1928-1929 The Militant Complete Contents 1928 1 Nov 11, 1928 THE MILITANT Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman For the Russian Opposition! -Against Opportunism and Bureaucracy in the Workers Communist Party of America! -A Statement to American Communists by James P. Cannon, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman Trotsky and Radek Seriously Ill M. Spector Expelled in Canada Trade Union Questions Pamphlets Coming Concerning Our Expulsion -A Letter to a Comrade by James P. Cannon The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky A Program of International Revolution or a Program of Socialism i One Country General Structure of the Program The United States of Europe More Open, More Ruthless, Than in the Period of Boom Slogan of a Soviet United States of Europe The Criterion of Internationalism Foreword (To article above) The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind) Overestimation of the Reserve Powers of American Imperialism Underestimation of the Leftward Drift of the Masses Lack of Perspective of Struggle Our Next Issue The Fortress of the World Revolution Slogans for Today by m.s. [Max Shachtman] The "Outlook" Expose Subscribe! 2 Dec 1, 1928 The Party "Discussion" Opens! by James P. Cannon Swabeck, Glotzer Join Opposition; Expelled Wholesale Expulsions from the Party Begin Minneapolis Kansas City Philadelphia Y.W.(C.)L. Canada New York City The "Ideological" Campaign The Results of the Election by Max Shachtman The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Theoretical Traditions of the Party Foreword (To article above) Spector's Statement to the Canadian Party by Maurice Spector In the Next Issue -"The July Plenum and the Right Danger" by Leon Trotsky The Right Danger in the American Party submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Failure to Orientate Towards New Unions and the Organization of the Unorganized Resistance to Orientation of Active Struggle Against Lewis Machine and for Building New Union in Mining Industry Help Publish the Suppressed Documents of the Russian Opposition! Trotsky's Book and its Bourgeois Critics -The Real Situation In Russia by Leon Trotsky translated by Max Eastman reviewed by James P. Cannon Trotsky, Wolfe and The Forward 3 Dec 15, 1928 THE MILITANT Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector The July Plenum and the Right Danger by Leon Trotsky T.J. O'Flaherty for the Opposition Whither Foster? Gangsterism! The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism oif Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Last Issue) Where is the "Social Democratic Deviation" The Dependence of the U.S.S.R. on World Economy The Antagonism Between the Productive Forces and the National Boundaries as the Cause of the Reactionary Utopian Theory of Socialism in One Country Foreword (To article above) The Struggle in the Y.W.L. by S. Lovestone Smashes the Right Danger Notice (Maurice Spector has joined the staff of "The Militant" as Associate Editor) The Right Danger in the American Party submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Insufficient Appreciation of Leading Role of Party and Failure to Build It Opportunist Application of United Front Policy It Can and Will Be Done ("The Militant" will publish despite the doubts of opponents) Letters from the Militants * Kansas City by A.A. Buehler * Vincent Dunne by Vincent R. Dunne * From a Young Coal Miner by Gerry Allard * From the First Communist Legislator by A.C. Miller * The Cleveland Expulsions by Elmer Boich * "You Are Worse Than Fascists" by John Minella "Singing Jailbirds" The Expelled Central Executive Committee Canada New York Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit Chicago Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) Kansas City New Haven 1929 1 Jan 1, 1929 Our Appeal to the Party Members (Speech of James P. Cannon at the Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, Monday, December 17, 1928) Pepper Reports Against Us For the Russian Opposition Bureaucracy and Gangsterism The De-Proletarianization of the Party The Issue of the Party Democracy The Basis of Party Unity A Burglary - Its Political Meaning A National Organization Tour The Draft Program of the Comintern - A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Fundamental Differences Between National Reformism and Revolutionary Internationalism The Theory of Socialism in One Country as a Source of Inevitable Social Patriotic Blunders Cleveland by John Foley Karl Radek's Appeal for Trotsky -To the Central Committee C.P.S.U. by Karl Radek Vindicating the Trotsky Platform by Martin Abern The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) The Opportunist Mistakes in the Election Campaign Opportunist Mistakes in Labor Party Work Failure to Build the T.U.E.L. Pacifist and Petty-Bourgeois Liberal Tendencies in the Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Work Underestimation and False Conception of Work Among Negro Masses Letters from the Militants * New Haven by Samuel Gendelman * A Reaction to Gangsterism by John Justin * A Worker Talks to the Bureaucrats by M.L. Malken * The Affair on Union Square by Pauline Gutringer The Expelled New Expulsions Canada Philadelphia Cleveland Chicago Springfield, Illinois Who Are the Expelled Communists James P. Cannon Martin Abern 2 Jan 15, 1929 Lenin Day Cleveland Meeting Great Success The Platform of the Communist Opposition The Central Committee Orders Another Burglary! Malkin and Franklin Go to Prison Farewell Note From Comrade Malkin by M.L. Malkin [Maurice L. Malkin] Photograph of Maurice L. Malkin Malkin's Statement by Maurice L. Malkin Arrest Philly Comrades The Crisis in the German Party by M.S. [Max Shachtman] A Muddler on an American Scale by A. Lozovsky The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Results and Prospects of the Chinese Revolution--Its Lessons for the Eastern Countries and for the Whole of the Comintern On the Nature of the Colonial Bourgeoisie Lenin's Last Words to the Party -The Testament of Lenin Sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Suppressed by the Stalin Regime by Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin The New Needle Trades Workers' Union Appeal to the Convention -To the Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist ) Party of America by James P. Cannon, Martin Abern, Arne Swabeck and Max Shachtman "William Randolph" Lovestone and "Abe" Pepper Expose Us The Letter the Daily Worker Did Not Print by Frederick N. Sard Towards a Weekly The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Opportunist Errors in Cooperative Work Denial of Right Danger and Militant Attack Against Left The Rejection of Self-Criticism Right Wing Internal Factional Regime The Social Composition of Lovestone Group Summary and Proposals An International Conference For the Expelled Oppositionists Henry Corbishly Released! Letters from the Militants * A Letter From a Miners' Leader by Joe Angelo * Our N.Y. Mass Meeting * A Revolutionist Against Gangsterism by Giovanni Pippan * "Hot Spur Harry" George Opposition Meeting in Boston The Expelled Canada New York Philadelphia St, Louis Who Are the Expelled Communists Maurice Spector Max Shachtman 3 Feb 1, 1929 Trotsky's Deportation by M.S. [Max Shachtman] A Letter From Trotsky's Wife by Natalia Ivanovna The Struggle in the Coal Fields by Arne Swabeck The Miners' Fighting Spirit Gambling With the Workers' Interests The New Union Must Lead Struggles On the Eve of the Party Convention The Fake Discussion A Factional Excrescence The Role of the Foster Group Opposition Meeting in Boston On the Situation in Russia -A Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky The Method of Stalin The Position of the Right Wing The Threat of Bonapartism The "Advice" of the Capitulators Applying the Opposition Platform The Masses at the Crossroads The Slogan of the Secret Ballot Perspectives of the Struggle Historic Mission of the Opposition Foreword (To the above article) by the editor [James P. Cannon] Miners Protest the Expulsions signed by George Voyzey, Joseph Angelo, Roy Jones, Stanley Horbut, Leone Michelangeli, Domenico Domini and A. Shimkous The Minneapolis Meetings by Vincent R. Dunne The Mink Curtis Arrested in St. Louis Trotsky's Criticism of the Draft Program to be Continued Letters From the Militants * From Sing Sing Prison by Maurice L. Malkin * From a Non-Party Militant by Walter F. Sukut * An Expelled Miner by Gerry Allard * For Open Discussion of Issues by Jos. E. Kucher Fight the Splitters with a Weekly Militant The Expelled Canada Chicago Colorado New York City Cleveland Who Are the Expelled Communists Carl Skoglund 4 Feb 15, 1929 The Platform of the Communist Opposition -Addressed to the Sixth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party by James P. Cannon, Arne Swabeck, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman The Position of the Russian Revolution Revision of Leninism and the Crisis in the Comintern The Smoke-screen of "Trotskyism" War Danger and the Defense of U.S.S.R. The Role of American Imperialism The Present Economic Situation and the Working-class Results of the Elections Struggle for a Class Movement of the American Workers Trade Union Policy The Perspective of a Labor Party Work Among Negroes The Stalinization of the American Party Self-Criticism Party Democracy Americanization in the Bolshevist Sense The Party, the Groups and our Perspectives Lovestone Gangsters Stage Riot at New York Meeting to Protest Against the Deportation of L.D. Trotsky Other Meetings of the Opposition 5 Mar 1, 1929 War, Kellogg Pact and the Soviet Union by Max Shachtman Protest Trotsky's Deportation Who Supports Trotsky? Hail to the New Chief? The Communists and the "Progressives" by James P. Cannon Where to Buy The Militant On the Legend of "Trotskyism" * Dear Comrades! by Leon Trotsky * Letter from Preobrazhensky by A.E. Preobrazhensky * Letter from Piatakov * Letter from Elzin by E. Elzin * Letter from Radek by Karl Radek * Letter from Trotsky (Commenting on Radek's Letter) by Leon Trotsky Epitaph for a Scoundrel -Pages from the Record of John Pepper by Ladislaus Rudas, President of the International Lenin School of Moscow Pepper Before the War Pepper During the War Pepper the Social Democrat Pepper and the Bolsheviks Pepper Imprisons Bela Kun Pepper Turns Commissar! The Communists Force Pepper's Resignation Pepper Wants a Second Party Chicago Comrades Protest The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Previous Issue) Join the Campaign for a Weekly Militant Platform of the Communist Opposition (Continued from previous issue) The Party Organization Trade Union Factions Agrarian Work Young Workers League Philadelphia Meeting Cannon Meetings in Boston Letters from the Militants * A Voice from Prison by Maurice L. Malkin * A League Member on the New York Meeting by Paul Green * From a Detroit Communist by Alex Schriber * A Minneapolis Militant by Oscar Coover Picture of Oscar Coover with the caption "Slugged by Lovestone-Foster gangsters at Minneapolis meeting) * Proletarian Youth Against Gangsterism -A Statement to Down-Town Unit No. 2, Young Workers League of N.Y. signed by Joe Burton, Mac Kudler, Irving Spreiregen. Joseph Fox, Harold Robins and Jean Tishman Copies of First Issue of Militant Wanted New Expulsions Boston New York St. Louis Detroit Richmond, California Williston, N. Dakota Birmingham, Alabama Toronto, Canada Who Are the Expelled Communists Vincent R. Dunne Helen Judd 6 Mar 15, 1929 The Results of the Party Convention by James P. Cannon The "Issue" at the Convention The Mobilization Against Foster A Free-For-All Fight The Open Letter of the E.C.C.I. The Question of "Americanization" "Methods of the Bourgeois Parties" New York Workers Protest Trotsky's Exile -Stalinists Plan Pogrom -- and Stage Fizzle Who Supports Trotsky? -More on Counter-revolution's United Front with Trotsky Youngstown Meeting Minneapolis is Leading in the Weekly Drive The Civil War in Mexico by Max Shachtman Some Remarks on the Sixth Congress by Leon Trotsky Activity in Cleveland by Elmer Boich The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky Stages of the Chinese Revolution Stalin Versus Bucharin -The New Struggle in the Russian Communist Party Where to Buy THE MILITANT New Material From Comrade Trotsky Call for a National Conference of the Opposition from The National Action Committee by J.P. Cannon [James P. Cannon] New Pamphlet Soon Letters from the Militants * From a Minnesota "Renegade" by C.R. Hedlund * The "Organizers" Who Disorganize by Martin C. Payer, Sec'y Local Opposition New Expulsions New York City Springfield, Ill. Cleveland Who Are the Expelled Arne Swabeck Albert M. Glotzer 7 Apr 1, 1929 Trotsky's Reply to Stalin -To the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - To the Executive Committee of the Communist International by Leon Trotsky Comrade Trotsky to the American Opposition Next Steps in the Struggle -Material for the National Conference Discussion by James P. Cannon Boston Works for a Weekly Militant Fund A New Dawes Plan for the Old by Max Shachtman An Opposition in England Read Now -The Draft Program of the Communist International by L.D. Trotsky With an Introduction by James P. Cannon Industrialization and the Peasantry by Martin Abern Two Meetings in Chicago After the Dress Strike Will Hoover Recognize Russia? Il Duce Speaks up for Stalin The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Democratic Dictatorship or a Dictatorship of the Proletariat Stalin Gains a New Friend A Comrade for Minor Where to Buy THE MILITANT What! No Unity? Letters from the Militants * A Letter From a Communist Farmer by A.C. Miller * Activity in Kansas City by A.A. Buehler * Kruse Crushes Trotsky in Chicago by Walter P. Sukut * The Work in St. Louis by Elmer McMillan * He Writes What Many Think * To All Esthonian Communists! by P. Schwalbe, Secretary, Esthonian Group ("Esthonian is a variant spelling of "Estonian.") * Another Boston Meeting Who Are the Expelled Communists Joseph Keller Anthony Refugee B. Morgenstern 8 Apr 15, 1929 Four Days With Trotsky -An Interview with the Bolshevik Leader who Was Exiled to Constantinople by Maurice Paz -- Paris Another Stalinist Pogrom in New York Stalinites Begin the Attack The Organization of the Pogrom Let the Workers Judge Them The Labor Revolt in the South Native Americans in Revolt Tactics of the Communists Philadelphia in Campaign for Weekly The Coming Election in Great Britain by Maurice Spector The Loyal Oppositions England's Economic Position Weakness of Communist Party The Anglo-Russian Committee Trotsky on England Organize the Unorganized Communists by James P. Cannon Some Membership Figures Loss of the Revolutionary Syndicalists Revolutionary Workers With Us The Illinois Miners Convention by Arne Swabeck The Weak Opposition The Status of the Left Wing The Task at Present The Splitters at Work -The I.L.D. and the T.U.E.L. Removed from the I.L.D. Attempt to Remove Voyzey What Will Be the Result? Mass Meeting in Trenton The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Adventurism as a Product of Opportunism Canada's Protest Against the Deportation To the Y.W.L. Convention -A Statement of the Expelled Communist Youth The Struggle of the Opposition The Situation in the American League The "Accomplishments" of the Present Leadership The Capitulators in the Minority For the Opposition Platform! Where to Buy THE MILITANT A Page of Letters from the Militants * "Have Backbone in Principle" by K. Czapko * The Situation in Youngstown by Charlie Byrne * From a Non-Party Rebel by Arvid S. Carlson * Greets Progress of Youth by Gerry Allard * An Answer to Gangsterism by Helen Horn * From an Iowa Fighter by I.A. Blasutch The Expelled New York City Wilmington, Del. Toronto, Canada The Opposition in Cleveland Sixty-three Bolsheviks on Hunger Strike in Russian Prison Gangsterism in Philadelphia Trotsky Cannot Enter Germany New Material from Trotsky 9 May 1-11, 1929 Letter to the Russian Workers by Leon Trotsky The "Armed Struggle" Slander The Strength of the Soviet Power The Banishment from Russia Lenin's Testament The "American Dollars" The War Against the Leninists Com. Trotsky on Jay Lovestone, Foster, Pepper and Our Tasks Today! -In the Next Issue May Day -- and After American Imperialism The American Labor Leaders The Fight for a Class Movement For Unity and Solidarity The Tasks of the Communists Our Conference and the Trade Unions by James P. Cannon The Importance of our Conference The Trade Union Question Our Conference and the Progressives Our May Day Meetings The Minneapolis Elections -Comrade C.R. Hedlund Is Our Candidate for Mayor by Vincent R. Dunne In Spite of the Split Shady Proposals of the Lovestoneites Our Candidate The Lost Leader Uniting the Textile Struggles by M.S. [Max Shachtman] The Successes Achieved The Task of the Militants A Letter to International Labor Defense by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Rose Karsner Stalin Praised by Labor's Foe The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Soviets and Revolution The Stalin-Rykov Wage Policy -A Leaflet of the Russian Leninists-Bolsheviks Comrades! Workers! In the Next Issue More about the T.U.E.L. Form Opposition Group in China Two Fables A Fable by Krylov A Fable by Moissaye J. Olgin A Page of Letters from the Militants * An Illinois Coal Miner by Joseph Angelo * A Worker on an Oppositionist by M.B * A Pittsburgh Worker by James Sifakis * From a Steel Worker by Denis Plarinos The Expelled New York City Boston Chicago Who Are the Expelled Communists O.R. Votaw Julius Rosen Sol Lankin Joseph Friedman An Appropriate Appointment.... The Splitters in St. Louis Trotsky and the Fascisti 10 June 1, 1929 Conference of the Opposition Communists -Formation of the Communist League of America {Opposition} by James P. Cannon Disputed Questions General Summary Opposition Progress in Minneapolis Vote Tasks of the American Opposition -A Letter from Comrade Trotsky -To the American Bolshevik-Leninists (The Opposition) -Editors of "The Militant" by Leon Trotsky The Party is "United" Again! -Latest "Open Address" of the E.C.C.I. The Motive of the Decision The New Leadership Another Factional War The Duty of the Opposition What the T.U.E.L. Conference Should Do by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Bittelman on the Cross -A Hard Luck Story Stalin in the Canadian Communist Party by Maurice Spector The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Max Comes Clean The Expelled Guelph, Ontario Chicago Detroit Boston Mass Meeting in Boston The Building Trades Situation by M.A. [Martin Abern] Reasons for Decline The Public Works Illusion Fight for Mooney and Billings Twelve Years in Prison Only the Workers Can Free Them In Jewish -The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky Help the Imprisoned Bolshevik-Leninists! by T.T. 11 Jul 1, 1929 Gastonia New Split Begins -Lovestone is Expelled Banquet for Balbo -Exile for Trotsky Party Members Protest Balbo's Reception A Letter on the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky What Capitulation Means The Use of the Bourgeois Press The Progressives Meet Socialists at the Conference Role of Progressive Leaders False Tactics of the Party Plain Talk Needed Note The British Labor Government by Maurice Spector The MacDonald Program The Defeat of the Communists Revolutionary Perspectives in India -A Letter to Trotsky by F. Dingelstaedt The Nature of Indian Industry Proletariat Independent Small Producers Groups "Outside the Classes" Bourgeoisie Grand Total Proletariat Must Lead the Struggle The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) The Question of the Character of the Chinese Revolution On the Reactionary Idea of Workers' and Peasants' Parties for the East Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party Bucharin's Air Journey Bucharin and Tomsky Resign Bucharin's Platform and Kamenev's Whom Piatakov Will Obey! The Capitulators and the Deportation Zinoviev and Stalin The Rights Dare to Criticize the Master! by G.G. The Daily Worker Eats Crow Putschism and May Day in Berlin by Max Shachtman Into a Putschist Swamp Into Zoergiebel's Trap The Attack by the Police The Party Continues With Self Delusions The Collapse of the Protest Strike The Defeat in Saxony The "Left" Zig-Zag of Centrism Losovsky Versus Losovsky The Losovsky of Yesterday The "New Line" in the United States The "United Front With One's Self" The Needle Trades Situation The Young Plan How German Workers Must Be Squeezed A Center for World Exchange False Hopes for Stabilization Trotsky the Millionaire 12 Aug 1, 1929 War Clouds in the East -China Provokes Russia First of August! -What Will "International Red Day" Bring (This document has been prepared and signed by the editors of the new international magazine "Opposition" soon to appear) Comintern Policy in England Germany and China False Estimate of the Situation A New Growth of Reformism "Red Day" Condemned to Failure Irresponsible Slogans What is to be Done? Gastonia in Danger England Bars Trotsky The End of the Cloakmakers Strike by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Facts About the Settlement Organizing the Bosses Errors of the Left Wing Prepare for the Future War in the Indep't Workmen's Circle by L. Schlosberg, Ex-National Executive Committee, Independent Workmen's Circle The Crisis in the Communist Party by James P. Cannon The Stalinists and the Right Wing The Opposition and the Right Wing Failure of New Leadership Strengthening the Right Wing The Way Out of the Crisis Karl Radek and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky Radek's Impulsiveness Radek's Right-About-Face The Theses of Comrade Radek by Leon Trotsky The Anti-Kulak Agitation Fraudulent Self-Criticism Problem of the Comintern The "Value" of the C.I. Program The Chinese Revolution The Draft Program of the Comintern by Leon Trotsky The Benefits Obtained from the Farmers' and Peasants' International Must Be Probed The Secret Resolution Against Bucharin adopted by the last Plenum of the C.C. of C.P.S.U. Foreword Stabilization and the Right Wing The Right and the Party Regime The Organization Removals Remember Comrade Malkin The New Progressive Movement by Arne Swabeck New Spirit in Old Unions Beginning of Revolt Left Wing Tactics Vincent St. John (Obituary) Tempus Fugit 13 Aug 15, 1929 United Front for Gastonia -Fight the Frame-up! Defend the Right to Organize and Strike! by the National Committee, The Communist League of America (Opposition) Danger Signals in the East Where Is the Left Wing Going? -An Answer to William Z, Foster with a Footnote on his Political Biography by James P. Cannon The Real Differences The Progressives The Slogan of Unity Foster's Zig-Zag Record 2 Years After Sacco and Vanzetti The Lesson of Class Justice The Movement Must Be Revived Bucharin Formally Ousted Peace Talk -Smoke-screen for War A World Armed to the Teeth America's "Pacifism" in Europe Who Is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky Theoretical Dishonesty Bela Kun and Pepper Varga Manuilsky Valetsky Summing Up the Fur Strike The Failure to Estimate the Defeat Foster On Retreats New Unions and the Communists From Gompers to Stalin (The evolution of William Z, Foster) Foster and Gompers Foster and the War On the International Right Wing -A Letter to Boris Souvarine by Leon Trotsky Position of the Brandler Group Thalheimer on the Russian Discussion The Secret Ballot The Vacillators The Rumor Factory Lovestones Appeal to Party by Max Shachtman The "Speculation" on Bucharin and Stalin Lovestone's Cablegram Bedacht on Goldfarb-Bennett All Quiet on the Unity Front I.L.D. Reorganized Again Chicago Gets a Graduate The Aftermath of "Red Day" The Masses and "Red Day" The Phrasemongers Rant A Stalinist Provocation 14 Sep 15, 1929 The T.U.E.L. Conference at Cleveland -A Forecast of the Work of the "New Trade Unio Center" by M.S. [Max Shachtman] No Illusions on the Gastonia Trial Lovestone's Burglaries An Apologetic Progressivism Party Splitters and Gastonia Another Rumor Nailed Piatnisky's Figures A Weekly by Nov. 7 Wicks Speaks Up -A Warrior Against Trotsky Bares Underhand "Red" Plot to Use Unions to Ruin United States Government Breaks With Party Work for American Legion No Use for "Reds" Expelled for Defeat United Front is Broadened 2 New Opposition Papers A Victory for Us in Austria Words Forgot -Yaroslavsky on Trotsky How Yaroslavsky Once Wrote A "Leader of the Revolution" The Sino-Russian Conflict and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Industrial Situation by Arne Swabeck The Textile Workers On the Railroads Building and Automobiles The Ripening Movement The "New Line" and Leninism A Gangster Assault -An Oppositionist Beaten in the Union Office Who is Leading the Comintern Today by Leon Trotsky Warski Klara Zetkin Smeral Kolaraov Kuusinen Petrovsky-Bennett Hey! What's This? Plenum Coming Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) -In Russian The Cult of the "Third Period" by Maurice Spector The Fifth Congress Juggling With "Periods" Slogans for Gastonia I the Next Issue The Party's Election Program in New York Party Progress -The 3rd Period Hits St. Louis by Martin C. Payer Two Letters From Afar * A Letter From Alfred Rosmer by A. Rosmer [Alfred Rosmer] * From the Chinese Opposition by P. for the Action Committee of the Chinese Opposition The Sacco-Vanzetti Meetings Communist League Activities New York City Chicago, Ill. Minneapolis, Minn. St. Louis, Mo. Birmingham, Ala. Richmond, Ca. Boston, Mass. Kansas City, Mo. Williston, N.D. 15 Oct 1, 1929 The Drive for the Weekly Lynch Law in Gastonia Chiang Kai-Shek's War Drive Mass Meeting -The Crisis in the American Communist Movement (Speakers James P. Cannon, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman The T.U.U.L. Conference by S. The Delegation at Cleveland A Forum Against the Opposition A New Federation of Labor The "Leftists" as Opportunists Cleveland and Unorganized Labor by James Young A Lovestone Paper Coming "Burglary Bolshevism" At Last! News of Bucharin.... The 5-Year Plan -How Stalin Builds Socialism Once Again: On Brandler and Thallheimer by Leon Trotsky Malkin's "Statement" Palestine -- Pogrom or Revolution? by Max Shachtman Palestine and the Empire The Nationalist Misleaders The Arab Congress The Role of the Forward The Arab Leaders The Freheit's Zig-Zag Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Martinov 10th Plenum of the Communist International How Not to Build New Unions The Cult of the "Third Period" by Maurice Spector (Continued from last issue) The Comintern Rights Ultra-Left Adventurism of Centrists "Class Against Class" All's Well in the Party, Says the Daily Worker! Good-By Pepper! -The Passing of an Adventurer Letters from the Argentine and from England * To Martin Abern by R. Guinney from Buenos Aires * From Helston, Cornwall, England by M.S. Communist League Activities Toronto, Canada New Haven, Conn. Philadelphia, Pa. Springfield, Ill. Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago, Ill. Kansas City, Mo. New York, N.Y. Boston, Mass. 16 Oct 15, 1929 THE MILITANT Published twice a month by the Communist League of America (opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Massacres at Marion * The Trial at Charlotte * 5 Workers Murdered The "Impossible" Weekly Vote Communist! from the National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) Holland Bars Trotsky Party Plenum Opens Hoot! MacDonald Briand's Plan for a United States of Europe by Arne Swabeck Briand's Proposal Trotsky and the Slogan The Soviet U.S. of Europe Lovestone Issues a Dishonest Document Beg Pardon! Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Lenzner Losovsky Raskolnikov Roy Katayama The Mine Battle -Corruption in Illinois Battle by Joseph Angelo New Opposition -Among the Russian Youth The R.R. Unions -A Split-up Labor Movement by C .R. Hedlund The Removal of Bucharin by Maurice Spector The "Infallible Old Guard" The Centrists and the Right The Conflict in the Muste Group The Sentiment in the Ranks The Fear of Green by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Thaelmann on the Toboggan A Lecture in Boston -"Pogrom or Revolution in Palestine" by Max Shachtman Unemployment in the Auto Industry by Barney Mass A Bad Habit We Made A Little Mistake A New Opposition Paper The Clothing Strike in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl Letters From the Militants * The T.U.U.L. Conference by Rebecca Sacharow * Activities in Minneapolis by Vincent R. Dunne * The Strike in K.C. by Charles Curtis * The Party in Pittsburgh by James Sifakis Communist League Activities Minneapolis, Minn. Boston, Mass. Toronto, Canada Pittsburgh. Pa. Chicago, Ill. New York, N.Y. St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Kansas City, Mo. Richmond, Calif. Working for Gastonia letter from Communist League of America (Opposition) Chicago Branch, Per Arne Swabeck 17 Nov 1, 1929 12 Years of Red Russia! Class Justice and Revenge in the South Next Number of the Paper Is the First Issue of the Weekly Militant The A.F. of L. Convention by Maurice Spector Comrade Rakovsky's Appeal -- Stalin's Reply (A letter by N.B. and a report on subsequent developments) Our Russian Organ Minneapolis Meeting What MacDonald "Accomplished" here by Max Shachtman Three Conferences for Defense of Gastonia Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The "Rallies" Bucharin Stalin Once Again--Palestine! The Coming Dress Strike -A Talk with the Left-wing Needle Trades Union Members A Cowardly Paper Wicks at Large Again "Let Not Thy First Page Know What the Second Page Sayeth" Next Steps in the Textile Field The Left Wing and the Workmen's Circle A Party Plenum of Cliques -The Mechanics of the Coming Struggle within the Party Nadir Khan, Liberator of Afghanistan, Will Convoke a National Assembly The Real Situation in Russia Letters From the Militants * The Lewis-Farrington Fight by Joseph Angelo * Purging the Canadian Sportsmen by Maurice Quarter * From an American in Berlin by S. Gordon [Sam Gordon?] Communist League Activities * Suspension of O. Carlson from the Communist League * St. Louis Meeting 18 Nov 30, 1929 The Illinois Miners' Struggle * Crash in the Stock Market The Causes of the Crash Where the U.S. Will Press * The Conference at Belleville by Joseph Angelo A Convention of Speeches Watt's Speech Angelo Urges Bolters Return Stalinism and Union Democracy Trotsky Greets the Weekly Militant The N.Y. Vote - A Warning Sign S.L.P. Beats C.P. Why the Falling Vote? What's Happening in China? -A Question That Every Communist Must Ask Himself and Answer by Leon Trotsky Zinoviev's Analogy The Perspective of the Adventure Schlesinger Prepares His Dress Strike -While Foster Almost Changes the Line--With the Help of a Cable from Losovsky The Class Struggle is Over! Yesterday's Wisdom Now a Trap A New Address Throughout the World of Labor * The Czecho-Slovakian Elections by H. Lenorovich Bulletin * The E.C.C.I. Plays with the Life of the Austrian Party by Kurt Landau * The Labor Movement in Greece by M. Klados * The Chinese Communists and the Sino-Russian Conflict On the Twelfth Anniversary of the Russian October by Leon Trotsky The New Unions and the Communists by James P. Cannon The Foster Wrecking Crew The Need for Workers Democracy The Mechanical Control Disease Minneapolis for Gastonia Hedlund Speaks on Case Minneapolis Classes Open The Next Issue Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Stalin and the Emigrants The Three Basic Lines The Stalinist Defeat in Staunton by Albert Glotzer Protest Daily Worker Lies Watt Declares Position The Daily Worker Lies Like Hell -A Letter Sent by the Staunton Miners' Conference to the Poison Pen Artists by Edw. C. Morgan, Sec'y Sub-District Conference, National Miners Union Demands Retraction Daily Worker Falsehoods An Authorized Statement Letters From the Militants * The Belleville Conference by Elmer McMillan * Party Progress in Boston by L. Schlossberg * Amter's Shop Bulletin by Charlie Bryne * Stalinist Destruction by John Mihelic Where to Buy The Militant 19 Dec 7, 1929 THE MILITANT Published Weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Hoover's Building Plan Swindle -Lots of Promises to the Jobless by Martin Abern Hoover "Stabilizes Capitalism" How About the Unemployed? The Public Works Panacea` Organize to Fight! Congress Opens -For the Master A Christmas Gift to the Boss The Wage Cut Drive U.S. Intervenes in Sino-Russ Conflict Disarmament and the U.S. of Europe by Leon Trotsky How Can Europe Be United? Disarmament a la American The Imperialist Dictatorship of America The Soviet United States of Europe Stalinists Raid the Co-ops -The Party Wins Another "Victory" in Superior! by Vincent R. Dunne The Hi-Jackers at Work Reckless Party Adventure No Turning from the Left! The Thieves Fall Out in the Miners Union by Arne Swabeck Wrecking a Great Union Possibilities of New Union What Kind of a New Union Throughout the World of Labor * Before the Capitulation of Bucharin by R., update by P. * The Conference of the German Right Wing by F. ST. The Aftermath in Palestine by J. Pera * Quotes From Moscow Worker (No. 209, September 11) Moscow Worker (No. 208, September 10) Moscow Worker (No. 210, September 12) Youth Pravda (August 25) Browder's Dazzling "Logic" A Most Remarkable Corpse Is the A.F. of L. Becoming Progressive by Arne Swabeck Lewis and Woll to the Rear The Scripps Editorial The Convention and the South Furuseth Bursts Out The Next Issue The Communist Defeat in Czecho-Slovakia by H. Lenorovics The Shift in Class Relations The Fascists Gain A Stalinist "Mass Party" "The Party Masses Are to Blame" Where the Fault Lies The Capitulation of Bucharin -What Are the Prospects of the Right Wing Now? by Max Shachtman Bucharin Will Fight the Right! The Roots of the Right Wing How the Right Can Fight A New Right-Center Bloc The Party's Adventure in the I.W.C. A Reaction Sets In Left Wing Workers vs. C.P. Where to Buy The Militant 20 Dec 14, 1929 Illinois Miners Out on Strike Bill Green's Pledge to Hoover Five New Cruisers by 1933 Accorsi Trial Opens Haiti in Revolt! -5 Killed, 20 Wounded by U.S. Marines in First Encounter Hoover the Peace Lover Enter: the Nat'l City Bank Chiang Kai-Shek's Collapse Schlesinger's Bright ideas -He "Abolishes" the Class Struggle; the Stalinists are Still Deciding "the Line" Schlesinger Praises Tammany A Strike--But Not For Wages An Imperative Question "The Freest Country in the World" (Examples of that "freedom" at work) Wilson's Siberian Adventure Ends The Textile Union -The Party Chops Off Another Head Throughout the World of Labor * The Real Victor in the German Elections by Kurt Landau * A Letter from Stalinist Exile by A.B, A Letter to the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition * Tardieu, the Man of the Hour by P. Naville Communism and Syndicalism by Leon Trotsky The Party and the Trade Unions Revolutionary Syndicalism and Communism The False Principles of Syndicalism The Real Autonomy of the Trade Unions Is Not Assailed by Party Leadership The Character of the Party's Direction Depends Upon Specific Conditions The Political Independence of the Trade Unions is a Myth The Syndicalist League, Embryo of a Party The Proletariat Does Not Demand the "Autonomy" of the Trade Unions but a Correct Leadership The Fetich of Trade Union Unity ("fetich" is a variant or misspelling of "fetish") The Character of the Trade Union Opposition The Policy of the Communist Party The Tasks of the Communist Left To Be Sure! To Be Sure! But That Was in the Second Period! (From a speech of Stalin at the 14th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, December 1925) Greetings Sent to the Weekly From Chicago From Minneapolis by Vincent R. Dunne From Kansas City by A.A. Buehler From Boston by Antoinette Konikow "Hoover Brings You Peace and Plenty" by Max Shachtman What Price Kellogg Pact? U.S. Naval Progress For Workers at Home Build! But How? Hoover Offers No Solution The Struggle For Markets Why We Publish The Militant A Rallying Point Party Defeated in the I.W.C. -Stalinist Policy in Independent Workmen's Circle Ends in Bad Retreat Boston The Progress in the Past The Punitive Expedition! The Latest Agreement Against Fake "Impartiality" The Party Cliques Are Still Busy A Report on the Russian Situation by the Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker Prosperity As Usual Letters From the Militants * 3rd Period Hits Daily Worker by K. Wilkes * Moving Ahead in Minneapolis by Carl Skoglund * Daily Worker Expert by R.G. * The Sports Movement in Canada by Maurice Quarter Constitution of the Communist League Name Purpose Membership Organization Administration Dues & Initiation Discipline Conferences Where to Buy The Militant 21 Dec 21, 1929 Accorsi Frame-Up is Smashed Evidence is Too Shabby Prosperity As Usual Pea-ce Soup A La Hoover (Political Cartoon Labor Fakers Sold Out Mooney Mooney the "Trouble-Maker" The Fakers' Private Opinion Illinois Miners on the March! -Cossacks Used, but the Miners Don't Scab by Arne Swabeck Capitalist Solidarity Strike Shortcomings Rally All Support! The Auto Show and the Auto Slaves by Peter Hansen Cars for the Leisure Class Ford's "Paradise" for Labor Opposition Group Formed in Argentina! by R. Guinney Hoover's Building Panacea America's Record in Haiti -Extracts from Dr. Ernest Gruening's Senate Testimony on Haiti in 1925 U.S. Wants Haitian Customs Haitian Revenues Seized Slave Laws by U.S. Marines "Unanimous!" -A Meeting of a Party Conference by Michael Kozlov How Time Does Fly in the Russian Party! The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky Groupings in the Left Opposition Formalism Instead of Marxism Revolutionary Aid or Imperialist Intervention Pacifism instead of Bolshevism Throughout the World of Labor * The State of Mind of the Capitulators * Hugenberg's Victory at Kassel by Volkswille * The Movement in South America by R. Guinney Lovestone and the Russian Revolution by M.S. [Max Shachtman] The Revolution and the International "A Tail to a Russian Kite" Lovestone Wants "Information" The Choice Must Be Made Friendly Advice to an Unfriendly Critic Remember Mr. Bessedovsky Hail the Weekly Militant! The Russian Opposition Replies to the Capitulators by Christian Rakovsky Between Two Fires Defects in the Opposition Arguments of the Capitulators Radek is "Always Ready!" What Radek & Co. Overlooked Letters From the Militants * An Oppositionist in Berlin by S. Gordon [Sam Gordon?] * Stalinist Progress in K.C. by John Mihelic * Working In Grand Rapids by Fred Wedler The Fight of the Chicago Cleaning Shop Workers The Bosses' Anti-Union Drive Bosses Declare a Lockout 22 Dec 28, 1929 Marion Killers Freed -Acquit Deputies Who Murdered Six Strikers Naval Conclave Sure to Crash France Wants Submarines Thieves Cannot Agree Unemployment Grows with Business Decline by Harvey O' Conner Heavy Business Decline The Mooney Frame-Up -Governor Passes Buck Again The Real "Risks in Industry" -More Mine Deaths in W. Va. Miners of Illinois Fought Big Odds by Arne Swabeck Was Strike a Mistake? A Communist Scare Coming Foster on Strike Strategy! Fishwick's "Progressivism" A Community Chest Drive -Hi-jacking Labor in Texas The McAlester Mine Disaster Poor Scabs! -Coal Co. Raises Rent More Hoover Prosperity -Southern Sawmills Shut Down by Jack Mette Industrial Accidents Mount Did y' renew your sub? Naval Conference Farce -Japanese Delegation Visit Indicates the "Disarmament" Prospects "Disarmament": A Farce Japan's Demands Whom Japan Fears The British Viewpoint The French Become Pious! On Hooliganism -- (Today and Yesterday) Auto Wage Cuts -Pontiac Workers Seriously Affected Can't Make Room and Board Fifty Percent Wage Cuts The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Last Issue) Why Doesn't Louzon Decide to Go the Whole Way? Are Socialist "Concessions" Admissible? Mistake in Principle in Estimating the Chinese and Russian Revolutions The Question of the Permanent Revolution in China Throughout the World of Labor * Christmas for the German Workers by Ed Falkowski * Native Resentment in South Africa by S.B. * Tardieu's Attack on Humanite from Verite The Theory at the Root of Lovestoneism Spurious vs. Real Internationalism A Nationalist Theory Trotsky's Warning What Now? -The Bolshevik Opposition and the C.P.S.U. -By the Editors of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition The Intentions of the Declaration A Regime of Systematic Deception Stalin -The "Second Lenin's" 50th Year` Semi-Social Patriotism Conflicts with Lenin Lenin's Bomb Against Stalin The Hero of the Period of Reaction How Many Times Can a Dead "ism" Die? Browder -The New Defender of Stalinism by Mih (Mihelic?, rest of signature illegible) The Party's Don Quixote Fifteen Well Spent Years Mass Speaks at Open Forum in Detroit Ingratitude Lovestone's Useful Work Morons Wanted--Not Workers! Christmas for Labor by Grace Hutchins A Publicity Stunt Starvation Conditions Too Hungry to Move Louisiana Standard Oil Signs Contract with Itself Chain Gang for Jobless Where Sacco and Vanzetti Were Murdered Greetings to Weekly Militant by John Mihelic Where to Buy The Militant link to John Mihelic archive collection: http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/mihelic.xml (at Western Connecticut State University) The Militant 1930 Volume 3 January 1 Jan 4, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Industrial Depression Growing -Anti-Labor Drive Now Under Way Exports Increase The Austrian Crisis And Communism by Leon Trotsky The Strength of the Social Democracy As Important Instrument of Capitalism Fascism, Bolshevism and Social Democracy Hundreds Killed by Marines in Haiti Illinois Miners Urgently Need Relief Lost Fliers and Hoover Refuse 6-Hour Day Concede Cleveland Unemployment Hoover Prosperity French Aim Blow at U.S. -Raise Tariff on American Autos Plan High Auto Tariff U.S. Will Fight Back Another Haymarket Cop Dead by T. P. Lewis Suppress Mooney Report -Young Hid Evidence Stalinist Repression -Hound Trotsky's Kin Ford's Treatment of Labor Swedish Workers Protest Barbarity in Carolina Mellon's Pa. Domain Rises -Workers Squeezed for Profits by Arthur G. McDowell Workers Make His Wealth Mellon Advances in New York Open Forum of the New York Communist League Naval Bases and Imperialism -The Struggle for Position at the Coming Conference in London by Albert Glotzer The New Economic Center of Gravity The Conflict in Ratios England's Naval Bases England's Favored Position New Methods of Sea Struggle A Proposed Party Questionnaire No Work in San Antonio -Labor Warned to Stay Clear by Esther Lowell Strangers to Rock Pile Merry Christmas -Starvation in North Carolina The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Thermidor or Party Rehearsal of Thermidor? Urbahn's Mistake in the Question of Thermidor Throughout the World of Labor * The Leninbund on the Wrong Road by Kurt Landau * The Betrayal in Austria * In France: A la Americaine by Pierre Naville What Now? -The Bolshevik Opposition and the C.P.S.U. by the Editors of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition (Continued from last issue) The Question of Unity The Pot of Gold for Unemployed by Robert L. Cruden Convention of the Textile Workers Union The Problem of the South A Workers Convention Shortcomings of Conference The Daily Worker Gasps for Arguments Centrism Out of Its Element Letters from The Militants * The New York Building Trades by Jack Sprague * Two Kinds of Corrupted Press by James Economou * Merry Christmas in Youngstown by Charlie Byrne * Nationalism vs. Internationalism by Pauline Gutringer * Greetings from Alabama by Sarah F. J. Linn Where to Buy The Militant 2 Jan 11, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Karl Liebknecht Day -At the Martyr's Grave-side by Karl Radek -Murdered January 15, 1919 by the German Junkers and their Socialist Allies At Liebknecht's Cradle Imbued with Revolutionary Traditions The Imperialist War Comes Workers Stand by Liebknecht Fallen in Battle A.F. of L. Opens Up in the South Remember Passaic! Velvet Words Conceal U.S. Arms Growth by Scott Nearing 1930 to Be "Lean Tough" Year What About the Workers? Profits Rise Poverty Spreads in St. Louis Export Industries Will Be Hit Heavily Pullman Co. Absorbs Notorious Union Foe A Company Town Boy Scout Movement Anti-Strike Free Meals Pass Out in Yuma Racketeer is Pal of Matty Woll by Harvey O'Connor Matty Woll's Pal Notorious Gangster 12 Lynchings Known in 1929 Philadelphia: Meeting in Philadelphia Philly Class N.C. Wants Anti-Labor Law, Too The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Not Centrism in General, but a Certain Kind of Centrism "A Kerenskyism Upside Down" Proletarian or Bourgeois State? What Would the Policy Have to Be if Thermidor Were Now Accomplished? For Proletarian or for Bourgeois Democracy? Throughout the World of Labor * The Split Danger in the French C.G.T.U. by A. Rosmer * New Turn in the German Trade Union Tactics by Kurt Landau * The 11th Congress of the British Communist Party by S.B. The Austrian Crisis And Communism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Bauer's Juridicial Formula Austrian "Democracy" Condemned What is Social-Fascism? The Danger in the Stalinist Theory Church Reports Marion Hell -But All that Preachers Offer Are Empty Promises and Pious Prayers Worked More Than 64 Hours a Week Workers Shun Church Pontiac Has "Novel" Way to Cut Wages No Pay for Make Ready Unemployment Raises Mortgage Shut-downs by Joseph Hutter Lumber Camps Aren't Hit by Prosperity by Harold R. Johnson A Bit of Olgin's Infamy Letters from The Militants * Another "Victory" in the Independent by C.C. [Charles Curtis] * Diary of An Unemployed Plumber by P. * Who Supports the Stalinists by Max Kaufman * Peonage on the High Seas * Daily Worker and Illinois Strike by Joseph Angelo * On Trotsky Where to Buy The Militant 3 Jan 18, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Heavy Decline in N. Y. Jobs -Every Industry Reports Slump Mill Bosses Plan Company Unions -To Counteract Trade Union Drive "Selling" Labor New Chain 1500 Unemployed Demonstrate in St. Louis -Mayor Answers the Demand for Work or Relief by Arresting Two Leaders by H.L. Goldberg Tear Gas is "Popular" Weapon against Labor by Harvey O'Conner Chicago Building Takes Sharp Drop; Thousands Jobless by T. P. Lewis 35 Electricians Will Burn to Death in 1930 Massachusetts Building Trade Workers Severely Hit 5,000 Fewer Jobs in Boston Police Called Out for Jobless Birmingham Big Open Shop Center -Unemployment Rife in South by T. S. Rawlings Acute Unemployment Sixty-Hour Week Attempt new Frame-up in Gastonia Bishop Demands Catholic Unions in Canada by John Robur Company Union Established in Elizabethton Chicago Opposition Active Fear Soviet Invasion in Arizona 60 Hours a Week for Women in Kentucky -Negro Workers the Worst Off Louisville's Labor Budget The Minnesota F. L. P. -Six Years of Confusion and Disappointment in a Two-Class Party by Vincent R. Dunne F.L.P. Policy Benefits Officialdom Farmers Outvote Workers "Unity" in a Two Class Party Pepper's Bold Plan Workers Used by Farmers Gertrude Duell Joins the Opposition A Real Red ILD -And Hell Hath No Fury Like an Engdahl Enraged. 