congress Bill by Herbert Capelis Eleventh Hour in Germany -Socialists Restrain Workers: Stalinists Still Reject United Front The Eleventh Hour Nears Thaelmann's New Theory New York Branch Starts Important Drive The Civil War in Germany: * The Fascist Terror is Let Loose! -Spontaneous United Front Developing July 1, at the University of Berlin At Dresden At Halle July 2 Nine Workers Killed in One Day July 3, Hamburg In Berlin At Mariendorf At Wedding The Police Assassins July 5 Kassel Minden (Westphalia) Kottbusertor (Berlin) July 6, Essen ()Ruhr) July 7 July 8, Gollinov July 9 July 10, Frankfort-on-the Main Hirschberg (Silesia) Child Killers The German Communist Party and the United Front -Is It Really Possible to Establisha Unified Proletarian Front Against the Growing Danger of Fascism? The Turn of the German C.P. Towards the United Front Social Democratic Leaders Against the United Front Arise Now, Red Berlin! "Now, Arise You, Red Berlin" The Socialist Workers Party and the United Front A Letter to a Party Member by A.K. Bound Volumes What Is Happening in the Soviet Union -A Letter from Moscow by M.M. (Continued from last issue) Stalin's Discreet Silence The Need for the Bulletin The Opposition in the Factories Rumors About Rakovsky Pioneer Publishers Notes "What Next" Off the Press Whither England? Germany--The Key to the International Situation, in Greek and Spanish Organizing the Jobless -The Need for Change of Course in the Official Party Policy by Arne Swabeck The Various Relief Programs On the Program of Demands The Party's Duty is Clear Forgotten Words -Lenin and the War Danger -Instructions to the Hague Anti-War Conference by Vladimir Iliitch Lenin "Defense of Fatherland" Task at Congress Errors of Communists The Stalinists and Barbusse The C.I. and Barbusse "The Foundations of Socialism" by Leon Trotsky What is the Meaning of "Foundations?" Socialist Foundation in 1921 Lenin on Radek Luzerne Hears Opposition 32 Aug 6, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Mooney Case Now 16 Years Old Lull in Fight is Temporary Opposition's Task Militant in Dangers! -Immediate Aid Must Be Sent if We Are Not to Suspend Martial Law for Indiana Strike Communists Gain in Reichstag Elections -Leninist United Front Tactics Vindicated by Sam Gordon On the Eve of a Coup d'Etat Communist Gains "The Defeat of the Trotskyists" Fascist Demands The New York Picnic A Sham Turn on Barbusse All Eyes on Germany! -A Manifesto of the Communist League of America (Opposition) -The Hitler Danger is a Danger to the Working Class of the Whole World Police, Troops and Vets -Eye-Witness Account of the Wash. Massacre of the Bonuseers by Jerdick Cavalry, Infantry and Tanks Some "Strange" Facts Letters from the Militants * A Scandal in the Red Food Workers' Union * A Run-in With the Party in Duluth by Charles Curtis * Opposition Progress in Africa by T.W.T. Stalinist Threats The African Opposition The Party Slogan Extracts from Earl Browder's Biography German Left Will Issue Weekly American Foreign Trade and the Question of Credits to the Soviet Union by Thomas Stamm Machinery Decline New York's Aug. First Meet Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Notes -Marxist Classics Great Britain and the U.S. at Ottawa -The Struggle Between the Two Imperialisms by Albert Glotzer America's Rise to Power Britain's Demands Ratio of Imports Supplied by the United States to Canada in 1930 Effects of Crisis Nine Years of Struggle of the Left Opposition -Burning Questions of Bonapartism and Thermidor by Max Shachtman Two Great Revolutions Reasons for Thermidor Opposition Delegates for United Front at Party's Anti-Injunction Conference by Herbert Capelis Hands Off Rosa Luxemburg -Reply to the Slandering of a Revoutionist by Leon Trotsky Stalin's Ignorance of Party History Lenin and Luxemburg Luxemburg's Struggle Against Kautsky Where is Lenin's Letter to Radek? The Socialist Party and Unemployment by George Clarke The S.P. Program Meaning of the Ballot Box Fascism-U.S. and German -It was Discovered in U.S. and Ignored Where It Really Was by --S. Dewey's Theory Fascism is the Government in U.S.! In England Too! And Germany? 33 Aug 13, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Party Members! Militant Workers! Left Opposition Alone Raises the Voice of Lenin at N.Y. Congress Against War -Stalinists Unite With Liberal Pacifists to Reject Resolution of League Delegation on Fight Against the War Dangers by Max Shachtman The Petty Bourgeois Liberals Set the Tone Left Opposition Makes Itself Heard The Stalinists Reply to Us Olgin's Irony--at the Expense of Lenin Lenin's Comintern In 1922 Cheer Confusionists-Gag Oppositionists London in 1915 and New York in 1932 The Hitlerites at the Gates! -Alarm Signal! -Fascism Must Not Take Power Without Armed Resistance -The Black Hordes of Fascism at the Gates of Power The Governmental Manipulations of the Bourgeoisie Social Democracy--Perennial Betrayer Where is the C.P.G. The Next Step of Fascism--War Against the U.S.S.R. Trotsky Elected to Anti-War Meet Monarchist Putsch In Spain -Militarist Coup in Seville and Madrid in is Quickly Crushed Lessons of the Bonus March by Thomas Stamm Waters Leadership The Left Opposition's Resolution at the New York Anti-War Conference -Lenin's Fundamental Views Which Were Voted Down by the Stalinists in Alliance With the Pacifists War and the Soviet Union The