150 Workers Laid Off Rosa Luxemburg -- 11 years After by Max Shachtman The Communist fight Against Imperialist War by Charles Curtiss The Role of the Socialists From Bosses' War to Class War Throughout the World of Labor * The British Miners and the Labour Party by S.B. * Opposition Progress in Spain by Fernando Salvatierra * A New "Workers' and Peasants' Party" in France from "La Verite" The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Even While Retreating Before the Marxist Criticism, Urbahns Combats not Korschists but Marxists Practical Tasks in Case of War Does the Defense of the U.S.S.R. Mean Reconciliation with Centrism? How Has the Discussion Been Conducted? Lash is What Convicts Need An Economic Analysis? Or Factional Demagogy & Forgery "Trotskyism" Dead Again The Professor's Nightmare -A Story of the Great American Worker-Boss that Never Existed Karakhan Takes a Pleasant Trip to Turkey -But, Unlike Trotsky, He is not Confined on an Island by Friend Kemal Pasha Hutchison Expels Militant -Louis A. Roseland Removed from Minneapolis Carpenters Union Rank and File Opposes Move..... Officials Want No "Interference" The Struggle of the Miners in Taylorville, Ill. by Fritz Bode Sr. Bessedovsky -Trotsky on the "Revelations" by Leon Trotsky 4 Jan 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Leninism Lives! -The Opposition Carries It Forward by Max Shachtman -Lenin's Work Lives in the Opposition! The Great Men of the Proletariat A Party--Not a Sect Exceptionalist or Internationalist? From Hillquit to Lovestone Mass Unemployment Continues Enormous Profits in Southern Tobacco Enormous Company Profits Virtual Famine for Workers A Step Down by the International Right A Break with Communism The Right Wing Doesn't "Intervene" Roy's Nationalism Trotsky (Discussion of the writings by Trotsky published in The Militant and planned future publications of his writing) The Struggle for the South -Green's Plea to the Bosses, the Progressives and the Communists by James P. Cannon The A. F. of L. Program The Bosses' Program and the A.F. of L. Program Mistakes of the Party Leaders The Removal of Weisbord Prospect Bad for Builders by T. P. Lewis Peak Reached in 1928 Burden Workers with Losses The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky What is Radicalization of the Masses? The Strike Curve in France What do the Data of the Statistics Show? Facts and Phrases Throughout the World of Labor * The New Udral Government in Czecho-Slovakia by H. Lenorovics * Fascism Still Alive in United States The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Danger of Sectarianism and National Limitedness Conclusions A Letter from the Chinese Oppositions by P. $2,500,000 in Profits in 1929 Carry Out Lenin's Will! -Lenin's Last Words to the Party, Still Suppressed by the Stalinists by V.I. Lenin Ford's Parts Factories Drive Workers by Robert L. Cruden The Depression and Labor -Prospects for the Approaching Struggles in the United States by Arne Swabeck The Role of the A.F. of L. The Pressure of the Banks A False Assumption The St. Louis Unemployment Demonstration St. Louis Hard Hit Demands Proposed Cops Break Up the Meeting February 5 Feb 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Police Murder Steve Katovis -Communist Worker Shot Down in Cold Blood Savage Attack on Demonstrations United Front Against Police Terror Naval Conclave Shows No Unity Italo-French Conflict Merchantmen Limitation Hits England Green Stabs Marion and Gastonia Mexico Breaks with Soviet Union After the Miner's Strike -Operators and Reactionary Union Leaders vs. the Illinois Miners by Joseph Angelo Labor Bosses As Operators' Tools Trial Served Good Purpose Stalinists Retreat Partially Prospects for New Struggles in New Bedford by Frank Bromley The Indian Revolution at the Cross-roads by Max Shachtman A Keystone in the British Empire Loss of India a Fatal Blow The Nationalist Bourgeoisie Gandhi's Record At the Cross-Roads Stalinists Disrupt Minneapolis T.U.U.L Conference $81,000,000 Corporation Refuses to Pay 37 Cents an Hour N.Y. Telephone Grabs $14,000,000 More The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky Crisis of Conjuncture and the Revolutionary Crisis in Capitalism Economic Conjuncture and the Radicalization of the Masses Fake Revolutionaries Fear Economic Processes Throughout the World of Labor * the Developments in Germany by Sam Gordon * Communist Injunctions... by M.Q. On the Chinese Revolution -Trotsky's Reply to the Letter of the Chinese Opposition Group by Leon Trotsky The Constituent Assembly in China Stalinist Impotence and Violence Hoover Prosperity Invisible in State of Illinois Mummery in Labor Unions by C.R. Hedlund Bosses are Wiser Militant Twice Expelled Young Vanguard -- A Section Devoted to Problems of Working Class Youth * The Last Plenary Session of the Y.C.L. by R. The Cause for the Situation Is -- The Situation Confusion on Right and Left Danger * The Disruption of the Canadian Youth League by M. Quarter Responsibilities With Y.C.L. The Hypocrisy of the Stalinists The Curse of Mining Accidents by Fritz Bode Sr. Speed-up Causes Accidents U.M.W. Officials Delinquent The New Industrial Unions -The Mass Organizations of the Workers or Narrow Party Sects? by Arne Swabeck Revolutionizing the Unions The Third C.I. Congress on Trade Unions New Unions Everywhere? The Responsibility of the Right Wing Cleveland Labor News by John Foley Where to Buy the Militant 6 Feb 8, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Dress Strike On -Schlesinger and Bosses Cooperate -Left Wing Can Win Workers by Quitting its Isolationist Attitude Workers Need Left Wing Left Wing Errors What's Happened to Blumkin? -Let Stalin and the American Party Leaders Answer! City of Chicago Goes Bankrupt by Arne Swabeck The "Poor Policemen" Tax Valuation Cut Enormous Profits in U.S. Steel Hoover and the Farmers by Peter Hansen The Capitalist "Solution" The Communist Answer A Repast of Wild Beasts -French Communist Viewpoint on the London Naval Conference by Paul Sizoff The Importance of Naval Transport "Humanizing Warfare" The Washington Conference New Kind of Trade Union Work by Carl Skoglund United Front in Boston in the New Style by Charlotte Shechet Everything is "Properly" Arranged Opposition on Side of Union The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky What are the Symptoms of the Political Radicalization of the Masses? What Are the Immediate Perspectives? Throughout the World of Labor * A Step Backward by French Syndicalism by Pierre Naville * Lovestone's German Friends by Roman Well The Results of the Soviet-China Conflict by Leon Trotsky The Proletariat and Peasantry in the Indian Revolution by Max Shachtman The Indian Proletariat The Spoilation of the Peasantry Peasantry and National Bourgeoisie The Absence of a Communist Party Where Roy is Right and Wrong Roy's Line Was Stalin's Line Foster's Return and the "New Wind" in the Comintern by Leon Trotsky The "Leftism of the 5th Congress The Change in the Russian Situation Manuilsky Warns the Apparatus! The Right Wing Approves New Attitude Towards Right Wing Leadership in the Coming Struggles by Arne Swabeck The Workers in the Basic Industries Communist and Conservative Unions Problem of the United Front Practical Strike Demands 7 Feb 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Dressmakers Again Betrayed -"Impartial Commission" Formed to Sell Out Workers No Militancy Displayed Working Conditions Unchanged Left Wing Failed to Propose United Front Imperialist Powers Quarrel at London America Spreads Her Wings Yes or No! Has Blumkin Been Assassinated? -More Facts on the Disappearance of the Fighter for the Russian Bolshevik Revolution Unemployment Stalks the Middle West Only 44% Work in Toledo "Welfare" Dept. Jammed Man versus Machines 35,000 Jobless in New Jersey Industrial Center Taxi Maintenance Men Join Strikers Reports Bode Ill for Auto Slaves Birmingham Wages Miserly by T. S. Rawlings Weavers Walk Out in Carolina Mill Help Us sustain The Militant The Socialist Party and Radicalization of the Masses by James P. Cannon A Period of Communist Growth The Course of Lovestone's Faction The Strike Barometer The Fosterite Contribution to the S.P. American Labor and Reformism The Fundamental Principle Errors of Syndicalism -To Serve in the Discussion with Monatte and the Pure Syndicalists in General by Leon Trotsky Lenin and the Syndicalists Monatte's Fetishisms The Dangers of State-ism Throughout the World of Labor * The Crisis in the Spanish Labor Movement by Henri Lacroix * The League Against Imperialism by Kurt Landau * The British Daily Worker by S.B. Low Wages for Unorganized Miners in W. Va. by August Valentine The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky The Art of Orientation Molotov "Enters With Both Feet" Are Economic Strikes Called Forth By Crises or Rises? The Rise of the U.S.S.R. as a Factor in the "Third Period" The Slogan of the General Strike "The Conquest of the Street" For an International Conference of the Left -The Need for Organizing the World Opposition by Martin Abern Opposition Problems Need Elaboration Opposition Growing An International Opposition Organ Anthracite Takes Heavy Toll in Accidents The Strike of the Toronto Cloakmakers by M. Quarter Right Wing Leaders Sabotage Pittsburg Cab Drivers on Strike by James Sifakis Minneapolis Stalinists Disrupt the Ladies Auxiliary by Clara Kaufman Minneapolis Workers School Quaker city Knitters Revolt on Wage Cuts 8 Feb 22, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite in Struggle for the Jobless! -Unite Forces on March 6th Demonstrations! U.S. Capitalism Offers No Relief Councils of Unemployed All Out on March 6th The Party "Answers" on Blumkin -But It Fails to Make a Straightforward Reply to the Questions We Have Raised Naval conference at a Standstill N.Y. Times is Cynical Thomas Apologizes for MacDonald Illinois Jobs Declined Building Trades Hit in D.C. The Anti-Soviet Crusaders The Crime of the Soviets Detroit Prosperity Help Us Sustain The Militant Passaic Strike Anniversary -Some Lessons in Militant Labor Leadership for the Future by James P. Cannon The "Right to Think" by George Ray No Discussion, Say Lovestone-Foster $200,000 Profits and--Unemployment Can Monopoly Capitalism Be Organized? by Arne Swabeck Opposition Platform Forecast Present Crisis Hoover's Program Capitalism Can Only Intensify Anarchic Production Lenin and Trotsky Combat Bucharin's and Stalin's Economic Theories Lovestone and Bucharin Approach Social-Democracy's Views The Centrist Phrases and the Results An Opposition Group in Mexico Formed Gastonia Stoolpigeon Got His American Plan Means 55 Cents for Machinists Miners Would Like to See Part of Steel Trust Gold They Produced Throughout the World of Labor * The Stalinization of the Mexican Party by Rosalio Negrete * Mondism and Unemployment Grow in England by S.D. * After the French Socialist Congress from "La Verite" The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky "No Agreements with the Reformists" Do Not Forget Your Own Yesterday Once More on War Danger Groupings in Communism Letter from Moscow: How Stalin Murdered Blumkin: Radek's Judas Role by N. The Russian Opposition Knows Its Path! -Note by the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition Ludlow Killer Rewarded Billions Made by Big Industrialists General Motors Heads Lists Enormous Profits Continue The Situation in the Mining Industry Typos Defeat Salary Boost Gain 40-Hour Night Week "The Great Disciple of Lenin" by Denis Plarinos St. Louis Fakers Try Militant Painter Machinist Unemployment Worst Since 1921 60,000 Unemployed in K. C. Rail Workers Discuss Mergers Our Youth Section March 9 Mar 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Murder of Blumkin is an Act Against the Russian Revolution Opposition Pressure Forces Stalin to the Left Stalinists Politically and Morally Bankrupt Trotsky on Stalin and Blumkin by Leon Trotsky Build a Broad Movement to Aid the Unemployed by Martin Abern Organize the Unemployed on Elementary Issues New York T.U.U.L. Conference a Talkfest How Not to Aid the Unemployed Develop a United Front Movement 40 Percent Jobless in Bay State Snow Fails to Bring Jobs to Jobless Equal Opportunity Mocked by Income Report Mass. Employment Continues Down Too Many Labor Officials by C. R. Hedlund Breeding Bureaucracy Prepare for Convention Long Hours in Steel Mills More than Half Work over 48 Hours The New Bedford Textile Workers and Stalinist "Politics" by Frank Bromley Factionalism Hurts Development Conditions of Metal Scrappers Steady Work Need Union Rank and File for Labor Party The Mining Situation and the Tasks of the Left Wing -Statement of the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) The N.M.U. Strike in Illinois The Fishwick-Howat-Brophy Convention The Coming Convention of the N.M.U. What is "Permanent Revolution"? by Leon Trotsky Opposition Serves the Bolshevik Revolution by Leon Trotsky Quarter Million Jobless in N.C. Throughout the World of Labor * The Fall of Primo De Rivera and its Consequences by Gorkin Bourgeoisie Desert Primo Financial Crisis in Spain The Growing Republican Movement The Need of a Communist Party * German Unemployed Defy Tyrannous Laws * German Unemployed and the First of February Wherein Lies the Defeat of the 1st of February Why was the Defeat Inevitable? by Kurt Landau La Verite and The Militant Actors Equity Deprecates Company Union Plan St. Louis Jobless Swamp Charities Imperialist Development and its Inevitable Doom by Arne Swabeck The Imperialist Struggle for Market Control American Expansion Will Bring Revolutionary Disturbances Capitalism Can't Harmonize Contradictions Finance Capitalists Direct Government The Petty Capitalists are Ground Under The Increase of Bankruptcies The Growth of Communism World Textile Situation Bodes Workers Ill by Robert W. Dunn Young Vanguard: A Section Devoted to Problems of the Working Class Youth * The Decline of the Y. C. I. by Joseph Friedman Y.C.I. Follows the False Path of the C.I. The May Day and August First Fiascoes Big Loss in Membership Manuilsky Passes the Buck The Opposition Youth is Taking Hold * Lovestone's Whining Baby by A. M. G. Present Disintegration of the League Needs of the League Foodless Mother Tries Suicide Operators Speed-Up Illinois Coal Diggers War's Glory by Peter Hansen 10 Mar 8, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Demonstrate on March 6th As Unemployment Grows Immediate Needs of Miners Stalin Persecutes Rakovksy Miners! Build Left Wing at Springfield Immediate Needs of Miners Send Delegates to March 10th Convention Flood Control Contractors Gyp Negro Laborers Over 8,000,000 Women Toil at Low Wages Long Hours for Women Night Shifts in Auto Plants The Coming Paterson Strike by Frank Bromley Better Preparations Are Needed Sailors Face Jobless Problem Registration of Aliens Fought Miner's Death Toll Mounts (From Federated Press) Cab men Reject Scab Terms by Arthur G. McDowell The Proletarian Revolution and the Shooting of Blumkin by Martin Abern The Five Year Plan The Bureaucracy and the Working Class Stalin Splits the Communist Movement Lenin Rejects Stalin The Daily Worker "Answers" Rakovsky and the Centrists What is to be Done? "In the Name of God" The Sick War-horse of Religion The Opium of the People The Policy of the Leadership and the Party Regime by Christian Rakovsky The Changes in Class Relations Industrialization and the Classes The Five Year Plan Centrists Fear Workers and Poor Peasants The Party Regime The Stalinist Bureaucracy What Road? The Political Situation in Germany and the Crisis in the Communist Party by Kurt Landau The Legend of the New Revolutionary Wave Toward the New 1923? Radicalization of the Workers, Political Mass Strike, and Struggle for the Streets Is the Party Threatened by Illegality The Struggle for a New Left Wing in the Party Workers Nail Employment Lie Polish Conditions Grow Rapidly Worse Long Hours, Low Wages, for Foundry Workers Mass Unemployment in Rochester Building on the Chute in Pennsy Reveals Crime of Archangel Expedition (From Federated Press) No Murder Charge Against This Judge by Frank L. Palmer Stalinism in Chicago I. L. D. Young Vanguard - A Section Devoted to Problems of the Working Class Youth * Whither the American League by George Ray * The Militarization of the American Youth by A.M.G. Wage Cuts in Oil Fields Rail Telegraphers Add New Members Trade Union Membership at Standstill The Class Character of the Constitution by Peter Hansen The Exploitation of Labor and the Law Abolish Capitalism My Part in the October by Leon Trotsky A Supplementary Insertion A Letter from England by Millicent Shooter 11 Mar 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck March 6 and After Unemployment--a Permanent Phenomenon The Failure of the "General Strike" The Reformists Step In The United Front Tactics Unite the Left Wing Forces London Naval Debacle by Albert Glotzer Issues at the Conference The Lineup Against the Soviet Union Conference Can Offer No Solution Gold and God United Against Soviets Haitians Demand End of Wall St. Rule Amalgamate Engineers and Firemen by C.R. Hedlund Bureaucrats Hinder Progress Northwestern Shuts Down Roundhouse Baldwin Locomotive Lays Off 1,200 Labor Party in Kenosha Miners Not Consulted in Drawing Up Agreement The Paris Commune and the Proletarian Revolution by Maurice Spector The War and the Misery of the Workers The Proletariat Struggles for Power The Shortcomings of the Commune The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie The Lessons of the Commune Auto Industry Moves South by Robert L. Cruden Sacco-Vanzetti Case Reopened in Boston The New Course in the Economy of the Soviet Union -Adventure in Economics and Its Danger by Leon Trotsky The Meaning of the Stalinist Zig-zag How Stalin Handles the Five Year Plan The Bureaucracy and the Kulaks The Basis for Collective Agricultural Economy The Bureaucrats About-Face The Kulaks and Industrialization The Class Character of the Collectives The Kulaks in Masquerade The Panicky Retreat of Stalin What the Bureaucrats Will Say Our Estimates for Industrialization The Restoration of the Right-Center Bloc What to Do? Save the Party and the Proletarian Dictatorship Restore the Comintern Next Steps of the American Worker by Arne Swabeck Unemployment--A Spur to Class Action Some Labor History and Struggles The Political Action of Labor The Rising Struggles The Labor Party and the Communists Hoover Speeds the Postal Clerks Throughout the World of Labor * From Moscow by R.R. * The Struggle Against Unemployment in Europe and Its Conduct Unemployment and the Workers' Morale by K.L. Civil Liberties Union Charts Labor Danger Zones Hosiery Scabs Kill Striker, Wound Two Open Shop Paper Approves A.F. of L. Ella May Lynching O.K.'D Where to Buy the Militant 12 Mar 22, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite for the Unemployed! -Resist Attack of Bosses and Government by Martin Abern The Proposed Frameups and Police Brutality The Labor Spy and Blacklist of Militants The Drive Against the Foreign Born Workers and Civil Liberties Revival of Criminal Syndicalism Laws The Bosses Organize Mass Unemployment Remains Create United Front Defense Movement United Front for the Unemployed The Springfield and Indianapolis Miners Conventions Split in Miners Deepens Progressive Measures Brought Forward Communists Adopt Isolation Policy Heavy Unemployment Among Clothing Workers The Aberle Mill Strike in Philly by M. K. Whitten Militancy of Strikers Outstanding Philadelphia's Labor Record Left Wing Isolated; Fakers Pleased Establish Roots Among the Workers Monarchist Spain Refuses Entry to Trotsky Business Men Jeer Parade of Jobless Destitution Fall Over Northeast Philadelphia Cold Comfort for Workers in Loan Society Report Big Profits for Loan Sharks Reveals Workers Extreme Poverty Pittsburg Papers Incomplete on Westinghouse Records N.Y. State Job Figures Continue to Decline Says Music Wasted on Future Wage Slaves Workers Help Jobless Where to Buy the Militant Rail Clerks Ask Six Hour Day in New Pact Salvation Army Bread Line Long Fight Registration of Foreign-Born Capitalists Aim to Establish Spy System A Letter to the Italian Left Communists (To the Adherents of Comrade Bordiga) by Leon Trotsky The Nature of the Party Theoretical Perversions of Stalinism The Class Character of the U.S.S.R. The Analogy of Thermidor What is Thermidor? The Stalinist Leadership of Italy Letters from the Soviet Union * The Five Year Plan and the Kulaks * Stalin Endangers the Proletarian Dictatorship by S. Morale of Opposition Excellent The Struggles of the Opposition Employment Sharks Exposed (by Federated Press) Employers in on Gypping Game Half Million Strikers in India in 1929 Jobless Costs on Charity Mount Pittsburgh Cabmen fight Traitors Naval Conference Talks On Milwaukee Cops Abuse Children in Jail Marion Workers Discuss New Strike With Lenin Against Stalin by Leon Trotsky Women Suffer in Present Era Marriage Increases Burden A Seaman on Conditions by James Russell Seamen Disorganized A Narrow Policy 13 Mar 29, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Cubans Strike -Defy Machado -Demand Unemployment Relief The Bloody Rule of Machado Wall Street Continues Cuban Penetration Mass Unemployment Continues by Martin Abern Iron and Steel Production Slow Bosses Cutting Wages Socialists Propose Unemployment Census by Police Repressive Acts Against Workers Don't Solve Unemployment Crisis Trotsky Seriously Ill Haiti Struggles -Demands Independence from Wall Street Rule by Albert Glotzer Election of Roy-- A Sham St. Louis Bus Drivers on Strike for Union Kansas City Building Trades win Five-Day Week The National Textile Union -Sectarian Policy Hindering Organization by Frank Bromley Role of the Reactionaries Need of Systematic Work in the Mills Dynomite in "Dynamic" Detroit Anthracite Miners Hit by Unemployment Hoover's Prosperity Racket Fades in Middle West The Shooting of Blumkin -Stalin's Story in Process of Preparation Running Away from the Facts Stalin Prepares His Story The Dictatorship of Stalin and its Consequences Suffering Among Jobless Grows An Open Letter to All Members of the Leninbund by Leon Trotsky Has the Urbahns Faction Any Adherents? Do Not Forget the International Opposition The Urbahns Block, Treint and Paz It is Indispensable to Obtain Unity of the Opposition True and False Internationalism A Choice Must Be Made Throughout the World of Labor * Conditions of the German Workers and the Communists by Sam Gordon Bourgeoisie on the Offensive Social Democrats Continue to Sell Out Workers The Attack on Workers' Organizations The Opportunism of the Brandlerites The Need for a Clear Left Communist Opposition * The Labor Movement in South Africa by C. Frank Glass The Working Class in South Africa The Comintern Policy The Labor Party and the Tasks of the Communists by Arne Swabeck Status of the New Unions The Labor Struggles in Recent Years Perspectives in the A.F. of L. Some Labor Party History The Sectarian Party Policy Role of Labor Fakers and Socialists The Labor Party--A Perspective Milwaukee Communists Appeal Workhouse Sentences Unifying the Left Opposition by the Editorial Board of the Russian Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) An International Organ Unity Upon Principle Agreement Injunction Judge Halts Union Taxi Service Attention, Boston! The Struggle in the I. W. C. Buffalo Charity Outlay Climbs Steadily Building Trades Drop in Mass. Shopmen Work Five Days to Avoid Layoffs Sportswear Workers Win Strike Independent Workmen's Circle Confronted by a Split by L. Schlosberg At the Chicago Convention The "Left Wing" Branches Again a Split Policy Naval Parley Sinking Possibilities for Continuation Slim Pre-Conference Situation Remains April 14 Apr 5, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Pittsburg -Taxi Men Solid on 12th Week Building Workers Ask Mooney-Billing's Release Sharp Decline In Illinois Construction In the Next Issue Relieve Unemployment -Demand Large-Scale Credits to Soviet Union by Martin Abern Wm. Green's Report on Unemployment Bosses and Government Ignore Needs of Workers Workers Begin to See Capitalism as Cause of Unemployment To Aid Unemployed, Demand Credits for Soviet Government Unite Forces on Behalf of Jobless Demand Communist Party Change Its Isolation Policy Methods in the Unemployed Movement Tasks of the Communists Yellow-Dog Judge -Hoover Nominee for Supreme Court Polishing the Guns for the Next War Only Soviet Union for Peace The A. F. of L. in the South by Arne Swabeck Green Meets the Bosses The Wage-Cutting Campaign and the Strikers Southern Workers Show Militancy Left Wing Must Adopt United Front Policy Auto Bosses in Struggle for World Markets European Capitalists, Resist American Penetration No Compensation for Fingerless Boys Type Men Meet in September Labor Haters Merge Forces American Capitalists Combining Bitterly Anti-Labor State Labor Head Shows Heavy Unemployment in Michigan Communist League to Print Important Books Buffalo Unemployment Heavy From a Southern Worker The Period of Right-Centrist Down-Sliding in the C. I. by Leon Trotsky The Revisionism of Stalin and Bucharin The Results of the Anglo-Russian Committee The Role of the Russian Unions in the Bloc The Bloc with the General Council and "Stabilization" The Rotten Strategy of Right-Centrism Throughout the World of Labor * In Spain after the Fall of the Dictatorship -Monarchy, Republic or Proletarian Revolution? by Gorkin Why the Petty Bourgeois Are Republican Fear of the Proletariat The Condition of the Workers and Peasants The Workers' Awakening The Opposition and the Party * War on Russia Cry U. S. Imperialists Militarist Hounds for War on Soviet Union Gandhi's Policy and the Proletarian Movement British Policy in India Gandhi's Policy is Unstable Indian Masses Militant Comintern Policy Continues Wrong Line Task is to Build a Communist Party The Split in the Leninbund by Roman Well The Theoretical Misconceptions of the Leninbund Political Bankruptcy of Urbahns The Decline of the Leninbund Trench Episodes A.D. 1936 A Short Story by Bertram Chambers "Services No Longer Required" by Charles Curtis Misery Wages for S.C. Bag Workers In the Opposition Ranks -International Left Forms Provisional Bureau (Signed by Shachtman (Communist League of America) (Opposition), Markin (Russian Communist Opposition-Bolshevik-Leninists) and Rosmer (Left Communist Opposition of France) Northern China Organizes Opposition by North China Executive Committee of Chinese Leninists (Opposition) 15 Apr 12, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The 5 Year Plan and World Unemployment by Leon Trotsky The Bureaucracy Runs Blindly World Unemployment and the Soviet Union Ways to Aid the Unemployed and the Soviet Union Unemployment and the United Front Socialist Construction and the International Revolution Rally Workers on May Day The Situation of American Labor The Issues for May Day For a United Front Opposition Paper Published in the Argentine 12 W. Va. Miners Fatally Gassed St. Louis Busmen Win Strike 6-Hour Day Aim of Twin City Rail Workers Consider Labor's Economic and Political Problems Resolution Minnesota's "Farmer-Labor" Meet -The "Practical" Politicians and Business Men Take Charge Left Wing Presents Program; Denied Expression Left Wing to Continue Fight for Fighting Workers' Movement Labor Party Sentiment Polled in Philly Economic Reaction World-Wide Bosses and Government Do Nothing for Jobless Relieve Unemployment Through Broad Economic Relations with Soviet Union 20,000 Rush Ford's Plant for Work Toothless Foster Silent at Party Plenum The Situation Among the Coal Miners by Arne Swabeck Serious Errors of Wrong Analysis What Does the New Union Signify? Reactionaries Strengthen Hold--But Workers Move On How Far Will the Rebellion Reverberate Left Wing Facing Serious Problems Machines Displace More Miners Sixteen Coal Miners Die in Blast Steel Slaves Need Union Throughout the World of Labor * In the Soviet Union -Our Statement to the XVI Party Congress What to Tell the Party The Centrist Adventures * The Communist Workers and the Opposition The Opposition and the Rank and File * In India -Gandhi Enters the Field of "Struggle" Gandhi on His Knees Before the Lord Viceroy The Workers Will March Beyond Gandhi * The Durban "Raid" in South Africa by C. Frank Glass Japanese Radical Held for Deportation Sellier is Right-- Lovestone Wrong by Max Shachtman Internationalism is Forgotten Travelling Toward Menshevism Naval Parley Bound for "Davy Jone's Locker" Conference Cannot Solve Its Problems Attempts at Security Pacts Fail Secrecy Prevails in Conference Police Kill Worker at Anti-Fascist Meet Rochester Typos Share Jobs with Unemployed Where to Buy The Militant Street Railwaymen Ask Raise Beating the War Drums War Department Calls for Free Hand Turning the Factories into War Machines All Workers to be Entrapped Trotsky on Foster and Lovestone No Wage Increase for Memphis Street Car Men Police Board Approves Blackjacking Students Back Jobless Against Police Fines and Jail for Jobless Capitalism Blamed for Crime Problem Letters from the Militants * The Party Mathematicians at Work by Frank Bromley The March 6 New York Demonstration In the Unions Untruths and Illusions Don't Help the Communists The "Cooperative" Cafeteria * Dividends Go Up! Wages Come Down by J. Mihelic * Matthew Woll Proves Himself by Harold Preece Woll's Poison Goods 16 Apr 19, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Five Communists Framed -Unite Working Class Forces for May Day Demonstrations by Martin Abern L.D. Trotsky's Autobiography "My Life" Corporations Make Huge Profits U.S. Steel and Standard Oil Get Huge Profits "Public Service" Corporations Rake in the Dough The Naval Conference "Agrees" American Imperialism in the Ascendency Rakovsky's Illness B. of L. E. Convention -A program of Action for the Engineers by C. R. Hedlund Floating Worthless Stock The Officials Loot the Treasury The Real Estate Racket A Program for a Rank and File Union Illinois Elections Ignore Worker's Needs by Arne Swabeck A Contest Between Groups Labor Fakers Play Usual Game Independent Political Action Raised in Federation Stalin Silent on Blumkin; Jacquemotte Speaks Railroad Workers to Meet on 6-Hour Day by O. Coover Dispatchers Need Shorter Hours Washington Governor Pardons Crooks, Refuses Wobblies Atlanta Threatens Death to Communist Organizers $50,000 Minimum Budget for Young N. Y. Banker The Ultra-Left Policy on Right Dregs by Leon Trotsky The German Defeat of 1923 The Bulgarian and Esthonian Adventures (Variant spelling of "Estonian") Falsification and Fiction Replace Facts and Truth The Illusions About the Peasantry Zinovieff on Raditch The LaFollette Maneuver The Farmer-Labor Party and the Class The Course Toward the Kuomintang The Party and Proletarian Revolution Throughout the World of Labor * In the Soviet Union -First Flutterings of a New Course A Rebirth for the Kulaks! The Changed Course Toward the Church * The Elections to the Factory Councils in Germany by K.L. The Party Fails to Lead The Left is Assembling Its Forced * Strikes and Peasant Uprisings in Greece Rationalization and Suppression Mass Unemployment Continues The Adventurist Party Course * Spanish Opposition Endorse International Conference The Lessons of Capitulations -Necrological Reflections by ALFA (Leon Trotsky) The "Leaders" Renounce Themselves The Capitulations by the Right How the Capitulations are Obtained And Radek Yelps, "Me, Too." Zinoviev and Kamenev "Repent" Once Again Stalin's Equilibrium is Shaky The Danger of Bonapartism Book Review: Karl Marx, the Man -Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs, by Karl Liebknecht reviewed by James P. Cannon Scientific Truth Was Marx's Guide Marx in Exile at London Marx the Teacher Harvester Profits Soar; Lay off Men Newark Jobless Haunt Newspaper Office to Scan Want Ads Wisconsin Federation Meets July 15 Expose Revolting Conditions In Canneries Letters from The Militants * The Estonian Press Hews to Party Line--The Results by P.S. Workers' Clubs Disbanding Stalinism Wrecks Esthonian Movement Also (Variant spelling of "Estonian") * Lovestone Speaks His Piece by G.R. Sprinkler Fitters Take 5-Day Week American Capitalist Development by C.L. Where to Buy The Militant 17 Apr 26, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck International Labor Day I. L. P. "Turns Left" May Day in New York -With the Militant Workers -Against Whalen and the Legionaries! -All Workers Out to Rutgers Square on the First of May Capitalists on the Offensive Organize Labor's Resistance Unemployment Unrelieved The Policy of Bluff in the N.T.W.U. by Frank Bromley The Southern Membership and the Organizers Blumkin Issue Will Not Down by "La Verite" Ford Makes Profits on Men Ford Cuts Wages $25 Minimum for N. Y. Girl Police Charge Into Crowd of Jobless Pittsburgh Car men Stand Pat for More Pay Furniture workers Get 49 Cent Wage Jobless told to Leave Detroit "Nothing Doing" Bankers Move Phila. Hosiery Co. -South to Get Scab Labor The Autobiography of Leon Trotsky "My Life" reviewed by Max Shachtman The Role of the Individual in History The Making of a Revolutionist Trotsky's Activity in Exile The Truth Confronts the Stalinist Liars How Mediocrities Like Stalin Arise The Stalinist Intrigue Against the Bolshevik Revolutionists A Great Political Document "Pure and Transparent as Crystal" by ALFA (Leon Trotsky) The Race Between Lovestone and Foster Why Does Stalin Publish These Speeches Now? The Mud Upon the Crystal Arriving at a Decision Foster Proves His Loyalty Kussinen Mumbles "Amen" What Next for Foster? Police Help Auto Plant Subdue Negro Workers The Crisis of Italian Fascism (Faenza and Milan) The Economic Stages of Fascist Development Nitti or Mussolini The Proletarian Revolution Only Can Defeat Fascism The Outbreaks at Faenza--A Signal of the Future The Economic Causes of the Milan Movement The Proletariat Must Lead the Struggle Against Fascism Policy of Centrism Has Been Ruinous Influence of Stalinized Communist Party at Minimum The Policy of the Left Unites the Masses for Struggle Unite Faenza and Milan Under Communist Leadership for the Proletarian Revolution A New Stage of the International Communist Opposition by Maurice Spector Mexican White Terror Continues Communist Oppositionists Deported Mooney Incensed by Liberty Mystery Yarn The Events in India -The Naval "Pact" by Albert Glotzer The Masses Struggle Despite Gandhi The British Labor Government Defends the Empire The Persecutions of the Indonesian Revolutionaries Demand the Right of Asylum The "Safeguard Clause"--Build Bigger Navies Soviet-American Trade Up 61% Phila. Shoe Workers Await Militant Union Lead Wage Cuts Threaten Denver Labor Letters from The Militants * The Noose on the "New Line" by J. Archipenko An Active Party Rank and File A Strike is Called Arrested Striker * Communism and the American Negro by J. M. * On Organizing the Seamen by M. R. The Narrow Line of the Marine Workers League Unite All Militants to Build Seamen's Union Where To Buy The Militant May 18 May 3, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck A Big Step Forward -The International Conference of the Left Opposition, by Max Shachtman The Conference Representation The Origin of the Opposition Our Recent Successes Towards an International Conference Conflict Sharp in India -The Popular Militant Spirit Conflicts Increase Attention! (Announcing a mass meeting to hear Max Shachtman report on his trip to Europe, his visit with Trotsky in Turkey and Trotsky's current views.) The Left Wing and the Amalgamated Convention The Marine Workers Convention by S.M. Rose The Mink Explodes The Ship Councils Idea Stalinists Endanger the Movement A Telegram to Comrade Leon Trotsky (From the first international meeting of the Left Communist Opposition) The Left Wing and the Amalgamated Convention (Comments on the national convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Printers Privileged Position Doomed Two Threats to "Labor Skill" May Scrap Pressmen, Too Street Car Men Demand 6-Day Week The Seamen's Convention -Bureaucracy Perfected! by John Horne Johnstone's Manipulations Organization a la Mode 200 Men Control U.S. Industry Illinois Jobs Much Scarcer Than a Year Ago On Seattle: A Correction In Our Next Issue Throughout the World of Labor * Exit Monde! Exit Henri Barbusse! by Pierre F. Naville * The "Red Peasants" Meet by A.B. * Reactionary Maneuvers in Spain by Henri Lacroix The May Day Meetings In the Party -The N.Y. District is Re-Organized by B.T. A Little Purification by James Sifakis The Men's Clothing Union -In the Amalgamated: From Class Struggle to Class Collaboration The Betrayal of the U.G.W. First Victory of the A.C.W. The Early Successes In the Soviet Union -Stalin Assassinates Two More! Message to Siberia by Pushkin (Poem translated by Max Eastman) In the Railroad Brotherhoods -The Legislative Board Game by C.R. Hedlund The Make-Up of the Boards How the Racket Works "Legislative Program" Shall Three More Workers Burn? by Frank Bromley Electric Chair for Leaflets Facts of the Case Suppressed A "Broad" May Day Conference Oppositionist Ejected From Hillquit to Lovestone -Pointed Parallel between Two Generations of National Socialism by Marsh The Impotence of Centrism The Real Sectarians A Couple of Exceptionalists Nationalism and Internationalism Ross Arrested in Minneapolis Billings' Release "Postponed" Trotsky's Autobiography Free! Or You Can Get a Free Copy of "The Real Situation in Russia" We Also Offer a Free Copy of "Since Lenin Died" Under the Lash of Unemployment * The Crime of Being Jobless Clubbed to Death * Labor Camp Jobs 1-10th of Former Years * The Census Taker Reports by X. Wilkes * He Starved Amid Plenty The Crime of Joblessness * Master Plumbers Offensive 19 May 10, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Whalen's Anti-Red Forgeries The Pressure on the Soviet Union Peshawur and the Gandhi Arrest (Alternate spelling of "Peshawar" which is generally considered the correct spelling) McDonald: Servant of Capital The Meaning of Peshawar N.Y. Jobs Scarcest Since 1914 Judge Denies Bail to Foster, Minor, Amter Wall Street Speaks * Hoover's Bunk Cynical Over "Predictions" * Little Piece of Forgotten History Bluff, Brother, Bluff! Someone Will Believe It Trotsky's Autobiography Free! After May Day's Demonstrations Achievements of Meetings Opposition Active In the Amalgamated -Hillman and the Left Wing Capitalist Corruption in the Union Hillman Fools the Left Hillman's War on the Left What Must be Done Stalinist Splitting -Bordiga Expelled by X. A Visit to the Island of Prinkipo by Max Shachtman Trotsky's Health Stalin and the Five Year Plan The Danger of a Retreat The "Old Bolsheviks" On the "Farmer-Labor Party" Internationalism and the Theory of "Exceptionalism" by Leon Trotsky -Preface to the American Edition of "The Permanent Revolution" Industrialization and Socialism Marxism and World Economy The Law of Uneven Development Character and Limits of Our Faction by James P. Cannon -Lessons from Recent International Experiences of the Opposition Internationalism our Touchstone The Limits of a Faction "The Case of Roy Stephens" Tactics Copied from Fascism Away with Fascist Tactics! Unemployment in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl Unemployment Severe Cramer Has Ross Pinched After Yen Bay -The Revolt in Indo-China The Inconsistency of the S.L.P. by Harold Preece Doonping on China -Charlatanism as a Cover for the Concealment of Adventurism What Should Not Be Forgotten Trotsky on the Constituent Doonping on Browder In the Soviet Union -And the Kulak? Voronezh versus Tomsk! 20 May 17, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck MacDonald's Assault on India by Max Shachtman -The Labor Party's Message of Peace Comes from the Mouth of Machine Guns Puzzled and Powerless! The Week * Whalen's Forgeries * Tariff and Trade * The Lynching Bee The "Red" Guerilla War in China -Stalinist Adventurism by Niel-Sih Rich Peasant Elements in Party Tehu-Deh's Forces Co-operatives Confer at Superior by Max Shachtman Conflict Comes to a Head The "Reliable Fighters" What Next? Plan Two Toronto Dress Strikes Trade Conditions Rotten Why Left Wing Fails Johnstone's "Self-Criticism" -Crisis in the Needle Trades A Scandalous Record Lovestoneites Mainly Responsible Johnstone Then and Now From Bad to Worse Prelude to a President's Swan-Song by R.T. Where Hyman Has Fallen Down Internationalism and the Theory of "Exceptionalism" by Leon Trotsky -Preface to the American Edition of "The Permanent Revolution" (Continued from last issue) National Revolution and World Economies The Growth of Contradictions The "Mad Gallop" and the Panicky Retreat In the Party * N.Y. District Plenum by Roger * The Pittsburgh Expulsions by James Sifakis * May Day in Youngstown by Denis Plarinos In Italy -Crisis in the Communist Party by H.S. Opportunists, Real and Faked The Minority Viewpoint The Role of the Vanguard The Socialist Party and the Prospects for Communism by Arne Swabeck The S.P. and the Middle Class Communists and Unemployment For Correct Policy Toward Socialists A National Tour for the Communist League A.C.W. Convention -Hillman's Record for Toronto by A. Schneider Hillman's Kind of Labor Unity Trotsky's Book Free! Books for Workers -Biography and Revolutionary Struggle by Maurice Spector Two Phases of the October Revolution The Usurpation by the Bureaucrat T.U.U.L. -"Mass Work" in Philly by J. Archipenko The Party Strait-Jacket Proposes Fight for Jobless in Chicago Labor Body 21 May 24, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Left Wing Needle Trades Crisis by Max Shachtman False "Self-Criticism" A Zig-Zagging Leadership Re-Establish Workers Democracy Organize the Unorganized Organize the Right Wing Workers The United Front The Week * Sandino * A.C.W. in Toronto * U.S. of Briand * A Tearful Appeal * In the Factories by L. (A letter from Moscow) Stalinist Brutalities in Russia * A Raid on Rakovsky * On Guard In the Party -The Convention Nears by B.T. Passivity and Indifference Meetings Unattended Our National Tour - New York Begins with a Successful Meeting Speaks on Five Year Plan After the May Day Meeting in Boston by A.K. An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky Kulak and Kholkhoz The Threatening Crisis The Stalinist Retreat The Theory of the "Third Period" In Italy -How Does Italian Fascism Stand Today? by Akros The Class Character of Fascism The Period of Civil War The Bourgeoisie Behind Fascism A Stalinist Canard The I.L.P. -Saviors of Reform The Discrediting of Reformism Maxton as MacDonald's Savior The Incapacity of the C.P. The Fight for Harry Eisman by George Clarke It Depends on Whose Holiday It Is Unemployment -A Capitalist Monstrosity by George Roberts Super-Machine Age Zig-Zagging Policies Decline in Membership The Guerilla Warfare Ruining a Movement -Decline of the Chinese Communist Party by Niel-Sih An Open Road to Adventurism Throws Hundreds Out of Jobs Trotsky's Book Free! The Young Vanguard * The Breakdown of the Mexican League by Russell Blackwell The Apparatus Men Get Busy Expulsions Continue * The Rank and File Is Ominously Silent! by Leo Ring League Members, Wake Up! * In the Y.C.L. -The Plan of Action by George Ray "Do More Work" The "Plan of Action" June 22 Jun 7, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Electric Chair Threat to Left Organizers Maintain the Weekly Militant! Indian Ferment and Chinese Lessons by Maurice Spector MacDonald--Bourgeois Agent India and the Proletariat Build Mass Movement for Mar 6 Jailed -Free March 6 Jailed Deny Aid to Meerut Victims Our National Tour Shachtman Tours for Opposition Additional Cities Added Rank and File Unrest in the Amalgamated The Blumkin Assassination In Germany -The "New" Turn in the C.I. by Sam Gordon The Real Responsibility The Turn a la Thaelmann and Co. Effects of the Turn Finding a Scape-Goat The Perspectives An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Position of the Left Wing The Role of the Social Democracy Against "Socialist" Treachery Stalin's Victory Over the Party Conditions of the Opposition Cadres A Tribute From a So. African Militant by Manuel Lopez In Italy -Italian Fascism and the Economic Crisis by Akros After the War The "Crisis of 1921" The Revival of 1923 and the New Crisis Rationalization and the Capitalist Monopoly International Monopolies Socialist "Ultra-Imperialism" Sharpened Contradictions The Plenum of the American Communist Opposition by James P. Cannon Political Unity of Plenum Opposition Platform Confirmed Perspectives of Party Crisis Preparing New Forces The Needle Trades Situation Maintain the Weekly Militant Trotsky on the Militant Strengthening the Center Consolidation Mexico Stalinists Continue Splitting Social Democracy Betrayed -Answer to a Socialist Worker by Maurice Spector Indictment of Social Democracy A Record of Betrayals The Role of the Maxtons The Way of Thomas The Line of Bolshevism The Suicide of Vladimir Mayakovsky A Stalinized "Ten Days That Shook the World" by W.P.S. Towards the XVI Congress of the C.P.S.U. -Dissolving the Communist Party into the Class by N. Markin Collective Admission A Premium on Political Illiteracy The Gap Between Leaders and the Masses Trifling With the Textile Workers Union by Frank Bromley 23 Jun 14, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Back to Lenin -Manifesto to the Rank and File and Seventh National Convention of the C.P.U.S.A From the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) signed by Martin Abern, James P. Cannon, Albert M. Glotzer, Max Shachtman, Carl Skoglund, Maurice Spector and Arne Swabeck) The Economic Crisis American Reformism Fruits of the "Third Period" The United Front Policy International Roots of Party Crisis The Right Wing and Stalin Factions Solution of the Party Crisis For the Unity of Communist Ranks (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) Rally to the Weekly New York Leads the Way For the Unemployed For the Opposition Our Appeal Left Needle Workers Convention Meets Save Georgia Class War Prisoners Senate Red-Baiting Probe Starts Our National Tour -Meetings Stir Great Enthusiasm Splendid Meetings in Boston The Philadelphia Meeting Stalinists Boycott Meeting but Workers Turn Out in Toronto Chicago, Twin Cities and Lake Cities Prepare Extensively Upholsterers Organize to Fight Speed-Up The Work in the Old Unions (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 Klorkeit #2 (Organ of the Jewish Left Opposition in France, published in Yiddish) Scab Gunman is Acquitted Leftist Sectarianism in Toronto Needle Trades The Slogan of the National Assembly in China by Leon Trotsky The Constituent Assembly in Russia A Slogan to Mobilize the Masses In the International Opposition -Questions to the Prometeo Group by Leon Trotsky The Economic Crisis (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) In Germany -The Menace of Fascism by K.L. The Communist Party and the Leftward Movement The Bourgeoisie Dismisses the Social Democracy Spanish Left Organ Appears Discussion -Communism and the Negro Problem by K.M. Whitten Lovestone's "Americanism" by George Clarke Covering Lovestone's Misdeeds Evading Questions of Principle The Role of American Imperialism (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Barred from Union Activity for "Trotskyism" by Charlie Bryne The "Mass Political Strike" "My Life" and Its Critics -DeWitt, Browder and Gold on Trotsky's Autobiography by James P. Cannon Political Autobiography The Social Democrats The Stalinists Browder Joins the Freudians Mike "Arrives" The S.P.