Key Danger--Hitlerism For Revolutionary Struggle Against War A Letter to Roger Baldwin -On Stalinist-Pacifist Relations at the Anti-War Conference by James P. Cannon The Party and the 6-Hour Day Slogan by Hugo Oehler The Capitalist Aim A Stalinist Muddle Hours and Wages Militant Builders The Miracle Issue Moving Up Germany-The Key to the International Situation Portrait of a Youth Hands Off Rosa Luxemburg -Reply to the Slandering of a Revolutionist by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Banner of the Proletarian Revolution Luxemburg and the Permanent Revolution Luxemburg and the Russian Revolution Ferment in the British Party -Open Letter from Comrade Stewart Purkis to Harry Pollitt Stand--One of Policy Reviewing Past of Party The Crucial Issue of Germany Marxist Classics 34 Aug 20, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck "I Must Speak Out" -Warns Party on Germany -Leading C.P. Member Appeals for United Front Against Hitlerism by Sebastian Pappas At the Brink of the Abyss Arouse the Working Class "I Must Speak Out Now" The Party's False Course For a United Front Seb. Pappas Expelled Stalinist Silence Broken Opposition Campaign On Germany by Thomas Stamm Yorkville Meeting Brownsville Meeting The Only Road -Von Papen & Hitler -Bonapartism and Fascism -An Analysis of the Present Moment in the German Situation by Leon Trotsky Bruening and the Bureaucracy Finishing Off the Social Democrats What Papen Represents Prospects for Tomorrow August 22: Fifth Anniversary of the Murder of Sacco-Vanzetti Illinois Miners Revolt Spreads Thru State -Thousands of Miners on Strike Against Lewis Machine and Wage-Cuts by Arne Swabeck Life of Union At Stake Extent of Present Movement Illinois, Scene of Many Revolts Duties of the Revolt Movement New York Tailors on Strike -Hillman "Leads" the New York Amalgamated in a Stoppage by Albert Orland Hillman Grants Cuts Hillman's Points A Vicious Combination The Rank and File Committee Possibilities for Left Wing Stalinists Split Trade Unions in Spain -Third T.U. Center Formed Conference a Swindle Opposition Fights in Trade Unions Bolshevik-Leninists Head Miners Strike in Belgium -Left Oppositionists on the Charleroi Firing Line! by the Left Opposition of the C.F.B. The Charleroi Group Bulletin A Letter From Our Charleroi Comrades The Miners' Situation The Bourgeoisie Acts Opposition Progress Need for Revolutionary Leadership Bound Volumes of Comrade Trotsky's Pamphlets French Opposition's German Campaign -Bureaucrats Resort to Violence Bureaucratic Impotence--All Over the World Who Was Actually "Caught"? A Conversation with a Party Member on the Question of the German Situation by A.K. The Opposition and the N.Y. "United Front" Unemployment Confab by Thomas Stamm Who Is Leading the Barbusse Congress by S. The Case of H.G. Wells The Case of Romain Rolland A Letter to the Workers of Zurich -Trotsky Replies to the Calumny of the Social Democrats by Leon Trotsky The Theory of Permanent Revolution and American Imperialism -The Conflict Between Proletarian Internationalism and Stalinist National Reformism by Hugo Oehler 35 Aug 27, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stalinists in Monstrous Fame-Up Against Left Opposition -Bureaucrats "Answer" Our Policy by Inciting to Pogrom by the National Committee of the Communist League (Opposition): * Emergency Call * Left Opposition Demands an Open Hearing on the Stalinist Frame-up from the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) * Slander the Opposition as Murderers of Two Workers at N.Y. Street Meeting from the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Here are the Facts With the Embattled Miners -Diggers Reply to Terror with Increased Militancy -Defy Bosses, Fakers and Police in Tremendous Advance by Germinal From the Front, Springfield, Ill. Why the Fight Fakery of the "Leaders" Basis of the Battle Party Holds First Meeting on Danger of German Fascism Opposition Ideas Penetrate Party The Meeting Revolves Around L.O. Let Us Reinforce Our Offensive! by Leon Trotsky The Communist and Election Activity -A Criticism of the Stalinist Methods in the Campaign by Hugo Oehler Favorable Chances for Communism The Opportunist Course of Stalinism For a Realistic Defense of the U.S.S.R. Who Was Exposed? German Campaign of Czech Opp. by K. Schmidt Sabotage German Campaign Effect of the Prussian Coup d'Etat The Convention of Father Cox's Quasi-Fascist "Jobless Party" by Martin Payer Expulsion of Carl Coster -Mink and Bureaucracy Run Rampant on the Waterfront by P.S. A Suppressed Stalinist Document Exposed! Resolution Submitted by the American Comm. for the World Congress Against War The "Daily Worker" and the Miners' Strike "Hoover Cities" -- An American Idyll of 1932 by Carl Cowl What Capitalism Has in Store for Us The Creed of Capitalism N.Y. Picnic Lovestonites Play Lackies in Doll Strike (Variant spelling of "Lackeys") Kowtow to A.F.L. Fakers--Prevent Left from Speaking Our Successful Anti-War Meet in New York A Declaration of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Left Opposition of the Comintern) -To the World Anti-War Congress at Amsterdam Capitalism in Blind Alley Soviet Union in Danger Clarity on War Danger Pacifism --Poison for Masses Disarmament -- A Lever for War Who Has the Weapons? C.I. Capitulates to Pacifists Free the Bolshevik Leninists We Propose: 36 Sep 3, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck With the Embattled Miners -Massacre Striking Miners in Franklin County, Illinois -Coal Diggers Regather Their Forces After the Slaughter by Germinal Status of Strike The Stalinists Bureaucrats Back Out On Murder Frame-Up Hearing Bureaucrats Retreat `Must Be Brought to Account Fascists Waiting Ready to Strike -Clara Zetkin Calls for International Solidarity Against Fascism Attitude of Hitlerism Call for International Solidarity Youth Hold Anti-War Meeting The Political Program of the Petty Bourgeoisie -Bourgeoisie, Petty Bourgeoisie and Proletariat -Jacobinism, Social Democracy and Fascism -- The Political Programs of the Petty Bourgeoisie by Leon Trotsky The Decline of the Democratic Forms A Few Lessons of the Pilsudski "Coup" Is the Alliance Between the Big and the Petty Bourgeoisie Indissoluble? The Responsibility for the Growth of Fascism "Farmers Holiday" in Iowa -A New and Militant Type of Middle Class Revolt by Hugo Oehler Significance of Farm Strike Workers' Strike and Farmers' Strike The Middle Class in the Crisis Appeal for Funds! Strike in Lancashire Mills -Big Wave of Struggle of British Workers Rising Joe Colbert -Labor's Martyr by Gerry Allard A Fateful Conversation Threats Fulfilled The Left Opposition At Work by Carl Cowl How Regime Reacts Prospects for Duluth Minneapolis Unemployed Activity in Retrospect by Thomas Stamm The Turn The TUUL NEC Resolution The Draft Program With the International Left Opposition * Greece Great Social and Revolutionary Struggles Ahead "An Appeal to the Communists and to the Working Class" * Belgium * Spain Some Experiences of the Illinois Miner's Struggle and the Policy of the Communists by Arne Swabeck Union Future Hangs in Balance A Letter from China by C.H. Militant Builders The Home Stretch New Bundle Orders The New York Marine Workers in Revolt Against the Stalinist Bureaucrats by J. Johannessen Fellow Seamen Pioneer Publisher Notes Literature Sales Trotsky's Complete Writings Leading Functionary Exposes Stalinism in Greece by J. Bambakas The Statement of Comrade Bombakas Admit Constant Attacks on Left Opposition Archio Marxist Excluded from Prison-Collectives Party Members Resent Exclusion of Archio-Marxists Party Voices on the Frame-Up -Condemn Disgraceful Action of Stalinist Leaders 37 Sep 10, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Help Maintain the Weekly Militant! Stalinists Reject Offer of Help -Chicago Stalinists Reject Offer of Help by Banzel Miners Form New Union -Raise Struggle to New Heights -National Unity -- Aim of Militant Illinois Body -C.L.A. Hails New Union by Germinal The Report of the Policy Committee Elected at Gillespie Conference September 1, 1932 The Salting Up of an Apparatus Some Necessary Criticism Party Leaders Negotiate Secretly But Denounce Publicly Communist League Greets New Progressive Miners Union by Communist League of America (Opposition) The Future Path of the Illinois Miners The Communist Duty in Coming Developments Police Act on Stalinist Frame-Up Pogrom Fails but Police Act Rank and File Aroused Demand Open Workers' Hearing! British Left Comes Out Openly in Fight for Leninist Policy by the Balham Group Demanded Party Congress "Free and Full Discussion"--Phrase and Fact On the Anti-War Congress On Germany Answer to Threat of Expulsion Class Struggle in Germany -Hitler and Junkers Vie for Power in Germany -Hitler and Von Papen by Sam Gordon Temporary Neutralization of Social Forces The Maneuvers of the Hitlerites Domestic Actions of Von Papen New Betrayals of Social Democracy Opportunity for Communists Allard Answers Party Bureaucrats by Gerry Allard Facts About Allard The Party in the Situation Sept. Young Spartacus Out Stalinist Bureaucrat Expelled in N.Y. Comrade Trotsky's Letter to the Weisbord Group by Leon Trotsky Postscript to the Letter to Comrade Weisbord Unemployed Activity in Retrospect by Thomas Stamm (Continued from last issue) One Step Forward Pioneer Publishers Notes Literature Running Out Militant Builders Alliance or Struggle Between Social Democracy and Fascism? by Leon Trotsky On the Proletarian Revolution in the United States American Revolution--When? The World Position of U.S. Imperialism Our Approach The Capitalists and the Civil War A Third Edition of the Bourgeois Revolution? 38 Sep 17, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck New Wage-Cuts Start -Accentuated Attacks on Workers Prelude to 4th Crisis Year Six Votes Against 2 Thousand -Stalino-pacifism Wins in Amsterdam Urgent Appeal Unity is Urgent Need of Illinois Miners -National Class Struggle Union Will Win! by Joe Angelo Who is Leading? Role of the Socialist Party Communist Party Where is the 7th World Congress? -What is Happening in the C. I.? The Silence of the Executive Convocation of the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern! "The World Congress Shall Be Convened Every Two Years." An Open Letter to John Watt -Standpoint of the Left Opposition in the Present Miners' Struggle by Joseph Angelo Angelo's Reply Watt and the Opposition Which Party? "Pacifism" at Work in Gran Chaco Trotsky Barred from Czechoslovakia The Opposition at Work * Shachtman's Meetings in Chicago by X. Chicago Youth Meetings South Side Meeting * Opposition Expands its Activities Davenport, Iowa * N. Y. Picnic a Success Fairy Tales and Fairy Tales The Four Portraits of Chiang Kai-Shek -What Happened to the Ones Sent to Stalin, Rykov and Voroschilov, and the One for...Trotsky -Extracts From the Archives of Stalinist United Front Policy by Leon Trotsky A Reply to Comrade Allard by Arne Swabeck The Party and Its Errors Blunders of Stalinism Question of United Front Japan! Full Reports On Amsterdam Congress Letters from The Militants * Shipstead Exposes His Bankruptcy by O. M. Minneapolis Shipstead Exposes His Political Bankruptcy * Another "Leader" Against War by W. A. Nelson Collier Weisbord's Reply to Trotsky's Letter -Statement of the Communist League of Struggle Outcome of Belgium Miners' Strike by Nora Strike Extends A Lesson to the Workers The Elections in Greece -Left Opposition Holds Aloft Banner of International Communism by Ar. Caldis The Checking of the Stalin-Thaelmann Policy Against Their Own Experience -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky On the Proletarian Revolution in the United States by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) 39 Sep 24, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plan Half Year Subs for 50 Cents Militant Builders Importance of the Drive Build the First Storey Spartacus Affair The Militant Appeals Urgently for Aid from All Its Supporters Terror Rules in Illinois Coal Field -Official Party Leaders Forced to Abandon Sectarian Attitude Toward New Union * Significance of the N.M.U. Offer of a United Front What the N.M.U. Can Do for the Strike * Progressive Miners Union Under Severe Attack -P.M.U. Under Sharp Attack by Jack Carmody Springfield, Ill. Confusion Sowed A Reign of Terror Frame-Up Challenge Stays Unanswered by Party by Arne Swabeck, Secretary Communist League of America (Opposition) Chicago Stalinists Echo Barbusse by J. Giganti League to Open School -First Four Courses Will Begin in New York City Next Month Barbusse-Stalin Congress -What Happened at the Barbusse Congress? * Stalinists and Opposition The Leader of the Hindu Bourgeoisie Opens and Closes the Debates Pacifist Speakers and Communists The Communists on the Tribune of the Congress The Intervention of the Reformists and the Social Democrats Muenzenberg's Speech The Opposition at the Congress Our Indo-Chinese Comrade Speaks The Congress Apparatus Runs Away With the "Final Vote" * The Barbusse "Charter" by P. Naville The Indelible Stamp of Centrism Cachin's Pledge and...Patel's Weisbord's Reply to Trotsky's Letter -Statement of the Communist League of Struggle (Continued from last issue) Russian Bulletin Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Feudal Period The Tokugawa Shogunate (1603 to 1868) The Peasants The Restoration The New Militarist Bureaucracy Thaelmann's Twenty-One Mistakes by Leon Trotsky -An Analysis of the Replies Made by Ernst Thaelmann to a Seies of Questions Posed to Him by Former Socialist Workers on the Attitude of the Communist Party Towards the Problems of the United Front of All Workers in the Present German Situation -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" Young Spartacus Aid In Picketing of Rex Strike 40 Oct 1, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Down With Lewisism! (Political Cartoon) One Road for Miners! -Lay a Firm Class Foundation at the Gillespie Convention by Arne Swabeck Rank and File Unity and Conscious Leadership Who Raised the Bogey of the "Reds"? Which is the Political Party of Labor? Progressive Miners of America Can Show the Way Two More Expelled for "Trotskyism" Lewis Gangsters Fail to Cow Miners -Springfield Miners Resist Strike-Breaker Mobilization by Jack Carmody Which Political Party Shall the Miners Support in the Coming Elections by George Clarke The Capitalist Demagogues The Socialist Program Vote Communist Problems Before the Gillespie Convention of the Progressive Miners of America by Joseph Angelo For Class Struggle Program Moscow Letter -Crisis in the Soviet Economy -Stalinism Engagers Alliance Between Town and Village by N. and M. Cause for Decline Agriculture and Industry The Opposition's Standpoint Berlin Letter -New Step Toward Fascism -Struggle for Democratic Rights Now on Agenda in Germany by Roman Well The United Front Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plans Subs for Miners 500 Subs For the Miners Militant Builders Letters from Militants * New York Gets Barbusse Congress Report by C. * Socialists, Police Clubs and the Reds * The Fight For Militant Unions in Canada by Maurice Quarter * The Opposition at Wicks' Meetings by James Sifakis Spurts Ahead! Our School League Replies to Weisbord Letter The Question of Centrism and the Bloc With the Right Wing Madrid Letter -Checking Sanjuro's Coup -The Spanish Proletariat Replies to the Monarchist Insurrection by Henri Lacroix The Government and the Monarchists The Rotten Republic The Democratic Illusions of the Proletariat For a Workers' United Front Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Foreign Aid The Fuedo-Capitalist Alliance Industrial Handicaps and Japanese Imperialism Brillant Expelled, by Hugo Oehler, Organizer Pioneer Publishers Note What Next? Exchange Offer Revolutionary Lessons Elections in Greece I.W.O. Expels Three for "Trotskyism" by H. Mashow, S. Mashow and S. Solomon Letter from Party Member 41 Oct 8, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Miners' Convention -Ravages of Lewisism; the Position of the Communist Groups by Arne Swabeck How the Miners Were