-Stalinist United Front World Union Membership Declines The Young Vanguard * The Misery of India's Youthful Toilers Wages in the Cotton Industry by Days * Communist Youth and the Left Opposition by Albert Glotzer Bigger and Better Wars 24 Jun 21, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unemployment and Communist Tactics Defeat the Capitalist Offensive! -Organize United Front Against Unemployment and Wage Cuts! by Maurice Spector The Crisis of American Capitalism The Open Conspiracy of Communism The Tasks of the Communist Party For Communist Unity! Hugo Oehler Joins Opposition by Hugo Oehler (Personal Statement) Bankruptcy of the Centrist Party Regime The Menace of Revisionism The Struggle of the Left Opposition The Hawley-Smoot Tariff and American Imperialism by Maurice Spector Class Legislation The Economic Crisis The Workers' Position Attack on the World Market Financial Yoke Towards Proletarian Revolution Do Your Share! New Forces from Party and Youth The Militant and the Economic Crisis The Militant as a Pivot for Communist Growth Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention -Questions of a Left Wing Program by James P. Cannon Party Factionalism Dominates False Attitude on Left Wing The Relation of Forces Vitality of Lefts Delegations to U.S.S.R. and the Opposition by Ian Frankel Trade Union Policy (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 29, 1929 A Squeak in the Apparatus -(A Popular Explanation of Rights and Lefts) by Leon Trotsky The Tempo of Industrialization Collectivization The Opposition Platform Collectivization and Adventurism Our Slogan of Collaboration with the Soviet Union In Germany -Comintern Loses Fresh Opportunity by Roman Well "The Acute Revolutionary Crisis" Facts and Figures Party Influence Sinks Percentage of Total Votes in Leuna Works, Berlin V.A.G. Social Democracy Betrays The False Approach of the Stalinists In France -Opposition Defends Indo-Chinese Rebels by Pierre F. Naville Diego Rivera Retires from Political Life Towards a Concrete Program of Action by Maurice Spector Social Insurance Social Insurance as a By-Product of Struggle Capitalist Responsibility for Unemployment Credits for the Soviet Union Economic and Military Defence (Alternate spelling of "Defense") International Solidarity The Party and the Unorganized Masses (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 In India -The C.I. and Two-Class Parties by Joseph Carter The "Two-Class Party" Policy After the Sixth Congress The "Workers' and Peasants' Party" Sofarov's Apologetics for Stalin Flaunt Royal Courts at British Workers by Millicent Shooter One Year of Labor Government New York Open Air Meetings Our National Tour -Shachtman's Tour is Extended Chicago, Minneapolis Hold Good Meetings Return Engagements in Montreal and Toronto Capitalist "Disarmament" Win Five-Day Week U.S. Imperialist Contradictions (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 Red Army Men Urge Trotsky's Recall Where to Buy the Militant Militant Outing 25 Jun 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Jobless Millions Must Organize! -Demand Immediate Relief! by Maurice Spector No Signs of Ease-Up in Crisis The Industrial Reserve Army The General Crisis of Capitalism The Socialist Five Year Plan Organize for Action! N.Y. Party-Y.C.L. Group for Opposition (Signed by Harry Milton, M. Morris, Morris Spector, Raymond Spector (George Ray), Max Stover and Dave Weber) Bureaucratism Supreme Fundamental Questions The Decline of Party Influence Ruinous Policies Demonstrate for the Indian Revolution! Bureaucrats Rule C.P. Convention In Canada -Stalinist Officials Sabotage Communist Unity by M.Q Officialdom Bars Opposition Communists But the Pearle Zionists are Seated Opposition Slogan for Soviet Credits...Rejected Our National Tour -Meetings Mark Left Advance Good Results in Duluth Superior, Wisconsin Kansas City and St. Louis Forthcoming Meetings In India -Simon Report Declares War on Revolution Operators Prey Upon Passivity of the Coal Miners by Arne Swabeck New Union Grows Under "Friendly" Auspices of Operators Will the Two Unions Unite? Where is Howatt Going? Preying Upon "Miners" Momentary Passivity Fatal Blunders of the Left Wing Result in Isolation Left Wing Must Return to Fundamental Task "Revolutionary Age" Barred from Mails A Squeak in the Apparatus -(A Popular Explanation of Rights and Lefts) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from the previous issues and concluding the the article) From the Left or From the Right Tail-Endism (Chvotism) or Adventurism Our Prognosis Flattering the Peasantry Why the New Polemic? The New Unions and the United Front (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 In Germany -Fascist Gains in Saxony Switchmens' Union Convention Red-Baiter Resolution Defeated Resolution for Railroad Councils General Strike in Spain Where to Buy the Militant Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention -Character of the Right Wing Unions by James P. Cannon Attitude to Right Wing Unions The Company Union Argument Class-Collaboration Unions The Young Vanguard * Y.P.S.L. Appeals to Young Babbittry by George Ray Socialist "Doctors and Dentists" The Conditions of the Working Youth Trotsky on the Grown-Up Yipsel * Opposition Recruits Youth Right Wingers Distortions The Future to the Youth Self-Criticism (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) License for the Shriner's Clubs for Workers by Sam Gordon (? very difficult to make out author) License for "Shriners", Clubbings for Workers July 26 Jul 12, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Appeal to Our Readers Mooney-Billings Stay Jailed -Appellate Court Turns Down Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond Lovestone's Symbol! Capitalist Murder on the Streets! Police Savagery Workers Stirred The Crisis in the Communist Movement -New Party Forces Continue to Join the Communist Opposition -The 7th Convention of the Party -a Debacle by Maurice Spector The New Zig-Zag of Centrism Bureaucracy Versus Bolshevism Jerry Hill for the Opposition by Jerry Hill The Rank and File of Newark Speaks Out by X.Y. Former N.M.U. Head for Left Group by John J. Watt Aftermath of Needle Trades Convention -Tactics and Slogans for the Left Wing Struggle by James P. Cannon Can a Left Wing Be Organized in the Old Unions The Program of Demands The Tactics of the United Front The Slogan of Unity The Question of "Reforming" the Old Unions First Henri Barbusse - Is Michael Gold Next? The Revolution in India - Its Tasks and its Dangers by Leon Trotsky Social Antagonisms in India The Jailing of Gandhi The "Only" Missing Condition Centrism's "Left" Jump Who Will Lead the "Bloc" The Apotheosis of Confusion Some Stalinist Activities in Czecho-Slovakia by Jan The Soviet Diplomats and the Police A "Communist" as State Attorney How the Workers Think Public Warning! Lessons of the Chinese Revolution -The Constituent Assembly and the Soviets by Arne Swabeck Browder--Professional Confusionist Browder's Confessions Stalin for Hankow The Bourgeois Democratic Revolution Lenin on the "Democratic Dictatorship" A "Revolutionary Upsurge" Here and in China A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Open Letter to the C.P. on the Elections by the New York branch of the Communist League of America (Opposition) India -Browder vs. Luhani Solidarity on the Streets -New York Demonstrates for India by Sp. Clarification by Reva Craine The Foster Faction (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) A Stalino-Fascist Attack -Cleveland Workers Reply to Hooliganism by M. The Opposition in Brazil After the Cleveland Riot by Joseph (last name unreadable) 27 Jul 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck What Fish Committee Means -A Fighting United Front Needed Against the Sharpening Offensive of the Capitalist Class by Maurice Spector A Forced Retreat The Mass Workers Join the Opposition! -George J. Saul Also Demands that Party Reinstate Our Group by George J. Saul The 16th Congress of the C.P.S.U. The Chicago Conference -The Unemployed Gather by Arne Swabeck Many Extravaganzas First Tasks The Program of Action The Iron Heel Grinds Mexican Labor by R.B. Yes or No? Northwest Experiences -Farmer-Laborism in Action by A. Ekstrom Reformist Labor Parties Theory of Labor Reformism A "Two-Class" Party Why Doesn't Lovestone Answer Trotsky? The Man Stalin Chose to Succeed Blumkin! by O. Klorkeit No. 4 (Klorkeit is the organ of the Jewish Left Opposition group in France) France -Opposition Progress by Sam Gordon The Party Up a Blind Alley Opposition Growth What the "New Masses" Refused to Print -Concerning the "defenders" of the October Revolution by Leon Trotsky Hypocrisy for Art's Sake in the New Masses -Correspondence between Max Eastman, Walt Carmon, Mike Gold Notes of a Journalist -(Concerning Zinoviev, Manuilsky and "Radovoy") by Alfa Zinoviev and the Evils of Printing Has France Entered the Period of Revolution? Another New Talent Correction Opposition Problems -Deeper into the Party! by James P. Cannon A Question of Tactics Need Flexible Tactics The Character of the New Movement Closer Bonds with the Ranks Our Independent Activity The Truth About the Bolivian "Revolution" by Camilo Torres A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) The Strike in Full Swing The Sources of Manuilsky and Co. by D. A Plagiary from Oskar Blum Lenin on the Libelers of Trotsky The Lying Campaign by Lillian Bord The Young Vanguard * The League's New "Plan of Action" by George Ray The New "Shock Plan" * Scranton Police Seize Communist Workers * Camp Nitgedaiget in Boston by C.D. * Lenin and the Youth Concerning the Students Just Out! (Bulletin of Russian Opposition Double No. 12-13 for June-July 1930) August 28 Aug 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Wage-Cutting Drive -What Green's Sellout to Hoover and the Bosses Really Means to American Workers Green Remains Loyal Sixty Wage Cuts Twelve Month Comparison of Volume of Employment in Percent For Social Insurance What's Going On in China by Maurice Spector Sands of Illusion The Correctness of the Opposition Our Class War Prisoners Must Be Freed! Is Sylvia Bleeker to Be Expelled? A Typical Case The Aim of the Browders The National Miners' Union Passes by Marsh How the Retreat is Covered Up Bluff and Adventurism Our Policy and Browder's Tested The Big-Hearted Boss...(Political Cartoon) Wherein Lies the Difference between Them? by J. The Real Results of August First No "General Strike" The N.Y. Demonstration How the 16th Party Congress Was Prepared -The Persecution of the Russian Bolshevik Opposition by N. Markin Non-Party Workers Arrested In the Solitaries A Hunger Strike in Ichim Sosnovsky in Danger Between Black and Red -The Danger of Fascism in Germany by Kurt Landau What Are the Driving Forces of Fascism? The Weakness of Communist Leadership--the Strength of Fascism Differentiation within Fascism A "1923" Upside Down A letter on Michael Gold by R. Notes of a Journalist -(Who Is Responsible for the "Turns"; Yakovlev's General Line) by Alfa The Responsibility for the Turns Lies With...Trotskyism Yakovlev's "General Line" The Right Wing Moves Closer to Social Democracy by S.-n. A Heavy Defeat for Brandlerism The Czech Right Wing Travels Fast Who is Disintegrating and How? A Saslavsky Doesn't Change Group vs, Branch Banking -A Struggle of Interests in the Ranks of the Capitalist Class by H. Where Does the Italian Opposition Stand? Stalinists Lose Their Heads in Boston by L. Schlossberg New Crimes on Stalinism's Law Books The Party's Progress A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Klorkeit No. 4 (The organ of the Jewish Left Opposition in France) Strong-Arm Stalinism Defeated in N.Y. A Correction on China ("The Proletarian" is published by the Right Opposition group, not the Left Opposition group, which publishes "October." The Ultra-Left Opposition group publishes "Our Word.") Blumkin's Successor -Stalin and his Agabekov by A. Who Agabekov Is The Breach in Stalin's Monolithism A Slanderer Answered -Who and Where Are the Real Deserters? The "Final" Merger Comrade A.C. Miller Suspended The Epoch of Stalin by Valentin Olberg September 29 Sep 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Military Revolt in Peru by Russell Blackwell Vote Communist! -Against the Parties of Unemployment and Wage-Cuts, and the "Socialist" Reformers by S.-n Capitalist Bankruptcy The "Bulwark Against Bolshevism" The Main Issue Where We Stand Blumkin Dead-Is Rakovsky Next? Carolina Demands Its Pound of Flesh "Third Period" Bluff -Bessemer City Strikes Again by Hugo Oehler A Year Ago and Now Result of Phrase Mongering News from Southern California The Liberals' Pet Union -After the A.C.W. Convention by A. Schneider Convention Accomplishment The New York Lock-out The "Organizational Campaign" Where is the Left Wing? Maurice Malkin Stands with the Opposition! James McInerney Case of Cold Feet by A.A. Buehler Who Will Prevail? From the Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) Stalin's Figures The World Market The Party Regime Stalin's Repressions In the International -Where Is the British Party? by "Black Diamond" A Nine Years' Balance Robotizing the Party The Minority Movement The Fight of the New York Plumbers Helpers by J. Sprague Self-Determination -The Problem of Mobilizing the Negroes in the Class Struggle by H. Is Slogan Correct? The Garvey Movement Racial and Economic Oppression Problems of the Revolutionary Movement -A Statement of Views on Some Disputed Questions by Albert Weisbord Stalinists Before and After the War Errors of Party Leadership The American Crisis Slander Won't Win by J. Chiplowitz A Revolutionary "Social Fascist" A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Blackmailers Cloaked in Red Mantles by Joseph Keller The Young Vanguard * The Y.C.I. Letter is Brought to Light! by George Ray Amateur and Skilled Suppressors The Y.C.I. Estimate of the Y.C.L. No Solution of the Problem * International Youth Day As it Should Be As it is What is to be Done * Lenin and the Youth (A speech delivered to the Russian Young Communist League October 4, 1920) Training the Youth, The Tasks of the Communist League The New Generation Will Build Communism The Task of the Youth is to Acquire Knowledge What to Learn and How to Learn It Theory and Practice; Knowledge and Struggle * The Youth and the Elections by Joseph Friedman Winning the Young Workers Youth Omitted in C.P. Platform 30 Sep 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck In Stalin's Exile -Rakovsky in Danger! by N.N. On Rakovsky Letter from Russia Issues in the Elections -Capitalist Parties Put Up Fake Issues to Conceal Jobless Sufferings Reformist Aides to Capitalism Vote Communist A Yankee Revolution in the Argentine The German Elections George Saul Tours for Opposition Comrade Andres Nin Expelled from Russia An Opportunist Campaign -The Communist Party in the Elections by S.-n. Conditions for Election Work Our Proposals How the Opportunists Write of Their Bill Petty Bourgeois Pacifism Our Reply to the Right Wing -Lovestone's "United Front" Maneuver by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The United Front Unity with "Counter-Revolutionists"? Questions to Lovestone An Answer and a Challenge to a Debate From Communist League of America (Opposition) Socialist Indignation Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky The Peasant's Balance Sheet of the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions Notes of a Journalist by Alfa Two or Not Even One? (Blucher's Enigmatic Speech) The Sermon on Cockroaches A Self-Portrait of Yaroslavsky A Reply to Comrade Weisbord by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The Need for Clarity An Ambiguous Position on India Road to Ruin, Not to Victory Problems of the Revolutionary Movement -A Statement of Views on Some Disputed Questions by Albert Weisbord The Slogan of Soviets The Problem in China The Five Year Plan Read-- -Number 14 Bulletin of the Russian Opposition (Entirely in Russian) A Letter from Shanghai -What is Going On In China? by Peter In the Party The Red Army In the Party -Why I Joined the Left Opposition by Sylvia Bleeker Records Needs No Apology A Contemptible Slender Communism Weakened by Expulsions Stalinist Party Folly in St. Louis by H.L. Goldberg Opposition Organizes Unemployed Books for Workers by Carl Cowl (A review of "Since Lenin Died" by Max Eastman October 31 Oct 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck China -Manifesto of the International Left Opposition -To the Chinese and World Communists! -Perspectives and Tasks of the Chinese Revolution -The Left Opposition and the Chinese Events From the Provisional International Secretariat of the Communist Opposition: Rosmer, Landau, Markin, Russian Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) Leon Trotsky, Communist League of France (Opposition) A. Rosmer, United Left Opposition of the German C.P. (Bolshevik-Leninists Kurt Landau, Spanish Communist Opposition, Andrade, Gorkin, Belgian Communist Opposition Hennant, Communist League of America (Opposition) Shachtman, Communist Left of Austria, D. Karl, C. Mayer Is There a Soviet Government? The Crushing of the Revolution The Peasant Uprisings The Slogan of Soviets Toward the Third Revolution Hoover Advises Labor -Workers' United Front vs. "Optimistic" Pledges! by S.-n. Hoover and Wage Cuts Two Servitors of Capitalism The United Labor Front Danville Workers Out on Strike by Frank Bromley Boris Selinitchenko Under the Lash of Unemployment * A Concrete Program for Organizing the Unemployed by Albert Weisbord Unemployment to Become More Serious How the Party is Working The Basis for Unemployment Work * Wrong and Right Tactics in the Unemployment Movement by Hugo Oehler The Program of the Official Party The "Social Insurance Bill" The United Front The Hillman-Beckerman Union -How Do the Cutters Stand? by Albert Orland Where is the Left Wing in the Local? Wipe Hooliganism Out of the Movement! Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Aim of the Opposition The Problem of the "Scissors" A "Bourgeois Prejudice" Four New Organs of the Left Opposition Mimeograph Wanted The German Dilemma: Communism or Fascism? * The Election Results by Kurt Landau The Middle Bourgeois Parties Beaten Fascism, the Real Victor And Now? * The C.P.G. in the Campaign by Sam Gordon The C.P.G.'s Programmatic Declaration Lenin's View The Capitalist Offensive The Role of the Thaelmanns On Maurice Malkin Radek's Novitiate -What is Social-Fascism? by Alfa Who Is "Betraying" Labor Defense Unity? Besmirching the IWW Pearls of Priceless Purity (From "Daily Worker" editorial 9/20/1930) A Case of Base Ingratitude Just Received -Klorkeit No. 6 (Jewish Organ of the Left Opposition) Stalinist Antics in California by B.B. A Persecuted Socialist Weisbord's Statement Our National Tour -Good Meetings for Saul in Mid-West Cities Quotations That Somehow Do Not Tally... The Militant Needs Aid! November 32 Nov 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 13 Years of Russian Revolution by S.-n. The Obstacles in the Road The Treachery of the Social Democrats The Meaning of the Opposition Results of the Election The Democratic Sweep The Communist Vote In the Next Issue The Coming Dressmakers Strike -The Bureaucratic Leadership Fails to Make Real Preparations by Sylvia Bleeker The Strike Plan The Strike Demands The Danger in the Strike Sylvan Pollock for the Opposition by Sylvan A. Pollock (Pen name "Frank Bromley") Against Opportunism and Adventurism of the Right Wing! -On the Proposal for a New Farmer-Labor Party Fraud from the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) per Max Shachtman -On the New Farmer-Labor Party Proposal Marine Workers' Rank and File Revolts An Appeal to the Members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union Our Aim Tactics Bankruptcy of the Present Leadership and Its Policies Background of the Wrong Policies of the Bureaucracy Incompetence and Irresponsibility of the Bureaucracy The Bureaucrats Hold Masses in Contempt The Origin of the Document Against the Stalinist Union Bureaucracy! by Marine Workers Industrial Union Rank and File Committee The "Leadership" Ruins Strikes Bureaucracy Cripples Our Union The Irresponsible Methods of Work and Organization Out With the Destructive Bureaucracy -- For Correct Constructive Policies to Build the Marine Workers Industrial Union The Outlook for the New Movement A Concrete Program on the Unemployed by Albert Weisbord (Continued from last issue) Spreading Parliamentary Illusions Street Demonstrations Urgent Appeal! Our Study Classes After the German Elections -Where is Thaelmann Leading the German Party? by Kurt Landau Young Vanguard by J.F. The Civil War in Brazil by Russell Blackwell A False Analysis of the Situation The Party Putsch 33 Nov 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Plot Against the Soviets -Stalin Imprisoned the Opposition Bolsheviks and Allowed the Counter-Revolutionists to Get Into Positions of Power by S.-n. The "Denials" of the Plotters The Opposition's Warning Stalin and the Right Wing For a Genuine United Front of the Millinery Workers by S.M. Rose The Origin of the Movement The Committee of Seven Party's Arbitrariness Organize the Left Wing! Are Walker and Lewis Going to Unite? -Illinois Miners -Howat and the Rank and File Movement by Joseph Angelo The Bureaucrats Unite In the Miners' Rank and File The Position of Howat New Seamen's "International" The Big Efficiency Union -The Benefits of Hillmanism by Albert Orland Militant Collaboration What the Bosses Want What "Temporary" Means in the A.C.W. Hillman Gives the Bosses a Break! Rose Karsner Bus. Manager The A.F. of L. Convention and the November Election by Max Shachtman The A.F. of L. Convention Labor's Dissatisfaction The A.F. of L. Decline The Fall of the Strike Curve What About Radicalization The Place of the Left Opposition How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution a letter by Tchen Du Hsiu A Pillar of Stalinism Molotov's Prosperity in Knowledge by T. Stalin as a Theoretician -Ground Rent, or, Stalin Deepens Marx and Engels by Leon Trotsky Young Vanguard * The Struggle of the Plumbers Helpers by J. Sprague A Militant Policy The Y.C.L. "Appears" * The Peasants' International and the Anti-Imperialist League * Opposition Group in Bulgaria A Plan -For You to Study December 34 Dec 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck For the Thirty-Hour Week! -No Wage Reduction -For Social Insurance -Against the Petition Delusion -For Credits to Russia The Program of the Bosses Credits to the Soviet Union Will Release Comrade Malkin December 20 Mother Jones Dies To Members of the Communist League of America (Opposition) and Sympathizers Two Events in the Labor Movement -The Railroad Brotherhoods Meet by Arne Swabeck The Railroad Conference "The Capitalist System is Shot" The Party's Tactics Lessons of the Marine Workers Union Struggle The Warnings of the Opposition The Reactionary Role of the Right Wing The False Tactics of the Syndicalists Left Wing's False Course -T.U.U.L. and Amalgamated by Albert Orland The Left Wing at Low Ebb The Workers Do Not Follow Social Reformism in the United States by Hugo Oehler Reform Parties and Reform Litvinov at Geneva The Soviet Delegation Stalin Grants Two Interviews by Max Shachtman What Trotsky Did "Too Late" "The Ten Years of Peace" The Daily Worker Silent Again Stalin Catches Up with the Opposition Weisbord's Proposals on Unemployment How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution a letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Proposal to Withdraw from the K.M.T. A "Revolutionary" Court Where Responsibility Lies The Life of the Exiled and Imprisoned Russian Opposition by N. Markin The Crisis in the Opposition The Ideological Life of the Opposition The Social Nature of the State The Slogan of a Coalition C.C. The Opposition's Growth New Deportations Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Formulae of Marx and the Audacity of Ignorance The Process of Extended Reproductions Stalin Refers to Marx Stalin Discloses the Un-Marxian Village! Peasant Economy and "Socialist" Industry "Capital" and Socialist Reproduction Slander Answered -Pollack Case: A Statement of Fact by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Comrade Pollack's Statement by Sylvan A. Pollack A Dance in Chicago Chicago Study Class -------------------------------------------- 1931 The Militant Volume 4 January 1 Jan 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Fight Back the Boss' Offensive! by Sam Gordon The Theory of Capitalist Offensive "Order Prevails Throughout Spain" -Andres Nin, Leader of the Spanish Left Opposition, Arrested and in Danger by S. An Unstable Dictatorship Nin in Danger! Comrade Kote Zinzade's Life in Danger! Malkin Welcomed Back Danville Strike Prospects -A.F. of L. Leaders Prepare the Surrender of the Workers Struggle by Sylvan A. Pollack Policy Leads to Sell-Out N.T.W.U. Has Virtually Disappeared Cachin's Forty Years of Service Militant Goes to New Headquarters An Open Forum Lovestone Prepare the Front with Musteism by Max Shachtman Lovestone's First Accusation How the Estimates Have Been Tested Gitlow on the Progressives Who Are the Mustes What Next -On the Campaign Again st the Russian Right Wing Who is to Be Responsible for the Past The Faction of Toadies The Task of the Opposition The Red Fleet Visits Greece How Stalin Fought Blood-Letting In the Next Issue What Is to Be Learned from the Moscow Trial? by Leon Trotsky The Opposition and the Five Year Plan What the Sabotagers Aimed At Pravda and the Planning Commission Imperialist Gunpowder in the Air by Paul Sizoff After the Versailles Peace 1914 and 1930 The Role of America The Real Danger A very Obliging Reply The Bloc of the Left and the Right by Leon Trotsky Stalin and the Bloc with the Right The Problem of the Regime Stalin's Juggling of Figures What the Right Wing Thinks Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution -A Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Need for Democratic Slogans The Correctness of Trotsky's Views Doongping, or, the Stalin School Orientalist Speaks Up by Joseph Carter Molotov on the Skids! In the Amalgamated -A Worker on Hillmanism by Albert Orland A Ten Year Struggle False Remedies The Fantasy of the Forum Attention! How Stalin Protected the Blood of Bucharin Belgian Group Splits 2 Jan 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Labor Faces Year of Fight to Live by Sam Gordon The Decline in Workers' Income The Bank Failures A New "Relapse into Trotskyism" in Russia by Senine A Terrible Traitor Who Teaches Leninism Hoover Attacks Labor Press Molotov Takes Rykov's Place by M. Mill Why Stalin Dumps the Right An Open Secret New Right-Center Bloc? Contributions The Sponsor Plan International Bulletin of the Left Opposition Coming Out in English Have You These Missing Copies Aaron Gross (Obituary and activist history) In the International -"Austro-Opportunism" by Jan Frankel Julio A. Mella by Russell Blackwell Exiled from Cuba Mella Against the Right Wing The Class in Marxian Economics Thermidoreanism and Bonapartism by Leon Trotsky Possible Successors to Soviet Rule Thermidor: in France and Russia Differences and Similarities Exit Weisbord.... Lovestone Looks With Favor at the Socialist Party by Max Shachtman Zimmerman Discovers the Virtues of Levy Lovesone Discovers the Revolt in the S.P..... Zam Discovers the Difference Between S.P. and S.L.P. Manuilsky on "Democratic Dictatorship" -A Retreat in Full Disorder Russia and China Manuilsky's Democratic Tasks The Tutor of Manuilsky A Ferment in the German Right Wing Group The Russian Bolshevik-Leninists on the Present Situation by Christian Rakovsky, V. Kosslor, and N. Muratov The Class Relationships The Middle Peasant in the Collectives The Demands of the Opposition The Poor Peasant's Unions Introduction by Leon Trotsky (To article above) The Union of Peasant Poor Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution a Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Question of "Feudal Remnants" The Slogan of Soviets The Policy of Armed Uprisings February 3 Feb 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lenin Lives in the Work of the Opposition Lenin's Will Must Be Carried Out by the Party! by V.I. Lenin Kote Zinzadze is Dead! Towards the New York Dressmakers Strike by Sylvia Bleeker The Assault of the Bosses Party Policy and Ours The Lack of Preparation What Should be Done? Gold On the Skids The Strike -- As We Go to Press What is Happening in the Soviet Union Today? by N.N. At the End of August Beginning of September November Olgin: Now and Then Towards a Concrete Program of Action -The Communists and the Unemployment Crisis by Arne Swabeck Hoover's Promises Economic Cycles of Capitalist Production Present Status of Working Class Movement From Wrong Estimates Flow Wrong Conclusions Playing into the Hands of Reformism What Must Be Done? Notes of a Journalist by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) The Knights of Anti-Trotskyism Heckert Teaches Liebknecht The Stalinist Recruitment The Greatest Crime The Opposition Yesterday "Everybody Remembers" The Mystery of Repentance The Bald-Headed Communist Youth The Trend of the Economic Crisis by Albert Glotzer The Party and the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Strength of Our Party is Our Strength The Role of the Thalmanns Defeat of the Opposition Weakens Party Father Manuel and Comrade Epstein by Charles Curtiss Our New Pamphlet A Policy for the Amalgamated Left Wing by Albert Orland The Present Line and Its Main Features Basic Mistakes of the "Third Period" Ideology The "New" Change of Tactics What Is to Be Done? Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution a Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) Norwegian Fascists and Comrade Trotsky In the League Open Forum Weisbord and the Liquidators A Word from Berlin Proletarian Party Meet 4 Feb 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck United Front on Unemployed by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Mooney's Betrayal by the Labor Bureaucrats by Max Shachtman The Treachery of the Bureaucrats The Agents of the Frame-Up False Steps in the New York Dressmakers' Strike Preparations On the Illinois Miners by Gerry Allard On Angelo's Article On Howat The Weisman Case -The Case of Weisman and Bureaucratism Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy by Arne Swabeck Recent Strikes in England Coal Miners in Struggle MacDonald Again "For Labor" What Has Become of Minority Movement? At the Fresh Grave of Kote Zinzadze by Leon Trotsky The Demagogy of the German National Socialists by Roman Well Reformism and Fascism The Ghezzi Case American Syndicalism and the Problems of Communism by James P. Cannon The I.W.W. as a Revolutionary Movement The Shortcomings of the I.W.W. Tasks of the Marxists Lovestone and Brandler The "Left" Saviors of Reformism in the Socialist Party by Max Shachtman The Sources of the "Left" Wing Who Are the "Militants" Defenders of Bourgeois Democracy The "Dictatorship" Debate Cannon Lecture in Boston Voices of Protest from the Bolsheviks in Exile by the Kansk Group: Arronovsky, Bardunal, Zagovsky, Zaichuk, Kugmainskaia, Michollov, Romansko, Razovenos, Suvitsky, Sovkin, Fortushkin and Smith The Prisons for Oppositionists Physical Destruction of Left Opposition The Desperate Methods of Centrism The Demands of the Opposition Organization Notes * Kansas City, Mo. * Minneapolis, Minn. * Toronto, Canada * Philadelphia, Pa. * Our Subscription Campaign * Chicago, Ill. * Our New Propaganda Literature * Resolution on Program of Expanded Activities for 1931 adopted by the National Committee Communist League of America The Legend of the Public Works Panacea by Harry Strang No Gains Asked Little Change Recorded Over 1930 Brandt Offers Little Hope March 5 Mar 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Blumkin...-One Year After His Murder "Communists and Progressives" Lawrence on Strike! -Textile Workers Rebel Against Wage-Cut and Speed Up System by Arne Swabeck Two Philly Oppositionists Held for Sedition by C. Stalin Acts Fire Destroys Trotsky Home Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * How the Miners Were Defeated * Miller Goes Over to Muste * Trifling With the Negro Question Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy by Arne Swabeck Workers Divided in the Strike A Caricature of Strike Strategy Recent German Experiences A Sample of Party Strategy Organization Notes * New York * Philadelphia * Our Program for Expansion * Roll Call on the Program of Expansion * Get After Those Subs!! For the Program of Expansion by James P. Cannon The Two Thousand Dollar Fund The Progress in New York The Second National Conference What the London "Workers" Won't Print (A letter from David Davis to the editor of the "Daily Worker" that was censored) On the "Sectarians"... The Right Wing Liquidators and the S.P. "Militants" by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) Lovestone and the Stanley Group "Frontier Guards for the Soviet Union" The Mechanics of Liquidationism The International Conference of the Rights By Kurt Landau Is There an International Right Opposition? Results of the Minneapolis Special Election Appeal to the Party Members in the Needle Trades -For a United Front of the Party and the Left Opposition Against the Reactionaries, the Pseudo-Progressives, and the Right Wing Liquidators (the Lovestoneites) (From The Needle Trades Group, Communist League of America (Opposition), Sylvia Bleeker, Secretary) Indications of the Turn Preliminary Steps for the Left Wing The Theories of "Social Fascism" The Lovestone Liquidators One Step Forward Has Been Taken The Young Vanguard * What is the Situation in the Y.C.L.? by George Ray * Kaganovitch Teaches! The Dilemma of the War Department Youth Notes by Joseph Carter Hear! Hear! 6 Mar 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck In Prison. -A Letter from Exile by H.H. "Progressives" Meet -Middle Class Impotence Can't Solve the Burning Problems of Labor Anti-Communist Repression Spreads Throughout the Country * I.L.D. Refuses to Aid Philly Defendants by K.M. Whitten * Police Raid Minneapolis Opposition Forum Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * More Treason to the Miners * "Against Exaggeration" * Miller's Manifesto * A Great Step Forward Our Subscription Drive The Strike Strategy of the Left Wing by Arne Swabeck What Strike Strategy is Not The United Front Policy in Strike Strategy Clarity of Strike Issues The Anti-Red Drive in Greece The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky Mass Enthusiasm in the Civil War How the Economic Turn Was Carried Out Stalin's "Catching Up With and Surpassing" Stalin's Speech on the Five Year Plan by M. Mill Gandhi Make His Peace with Imperialism by Albert Glotzer Elections in the Amalgamated: What For? by Albert Orland Abolishing Elections Rank Corruption The Stalinists in the Hungarian Bureau Run Amuck by Thomas Stamm Charges of Corruption Supporters Turn into "Fascists" Overnight Beware of Dangers The Militants' Bookshelf -Lenin and the Iskra Period by James P. Cannon (Volume IV, The Collected Works of Lenin) The Iskra "Declaration" Lenin the Orthodox Marxist "Where to Begin" The Role of a Newspaper The Repression in Spain Organization Notes * Boston * Chicago * St. Louis, Mo. * From the National Office * The Program of Expansion Campaign * Roll Call on the Program of Expansion Paris Commune Affair Letters from the Militants * Stalinist Decay in England by Black Diamond * The Individual and the Revolution by H. Mashow * The New York Open Forum by George J. Saul April 7 Apr 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Illinois Mine Workers in Revolt -Rank and File Rebel Against Fishwick-Lewis Agreement; New Union Call Issued, by Arne Swabeck What Has Happened in Illinois? by Joseph Angelo Help Rebuild Trotsky's Library! (With a photograph of Trotsky at his work-desk pre-fire) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Herberg Quotes Trotsky * Lawrence Gives the Signal * The Trade Union Turn * The Death of John Donlin For Economic Collaboration with Russia by Sam Gordon The Slogan of the Six-Hour Working-Day by Arne Swabeck A "Visionary" Slogan The Workers' Resistance The Miners and Railroad Workers The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Have We Entered into the "Period of Socialism"? Four Years or Five? Past Mistakes and the Fate of the Plan The Philadelphia Cases The Communists and the Progressives by James P. Cannon Toward a Left Opposition Movement in Great Britain by Spartacus In the Next Issue Dressmaker Strike Ends by S.J. The Agrarian Congress in Puebla by Russell Blackwell Los Angeles "Radical" S.P. by Charles Curtiss The European Grain Meet -The American Big Stick Succeeds in Disrupting the Conference by Harry Strang "Too Much Wheat" The Price Decline "Sustained Prosperity" by George Ray Communist Tasks and the Workmens Circle by J.B. Opposition Lecture at Brookwood Expansion Program Headway Organization Notes * The Sub Drive For 500 New Subscribers and Renewals Special Offers * The Symbol Must Be Protected! * Expansion Program Roll Call on the Program of Expansion 8 Apr 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Republican Revolution in Spain by S.-n. Ill. Miners' Convention by Max Shachtman The Unity of Fishwick and Lewis The Blunders of Stalinism Confusion Instead of Policy The Left Wing Must Act Penn. Sedition Act Seeks Victims Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * A Dangerous Situation * Communism and Syndicalism * Lying as a Political System * The Oppositionists at the May Day Conference May Day Meeting in Cleveland The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The U.S.S.R. and the World Market Conclusion The Trial of the Russian Mensheviks -The Real Disposition of the Figures on the Political Scene by Leon Trotsky Who Are the Menshevik Defendants? The Two Fundamental Lines International Bulletin No. 2 Out! Notes of a Journalist by Alfa (Leon Trotsky Stalin and the Comintern Whose Phonograph is This? What Has Happened in the Chinese Communist Party In the Next Issue N.Y. May Day Conference -Opposition Delegates Heard Despite the Stalinist Bureaucracy by R. Hungarians Struggle Against Corruption by Y.S. A Wrong Point of Departure More Examples of Running Amuck Communist Tasks in the Workmens Circle Defend the Philly Militants! Clem Forsen, St. Paul TUUL Head, Expelled Organization Notes * The Subscription Drive * Organization Program Slogan of the 6-Hour Day -Discussion Article by John Mihelic The I.W.W. and the Unemployment Problem by Hugo Oehler A Step Forward May 9 May 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Workers, Out on May Day! from the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Miners' Revolt Checked at Muste Convention by Hugo Oehler Smash the Scottsboro Frame-Up! by G. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Miners' Convention * The Road to a New Union * The Affair at City College Correction Next Steps in the Needle Trades by Sylvia Bleeker The Daily Worker Explains Some Differences by S. The Case of Riazanov by Leon Trotsky The Marxist Riazanov a Menshevik? The Menshevik "Collaborators" and the Marx-Engels Institute The Plebiscitary Regime...and Its Victims Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party The Theory of Stalinism and the Revolution in Spain by Max Shachtman The National-Socialist Conception Stalin on Spain An Objection Answered Organization Notes * Philadelphia * Minneapolis * Other Cities * How About Those Subs.? * Our Program of Expansion The Slogan of the Six-Hour Day -Discussion Article (Continued from last issue) 1886 and Today by John Mihelic Spring Festival of New York Opposition Branch In Our Next Issue Letters from the Militants * On the Party's Turn in the Needle Trades -Boston by Jenny * Musteism and Stalinism at the Miners Convention -Christopher, Ill. by Gerry Allard * The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Carpenters' Union -New York by W.H.H. Letter of a Deported Oppositionist The Young Vanguard -Youth Notes * The Young Vanguard * Y.C.L. Convention * The Free Youth * Indian Youth Executed * Against the R.O.T.C. The Young Communist League Convention by George Ray For a Genuine Discussion The Real Situation The Root Causes 10 May 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Revolutionary Progress in Spain - The Tasks of Spanish Communists by Andres Nin The Republican Government Who Will Carry Through the Democratic Revolution? The Weekly by July 1st! The Militant and the Events in Spain What is Happening in Spain -A Letter from Barcelona -Recent Events by J. Obin The Interest in "Moscow Affairs" Demagogy of the Republicans Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Now for the Weekly Militant! * Fighting for Free Speech * What About Morgenstern and Goodman? * The Right Wing Capitulators * The White Collar Unemployed Results of the Illinois Miners' Revolt by Arne Swabeck Serious Weaknesses Still Prevail Which Position Proved Correct? The Right Wing and the Center Make Their Position Clear The Position of the Left Opposition What of the Future? Who Has the "Leopard's Spots"? by John Mihelic Question of Leopards The Question of Trade Union Unity by Leon Trotsky The Bolsheviks and the Trade Unions Reformism and the Working Class The Problem of the United Front "America Conquers Britain" by S. Green The Rise of America The Decline of England The Fight for Supremacy The Clash The Times and the Daily Worker on Trotsky by George Ray Unemployed Cutters Rebel by Albert Orland Condition of Unemployed The Workers' Demands The Accomplishments So Far Immediate Relief Needed Weisbord: Cult of Confusionism by S. In the Next Issue Seasonal Improvement -- Where? b y Albert Glotzer Seasonal Rise Slight Wage Cuts Increased June 11 Jun 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Next Month The Weekly! -An Appeal to Our Readers Rally to the Defense of the Scottsboro Boys! -A United Working Class Front Will Prevent a Legalized Lynching by R.T. Ten Commandments of the Spanish Communist by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Bolshevik Organization * The Struggle Against "Left" Reformism * What is Socialism? The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern The Estimation on the U.S.S.R. The Colonial Question in China and in India Two Criticisms of the 6-Hour Day Slogan by Arne Swabeck Does the Party Oppose this Slogan? What Are Mihelic's Errors? M. Malkin Expelled From Opposition by the New York Branch Communist League of America (Opposition) Boston Lecture First of May in Madrid by J. Obin The Bourgeoisie and the Spanish Revolution by L. Fersen Papal Drugs for Labor by Herbert Capelis The Duluth Dock Strike by F. The Strike Starts Well Absence of Sound Leadership In Defense of Scottsboro Stanley Disappoints Lovestone Browder Gets the Call Resolution of the International Secretariat on the Weisbord Group Organization Notes by David Davis * Philadelphia * New York * Boston * The Movement in Los Angeles by Max Geldman * A "Non-Party" Organization -New York by J. * From an I.W.W. Member - Minneapolis Militant Sub Drive -Only One Month Left for Subscription Drive The Young Vanguard * Back of the Air Maneuvers by George Clarke * Yipsels and National Youth Day by F. Student Youth and the Workers Movement by Albert Glotzer 12 Jun 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Miners on the March! -Thousands on Strike Against Wage Cuts in Western Pennsylvania by Arne Swabeck Next Issue-The Weekly The Spanish Bourgeoisie Acts -- Against Labor -The Spanish Bourgeoisie Gets into Action by M. Mill The Role of the Bourgeoisie The "Crime" of the Expelled Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Strike Strategy * Assembling the Future Staff The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern by Janin (Continued from last issue) The A.F. of L. and the Wage-Cut Drive by Arne Swabeck Communism and Syndicalism in Spain by Hugo Oehler The General Strike "Freedom" and Dictatorship The Strangled Revolution by Leon Trotsky An Unforgettable Picture Garine's False Radicalism Tcheng Dai and Hong The Weakness of the Masses America's "Pacifism" in Europe and...Litvinov's by Max Shachtman Germany's Plight The American Plan A Congenial Commissioner At One Single Blow! The Unification of the Chinese Opposition (by the Secretariat of the Left Opposition of the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary Chen Du-Siu) The Party's Unemployment Drive by Thomas Stamm The Stalinist Analysis The Party's Demonstrations The Decline of Support Organization Notes * The Militant Sub Drive * Program of Expansion Campaign * Reactionary Fanaticism by James Economou Letters from the Militants * How the I.L.D. Defends Opposition Workers by Leon Goodman * Shall We Subordinate Social Insurance Fight? by John Mihelic The Young Vanguard Appeal to the League Convention by the National Youth Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Against Class Collaboration Policies The Situation in the Y.C.L. The Militant -Official Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) 12 Jun 15, 1931 (Supplement) Positions and Perspectives of American Imperialism Problems of American National Economy Capitalist Readjustment The Function of the N.R.A. International Problems Soviet Union & U.S. Imperialism Capitalist System in Decay The Insoluble Contradiction Draft Thesis of the N.C. of the Communist League for the Third National Convention (By the National Committee, Communist League of America) Class Relations in the United States Position of the American Farmer The New Deal and the Unions Work Within Mass Unions Great Tasks for New Party July 13 Jul 4, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Revolver at the Head of France -The Hoover Reparations Debt Scheme by Max Shachtman The Crisis in the Young Plan A Solution of the Crisis? "Permanent Revolution" Barred in Canada Miners Strike against Wage Cuts and Starvation Conditions by Arne Swabeck The Heavy Strike Toll Relief Urgent An Appeal for Communist Unity in Spain by Leon Trotsky, April 24, 1931 Philadelphia Oppositionists Convicted of Sedition In The International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements -Two Social-Democratic Congresses, the Collapse of the "Lefts" * The French Socialists and National Defense * The Sanction of Betrayal at Leipzig by Sam Gordon * The Provisional Government in Action by Henry LaCroix * League Activities Organization Notes Our Subscription Campaign Our Program of Expansion Campaign On the Workers Front * Opposition Appeals to Milliners * Cleveland Party & Unemployment by George Clarke * Illinois Miners on the March by Gerry Allard * The Unemployment Councils at Work by Thomas Stamm * Where Does British Labor Stand? by Arne Swabeck In Europe The Essential Question of Destiny of England Where is the Proletarian Vanguard? MacDonald Preparing the Road * The Second Convention of the C.L.A. (Opposition) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Capitalist Offensive * The Union Square Meeting A New Slander Against D.B. Riazonov by Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis -- What Next? by B. J. Field Data on Manufacturing Industries 1919-1929 14 Jul 11, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Off the Leninist Path -Stalin's New Economic Policy by Max Shachtman How the New Policy is Made How Lenin Viewed the Problem The Opposition's Warning Shall Eight Die? 23,000 West Virginia Miners Are Out in New Strike Wave -Forward to a United Front of the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and W. Va. Miners by Arne Swabeck The Need for the United Front Rush Relief! On Guard Against Betrayal! -Hillman's New Racket - The "Campaign" Against Racketeering by Albert Orland Who Are the Racketeers? Bosses with Hillman A Real Challenge For a United Defense: -Movement Begins for the Defense of the Two Philadelphia Oppositionists United Front Imperative In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Spanish Masses in Motion -- Where Is the Communist Party? By Henry Lacroix The Strikes The Partial Election of May 31 Financial Panic In the Communist Party * The British Scene -England's Economic Plight by Arne Swabeck Growing Conflict in World Market Growing Conflict at Home * The Archio-Marxists In Action -Left Opposition Leads the May Day Struggles in Greece Demonstration Disrupted * Polish Social Democrats Capitalize on the Blunders of Stalinism by Felix Reasons for "Radicalization" Results of "Social Fascism' Theory Where is the Communist Party? On the Workers' Front: * Rank and File Struggles in the New York Carpenters' Union by W.H.H. A Reactionary Proposal Toward Mass Demonstrations Seven or Six Hour Day? Lessons for the T.U.U.L. * Auto Workers Reject a Cut by Gadfly * The Background of the Coal Strike by Harry Strang Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Overlooked German Situation * "Saving-Germany" For Whom? * Reviving "The Appeal to Reason" Manuilsky Makes an Unintentional Admission by S.-n. Thaelmann and the "People's Revolution" by Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis -- What Next? by B. J. Field (Continued from last issue) Ways Out? Political Perspectives 15 Jul 18, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Spanish Revolution On the Order of the Day for the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky Two Basic Questions Democratic Slogans The Lessons of China Relief and Defense for the Striking Miners Rank and File Illinois Miners Ready for a New and Militant National Movement by Gerry Allard The Policies of the Stalinists Immediate Task of the Left Wing Combine the Miners' Struggle into a United Front! -The Stalinists Are Pursuing a Sectarian Policy Which Keeps the Insurgent Movements Separated by Max Shachtman What is Happening in the Coal Fields? What Should the Left Wing Do? Do Not Be Deceived by Cheap Phrases The Mistake is Being Made Now -- Correct It Now! Acute Crisis Shakes Germany and Central European Lands -Whole Communist Movement of Europe Now Put to the Test by Sam Gordon I.L.D. Sabotages the Opposition Defense -I.L.D. Sabotages Class Defense of Goodman and Morgenstern Engdahl's Falsehoods In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Germany -The Latest Decree Against the Workers by F. Policy of German Bourgeoisie The Aims of the Decree * Clearing Away the Petty Bourgeois Fog -On the Road to Proletarian Revolution in Spain by Estaban Bilbao * Argentine -Uriburu Dictatorship Strangles Labor by R.G. * For the Spanish Opposition Press * The British Scene -MacDonald and Rationalization by Arne Swabeck A Campaign of Wage Slashing * In France -Economic Crisis and the Strikes by Pierre Frank On the Workers Front * In the New York A.F. of L. by Gadfly * Ban "Class Struggle" Organization Notes New York Cleveland Philadelphia St. Louis The Expansion Program Campaign Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Even a Browder Can Learn * Our Revolution U.S. Crisis Past & Present by B. J. Field The Early Crises The Panic of 1873 World War and 1914 Crisis "Solutions" in the Past 16 Jul 25, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stalinism and the German Crisis -The "Daily Worker" Contributes Three Errors To a Serious Question by James P. Cannon Another Form of American Hegemony Imperialists and a Fascist Dictatorship Second League Conference Demonstrate on August 1 Against Imperialist War! Pittsburgh Convention Shows Need for Unity of Fighting Miners by George Clarke A Militant Conference A Fosterite "United Front" Question of National Strike Patterson On Strike -N.T.W. Must Take Initiative in United Front of All Silk Workers by Max Shachtman Terror in China -Arrest Opposition Heads -13 Communists in the Hands of the Butcher Chiang Kai-Shek by N.S. Pointed Questions to the I.L.D. Results of the Spanish Elections -The Victory of the Socialists and the Tasks of the Communists by Leon Trotsky The Socialist Victory Weakness of Spanish Communism The Slogan of Soviets Stalinist Slander In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -Day by Day Influence of Left Opposition The Opposition and Maurin The Relation of Forces * Clearing Away the Petty Bourgeois Fog -On the Road to the Proletarian Revolution in Spain by Estaban Bilbao (Continued from last issue) The Need for a Party * In France -Economic Crisis and the Strikes by Pierre Frank (Continued from last issue) Failure of the Communist Party * The British Scene -MacDonald's "Victories" by Arne Swabeck Struggles Looming The "Third Period" in England MacDonald's Imperialist Policy On the Workers Front -After the Pocketbook Makers' Strike by N. Davis The Agreement Call for Second National Conference of the Communist League (Opposition) Thesis for the Pre-Conference Discussion Crisis in the United States and Its Effects on Labor The Prospects for the American Working Class Movement Social Reformism and the Perspective of the Revolutionary Movement The Position of the Communist Movement and the Tasks of the Party The Left Opposition and Its Role in the Movement Problems of the Spanish Revolution by Leon Trotsky The "Intermediate Revolution" Communists and Socialist Workers Help the Press of the Spanish Opposition Attention, Youth! August 17 Aug 1, 1931, New Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Nine-Tenths of Our Activities for the Revolution in Spain -On the Maurin Group in Catalonia and the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Federation in the Elections Unity a la Maurin Spain: The Revolution Day by Day -In the Communist Party of Spain by Henry Lacroix Persecutions Against Us In the Midst of the Elections The Strikes The Second Congress of the N.C. of L. Send Generous Aid to the Spanish Left Opposition Silk Revolt Growing -Policies of All Elements under Test of the Struggle in Paterson by James P. Cannon After The London Conference -The Buck is Passed to Germany by J. B. Fields Wage-Cuts -White House OK's the Drive The British Scene -The Unemployment Problem by Arne Swabeck The Serious Unemployment Situation The Communist Party and Unemployment The Anti-Trade Union Act What Does the Balance Sheet Show? The Catalonian Federation's Platform by Leon Trotsky Menshevik Criticism Spanish Kuo Min Tangism Alfa -Notes of a Journalist by Leon Trotsky Manuilsky, the Leader of the Comintern Auerbach Caught With the Goods Notes from the Editor Discussion Articles -The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose Unity and Differences Role of Centrism Prospects for Future Call the Troopers Weisbord --- No Comment! A Proposal to Gitlow Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * A Welcome Reversal * Again the Union Square Meeting * Field Organizers of the Opposition Behind the Miners Strike -Economic Decay in Soft Coal by B. J. Fields Where Coal Comes From Shift of Coal Fields Key Position of West Va. Reason for Market Loss Financial Concentration Mechanization of Mines Bucharin and the Permanent Revolution The Permanent Revolution in Lenin's Time 18 Aug 8, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The New Musteite Party -The C.P.L.A. Prepares a Home for the Political Homeless Socialists and Communists The Sponsors of the Party After the Lamont Letter -Wage Cut Drive -Class Struggle or "Peace" by Sam Gordon What Is the Situation of the Workers at This Juncture? Per Capita Earnings Employment Mining and Textile Strikes in Danger -Stalinist Failure to Apply United Front Threatens Strike by S. The Party on the Mine Strike The Paterson Strike Hillman Brings the Tailor Strike to an End by Albert Orland A New Betrayal A Slander! -Blackguards and Assistants by Leon Trotsky Andres Nin Calls for the Spanish Opposition Press by Andres Nin In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -The Struggle Day by Day by Henry Lacroix The Successes in Andalusia The Elections * Germany -The Impotence of the Communist Party in the Face of the Crisis What Is the Party Doing? The Party and the "Left" Socialist Leaders * In Greece -Repression Against the Opposition Anti-Semitic Disturbances in Salonika Discussion Articles -The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose (Continued from last issue) The I.W.W. Education and the Young Communists by George Ray Organization Notes Our Recent Activities Our Expansion Program Fragments of Truth from Under the Garbage of Slander by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Wage Cuts and Strikes * They Say it With Flowers Stalin in 1921 -More About the Theory of Socialism in One Country Before Lenin's Death by S.-n Stalin in 1925 And Stalin in 1921 Problems of the Spanish Revolution -Mistakes of Comrade Maurin by Andres Nin An...Uncomfortable Position Why Maurin Is Not with the "Trotskyists" The "National" Character of the Spanish Revolution 19 Aug 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Wage-Cut Offensive -Toward Sharp Working Class Struggles of Resistance by Arne Swabeck Trotsky Greets Weekly Militant by Leon Trotsky After the Massacre -Chicago Opposition Condemns Murders of Negro Workers by Chicago Branch Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Wickersham's Exposures -Capitalism's Agents Reveal a Few of Its Festering Sores Mass Arrests In Silk Strike -Left Wing Makes a Half Turn to Unity After Prussian Elections -Stalinists Trail Behind Demagogues of the Hitlerite Camp Almost 1,000 Pesetas Already Sent for the Spanish Opposition Press For Our National Conference -Draft Thesis on the Youth Question Youth in America The Effects of the Crisis The American League Opponent Youth Organizations The Work of the Opposition The British Scene -The Danger of Left Reformism by Arne Swabeck A General Political Fermentation The I.L.P. in the Past Discussion Articles -The Double Task of the Left Opposition by Hugo Oehler Wrong Views The Pressure of the Left The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose (Continued from last issue) Dizziness...From Failure In the A.C.W.A -Cliques Gird for Spoils by Albert Orland Hillman-Beckerman Struggle Clique Conflicts in the Strike Towards a Split Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * Free Speech and the Labor Movement * What is a Renegade? Leon Trotsky Writes on Stalin's Latest Speech -A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers by Leon Trotsky The Five Year Plan in Four Years The Problem of the Working Force Problems of the Spanish Revolution Ð Mistakes of Comrade Maurin by Andres Nin 20 Aug 21, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lovosky Unloads the Blame...-The Lesser Losovskys in their Old Role of "Whipping Boys" by James P. Cannon Trotsky's Letter to the Pravda by Leon Trotsky 78 Trotsky Voters in Santander The Revolution in Spain -Conflict of Tendencies in the Ranks of the Working Class -Madrid Letter by Henry Lacroix The Forces of the Spanish Party Panic in the Two Independent Federations The National Congress of the Socialist Party The Communist Opposition in the N.C.L. The New Persecutions Against Us Our Progress Spanish Opposition Press Fund Increasing Mine Strike Called Off -Opportunity for National Movement Missed by Party Blunder The Heavy Odds Speak Out Frankly Our Proposals Try 35 Kentucky Miners -Red-Baiting is Prominent Feature of New Frame-Up Attempt In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Germany -Communist Suppression by Roman Well Abolition of Press Freedom * The British Scene -The Bankruptcy of British Stalinism by Arne Swabeck Pollitt Recites the Failures The Party Leadership Views "Simplifying" the Problems of Revolution The Future Holds Great Possibilities Opposition at Boston I.L.D. Conference Discussion Articles: * Reforms and Immediate Demands by Hugo Oehler The Position of Negation False Abstractions When Bosses Grant Reform The Communist Task * The Meaning of the American Crisis by B. J. Field The New Facts as Base Theories of Self-Cure The Agrarian Crisis * Shortcomings in the Youth Thesis by Lillian Bord Equal Pay for Equal Work A Nucleus in the League Youth Clubs Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * Bernard Shaw on Russian * Debating the Dole Leon Trotsky Writes on Stalin's Latest Speech -A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers (Continued from last issue) Socialist Enthusiasm and Piece Work A Personal Revelation 21 Aug 29, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The End of the Labor Cabinet -Wall Street Cracks the Whip and MacDonald Jumps by Max Shachtman MacDonald and the Dole The Collapse of the Cabinet 34 Kentucky Miners Framed; 18 On Trial in Pennsylvania -Unity of Conflicting Defense Movements Needed to Strengthen the Struggle 18 on Trial in Washington Bureaucrats Sabotage United Front in Chicago Jobless Conference by Martin C. Payer M. Payer arrested in St. Louis Anti-Communist Arrests in Canada -Communist Party Leaders Seized and Held by Dominion Authorities under Sedition Act by Maurice Spector Canada In the Crisis Police terror in Toronto A Trial Out of the Past Half-Hearted Stalinist About Face On Issue of Credits to Soviet Union Increase the Spanish Press Fund to 200 Dollars! Draft of the Thesis on the Trade Union Question The Prospects for the New Militant Unions The Position and Perspectives of the A,F. of L. Unions The Trade Union Policy of the Lovestone Group The Status of the New Industrial Unions Conclusion Discussion Articles * Social Reform and a Labor Party by Hugo Oehler * The Meaning of the American Crisis by B. J. Field (Continued from last issue * Prospects for the Outcome of the Crisis by H. Stone Politics and Economics The Factors at Work Effects on Producers' Goods Foreign Trade In the Struggle of the Shoeworkers The Case of Lieut. Scheringer Organization Notes Boston Minneapolis Chicago New York Our Program of Expansion Campaign The Left Opposition on the Parliamentary Tribune -Comrade Seipold's Speech in the Prussian Landtag German and America Proletarian Revolution Only Hope Revolutionary Flames in Spain The "Freest Republic" September 22 Sep 5, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Consolidate The Weekly! -New York Gives new Impetus to Expansion Program Fund by James P. Cannon First Results I. Y. D. All Out! by Joseph Carter Gordon Arrested at Boston Meeting Credits for the Soviet Union -Stalinists Change their Stand but Evade Most Essential Points by S. What We Demanded Stalinist Objection The Need of Credits Our Spanish Fund Mooney Appeals! -All Efforts Now for a Broad and Genuine United Front Move by Arne Swabeck The Need for Action The Communist Duty A Call from Prison (San Quentin, August 20th 1931) by Tom Mooney Offer Aid in Party Election Fight by H. Stone The Anarchists in Spain -The "Turn" of the Syndicalists and Macia's Nationalism by M. Mills The Anarcho-Syndicalists In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * U.S.S.R. -From Moscow & Deportation * In Spain -The Events of a Fortnight by Henry Lacroix The Incidents at Seville The Labor Organizations During the Recent Disturbances The Socialist Ministers The Repression Continues * A Letter from Berlin at Election * Germany -The Plebiscite's Real Results The Figures Speak Further "Victory" Proof Toronto -The Canadian Red Raids by Maurice Quater Discussion Articles: * Some Shortcomings of the Thesis by Joseph Carter Change on Labor Party The Economic Crisis * To Improve our Will by Clem Forsen * The Thesis and the Crisis by Hugo Oehler Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Where is the British Communist Party? * The Return of Gerry Allard The Anonymous Factional Struggle in The Party by Max Shachtman An Anonymous Struggle Browder vs. Dunne and Foster Maurin and the Anarcho-Syndicalists by Leon Trotsky Lovestone 10 Years Ago by Marsh 23 Sep 12, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The I.L.D. "Acts" on Moony -The Appeal for a United Front Evaded by the Stalinists by Max Shachtman A Significant Appeal A Radical Mistake Change the Course! 2nd National Conference, Sept. 24 Demand Trotsky's Return -French Red Union Congress Votes for Appeal to the Soviets Steel Wage Cuts Forecast -Analysis Shows Steel Barons' Plans to Slash at Workers by B. J. Fields A Contacted Market Wage Declines Complete the Expansion Fund Program! Jobless Spurned by Roosevelt, Hoover -Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Hoover's "Plan" The Crux of the Problem Split Threatens A.C.W. -Cliques Expose Each Other While Left Wing Marks Time by Albert Orland Hillman's Maneuvers The Party Policy In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -The Opposition and the National Question * Greece -The Elections in Mytilene Morgenstern-Goodman and the I. L. D. Discussion Articles: * A Reply to the Discussion by James P. Cannon A Discredited Idea Distorted History Repeating Slander False Viewpoints * Problems of Our Perspectives by Arne Swabeck Fundamentals of Present Crisis The Basis of Possible Revival Further World Market Expansion America's Role in the World Market * Contradictions of the Agrarian Crisis by W. Krehm Effects of "Return to Normal" Attempts at Organization A Revolutionary Force Our International Bulletin The Young Vanguard * Youth Notes by Joseph Carter Our Youth Thesis The Y. C. L. * The Question of Youth in Industry * Our Tasks by George Ray Struggle of the Boston Shoeworkers In the Ranks of the Party -The Startling Turnover in the Party The Sharp Decline The Roots of the Evil A Picture of the Party's Inner Life How Articles "Happen" to Be Written I.Y.D. in New York What IS International Youth Day? by Joseph Carter 24 Sep 19, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stop Making a Football Out of the Mooney Case! by Max Shachtman The Stalinist Plan A Novel Committee For a Genuine Movement Arne Swabeck Injured in Accident British Seaman Revolt Against Wage Cuts I. L. D. Threatens Expulsion -Hacker Announces that All Oppositionists Will Be Expelled Opposition's Proposals Protest the Splitting Proposal! "Comunismo" Barred From Canada Nat'l Conference to Open Thursday The Latest Events in Spain -Turmoil Among the Socialists, Splits Among the Communists -Events of the Week by Henry Lacroix Social Democracy Frenzy The Catalonian Statute For the Unification of the C.P. In the Communist Party Unemployment Increases We Need Another $600.00 for the Fund In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * France -French Foreign Policy is Modified * After the Labor Government's Fall -New Nat'l Government -London Letter by Anglicus The Labor "Opposition" The Plight of the Party American Bankers and the Crisis Some Stalinist "Leninism" Germany -Bruening, France and the Communists Discussion Articles * Tasks of Our National Conference by James P. Cannon * The League and the Problem of the Youth by Joseph Carter * The Youth Thesis by Albert Glotzer * Perspectives of the American Crisis by B.J. Fields Maurin and the Catalonian Question by M. M. and Leon Trotsky Resolution on the International Left Opposition M. N. Roy Arrested in India Against National Communism (Lessons of the "Red" Referendum) by Leon Trotsky How Everything is Turned Upon Its Head The "United Front", But With Whom? The Question of the Relation of Forces Let Us Look Back at the Russian Experience With Blown-Out Lanterns 25 Sep 26, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Our Second Conference -A Milestone in the Progress of the American Opposition Our Position Confirmed War Clouds Dark in Manchuria Steel Wages Slashed Throughout Land A Signal to the Bosses Organize the Fight! Expulsions Campaign Begins in I. L. D. by Harry Milton Refused Admission R.R.s Prepare Wage Cuts by B. J. Fields Position of Labor Leaders Freight Rate Decline Expansion Program In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -Progress of the Left Opposition by Juan Andrade The Propaganda Tours Our Weekly Organ The Spread of Our Literature * Germany and the Approaching Winter by Ervin Bauer The Development of German Fascism The Present Method of Domination and Strategy of the Bourgeoisie * The Floating Baron * Who is Malkin? * Greece -The Opposition and The Party by P. Psakis Davios (The Torch) Persecutions and Action International Labor Defense Federation of Food Industries Party Membership Mitylene By-Election Labor's Perspective in the Struggle for a Respite by Arne Swabeck Mobilizing the Labor United Front by Sam Gordon Double Responsibility Foreign-Born Workers How the Life of the Y. C. L. is Strangled The "Inner Life" Hullabaloo and Noise A Letter About the Spanish Revolution by Leon Trotsky Party Breaks Meet in Malden by Sam Gordon Against National Communism! (Lessons of the "Red" Referendum) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) "The People's Revolution" Instead of the Proletarian Revolution "People's Revolution" as a Method of National Liberation The School of Bureaucratic Centrism As the School of Capitulations "Revolutionary War" and Pacifism How Marxists Should Deliberate October 26 Oct 10, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Reply of the Steel Workers -Preparations to Resist Wage Cuts on the Order of the Day by Arne Swabeck Wages and Living Costs Past Experiences 23,000 Strike in Lawrence, Mass. -Will Left Wing Repeat Errors? Hoover Announces New "Crisis Cure" Where is Rakovsky? What About Paterson? -The Stalinists Unload Responsibility for Their Bankruptcy Second National Conference Marks Step Forward by Arne Swabeck The Political Report On the Soviet Union Conference Achievements In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * British Crisis Sharpens -Militant Correspondents Describe Moods of the Workers by Anglicus Parliamentary Opposition The Party * A Letter from Cornwall by Millicent Shooter * Germany -The Coming Winter by Ervin Bauer (Continued from last issue) The Policy of the German C.P. * U.S.S.R. -Letters from Oppositionists by P. * From an Economic Director * A View of the Struggle in Madrid by Ray Secr't Greets Conference -Increasing Problems for the International Left Opposition by M Mill (For the International Secretariat) A Ferment in the Chicago Y. C. L. by Youth Committee, C.L.A. (Opposition) Chicago Branch Against National Communism! -Lessons of the "Red" Referendum by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Why Was the Party Silent? What Does Stalin Say? What Does "Pravda" Say? A Syndicalist Voyage to the Ranks of Stalinism by Martin Abern Catching Up With the Revolution Scarlett on the Field of National Socialism The Struggle Against Bureaucracy Conference Acts on Weisbord Issue is Skipped Expulsions Begin in Spartacus Club 27 Oct 17, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck ILD Mooney Meet Ousts Left -Opposition Delegates Unseated by Bureaucratic Machine by G.C. Protest Expulsions in Greek Club To Party Members and Sympathizers War Threatens in Manchuria -Japan, China, U. S. and Soviet Union Are Involved by Nipponese Military Attack Japan and China The Position of the U.S. The American Game Jurisdictional Disputes Disrupt A.F.L. Building Trades Dept. by Arne Swabeck U.S. Confronts Banking Crisis by B. J. Fields The New Mechanism Controlling the Deflation Paper and Gold Effects of Deflation Government Bonds Minneapolis I.L.D. Pursue Ruinous Policy of Sectarianism and Expulsion by M. G. Plans Laid for Systematic Youth Work Organization Notes Militant Builders Our Expansion Program Constitution is Revised -National Conference Strengthen the Statutes of the League Name Purpose International Affiliation Membership Organization Administration Dues and Initiation Fee Discipline Qualifications for Election Conferences Fractions Chicago Unemployment Conference by Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Chicago Branch The Party's Election Campaign by Reva Craine The Struggle for Trade Union Unity in Spain by Henry LaCroix The Struggle for Trade Union Unity Up to 1926 Deception and Uncertainty Misery, Class Struggle and Trade Union Unity Editorial Notes -Furriers Unity by James P. Cannon Who is Christian Rakovsky? A Letter to Comrades by Leon Trotsky -The Question of Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky 28 Oct 24, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Green and Co. at Vancouver -A.F. of L. Officialdom Continues to Serve Its Master by Arne Swabeck Growing Revolt Against National Government Marks British Scene by Anglicus A Turn-About Establish an English Opposition! The Party and the Election Fighting--for Votes! Division and Doubt The Case of the Meerut Prisoners Banking Crisis in the U.S. -Attempt to Defend Gold Standard Proves to be Costly by B. J. Field Small Banks Failed Bank Assets Financial Effects of the Crisis Increased Gold Need Vote Communist in the Elections! -Support the Candidates of the C.P.U.S.A. Opportunities for Progress Opportunist Blunders Funds are Needed Immediately On the Workers' Front * Lessons from the Furriers' Fight for the Coming Dressmakers' Struggle by Syliva Bleeker Conditions of Workers Coming Dress Strike * The Government Civil Service Applies Hooverism to the White Collar Slave by Martin Abern Low Wages of Civil Service Workers U.S. Government Increases Hours Need to Organize "White-Collar" Workers Stalinists Again Oust Left Opposition at Chicago Unemployment Conference by Hugo Oehler A Few "Pages from Party History" Youth Will Issue "Young Spartacus as Organ by Martin Abern In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements C. P. Policy in England -The Stalinists' Sterility Before the Problem of the United Front by Arne Swabeck Serious Currents Within Labor Opposition C.P. Leadership Impotent Adding New Confusion The United Front Policy Now is the Time to Apply Lessons of Past Experiences Silence in the Ranks of the Party on the Tom Mooney Case The N.T.W.I.U at Work in Boston by C. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Laying the Foundations * Hail Young Spartacus! A Letter to Comrades -The Question of Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Two Ways Out Necessary Preparations 29 Oct 31, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite Employed and Unemployed in Relief Struggle by Arne Swabeck Opponents Divert Unemployed Issue Into False Channels Unemployed and Employed Must Be United in Struggle Party Recognizes Narrowness of Unemployed Movement For a United Front In the Next Issue -On the Manchurian Events! Railway Bosses Drop their Masks by B. J. Fields England Goes to the Polls by Caius Gracchus Labour Party Battles for Capitalism Tories Shift to Protection "Issue" Chicago I.L.D. Persists in Isolation Policy Greek Opposition Active Among British Sailors Trotsky Greets "El Soviet" by Leon Trotsky Banking Crisis in the U.S. -Perspectives of Future Finance Developments (Continued from previous issue) Rush Funds to The Militant! On the Workers' Front * The Morgenstern-Goodman Case and the I. L. D. -The Defendants Present a Statement of the Facts by Leon Goodman and Bernard Morgenstern I.L.D. Refuses to Aid Class War Victims Convicted on Sedition Charges Rally to Defendants * Penn. Sedition Victim Dies in Cell * Siskind's Report: Party Failures and New "Plans" New Plans * Serious Unemployment Problems Suffer Because of Stalinist Maneuvers -Left Opposition Brings Program Before Chicago Conference by C.C. [Charles Curtis] "Slip Up" of the Machine Opposition on Floor Rubiczki in Frenzy Opposition's Program The Machine "Repaired" * The Bureaucracy in the I.W.O. New International Bulletin Out on Sale In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Situation in Germany -The Elections in Hamburg by M. * Notes from Berlin * A Communist Party -The Problem of the Revolution in England by F. A. Ridly British Situation is Beyond Reform Objective Conditions Favorable to Revolution Prepare for Third Annual Dance Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * An Apologist for Stalinism * The Dressmakers Symposium From an I. L. D. Delegate The Opposition at Party Forum by H.C. The Party on the Philippines by A. Our Own Interview with Ben Gitlow November 30 Nov 7, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck After the British Elections -Preparing the Road for Sharpened Future Struggles by Arne Swabeck The Labor Party Prepared for Present Situation Does MacDonald See His Finish? New Relations and Labors' New Road Manchurian Events and the Communists by Niel-Sih The Resistance of the Chinese Masses Kuo Min Tang's Shaky Position Influence of the Past on Present Chinese C.P. The Protective Ambiguity of the Stalinist Formulas The Weakening of the Party Apparatus Actual Conditions in the "Soviet" Areas Mismanagement in Peasant Affairs Progress and Hardships of the Left Opposition Hail 14 Years of Soviet Rule! -Fight to Preserve the Traditions of the Bolshevik October by Martin Abern The Proletarian Dictatorship is Established The Epoch of Wars and Revolutions Carrying Out the Program of Communism Lenin Dies; Stalinism Rises Stalin and Menshevik Hopes The Opposition Platform Serves the Workers' Interests The Conditions in the Factories The Changes in the Communist Party The Development of National Socialism Soviet Russia -- The Fortress of World Revolution The Platform of the Opposition--And the Future Preserve the Weekly Canadian Party Leaders on Trial The Decisions of the Defense Conference The Regime of Police Terror "El Soviet" Out On the Workers' Front * A Union Delegate on the Mooney Meet by W.H.H. Hacker Lies * In Sec. Two C.P. A Rank and Filer Speaks Up * Amter Proscribes Opposition at Forum Amter Proscribes Oppositionist *Work in the I. L. D. -Opposition Active Despite Bureaucrats Litvinov In Turkey The Party Discusses the Negro Problem by Herbert Capelis Policy on the Negro Question The Negro and the Class Viewpoint In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Letter from Germany -The New Party Turn -The Menace of Fascism Increases by Ervin Bauer Fascism Again Shows Its Fangs The Communist Party Changes Its Course Social Democrats Discussing Russo-German Relations The Social-Democratic Opposition and the New Centrist Party * In Great Britain -Developments in England and Ireland by Anglicus Developments in England and Ireland More "Self-Criticism" The Irish Ferment Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Amter Will Get Your Money Back? * The Opposition on the Offensive For Clarity and Action -"Young Spartacus" to Appeal to Membership of Y.C.L. by G. R. We Must Reach Y.C.L. Activities in the Ranks of the Opposition New York Classes Begin Study Group Chicago Classes Greek Left Opposition in Appeal to British Sailors by the Archio-Marxists, Bolshevik-Leninists of the Left Opposition of Greece The Appeal to the British Sailors Proletariat Greets Sailors' Strike 31 Nov 14, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Meaning of the Elections -A Victory for Capitalism; a Defeat for Official Communism by Martin Abern The Capitalists Win Again The Bosses Look Now to the Democrats The Elections in New York The Petit-Bourgeois Appeal of the Socialists The Communist Party Vote The Communist Objective in Elections The N.Y. Party Program What Kind of Demands Should be Raised Win Workers to Communist Principles The Central Committee on the Elections The Party Pays the Price of Wrong Theory Jap War in Manchuria Menaces Soviet & World Proletariat -American Imperialists Join in Preparations for World-wide Conflagration by Martin Abern Behind the Smoke-screen of Japanese Imperialism Imperialist Provocations and Soviets' Policy of Peace The Dual Task of the Moment Defeat the Aims of the War Lords! Russ. Oppositionists On Hunger Strike! by N.M. What Laval Achieved by His Visit by Arne Swabeck What are the Specific Relations? The Preparations for These Conflicts The French Bourgeoisie a Worthy Ally The Militant Starts Its Fourth Year Give Assistance Today! On the Workers' Front * The Canadian Trials and the Opposition -Maurice Spector Addresses the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada by Maurice Spector Involuntary Exemption from Persecution Why Revolutionists Are Proscribed Reinstate the Left Opposition! *St. Louis Opposition Active in Mooney Movement by H. L. Goldberg Stalinists Disrupt United Front Conference I.L.D. Holds Sectarian Meet Opposition Calls for Mooney United Front * Stalinists Slander Expelled Greek Workers * Furriers Need Real Move for Unity by Robert Brilliant Demand Elections with Participation of All Registered Furriers Left Wing Must Support Striking Dress Furriers In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The General Strike in Barcelona -The Failure of the Anarchist Policy and the Revolutionary Strategy of the Communists by Andres Nin Strikes Under Present Conditions The Character of the September Strike What Should Be Our Attitude to "Chaotic" Movements? For Factory Councils The Experience of the Guerrilla Fight The Strike and Democratic Illusions The Internal Crisis of the C.N.T. Trotsky on Opposition and the Party in Spain by Leon Trotsky Our Relation to the Party Growth and Scope of the Opposition Editorial Notes * Where is the Mooney Movement? by James P. Cannon * The Economic Month by B.J. Fields "Young Spartacus" Out this Month! The Opposition Forum Very Significant Facts! -- by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) The Apparatus Men are Nervous Attend "Militant" Anniversary Dance 32 Nov 21, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Canadian Party Trial -The Government Outlaws the Communist Movement by Maurice Spector The Offensive Against the Workers Prosecution Mobilizes Its Heavy Artillery The Crown Spy a "Sensation" S.O.S! Help the Militant! An International Paper Japanese Imperialists Press On -Unite the Working Class Against the Capitalist War Plots by Martin Abern The Japanese Demands Situation Remains Critical Japan Determined to Dominate Manchuria The Capitalist Powers Want Their Booty The Aims of the Chinese Bourgeoisie American Imperialism at Its "Job" Tactics for the Communists White Guards Plot Against Trotsky Demonstration in Athens Against Terror Opposition in Drive for Jewish Paper The Role of the Press Next Step--A Jewish Paper Raise Funds On the Workers' Front * A "New Era" in A. C. W. by Albert Orland Hillman in a Deal with the Racketeers No Changes in Policies * Results of I. L. D. Methods in St. Louis by Charles Mahler Opposition Proposes Mooney Demonstration The Communists Must Lead and Unite Movement * The New York Opposition Forum * "Young Spartacus" is Out * Soviet Celebration in Staunton, Ill by H. L. Goldberg Tash Bungles Again * The Movement for Mooney in Boston by C. Shechet What the Conference Did The Lawrence Strike Rallying a Mass Defense Movement * Before the Party Control Commission by Leon Logan Party Member, Section Two, Unit 3, District Two At the Nucleus Meeting The Party--Against Lenin on the United Front Follow the Road of the Left Opposition * Engdahl on the Mooney United Front by Herbert Capelis A Negro Worker Protests In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * England -Conservatives Press Attack on Labor -Consequences of the Elections in Great Britain and Prospects for the Communists by Anglicus The Conservative Attack on Labour The Results for the Communists Prospects * The Repressions in Spain by Henry LaCroix * The Rise of Fascism in Britain by Caius Gracchus The Conservatives and Fascism The Road to Fascism * Russian-German Trade Relations by Leon Trotsky * On Soviet Germany and Soviet Russian Relations by Leon Trotsky * In Spain -The Political Situation -The Socialist-Republicans Support the Church by Henry LaCroix The Church Remains a Power Under the Republic New Laws Against the Workers The Masses Demand Bread Militant Dance This Saturday Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Case of Dreiser * The End of the Lawrence Strike Organization Notes Educational Activities Mooney Greets Soviet Russia Demonstrations in Soviet Russia Build a United Front Movement for Mooney Factory Councils in Germany and Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky The Employed and Unemployed The German "Ultra-Lefts" Phila. Defendants Appeal 33 Nov 28, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The War in Manchuria -Chinese Masses Develop Struggle Against Exploiters by Martin Abern The International Commission of Inquiry Japan Achieving Objectives Kuo Min Tang Uniting Bourgeoisie Chinese Toilers Organizing Resistance The Marine Workers Tortured in Jail -Defendants Plead Not Guilty to Charges in the New York "Dynamite Plot" by James P. Cannon A Letter from One of the Defendants by John G. Soderberg, Secretary-Treasurer, I. T. B. U. Swabeck Starts On National Tour Rail Bosses Drive for Wage Cuts by Arne Swabeck How the Capitalist Pressure Works Will There Be a Repetition of the Past? What About the Left Wing Movement? El Soviet Confiscated Urgent! -Help the Militant On the Workers' Front * The Tom Mooney Case -Walker and the Labor Fakers in Attempt to Derail the Class Issue by Arne Swabeck * Mooney Meet at Staunton, Ill. by John Scott Elect Committee to Initiate Movement * A Record of a Party Bureaucrat Soulounias's "Record" in Labor Struggles The Decision of the Central Control Committee * Build the Communist Youth Movement -"Young Spartacus" to Work for Clarity and Action by Martin Abern The Low Level of the Y.C.L. To-day The "Leadership" of Mineriches and Greens The Dismal Y.C.L. Paper--"Young Worker" Trotsky on the Youth For Clarity and Action The Course of the Communist Youth Opposition In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Soviet-U.S. Trade Relations -The Slogan for Long Term Credits by Martin Abern The Campaign Against the Soviets Amtorg Asks for Better Credits The False Doctrine of Stalin Immediate Demands For Working Class Unity * Mechanical Reorganization of the I.L.D. by R. Ulchin The Meaning of the Re-Organization Violations of the I.L.D. Constitution Rank and File Protests * In Spain -A Reactionary Gov't by Henry LaCroix The Role of Demagogues and Charlatans * Greek Manifesto Move for New Trial in Phila. Case Jewish Paper Activities In the Next Issue The Reply of Trotsky to Weisbord by Leon Trotsky Militant Builders The Chinese Revolution -The Permanent Revolution & the Canton Insurrection by Leon Trotsky The Objective Conditions on the Eve of the Insurrection The Duplicity of the E.C.C.I. The False Comparison Between Moscow, 1905 and Canton, 1927 An Inopportune Insurrection The Tasks of the Leadership Rebuild the Chinese Communist Party Editorial Notes -The Membership Campaign by James P. Cannon December 34 Dec 5, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Events in Manchuria -Japanese Achieving Objectives -Kuo Min Tang Attacks Rising Workers' Movement by Martin Abern The Chinese Bourgeoisie Capitulate Before the Imperialists The Oppression Against the Chinese Masses Relations With the Soviet Union The Importance of Chinchow Revive the Workers' Movement in China News from the Far East -China Seeks to Renew Soviet Relations Demand for Renewed Relations Increases Class Basis of the Anti-Japanese Boycott The Exploiters Band Together Chinese Police Attack Demonstrating Workers Militant Situation is Critical Marine Workers' Defense is Organized -Militant Workers Rally to the Defense of Soderberg, Bunker and Trajer Statement and Appeal of the Marine Workers' Defense Committee They Have Not "Confessed" The Role of an Agent Provocateur The Want to Destroy the Boatmen's Union Bestial Third Degree Torture Our Duty of Solidarity A Letter From the Defendants by J. Soderberg, Wm. Trajor, T. Hunker, Members of the I.T.B.U. Entertainment for "El Soviet" Swabeck National Tour Well Under Way Book Review -"Lenin" by Prince D.S. Mirsky--Little Brown & Co. by Martin Abern The Prince's Hero Is--Stalin The Defendants Before the Docks in Canada -The Government Aims to Attack All of the Communist Forces; An Evaluation of the Defense by Maurice Spector The Prosecutions Material Party History Trade Union Policy Bruce's Testimony Buck's Arguments Prosecution and Judge in Joint Attack Aim to Attack All Communist Groups Evaluation of the Defence Other Shortcomings of the Defense The Work of the Greek Opposition -The Archio-Marxists Lead the Workers in the Class Struggle by A. S-in The Press Political Activities Unemployment Elections Trade Unions Organization Formation of Cadres Spartakos The Slogan of Our Organization Differences with the Party on Concrete Political Questions Political Banditry in the French Communist Party -The Party is Conducting Factional Struggles Without Principles or Platform by Max Shachtman Revelations of the Party Conference of Paris Preparations For Another "Decisive Turn" Another Scapegoat is Discovered Explaining Away the "Excesses" of Stalinism Who Are "The Group"? Sordid Practices Revealed Who Are the Fighters Against the Left Opposition? What Needs to be Done Jewish Workers Attention Chicago Lectures Chinese Communist Gets 10 Years Communist Beheaded The N.Y. Forum Stalinist Attack on Greek Worker Boston Meeting A Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky -The British Election and the Communists Traditions of the English Proletariat The Laborites Use the Stalinites Tasks of the British Left Opposition Cannon to Speak before I.W.W. Notes From England Illinois Miners on the Go for Tom Mooney by George Clarke 35 Dec 12, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition]0 Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The N. Y. "Dynamite Plot" -Marine Union Supports Defendants by James P. Cannon Left Opposition Holds First Public Marine Defense Meet The Exploitation of the N. Y. Harbor Boatmen by Jack Soderberg, Secretary-Treasurer of the I.T.B.U. Miserable and Degrading Living Conditions The Union is Formed Urgent! -Help the Militant Railroads in Wage Cut Drive -Mobilize Railroad Workers in Struggle for Six Hour Day by Martin Abern The Wage Cuts Begin Bosses Sharply Reject Six Hour Day Six Hour Day is Rallying Brotherhood Heads Are the Allies of the Bosses Preparing Sell-Out Through Board of Mediation Conditions of Railroad Labor Heads and Bosses Congratulate Each Other Railroaders! Prepare for Struggle The Economic Month by B. J. Fields For the 6 Hour Day -No Pay Reduction -The Importance of the Struggle for the Shorter Work Day by Hugo Oehler The Main Slogans The Importance of the Struggle To Reduce Working Hours Reduction of Hours Is Strong Blow Against the Bosses Party Policy Makes Easier the Role of Reformists and Fakers Confusion among the Furriers by Robert Brilliant Gold's Remarks A Protest From the Ranks Progress for Jewish Paper In Minneapolis Red Christmas in Affair in N.Y. Meetings in Staunton, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo., Arranged for Swabeck Kansas City Meeting for Swabeck Study Class in Kansas City In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Black Shirt Dictatorship -The Problems of Revolutionary Struggle in Italy by Feroci The Difficulty In Spreading Information The Issue: Fascism or Communism Lessons From Various Countries * England at the Cross-Roads by Anglicus The Changed Political Outlook * Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects Relative Mildness of the French Crisis in 1930, Increasing Sharpness in 1931 Historical Background of French Capitalism Tables for "Perspectives of the Economic Crisis of France" * Economic Crisis Hits Workers of Greece by P. P. Worsening of the Workers' Situation Trade Union Unity International Labor Defense The Terror Tasks of the Left Opposition in England and India -Some Critical Remarks on an Unsuccessful Thesis, November 7, 1931, by Leon Trotsky The Kerensky Period for Great Britain The British Trade Unions--Their Past and Future The Road of the Workers Toward Revolution Lenin's Dictum: Work in All Labor Organizations The Left Opposition and the Comintern The British Communist Party The Movement in India First Tasks First Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * On Which Side? * The Opposition on the Eve of Great Advances 36 Dec 19, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Marine Defense Works Grows -New Forces Come to the Assistance of the Defendants Youth Organizations Support Marine Defense (Exchange of letters between Maurice Goldbloom, Acting Chairman, N.Y. District, Intercollegiate Student Council, League for Industrial Democracy and Lillian Bord, Secretary, Marxian Youth Club.) Japanese Entrenched in Manchuria -Provocation Against Soviet Union Fails; China Protest Grows by Martin Abern Nothing Settled The Movement in China The Kuo Min Tang Betrayers The Communist Party Christmas Eve Affair Write to the Prisoners Chinese Labor Federation Blocked Minneapolis -Attention! (Lectures, Meeting and Banquet for Arne Swabeck) Hoover's Message to Congress Demonstrates Capitalist Bankruptcy by Martin Abern A Bankrupt Capitalism The World We Live In Marx and Engels Corroborated Hoover's Internationalism The Facts and Results of Mass Unemployment Hoover is for Wage Reductions Significant Figures Functions of Government and Taxation Building a Movement Against Capitalism Railway Union Heads Betray Workers by Sam Gordon The Sell-Out at Chicago Strike Votes For The Six Hour Day--Against Wage Cuts News from China * Effects of Anti-Japanese Boycott on Sino-Japanese Trade Sharp Drop Since Jap Invasion * Kuo Min Tang Bans Strikes * Shanghai Police Suppress Strikes * Chinese Communists Celebrate November 7; Many Arrests The Needles Trades in St. Louis by Caroline Anderson Elementary Work is Needed Minneapolis Opposition Holds Open Forum New York Forum Entertainment for "Communistes", Greek Opposition Paper on Saturday, December 19. Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects by B. J. Fields (Continued from the previous issue) Relative Backwardness of French Industry In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The French C.G.T.U. Congress -Issue of Trade Union Unity Confounded by Stalinists by Felix "Self-Criticism" Monmousseau Reports The Issue of Trade Union Unity Minority Delegates Propose Correct Line Rush Through Agenda Left Opposition Has Correct Path * A Letter to Andres Nin -The Catalonian Separatists, Soviets, and the Communists by Leon Trotsky, Sept. 1st 1931 The Slogan of Soviets Workers' Control The Separatist Movement and the Iberian Soviet Federation * In Germany -A Very Dangerous Strategic Error -Policy of the Communist Party Hastens Fascist Menace by Ervin Bauer Proletariat Develops United Front Against Fascism C.P. Fails to Carry Out United Front Towards S.P.D. False Strategy of C.P. Holds Grave Dangers for Workers Stalinist Policy Leads to Capitulation Before Enemy The Menace of German Fascism Fight to Remove C.P. Policy of Despair What Is A Revolutionary Situation? -The Decisive Importance of the Communist Party by Leon Trotsky, Nov. 17, 1931 The Beginning of a Revolutionary Situation The Changing Outlook of the Classes The Rate of Development The Decisive Importance of a Matured Communist Party What is Coming? Swabeck National Tour Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The "Hunger March" * The Kentucky Miners * Greetings to "Communistes" * The Canadian Communist Trials Chicago Opposition Meets Prisoners Fund Dance 37 Dec 26, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Persecution of Left Opposition -Stalin Works for the Physical Destruction of the Bolshevik-Leninists Who Are The Opposition? List of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Left Opposition) in the Verchne-Uralsk Prison The Militant is in Danger! Will you Help? The Conspiracy Against the R. R. Workers by Albert Glotzer Labor Officials Betray Workers Workers Must Organize Resistance Notice -New Pamphlet on Germany by Leon Trotsky The National Tour (Of Arne Swabeck) Menace of Fascism Imperils Germany -United Front of Masses Needed to Ward off Danger by Sam Gordon How the Bourgeoisie Copes With the Crisis The World Imperialists and German Fascism Hitlerism: Farce or Menace? The Significance of the Thaelmann Article Marine Workers to Hold Defense Meet A Letter From Reilly (One of the original defendants in the marine workers' case) Cantonese Continue Capitalist Policy -Chinese Proletariat Must Develop Struggle for Democratic Rights by Martin Abern The Canton Bourgeois Clique The "Achievements" of Stalin and the Browders The Struggle For Democratic Rights The Soviet Union and the Imperialists For Communist Unity Correction Going the Rounds in Moscow Free Speech Fight in Denver Swabeck Meetings in St. Louis and Stanton by Thomas Stamm In St. Louis Mooney Protest Growing Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects by B. J. Fields (Continued from previous issue) Special Factors in French Post-War Crisis Perspectives In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The British Scene -National Government in Sharp Attack On the Workers' Standards by Anglicus National Government Lowers Workers' Standards Prepare for Struggles * In India -The Significance of Kashmir by "A" Living Conditions in Kashmir Britain Wants Kashmir's Oil Britain Supports Pan-Islamic Movement in India * The Left Opposition in Switzerland by Walter Nelz Publish Newspaper Composed of Young Comrades * French Evict Chinese * Hankow Communists Executed * War Chief Admits Failure Against Reds Stalin and the Chinese Revolution -Facts and Documents by Leon Trotsky The Block of Four Classes The Perspectives of the Revolution According to Stalin Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek The Strategy of Lenin and the Strategy of Stalin The Government of Chiang Kai-Shek as a Live Refutation of the State Second Issue of Young Spartacus is Out New York Open Forum China's Silk Industry Stagnant Attention! Minneapolis Open Forum Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * The Downfall of Volkszeitung * How They Play With the Great Slogans * A Race with Time 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 The Militant Volume 6 1933 January 1 Jan 7, 1933 Open Letter to Vanderveld, by Leon Trotsky Bridgeman Red Cases Revived Supreme Court Ruling Opens Attack on American Communist Movement We Are Counting on You For Aid, by Max Shachtman Moscow Letter Stalin Banishes Zinoviev Two Killed in New Illinois Mine War Lewis and Operators Renew Terror Drive Against Miners Left Wing Victory in the I.L.G.U., by S. Defeat For Lovestoneites What Will Left Wing Do Now? Japanese Resume Chinese Offensive Opposition Youth at Chicago Conference by Aderahbe Rival Positions Presented C.L.A. Delegates Defend Lenin View at Anti-War Meet Left Opposition Issues Statement Left Wing Pressure Effective Split Threatens "With Both Hands" The Stalin Bureaucracy and the United States of America Stalin's Denial Wall Street Rulers Force Wage Cut On the Teachers of New York City, by Thomas Stamm "Unser Kampf" Tour Concludes With the Launching of the Worker's Clubs by Morris Lewit-Sylvia Bleeker Silent Cal Silent The Crisis in the Food Workers Industrial Union in New York by Sebastian Pappas The Open Letter The Kornelios Case Our Club Plan Militant Builders The Record by Cities The Staff Japan Its Rise From Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat, by Jack Weber Trade Union Movement The Outburst of 1918 and After Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Unions Soviet Economy in Danger, by Leon Trotsky The situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan The Second Five Year Plan The Year of Capital Reconstruction The Death of the Father of Revisionism by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) Eduard Bernstein's "Triumph" Over Militant Marxism Defeats on Paper The Kautskyans and Bernstein A Short-Lived Centrist Last Triumph Pioneer Publishers Notes 2 Jan 14, 1933 Japan Seizes North China, by G.C. Soviet Union Also Threatened Answer! Where is Rakovsky? United Front Call Issued For Unemployment Insurance, by Max Shachtman Opposition Welcomes Party Turn and Warns Against Opportunistic Tendencies Opposition Stand Vindicated Old Policy Dropped Opportunist Aspects of Change Save the Militant, by Arne Swabeck (The article contains a list of contributions from New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis.) Technocracy, by Hugo Oehler Engineers Have New Plan To Save Bankrupt Capitalism The Technocrats "Refute" Marxism "Technocratic "Energy" Is Labor's Importance Decreasing? The Key to the Problem The Civil War in China, by P.K. Dangerous Turn From Partisan War to Pitched Battles Trotsky's Analysis Verified Policy Change Injurious Zinaide Trotsky (Obituary) Two Debates in Chicago Letters from Militants- Chauvinism Among Pittsburgh Stalinists Boston Branch Moves Forward Greek Militant Expelled in Philadelphia Stalinists Challenged in St. Louis by G. Roberts Pittsburgh Branch Progresses In the Progressive Youth Club Czech Right Wing Collapses, by O. Friedmann Lovestone's Allies Take Final Step and Join Social Democracy Centrism Assists Right Wing Decline of Right Opposition Opposition at Anti Pogrom Conference Hold Public Meeting Announcement (The next issue is devoted to Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg.) Opposition at Anti-War Meet Left Delegates Issue Statement at Chicago Student Conference For A United Worker-Student Youth Conference Japan, by Jack Weber The High Speed of Japanese Development Reformism and Opportunism The Communists and the Labor Party From Istanbul to Copenhagen, by Verite What Happened Along the Route of Trotsky's Trip The Anti-Bolshevik Fury At Marseilles The S.L.P. and This Dictatorship Cleveland- Cannon Speaks at Right Wing Forum 3 Jan 21, 1933 Editorial Notes, by James P. Cannon The New Party Turn A New Federation of Labor? Who Will Prevail? by James P. Cannon January Young Spartacus Out Japanese Invasion of Jehol Creates Tense Situation, by George Clarke World Imperialist Powers Press for Their Share of the Loot Leon Trotsky Defends the October Revolution Full Text of Speech Delivered to the Social Democratic Students at Copenhagen November 27, 1932 The Meaning of Revolution The Causes of October "The Russian Revolution Will Become The First Stage Of The Socialist World Revolution" - 1905 The Peasantry The National Question The Permanent Revolution The Bolshevik Party "The October Revolution Has Laid The Foundation For A New Civilization...." - 1932 15 Years of the Soviet Regime Balance Sheet of October The Revolution and Its Place in History Help Us Publish Trotsky's Speech On "The Defense of the October Revolution" Protomagia at United Front Meet, by A.C. The Program of the U.W.P., by Hugo Oehler Proletarian Party Offshoot Elaborates Opportunist Program by H.O. Pauline Gutringer (Obituary) Pioneer Publishing Fund Unemployment and the Working Class Soviet Economy in Danger and the Expulsion of Zinoviev 4 Jan 28, 1933 Liberals Protest Chen's Arrest Help! Left Opposition Demand Broad United Front at N.Y. Unemployment Conference Presents Revolutionary Program to Stalinist Confab Oriented on Opportunist Half-Turn by Max Shachtman Our Reservations Justified Socialist Workers Absent Brilliant Tactics Opposition Speaks Stalinist Confusion Genuine United Front Rejected L.O. Resolutions Resolution on Program and Tactics Com. Cannon's Speech Broader Base Necessary Nazis, Cops Provoke CPG, by Thomas Stamm Von Schleicher Uses Fascists to Bolster Bonapartist Regime Letters From Militants- Twenty-two P.M.A. Miners Framed, by Gerry Allard Thugs Terrorize Miners Stalinists Collaborate With Clergy, Millionaires, by A. Caldis Another "Mass Trial"! by L. Roberts League Activities in Youngstown, by H.S. Bureaucrats Checked in I.L.D. Confusion Marks Stalinist Policy on Fight Against War, by Albert Glotzer Student Conference Compromises Communism in Chicago Edition of Amsterdam; Yield Principled Positions Japan Its Rise From Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat, by Jack Weber Daily Worker Decries Promoter of the Amsterdam Congress, by S. Our Club Plan Militant Builders The Three-In-One Revolving Fund The Record by Cities International Workers School Notes The Case of Chas. Yale Harrison Pioneer Publishing Fund Strike While the Iron is Hot A Reminder A Note on Max Eastman, by Leon Trotsky Unemployed & Barter Exchange Petty Bourgeois "Solution" Reflects Pressure of the Crisis, by Hugo Oehler Resolution on Weisbord February 5 Feb 4, 1933 The Danger of Thermidor, by Leon Trotsky An Analysis of the Significance of Stalin's Latest Speech What the Peasant Demands Back to War Communism Give Now! by Hugo Oehler Opposition's Demand for United Front Is Need of the Hour in Germany, by Max Shachtman Responsibility for Rise of Fascism Must be Established Schleicher's Role The Coming Civil War Hitler in Power; Civil War Starts Fate of the World Revoltion in Balance Stalinist Blunders United Front Imperative Pass Philippines Bill Over Veto Mooney Congress Called, by Thomas Stamm Molders Committee Issues United Front Call for Chicago Meet 10,000 Strike in Detroit, by Martin Beardsley Wages and "Dead Time" issues in Briggs Auto Walkout The A.F. of L. and the A.W.U. The Elections and Labor's Struggle, by Martin Abern What the Presidential Vote Means for the Workers Some Factors in the Low Vote A Lesson From England The Labor Party Left Opposition Grows in China by Left Opposition of North China Oppositionists Expelled from I.L.D., by S.F. The "Save The Militant" Drive Shall the Revolutionary Students Be Organized Into Separate Movements, by Martin Abern Discussion Article Role of Students How Far Will the Stalinists Go?, by N. Satir The Swing to Opportunism in Chicago The Change in Chicago Students Congress Against War The Aldermanic Elections Pioneer Publishing Fund Militant Builders The Copenhagen Speech The Record by Cities Japan Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat, by Jack Weber The Epoch of Wars and Revolutions The Great Obstacle Special Tasks of the Japanese Party The ETA The Army The Permanent Revolution 6 Feb 11, 1933 Why Is the Comintern Silent on Germany? by Max Shachtman Hitlerites Move Forward; Communists Mark Time The Comintern Is Silent! Fascist Advances Germany: Why Is the Comintern Silent Communists, Socialists and Fascists in Civil War Is Fascism Different? The Socialist Leaders The Militant to Appear Three Times A Week During Drive! by James P. Cannon The National Committee Issues A Call to Action to All Call to Action Concentrate All Activity On The German Campaign Of The League! 