Eliminated The Parties and the Miners Those Who Condemn a "Split" Elephant, Donkey and "Socialists" Compete for Election Honors by Thomas Stamm The Donkey Brays Socialists and Liberals Saturday: All Out to Union Square -For Scottsboro! Scottsboro Case Up In Supreme Court -Only Mass Action Can Save Framed-Up Negro Boys! No Let-Up! Opposition Youth Calls Scottsboro Meeting Illinois Conference Opens -Miners are Militant but Right Wing Forces are Organized, by Charles Curtis Convict 6th Harlan Miner -5 Now Serving Life Terms While 37 Others Still Await Trial Program of Action of the League on the Unemployment Situation The Conditions of the Movement The Social Reformists and the Unemployed An Unemployment Program of Relief The Problem of the Shorter Workday Large Scale Credits to the Soviet Union The Organization of the Movement Letters from the Militants * All Eyes on Davenport by Brady Davenport, Iowa Condition of the Party * Free Speech Struggle in Chicago by Nathan Gould Tour for Unser Kamf New Headquarters Banquet Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plan We're Off The Club Plan Subs for the Miners The Jubilee Anniversary Issue Militant Jubilee Anniversary Number League Replies to Weisbord Letter (Continued from previous issue) by National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The Question of Mass Work The Tactic of the Weisbord Group in Other Questions "Unity" Maneuvers of Weisbord Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) The Dearth of Raw Materials Influence of Iron Ores The Problem of Coal Textiles The Imperialist Struggle for Markets Archives of the Opposition -"Socialism in One Country" by S. On Hopeless Idiots (A quote from Lenin's "Works" Volume XVI, page 306, August 24, 1919 and commentary on his ideas) A Picture of the Party from Inside -What the Party Bulletin Says About the "Achievements" by Max Shachtman A New Crisis in Soviet Economy (Continued from last issue) by N. and M. The Second Five Year Plan Capitalist Crisis and Soviet Economy The Opposition's Attitude 42 Oct 15, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Zinoviev Expelled Again -New Expulsions Denote Dangerous Crisis for Stalinist Regime by S. The "Counter-Revolutionary Plot" "Letter of the 18 Bolsheviks" The Crisis of Stalinism Right Wing Wins at Gillespie Mine Workers Conference -Miners Militant but Small Left Wing Fails to Stop $5.00 Day Scale Adoption by Arne Swabeck The Left Wing Position The Opportunists Favor Retreat To the Right or to the Left--Which? Some Lessons of the Gillespie Conference Lytton Report Aims at Partitioning China Among the Imperialist Bandit Powers by H. S. In the Elections -"Labor" or C.P. Ticket? -The Lovestoneites Propose a Reformist "United Labor" Slate by Arne Swabeck Reformist or Revolutionary Objective? What is the Right wing Position? A United Front or a Reformist Sham? The Peasant War in China -The Standpoint of the Red Proletariat in the Present Situation -A Letter to the Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists by Leon Trotsky The Peasant Army and the Industrial Centers Peasants' Outlook and the Workers The Danger of Peasant-Worker Conflicts Bourgeoisie Leads the Proletariat Banquet Saturday to Celebrate New Headquarters and School Opening Letters from the Militants * The Strike of the Embroiderers * Elections in Pocketbook Makers Union by N. Davis Shachtman in Boston Literature for the International Workers School Attack in Union Square New York by P. Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plans Wanted--$1.00 Wanted--$2.00 Good News Militant Builders Jubilee Anniversary Issue A Double Anniversary The Power Trust and the Elections by Hugo Oehler Problem of Power Control Fictitious Capitalizations The Power Projects The Insull Collapse Highlights at Gillespie -Observations at the Convention of the Illinois Miners Two Conflicting Current A Jagged Course International School to Open The Demonstration of Solidarity by Jack Ayrshire Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Present Status of Japanese Manufacturing The Textile Industries The Contract System Raw Silk in Foreign Trade The Cotton Industry Cotton and Opium--A Study in Historic Materialism Mercantilism and Money The Road to Socialism -The Social-Democratic Blind Alley; The Soviet Successes and the German Situation; Economic Collaboration Between the U.S.S.R. and Germany. The United Front With the Social Democracy Against the Papen Military-Bonapartistic Dictatorship -From a Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky 43 Oct 22, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Von Papen's Election -Our Appeal for United Front Struggle of the German Workers Berlin Reconciliation Proposals For the Fighting United Front School Term Opens Needle Trades Convention Gets Left Opposition's Resolution * Our Resolution * The Bureaucrats Attack Miners' Relief! German Organ Suppressed 12th Plenum of the E.C.C.I. -The Need of the Hour: A Democratically Convened Congress Our Russian Revolution Celebration Chen Du-Hsiu Arrested -Seven Bolshevik-Leninists Seized in Raid in Shanghai School Term Opens Indo-China Militants Held Letters from the Militants Socialist Meetings in Youngstown by M. Koehler Youngstown Y.P.S.L. The Opposition at Work * The Opposition in Davenport by G.P. The Situation in Davenport * Opposition Debates Socialists by M. Koehler With