500 Workers Pack New York Hall To Hear Opposition on Germany, by James P. Cannon Opposition at Gillespie, by James P. Cannon League's View Triumphs at Progressive Miners Conference A Mistake Avoided The Progressive Miners Organization The Stalinist Position How We Plan "New Militant" From Five Cents to One Cent Oehler Starts National Tour On Germany Lovestone Group Splits in Two Letters from Militants- Miner's Women on the March My Daughter's Suicide Open Letter On Stalin's Role in the Death of Zinaide Trotsky, by Leon Trotsky Stalin's Denial, by Leon Trotsky The Capitulation of Roman Well and Co. I.L.G.W.U. Leaders Seek to Corral Youth, by Joseph Carter The Record Speaks! Centrism Month by Month The Same Bloodhounds, by Rote Fahne "Many Comrades..." by Remmele The Slogan of the Communist Youth, by Junge Garde The Slogan of the Young Pioneers, by Die Trommel The "Red" Factory Councils On Paper by Wedding Congress C.P.G. The "Red" Factory Councils in Reality, by Congress of the Trade Union Opposition of the C.P.G. Muenzenberg On The United Front, by Will Muenzenberg A Thousand Times Lesser Evil The "Offensive" Began in....1929, by Rote Fahne Against: The "Offensive" in 1929 Illusions About Distinctions Fascist Rule Set Up....In 1930, by Rote Fahne Later, Heinz Neumann Was The Scapegoat, by Ernst Thaelmann Who Was Guilty Of Underestimation? After Social Fascism--"Bruening Fascism", by Rote Fahne More "Bruening Fascism" by Rote Fahne Hitler's Greatest Day--In 1930, by Rote Fahne More Bureaucratic Optimism, by Rote Fahne Fascism "Again" At A Standstill by Communist Party of Germany, Political Bureau decision "Let Them Come To Power," by Remmele in Reichstag, Rote Fahne The Great Leader Speaks by Thaelmann, Die Internationale Von Papen is Also Fascism....by Rote Fahne Diverting Attention From Real Fascism, by Walter Ulbricht, Rote Fahne Sandino Passes Stalinist Policies Throw Food Workers Union Into Serious Crisis, by Sebastian Pappas Boston Activities, by C.S. Confusion Marks Stalinist Policy on Fight Against War, by Albert Glotzer (Continued from previous issue) Shall the Revolutionary Students Be Organized Into Separate Movements, by Martin Abern (Continued from last issue) Discussion Article Win Students on Communist Basis 7 Feb 13, 1933 Opposition Demands United Front At Second Jobless Conference League Representative Proposes United Front Policy Be Adopted Towards Conference For Unemployment Organized By Socialist Leaders Resolution Stalinists Oppose United Front Lacroix and Nin Arrested Japan Rejects League "Aid," by J.W. Imperialists Jockey For Position U.S. Involved; Soviets Are Threatened U.S. Takes Up Challenge Militant Now 3 Times a Week Hitler Lays New Trap for Workers, by Max Shachtman Aims to Distract Attention from Mass Struggle of Labor By Parliamentary Deception of March 5; Social Democrats Join in Dupery; Communists Still Tied Hand and Foot by Rejection of United Front The Election Trap What is C.P. Doing? Catastrophe Threatens Seek Freedom For Angelo Herndon Young Negro Communist Is Given 18 To 20 Years in Georgia; No Bail Granted Writer Exposes Stalinist Censor Gorky's Memoirs of Lenin Falsified to Suit Need of Party Bureaucracy German Bourgeoisie Calls Fascism To Solve Economic Crisis Its Way, by B.J. Field Slight Rise Under Papen Analysis Shows That Establishment of Hitler Regime is Final Effort of Ruling Classes to Settle Economic Crisis in Its Own Way Bourgeoisie Forced to Change DeValera Harnesses Discontent, by Jack Carmody Uprising Threatens Machado, by Rosalio Negrette Machado Position Untenable Revolt Threatens Machado in Cuba Publishing Fund Two New Pamphlets Soviet Economy in Danger and The Expulsion Of Zinoviev In Defense Of The Russian Revolution The Publishing Loan Fund From The Militants "In the Spirit of Stalin's Letter," by Gordon Fight for United Front In Boston, by Jenny Chiplovitz A Pen Picture, by John Reed C.G. Rakovsky Capitalist Chain Gang Exposures, by George J. Saul Left Opposition Gives Estimate of Spanish Anarchism Putschism 8 Feb 15, 1933 Hitler is Consolidation the Power of Fascism in Germany! by Max Shachtman Whoever Blocks the Workers' United Front Is a Traitor! Scottsb'ro Frame-Up Laid Bare Charge of "Rape" Proves To Be Unfounded; Letter of Girl Now Published Text of Bates Letter United Movement Imperative Hitler Threat to Soviet Union, by B.J. Field Analysis Shows That Contradictions In Politics Of Hitlerism Drives It To An Alliance With The Other Imperialists For An Assault Upon Soviet Union Dependence on Foreign Bankers Danger to Soviets Nazis Murder 11 Workers Oehler Tour this Week Fascism: Italian and German Comparison Between Italian Fascism of 1920 and the Hitlerite Movement of Today Shows Possibilities For Successful Counter-Movement of Proletariat The Fascist Supporters Differences in Situations Millions to Be Jobless Perman'tly Army of Unemployed Will Remain, Admits Head of A. F. of L. Wm. Green, by George Clarke Suspend 19 C.C.N.Y. Students A Letter From Shanghai, by C.C.C. Stalinist Confusion, by James P. Cannon "Daily Worker" on the German Crisis German Campaign 500 Gather for Bronx Meeting Successful German Meet in Philly, by L. Goodman "New Militant" Sells Well From Tinkers To Evers To Chance The Embargo of Arms Left Opposition Gives Estimate of Spanish Putschism, by The Executive Committee of the Spanish Communist Left 9 Feb 17, 1933 Fascists In Complete Control of Police Party Must Act Now! Hitler Acts With Ruthless Determination to Crush Labor Movement; Stalin Persists in Opposition to United Front Red Meetings Forbidden Trotsky's Forecast Stalinist Silence "Broken" Daily Worker Makes Demagogic Attack on Opposition in Order to Cover Up Sterility of Stalin Policy of Opposition to Leninist United Front Tactics by Max Shachtman Smash Hitler German Left Opposition Appeals for United Proletarian Resistance, by The Left Opposition of the Communist Party of Germany Hitler is Chancellor! The General Strike We must not wait, we must hit out! Governor Strikes at Ill. Miners Illusions About Horner Shattered by Memorandum Aimed at P.M. of A., by Joe. Angelo Japs Plan to Extend Conquest Manchurian Invasion To Be Extended Further Despite Other Powers, by J.W. War on for Control of Leticia, by Rosalio Negrete Unrest in Peru The Dollar Props Up Hitler, by Hugo Oehler America and the Fascist Danger Oehler Tour this Week Homeless Youth to be Militarised $20,000,000 Appropriated to Send Young Workers Into Military Training Camps The Great Betrayal First Part of the History of Social Democratic Treachery in Germany Taken From Its Own Authentic Records, Writings, Speeches, Newspapers, Which Show How It Sold Proletariat to Bourgeoisie The Social Democrats and the War All For the Fatherland Social Democracy and Monarchy Never Against the Monarchy War to the Last Minute The Monarchy Must Remain The Pact With the Capitalists Kautsky and Haase on Russia The Judas Role of the Socialists Noske the Bloodhound Incitement to Murder Rosa and Karl Noske's Two Great Deeds French Socialists on Noske-Gallifet Build the Militant The Record by Cities The Builders Super-Exploitation in So. Illinois Drives Miners to A Militant Revolt, by B.J. Field Mass Production High Modern Machinery Used Strike at Foltis Fisher Tom Mann Freed 100 at B'klyn Meet The Relief March In Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen 10 Feb 20, 1933 To Delay Anti-Nazi United Front Is Fatal, by Max Shachtman Hesitation at This Time Is a Crime Opposition's Stand The Stalinist Position How Fascism Can Be Smashed in Germany, by Leon Trotsky We Must Force the Social Democracy into a Bloc Against the Fascists A Good Quotation from Lenin League Obeys U.S.A. In Move Against Japan, by J.W. "International Cooperation" Bulletin Quits "Anti-War" Group Geltman Denounces Barbusse Masquerade Imposed Upon Left Students at Chicago Conference on War Problem; Demands Dissolution of the Committee Boston I.L.D. Expels Two, by Charlotte Schechet, William M. Konikov I.L.D. Bureaucrats Expel Two Active Militants on Frame-Up Charge of "Stealing Mailing List"; Real Reason Shown to be That They Are Oppositionists Good Sales in Boston German Meetings Oehler Tour Minneapolis Mass Meeting Abern to Speak in Boston Appeal for Aid to Readers, by James P. Cannon Lynching Campaign Against Zangara, by G.C. A Letter from the U.S.S.R., by Tonov Minor Challenged at Philly Meeting, by L. Roberts America's Role in Germany, by Hugo Oehler Wall Street's Stake in Germany German Opposition Overwhelmingly Against the Handful of Capitulators Lovestone and the Capitulators 11 Feb 22, 1933 Fascists Command Police: Shoot Reds! by Max Shachtman Goering's Order An Alarming Situation Opposition and Stalinists We Have All to Gain Workers! The Social Democracy Has Betrayed Again Stalinism Is Abdicating! Unite Ranks and Crush Hitler Appeal to the Proletariat of Germany by the Paris Conference of the International Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) There is Still Time! Proletarian Revolution Only Way Out For Doubly-Exploited German Masses, by B.J. Field Dependence on Foreign Capital Role of Petty Bourgeoisie German Meets Scheduled Mass Meeting in Chicago Abern Speaks at Wilkes-Barre Meeting Other Tours Breaking Point Approaches in North China Conflict of Imperialist Powers Japan Reaches for North China American Apprehension Program of Action Against Fascism Proposed Year Ago by German Left by The Left Opposition of the C.P.G. (Bolshevik-Leninists) The National Committee German Campaign Chicago Advances With Campaign, by J. Giganti 200 Sold in Few Hours Hundreds Sold in N.Y. Pledge Solidarity at Cleveland Meet by, S.G. America's Role in Germany The Threat of Imperialist War, by Hugo Oehler Opposition in Davenport, by George J. Papcun Marx-Lenin School in Chi. Shachtman at Brookwood S.L.P. Treachery In Springfield, by Joe Angelo Abern at Boston Meet 12 Feb 24, 1933 Leon Trotsky Analyzes German Situation, by Leon Trotsky First Article After Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor The Camp of Counter-Revolution The Camp of the Proletariat Is It Too Late to Act? Turn Depends On Party Elections Can Decide Nothing Party Democracy and the Turn German Class Struggle and Collaboration With U.S.S.R., by B.J. Field Preparing for War Line of Big Bourgeoisie Answer of Communism Youth Debate This Sunday Militant Correspondent On the Spot in German Crisis, by Arne Swabeck Capitalism Mobilizes Its Last Reserves The Issue is Now to be Settled by the Means of Civil War Chicago Complains Japan Defies Other Imperialist Powers in China, by J.W. New York Courses Start American Labor Leaders--the Movements and the Men History and Principles of the Left Opposition League Activities- Opposition Beaten in Cleveland Youngstown Proposes United Front by Youngstown Branch, Communist League of America (Opposition) Why is the Comintern Still Silent About the Acute Crisis in Germany? Musteites Exclude Oppositionists, by N. Abern Speaks at Wilkes-Barre Meeting Oehler Tour Abern at Boston Meet 13 Feb 27, 1933 Hitlerites Shut Down Headquarters of The Communist Party, by Max Shachtman Why Does the Communist International Continue Its Silence About Germany? Party Quarters Raided Stampfer's Interview Stalinist Silence Japan Widens Attack On North China, by J.W. St. Louis Unemployment Conference Adops Left Opposition Proposals United Front Program Intensive Exploitation of the German Workers is Prospect Under Hitler, by B .J. Field Significance of Low Export Surplus Militant Sales In Sharp Rise Two Negroes Lynched In South, by George J. Saul 7 Wounded In New Mine Battle, by G.C. Tardy Acknowledgement, by S. Abern Speaks at Boston The League In Action, by A.C. 300 Hear Opposition in Toronto Scottsboro Conference Rejects United Front Mine Situation Told In Davenport Greeks Rallied On German Crisis February 12th Report Shows Fate of Germany Hangs In Balance; United Front Is Urgent (Contunued from last issue) Why Are the Strong Hands Paralyzed? The Balance Sheet of Stalinism In Germany, by Arne Swabeck March 14 Mar 1, 1933 Fascists Frame-Up The Communist Party The Life and Death Question: Leninists Urge United Front In Germany or Disaster! by Max Shachtman Another Complaint, by Rebecca Sacherow Students Strike in Protest Thousands of Students Demand Restoration of Academic Rights The Reign of Terror Against the Reds! Defend Opposition Stand in Pittsburgh S.P. Fakers Drive Out Left Wing, by W.H. Herrmann Strong Arm Squad Ousts Militant Delegations At Socialist Confab Oehler Tour The Socialist Record Presidential Government Only Possibility Defeat Hitler by Voting Hindenburg Let Hitler Come to Power No Longer a Danger The Party Defends Noske The League In Action- Cleveland Workers Hear Oehler, by S.G. 400 at Minneapolis Meeting, by C. Forsen Wilkes-Barre Miners Hear Opposition Nearing, Stalin Apologist, on Germany, by Albert Glotzer In Chicago In Pittsburgh The Flower of Bourbon Civilization Negro Lynchings in the South by, George J. Saul "Barbusse-Stalinist" Capitulation, by L. Green Oehler Meeting in Pittsburgh Pioneer Publishing Fund The Only Road The Publishing Loan Fund Report Shows Fate of Germany Hangs In Balance; United Front is Urgent, by Arne Swabeck (Continued from last issue) Only the United Front Can Mobilize Workers Power The Left Opposition Conference Appeals to Comintern 15 Mar 3, 1933 No Retreat! Struggle or Annihilation, by Max Shachtman "Soviet Economy in Danger," by Leon Trotsky Bureaucratic Centrism Bucharin's Stand The Second Plan Arrest Soviet "Trotskyists" Jap Advance Hits U.S.S.R., by Jack Weber League Price for Support of Japan is Assault on Fatherland of the Workers Russia and Japan To Union Sq. on Saturday Roosevelt Regime Reopens Question of Russ Soviets, by B.J. Field Situation Over-Ripe For American Militants To Raise Demand For Long-Term Credits to Soviet Union As Part of Internationalist Campaign Soviet Economy in Critical State Trading with Soviets and Workers' Control Credits for the Soviet Union and American Working-Class Demand Credits for the Soviet Union as a Political Question Comintern and World Revolution at Decisive Historical Turning Point, by Feroci A Turning Point The Decisive Question What is Demanded? Anti-United Front Policy Plays Into Hands of Socialist Party Bureaucrats, by S. Socialist "United Fronts" Stalinist Blundering League Activities- Another "Friend" of the Soviet Union At Socialist Party Forum A Party Meeting on Germany in Semi-Seclusion Before a German Workers' Society For the German Opposition Lecture on Germany Opposition Debates I.U.L. 16 Mar 6, 1933 National Banking Crisis, by B.J. Field Stage in General Crisis of Capitalism in This Country Throws Bourgeoisie Into Panic; Its "Way Out" to be Sought on Backs of Workers Crisis and the Class Struggle No Automatic Collapse of Capitalism Party and Crisis Fascist Elections Show Stalinist Bankruptcy Policy of "United Front From Below" Fails to Win Over Masses of Socialist Workers, by Max Shachtman Lovestone Group and the Opposition, by S. A Political Swindle Exposed Oppositionists Attacked, by R. Chinese Bourgeoisie Is Impotent Before Advancing Japanese Armies, by Jack Weber Failure to Unify China The Japanese Continue Advance Our German Campaign Is Endangered! League Activities- Stalinists Sabotage United Front, by G. Roberts Two Unemployment Conferences, by L.G. I.L.D. Expels St. Louis Oppositionist, by Martin Payer An End to Stalinist Confusion--For the United Front! by G.H. "Trotsky's Genius Denied" A Mistake in the Daily Worker International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis The Organ of the Left Opposition in the U.S.S.R. The Left Opposition in Imperialist Countries 17 Mar 8, 1933 Communist International Changes Policy Half-Turn to Genuine United Front Must Be Completed and Actually Carried Out From January 22nd to March 6th The Significance of the Turn What Must the Party Do Now? by Max Shachtman Response From Montreal, by George Kelley Banking Crisis in the United States, by B.J. Field Two Billions in Currency and Gold Hoarded, Threatening to Cripple the Financing of Business; Plans Being Worked Out by Bourgeoisie to Tide Itself Over Critical Period, With Inflation Menacing Proletariat Will There be Inflation? Communism and the Negro, by George J. Saul Fight Lynching in the South League Activities- Successful Meeting in Newcastle, by Max Hudson 250 at Brownsville Meeting Two Good Meetings in Boston First Mass Meeting in Los Angeles, by C. China Report Confirms Opposition, by George Clarke International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) Fundamental Principles of the Left Opposition Faction and Not Party 18 Mar 10, 1933 We Demand Plain Speaking on Germany! by Max Shachtman Only Unmistakable Change in Comintern Policy Can Smash Fascism at 11th. Hour! We Want to Know Left Opposition On Germany The New U.S. Banking Law, by B.J. Field Roosevelt's Emergency Measures Leave Open Road to Inflation; Help Concentrate Banks Into Hands of Monopolists, Prepare for Branch Banking System "New Deal" in Banking System Bankers and Inflation Militant Back to Weekly Appeal to Y.C.L. On Slugging of Opposition Youth, by Nathan Gould and Joseph Gigante Com. Cannon at Albany: The N.Y. State Conference by Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Left Opposition Sets Forth Its Policy and Program in the United Front Movement of the Unemployed in State-Wide Meet at the Capital Statement of L.O. The Workers' Front Carpenters Protest Against Bureaucracy at S.P. "United Front," by Charles Ebel, Secretary, Local Union 2000, UB of C and J. of A. F.S.U. Backs Out From L.O. Debate League Activities Big Oehler Meeting In Davenport, by B. The Only Road International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) Changing of the Ranks of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis Cleansing of the Ranks of the Left Opposition and Composition of the International Conference The Left Opposition in Italy (Relations With the Bordigists) 19 Mar 18, 1933 Alarm Signal! by Leon Trotsky Danger Draws Closer in U.S.S.R. Bureaucratic Sabotage of Socialist Construction Under the Guise of Infallible Leadership Money Inflation Who Will Prevail? The Balance Sheet of the First Five Year Plan A Notice To Our Readers Cafeteria Strike On in N.Y., by Sebastian Pappas Crisis In Germany Manifesto of the Left Opposition by National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) An Open Letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party by National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) James P. Cannon, Secretary Has Rakovsky Been Assassinated? Stalinists Discredited at Mooney United Front Conference In N.Y., by Thomas Stamm Two Framed Up by Peabody Coal Co., by Joe Angelo Bankers Utilize Situation In Order To Strengthen Hold on Whole System, by Hugo Oehler The Pioneer Publishing Fund The Only Road The Publishing Fund The Hitler Press & "Moscow," by S.G. Is Russia No Longer Interested in the C.P.G.? The Left Opposition at Albany, by Jack Carmody Move to Unite Rail Unions in M'p'lis, by J.M. The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism, by V.I. Lenin On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of Karl Marx March 14, 1883-March 14, 1933 International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) On Party Democracy The Left Opposition in Russia The Left Opposition in the Balkans The Left Opposition in Czecho-Slovakia Workers Letter to Slovene Stalinists Pioneer Leader is Expelled by YCL, by David Levitt New'rk German Meeting, by Louis Nagy Workers' Schools Confer on Fascism And Prepare for Demonstration Schools Represented Attitude of the Party Workers' School Role of the Left Opposition Results of the Conference School Notes The Stalinists Distort Our Stand, by B.J. Field On Our "Faith in the Strength" of Capitalism Albany: 3 Years of Party Policy, by James P. Cannon The Opposition's Criticism of Stalinist Bankruptcy Net Result of False Policy The "Bills" Discussion The Left Opposition Sidelights on the Albany Conference Cornelia Davis (Obituary) 20 Mar 25, 1933 C.I. Turn to the United Front in Germany Danger in C.I. Turn An Alarm Signal, by Leon Trotsky The Second Five Year Plan Bonapartist Tendencies in the Party Trotsky Sounds the Alarm Signal on the Danger to the Soviet Regime Defense of the U.S.S.R. The Stalinized Comintern Groupings in the C.P.S.U. and the Comintern The Capital Reconstruction of Economy For An Honest Party Regime! For Soviet Democracy First Daily of Opposition Kincaid Miners Up For Trial, by Albert Glotzer Workers: Out On Saturday! First Underground Leaflet of Left Opposition Issued in Germany by Left Opposition of the Communist Party of Germany (Bolshevik-Leninists) To the Revolutionary Proletariat A World Workers' Congress Hathaway Seeks to Explain Away C.I. Turn at Membership Meet the Hathaway Apologetics The C.I. Turn I.L.D. Allows Reactionary Lawyer To Injure Scottsboro Struggle Liebowitz's Attack League Activities- New League Branch In Springfield, by Joe Angelo Chicago Stalinists Again Try Gangsterism Austintown Jobless Forge Ahead, by N. Miners Hear Opposition On Germany Second Big Meet In Minneapolis, by C. Forsen Litvinov at Geneva Opportunist Diplomacy Plays Into Hands of Imperialists, by L. Green The American Capitalist Paradise Hooverville by Paul Schwalbe Bourgeois Explanations How They Live Mink & Co. Expel "Trotskyist" Seamen International Workers School Notes World Economic Situation Today How It Stands Today and Its Next Perspectives, by B.J. Field Victory or Defeat in Germany, by Arne Swabeck Alternatives in the Decisive Class Battles The Possible Variants Touching Reconciliation Effects of Stalinist Strategy International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) On the Reorganization of the International Organ of the ILO On the International Conference of the Left Opposition A Trade Union Balance Sheet In Germany, by Joseph Carter The Third Period Policy Admission of Failure April 21 Apr 1, 1933 For United Defense against Hitlerism! A Talk With the Socialist Workers, by Leon Trotsky Is It Not Too Late? A Non-Aggression Pact Jointly Organize the Defense, Do Not Forget the Past, Prepare for the Future Adversaries Close Ranks in the Face of the Common Danger Two Weights and Two Scales Your Leaders Don't Want to Fight! Then is Our Proposal a Maneuver? Stalin Persecutions, by T.T. Russian Left Opposition Forges Ahead in the Party The Situation Among the Exiles Workers' Youth Form Genuine United Front in New York Protest Struggle against Hitlerism New Ill. Mine Contract, by Hugo Oehler Left Wing Criticizes Provisions of 2 Year Agreement Shortcomings of Contract The Right Wing Wants "Peace" Party May Day Conference Reveals Inner Dispute on United Front Policy, by Thomas Stamm Bank Holiday Screens Advance in the Concentration of Big Capital, by Hugo Oehler What Was Aimed At? League Activities- A Stalinist Meeting In Chicago, by F.M. Oehler Meeting in St. Louis, by G. Roberts A United Front From the Top?, by Thomas Stamm The opposition in Bethlehem The American Capitalist Paradise, by Paul Schwalbe Hooverville (Continued from last issue) Stalinists Merge With Balbontin International Womans Day in Davenport Peekskill Meeting Minneapolis Mass Meeting The Crisis in German Communism, by Arne Swabeck Alternatives in the Decisive Class Battles The False Outlook of the Stalinists Fascist-Stahlheim Unity Aims at Working Class Destruction Workers Possess Remarkable Collectivity and Organizational Discipline World Economic Situation Today, by B.J. Field How It Stands Today and Its Next Perspectives (Continued from last issue) Perspective for Coming Period The Reformist Theory and the Stalinists Chicago R.R. Conference Some Fundamental Aspects of the Present Crisis in Germany, by Sam Gordon The Warning of the Opposition 22 Apr 8, 1933 The Tragedy of the German Proletariat, by Leon Trotsky What of Rakovsky? Victor Serge Arrested Riazonov and Smirnov Are Dead Hitler and the Red Army, by Leon Trotsky Stalinists Beat Up Oppositionists New Organ of German Left 2nd Gillespie Meeting, by Hugo Oehler Policy Committee Proposals The Stalinist Proposal Defend the Class War Fighters- Sneevliet Under Arrest Spain Not a word from the IRA on Nin and Lacroix Indo-China For the Sending of a Workers Delegation! Kincaid Miners Trial Starts, by Hugo Oehler Evidence Proves Frame-Up League Activities- The Stalinist Shift To the Right, by Thomas Stamm Dicker with Thomas Bureaucrats Fall Out Chicago Meet Adopts Joint Protest, by Aalbert Glotzer Resolution Adopted by the Communist League of America (Opposition) Hans Pfeifer, Nathan Gould, Joe Giganti, Norval Allen and Albert Glotzer A "United Front" At Any Price, by Geo. J. Papcun Rank Stalinist Opportunism Huan Ping and Chen Du-Siu, by Robert Stalinists and the Upholsterers With the Spartacus Youth Movement- Hathaway Before Y.C.L. Membership N.Y. Youth Club Social YCL Offers United Front Notes- Semi-Monthly Youth Page in Militant Spartacus Youth Club Activities April Issue of the Young Spartacus 1,000 N.Y. Youth Protest Fascism New Expulsions in Brownsville, by J. Elliot Joint Meeting of League and Weisbord Lays Ground for Close Collaboration by C.L.A. (Opposition) Max Shachtman, J.P. Cannon and Martin Abern and for the Communist League of Struggle Albert Weisbord, Sam Fisher and Vera Burch The Morale of the Russian Proletarian Youth From Exile The Crisis in German Communism, by Arne Swabeck The Alternatives in the Decisive Class Battles (Continued from last issue) Stalinist Leaders Prevented Trend Toward Communism Socialist Bureaucrats and Stalinists Partners in Betrayal Fall of Stalinism Signals Rise of Left Opposition Three Expulsions by C.L.A. Tri-City Branch 23 Apr 15, 1933 Austria Next In Order, by Leon Trotsky Austrian Bonapartism Bonapartism and Fascism In the Austrian Crisis The Possibility of Postponement "The Struggle For Democracy" The Austro-Marxists Are Chloroforming the Proletariat Start Fund for German Left Unique Russian Films to Be Shown Convict Patterson United Mass Protest Must Save Scottsboro Boys, by Thomas Stamm American Committee Appeals for Exiled Russian Bolshevik-Leninists, by Leon Trotsky For the Opposition! Form American Section of the International Commission Genuine United Front for Mooney Formed by the St. Louis Workers Moscow Trial Starts Roosevelt Reforestation Swindle, by Carl Cowl Homeless Still Homeless Illinois Hunger March Smashed, by Joe Angelo League Activities- Hundreds at Toronto Meeting, by M.Q. Greek L.O. in Elections A Stalinist United Front in 'Frisco, by L. Green Voices From Germany The Condition of the Party After the Fascist Victory From the Berlin District (March 10) From the Palitinate From the Brandenburg District (Berlin) On the Trade Union Policy of the Party Hamburg Statement of the Communist League of America (Left Opposition) on the Hunger March to Springfield, by Hunger March Fraction, C.L.A., S.Y.C. A Disastrous Policy In the Furniture Workers Union, by Sol Lankin Neumann Is New Leader For the United Front of Defense Against Hitlerism, by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Irreconcilable Character of the Social Democratic and the Communist Parties Democracy and Dictatorship There Is No Other Road The German Bourgeoisie Will Have the Revolution in German and Not Russian What Shall We Defend? As To Freedom of the Press The Mooney United Front--the Negotiations Must Be Conducted Publicly, by Thomas Stamm An Interview With Leon Trotsky, B.J. Field interviewer Answer Given to Views Of Louis Fischer Lenin and Socialism In One Country The Chicago May Day Conference, by Irving Bern 24 Apr 29, 1933 Unite on May 1st Against World Reaction Workers Must Join Forces in Big Demonstration Despite Sabotage of Socialist Party Leaders Left Opposition Must Lead Red Baiting in Illinois by, James P. Cannon The P.M.A. Under Fire The Enemy's Aim The Present Course of the P.M.A. leadership Why We Missed an Issue Russian Movie; May 6, 8 p.m. Labor Temple Inflation Bill Deceptive, by B.J. Field Roosevelt Retreats before Petty Bourgeois Pressure and Threatens Workers' Standard with New Measures Inflation?--Rather Deflation! The Daily Worker and Inflation Fascist Terror Rages Against German Masses, by Arne Swabeck Workers Under Bestial Torture S.P. Sabotages Mooney Struggle, by Thomas Stamm S.P. Splits Mooney Fight The Committee's Statement on S.P. Scottsboro March On Capital, by Thomas Stamm The March to Washington The Scottsboro Bill The S.P. and A.F. of L. and the Negroes League Activities- League in Action in Philadelphia The Anti-Nazi Demonstrations in Philadelphia, by L.R. Stalinist Opportunism In Mpls. Elections, by C. Forsen The S.P.'s Continental Congress, by Albert Glotzer Communists Must Break Thru "Closed Door" Policy Growing Mood of Struggle Aim of Conference New Sub Drive The German Campaign Club Plan Subs Alteration Painters United Front, by William Kitt I.L.D. Refuses Aid to Greek Worker, by Esther Field Some Fundamental Aspects of the Present Crisis in Germany, by Sam Gordon Social Democracy Passive Before Menace of Austrian Fascism Austria Is Next in Order, by Leon Trotsky Bonapartism and Fascism In the Austrian Crisis (Continued from last issue) The General Strike Today, The Key to the Situation In the Hands of the Austrian Proletariat Leon Trotsky on Hitler, by Leon Trotsky Reprint of Article in Manchester Guardian A Desperate People Prediction Hitler's Difficulties Voices From Germany (Extracted from a series of letters received from Germany) Volkseitung Salesmen May 25 May 6, 1933 L.O. Scores at Chicago Mooney Congress 39 Delegates Representing 45,000 Workers in Solid Left Opposition Bloc. Makes Pressure Felt on Policy and Resolutions Cannon Elected on Permanent National Com. Progressive Miners Decisive Mass Support of Marxist Wing The Collapse of the C.P.G. and the Opposition's Tasks The German Workers Will Rise Again; Stalinism Never! C.I. at Crossroads-- International Proletarian Revolution or Extinction A United Front Now? The Isolation of the Apparatus The Argument of the "International Scale" Solve the Contradiction! C.I. Retraces Steps, by Sam Gordon May 1 Manifesto Returns to "United Front From Below" "Now...Not Negotiations" What Will Be the Consequences? What the Serious Communist Workers Will Say "New Deal" Diplomacy, by B.J. Field Washington Parleys Prepare New World Conflict Basic Conflict: Anglo-American Interests Martial Law Reigns in Farm Area; Prepare for National Grain Strike The "Daily Worker" and the Defense of the Russian Bolshevik Leninists, by B.J. Field Shaw and Stalin, by D. Bellows May Day Throughout the World Wage Cuts for Beet Workers, by George J. Saul 26 May 13, 1933 In the Illinois Minefields, by Hugo Oehler Prospects of Development of the progressive Miners The Tendencies in the Union and the Tasks Facing It Tendencies in P.M.A. P.M.A. and Unemployment The Situation in Franklin County Tasks for Next Period Red Baiting Campaign Smash the Circle of Debt! Chicago United Front Symposium National Mooney Meet Lays Basis for Broad Fight, by Albert Glotzer First Genuine National United Front Gathering of American Workers in Recent Times Marks Progress The Tendencies in Communist Movement Clearly Revealed in Clash on Policies and Resolutions; Left Opposition Defends Marxist Position Congress Elects National Council of Action; Left Opposition Among Many Groups Represented. Highlight of Meet--Clash Between Stalinists and L.O. on "Non Aggression" Clause of Main Resolution Election of Resolution Committee The Third Day of the Congress The Reports of the Resolution Committee Glotzer Replies to the Critics of the Minority Report Voting on the Resolutions Congress Sidelights, by Hugo Oehler Political Notes on Incidents at the Chicago Sessions Progressive Miners of America The United Front Scott and Goldman Political Forces The Resolution The C.I. May Day Bombshell The Scottsb'ro March, by Glee-Ross "New Deal" President Ignores Protests of Marchers Capacity Crowd Hails Russian Movie; Second Showing Saturday, May 27 Rockefeller Vandals Threaten Rivera Frescoes 30 Hour Bill Legalizes Stagger System and Furthers Plan for New Wage Cuts, by Thomas Stamm A Quick Turn in Policy on Part of the Stalinists Opposition to Bill The Seven Hour Day The Foltis Fisher Strike, by J.G. Lessons of Stalinist Blunder Policy in the F.W.I.U. Falling into a Trap "Under the Leadership of General O'Ryan" Young Workers Revolt Against "New Deal" The Designs Behind the Four Power Pact, by H.E. Nazi-Fascist Diplomacy and the U.S.S.R. Sub Drive "Counter Revolutionary"! Collapse of the C.P.G. and Our Tasks, by Leon Trotsky New Party is Only Marxian Policy (Continued from last issue) "The Party Dead--The Organization Alive?" No Illusions! Labor Writhes Under Nazi Whip, by Arne Swabeck Fascists Attack in the Guise of "Defense" Fascist Strategy in Name of "Defense" Huan Ping Betrays Chinese Party; Chen Du Siu Fights Kuomintang in Jail Archio-Marxists Wage Independent Struggle in Greece, by A. Caldis Chaco War Formally Declared 27 May 20, 1933 America Intervenes in European Conflict by, Sam Gordon Hitler Dances to Roosevelt's Tune, Orgy of "Peace" Talk Prepares New Slaughter and Attack on the U.S.S.R.! Mobilize for Defense of the Workers Fatherland Hitler and the Mussolini Pact Two Expelled by Stalinists from Y.C.L., by Gladstone Heroic Sacrifices Mark P.M.A. Resistance to Operators' Onslaught, by W.M. Murdered Wounded by Bayonets Wounded by Machine Gun and Revolver Slugged 5.000 Walk Out In Philadelphia Dress Strike, by Leon Goodman Boston Also On Strike Broad United Front to Preserve Rivera Murals, by B.J. Field The Committee's Resolution Irving Plaza Mass Meeting United Front at Columbus Circle Meeting Help Pull The Militant Thru Organize Fight Against Mass Evictions, by George Clarke Bulletin N.Y. Conference Against Evictions and Relief Cuts Kameneve Capitulates Again Cannon Meetings Are Big Factor in Reviving Movement in Kansas City, by C.D. Move to Unify Unemployed in Ohio, by N. Chicago Meet Unifies Jobless Movement, by Hugo Oehler National Federation Formed. Socialists Forced to Include All Communist Tendencies in Conference. Left Wing Carries Program After Hard Struggle Huge Representation The Left Opposition's Objectives The Floor Struggles The Committee on Program and Policies A Big Step Forward League Activities- Opposition and Unemployed in Los Angeles, by C. Curtiss Activity of the Left Opposition Organization Notes- Big Crowd Attends Successful Affair of Int'l Workers' School, by B.J. Field Main Resolution Outlines Broad Program of Action in Fight to Free Tom Mooney Adopted at the "Free Tom Mooney Congress" Held in Chicago, April 30-May 2 Call for "Council of Representatives of Various Organizations with Different Views" Disunity in the Past A Call for Unity National Council of Action Motions Presented by Left Opposition at Chicago Heckert "Explains" the Debate, by H.E. The Stalinist Hypocrites Answer the Roll Call "Fascism Victorious ... and the C.I. Correct" Heckert and His Straw Men Labor Writhes Under Nazi Whip Workers' Leaders Lacked Strategy Against Fascists (Continued from last issue) The Party in the Industries Elections to the Factory Councils The Party and the Factory Councils Sub Drive L.O. Meetings in Kansas City, by S. Declaration of the Internat'l Left Opposition To the World Anti-Fascist Congress to Be Held in Copenhagen, June 17th For the Congress of Struggle Against Fascism Social Democratic Leaders Lick Hitler's Boots First 4 Congresses of C.I. Vindicated by Events Blunders of Stalinist Have Shipwrecked Revolutions No Accidental Errors But an Erroneous System L.O. Analysis of Fascism in Autumn, 1929 Stalinist Bureaucracy Takes Path of Sabotage Surrender Criticism but Retain "Social Fascism" Fascism Built on Lies; Communism on Truth No Miracles; Only Workers Can Defeat Fascism Congress Again Colored by Intelligentsia Amsterdam Congress Miserable Failure Proposals of International Left Opposition Austrian Workers Must Take Offensive Sound the Alarm: Soviet Russia in Danger! 28 May 27, 1933 Problems of the Soviet Regime, by Leon Trotsky The Degeneration of Theory and the Theory of Degeneration The Withering of the State Political Regime of the Dictatorship and Its Social Foundation Sub Drive National Youth Day: Fight Against War! Youth Must Break Through Sabotage of Socialism and Sectarianism of Stalinists--In United Struggle Against War. All Out on May 30th! Young Workers, to the Fore! Second Showing of Russian Movie Protest Admission of Hitler Agent on American Soil Hundreds of Workers Jeer Nazi Envoy in Solidarity With German Workers Mooney Acquitted; Evidence Muzzled California Boss Class Exposes Its Own Frame-Up By Action at the Trial. Final Mass Effort Needed to Free Tom Mooney. New York Conference on June 18th Workers Must Unite in Fight on Roosevelt Program, by B.J. Field Administration Measures Mean to Forestall Militant Labor Struggle Revolt Gathers Against Machado Regime in Cuba, by Rosalio Negrete Wave of Militant Struggles Sweeps Needle Trades, by S. Bleeker Needle Trades Struggles Why the Stalinists Have Been Caught Unawares Needle Workers are Asserting Themselves NTWIU Vacillating and Stalling L.O. Addresses Party on Elections in Minneapolis, by C.L.A. (Left Opposition) L.O. & Stalinists in Toronto, by C.N.K. The Two Faced Policy of the Centrist Bureaucrats Attack on Furriers' Union Police, Bosses & A.F.L. in Onslaught on Left Wing League Activities- Unemployed Struggle in Youngstown, by H.N. Muste and Brookwood by, S.M. Davis A Review of A Type of "American" Centrism Miller and Muste Oil the Machinery Statement of Jobless Leaders Statement of the National Comm. of the National Federation of Unemployed Workers Leagues Main Resolution Outlines Broad Program of Action in Fight to Free Tom Mooney Adopted at the "Free Tom Mooney Congress" Held in Chicago, April 30-May 2 Calls for "Council of Representatives of Various Organizations with Different Views" (Continued from last issue) Conditions of Affiliations Mooney Petition Local Councils of Action Mooney Day and Another Congress Related Issues A Call to Mass Action Hail Red Flag! Letters from Germany Reveal Truth on Conditions in Labor Ranks Letter from the Rhine and Ruhr Letter from comrade W. in S., by W. Letter from R. About Our Work, by P.K. Letter of Comrade Herta from S. Left Opposition Overcomes Obstacle Strengthens Organization in China With the "Left" Socialists -- from the Top? by Joseph Carter Labor Writhes Under Nazi Whip, by Arne Swabeck The Fascists and the Trade Unions (Continued from last issue) The Fascists and the Trade Unions The Fatal Policy of the R.G.O. Heckert "Explains" the Debacle, by H.E. The Stalinist Hypocrites Answer the Role Call (Continued from last issue) The "Hitler-Trotskyist" United Front and the C.I. March 5th Proclamation Was the Party Prepared? A Few Things to Explain Discussion on Tasks in Germany Resolution of the N.C. of the German Opposition Important Correction June 29 Jun 3, 1933 Problems of the United Front, by Martin Abern The Jobless Movement and Political Parties The Reactionary Character of the Lovestone Policy Among the Jobless Basic Requirements The False Views of the Lovestoneites The Communist Position Stalinist Errors Right Wing Move to Expel Militants from the P.M.A., by Hugo Oehler Right Wing and Stalinists in PMA Lessons of May Day in Austria, by Leon Trotsky "New Deal" Fakers Push Inquiry into Bankers' Deals, by G.G. On the Morgan "Inquiry" Nazis, Poles Plot Attack on USSR, by Sam Gordon Danger of Imperialist Intervention Imminent. Western Powers Haggle Over Vantage Points in Coming Anti-Soviet War Japan Cinches Position with the Help of the Kuomintang and War Lords Organize Australian Opposition "From Below" in the Office Organize the Opposition The Meaning of the Farm Revolt, by B.J. Field Aim of the Agrarian Revolts Perspectives for Agriculture Stalinist Diplomacy Leaves Trail of Treachery for International Proletariat, by H.E. Stalinist Diplomacy and Marxian Fundamentals Reactionary Policy and Practical Dangers Nationalist Foreign Policy--A Logical Consequence Stalinist Diplomacy in the Far East Young Spartacus Out New York Branch to Hold Picnic for Benefit of Press & Illinois Campaign League Activities- Chicago Branch in "Militant" Drive, by R.S. Greek Stalinists Exclude Protomagia, by J. Bananos N.Y. Youth March Against War Street Meetings Book Review (Russia and Germany at Brest Litovsk) Muste & Brookwood, by S.M. Davis Musteite Quits, by H.N. Draft Program Wanted Statement of Chicago Branch to National Jobless Meet, by Chicago Branch C.L.A. (Left Opposition) Trotsky to the Austrian S.D. Opposition, by Leon Trotsky A Reply to Some Concrete Questions Sub Drive Are You a Subscriber to the Militant? Litvinov and -- Herriot German Labor Writhes Under the Whip of the Fascists, by Arne Swabeck (Continued from last issue) The New Turn Lessons of Some Practical Experiences What is to be Done Now? Problems of the Soviet Regime, by Leon Trotsky The Degeneration of Theory and the Theory of Degeneration (Continued from last issue) Official Explanation of Bureaucratic Terror Class Enemy Powerless--Why the Repression? The Withering Away of Money and the Withering Away of the State Money Socialized Under Planned Economy The Official Theory of Inflation A Purely Bureaucratic Economy Stalinist System Exhausted I.L.D. District Workers Meet, by F. 30 Jun 10, 1933 Apropos the Foreign Policy of the Stalinists, by Leon Trotsky What's Happened to Rakovsky? by Leon Trotsky In Illinois P.M.A. Starts National Drive; Policies Differ, by Hugo Oehler Left Wing Puts Forward Own Policies Jobless Struggles Sharpen; Unity Need of the Hour, by C.L.A. (Left Opposition) New York Branch Demonstrations in New York End in Alarming Disunity Relief for the Unemployed N.Y. Anti-Eviction Conference, by G.C. Party Adopts Slogan of Long Term Credits to SU Lovestonites & Socialists Sabotage United Front Winter's Report The Delegate from the L.O. Speaks Minor Intervenes for the Official Party Finally-the Stalinists for Soviet Credits! Hitler Plans to Kill Reds Communist Leaders Face Death on Arson Frame-Up Assassinate Seven P.M.A. Militants on Picket Line Borders Loses in Split by Hugo Oehler Majority of Group Refuses to Quit Jobless Federation Group Firm for Unity Chen Du Siu Sentenced to Thirteen Years, by A. Join the Anti-Fascist Rally Today! Jobless Force Relief in L.A., by S.M. Rose Committee Arrested Demand Continuation of Hearing Democracy in Illinois League Activities- A Calendar of Effective Action, by C. Forsen T.U.U.C. Attacks Left Wing in the Furniture Union, by Sol Lankin and Carl Cowl Call Proposal "General Strike" Militant Attacked A Postscript on Amter Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Class in "Capital" A Fighting Farmer Subscribes: Are You a Subscriber? by A. A Letter From So. Dakota Among the Youth- An Open Letter to the N.Y.D. Committee, by Perry Meyers National Youth Day in Perth Amboy, by Sam Fisher Letters from the Nazi Inferno The Truth About Conditions in the Labor Movement Letter from Rhineland Letter from the South West Letter from Thuringia Letter from Hamburg On Zinoviev and Kamenev, by L.T. The British I.L.P. Turns Leftward, by Joseph Carter Realignments in the Camp of English Reformism The Discussion on Germany Resolution of Left Opposition Youth Group of Southeast Berlin on the Question of the New Party Good Response to Appeal, by B.J. Field, Secretary Another Word About Heckert's Apologetics, by A.B. South America Groups of I.L.O. Mark Advance Chili, by DEVINE (Chile is misspelled in the headline) ` Brazil Cuba Strikes Spread in Many Parts of U.S.A., by W.M. 31 June 17, 1933 The "New Deal" in Practice, by H. Stone Industrial Recovery Bill Hits at Workers' Standards What the Act Consists of? The Origin of the Bill Provisions How is the Working Class Affected The Anti-Fascist Congress to Meet in Paris Soon Plot Pogrom on L.O. at Anti-Fascist Meet Didn't Hitler Triumph? Campaign of Slander and Provocation Against the International Left Opposition What About Copenhagen? Role of L.O. at the Congress Opportunists in Bloc vs. Lefts at 4th Gillespie Conference, by Martin Payer A Bit of Sleight-of-Hand Course of Action Adopted Oehler Gets the Floor Despite Stalinists Summing Up the Discussion Class War Rages In Mine Area of Illinois Trotsky Proposes U.S.-Soviet Trade Accord As London Meet Lags Interview Stresses Inevitable Failure of World Economic Conference and Calls for A Realistic Plan of Business Collaboration Between the Two Countries C.C.N.Y. Students Expelled for Fight Against War, by K.D. The Senate Inquiry Exposed, by B.J. Field The Banking Investigation Itself is the Biggest Scandal What Did Morgan Reveal? What Can the Senate Comm. Do? The Van Sweringen Deals The Reals Abuses Are Left Untouched (Sic "Reals" should be "Real") Nazi-Austrian Tension Brings Sharp Clashes, by Sam Gordon Chilean Opposition Organized by The Central Committee of the Communist Left (Chilean Section of the International Communist Left Opp.) Delegations Represented Appeal for Unification Leon Goodman Arrested in Phila., by G. Roberts Subs From the Militants- I.L.D. Expells (sic, should be "Expels" Left Oppositionist, by G. Duell How Trouble Started Cannon Meetings in Minneapolis, by C. Forsen Subscribe to "Unser Wort" "On The Workers Front"- Burning Problems Facing the New York Dressmakers, by N.B. The Division in the Ranks Disunity Plays into the Hand of the Bosses Problems that Need a Solution A Single Strike Without a Single Organization? What Policies are Required to Fight the Bosses? A Policy to Fill the Need of the Moment The Question of a Progressive-Left Wing Bloc Perspectives of the Struggle Left Wing Fights For the Teachers Expelled by B. of E. The Union and Expulsions Administration and Left Wing Among the Youth- First Hand Account of Reforestation Swindle, by R. Young Nutpickers in Militant St. Louis Strike by, G. Roberts Erratum The Platform of the Brandler Group, by Leon Trotsky A Few Steps Forward - But No Conclusion China Receives New U.S. Loan, by H.S. New Falsifications of the Stalinists, by Alfa The Slander of Trotsky's "Judas" Role News From German C.P. Reject E.C.C.I. Resolution Expulsion at the Top Remmele Disagrees With Heckert Stalinists Furnish False Information Flowers of Stalinist Prognosis More Flowers Article Delayed 32 Jun 24, 1933 The Industrial Control Bill, by Hugo Oehler Workers Must Organize Against State Capitalism A Form of State Capitalism How the Coal Operators Take It How the Labor "Leaders" React The Workers' Answer: Class Struggle Organization Left Opposition Excluded at Anti-Fascist Congress by Sam Gordon "Daily Worker" On Congress Left Opposition Excluded! Slug Bolshevik-Leninists! Nevertheless--Our Voice is Heard! Why The Terror Against The Left Opposition A Fabric of Lies All Out to Anti-Nazi Meet on Union Square Danger Signals Flash at London Conference by B.J. Field War to Solve Crisis Nears as Contradictions Sharpen, Imperialists Wrangle Over Tariff, Prices, Markets, Hugenburg Betrays Real Plans -- to attack USSR Behind the Scenes Talk and Action--a la American Litvinoff in London A Few Pointed Questions Hugenberg's "Feeler" Ill. in Mass Action Women's Auxiliary Takes Valiant Part in Struggle Miners Women a Serious "Menace" in Southern Illinois No Race Discrimination Here 10,000 Miners in Funeral Cortege New York City to Stop All Jobless Relief S.P.G. Vote Shakes 2nd Int'l by O.R. May 17, 1933: A Comparison With Aug. 4, 1914 "Germany is Not Italy" Socialist Hopes For Mercy Shattered The S.P.G. is Dead Hitler Clashes with Hugenberg for Control, by M.G. Hold Protest Meeting in Phila., by Meyer Hirsch C. Zetkin, Veteran Red Dies at 76 P.M.A. in Perspective by Albert Glotzer A Review of the Past and Signs for the Future The "Red" Scare Why the Fight Against Lewis? The Howat Movement "Stabilization of the P.M.A. A Glaring Error On the Worker's Front Pocket Book Workers Vote for Strike by N.D.F. The Gillespie Meet by Hugo Oehler A Resolution which was Rejected and the Reason Why Thrust of Industrial Control Bill Stalinists Set Up Straw Men Resolution on the Industrial Control Bill introduced by delegate Hugo Oehler Admission of Capitalist Bankruptcy Subsidy to Decayed System "Law an' Order" in Illinois Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Sugar Coated Misery Teachers Union and the Fight Against Wage Cuts Policy of the Administration The Joint Salary Committee New Salary Cuts Impending The Banning of the Austrian C.P. Dollfus Strikes an Ominous Blow against the Austrian Proletariat Importance of Foreign Traffic Workers Passive in Banning of C.P.A. Austrian Stalinists in Dregs of Bureaucratic Stupidity C.P.A. Comes to Infamous End The End of Austro-Marxism by Austriacus A Review of the Past That Helps to Understand the Present And the Austrian Social Democracy Its True Face Collusion With Hapsburg Versailles Revisionism Engenders New Social Chauvinist Wave by H. Lenorovics Workers Against All Capitalist Wars Social Democrats Carries Patriotic Banner July 33 Jul 1, 1933 Workers Slave for Pennies in Penna. Sweat Shops Stalinists Break Up League Meeting in N.Y., by M. Glee Return to Narrow Basis at N.Y. Mooney "United Front" Confab Narrow Down N.Y. Free Tom Mooney Meet, by M. Geldman The Paris Anti-Fascist Congress...An Anti-Trotskyite Slugfest (From La Verite, organ of the French Left Opposition) Empty Parade is a Complete Failure Left Opposition Delegates Beaten The European Anti-Fascist Congress...An Anti-Trotskyist Slug Fest of the Stalinists "Let these Gentlemen Hold the Congress in Peace"--Say the Police to the L.O. Protest Delegates Long Live the Proletarian Revolution! Down With Fascism! Long Live Trotsky! Free Rakovsky! The Congress Utilized by French Imperialism Soviet Workers Excluded from the "European" Congress The Marxist Wing Excluded from the Congress--the Preparation The Explanation of the Organization Bureau "Organization Bureau of the Convocation of the European Workers Anti-Fascist Congress" Bureaucratic Sifting Bureaucratic Measures Breed Arbitrariness The Congress Begins Two Regimes, the Detectives and the "Trotskyites": Example of the Press Cards Welcome to the Delegates First Day in the Hall of the "Congress" The Parade Ends In the Future We Will Speak to You with a Revolver Young Socialists Protest Bergery Prepares the Break Last Day of the Parade Unanimity at Any Cost Results of the Masquerade Stalinists Expel 3 L.O. Youth, by George Ray The Textile Code Shows Real Face of the "New Deal," by H.S. Roosevelt Program Long-Range Plan to Stabilize U.S. Capitalism On the Backs of the Workers, by B.J. Field. Situation of American Imperialism in World Economy Forces "New Deal" Demagogues to Reverse Historic Policy-at Expense of Agriculture and the Proletariat. Program Disguised to Enlist Support of Toiling Masses. What the Government Accomplished The Long Range Perspective of U.S. Capitalism Roosevelt Contribution to Capitalist Technique The Mobilization of Public Opinion A Period of Drastic Readjustments Scottsboro Decision Reversed, by W.M. Furniture Union Accepts Left Wing Proposals, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin Spartacus Club Lectures The Columbus Meet and Muste's Labor Party, by N. On the Workers' Front- Militant Strikes on West Coast Milliners in Militant Strike, by C.C. Bosses Lockout Pocketbook Workers, by N.D.F. The Teachers Union and the Fight for Union Democracy (Continued from last week) Disloyalty Democratic Rights Violated The Special Grievance Committee The Delegate Assembly Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Discussion of the German Tasks, by G.G. A Reply to the N.C. of the German Opposition L.O. Representative Denounces Fascism in the Chilean Parliament A View of the Labor Scene in the British Isles Today, by T.C. The End of Austro-Marxism, by Austriacus (From "Unser Wort") A Review of the Past That Helps to Understand the Present (Continued from last issue) The Dream is Punctured, But.... The Rise of Fascism, Unnoticed.... The Incident of July 15, 1927 Stalinism Weakens the U.S.S.R., by Simmons If the Workers Triumphed Defeats Bring Reaction Even Dollfus Can Put One Over... The Left Wing in the Trade 34 Jul 8, 1933 C.I. Impotence Veils Itself with Parliamentary Cretinism, by Leon Trotsky Archbishop Benjamin "Blesses" U.S.S.R. FSU Leaders Thank Wrangel Priest, by J. Kamiat Nazis' Labor Front in Action Workers Get Big Wage Cuts; Look for Leadership How the Fascist Technique Works On Trotsky's Return to the S.U.--Rumor and Fact Lay Basis for Real Federation of Jobless in Ohio, by N. Part of Left Opposition German Oppositionist Condemned to 5 Years by the Fascists The Social Democratic Party of Germany Decomposes An Open Letter to the Communist Party, U.S.A., from N.Y. branch, C.L.A. (Opposition.) C.P. Expels A. Goldman, by Albert Goldman Prominent I.L.D. Attorney Answers Party Charges The Statement of Comrade Goldman Distortions of Fact Wilful Misrepresentations (sic, should be "Willful") America Cracks Whip at London. Ruthless Policy Splits Confab, by B.J. Field Lays Down Law to Rivals -- Hands Off the U.S. "Domestic" Problems First, "International" Questions Later. Roosevelt Ends "Stabilization" Plans Pocketbook Strikers Win Demands from Morris White Co. in Struggle, by N.D.F. Among the Youth- Break United Front at Chicago Anti-Fascist Meet, by Maximillian Spartacus Speaker Chosen by Conference Stalinist Disruption A Resolution of the Int'l Left Opposition (Declaration of the International Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninist) to the Youth Conference at Paris.) Lessons of the Leninist United Front Tactic, by Hugo Oehler The United Action of the Working Class The Workers Front- Military Strike Progress in Los Angeles Is the Recovery Act a Fascist Measure Right Wing Excludes Left at Strike Conference of Boston Bakers Only Right Wing Seated Ford Real United Front A Delegate's View of the I.W.O. Convention, by C-o The Chicago Convention Col. Robins on 1918 and 1933 The Two Sides of USSR Recognition by the U.S., by Hugo Oehler On "The Fourth of August" The Limits of Historical Analogy. A Reply to Some Objections, by Leon Trotsky British Group Leaves I.L.P. Statement Supports L.O., by T. Kernot, P. Solomons, J. Sainsbury and M. Gibbs To All Comrades of the I.L.P. The Theory of Socialism in One Country The United Front from Below The Amsterdam Anti-War Congress Determination of the Policy A Letter from a Worker in E. St. Louis, by Joe Carter Browder Criticises John Reed -- for Trotskyism, (sic, should be "criticizes") by W.M.K. Sharpening Contradictions of Fascism Increase Danger to S.U. (Continued from last issue) Foreign Interests in Germany Against Versailles Only Avenue of Escape for Capitalism, by Simmons Austro-Marxism Retreats... A Record of Passivity Before the Advance of Bonapartism Freedom of Press and Assembly Destroyed Streets Are Made Free....For Reaction Fascism Receives Arms 26 Years of Austrian Trade Union Works Are Destroyed Inside of 24 Hours Strikes Are Prohibited Prayers Are Ordered Against the Constitution Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Perspectives for American Labor Comrade Millicent Shooter (Obituary) 35 Jul 15,1933 Industrial Recovery Act Prepares New Capitalist Crisis in Near Future by B.J. Field Save Chen Du Siu from White Terror! Plan to End Relief in N.Y., by Sam Gordon Minor to the Board of Estimate; "Now Comrades...." Columbus Unemployed Confab Forms Dual National Organization National Convention Hold Anti-Fascist Strike in Toronto C.P. Holds Extraordinary Conference To Whitewash Bureaucrats' Failure, by Hugo Oehler A Letter from Fascist Germany Stalinists in Bloc with Musteites at Columbus Meet, Retard Progress, by Hugo Oehler The United Front from Above The Political Tendencies The Musteites The Socialists The Stalinists The Right Wing The Free Lancers The Lovestoneites Left Opposition Delegates The National Federation of Unemployed Pocketbook Workers Struggle by N.F.D. Perspectives for American Class Struggles, by Simmons (Continued from last issue) N.Y. Doll Workers Win Demands in Strike, by A.R. What Stalinism Said about Democracy and Fascism What the Left Opposition Said about Democracy and Fascism Leninism versus Stalinism, by Leon Trotsky Foreword Lessons of the Leninist United Front Tactic, by Hugo Oehler Against United Front from Above Against the United Front from Below The Relation of the United Front from Above and Below United Fronts and Individuals "Guarantee" Leadership of the United Front Letter from Party Member Exposes Bureaucracy, by E.R. The Bulletin of the Russian L.O. Needs Your Aid Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolsheviks-Leninists) To Readers Who Are Adherents and to Readers Who Are Sympathizers! Spartacus Youth Club in Over-Night Hike After the German Catastrophe, by Leon Trotsky An Historical Evaluation of the Events The Labor Movement in Greece (from "La Verite") Economic and Political Acts of Capitalism and the Working Class The Communist Party The Left Opposition Subscribe to "Unser Wort" News from Workers in Naziland Letter From Hamburg About the "Revolutionary" Storm Troopers The S.P.G. Last Whimpers from Scheiderman by P.M. Historical Objectiveness.., by Leon Trotsky From China 36 Jul 22, 1933 Fighting the "Recovery" Act, by Hugo Oehler Cleveland Conference Against the N.I.R.A. Cleveland Meet to Take Up Fight on "Recovery" Miners Protest Vigorously Against Right Wing's Removal of Allard from P.M.A. Post Fascists Kill Young Worker in Astoria L.I. Nazis Launch New Atrocity Campaign Against Workers Trotsky Greets "Red Flag", British Organ of L.O., by Leon Trotsky Bonapartist Government Robs Labor of Long-Standing Rights in Austria Schlager Indignant A Sterile Protest Hitler Prepares "Suicides" for Comrade Torgler and the Bulgarian Communists How Nazi "Pacifism" Looks in Practice Spartacus Delegates Raise Internat'l Issues at Youth Anti-Fascist Meet Statement of the Spartacus Youth Club, N.Y. (Communist Left Opposition) to Youth Congress Against War and Fascism--New York, July 16th, 1933 Struggle for Workers' Rights Scores Victory in Los Angeles Britt Smith, one of the Last Two Centralia Prisoners Paroled Slavery Provisions Exposed in Code for Steel Industry, by Peter Morton Publicity to Steel Baron's "Generosity" The Right to Organize Even the Children Are Protected Left Opposition Active in Toronto Anti-Nazi Meet, by Q. L.O. Slogans in Parade The Columbus Conference, by Norman Satir The Background of the Unemployed Movement Unemployed Councils Decompose Need of Unity The Chicago Conference Left Wing Scores Victory Quantity Becomes Quality Lessons of the Leninist United Front Tactic (Continued from last issue) Another So-Called United Front The United Front as a Maneuver Non-Aggression Pacts Ohio State Jobless Confab, by N. Flag Waving Patriots-Muste's Supporters Ohio Convention Exposes Reaction in Muste Built Leagues Declaration of L.O. at Columbus Conference, by Unemployed Organization Fraction, C.L.A. (Left Opposition) To All Delegates to the National Unemployment Conference Hathaway Speaks on United Front in Brownsville Stalinist Slugger Beats Left Oppositionist The Death of Com. Klara Zetkin, by Max Shachtman A Historical Appreciation of the Great Woman Revolutionist Klara Zetkin--Women's Leader Opposed the Social Patriots Sympathetic to L.O. at Start Silent on Slander of Luxemburg Paralysis of Stalinist Degradation Whither the Y.P.S.L. Insurgents? by G.M. Albert The Expelled Chicago S.P. Youth and the Three Communist Currents The Legend of the "Red Nazi" (From User Wort) Conflict in S.A, Ranks Expected Mussolini Also Shot Adherents No Faith in S.A. Mutinies On the Expulsion of Wollenberg Great Indignation over Expulsion Conflict With Thaelmann A Correction, by J.G.W. (Relates to the mistranslation of a passage from "Historical Objectiveness" by Leon Trotsky) Subscribe to "Unser Wort" The Party in the Field of Art and Philosophy, by Leon Trotsky A Reply to the American Comrades Martin Glee, Harry Ross and M. Morris Lovestone's "Quotations" 37 Jul 29, 1933 Around the "Recovery" How the Boss Class Receives the N.I.R.A., by B.J. Field Wave of "Recovery" Strikes! Reading Hosiery Workers Hollywood Movie Workers Meat Packers in Omaha Uniform Makers in N.J. Pocketbook Workers Win Conditions, by N.D.F. Roosevelt's Radio Speech Asks for Class "Peace," by Sam Gordon Organize Strike Among Mirror Makers New Boss Attacks in Britain, by Joe Carter British Capitalist Class Prepares New Attacks on Workers Militant Strikes Mark Beginning of Workess' Resistance (sic, should be "Workers'") Unemployed Conscripted Cowardly Document of Labor Party Series of Strikes Bureaucrats Restrain Struggle Rebellion in Transport Workers Union Gen'l Strike in Furniture Trade of N.Y. Furniture Workers in General Strike Left Wing Joins Strike C.P. Versus the Union Left Wing "Defeated" St. Louis-Hotbed of Strikes, by Ralph Martin Shoe Workers Rebel in Strike Without "Leaders" St. Louis Shaken by Strike Movement The Shoe Strike A Rebellion in the Union The N.I.R.A. - Summed Up, by Hugo Oehler Lessons of the United Front Political Factions Within an Organization Is It Proper to Break a United Front? Compromise Leaders and Leaders From the Militants- I.L.D. Expels 3 Workers in Minneapolis, by J. Ross, M.B. Dunne and Celia Cazanov A Militant Writes From Glasgow, Scotland, by M. Ohio Jobless United, by N. L.O. Members in Eviction Protest July Issue of Young Spartacus Ready The Columbus Conference, by Norman Satir (Continued from last issue) The Stalinist-Muste Bloc at the Unemployed Gathering The Stalinist-Muste Bloc The National Conference Moissaye Olgin as a "Historian," by Joseph Carter On Some of His Recent "Criticism" on Trotsky's History Statement on Funds Collected for German L.O. Income Recapitulation For a Social Democratic Gov't in Belgium - Why? A Letter from Moscow U.S.S.R. Every Day Conditions in the Life of a Russian Worker G. Zinoviev on the Party Regime, by G. Zinoviev A Letter That Doesn't Jibe With His Latest Recantation All Out on the Picket Line, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin On Some Misconceptions of Fascism and State Capitalism, by Simmons August 38 Aug 5, 1933 Foreign Developments After the Collapse of the London Confab, by B.J. Field Economic Trends in the U.S. France and the Crisis USSR Accorded Recognition by the Spanish Gov't. Hitler Executes Four Altona Communists N.Y. Upholsterers Strike Spreads to New Shops, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin What About the Industrial Union? Win the Strike, Beat the Bosses! 35,000 Mine Workers Strike For Right of Union Recognition, by Arne Swabeck Test of Recovery Act Conditions in Fayette Coke Region What Does this Strike Indicate? Dissension in French S.P. Right Wing Actual Victors -- "Left" Compromises (From "La Verite") Leon Trotsky Moves From Turkey to France Background of the New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Crisis Creates New Conditions Capitalist Economy Reorganized Concentration of Capital Higher Living Standards an Illusion Japan Provokes the Soviets Criminal Stalinist Policies Weaken Soviet Resistance Provocations by Japan Strike Wave in China The Economic Situation in China Today Starvation Rampant Lessons of the United Front, by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) The Frame Work of the United Front The Reformist Refusal of Acceptance of the United Front Calling the United Front United Fronts That Exclude Communists or Have the Wrong Programe (sic, should be "Program") The Form of the United Front Plans and Propaganda Immediate Demands and Ultimate Demands League Activities- A Report from the Middle West, by George J. Papcun Muscatine Des Moines Council Bluffs Omaha Lincoln, and Sioux City General Conditions Opportunism in N.Y. Food Union Banks in "Support" of N.I.R.A. Latest Developments in the Textile Industry, by Hugo Oehler In the Party- Lydia Beidel Expelled from Chicago Dist. Bosses Propose Starving Schools, By Thomas Stamm The Left Socialists and Our Tasks Our Attitude Towards the Independent Left Socialirt Tendencies, (sic, should be "Socialist") by G. Gourov Hitler Orders: "Butter for People" (From "Under Wort") How the Economic Side of the Fascist Regime Works Out in Practice Margarine or Butter--Question of Taste or Qpestion of Wages? (sic, should be "Question") The New Measures The Government Needs Scape-Goats National Recovery Act to Throw New Burdens on U.S. Proletariat, by Joseph S. Giganti New Burdens for Workers in NIRA Toronto Workers in Anti-Fascist Strike, by B.B. Sabotage of the A.C.W. Leaders Stalinist Stupidity Results of Strike Los Angeles Unemployed Movement, by M. Rose First Steps in Organization Class Collaboration vs. Mass Pressure 39 Aug 12. 1933 Civil War Shakes Cuba; U.S. Ready to Intervene, by R.N. Mass Murder Behind the "Arbitration" Current Policy Decisive Bulletin Perspectives of the Upturn, by Leon Trotsky A Marxian Analysis of Business Cycles A. F. of L. Leaders Sanction N.R.A. No Strike Policy! U.S. Anti-War Congress, by Joseph Carter Socialists Back Out of Anti-War Congress Socialists Withdraw from Arrangements Committee Double Game of Stalinists Meaning of Non-Aggression Pact Labor's Mighty Challenge Challenge to Capitalism Challenge to Official C.P. N.R.A. and the Trade Unions, by Arne Swabeck Question of Policy is Decisive in the Present Stage Roosevelt's National Police, by Peter Morton France Friend of USSR--Litvinov (From "La Verite") Jackal Press Howls at Trotsky Lessons of the United Front (Continued from last issue) Behind Closed Doors The Capitalists and Their Office Boys Sitting at the Same Table With Betrayers Parliamentary and Extra-Parliamentary Activity The Question of Unity and Principal Differences Pinchot and Labor, by Thomas Stamm New Bourgeois Methods in Pennsylvania Strikes The Archbishop Benjamin Again, by Thomas Stamm Letters from Fascist Germany No Abatement in Terror, Workers Feel Effect of Party Failure From the Lower Rhineland Beginning of July 1933 From Saxony Powerful Anti-Fascist Front in Chile A Delegate Visits the Soviet Union (From "Unser Wort") Outstanding Impression is Poverty of People and Long Queus Pessimism and Tiredness Poverty on Sidewalks No Admittance Special Sub Offer Support the Club Plan Four Half Year Subs for Two Dollars Correction (Mistranslation in article by G.Gourov on "Left Socialists and Our Tasks") Strikes Spreading in Massachusets Shoe Industry, by W. (sic, should be "Massachusetts") Many Unions T.U.U.L. Union Left Wing Isolates Itself Prospects of Many Strikes From the Militants, by C.C. Labor Shows Militancy in Los Angeles Conflicts "Clear the Streets" General Strike Needed Agricultural Workers Strike T.U.U.L. Outwitted Hollywood Film Strike The Strikes and the Left Wing An Example of the New Deal in Operation, by Stuart Hoax of Employment 300 Workers Laid Off Youth Class in Boston A. F. of L. Federal Unions Why They All Climb on N.R.A. Bandwagon American Imperialism Preparing Offensive Upon World Markets, by B.J. Field Roosevelt Consolidates Capital The Importance of the 6 Hour Day Slogan Under the N.I.R.A., by Thomas Stamm Threaten Deportation of Penn. Militant The Suicide of N. Skrypnik A Striking Revelation of the Degeneration of Stalinism Member of Stalin's Private Faction What is the Explanation? Machine Devours Creators N.Y. Upholsterers Strike Bulletin Greek Stalinists Support Bourgeois Party in Elections Development of the Los Angeles Jobless Movement and a Perspective, by M.J. Rose (Continued from last issue) Meeting the Problem of Evictions Turning on Gas and Light Lessons of the Los Angeles Experience 40 Aug 26, 1933 Fascism and Democratic Slogans, by Leon Trotsky Is it True that Hitler Has Destroyed "Democratic Prejudices?" The Example of Spain and Italy Can the Social-Democracy Regenerate Itself? The Randlerites Improve on Stalinists Protest Frame-Up Against Young Anti-Fascist Worker We Need Money! The Coal Operators' Organ Frame-Up on the Militant U.S. Imperialism Holds High Cards in Cuban Situation, by Thomas Stamm Cespedes Welcomes U.S. Warships Pre-Revolutionary Situation Cespedes' Job Clubs, Tear Gas, Riot Guns Used in Milk Strike Farmers Get It in the Neck "Striking Against the Government" J.L. Lewis Betrays Miners at Coal Hearing, by Hugo Oehler Lewis and Class Collaboration P.M.A. Capitulation and Stalinist Blunders 2 Young Negroes Slain by Lynch Law in South, by M. Glee N.Y. Dress Workers Gain as Strike Ends; One Union Needed False Policy of Stalinists Leads Left Wing Workers into Blind Alley. Reentry of Left Wing into I.L.G.W. Cannot Be Delayed. Vital for Enforcement of Settlement Internatoinal Consolidated Union (sic, should be "International) Gained 35-Hour Week One Union a Necessity Threaten Public Trial of Bolshevik-Leninists in Moscow Who Breaks the Strikes? N.Y. Furniture Strikers Repulse Manoeuvers, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin (sic, should be "Maneuvers") Furniture Strikers Defeat Maneuver Political Character of Strikes Under N.I.R.A., by Hugo Oehler L.A. Yipsel Suspended for Union Activity, by Florence Wyle Chi. Y.C.L. Bureaucrats Expel 5 Militants, by T.F. Education and the Century of Progress, by D.S. B. of E. Chooses Graft Decline in Education Marks Capitalist Decay Progressive T.U. Center Disrupted by Right Wing From the Militants- Examples of N.R.A. at Work in St. Louis, by G. Roberts Burden Loaded on Workers The Same Trick Interested Only in Pie-Card Stalinists Win with the Mayor Davenport Stalinists Use Hooligans, by Betty Rowland St Louis Dress Workers Strike for Recognition, by Lloyd Murphy Lessons of the United Front, by Hugo Oehler (Concluded in this issue) Political Blocs (Extra-Parliamentarian) The Marxian Concept of the United Front N.Y. Food Workers Meet For United Action Impressions of Fascist Germany, by Arne Swabeck An Eye-witness Account of Conditions in Hitler's Germany The Overflow of Cuban Revolt, by R.N. Continued Strikes, Riots Burst Bounds Set by New Deal Diplomacy Stalinists Refuse L.O. Representative Right to Speak, by N. Stalin Reassures Hitler on Trotsky's "Return" by N.N. Discussion on the German Defeat United States at London Confab, by Arne Swabeck Book Review, by Leon Trotsky Fostamara (sic, should be "Fontamara") (A novel by Silone, published in Zurich, 1933) September 41 Sep 2, 1933 The Left Wing's Place Is in A. F. of L. Unions, by James P. Cannon Demand the 7th Congress! NRA Reveals Its True Role in Strike Situation It is an Instrument for Greater Class Collaboration and Simultaneously a Means to Make Strikes Illegal Industrial Codes to Prevent Strikes The Workers' Path is through Struggle. Russian Recognition A Class Question for World Labor, by B.J. Field Unity of Proletarian Interests Is Still the Issue Unite the Interests of the Soviet Hitler's "Disarmament" and Prospects of War With Soviet Union, by Leon Trotsky Mooney Stays in Jail; Crook Free Hitler's "Pacifism" Youth Day Must Prepare for Real Anti-War Fight, by Joseph Carter Left Socialist Conference Shows Trend Toward Left Opposition Confusion Is Still Apparent The Issue Within the British L.L.P. Temps and Stalin Against Trotsky From the Militants- Conservative Unions Grow in St. Louis, by Martin N.Y. Doll Workers Call Strike N.Y. Mirror Workers Organize Union Union Extends to All Crafts The New England Shoe Unions, by W. Question of Amalgamation and the Blue Eagle Code The Issue of Amalgamation Officials in Log Rolling Game What Was Done to the Wage Increase? The Blue Eagle Appears Will Amalgamation Be Achieved? League Activities- Toronto L.O. Branch Scores New Gains, by M.Q. A Reformist Has His Day Successful Meeting We Are Active in Strikes Bureaucratic Expulsion Rebuked Anti-War Confab of Boston Youth, by R.C. The Pacifist Position Explained Slanders as Usual Fight for Unions in Los Angeles, by Florence Wyle Organizing a Small Shop Will the T.U.U.L. Learn? Growth of Fascism in England, by T.C. Will the British Workers Learn from the German Experience Hitler's "Socialist" Demagogy Unmasked by Brutal Facts (From "Unser Wort") Composition of Economic Council Presents for the Possessing Classes: On the Other Hand, the Working Class Has Been Singled Out for Not Less Than Two Kinds of Additional Taxes on Wages Jobless Are Not Spared Disarmament and War, by V.I. Lenin Imperialist War and Class War Are Sharply Contrasted N.R.A. and Changing Forms of Amer. Capitalist Economy, by Joseph S. Giganti Discussion on the German Defeat, by John G. Wright L.O. Holds Successful Meeting in N.Y. 42 Sep 9, 1933 (sic, mislabeled as #43) The Cleveland Fiasco, by James P. Cannon Stalinists Ready to Give Up Saar to Hitler, by J.(Paris) Stalinists and Saar Referendum The Class Face of the N.R.A., by Sam Gordon Hands Off Cuba! Workers Demand Hands Off Cuba Soldiers and Students Oust Gov't; U.S. Sends Navy, by S. Stalin Invites Pilsudski to Review the Red Army U.S. Prepares Assault on Europe, by Arne Swabeck Congress of Second International, by Max Shachtman Ex-Ministers Gloomy--Socialist Workers Awakening Communists to Be Tried for Goering Reichstag Fire The German Communist Trial The Boston Needle Trades Right Wing Unions Growing -- T.U.U.L. Isolated Union Members Begin To Stir Reject Bosses Proposals Union Leader Confuses Workers Hyman Comes to Boston The Teachers Can Organize With Aid of Workers, by ST Strike of the Doll Workers Grows Pravda Admission Shows Growth of Left Opposition Chauvinist Policy or Stalinist Antics--Which? N.Y. Upholsterers Union Growing, Strike Goes On, by Sol Lankin Disarmament and War, by V.I. Lenin Imperialist War and Class War are Sharply Contrasted (Continued from last issue) Hitler & the Prospects of War, by Leon Trotsky Trotsky Warns Against Nazi Designs on Soviet Union (Continued from last issue) A Revealing Document Inflation Hits the American Working Class, by Hugo Oehler Richard Rall (Obituary) Radek's Visit to Polish Dictator, by Roger Discussion on the German Defeat, by John G. Wright (Continued from last Issue) Our Comrades Criticize The Militant Terzani Out on Bail 43 Sep 16,1933 The Trade Union Question, by James P. Cannon The Left Wing Needs a New Policy and a New Leadership The New Left Wing Program Programs and Perspectives for the Cuban Proletariat Paterson Strike Ties Up Silk and Dye Industries, by George Clarke The Militant Workers Recognize Fallacy of the Stalinist Paper Unions New Forces for Left Opposition Left Socialists Meet -- Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, by Arne Swabeck The Left Socialist Conference N.Y. Embroidery Workers Gain Rising Militancy Shown in Growing Strike Wave, by Arne Swabeck Swabeck to Start National Tour Mine Pickets Shot in Penn. League Activities- L.O. Issues Stir Party Membership League Growing in Youngstown, by N. Labor Partyites Convene, by A.V. Farmer Answers Judge Warn Against Revolution Postpone Organization Exclude Communist Party Issues Unclear The "Daily Worker" Goes to the Masses, by T.N. From the Militants- Strike Lessons on Pacific Coast, by C.C. T.U.U.L. Disrupts Doll Strike Cracks in the N.R.A. Structure, by B.J. Field Discussion on the German Defeat, by L. Brown The Future of the C.I. Conclusion U.S., Cuba and Latin America, by Hugo Oehler Southern Negroes Under the N.R.A., by George J. Saul Cuban Revolution Rising Perspectives for the Cuban Proletariat Relativity and Pacifism, by Thomas Stamm Even Slander Needs Meaning, by G.G. A Discussion with those Stalinists Who Reflect Book Review, by Sam Fisher "The Untried Case" by Herbert B. Ehrmann (Concerns Sacco and Vanzetti) Bosses and NRA Defeat Workers, by George J.Saul A Correction Walk Out in the Haverstraw Shop Discussion on the N.R.A. and the Slogan "Nationalization of Industry," by Jack Weber Exposure of NRA Our Task N.R.A. vs. Planned Economy Aims of the Communists Function of Intermediate Slogans The Slogan of Nationalization For "Ripened" Industries Get a Sub! 44 Sep 23, 1933 G. Gourov Left Socialist Conference, by G. Gourov A Firm Nucleus for A New International Emerges Only Serious Result The Swedish Ind. Communists The 'Yesterday" and "Tomorrow" of the Movement Joint Declaration for New Internat'l Declaration of International Left Opposition to Left Socialist Conference Declaration of the Delegation of Bolshevik-Leninists at the Conference of Left-Socialist and Communist Organizations. The Collapse of Both Internationals The Position of the Bolshevik-Leninists The Struggle With Reformism The First Four Congresses of the Comintern Strategic Lessons of the Last Decade The U.S.S.R. The Party Regime Silk Strikers Hold Firm; Reject N.R.A. Truce, by R.M. N.T.W. Forms Splitting Strike Committee; All Unions Must Unite in Associated Silk Workers Historic Words Reichstag Fire Frame-Up Unmasked Civil War Looms in Cuba; Situation Tense, by Thomas Stamm Military Intervention by United States Imminent Swabeck National Tour Begins A. F. of L. Leaders Accept Company Union Clause William Green "Friend" of Cuba League Activities- Successful Meetings in Montreal, by J.G. A Criticism of the Militant, by Albert Gloetzer Editorial Note A.F.W. Extends Organization, by A.C. From the Rhineland Painters Strike- Stalinist Union Delays, by Bill Kitt From the Militants Brownsville Jobless Councils Collapse Youngstown Steel Workers Meet, by M. Koehler Terzani United Front Meet, by P.M. Sub Note Whither the I.L.P. of Great Britain Its Present Position and Perspectives, by Leon Trotsky Stalin Prepares Treacherous Blow, by Onken A Patent Fraud Another Wrangel Officer Frame-Up Warns of Crime Alignment of Forces in Mexico, by Rosalio Negrete A New Revolt is Growing Out of Split in Ruling Party 1924-1929 Kuo Min Tang Policy of the C.P. Attempts to Crush the C.P. The "Institutional" Regime and the Crisis Recovery Ballyhoo of the P.N.R. Demand Freedom for Chen Du Siu On the Discussion With Comrades of the C.P. (Correspondence from Berlin) Book Review- by Martin Glee "U.S.S.R. and World Revolution," by M.T. Florinsky Discussion on the N.R.A. and the Slogan of Nationalization, by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) The Struggle Against Ultra-Leftism 45 Sep 30, 1933 For a New Party and a New International Declaration of the National Committee of the Communist League of America - Opposition American Perspectives Fundamental Principles For Revolutionary Internationalism -- Against the Theory of Socialism in One Country Defense of the Soviet Union The United Front Trade Union Policy Against the Right Wing Apologists Of Stalinism Party Democracy Forces for the New Party The Eleven Points - The Fundamental Principles of the International Left Opposition 60th Birthday of Rakovsky His Activities During War, by Max Shachtman Delegate to Zimmerwald Rakovsky Imprisoned Russian Troops Release Rakovsky Doll Workers Strike Strong Brandler International Makes Overtures to Stalin, by Arne Swabeck Right Wing Prepared the Ground for Bureaucratic Adventurism The Anti-Trotsky Crusade Defenders of the Theory of Socialism in One Country To Reestablish the Right-Centrist Bloc Swabeck Tour Itinerary Sub Note Stalinists Split Food Workers, by S. Pappas Against One Union Cut-Throat Competition Perspectives Under NRA British Labor Skates Have Own Way at Congress, by T.C. No Opposition to Bureaucrats Bow to American Plutocrats Unemployed Refused Hearing C.P. Conspicuous by Absence New York Strikes Alarm N.R.A., by George J. Saul The I.L.P. and the New International, A Criticism of Its Paris Declaration, by Leon Trotsky Working Class "Parliamentarianism" No Impatience in the L.O. The Most Important Task Can We Skip Over the Trade Unions The Capture of Trade Unions Revolutionary Realism More on the Paris Conference, by G. Gourov A Step Forward or a Step to the Right? Pressure from Ranks Our Conjectures Principled Declaration Zimmerwald and Kienthal Not Responsible for Allies The Stalinist Program for the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm The Cuban Challenge to U.S. Imperialism, by Hugo Oehler Communist Activity in Cuba At Gates of U.S. Imperialism Trotsky's Prediction Marxian Communist Party Vital Must Abrogate Platt Amendment Before the Court of the Fascists Communists Meet Challenge No Protest in Soviet Union Before the A. F. of L. Convention, by Arne Swabeck Reactionaries Plan to Harness Labor at Momentous Gathering Opening Oct. 2 The Growth of the A. F. of L. New Split in Chilean Communist Party St. Louis Strike Briefs, by Martin Payer Discussion on the NRA - The Slogan of Nationalization, by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Compensation or No Compensation? Nationalization and the Labor Party Our Tasks A Letter from Shanghai, by N. Interview with Huang Ping Torture of Huang "Blue Shirts" in North China October 46 Oct 7, 1933 General Silk Strike Sweeps the Industry! Workers Hold Battle Line Firm as the Great Struggle Enters Sixth Week Union Organizations in the Silk Workers' Strike Record of the Associated Decline of the N.T.W. Solidarity Welds Ranks; N.R.A. Truce Rejected N.R.A. "Truce" The Record of McMahon as a Misleader of Labor; Bosses' Agent in the Ranks of the Working Class Sabotage at Hazelton Old Friend of the Bosses Independent Craft Unions in Strike One Hundred Years of Trade Union Struggles in the Silk Industry The Paterson Strike of 1828 Paterson--1835 "Organize the Unskilled" Slave Wages--1894 Inch by Inch Living Conditions I.W.W. -- 1912 Amalgamated Textile Workers Union 8 Hour Day Slogan in 1924 The Passaic Strike -- 1926 Sold Out In Conclusion Important Notice (The Militant will transform from a publication directed mainly at Communists to one appealing directly to the mass of American Workers. Subscription prices will be cut.) Historic Strike of 20 Years Ago Notes of the Week- Mr. Revere Reveals, by Arthur Brisbane Let Him Whistle There's Gold in Them Thar Hills, by G.....n From the Militants- St. Louis Needle Trades Strike, by Rose Casano Organizing the Greek Painters, by Katsikis Poulos The "United Front" in California, by L. Logan Mirror Workers Strike Ended League Activities- Swabeck Opens Tour at Newark, by Louis Nagy With the "Militant" Builders New Price To November 15th. History of the Russian Revolution Double the Circulation Shachtman Speaks at Philadelphia, by L.G. Labor Fakers at Work, by Peter Morton No Union Recognition The Miners Are Fighting For a Union Discussion Articles- On the National Recovery Act, by Harry Brand Conclusions from German Defeat, by G. Roberts Nationalization and the N.R.A., by Hugo Oehler A Slogan of Reform The Working Class Approach The Devil's Grandmother Again, by L.T. About the United Front with Grzezinsky.. Perspectives for Revolution in U.S., by Arne Swabeck Strike Wave Points the Way of the Future Development Results of Early Expansion American Capitalism Depending Upon World Equilibrium Future Trends Within the Country Resolution on the Paris Conference Adopted by the Int'l Left Opposition (By Plenum of the International Secretariat) Editorial- The Silk Workers' Battle The Unions in the Strike Main Features of the Strike Strike Policy The Real Test Ahead Look to Paterson Two American Congresses "Against War" by Max Shachtman The New York Barbusse Movement and The "People's Council" of 1917 The Stalinist Theory About War A Striking Comparison A Superficial Distinction 47 Oct 14, 1933 "The Evil Genius of the American Labor Movement" by George Clarke A Monument to Gompers A Bulwark Against Radicalism National Civic Federation Against Industrial Unionism... "Non-Partisan" Politics A Recruiting Sergeant For Capitalist War In His Dotage--Fighting the "Reds" New Issues Disturb 53rd A. F. of L. Convention Mass Movement Surges against Old Forms; Roosevelt Threatens Strikers Johnson Threatens Strikers A "Family" Faction Fight Issue of Industrial Unionism Striking Silk Workers Protest New NRA Code Khaki Shirts Get Medals New Inquiry Into Killing Too Much Coffee! The Cuban Government Moves to the Right, by Thomas Stamm Government Turns to Right The Impoverishment of the Petty Bourgeoisie The Pressure of the Crisis Too Much Butter! "Rev." Green Preaches, by D. Marcus Miners' Strike Bucks N.R.A., by Peter Morton The Miners Force A "Reconsideration" Sabotaging the Mooney Front, by Charlotte Shechet C.P. Fails to Appear Campaign Speech for the C.P. From The Militants- In the Pocketbook Makers Union, by N.D.F. Discussing "Trotskyism" in Brownsville In the Workers' Clubs Discussing "Trotskyism" The Left Opposition in Australia Bankruptcy of Australian C.P. Wrecking Crew at Work in the Chicago I.L.D., by G.M.A. League Activities- Rousing Meetings Greet Swabeck At New Haven, by M.G. At Boston Swabeck Tour Itinerary Militant Builders We Begin Carry On 1st-2nd-3rd "Spiritual Values" for Hungry Men, by B.J. Field What Does It Actually Mean? "Spiritual Values" for the Hungry The Gist of the Roosevelt Program Is It Necessary to Build Anew Communist Parties and an International! The Course Toward the Reform of the C.I. Change of Orientation Realism Against Pessimism New Reserves U.S.S.R. and the C.P.S.U. U.S.S.R. and the C.I. "Liquidationism" On the New Road Discussion Articles- On the Slogan of Nationalization, by John G. Wright Political Content of Slogans The Isolation of the Vanguard Workers Unorganized Transitional Slogans Letters from Fascist Germany Brown-Shirted Trade Union Methods From Berlin Editorial- The A. F. of L. Convention, the Strike Wave and Trade Union Perspectives The Real Program of Roosevelt The New Factor in the Labor Movement Trade Unionism -- After the Collapse of the NRA New Struggles within the Unions The Task of the Militants Notes of the Week, by G...n Said the Mad Hatter Two Congresses "Against War" by Max Shachtman The New York Barbusse Movement and the "People's Council" of 1917 (Continued from last issue) The United Front and War The Left Wing in 1917 48 Oct 21, 1933 Strike Wave Hits Canada, by L. Levine Struggles Show Labor Revival Radical Term of Movement Rise of the Strike Wave Mass Movement in Stratford Order Bellusi to Be Deported, by L.R. (Sic, should be "Bellussi") The Organizing Campaign of the New York Food Workers, by Arist. Caldis The Strike of 1918 The 1929 Strike and Split Bosses Prepare to Fight Union The Fight for Union Recognition Hitler's "Bombshell" at Geneva, by Sam Gordon German Fascism Bids for Arms Independence Nazis Maneuvering for Free Hand in Military Adventure. Prepare for Drive against the Soviet Union; Seek French Aid The Adventurism of Despair Fascism Seeks Military Independence A French-German Alliance? Hitler's "Eastern Orientation" French Munitions for Germany German-Japanese Plans in Anti-Soviet Front The International Workers' Front Trial Exposes Nazis' Guilt Frame-Up Victims Face Death Unemployed Die in L.A. Fire Trotsky Writes To the British "New Leader," by Leon Trotsky League Activities- C.L.A. Activities in New York Reorganization Our Meetings School and Forum In the Trade Unions The Banquet Successful Meet in Brownsville 700 Hear Swabeck Speak in Toronto Phila. School Starts Classes Swabeck Lecture in Rochester Swabeck Tour Itinerary Paris Conference- Resolution of the Paris Conference The International Struggle of the Working Class Where are the Stalinists Today? Exploitation of Farm Laborers, by George J. Saul Left Wing in Teachers Union, by Thomas Stamm Left Wing's Opportunity Errors of Left Groups Militant Builders Three Facts Quotas On the "History" From the West Coast It Is Impossible to Remain in the Same International with Stalin, Manuilsky, Losovsky and Company -- (A Conversation), by G.G. The Comintern "As A Whole" The German Party The First Four Congresses The C.P.S.U. The Road of Civil War Pressure on the Bureaucracy Danger of Adventurism Muenzenberg a Symbol The Comintern a Brake on the Revolutionary Movement The Axis of the New Crystallization British Lord and Ex-War Minister Leads Stalinist Anti-War Junket in Shanghai Motley "Sponsors" Ignore Shanghai Workers Discussion Articles- For a New Communist Party, by Ben Gitlow Editorial-(Next four articles) The Boycott of Fascist Germany Making Fun of International Communism The Expulsion of Joe Angelo The Socialist Party After Hillquit Hoover and Roosevelt, by D. Marcus Notes of the Week The League of Nations as an Example for the NRA, by G.....n. The Food Workers' Industrial Union and the Split from the A.F.W., by James Gordon (Member Food Workers' Industrial Union) A Horrible Example of Stalinist "Third Period" Trade Union Policies Clique Rule in the Union Gagging the Workers Campaign Against "Trotskyites" Favoritism in Giving Jobs The Split a Fundamental Mistake Bronx Butchers Strike 49 Oct 28, 1933 N.R.A. Ballyhoo and the Facts Behind It, by Peter Morton The Painters General Strike Celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Left Opposition in America Hail the Movement for a New Party and the Fourth International! Terzani Accuser Faces Trial Organizing Steel Workers in Ohio, by M. A Strike of the Unemployed Stalinist Policy Isolates Militants Swabeck's Meeting Silk Dyers Vote for Separate Agreement, by George Clarke Vote Not Unanimous The Separation of the Dyers Disruptive Role of the N.T.W. Tactics of the Bosses Evil Result of Separate Organization Gangster Attack on Chicago League Meet Stalinist Hoodlums Repulsed as Swabeck Speaks for New Party and New Iuternational (Sic, should be "International") Hooligan Tactics Repulsed Meeting Hears Swabeck Swabeck Explains German "Victory" The Hooligans Depart Bellusi Case Needs the Support of Workers, by L.R. (sic, should be "Bellussi") Anti-Fascist Demonstration Statement on N.Y. Elections (By Communist League of America (Opposition) Local New York) News from Canada Rousing Swabeck Meeting at Toronto Hails New International, by B.B. New Conditions and New Problems The Work of the Stalin Clique Toward the New International Speech of MacDonald Speech of Spector Open Letter to the Joe Derry Defense Committee (By Montreal Branch of the International Left Opposition Spartacus Youth Club of Montreal) Anti-Fascist United Front in Montreal, by K. In California Activities of the "Frisco" Port Workers, by Noix The C.P. on the Waterfront Formation of the A. F. of L. Union Stalinists in a Predicament Left Wing in A. F. of L. Union Revolt Against Stalinism in California Party Statement of A. Robbins, by Anna Robins Statement of Six Comrades, by A. Stone, C.M. Hesser, Everett E. Wilder, Chris G. Johnson, Anna Robbins and E.W. Hesser Statement of S.D. Laycock, by Stanley D. Laycock New York School Starts Off with a Bang Situation in Hotels and Restaurants Conditions of Workers in Large N.Y. Industry Investments and Wages "War Chest" to Fight Unions Overbuilding in the Hotel Industry Hotel Failures During Boom Making the Workers Pay Wage Rates Per Week "More Efficient Operation" Juggling the Profit Figures Demands On Hotel Workers The Bosses' Codes and the Workers' Code The Anti-War Junket in Shanghai (Continued from last issue) Led by British Lord and Ex-War Minister Futile Mission to Japan "Prejudices" of Imperialist Agents Scorn of Bourgeois Press Discussion Articles Problems of the Cuban Revolution, by J.G.W. Revolutionary Party Needed Defeat American Intervention League Activities- New Castle Meeting, by Max Hudson Swabeck at Cleveland, by Leo Gleisser Swabeck Tour Itinerary Militant Builders An Encouraging Sign The Standing The Youngstown Branch Editorial- (Next two articles) Russian Recognition United Front Against Hooliganism Notes of the Week- Abolishing Unemployment, by G....n. Agrarian Question in Mexico, by Rosalio Negrete The Problem of the Coming Revolt and the Peasantry Ending the Land Reforms Communal Aspirations of Peasants November 50 Nov 4, 1933 Sixteen Years of the Russian Revolution, by Sam Gordon The Creation of a Fourth International is the Best Defense of the Soviet Union The Rebirth of Revolutionary Internationalism Alone Can Save the First Workers' Fatherland International Defense of Soviet Russia The Russian Revolution and the Comintern The New Revisionism Opportunism on the International Field The Swing to Adventurism "Non-Aggression Pacts" The Downfall of the Comintern Reconstitute the International Vanguard! The Bolshevik Heritage Must Be Preserved in the Struggle Against The Stalinist Revisionists, by Martin Abern Since the First Comintern Congress Why Bolshevism Will Be Victorious Leon Trotsky on the Saar Question, by Leon Trotsky Save Dimitroff and Togler! A call to Action for the Leipzig Victims of Hitlerism - Issued by the International Secretariat Tom Mann for the Defense of Chen Du Siu, by Tom Mann Bar Shachtman from Canada League Organizer, on Speaking Tour, Refused Admittance by Border Authorities The Workers' Front- N.Y. Optical Workers Out on Strike, by George J. Saul Stalinist Unionism in Philadelphia, by Tom Halligan Striking Cotton Pickers Murdered in Cold Blood Just Received! October Russian Bulletin Swabeck Tour Itinerary Militant Builders The Standing: Double the Record "A Century of Progress" (Taken from "Capital" by Karl Marx; Vol. I, pages 721 and 272.) An Open Letter to Browder: On Hooliganism, by Lydia Beidel Hooliganism in Chicago Militant Resentment Against Fakers in the Pocketbook Union, by N.D.F. "Five Cents a Bar..." Rousing Meeting Aids Drive to Organize Restaurant Workers, by A.C. League Activities- Cannon Speaks at