the Greek Workers by A.C. New York The Empros Militant Builders A Question by Comrade Coover All Around the Circuit Subs for the Miners The Double Anniversary Issue The Staff to Date Our Anniversary Number A National Revolution in the South? -Discussion Article on the Negro Question by Hugo Oehler The Stalinist "Chart for the U.S." The Farce of the "Democratic Dictatorship" in the South A Loophole for a Retreat Highlights at Gillespie -Observations at the Convention of the Illinois Miners by Charles Curtis Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Smuggling of Opium Japan and Opium Cotton and the Swadeshi Movement What They Say in Prague About the United Front -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky Pioneer Publishers Notes Extra! Extra! Achives of the Opposition -Marx and the Peace Conference by H.S. Proletariat and Peasant War in China -A Letter to the Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) A Reactionary Accusation Study the Class Tendencies Centrism Seeks Support From the Right 44 Oct 29, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Miners Face Big Task -Progressive Miners of America Must Be Class Union by Arne Swabeck Carrying the Offensive to the Miners Organization of the New Union Protest Meeting -What Happened in China (Speaker Max Shachtman) Vote Communist! -Against the Party of the Petty Bourgeois Reformism New Militant Forces Join the Ranks of the Left Opposition * Papcun's Statement by George J. Papcun * Declaration by Pappas by Sebastian Pappas Dead Hand at I.L.D. Meet -Feature of Convention is Absence of Discussion by Members -How the Stalinists Ran the I.L.D. Convention by Charlotte Schechet Boston Lack of Discussion Conclusions to Draw Good Meetings in Boston Bankruptcy at 12th Plenum -Theses Fail to Give a Reply to the Burning Questions of the Day by Hugo Oehler Ebbs and Flows in the Decay Stage What Is the Perspective? Did Stalinism Forget America? The Main Danger in Germany Far East Conflict The Position of the Soviet Union Directives for the United States Letters from Militants -Jobless United Front in Chicago by Joseph Giganti Help the Illinois Miners Militant Builders -Our Club Plan Completing the Circuit Pittsburgh Miners' Subs How to Get Subs for Miners $30 Does the Trick The Staff Record Left Opposition Movement Growing in Canada by S. Educational Work Trade Union Activity Literature--The Militant--Unser Kamf Organization and Agitation A Canadian Organ of the Opposition Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Rise of Japan, Decline of England The Rhythm of Cotton Technology Limited Possibility for Japanese Growth "The Big Five" Effects of the War on Japan Our Eight Page Double Anniversary Issue -15 Years of the Russian Revolution-4 Yrs. of the Militant Archives of the Left Opposition -The Legend of Brest-Litovsk Two Press Comments on Russia * As It is Today * As it Once Was What They Say in Prague About the United Front -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Meetings Philadelphia Minneapolis Browder on the Chinese Revolution -The Arrest of Chen Du-Hsiu and the Apologist of Stalin by Max Shachtman Browder's Records Daily Worker and Chiang Kai-Shek Browder's Greeting in Hankow The Stalinist Defense of Wuhan Browder Earns His Praise Protest! (The arrest of Chen Du Hsui and 6 others from the Left Opposition) October Young Spartacus Now OUT 45 Nov 5, 1933 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck September Plenum of C.I -Some Fleeting Marginal Observations on the 12th Plenum by Leon Trotsky Emergency Number! Class Against Class in the Presidential Elections -Communist Vote Will Test the Policy of the Stalinists by Hugo Oehler Workers' Vote Cut Down Position of Middle Class Socialist Advances Hunger March in London -British Working Masses Make New Turn Toward the Left by A.S. [Arne Swabeck] The New March on Washington by Hugo Oehler No Automatic Connection The Communist Duty Fight in Illinois Sharpens -Armed Forces of Operators Mobilized Against the Miners by Joseph Angelo Out of Society's Gutter Bosses Preparing for Winter N. Y. Greek Workers Organize New Club * Letters from the Militants -The Militant Club in Chicago by R. * The Murder of Andrew Ganis by Carbody * Compensation Racket in New York by J.R. Stalinists Expel Philly Militant by Lou Rogers On Fraternization Archives of the Opposition -Trotsky's Letter to Olminsky by Leon Trotsky 46 Nov 12, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Hail the Anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution! -Fifteen Years by Leon Trotsky 4 Years of the Militant by Arne Swabeck Some Examples of Growth Some Trade union Experiences The Working Class Orientation On Future Contacts Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Five Year Plan by Leon Trotsky The Art of Planning The Preliminary Totals of the Five Year Plan 9 Scottsboro Boys Win Victory -Illusions Now Greatest Danger Leftward Shift in German Vote -Parliamentary Gains Turn Heads of the Stalinist Leadership by S.-n. The Nazi Setback The Communist Vote Stalinists Take Measures -The Expulsion of Zinoviev -The Lessons of the Second Expulsion of the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky Roosevelt's Victory -Protest Vote of Middle Class and Labor Hits Republicans by Hugo Oehler A Shift to the Left Bound Vols. Mill as a Stalinist Agent by G.G. Nine Years of Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Burning Question of Thermidor and Bonapartism by Max Shachtman Marx-Lenin School Opens in Chicago Davenport Militant Joins Opposition by Betty Rowland Militant Builders The Winner Keep Up the Race Minneapolis in First Place Miners' Subs The Staff The Record by Cities Pioneer Publishers Notes Revolutionary Lessons Lenin's Speeches Two New Pamphlets The Fight in the Party for a Bolshevik Government...For the Policy of Lenin and Trotsky -Introduction to the Minutes of the Petrograd Committee, November 7, 1917, reported by J.G. Fenigstein J.G. Fenigstein Lenin Trotsky Nogin Glebov Slutsky Boky Trotsky Nogin Lunatcharsky Lenin's Report on the Russian Revolution to the 4th Congress of the C.I. from a speech by Vladimir Ilitch Lenin The Bolsheviks Take Over Power! -Meeting of Petrograd Soviet The Day After the Insurrection Declaration of Trotsky Lenin's Speech Declaration by Trotsky The Government is Deposed! South Africans Ban Trotsky China Book Japan -Its Rise From Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Tanaka Document The Formula of Conquest Japan and China The Only Road by Leon Trotsky -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky 47 Nov 19, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck It's Up to You! The C.P. in the Elections -Reasons for Small Rise in Communist Vote This Year by S.-n. Chicago Greets United Front -Left Opposition Hails Joint Unemployment Conference by The Chicago Branch of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Aim of United Front Role of Socialist Party Greek Banquet a Success Chen Du-Hsiu's Life in Danger Trotsky Sails for Denmark Scottsboro--What Now? -Supreme Court Evades Issue--Workers Must Unite Forces Communists Prevented Lynching The Supreme Court Decision For a Broader Movement! by T. Stamm [Thomas Stamm] Start Hunger March on Washington -United Front Can Bring Huge Movement Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan By Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Stalinists Take Measures -The Expulsion of Zinoviev -The Lessons of the Second Expulsion of the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky The Left Opposition Breaks Ground in the Pittsburgh District by S.G. [Sam Gordon] Pittsburgh The Workshop of the World--At One-Third Capacity The Inevitable Awakening of the Militants Clarification Begins in the Ranks of the Party 48 Nov 26, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Four Years! -Trotsky Greets Militant -The Revolutionary Kernel is Assembling Around Opposition by Leon Trotsky Fight for Left Opposition Proposals in Pittsburgh Hunger March Conference Pittsburgh The Left Opposition Takes the Floor 29 to 1--An Insufficient Majority for the Bureaucrats Against the Leninist Opposition by S.G. [Sam Gordon] What Do the Communists Say About Mr. Duranty and Comrade Stalin by S. Call the Scottsboro Conferences! A Shanghai Report of Com. Chen's Arrest by Niel-Sih Shanghai Bourgeoisie Jubilant Chiang's "Blue Shirts" Chen's Record of Struggle Chen and the Epigones A Heavy Blow Marchers Advance to Demand Relief -Broad, Militant Movement Can Win for Unemployed by A.S. [Arne Swabeck] Stalinists Make Right About Face in Chicago Unemployed United Front by Albert Glotzer Birth of the Movement Workers Respond to Call The Demonstration Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber Japan in Manchuria Strategic Railways What of the Chinese Revolution? Japan and the U.S. The Philippines Letters from the Militants * Party and Opposition in Pittsburgh by B.J. Pittsburgh Opposition Holds Classes Gordon Speaks Before Young Workers Oppositionist Gets Floor in Spite of Machine Tactics The "Freiheit" Lies and Slanders As Usual * New Protest Against Stalin Bureaucrats by George Millage, E.E. Thurston and S.R. Clausen Davenport, Iowa * Utica I.L.D. Fails to Act by Gadfly Des Moines, Iowa - A New Battleground for the Left Opposition by M. Gottlieb Our Club Plan -Militant Builders Second Phase of the Club Plan The Staff to Date Class Trends in Elections The Expulsion of Zinoviev -The Lessons of the Second Expulsion of the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky Zinoviev Zinoviev's Game With History The Basis Under the Capitulations The Importance of Our Policy Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second 5 Yr. Plan -- A Marxian Analysis by Leon Trotsky Capital Construction Domestic Disproportions and the World Market The Position of the Workers The 1932 Elections and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck Discontent and Radicalization Problems of Social Reformism 49 Dec 3, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Police Attack Hunger Army A Reply From Shanghai to the Stalinists Slanders on Chen Du-Hsiu's Arrest by H. The Stalinists and Trotsky's Radio Speech to America Extracts from the Speech Delivered by Leon Trotsky and Broadcast from Copenhagen -Trotsky Speaks to American Audiences on Significance of the Russian Revolution Conference Seats St. Louis Opposition by G.H. Mimeograph Wanted Arrest 2 Pittsburgh Oppositionists Greek Stalinists Fail to Meet Challenge Opposition Ejected from Conference on Hunger March in New York by Harry Milton New York No Serious United Front A New Kind of Committee Left Opposition Excluded Pamphlets Wanted A.F.L. Convention Talks "Radical" -Labor Discontent Forces Lip-Service