Newark, by G.K. Statement on the United Front Anti-Fascist Demonstration (by New York City Committee Communist League of America (Left Opposition). Young Spartacus Sub Drive Letters from Germany The Growing Dissatisfaction of the Middle Classes From Westphalia British Labour Party Masks Support to Capitalism at Annual Conference, by T.C. Fritz Adler Speaks Labor Party "Socialism" Introducing Sir Stafford Cripps Debate Fizzles Out Following the German Path From South Bend, Ind. The Agrarian Question in Mexico in the Light of the Coming Revolt (The second of a series on political developments in Mexico.) Terzani's Release Towards the Creation of a Fourth International A Record of Progress on the Road Towards the Reconstitution of the Revolutionary Vanguard of the World Proletariat The Revolutionary Socialist Party of Holland Joins the International Left Opposition Thousands of Dutch Workers Hail the New International In Belgium For a New Revolutionary Youth International Dollfus and Hitler Recent Changes in the Austrian Government The Illinois Miners American Communism and the Russian Revolution The Boycott of Fascist Germany, by Harry Strang A Sympathyzer Writes on the Strategy of the Anti-Hitler Struggle (sic, should be "Sympathizer") Discussion Articles- Two Internationals, by Albert Glotzer The Subjective Factor Downfall of the Second International Notes of the Week, by G....n. Who Are the "Chiselers"? Hearst to the Rescue Which Way Is the New Wind Blowing? As to the Workers 51 Nov 11, 1933 The New Rift in the Lovestone Group--and the New Party, by Max Shachtman "Genuine Opposition to Fascism" The "Existence" of the German C.P. 1914 and 1933 A Brandlerist Contradiction Culmination of Ten Years Boycott of Germany (Issued by the International Secretariat.) Stalinists Expel 3 Food Workers from Union Culmination of Long Fight Rank and File Indignant Progressive Enginemen Organize For Reform of Railroad Unions Yakima Hop Pickers Still Imprisoned in Stockade A Letter From Prison, by Anthony Bellussi N.Y. Food Workers Turn To Trade Union Action Sentiment for Aggressive Organization Struggle Follows N.R.A. Fiasco; Hotel Strike in Prospect Cotton Pickers Arrested in Strike "Good Government" Cleans Up in the New York Municipal Election A Rude Awakening The Labor Vote The Vote for the C.P. League Activities- Hundreds Hear MacDonald at Toronto, by P.S. Minneapolis Branch in Action, by Cee-Kay... 300 at Montreal Rally, by J.G. Swabeck Meetings in K.C. Successful, by A.C. Mass Turnout to Hear Cannon at Toronto, by B.B. Militant Builders The Youngstown Branch The Standing Philadelphia League Members Repel Stalinist Hooligan Assault, by Meyer Hirsh Canned Comedy at the Painters' Banquet, by e. From the Militants- A New Method of Expulsion, by Arthur Brandmark Discussion Articles- Two Internationals, by Albert Glotzer (Continued from last issue.) The French Socialist Party The Comintern Fascism and Social Democracy Evaluating the German Events Capitulation to Fascism The Recognition of the German Working Class, by L. Kogan The Stalinist Mistake Factory--Karl Radek and the Polish Prince Polish Diplomacy Bluntly Explained Radek's Comment In Exile on the Tierra Del Fuego, by Eduardo Islas Argentine Reactionaries Use Torture on Militant Bolshevik-Leninist Prisoner's Manifesto Prison Life Begins Death of Prisoners "They Will Find Him Dead" Propaganda in Prison A Fight On the Prison Ship Again at Liberty International Notes- The L.O. in Lithuania National Conference of Swiss The ILP and the Movement For the New International Editorials- (Next three articles) Bellussi The C.P.L.A. Convention Trade Union Tactics Notes of the Week, by G....n "Pigs is Pigs" A Subway Sardine Commits Suicide--With Apologies to the Police Note on Park Bench Apologizes to Police For Trouble.. Correction The Crisis in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm 52 Nov 18, 1933 Probation for Food Workers Stalinist Expulsion Order Revoked Under Pressure Workers' Protest Purpose of "Probation" Graduated Sentences Then They Sing--the "Internationale" Tag-Day for Terzani Defense This Week-End in N.Y.C. A. Bellussi Deporting Imminent Quick Action Needed to Save Anti-Fascist Lynch Threat for Scottsboro Boys Lovestone Evades Challenge Hitler's Secret Police in Terror Campaign From a Special Correspondent Riddled With Bullets They All Die Nazis Investigated "Emancipated" Children Too Much Bread Wave of Repression in China; Left Opposition Threatened A Wave of Arrests The Left Opposition Fights On Big Sums for War Purposes, by Martin Beardslee Huge Appropriations for Military Revealed Huge Army Contracts Hundreds of Millions For War Rushing War Preparations Socialist Mayor Promises Cheap Government In the Fascist Inferno League Activities- Swabeck Meetings in Minneapolis, by Cee Kay Basis of A. F. of L. Unions False Policy of Stalinists "The Future of International Communism" The New Revisionism The Banquet At Workmen's Circle Open Forum Shachtman Lectures in Boston The Flames of the Class War In Yakima, Washington, by George Clarke The Beer Ballyhoo Harvesting Ceases Mob Fury The "Bullpen" Unspeakable Conditions From the Militants- Statement on Expulsion from Party, by F. Creque The Blight of Stalinism in Mass Work Militant Builders- The Winners Shortcomings More Subs Bound Volumes of the Militant "What Next" in Russian My Life Important Document The Rift in the Lovestone Group, by Max Shachtman The Alleged "Trotskyist Centrism" and the Truly Bureaucratic Centrism The Austro-Marxian School Austro-Marxism and Bureaucratic Centrism Lenin's Point of View The "Declaration" on Centrism A Deliberate Falsification The Truth About the "21 Points" The "August Bloc" Hoax The Position of the Centrist Parties A Plagiarism from Hillquit Clearing the Atmosphere To the Cuban Workers&Peasants Manifesto of Bolshevik-Leninist Party of Cuba The Importance of the Party The Cuban Situation and the Bolshevik Party The International Situation The Bolshevik Party and the Revolution in Cuba Possibilities of a Resurgence of the Official Communist Party Lovestone's Apologetics in Toronto Editorials (Next two articles) Five Years of the Militant Litvinoff's Visit and Russian Recognition Long Term Credits to the Soviet Union! Society News (From press reports) A New Light on the United Front Testimony of Neubauer Negotiations With Stampfer A Journalist as Intermediary General Strike and Civil War Aimed at United Front Questions by Dimitroff Notes of the Week, by G....n. "Worker, Farmer 'Join Up'" If They Won't Raise 'Em--They'll Stretch 'em 53 Nov 25, 1933 Price of Recognition Stalin's Bargain (Editorial) "Compromises" - When, and How Soviet Diplomacy in 1918 and 1933 The Bourgeois Press Celebrates Was U.S. Imperialism Outwitted The Basis of the Retreat The "Vital" Paragraphs 3 and 4, by Maxim Litvinoff The Diplomacy of Stalin and the Diplomacy of Lenin--a Contrast, by Max Shachtman Elimination of C.I. Rubber-Stamped The Washington Agreement in the Light of Soviet History The Propaganda Pledge Drawing the Balnce Sheet (sic, should be "Balance") To Whom Does It Apply? A Lie of the Daily Worker Two Instances Two Epochs M. Litvinoff and -- M. Bedacht, by S.N. "The Communist Party of Russia Does Not Concern America and the Communist Party of the U.S. Does Not Concern Russia" Resume Trial of Scottsboro Negro Boys The Retrial of the Nine Scottsboro Boys Preparing the Rope and Faggot The Real Crime of the Scottsboro Boys Tense Atmosphere of Trial Lynch Pack in Full Cry Mass Meeting of Food Workers Acclaims Drive for General Strike, by A.C. Maria Reese's "I Accuse" From The Militants Unemployed Confab in Minneapolis, by Cee Kay Forty-Nine Organizations Represented Achievements of Conference Work Has Only Begun Toronto Conference on Anti-Labor Laws, by M. Mass Meeting Speeches The Rev. A.E. Smith Fifteen Years of Democracy in the Czechoslovakian Republic, by J. Keller (From "La Verite") Correction (Includes a section concluding the article "Blight of Stalinism in Mass Work," by F. Crique omitted from last issue) Evolution of the Anti-War "Fighters" (From the British "Red Flag") League Activities- Debate Stalinists in St. Louis "I Am With You for a New Party," by Thos. Sabatini (New Member of the L.O.) Anti-Semitism in "Progressive Miner," by A.C. Maria Reese Accuses! An Indictment of the Stalinists by a Leader of the German C.P., by Maria Reese How You Fought Against a Marxist Policy? The Opportunist Committee-Politics Sabotage Against the Red Aid The Inglorious Capitulation Before Hitler The Reichstag Fire and the Situation of Com. Torgler Your Latest Pearls of Wisdom What is Necessary Maria Reese and the Comintern, by Leon Trotsky An Unbearable Contrast She Spoke the Truth Notes of the Week, by G....n. (Concerns biological warfare.) New Aid for Bellussi December 54 Dec 9, 1933 Biased Judge Rushes Negro Boys to Chair No Reliance on Capitalist Justice; Only Mass Pressure of Workers Can Save Scottsboro Boys, by Thomas Stamm The "Impartial" Jury Cards Dealt from the Bottom Learned from Massachusetts The Meaning of "Justice" Playing Down Class Issue Change of Strategy Needed Needle Workers Misled by Right Wing in L.A., by F.W. L.A. Needle Trades Strike Beginning of Organization Drive Leaders Oppose Strike Turn-Out of Strikers Workers Against Arbitration The Reactionaries" "Maneuver" Arbitration Dampens Militancy Disorganization of Union American Imperialism at the Montevideo Conference, by Hugo Oehler Hotel Union Shows Gains, by A.C. Shoe Workers to Merge Unions Independents at Boston Convention Independent Unions in Shoe Industry Bright Prospects of New Independent Union Tasks of New Union Nazis Doom 91 S.W.P. Workers to Long Terms "Answer 'Yes' or 'No'" Driving for the New Party Russian Revolution Film "Nol"-Unser Wort's Reply to the Hitler Plebiscite Red Fleet Greeted With Cry: "Long Live Trotsky" During Visit to Greece The Visiting Days At Every Step The Attitude of the Sailors Statement of Goldman on Joining Communist League, by Albert Goldman Testimony of Russian Party Members The German Lesson The Principles of Marx and Lenin Unemployment Insurance - A Slogan to Unite Teachers and Workers, by Thomas Stamm Not A Temporary Phenomenon Unemployment Insurance for Teachers Greetings to Australian "Militant" The Class Meaning of the Conflict over the Roosevelt Mcnetary Policy, by Hugo Oehler (sic, should be "Monetary") Dr. Sprague's Statement Drastic Steps To Be Taken Increase in Foreign Trade Pioneer Publisher Notes on Pamphlets A Special Offer The Language of Bolshevik Diplomacy "Ours is a People's Government Yours Is Not" - Chicherin to Wilson "Your Post Is Not Yet Taken by Debs" Said Soviet Comissar to U.S. President (Chicherin was the Soviet Comissar of Foreign Affairs. The headline refers to a message to President Woodrow Wilson in 1918) Test of American Capitalism's "Good Will" Promises and Performance Wilson's "Assistance" to Russia "Ours is a People's Government, Yours is Not." For the Cancellation of War Debts Aims of the League of Nations "Expropriate the Capitalists" Appeal to American Workers "Which is the Real President?" "Your Post Is Not Yet Taken by Debs" "State Your Demands Clearly" Our Present Tasks, by Leon Trotsky The Workers Dread Fascism Take the Situation As It Is The Struggle for Democratic "Rights" Deepen the Channels of Struggle The Bolsheviks in 1917 Our Tasks Today Attitude Toward Socialist Workers News from Germany Editorial- The Lynching Wave The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Craft Divisions of R.R. Workers New Methods of Transportation First of a Series of Articles Statement on Montreal Anti-Fascist Conference, by the International Left Opposition (Montreal Branch) Spartacus Youth Club of Montreal Terzani Trial Postponed When "General" Smith Fails to Appear Notes of the Week, by G....n. (Discusses lynching and the Scottsboro boys) 55 Dec 16, 1933 Finished With Stalinism!, by Karl Friedberg Another Leader of the German C.P. Revolts The Results of Stalinist Policy The Guilt of the E.C.C.I. The False Policy in the Saar On the Death of Max Hoelz (From "Unser Wort") An Enemy of the Stalinist Bureaucracy Stood for a New Party Rivera Murals New Year Eve Masquerade Ball for the Militant The League Forges Ahead N.Y. Hotel Strikers Organize Food Workers Union Strengthens Ranks Why I Did It Stalinism Cracks in Brooklyn Statement Distributed to Workers Jail Two Philadelphia Militants St. Paul Packing Strike, by William Kitt Adventurist Methods Cause Bad Defeat Stalinist Strike Strategy Repudiated by the Workers Fruit of False Policy The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. The Rise and Fall of the Craft Unions International Notes Germany Youth Scandinavia "Historical Analogies" A Statement to the Communist Party, by Al Dasch, Isodore Lipschitz and David Lesser To the D.E.C. of the C.P. To the D.E.C. of the Y.C.L. Short Dispatches from Fascist Germany The Painter Affair Index of Standard of Living Montreal Stalinists Answer Marxist Ideas With Hooliganism A Stalinist Lecture on Germany Argument Replaced by Epithet Bedlam at Meeting A. F. of L. and Mirror Workers Apply for A. F. of L. Charter A Trade Union or a Sect Discussion Article The Proletarian Party, by Joseph Knight History of the Party Proletarian Party and C.P. Organizational Weaknesses A One-Man Party ` The Peterson-Dixon Group Labor and Internationalism Problems of the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm Cuba and Montevideo Strike Wave Rising Again Importance of the Strike Strategy of the Martin Government Cuban Workers Need International Support Pioneer Publisher Notes Discussion Articles- Draft Resolution on the Tasks of the Spartacus Youth Clubs Proposed by National Youth Comm. of the C.L.A., by Albert Goldman League Subordinate to Party A Uniform Constitution Position Toward Existing Youth Organizations International Affiliation and Tasks With Whom and How Shall We Build the New Communist Party Editorial- (The next 5 articles are editorials) The Leipsig Prisoners and the Boycott of Germany (sic, should be "Leipzig") Cuba and the Comintern Signs of the Coming Storm The Scottsboro Struggle Why? Soviet Policy and Turkish Terror Stalinist Diplomats Praise Oppressor of Turkish Workers as "Best Friend" Karakhan and Pasha The "New Turkey" Stalinist Diplomacy in America Henri Lacroix--Deserter General Defense Affair Postscript to the "Portrait of National Socialism" by L.T. Notes of the Week, by G....n 56 Dec 23, 1933 Wall Street Rules at Montevideo Confab, by Hugo Oehler Tariff Plan of U.S. Imperialism Designed as Weapon Against European Competitor Nations Secrecy at Conference U.S. Hits at Rivals Behind the Tariff Plan Gangsterism Again! Nazis Demand Death Verdict for Torgler International Solidarity of the Workers Alone Can Save Prisoners from Fascist Vengeance Railroad Accidents Increase Criminal Syndicalism Trial Ends in Hung Jury Celebrate New Years at Gala Masquerade Ball New Upheaval Shakes China, by Niel-Sih The Fukien Rebellion and Its Perspectives Terzani Frame-Up Smashed United Front at Minneapolis, by C.F. Labor Organizations in Unemployment Fight Growth of the Movement Push the Action Program Hooliganism Spreads to Brooklyn An Open Letter to the District Committee of the Communist Party, by Max Shachtman, Organizer, City Committee, C.L.A. (Opposition) A Protest Against Stalinist Gangster Attacks, by W.C. (Former member of the Communist Party, Brownsville) Tumult Brings Police An Open Letter to the International Labor Defense, by Max Shachtman, Organizer, City Committee, C.L.A. (Opposition) An Apologist for Litvinoff, by S.F. The Panic-Stricken Scribblers Olgin's "Explanations" What the Workers Said Impressions on a National Tour, by Arne Swabeck A Panorama of Present Conditions of the American Worker Decline of "New Deal" Illusions Surge Toward Unionization Fayette County Miners Failure of Stalinist Unions Conditions of the Unemployed Catastrophic Position of Official Party League Member in L.A. Demands Proof for Slanders, by Frank Halstead A Protest Against Stalinist Gangster Attacks, by W.C. The New Danger of War in the Far East, by Lucifer Attack on the Workers' Fatherland by the Japanese Militarists Imminent Japan Aims at War Effect of American Recognition Sharpening Japano-American Relations Japanese Militarism in a Hurry Drive of Rival Imperialism Relations of China and Japan Nanking's Deal With Japan Tasks of Chinese Communists Democratic Demands For a New Party in China Movie Review, by Thomas Stamm (A review of "Wild Boys of the Road") The Collapse of the Brandler Movement New Rifts Developing Disintegration Also in Bohemia Discussion Article The Proletarian Party -- Position and Prospects, by Joseph Knight (Continued from last issue) New Opposition in 1932 Question of Organization Principle 1933 Convention Social Democratic Viewpoints Leaders and Rank and File Editorial- Building the New Movement Conditions in the Soviet Union, by John Cernicky An American Worker's Report on Labor and the Five-Year Plan Labor Conditions in the Factory Stalinist "Political Education" The New Wage Policy Discontent of the Workers Proletarian Party Youth Group Out, by C. Jones. D. Gabe, A. Wiencock, R. Jones, S. Walters, K. Jones, E. Lovett, L. Walters, N. Wiencek, R. Romm, R. Brenner, F. Jones and R. Nagle Russian Revolution Film Notes of the Week, by G....n "Gimme a Match" Books for Workers, by Joseph Carter Ten Years--History and Principles of the Left Opposition by Max Shachtman 57 Dec 30, 1933 Philadelphia Gripped by Transport Strike NRA and Labor Leaders Combine to "Outlaw" Workers' Fight for Bread, by Leon Goodman Transport Tie-up in Philadelphia Sympathy Strike Causes of the Strike The Workers' Strike Back Supporting Taxicab Drivers Betrayal of Bakery Drivers Labor Fakers in Action Hold Torgler Despite Fire Trial Verdict Shoe Workers Amalgamate Unions at Historic Convention at Boston 60,000 Workers Represented Bitter Fight over T.U.U.L. Old Officers Removed New Constitution Discussed Local Autonomy in New Union Contradictory Resolutions Brocton Brotherhood to Come In Roosevelt's "Planned Work" A Worker's Report What the Workers Talk About A Pedestal of Manure Vandals Wreck League Hall Hotel Workers Driving Toward General Strike Amalgamated Union Formulates Program of Demands Big Hotels Organized Demands of the Union The Confidence in NRA Prefering for General Strike (sic, should be "Preferring") A Letter from Mooney, by Tom Mooney No Report of Congress Want to Hear from Delegates Appeals for New Campaign Eighteenth Year in Prison The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. The Reactionary Union Officialdom A Picture of the League Today, by Arne Swabeck Growth of the League The Youth on the March Test of Political Position The Trend of the Future The Unemployed Movement New Forces in the West Manifesto of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists To the Workers Workers The Teachers and the Class Struggle, by Thomas Stamm Successful Meet in Brownsville Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Book Review, by John G. Wright The Marxian Theory of the State, by Sherman H.M. Chang, Ph. D. Chang's "Slant" on Marxism A Surprising "Discovery" Literature and History A Typhical Ph. D. Thesis (sic, should be "Typical") Hitler the Pacifist, by Leon Trotsky The Arguments of Hitler "Peace" Instead of "Struggle" Hitler's "Open Letter" Nazi Foreign Policy Recreating German Militarism Hitler's Calculated Plan Movie Review, by Thomas Stamm (A review of Noel Coward's "Cavalcade") A New Stage in the NRA, by Hugo Oehler From Nazi Germany Berlin Wicks at Large Again Revival of Gangster Methods The Record of Wicks Once Excluded from Party Editorial- (The next two articles are editorials) Strike the Hotels Mooney Appeals Again Another "Friend" of the Soviet Union, by M. (Discusses George Bernard Shaw) The Logical Conclusion New York Printers Organize Union Notes of the Week, by G...n ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- The Militant 1934 Table of Contents: January 1 Jan 6, 1934 Nothing for Workers in Roosevelt Message President's Demagogy at Congress Opening Hides Ruling Class Plans Increase of Unemployment "Balancing Production and Consumption" The Joker in the Peace Policy Court Threat to Labor Witness Civil Works and the NRA, by Hugo Oehler Free Yakima Defendants Increase in Lynchings Reported for 1933 Bourbon South Leads in Mob Murder; Sheriffs Assist Gangs Unemployment Increase Phila. Food Workers Strike, by Harry Allen Fight Against Heavy Odds to Organize Industry Federation of Unions Correction (In the report last issue of the Brownsville meeting the audience was 300 rather than 500) How Pacifism Led Us into War, by George Clarke "He Kept Us Out of War." Wilson, the Dove of Peace Pacifism Leading Into War The "War to End All Wars" "To Make the World Safe for Democracy" The Downfall of Wilson On the N.Y. Waterfront Seamen Subjected to Vicious Treatment Chaco - Imperialist Battleground, by Rosalio Negrette British and American Oil Interests War Two Years Old The Recovery Program of the Socialist Party, by Thomas Stamm The Story of a Boy Who Made Good, by Al Dasch Hero's Career Begins Still Running Strong Toronto Mass Meeting on Russian Recognition Movie Review, by Kino (A review of "Little Women") Free Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff The Railroad Brotherhood Ritualistic Mummery at Meetings Pioneer Needed Secrecy Secret Work Now Isolates the Unions Aids System of Gag-Rule Discussion Article On the Youth Resolution, by Dave Levitt The Policy of 1921 Basis of the Youth Movement Political Leadership Tasks of Immediate Period Pioneer Publishers Last Opportunity Correction (Trotsky's article from last issue, "Hitler the Pacifist," has numerous mistranslations from the original French text.) Roosevelt's Speech on Latin America A Letter on the Hitler Boycott, by Harry Strang The Old Position of Comintern A Typical Stalinist "Turn" The Soviet Union & the 4th International, by Leon Trotsky The Class Nature of the Soviet State How the Question is Posed "The Dictatorship over the Proletariat" The Dictatorship of the Proletariat as an Idealistic Norm Bonapartism Discussion Articles- The NRA and the Corporate State, by Clem Forsen Example of the 1851 Insurrection Contradictions of Roosevelt Regime State Capitalism and the Corporate State Function of Imperialist State State Form of Finance Capital Editorial Shoe Workers Amalgamated Discussion Article Spartacus Youth Tasks, by Perry Meyers Characteristics of American Youth Contact with Industrial Workers Sports and Social Activities Concrete On Primary Task Norwegian Labor Party and the Fourth International, by B. The Marxist Attitude The N.A.P. and Sweden The Charge of "Sectarianism" The Road of the IVth International The Picture Notes of the Week, by G....n (Discusses Roosevelt, bankers and Wall Street) Discussion Article On the National Recovery Act, by Harry Brand 2 Jan 20, 1934 A Capitalist Budget of 10 Billion Dollars Debt to Exceed World War Figures; America Pays High Price for World Domination The Price of World Hegemony A Class Budget Senator Davis Makes a Speech for 6 Hour Day The Mystery of Van der Lubbe, by Harry Strang Mystery Shrouds Fascist Killing of Van der Lubbe "Dead Men Tell No Tales" A Suspicious Incident Fascism in America, by George Clarke Pelley's Silver Shirts Fascism in the U.S. "The Chief" Truly "Miraculous" A New Pope The Psychic Transformed Omnipotent, Infallible "The Higher Import" Policy Praises Ford California Board Denies Parole to Warren Billings "Anti-Social Activities" Teachers of N.Y. in Protest, by S. Furlough Protest by New York Teachers Clear The Decks Green Urges Nazi Boycott Big Meetings in Hotel Union Drive War Sparks Fly in Far East; Powers Arm, by Arne Swabeck Wall Street Plays Its Own Game in Recognition and Prepares for Coming War in Pacific Pacifism to Screen War Aims U.S. Imperialist Designs The Game of American Imperialism The U.S. Versus Japan Japan Moving against Soviet Union Far East Tensions Increases Kerensky Minister Reveals Jap War Aims Discussion Article on the NRA, by Harry Brand (Continued from last Issue) Lovestone Discovers Esthonia, by Max Shachtman (Alternate spelling, usually spelled "Estonia") Propaganda Pledge Is Defended by Stalinist Attorneys Attorney for Stalinism "Explaining" Paragraph 4 The Soviet Treaty With Esthonia Soviet Policy at Genoa Policy at Tenth Soviet Congress Pioneer Publishers Working in Macy's Model Restaurant "Investments" Under the NRA Discipline and Penalties The "Steady Extra" Racket No Bus Boys Macy's "Mutual" Benefit Sick Workers Not Rehired The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. The "Obligation" as a Gaglaw Destructing Role of Secret Work The Obligation Never Affects The Officials The Soviet Union & the 4th International The Class Nature of the Soviet State, by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) "State Capitalism" The Economy of the U.S.S.R. Bureaucracy and the Ruling Class Class Exploitation and Social Parasitism Notes of a Journalist, by Alpha Koltzov in Paris A Pumpkin in the Director's Office Editorial- (The next three articles are editorials.) The Great American Skin Game (Discusses monetary policy, devaluation and Roosevelt's ability to fool the workers and the American people in general.) The Expulsions in Local 9 The Sixty-Cent Dollar Labor Leaders and NRA, by Hugo Oehler Basic Problem Untouched Reduction in Real Wages Green Appeals to Capitalists Role of Labor Leaders in the N.R.A. The Grocery Code 3 Jan 27, 1934 Call General Strike of N.Y. Food Workers 600 Start Strike Wave In the Waldorf Astoria Whole Kitchen and Dining Room Crew March in Body To Amalgamated Union Headquarters Six Hundred in Stoppage Waldorf is Signal For Workers Workers Act As One Man Militant Three Times a Week During Strike Thousands Pack Halls; Walkout Vote Solid General Strike Acclaimed Further Strike News The Unanimously Adopted Resolution What the Strike Means to You Strike Lights...and Shadows, by Oscar De Boomer The Union's Strike Demands Plan Big Navy Program Teachers Protest Economy Program, by H.L. An Open Letter to the American Workers Party, by Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee of the C.L.A. (Opposition) For the New Party Lovestone Discovers Esthonia, by Max Shachtman (Alternate spelling of "Estonia") Propaganda Pledge is Defended by Stalinist Attorneys (Continued from last issue) Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement Reply to Lord Curzon Chicherin on "Propaganda" The Transition with the Border States Not Ordinary Recognition Pacts Bolshevik Policy on Self-Determination What the Comintern Manifesto Urged and What It Forgot to Urge... Drive Starts for "New Intern'l." ("New International" is a new monthly magazine) For the Fourth International, by Leon Trotsky Letter to a Member of the Independent Labor Party The Question of a Banner Lessons of Anglo-Russian Committee The International Question The London Bureau Swedish Communist Party Events Will Confirm Our Slogans Hill-Billy Hitlerites, by George Clarke Red Baiting and Jew Baiting The Jewish Plot a la Pelley The Choicest Invective The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Constitutions Reek with Gaglaws The Brotherhood Constitutions Reek With Gaglaws Constitutional Restrictions The Magazines, by Mag Notes of a Journalist, by Alpha "Not Only But Also...." The Drive for Quality The Class Enemy Cleansing the Party Gems From Stalin Workers Oppose Mendieta Regime, by Thomas Stamm Workers Oppose Mendieta Cuban Sugar Problem Deadline for Harvest High mark of Struggle Rackets at the McAlpin Wage Cuts Under NRA Unpaid Overtime Compulsory Deductions From Wages Racket Number Two Discrimination Trotsky's Article (The Militant will discontinue publication of Trotsky's article on the Soviet State and the Fourth International. It will appear shortly as a pamphlet from Pioneer Publishers.) 4 Jan 29, 1934 (The disclosure has changed to "Published Three Times a Week by the Communist League of America (Opposition)" Toward the Catastrophe, by Leon Trotsky The Myth of Invincibility Struck Hotels "Ballyhoo" Won't Cook Dinners, by B. 20,000 Out Service Crippled As Strike Ranks Swell Fifty of City's Most Important Hotels Successfully Struck by Amalgamated Food Workers Biggest Hotels Paralyzed Militant Tactics Strike Spirit Excellent Effective Unionism Thousands Surround Waldorf In First Mass Picketing Line, by Diana Rice Down With the Scabs! "For the Union makes us strong!" Japan Moves Toward War Against the Soviet Union, by Lucifer Boss Papers Launch Flood of Lies Against Hotel Strike, by Harry Strang Boss Press Tricks The "Red Plot" Beware: Fake Telegrams! The I.L.P. and the Comintern, by T.C. Problem of the Third International Criticize Comintern Sub Drive on 5 Jan 31, 1934 10,000 In Mass Hotel Picket Line Strikers "Greet" Roosevelt Scab Birthday Dinners Revolt at Local 16's Treachery Members of A. F. of L. Refuse to Act as Scabs Ten Dollars for Scab Job Rebel Against High Dues Bosses Work with Racketeers Editorial- (The next 4 articles are editorials) The Strike and the N.R.A. How Will the Strike Be Won? Extending the Strike Front Red Baiting and Reaction F.W.I.U. "Fortress" Collapses, by Harry Strang New Yorker Men Vote Solid for Amalgamated Stalinists Create Confusion Flock to Amalgamated Drawn Guns On Pickets Police Effort to Scare Workers is Defied Cops Draw Guns New Hotels Join Ranks of Strike Face Thugs at Longchamps Another N.R.A. Project Collapses 10,000 Fill Mass Rally Madison Square Garden Jammed With Strikers Masses Shout Down Disrupters Call For Spreading Strike Strike Gains Momentum, by G.C. Corrections Labor Greets Amalgamated The Strikers Speak Emil Smith, Dining Room Delegate, Waldorf-Astoria Gustave Barth, Kitchen Delegate, Pennsylvania Hotel Marcel Gaudachon, Kitchen Delegate, Hotel Astor V. Mastro, Picket Captain, Waiter, Hotel New Weston Herbert Schneider, Waiter Delegate, Longchamps, 57th Street Protest Chen Du Siu's Imprisonment (Signed by numerous individuals from the following organizations, C.P., I.L.P., N.A.F.T.A., N.U.D.A.W., W.U., Chemical Workers Union, C.W.U., A.E.U. Subs Double February 6 Feb 2, 1934 Call 30,000 Cab Drivers in General Strike, by Carl Cowl Big Companies Already Tied Up CWA Workers Rebel Brand Lies on Union Contracts Show Complete List of Amalgamated Demands Strike Committee Unanimous Demand for Wage Scale of Kitchen Scabs a Flop at Casino de Paree "Daily Worker" Hits Hotel Strike With Slander and False Charges Grand Central Joins in Strike Strike Has Cut Menus to the Bone Stories by Diners Show Hotel Men Bluffing What the Amalgamated Stands For Editorial Boss Press Persists In Fighting Strike Hitler: One Year After, by Joe Carter Hitlerism in the Saddle Workers Left Leaderless The United Front Fascism Doomed The Wrecking Crew at Work The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Official Censorship of Union Press Censorship Laws Cited Subs Rise 7 Feb 10, 1934 (The disclosure has changed back to "Published Weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition)" Paris Masses Shake Corrupt French Regime Reaction in Power with Dumergue Masses and the Crisis The Stavisky Affair Latest Developments in the N.Y. Hotel Strike Lewis Triumphs at Mine Convention, by Arne Swabeck Another "Victory" for Lewis The U.M.W. of A. Convention An "Industrial Statesman" The Conciliation Hoax No Strike Assurances The Insurgent Unions Editorial (Concerns the N.Y. hotel and restaurant workers general strike) Significance of Taxi Drivers' Strike Analyzed, by Thomas Stamm Cab Drivers In Huge Meet At Garden, by S.A. Militant Action in Cab Walkout, by B.C. Militancy Shown in Taxi Strike Scab Cars Run Off Streets of N.Y., by S.G.B. Nab Khaki Shirt In Cab Driver Murder Letters from the Militants- (The next 7 articles are letters) C.W.A. Workers Must Unite as One, by G. A "Shoppe" Under a N.R.A. Code, by J.T. Extra Work Without Pay "Fixing" Labor Inspectors A Pig-Sty of a Hospital, by J.T. An Expulsion at High Speed, by David Udell No Answer to Questions Member of Section Committee Becomes a "Counter-Revolutionist" The Jew-Baiters in Chicago, by R.L. Hotel Scab Agencies Fall Through, by Arne Swabeck Fired by the C.W.A. But Not Hired!, by J.H. Pioneer Publishers The Soviet Union and the Fourth International, by Leon Trotsky Important Offer 569 Subs! Our School in Brooklyn The Unpleasant Task of O. Piatnitsky and How Lenin Is Used to "Help" Him, by Harry Strang Ignores Real Issue How Piatnitsky "Edits" Lenin Organize Jewish Club in Brownsville American-Soviet Agreement The Significance of Russian Recognition by the United States, by J. Kamiat Just Arrived! (The Bulletin of the Russian Opposition) Who Was Bishop Tourian "Unser Wort" a Weekly, by Leon Trotsky A Real Achievement A Note to Branches Discussion of Youth Problems, by Florence Wyle On Industrial Activity The Movement in Mexico, by C.C. Revolutionary Events As Seen by Our Own Correspondent Stalinist Provocation Young Internationalists Persecution of Comrades Marxist Education Demagogy of Government Trotsky's Works Popular Bolshevik Congress Once and Now, by Leon Trotsky On the Eve of the Congress Bureaucratic Dictatorship and Social Contradictions 8 Feb 17, 1934 Austrian Workers Fight Heroic Battle, by Max Shachtman Show Proletarian Will In War Against Fascism Austrian Workers Fight Points The Way To World Proletariat Austria Next in Order, by Leon Trotsky A United Front on Austria Cops Slug Workers In Austria Protest C.P. Disrupts Garden Meet Hotel Strike Strikers Take "Militant" French Gov't In War Move Reactionary French Government in War Moves An "Aggressive Tone" Need of United Struggle C.I. Phrasemongering Priests Bless Fascist Guns, by Aquinas 645 Subs 9 Feb 24, 1934 Heading Straight For Another World War, by Arne Swabeck Horrible Spectre of a New Imperialist Holocaust Menaces the Whole World Collapse of Austro-Marxism In the Vienna Struggle, by S. A Fatal Policy Banking on Dollfuss The Dissatisfied Masses Adler's Indictment Coal Yard Workers Win Strike in Minneapolis, by V.R.D. Militant Battle Brings a Speedy Victory To Drivers The "Cruising Picket Squad" Inspiration and Example For Union Workers Vandalism! NRA Attacks Hotel Strike Need Militant Policy to Overcome Crisis in Ranks A Critical Situation Quick Action Needed Shoe Union Forges Ahead Amalgamation Rolls over Reactionary Opposition Mahan's Workshop The Fight at Lowell Elections in New York Shops The C.W.A. Front- 10,000 Demonstrate in New York Inwood Park Marine Park Prospect Park, by K. Wage Cuts, by K. Shachtman Tour Revolt in the Blockers Union Reactionary Clique Struggle Threatens Split Results of Clique Struggle Fishing In Troubled Waters Where Will Revolt Lead? The Right Road Maintain United Local Money vs Men Capital and Labor in the Hotel Strike Things the Minneapolis Coal-yard Workers Won't Forget, by V.R.D. Another United Front Burlesque, by J.S.G. Oneal Discovers "Trotskyism" by S. Socialist Locals Come Out For The Fourth International Oneal Distorts Facts Social Democratic Legends The Case of Hungary Stalinism Is Not Communism MPLS Labor Notes, by C.F. Minneapolis Mooney Conference Marks Time Stalinism on Austria, by Joseph Carter Comments Refute Course in Germany Here and There with the United Front, by Thomas Stamm Vital Questions of the New Party, by Max Shachtman The Program of the A.W.P. The Decisive Question Settled Questions The International Approach S.P. "Neutrality" in the Unions The Waterloo of Pseudo-Radicalism, by G.C. Vienna: the Socialist "Millennium" The Capitalist Press Bourgeois Praise of Austro-Marxism Vienna The Symbol Reformist Utopia Ad Nauseum From the Daily Worker Reports of the 17th Congress of the C.P.S.U. Against Hooliganism March 10 Mar 10, 1934 Toward the New Party, by James P. Cannon Internationalism and the A.W.P. The Paramount Question The A.W.P. Program New Parties and New International--A Single Task Marxism Is Not A Foreign Product Concepts of Internationalism Can the National Parties Develop Independently? Organization Methods Which International? Spring Festival Big Crowd at Debate, by G.R. Cannon and Lovestone Discuss Internationals A Statement on the Rakovsky Case, by Leon Trotsky N.R.A. and Company Unions Corporations Win the Fake "Elections" "Protecting Workers' Rights" Weirton Steel Case Enforcing Company Union Plan Compulsory Arbitration Scheme End of the N.Y. Hotel Strike Left Wing Fights to Rebuild Amalgamated Union Discrimination Against Strike Militants NRA and Strike Leadership The Left Wing Organizes Rebuild the Amalgamated! French Internationalists Appeal to the Masses (Appeal of the Communist League of France (Bolshevik-Leninists) published in "La Verite" of February 16) To The Workers of France! How Shall the Struggle Be Carried On? Hard Times Missed Bosses, by W.R. "Presidents" Increased Salaries and Bonuses Hill Draws A Mere Million Schwab Gets a Raise Hardship For Some "Captains" C.W.A. News- C.W.A. Layoffs Hillside Park Inwood Park, by Ross C.W.A. Separations, by A.W.C. Letters to the Editor- Another Preparedness Parade in Frisco, by George Ellis The Parade of 1916 No Bomb This Time Aftermath of the Garden Affair A Stalinist Argument The Daily Worker and the Hotel Strike, by Herbert Solow Goldin Clique in Blind Alley Unscrupulous Policy Endangers Unity in Blockers Union Genuine Revolt Against Zaritsky Stalinist Rise with Goldin Sudden Concern for Principles The United Blockers' League The I.L.D. in the Capitalist Courts The Cuban Bolshevik-Leninists Pledge Fund Militant Builders 789 Subs! Shachtman Tour Are There Limits to the Fall? by Leon Trotsky Summary of the 13th Plenum of the Executive of the C.I. "The Policy of the German C.P. Was Correct"! The Growth of Fascism The Social Democracy The Reasoning of Anarchism A Provoking Idiocy A Phantom Universe Figures from the "Yearbooks" Explaining the Facts Stalinism Assisted Hitler Directives Contradict Analysis A Self-Indicting Recommendation Perspectives New Revolutionary Situations The New International Estimating the Socialist Rifts "Counter-Revolutionary" Aftermath of the Madison Square Garden Affair The Intellectuals Revolt Against Stalinist Hooliganism "Discussion" a la C.P. Intellectuals and the Party United Front from Below The Rebels' Destiny 11 Mar 17, 1934 Taxi Strikers Battling for Union Recognition N.R.A. Labor Board Conspires With Bosses to Break Strike and Impose Company Union Intolerable Conditions Mrs. Herrick Bats for Bosses The Strikers' Demands Spring Festival and Dance Court Denies Habeas Writ to A. Bellussi Deportation to Fascist Italy Reaffirmed Shachtman Speaks for the New Party on National Tour National Scope of Tour The Paris Commune, by Joseph Carter The Rise of the Commune Mistakes of the Commune Heirs of the Communards The Party--the Instrument of Struggle Wholesale Layoffs on All C.W.A. Projects Begin, by G.G. "Paupers Oath" Forced on Government Employees 11,000 Get the Gate The "Pink" Discharge Slip Tough Luck for Bright Boy Cut Wage of Paterson Textile Workers GRammercy 5-9524--- Cannon to Speak on Program of the 4th International 854 New Subs! 500 Unorganized Printers in Mass Meeting in N.Y. Government Inquisition for the Workers, by K. Questionnaire Pries Into Private Affairs Big May Day Edition of the Militant Letters to the Editor- New York Furriers Situation, by Kamenetsky Chaos in Shops Both Unions Impotent Shady Role of Lovestoneites Preparing Strike for June Strike of New York Dental Mechanics, by Herbert Capelis Facts About the Strike The Mechanics' Union Policy of the Leadership The Bosses' Organizations Fight for the Union Expulsion of B.J. Field and A Kaldis Organization Notes- The International Bulletin New York Reorganization The Madison Square Garden Boomerang Fake United Fronts Crack Up Sympathizers Alienated Inside the C.P. Mood of the Workers International Workers School Notes, by J. Weber (Next 5 articles) Militant Pledge Fund Oakland Bookshop and Forum March of Events After the CWA What? Madison Square Garden England Centrism and the 4th International, by Leon Trotsky Realignments in the International Labor Movement Characteristics of Centrism Centrist Ideology On the International Arena Words and Deeds The London Bureau Bureaucratic Centrism Adaption to Reformist Maneuvers New Forms of Struggle Events Force Realignments The Fourth International Conditions for Success The Basic Historic Task Communism and the Intellectuals Toward an Alliance of the Workers and Intellectuals A Year of Probation Shattering the Intellectual Facade The Challenge of the Intellectuals The Political Situation in Spain, by L.Fersen, Prison Celular, Madrid, January 26, 1934 Workers Prepare for Struggle United Front in Catalonia For National Alliance Organizing the CWA White Collar Workers Marine Park, by J.E. The "League Against War and Fascism" in Action at Newark Roosevelt's "12 Points" Against the Workers, by Hugo Oehler Speak to the "Captains of Industry" The "12 Points" Ballyhoo Reducing the Hours Senator Wagner's Admissions "Reforming" the C.I. Shachtman Tour 12 Mar 24,1934 Toward the Fourth International, by Albert Glotzer Revolutionary Youth Meet in International Conference Another Step on the Road to the New International German Delegates Handed over to Hitler Police Conference Reorganized Reports of National Sections Proposals of S.A.P. Youth Standpoint of I.C.L. Agreement on Amended Thesis Appeal to All Revolutionary Youth Great Tasks Ahead The Strange Adventures of Insull, by G.E. National Tour of Shachtman Builds for the New Party Dutch Police Deport Youth Delegates to Germany! Mass Delegations On CWA Work Go to Washington Lining Up For Big May Day Edition Of the Militant The New Strike Wave Organized Labor Under the NRA Company Unions Gain Under the NRA Green Admits the NRA Cannot Help Real Wages International Workers School Notes The Automobile Workers Revolt New York Taxi Drivers Continue Militant Fight For Union Demands of the Union Hostile to NRA Court Hits At Substitute Teachers, by H.L. Organizing the Home Relief Workers Disruptive Tactics 919 New Subs! Greek Workers' Club "Protomagia" Shachtman Tour Schedule Troyanovsky -- 1916 And 1934, by Harry Strang Troyanovsky Accuses Lenin "An International Scientific Society" "Deny Necessity of International" Australian Youth Organizations (By the International Communist League of Australia) Membership Internal Affairs of the Y.C.L. Youth Sections Suggested Organizational Form March of Events, by Jack Weber Manhattan Housing Cuba The Japanese-English Textile Negotiations One Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck The Technique of Serving the Exploiters and Fooling the Masses The Demagogy of Roosevelt Program Fear Collapse of System The Ballyhoo Technique Not a "Revolution" Wall Street Not Really Disturbed The Big Interests and the Codes Discussion Article On the Resolution of the National Youth Committee, by Rae Spiegel Liberal Phraseology Lenin on the Jacobins The Struggle of the Masses Communism and the Intellectuals A Program for the Intellectuals Discussion Not Enough Mass Organizations a Necessity Build Mass Organizations Now! The British Hunger March, by T.C. "Congress of Action" A Peaceful Demonstration Comintern Reply to I.L.P. I.L.P. Conferences Editorial- The Furriers' Problem, by James P. Cannon Honor Among Thieves Rural Housing "Party Life" Correction (Concerns the article " Organizing the CWA White Collar Workers") March Young Spartacus Militant Pledge Fund N.Y. Printers Demand Unionization 13 Mar 31, 1934 For the 4th International (By the International Secretariat, League of Communist-Internationalists, Geneva, March 1934) Appeal of the Communist-Internationalists to the Workers of the World The Bankruptcy of the Leadership Which is the Way Out The Proletariat Must Forge a New Weapon The Proletariat Can Crush Fascism A Program of Action Workers of the World Reviewing the News, by Bill Tammany Hall "Success" of British C.P. Letters to the Editor- Another Opinion on the Furriers' Situation, by Leon Koenig Terroristic Methods Democracy in International Editor's Reply, by James P. Cannon Unconvincing Arguments The Criterion of the Mass Consistent Principle Sick-Bed Repentance 992 New Subs! Shachtman on Tour New Castle Youngstown Stalinists Frustrated Stalinist Hoodlums Mobilize Dealing With the Disrupters Shachtman on Tour Schedule March of Events The A. F. of L. Bureaucracy The Role of Roosevelt The Philippines The New York Post and Civic Virtue International Agitation For Deported Youth Add New Names to Pledge Fund to Sustain Militant The Pledgers "Expert" Deals Foul Blow at the N.Y. Teachers, by H.L. A Storm of Protest Organize the Unemployed The Betrayal of the Auto Workers A. F. of L. Sabotage and Treachery The Role of Roosevelt An Old Lesson Taught Again The Task of the Militants Plan Early Publication of the "New International" Theoretical Organ of Revolutionary Marxism Out in May Bellussi Gets 30 Days Stay Greek Workers' Club Lecture (On war and the 4th International) 500 at Cannon Lecture on International Program Lecture Course on the Subject to Follow Successful Meeting CWA Delegations March in Protest at Washington Explaining the "New Deal" Program A Tail to the Socialist Kite Attempts to Split the Amalgamated Hotel Workers The Opportunists in Home Relief Workers Body One Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Aid to Big Financiers Government Money Flows Standardizing on a Lower Level Unemployment and Reduced Hours The Real Aim of the New Deal Inside the C.C.C. Camps, by Carlos Hudson International Notes Lithuania Germany The Left Movement in Poland, by Victor Effects of Crises Trade Union Debacle The Internal Regime In the Party The Opposition The Right Wing and Labor Party, by J.G. Wright April TM Q2 1934 14 Apr 7, 1934 All Together Against Reaction on May Day (By the New York City Committee, Communist League of America) On Father Coughlan 4 Deported Youth in Grave Danger in Hitler Germany The Nazi Program Fascist Elections Dryer Taken to Court by A.F. of L. Official End of the New York Taxi Strike, by Thomas Stamm Politics in the Strike Bloc With Stalinists Tammany and the Socialists Contradictions Come Out Future Lines Appeal to the Young Workers of the World Committee Organized to Aid Anthony Bellussi Arrest Leaders of The Cuban Labor Movement A Veteran Militant Reviewing the News, by Bill Manuilsky Blames Stalin Senator Thayer and the Power Trust "Holy Joe" McKee The Police and the Taxi Strike The C.P. Convention--A Forecast Letters to the Editor- From a C.P. Member "The Menace of Trotskyism" Merely Tactical Differences From a I.L.D. Member Pledge Fund 20 New Pledges Previously Reported 1014 New Subs! Over the Top! Shachtman Tour Schedule Russian Bulletin Organization Notes_ New York City Conference Organized Labor Under the N.R.A. The Auto "Settlement" NRA Tightens Grip to Prevent Strikes The Wagner Bill Railroad Struggle Left to President Wage Increases Herald Further Inflation March of Events, by Jack Weber The Period of Concessions Closing The Open Shop Drive Dividing the Movement Bourgeois Nightmares 15 Apr 14, 1934 Movement on Behalf of Four Deported Germans Grows Non-Partisan Defense Committee Initiates the Movement in the United States Protest Movement Grows Rousing Meetings On Shachtman Tour Several Meetings In Chicago Order May Day Special Edition Of the Militant After the C.W.A. Disproof of Roosevelt's Claims Need of Unemployment Insurance Railroad Robins and Gras for Work in Hotel Strike Hostile Rulings of Judge Fascists Attack Rivera Cuban Arrests Club Plan Drive for 1000 More Subs The International Bulletin Minneapolis Workers Fight Starvation Program, by W.K. Militant Demonstrations of Ten Thousand Unemployed at City Hall Refuses to Receive Committee Cops Throw Tear Gas Bombs Arrest of Committee Fighting Qualities of Workers Stalinist Policy For the United Front Important Notice N.Y. Conference Against War Is Pacifist Affair Cannon to Speak On War and the 4th International Anti-Fascist Dinner For Bellussi Arrested June 17 Speakers at Dinner Reviewing the News, by Bill The C.P. Convention Convention Highlights Horse Thieves and Politicians LaGuardia--S.P.