to Left Measures by Arne Swabeck Is A.F.L. Leadership Turning Left The Fear for Safety of Capitalism The Real Green Money for Subs Letters from Militants * Unser Kamf Tour Brings Results by Sylvia Bleeker and Morris Lewit * Pittsburgh Youth Club and Opposition * Pitts. Anniversary Meet Our Club Plan -Militant Builders Paid Sub Cards Newcastle Shows the Way The Staff The Record by Cities A Picture of the Situation in China Today by Niel-Sih For the 6-Hour Day, 5 Day Week! by Oehler [Hugo Oehler] Stalinist Zig-zags on the Chicago Conference by Albert Glotzer (Concluded from last issue) Party Confusion Our View Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber Commercial Rivalries Pacific Shipping Controversies with the U.S. Chinese Trade The Strategy of War Archives of the Left Opposition -Engels on the International Revolution by H.S. League Resolution For New York Hunger March Conference by New York Branch Communist League of America (Opposition) Resolution The Question of War Debts -World Bourgeoisie Upset by Sharp Conflicts Over Problem by Hugo Oehler Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second 5 Yr. Plan--A Marxian Analysis by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Rural Economy The Problem of Establishing the Link 50 Dec 17, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Hoover's Message Hoover's Last Message to Congress by Hugo Oehler Opposition at Anti-War Meet in New York Discussion on the Resolutions The Chicago Anti-War Conference Save the Militant! Bonapartism in Germany by Leon Trotsky A.F.L. and 6-Hour Day -Cincinnati Convention Shows Left Wing Opportunity by Arne Swabeck Toward Social Reformism Are There Signs of Coming Struggles? The Six Hour Day Slogan Gov't Answers Hunger Marchers With Force -Militants Surrounded by 5000 Armed Police by Bill Kitt Washington D.C. En Route Again The Convention 1 P.M. Second School Term to Open Letters from Militants * Pittsburgh Opposition and the Hunger March by S.H. Pittsburgh * Opposition Active in Smokey City Pittsburgh - The Marxist Study Class Work for the United Front Hunger March Greek Workers Educational Circle Stalinist Attacks All Along the Line Other Activities of the Left Opposition Lewit-Bleeker Tour Extends Basis of "Unser Kamf" Workers Clubs by Sylvia Bleeker and Morris Lewit Our Club Plan -Militant Builders Paid Sub Cards for the Miners New York and Montreal The Paid Sub Card Idea The Staff The Record by Cities New Expulsion in the Comintern Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Agrarian Problem Status of Japanese Farming Bankrupt Rural Economy Mortgages The Solution Japan and Russia Feudal Remnants in Capitalism Wages and Discharge Allowance Greek Stalinists Meet Arguments of Left Opposition With Slanderous Attacks by Sebastian Pappas Weisbord and the Hunger March Pamphlets Wanted Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Conditions and Methods of Planned Economy 51 Dec 31, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck A Million to Be Expelled! -The New Stalinist Plan for "Purging" the Russian Party Rank An Involuntary Admission Dissolving the Party Canadian Organ Issued The Militant Must Be Saved! -An Appeal of the National Committee of the League by National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) Unite to Smash the Trade Union Racketeers! -The Meaning of the Shooting in Waiters Local, No. 1 A.F.L. and Union Unity -The Stalinist Policies Fail to Meet the Test of the Situation by Arne Swabeck Will There Be a Change of Policy? The Unorganized and the A.F. of L. The Question of Trade Union Unity Ala. Negro Croppers Resist White Terror -Pitched Battle Between Posse and Negroes by Sn. The Bourbon System The Negroes Stand Their Ground The Hunger March to Washington by Bill Kitt "Unser Kamf" Tour Concludes with the Launching of Worker's Clubs by Sylvia Bleeker and Morris Lewit Negotiations with Weisbord Suspended (Copies of letter from the National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) and from Leon Trotsky replying to a letter from Weisbord) New Expulsions in the Comintern -"Traitors" and Scapegoats In the Bureaucracy by Marsh (Continued from last issue) Who Is Heinz Neumann Whole Spanish Leadership Expelled "Traitors" and Scapegoats Perspectives of Marxism -An Open Letter by Leon Trotsky to V.F. Calverton on the Revolutionary Intellectuals by Leon Trotsky Calverton Omits Revolutionary Realities Intellectuals Fear Consequences of Clarity Stalinism Drives Intellectuals to Quandary Marxism No Dogma--Guide to Action American Marxism at Cross Roads New Vistas Before U.S. Communists Pioneer Publishers Notes History of the Russian Revolution The Unemployment Pamphlet The Publishing Fund Our Schedule Party Militant Speaks From Platform of Opposition in Newark, N.J. by L.B. The Death of the Father of Revisionism -Eduard Bernstein's "Triumph" Over Militant Marxism by Max Shachtman Friendship With Engels Bernstein's "Fine Trick" The Father of Revisionism The Essence of Bernsteinism Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan The Suppression of the NEP, Monetary Inflation, and the Liquidation of Soviet Democracy The Crisis of Soviet Economy Campaign On For Militant Subs Cities Militant Builders A Footnote to Browder's Record in the Chinese Revolution by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Browder's "Records" The Comintern and Hankow