--C.P. Suicide Letters to the Editor- (Next 4 articles) The Furriers Again, by Jackinson Expulsion from I.L.D. Los Angeles Milliners, by Samuel Meyers Disruptionist Policy A Pacifist Morass, by M.G. Pledge Fund An Appeal to Our Sympathizers New Pledgers Shachtman on Tour Williston, N.D., by A.G. Miller Minneapolis, by Wm. Curran Speech on "Austrian Events" Downtown Meeting St. Paul Meeting More About St. Paul Under the N.R.A. Federal Union and Company Unions Dr. Wirt and the NRA Open Shop and Company Unions Mrs. Pinchot Says Wall Street Rules Johnson The Cuban Situation After Grau (Translated from "Rayo", organ of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of Cuba) The Petty Bourgeois Farce Position of the Bolshevik-Leninists The Fight for Revolutionary Juntas C.P. Loses its Bearings The Duty of the Vanguard "Braintrust" Conspiracy, by G.R. Patriots to the Defense Wm, A, Wirt from Gary A Centrist Attack on Marxism, by Leon Trotsky A "Non-Orthodox" Point of View The Class Theory of Society Ideas and Classes Historic Role of Classes Echoes of Bernstein The Austrian Constitution A Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Article III The NRA Illusion Unionism the Issue Role of Craft Unionism Basic Policy of Capitalists Force for Union Organization Union at Crossroads The Labor Front Shachtman Tour Schedule Russian Bulletin Brownsville Relief Demonstration Harlem Workers Club Fascists in N.Y. 16 Apr 21, 1934 Reaction Hounds Trotsky Organize a Fight for the Right of Asylum in U.S. The United Front--For and Against Asylum U.S. Once a Refuge for Exiles 50,000 Manifestoes How Trotsky Lived and Worked in Exile Before And Was Deported from Country to Country London Congress Ten Years of Exile War and More Deportation New York in 1917 1917 Revolution Spectre of Communism in The Fourth International, by James P. Cannon (Alternate spelling of "Specter") Reactionaries Strike at Leon Trotsky The Political Meaning of the Attack Why They Fear the Fourth International The Real Issues Break Through No Refuge in Capitalist Countries Under the NRA Injunction Based on NRA Trust Busters Plan Fight Profits Increase Under NRA Social Origins of Crime "Triple Unionism" by W. Lenin on Trade Union Tactics New Method of Disruption Militant Builders How Coover Does It New Subs Shachtman Tour Schedule Help the Cuban Struggle Nazis Violate Tomb Of Eckstein Austrian Fighters Sentenced The Stalinist Conference League Statement to Conference (By New York Local, Communist League of America) March of Events, by Jack Weber All Eyes to France Uniting of the Forces of Reaction Fascist or Proletarian Dictatorship? The Farmer and American Imperialism The Farmers as Social Anchor Once More on Centrism, by Leon Trotsky Trotsky Answers the Criticism of Dutch O.S.P. Paper "De Fakkel" on Centrism Centrism and Centrism Stages of Development Left Centrist Groupings The London-Amsterdam Bureau Old Arguments of the Stalinists From Marxist Quality to Mass Quantity Discussion Article On the Resolution of the National Youth Committee, by Bernard M. Landau The Tasks of the National Youth Committee, by Nathan Gould Sectarian Organization Education and Mass Work Necessary Steps Who Lost the National Income? by George Roberts An Analysis of Facts and Figures Regarding Wages and Dividends Wages in 1931 Dividing the National Income Bosses' Income Stood Up Commodity Prices The 59 Cent Dollar Wages and Interest Dutch Aid Hitler Reviewing the News, by Bill L'Humanite and Liberte Stalin and Kemal Pasha H. George Invents a Plot "Vanguard of the Bourgeoisie" "Against Fascism--For the Fourth International" For the Fourth International The Historic Declaration of the Four Organizations at Paris (Signed by E. Bauer--International Left Opposition (Marxist-Leninist), J. Schwab--S.A.P. (Socialist Workers Party of Germany) J.P. Schmidt--O.S.P. (Independent Socialist Party of Holland) and K. Sneevliet--R.S.P. (Revolutionary Socialist Party of Holland) Robins and Gras Sentenced The International Bulletin Pledge Fund The Pledgers Labor Groups Protest Action of Dutch Government Organizations Signing Protest Labor Conference Sends Protest 17 Apr 28, 1934 All Out to Madison Square Garden on May Day!, by James P. Cannon Revolutionary Workers March Under the Banner of the Communist League of America Madison Square and Union Square Socialists and Communists Who Are the Revolutionary Workers! Party Meeting or United Front? The Stand of the Communist League The Road to the United Front May Day The Record of the Past Year Result of False Policies The Road of the United Front The Struggle in the U.S. Lenin's May Day Appeal to the Russian Workers, by V.I. Lenin, May 1, 1896 The "United Front", by W. Mass Basis for Common Struggle "United Front With Individuals" "New "Generals' for Old" Playing the Fascist Game Payless Furlough for N.Y. Teachers, by H.L. Second Wage Cut The Teachers' Enemy The Teachers' Union Reform the Union March of Events, by Jack Weber Japan's Monroe Doctrine for Asia Japanese Uncertainty The Danger of Waiting Roosevelt and Nationalization What is the Meaning of Rakovsky's Surrender?, by Leon Trotsky Center Shifted to West The Struggle for Industrialization Defeats of the Proletariat The Example of Kirov Effects of Isolation Hitler Aided Stalin Light Will Come From West Cuban Revolution, by M. Garcia Villareal Stalinism Kneels to American Imperialism Reasons for the Defeat Road to Emancipation Opened Confusing the Masses A Treasonable Capitulation New Revolutionary Explosion Impending America vs Japan in Latin America, by C.C. Japanese Exports Tendency Alarms U.S. U.S. Exports to South America Do the Figures Spell War? The Collapse of the Disarmament Bubble, by G.R. Bankruptcy of "Peace" Agencies Peace Pacts--and Wars Reviewing the News, by Bill Statesmen at Albany Tammany Gang Chief Dropped "History" by Sam Don The Facts The Hosanna Chorus The Revolutionary Union The C.I. Open Letter Cleveland Convention of the C.P., by Arne Swabeck The Events of Four Years They Learned Nothing Repeat the Old Errors Philadelphia Branch and the Militant 400 Hail Move for New Defense at Bellussi Meet Speakers Warmly Received Advocate Non-Partisan Organization Stalinist Hoodlums Attack Shachtman L.A. Meeting San Francisco Meeting, by Florence Wyle Militant is Barred From Canada Young Spartacus May 18 May 5, 1934 Left Currents in the S.P., by James P. Cannon The Revolutionary Policy Committee Dangers Facing the Left Wing The State and Revolution For Arming the Workers The Workers' Councils and the Struggle for Power Necessary Amendment to Program Leader of the Spanish C.P. Resigns Post In the New York May Day Parade (Photo) Marching Under the Banner of the Communist League (Photo) Capitalists of All Countries Close Their Doors to Leon Trotsky Sudden Death of A.A. Buehler Terror in Hitler Germany "America First" Parade is Fiasco At Minneapolis, by R. Traitors in the Labor Ranks Fight for the United Front Greatest May Day in the History Of New York Labor Movement Mexican Police Seize International Communists Com. Cora Duff Dead (Obituary) Shachtman Speaks at St. Louis Meet Reviewing the News, by Bill "Democratic" Traditions "Tricks of the Press" Bert Wolfe Shachtman Meeting at K.C., by F.S. Old and New Organization Forms, by Hugo Oehler Remoulding Workers' Organizations (Variant Spelling of "Remolding") Shop Delegate Bodies New Form to the Fore Utilize Federal Unions The Answer to the NRA Cleveland Convention of the C.P., by Arne Swabeck (Continued from last issue) New "Federation of Labor" Fluctuations of Membership Under the NRA Oneal on the Communist Sickness, by O.W. Watters Two Sides of the NRA Statement of Jack Hackverdian, by Jack Hackverdian Paterson Silk Workers Club To Extend Organization Foundations for a Communist Youth League, by Martin Abern Youth and Militarism Preparing For War, by W. Not Disarming, but Rearming "Congresses" Against War Hearst Speaks Out Another Hearst Editorial Talks of "World Revolution" Decisive Struggles Approach In Spain The Workers' Alliance New Alignment of Proletariat Labor and the New Deal, by S. Fisher Violating Codes Civil Liberties Survey "Protecting" Labor Rights Railroad Pay Cuts March of Events, by Jack Weber Diplomacy at the Breaking Point The Attack on Labor Deepens Who is Aided, Who is Not? The Crisis in the Pocketbook Makers' Union What the Code Provides Role of the "Fraternal Club" Who is Responsible Incompetence of Officials Walinsky and his Gang New Administration Needed Mobilize the Workers Wage Standards Destroyed Program of Demands United Front Against Hooliganism in L.A. (By Allen Stiller, Sec'y L.A. Branch, A.W.P.) Statement of Los Angeles A.W.P. Wipe Out This Hooliganism The Whole Labor Movement Of Los Angeles Must Unite to Prevent a Repetition of the Brooklyn Hall Scandal Hooligans! A Menace to the Whole Labor Movement Unite to Burn Hooliganism Out of the Labor Movement 19 May 12, 1934 New Trends in the Trade Union Movement, by Arne Swabeck Leaders Under Fire New Forces in the Unions Rank and File Revolts Officials in a Dilemma Danger of Premature Splits Trend Towards Industrial Unionism "United Front" in Chicago, by Norman Satir Stalinists Celebrate May Day by Hooligan Attack on International Communists on Parade A Hooligan Attack The "Leader" of the Hooligans Dental Mechanics Strike at Baltimore Labor Board Steps In Partial Victory for Union Young Socialists and Spartacus Youth Sponsor United Front Bulletin Discussion at the Conference Yipsel Amendment New York's May Day in Review, by B. Minneapolis Union Prepares For Action, by R. Three Thousand Transport Workers Organize Forces to Fight For Demands Workers Flock to Union Coal Yard Workers in Vanguard Role of Labor Board Wolinsky Gang Seize Control of Pocketbook Union Reactionary Elements Progressive Forces Divided Reviewing the News, by Bill Death of Woodin The Police and the Crooks The Daily Worker and the "Renegades" Dope From the Hop-Joints On "Shorty" Buehler and Cora Duff, by George Clarke A Revolutionist Since 1913 Moving Spirit of Kansas City Branch "Don't Mourn But Organize" Shachtman Meeting in Davenport, by Betty Roland The Cuban Revolution on the Defensive, by Thomas Stamm Advance of Reaction Perspective of Struggles Democratic Demands Situation in U.S. Terror in the Imperial Valley, by Harry Ross Methods of Intimidation Red Scare in the News Pledge Fund Minneapolis Rail Workers Organize Program of Demands Executive Committee Elected Cause of High Dues March of Events, by Jack Weber The New German Decrees "Iron Heel" Legislation The Value of Organization The New York Post and the Middle Class Before the Socialist Party Convention, by Albert Glotzer Groupings in the Party Basis Causes of the Groupings Roots in the International Situation Probing the Disputes Nazis Exploit Winter Help World Revolution or World Fascism, by Joseph S. Giganti Louis Fisher Slays "Trotskyism" Again, by Jack Weber Cause of Rakovsky's Capitulation "Socialism in One Country" Trotsky's Position What Stalin Once Wrote Industrialisation (Variant spelling of "Industrialization") Who Killed the Comintern? "Trotsky's World Revolution" Propaganda of the Hirelings Close-up of Stalinism The Imperialist Conflicts Over the Chinese Markets, by Hugo Oehler The Struggle for China International Policy Decisive Enlarging the Contradictions The U.S. and England Upset "Balance of Power" Militant Builders The New Subs Theatre Party The International Position of the Revolutionary Policy Committee, by James P. Cannon Which Way for the R.P.C. Internationalism--Paramount Question Against the Second International! A Bad "Strategy" The Role of Centrism The Marxist Fight Against Centrism The Revolutionary Way Out Waukegan Meeting, by O.A. Watters 20 May 19, 1934 The Johnson Bill and Credit to the U.S.S.R., by Thomas Stamm Purpose of the Loans The Russian Market Soviet Union Needs Credit Pressure on Soviet Union Fight for Soviet Credits! N.Y. Youth Conference Against War Bulletin Slogans of the Day Point of Conflict No Agreement Reached Second Strike Wave Under the N.R.A., by Arne Swabeck Pitched Battles The Strike Waves Under NRA Issue is Organization Trotsky Remains Without Place of Asylum; Nazi Paper Demands Banishment to Distant Island Trotsky Behind the Troubles in France The Solitary Writer Seeking Refuge. What Was Found in a Neukoelin Barrack Trotsky Undermines Germany! New Court Battle For Freedom of Mooney First Appeal to U.S. Courts The Case of Mr. Dillinger, by Carlos Hudson A High Class Bandit Flower of Capitalism Doriot Expelled From French C.P. Record of Doriot February Events C.P. Rejects United Front French Workers Begin to Act Leninist Influence Grows Statement of Non-Partisan Labor Defense on German Deportees, by Herbert Solow, Sec'y. Provisional Committee for Non-Partisan Labor Defense (From Press Service of Non-Partisan Labor Defense) Romain Rolland Joins Protest Organization Notes- The League is Growing on the Pacific Coast Truth About Dachau Told by Manchester Guardian March of Events, by Jack Weber Amter's United Front with Fascists Completing the Cycle of Folly Petty-Bourgeois Cringing! The Real Significance of Rakovsky's Capitulation (From "La Verite"--Paris) Before the Detroit Convention Of the Socialist Party, by Albert Glotzer The Paris Conference Of the 2nd International Leading Role of German Party Wels Defends Policy in Germany Polish Bund Leads Fight Right Wing Dominates Congress Resolution of Polish Bund Left Wing Confuses Issues Left Tendencies Grow Perspectives of the Fight A Critical Analysis of the American Workers Party, by Felix Morrow The Political Evolution of the C.P.L.A. The Past of the A.W.P. December Conference Further Analysis Needed The Role of the Party "Too Much Better" Editorial Needed Now: A New Defence Organization, by James P. Cannon (Variant spelling of "Defense") Crime and Economics, by Carlos Hudson Starving Men Steal Prison Statistics The Economic Factor in Crime Toward the National Workers' Alliance in Spain, by Andres Nin (Editorial in"La Autorcha", new fortnightly organ of the Spanish Communist League--Bolshevik-Leninists--May 1, 1934) Vitality of Alliance Lesson of Experiences For a National Conference New York Organization Notes Twelve New Members in One Week Reviewing the News, by Bill Mike Gold the Mathematical Wizard Politicians and Their Price We Are Challenged American Traditions--A Fable 21 May 26, 1934 Minneapolis Shows the Way, by F.K. Militant Mass Picket Line Routs Scabs, Cops, Special Deputies and Thugs and Stops All Commercial Transport Building Trades in Sympathy Strike; Womens Auxiliary Active in Fight; Workers' Spirit Soars All Transport Stopped Battle at the Market Bosses Try Terror Miserable Role of Stalinists Telegram to The Militant, by K. Learn From Minneapolis, by James P. Cannon The Message of Minneapolis Mass Action The Sympathetic Strike The Bolshevik Militants Non-Partisan Labor Defense Protests Police Attack on Workers Youth Demonstration Against War And Fascism on May 30th Stalinists Force Split Mobilize for May 30 Reviewing the News, by Bill Gigolos and Kings May 1st and May 17th The Crisis and the Socialist Party Olgin on Browder's Masterly Report The Foreign Policy of Japan Japan's Claim to Hegemony British Policy Anti-Soviet Policy Strike of Los Angeles Longshoremen The Railroad Wage Settlement, by Weaver Labor Leaders and Capitalists in Mutual Appreciation Workers' Pressure Forces a Change Another Sell-Out Accomplished Who Will Lead the Workers? Militant Builders Second Club Plan Drive Ends August 1st New Subs Complete Record And "Underground Union", by Thomas Stamm "No Influence on Teachers' Movement "Union" Goes Underground Fights Teachers' Union March of Events British Imperialism in Retreat Threat of Japanese Bonapartism The Soviet Union Slowly Encircled Litvinov and the League of Nations "New Group" For a "New Party", by Max Shachtman The Gitlow Group and the Field Clique Form a "Principled Bloc" The Negotiations with Gitlow Group Fundamental Questions Ambiguous Formulations "Socialism in One Country" Declaration of Four The Paramount Question Policy of the League The "Pair of Deuces" "Deuces" Become Allies League not "Radical" Enough Mutual Amnesty Critical Analysis of the A.W.P., by Felix Morrow The Political Meaning of "Adaption to the American Scene" What Sectarianism Means False Characterization of C.P. Origin of False Analysis Relics of Reformism Who Are the "Marxists" No "Simple" Analysis The Left Face of the Socialist Party, by Albert Goldman Impetus to Revolutionary Elements No Attraction in Comintern Heterogeneous Elements The Middle-West Group A Typical Centrist Group Reformist Theories Revolutionary Policy Committee Struggle for Leadership Gist of the Question Fourth International Manifesto Darrow Speaks for the Middle Class, by Hugo Oehler Darrow Speaks for Middle Class Pressure on the Workers Who is the NRA For? Finance Capital and the New Deal Wolinsky--Bosses' Agent Anti-Nazi Demonstration in N.Y., by Harry Strang United Front In Action Meeting in Times Square June 22 Jun 2, 1934 Strike Wave Sweeps Country Union Recognition Gained by Militant Minneapolis Battles, by James P. Cannon Victory is an Inspiration to Workers Everywhere General Strike Looms in Toledo Background of the Struggle Tricked by Labor Board No Delay on General Strike! Unite in Support of Toledo! The Sprit of the Blue Eagle (Political cartoon) Longshoremens' Strike Ties Up Pacific Coast Ports, by Florence Wyle Longshoremen Strike All Pacific Ports Bosses Want Job Control for Company Union The "Red" Issue Enters the Strike, by Fred Crique General Strike the Answer if Troops Are Called Out Communist League Makes New Gains On Pacific Coast At the Minneapolis City Market "The Battle of Deputy Run" The Battle of "Deputies Run" How the Strike Was Organized Organizing the Strike The Details of Organization An Effective Strategy of Picketing Concentration of Mass Picketing Handling Stool-Pigeons Minneapolis Strike Reveals Splendid Organization and Militancy Support From Other Unions Workers Show Fighting Ability Reviewing the News. by Bill A Professor Speaks Democracy and the T.U.U.L. The "Higher Strategy" of Stalin Police Brutality Strikers vs. Labor Leaders Roosevelt, the Friend of Labor The Strike in the Bay District National Tour Finds League Advancing, by Max Shachtman League Views Receive Serious Attention S.P. Members Attend Meetings The Stalinist Party in Decline Other Hoodlum Tactics Fail Excellent Recruits for the League Picnic June 24th (To greet the arrival of "New International") On the Political Scene in Mexico The Electoral Campaign May Day in Mexico City March of Events, by Jack Weber "Stop Fooling with Labor"! Finance Capital to the Attack Who is Bigger?" The Road to Fascism Positions of Conflicting Groups in the Socialist Party, by Albert Glotzer The R.P.C. and Its Program The Fundamental Questions The R.P.C. R.P.C. Program The Question of the State "Reforming" the 2nd International Under the Iron Heel of Chiang Kai Shek, by Lucifer Theoretical Organ Out July 1st (The "New International," the article lists features and authors in the first issue) Critical Analysis of the American Workers Party, by Felix Morrow What is Its Position On Internationalism A Lesson in "Law and Order", by William Kitt All Ready for the Big Battle Women Active on Firing Line Women on Picket Line! The Women's Auxiliary Demonstration at City Hall A Brush with Deputies Women--Into the Class Struggle! Role of the League in Strike 23 Jun 9, 1934 Partial Victory Gained By Toledo Workers Ask for Government Intervention A. F. of L. Leaders Force Retreat Mighty Demonstration of Solidarity Socialist Party Does Its Part Mooney Appeal Goes to the U.S. Supreme Court (Includes a letter from Tom Mooney appealing for funds to be used for his legal defense) Roosevelt's New Cuban Treaty, by Hugo Oehler Socialist Party Adopts "Militant" Position At Detroit National Convention, by James P. Cannon League in Campaign to Build Organization and Press Defend Thaelmann-Torgler Nation Wide Strike Looms Throughout Steel Industry Mighty Attack on Company Union Fortress Planned The Fear of the Strike Spreading Will the Union Fight it Out? Strike on Pacific Coast Extends to Shipyards, by Fred Crique Longshoremen Stand Ground General Strike Sentiment Growing Reviewing the News, by Bill The Stalinist United Front with God Trotsky, Thaelmann, and Stool-Pigeons Radek and the League of Nations Steel Facts and Figures, by Weaver What Did the Owners Get? On Whom Can the Workers Rely Capital and Labor Under the NRA National Tour Shows League Influence, by Max Shachtman League Continues Gains in Frisco. by Fred Crique I.L.D. Refuses to Defend Prisoners Weirton Steel Mills, by Irving Oklin The Union Prepares for Strike How Weir Wins His Elections A Serious Struggle is Impending New York Local Arranges Picnic March of Events, by Jack Weber Biro-Bidjan Contrast with Palestine The Question of Freedom Defense of the Soviet Union Will the Soviet Union Join the League of Nations? Petty Bourgeois Pacifists Will Greet This Move What Will the Comintern Do? What Will the German Stalinists Say? Need for Fourth International Militant Builders "Minneapolis Shows the Way" The Complete Record of Second Drive Mussolini Sets An Example of "Disarmament" A Critique of the Draft Program of The American Workers Party, by Arne Swabeck Editorial Note The Minneapolis Strike New Attacks on the Unemployed New Youngstown Drivers Union, by P. A New Type of Strike Leaders Bellussi's Reply to the I.L.D. Outlawing Strikes The Wagner Bill Dispute, by Hugo Oehler Most Sinister Aspect of the Bill Why Labor Leaders Support Bill New York United Front in Support of Strikes Anti-War Issue of Young Spartacus New York Youth Demonstrate The Other Youth Demonstration 24 Jun 16, 1934 Roosevelt's Program For "Social Insurance", by Hugo Oehler I.L.A. Leaders Weaken Pacific Coast Tie-Up, by Fred Crique I.L.A. Leaders Weaken Strike Good Programs Not Carried Out The Stalinists in the Strike Mistakes of the League Minneapolis Strike - An Answer to Its Defamers, by James P. Cannon How the Strike Was Organized When is the Time for Strike Settlement? What the Strike Settlement Means The Eggs in the Eagle's Nest (Political Cartoon) Steel Union Letter to Roosevelt Build the League and Press Steel Workers Union In Meeting to Decide Action, by Arne Swabeck Mike Tighe is Conniving to Surrender Demands Steel Trust Names Its Own Board Reactionaries Prepare Treachery Rely Only on Your Own Mass Power Browder "Exposes" Strike "Sell-Out" In Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen Reviewing the News, by Bill Minneapolis and Dunne Fascist "Victories" League Activities, by L.G. (Next 3 articles are on this topic) Chicago Hears Report On Minneapolis Strike Public Trial Clears Militant Worker Philadelphia Branch Increases Activities Sidelights From the Great Battle of the Minneapolis Workers, by C.H. Mexican Nazis Attack Trotsky, by C.C. From the Militants (The next two articles are on this topic) The Farmers and the Minneapolis Strike, by Clem Forsen California Ordinances Against the Reds, by Clem Forsen March of Events, by Jack Weber The Textile Crisis The Workers and the Forces of Production Company Unionism Smash Company Unions! Stalinist Record in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm Stalinists Come to Aid of Class Enemy Daily Workers Gives Assistance Lying Out of the Whole Cloth The "Insurrection" of September 29 Not An Insurrection But a Putsch New York Teachers Union Fights Red-Baiting, by H.L. Persecuting Protesting Teachers Union Members Defeat Demagogue After the Socialist Party Convention Old Guard to Flaunt Convention Decisions Old Guard Renews Threat of Split "Militants" Afraid of Themselves Split in the S.P. is Inevitable The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union Lenin's Teachings Forgotten The Understanding With French Imperialism How Pravda Explains Manoeuver (variant spelling of "Maneuver") Soviet Union in Greater Danger The Destruction of the Third International The Militant Pledge Fund The Pledgers Militant Builders The Complete Record of Second Drive N.Y. Independent Printers Union, by P.S. N.Y. Picnic Sunday, June 24th 25 Jun 23, 1934 Insurance For Jobless Depends on Labor, by D.B. Roosevelt's Message Reflects Pressure of Discontent Longshoremen Refuse Surrender Recovery For the Farmer, by G. Roberts One Example of Curtailed Production Who Pays the Price? Agricultural Production to be Forced Backward Union Barred at NRA Office New Deal Marches Ahead (Political Cartoon) Organization & Press Drive Steel Workers Union Retreats, by Arne Swabeck Strike Plans Deferred Bill Green's Proposal What Was Lacking? Steel Workers Should Not be Deceived The Battle Remains Inevitable Fight to Oust Wolinsky, by N.D.F. How the Union Officials Work for the Bosses What Must be Done Now Wolinsky Gang Breaks Union Meeting French Labor Parties Ignore Storm Signals, by A.R. Decisive Issues Moving to the Fore The Danger of False Slogans And in the Socialist Party Reviewing the News, by Bill The S.P. "Communist" Declaration Recent "Liberal" Moves by La Guardia The Youth and War Role of the Stalinists In Minneapolis Strike, by Clem Forsen On the Eve of the Strike The First Day of the Strike The Gathering of Forces The Saturday Events What Happened Tuesday Question Box Y.C.L. Holds Seventh National Convention, by Joseph Carter 300% Turnover in Three Years In the Trade Unions Militant Builders Six More Weeks to Go Complete Record Pledge Fund March of Events, by Jack Weber Fascism and the Junkers Fascism as a Bridge Fascism Losing its Social Base The Big Bourgeoisie Stalinist Record in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm (Continued from last Issue) Necessity of Tactical Manoeuvers (Variant spelling of "Maneuvers") A Retreat in the Face of Imperialists Who Are the Owners of Cuba? Surrendering the Struggle Appeal For Jewish-Arab Workers Solidarity A Visit to Tom Mooney at San Quentin, by Harry Ross Entering the Prison The Class Fighter Inseparable From the Movement Mooney's Spirit is in the Class Struggle Unshakable Faith in His Class No Time To Lose Big Tasks Ahead After the Bulgarian Coup d'Etat, (by E.T. in "Unser Wort") The Strike Wave and the Role of the NRA, by Hugo Oehler NRA in the First Strike Wave The Capitalist Plans Aim of the New Deal The Present Task Results of the New Deal Organization-Press Campaign Receipts Penalty of Wrong Trade Union Policy Presenting a False Position "Leaders" Fail to Advance With Workers The Rival Unions Labeled "The Opposition" A Policy of Confusion and Disintegration Protest N.Y. City Police Terror, by A.W. Paul Hooliganism in Harlem Cannon Lecture on the Minneapolis Strike 26 Jun 30, 1934 What is Happening in Fascist Germany?, by Arne Swabeck Worthless Speculation Von Papen's Program Too Many Fists What the New Program Means Monthly Review New International Comes Off Press Factions Struggle For Control of the Socialist Party Right Wing Threatens Split "No Compromise" No Criticism of Labor Fakers or NRA Pious Hopes for "Peace" Conciliatory Gestures R.P.C.-Militant Merger Another Stalinist "Strike" Organization-Press Campaign Paves Way for Big Advances of Communist League, by Harry Strang Receipts (Since last report) Minneapolis Union Forcing Action on Wage Demands Conference of Unions Prepares for Shutdown Thursday, June 28, is Date for Unity Meeting A. F. of L. Moves Against Pacific Coast Dock Strike, by D.E. West Coast Strike "Red Scare" Raised in San Francisco Labor Council San Francisco, June 23 The Ground for the Attack Reactionaries Act "Red-Hunt" Voted Down For Labor Solidarity Seattle, by Harry Ross Seattle, Smith's Cove Oakland Oakland, Calif., June 18 Terms of Rejected Settlement Committee Moves to Appeal Case of Robins and Gras Show Up Labor Board Reviewing the News, by Bill Dangerous Propaganda For God--For King and Country Another Honest Politician A Royal Socialist Midwife Brain Trust at Work Tactics at Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen General Strike Movement The Strategy of the Fight United Front Policy Prospects of a General Strike Strike Sidelights, by H. Question Box Imperial Valley Notes Pledge Fund Militant Builders Local New York Climbs to the Top; Minneapolis Branch Takes Second Place Complete Record No Time to Lose Big Tasks Ahead March of Events, by Jack Weber Contraction of the Stalinist Bureaucracy The Bonapartist Danger Build New Parties The Infallibility of Stalinism The Burning Question in France (From "La Verite," June 8, 1934 Toward Opportunism or Toward Marxism---There Is No Other Road Conversation With a Comrade From the Saint-Denis District For Unity There Must be a Vanguard Party If No Party Exists We Must Create a New One Reaction and Fascism "Soviets Without Communists" The Struggle Against War Compromises and Compromises A Falsified Biography of Lenin, by Thomas Stamm False Picture of Lenin No Word of Lenin's Ideas Recovery "For the Farmers", by George Roberts No Solution for the Agricultural Crisis Is Possible on a Capitalist Basis Opening New Homesteads Present-day Capitalism in the U.S. Why Agrarian Crisis is Insoluble "Too Many Farmers" Turing the Clock Backwards The Farmers' Way Out Strikes and the National Guard, by Al Dasch The Police and Strikes Strikes Transform the Worker Role of the National Guard Tasks of Our Youth Minneapolis Notes The Organizer, Weekly paper of General Drivers No.574, Minneapolis, Vol 1, No 1., by H. Post Frame-Up in MPLS The "Rank and File Opposition" (Extract from a Letter) Help Cuban Comrades Y.C.L. Convention, by Joseph Carter 300% Turnover in Three Years Trade Union Policy A "Mistake"--Who Made It? Student Youth Problem Need for a New Movement What the 73rd Congress Did for the Bosses, by Hugo Oehler Government Subsidies International Policies Unemployment Relief July TM Q3 1934 27 Jul 7, 1934 Hitler "Purges" Party in Bloody Reign of Terror, by Arne Swabeck Fascist Leaders Throw Off Middle Class Ballast; Degenerate Character of Regime Revealed Human Refuse German Workers Prostrate The Custodians of Capitalism The Rallying Slogans of Fascism Mussolini's Advice Capitalist Reaction Strengthened Fascist Base Narrowed A Corroded Party The Stalinist "Contribution" For a New Revolutionary Party Old Guard Routs Militants In New York S.P. Convention Militants Pussyfoot Crushing Policy of Old Guard Humiliation of Thomas Thomas Appeals to Hillquit Militants Evade Issue No Principled Struggle No Will to Fight General Strike Near in Frisco After Killings New Address Housewarming New Truck Drivers Strike Impends in Minneapolis Drivers Union Prepares Strike Entire Labor Movement Backs 574 General Strike Possible Lies and Evasions A Real Industrial Union The Union's Answer Preparing to Strike Mass Parade Military Coup d'Etat In Latvia, by Paul Schwalbe The Program of Ulmanis Rests on Military Force Aimed at the Workers Workers Without Leadership Back the League In New Drive Broad Silk Dept in Silk Union Backs 7 Expelled Militants The Albert (Roy) Case Demand Open Investigation Militant Policy Bears Fruit Keller's Charges Takes Worker from Job Reviewing the News, by Bill "Heil Hitler!" Hitler and Capone The Fascist Danger Stalinism and Germany Voodooism Bert Wolfe Question Box The Chicago Friends of The Militant Club, by J. Ruby Pledge Fund No Time to Lose Big Tasks Ahead Militant Builders March of Events, by Jack Weber Appraisal of the German Events The Fascist Hostages The Dregs of Society The White Terror, by Lucifer Stalinist Treachery in China The Trial of Chen Persecution of Communists Stalinist Capitulators A Despicable Betrayal Nemesis of a Traitor Voluntary Surrenders "Testimony" of Traitors Another Capitulator Speaks Degeneracy of Stalinism Business Slows Down The Wisconsin State Socialist Party Convention Revolutionist and Reformist Positions Wisconsin Reformism Planks of Platform A Touch of Farce The Man on the Flying Trapeze, by S. The Record of Bill Dunne A Letter From a Comrade, by L.G. To the Saar Workers an Appeal by the I.S. From the International Secretariat of the League of Communist Internationalists (Bolshevik-Leninists) For the Status Quo Extra-Parliamentary Struggle for the Improvement of Living Conditions and Democratic Rights No Effective Struggle Without a United Front! Organize a Militia Against the Nazi Terror! S.P.G. and C.P.G. Have Failed! United Front of All Anti-Fascists! Hitler Can and Must be Defeated! Do not forget: Hitler must and will be defeated! Our International Press 28 Jul 14, 1934 Teamsters Join Dock Workers in Frisco Strike Bulletin Casey Affords the Pretext Comrade Thor Dead (Obituary) President Brown Teaches Tobin Lesson in Unionism 10,000 March in Big Labor Day Parade, by C.H. 10,000 in Greatest Parade in City's Labor History Up Nicollet Avenue Filled to Capacity "Why Wait Till Wednesday" Minneapolis Sidelights Housewarming Minneapolis Strikes Monday Mass Meeting of Local 574 Unanimously Accepts Call for Walkout; Repudiates Tobin-Bosses Red Scare Minneapolis Drivers Solid Behind Local Leadership Daniel Tobin Goes to Bat For the Bosses A Smashing Repudiation "We Plead Guilty" A Cowardly Appeal Couldn't Do a Thing Preparing the Sell-Out Bosses Went Wild When They Read This Squib "The 'Low and Odor' League" Red Herring Cover For Real Issues The Real Issue A "Startling" Discovery What Is This Communism? Strike Call of Local 574 The Agreement Violated by the Bosses The "Red Scare" Maneuver An Appeal for Solidarity Central Labor Union Backs Drivers' Local, by James P. Cannon St. Paul to Vote on Strike Reviewing the News, by Bill That Omnipresent "Zack Tendency" Rudolph Hess Defends Hitler and Murder Startling News "Holy Joe" McKee and Patriotic Whalen New Features in Second Strike Wave, by M.B. Militant Builders Complete Record Question Box Fierce Trade War Grips Entire World, by Hugo Oehler The Two Trade Wars America's Position The Crisis in Germany The Most Decisive Conflict Blending the Old With the New, by Bill War and the Fourth International to Appear Soon March of Events, by Jack Weber War Rumors England, Where Do You Stand? Stalinist Comments on the German Events Problems of Marxism, by Albert Goldman "Workers' Democracy" The Program of the A.W.P. The Dictatorship in Russia The Characteristics of the Transition Period Program Not Propaganda--the Issue The League Marches to New Victories Revolutionary Leadership Vital Build the New Party Now! General Strike in Minneapolis Build the League! An Appeal to our Sympathizers Don't Be a Platonic Friend The Opportunity is Here Support Grows in Org-Press Drive Receipts (Since last report) Hitler's Dilemma, by G.C. The Crisis in Germany Unfavorable Trade Balance Wages Slashed Prices Rise The Master is Repaid The Man on the Flying Trapeze, by S. (Continued from last issue) United Front - Tobin and the Stalinists Cleveland Strike News, by P. Nailing a Few Brazen Lies The Disagreement on the Name A "Non-Aggression" Pact? Another Weisbord Trick Antonio Fierro Memorial Meeting How Not to Lead a Strike 29 Jul 21, 1934 Cops Fire on Unarmed Pickets 33 Shot In Minneapolis As Strikers Stop All Commercial Vehicles Unions Meet to Consider Call for General Strike Strike Headquarters in Command of District Farmers Rally to 574 Olsen Threatens Martial Law Bulletin Local 574 Appeals for Funds A.F.L. Misleaders Betray Frisco General Strike, by C.G.E. Capitalists Jubilant; Longshoremen Still Out A Phony Vote The "Election" Fake Steps to Break the Strike Waterfront Strike Not Over Stalinist Responsibility Terror Used by Bosses to Crush Strike Gives Word of Raids "Just Hoodlums," Declare Police Glass Front Smashed Brandish Clubs Green & Co. Knife Coast Labor Unions Green's Treachery Press Understood Green The "Holy" Contract Militant Pickets Close Alabama Textile Industry Bosses Fear to Open Mills Strike Now Tide of Strikes Sweeps Over the Entire Nation Reviewing the News The Capitalist Press and San Francisco Green--"The Lost Leader" "Lost" General Strikes Class Collaboration Strike Ends in Philadelphia S.K.F. Works, by Lou Roberts A Vicious Decision Police Terror Labor Skates Boycott Strike The Pledge Fund Campaign A Holy United Front in Mexico, by C.C. Com. Abramowitz Dead (Obituary) Question Box The Crisis in the New York Painters Union The Steamroller in Action A Bit of Fake Bravado Zausner on Offensive Red Baiting Tasks of the Left Wing March of Events, by Jack Weber The United Front in France The Psychology of Forgetting The United Front to Release Thaelmann Spain Movement Toward Unity Against Fascism Grows Catalonian Land Laws An Appeal for Our Cuban Comrades German Fascism Unmasked, by E.B. Discontent on Two Sides Roehm-Schleicher Combine Impossible The Hitler-Goebbels Legend The Struggle for "Morality" How Long Will Hitler Last? Italy and Germany Petty Bourgeois Discontent A Priceless Lesson In Mussolini's "Paradise", by Glee Taxes on Necessities Culture Under Fascism China, by P.K. Terror and Capitulation Grip Worker's Ranks The "Soviet Territory" Internal "Life" Significant Figures The Economic Crisis Make the Org-Press Drive a Success Funds Received in the Organization and Press Campaign (Since last report) Trade Union Strategy, by Arne Swabeck Unionism the Main Issue Recognition Still to Be Won Efforts to Smash Strike What About Minneapolis? Breaking Strike Solidarity Stalinist Foster Division The New International Brass Check Journalism The Boss Press and Frisco The Myth of the Food Shortage Food "Riot" Scares Anything Goes in Brass Check Press "All the News That's Fit to Print" A "Pro-Labor" Paper Militant Builders Bound Volumes 30 Jul 28, 1934 Troops Rule Minneapolis Police Arrest Cannon and Shachtman Drivers Ranks Solid Despite Provocation Protect Whose Lives? Union Gains Daily War Looms as Powers Clash Over Austria Imperialist Conflicts Underlie Austrian Situation Hitler's Desire For the "Anschluss" Mussolini Opposes Nazi Expansion War Against Soviet Russia Leon Trotsky in Danger Victim Denounces Police Lies, by Simon Barach Frisco League is Firm in Wave of Boss Terror Home of League Organizer Wrecked C.P. Taken Completely Off Guard Mayor Rossi Leads the Vigilantes 40,000 Join Mass Funeral for Harry Ness Goldman's Speech, by Albert Goldman Goldman's Funeral Oration Rush Funds for Cannon-Shachtman Defense Local 574 on Martial Law Farm Workers Strike in Ohio Shows Militancy Reviewing the News, by Bill "Democratic" Law and Order "And the Ass Spake" "It is Reported" War and Oil Roosevelt? No, Lovestone Civil Liberties Under the New Deal, by Glee Liberty Under the New Deal--The Record for 1933-34 (Published by the Civil Liberties Union) Militant Tone Roosevelt's Terror Why the Omissions? Militant Builders Second Drive Ends New Subs Last Week Complete Record Org--Press Campaign Receipts Special Note Question Box Goethals-Strikebreaker New Castle Unemployed Organize, by A.L.L. Movement Under Way Forward to New Positions Jean Tomasini Dead Place Orders for the New International Stalin Keeps His Promises The World of Labor Toward a Western European Congress of Workers Toward the New Party in Chile Regional Conference of the Catalonian Workers Alliance Robber Barons Rave at Crime Capitalism Breeds Crime Catching Suckers Who Pays the Press? Only One Way Out The Biggest Grab of All How Capitalism Reforms Itself "Status Quo Ante Bellum" "The Right Man for the Right Job" Pontius Investigates Pilate Daily Worker Tells All, by Thomas Stamm Circulation Figures Readers and Members Less than 4,000 for Steel The Significance of the United Front Between the C.P. and the S.P. in France, by P. Naville (Writing in "La Verite," July 6, 1934) A Non-Aggression Pact, (From "La Verite," July 6, 1934) Editorial- (Next two articles are editorials) Democracy--American Style Red-Baiting on the Coast Workers' Blood is Shed (Reprinted from "The Organizer," July 21, 1934) A Cold Blooded Provocation The Crime of the Strikers Workers! Speak Out in Protest August 31 Aug 4, 1934 Strikers Defy Olson Militia Drivers Force Release of 4 Leaders "Impartial" Military Rule Olson "Protects" the Strikers (Political Cartoon) Local 574 Makes Labor History in Great Struggle Frame-up Against League Leaders a Complete Collapse, by Max Shachtman Arrest of Cannon and Shachtman Union Leaders Stand Up Finger Prints Taken A Real "Scoop" Under Military Arrest "Shoot to Kill" Telegram to Olson A.F.L. Heads Check Strike In Stockyards Protest the Military Terror in Minneapolis Local 574 Issues Call for a Protest General Strike (Text of appeal from Local 574 for a general strike from the "Organizer" the union's daily strike bulletin) To the Trade Unions and the Working People of Minneapolis Union men of Minneapolis, what are you going to do about it? We shall fight for our rights to the bitter end! Resistance to tyranny is the beginning of freedom--Answer Olson's military tyranny with the General Strike of Protest! More Strikebreakers Reviewing the News, by Bill The Minneapolis "Organizer" A Tough Break for 200,000 Natives Laughs from the News The "Cardinal's Mistress" Goes to Mass Building Up Socialism and Tearing Down Capitalism Smile! Damn You, Smile! Capone Declines A Reminder Green Strikes at Labor in Blow at Sympathy Strike "A Grave Mistake" No Solidarity Green Bosses Unite--O.K. for Green Sharper Struggles in Strike Wave, by Arne Swabeck Deeper Meaning in Struggles The Bosses' Offensive Breaking the Craft Lines Unions--A Life and Death Issue Ossip Wolinsky "Resigns" Statement of the New Group For Workers Rights March of Events, by Jack Weber A Turn in the Business Trend Slump More Than Seasonal The Workers and the New Slump The French Parliamentary Crisis Question Box A Communist Radio Speech (Text of the radio address) The "Red Scare" Farce Labor's Weapon--the Strike The Role of Communists The Minneapolis Battle The Purpose of the Strike The Great Teachers Speak Hammond, Ind., July 26 (Article about the radio speech of Lydia Beidel) Minneapolis Sidelights -- by an Eye-Witness, by Jerry Kotz Second Offensive A Cop Vanishes Workers' Solidarity World of Labor Doriot United Front in the Saar Unemployed Revolt in Holland Preparing to Defend the Fatherland in Britain Editorial- A "Farmer-Labor" Strikebreaker Strike at Martial Law! Stalinist Zig-Zags, by Arne Swabeck The United Front 32 Aug 11, 1934 Fight Cripples Strike of New York Painters Internal Fight Splits Painters Wide Open Racketeering The "Brilliant" Strike A Leaf from Hitler's Book Playing Into Zausner's Hands General Strike in Knit Goods Trade Report Silver Shirts Arming in San Diego Link Between Nazis and Silver Shirts Collusion with Police and Soldiers 89,000 Represented as Illinois Jobless Organize Condemn Roosevelt Program For Abolition of Capitalism Militant Executive Board Detroit Automobile Workers Revolt Against Treacherous A. F. of L. Policy Danger of Craft Unionism ` "Patriotic Duty" Conservative Leadership Drivers Ranks Hold Firm as Bosses Committee of 166 Begins to Crack 574 Backed By Workers in Mass Meet "Confidence is Returning" Says Artful Dodger Roosevelt Very Discreet Omissions "Confidence is Returning" Credit Where It is Due For a Hot Time! (Excursion on the "Seagate" steamer chartered by the New York Local of the Communist League of America and the International Workers School for a moonlight sail up the Hudson to Bear Mountain and back.) Reviewing the News, by Bill "Father Divine" Hindenburg Famous Sayings that Made Headlines With the Daily Worker Staff Labor News from Mexico, by C.C. (Next two articles are on this topic) The Taxi Drivers Strike Stalinists Fail to Disrupt Meeting, by C.C. Org-Press Campaign Special Local New York Report Details of branch and individual contributions, grand total is $250.50) Registration Plan Fails A Freak Movement in L.A., by T.B. Father Divine - Browder's God Once Again on Cuba, by Latin American Department, C.L.A March of Events, by Jack Weber The Conspiracy Against the Unions Olson's Maneouver (Variant spelling of "Maneuver") American Fascism Starts to Drill! The United Front Question Box Pioneer Notes "War and the Fourth International" The Socialist Party -- In 1914 and Today Causes of Social-Chauvinism American Socialists in War An Appeal for Robins and Gras The Crisis in the Socialist Party, by Joseph Carter The Coming Referendum The Referendum Before the S.P. The Centrists Versus Right Wing The Socialists and War Starvation Wages for German Workers World of Labor Massacre in Chile Spain Spanish Yipsels Fight Opportunism New Party in Australia The United Front, by Arne Swabeck Stifling a Movement A Step Forward Bureaucrats Fear United Front A Practical Test The Task of the Socialist Worker Stalinist Foreign Policy Stimulus of United Front The Coming U.T.W. Convention McMahon Spikes Autonomy Silk Workers Distrust U.T.W. Paterson Isolated General Strike in Textiles Robins-Gras Refused Release on Bail; Appeal Pending Statement of Defense Committee A Demagogue at Work, by Hugo Oehler Olson's Role in the Strike Permits for Scabs Demands of the Union Olson Retreats "Neutrality" in the Class War "Good Intentions" and Results Russian Opposition Bulletin 33 Aug 18, 1934 General Strike Voted in Textile Convention McMahon Out-Voted by Workers; 500,000 to Strike Reactionaries Challenged Strike Demands The Fight for Recognition Don't Forget the Boat Ride Conspiracy to Break Mpls. Strike Smashed By Committee of 100 Drivers Smash Conspiracy Haas and Dunnigan Exposed as Aiding Bosses in Fake Agreement A Fusillade of Questions Youth Defeat F.D.R. Aides at Congress Plan of Sponsors Arbitrary Ruling Danger of War Grows as Japs Provoke Soviets War Clouds Gather Marines Leave Haiti as Dirty Work is Finished Philadelphia Jobless Fight for Tainted Food Club Strikers as La Guardia "Investigates" Food Prices Rise Gougers Active; "No Shortage" Reporters Picket Scab Paper in Staten Island Knit Goods Strikers Show Militancy Knit Goods Strike Reviewing the News, by Bill The Church Crusade on Films A. F. Of L. Executive Council An Act of God Who is God? Warden Lawes of Sing Sing Capitalism Safe and Sane Medals Lessons of the General Strike in Frisco, by Jack Weber A Demonstration of Power Growing Rift Between Masses and Reactionary Leaders Class Consciousness and Politicalization of Struggle Workers' Control of Production Process of Fascist Crystallization Org-Press Campaign Receipts Pledge Fund Once Again on the Role of Governor Olson, by Hugo Oehler Roosevelt-Olson Harmony Pressure Forces Retreat Martial Law--Bosses Weapon A "Handkerchief Head" Speaks Out Sneers at Mass Pressure March of Events, by Jack Weber The Foreign Workers in France French Fascism and the Foreign Worker The French Communist League Comrade Trotsky in Danger! Question Box Political Change in Mexico, by C.C. The Significance of the Impending Crisis in the Government Party Rumors of Split Analogy With Kerensky Stalinism and Leninism Labor on New Upswing New Stage Approaching The Crisis in the Socialist Party, by Joseph Carter "Bogus" Democracy The So-Called Minority Revolution World of Labor International Solidarity and the Stalinists Reactionary Decrees in Holland Vandervelde on the United Front Fraternal Orders Begin Drive Against Labor Left Wing Needed in Paterson McMahon's Empty Threats Keller's Achievements Build the Left Wing Behind the Algerian Massacre, by Jean Mendez Economic Factors Provoking the Recent Anti-Semitic Riots Class Differences Pressure on Moslems Dividing the Colonials Bound Volumes of the Militant Drought and New Deal Ruins American Farmers, by Wasserman Prices Soaring Causes of Crisis Drop in Value of Farm Products Newark Meeting On Minneapolis 34 Aug 25, 1934 Minneapolis Drivers Victorious Local 574 Wins Right to Represent Inside Men; Discrimination Barred 574 Acts in Enforcement of Settlement Defeating a Mighty Foe Win on Major Issue Statement of Dunne Agreement Answers Lies and Slanders The Terms of the Settlement The Strike Triumphant In the Next Issue (A lengthy statement by Herbert Zam in which he resigns from the Lovestone group.) Green & Co. Declare War On Militants The Reactionary Program Fascist Bands Will Approve Minneapolis Shows the Way New Deal Defends Profit System, Says Secretary Japan Prepares Seizure of Chinese Eastern Railroad An Open Letter to the C.P. and S.P. on the United Front (From the National Committee of the Communist League of America, Arne Swabeck, Secretary) Labor Skates Stall General Textile Strike Food Prices Rise 22 Percent Reviewing the News, By Bill Attention Browder! "National Socialism" The Union Label "Splinters" "Deuces Wild" Not Entirely... Silence on Union Square Protest Deporting of Bellussi Klan Rears Its Head in Fort Wayne, by J.R. In the Trade Unions (The next 4 articles fall under this topic) Painters Strike Sags in New York Motley Crowd of Speakers Molders in Unity Move, by G.M. Bureaucrat Wants Pie-Card N.Y. Truckers Strike Looms Pocketbook Workers Oust Wolinsky Demonstration Against Wolinsky A Program of Action Hathaway Slurs Mpls. Strike Model Strike Provocative Slander March of Events, by Jack Weber The Pre-Revolutionary Situation in France Socialists and the United Front Significance of the United Front Question Box A Capitalist Institution, by Burt Cochrane Suicide Chicago: A "Normal" City A Typical "Case History" The Class Struggle Again Looking for "Solid" Stuff Under the Heel of Wall Street, by John Coates Imperialism Stake of American Imperialism Clear Answer Needed The Next Step, by Walter Held (Member of the International Secretariat of the Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations) A Progressive Mission Deep Ferment in Youth Movement French Youth for New Internationalism Bound Volumes of the Militant World of Labor Spain China Argentina Costa Rican Banana Workers Strike New Strike Wave Rising in Cuba Profits of Large Corporations Rise; Greed Unsatiated Low Textile Wages Make Enormous Profits Gunpowder Turns to Profits 20 Million Live on Crumbs on Government Relief At the Bottom of the Heap The Tories Protest at the Pittance Never Forget An Irresistible Tide New Haven Meeting On Minneapolis Young Spartacans Fight Pacifism at Congress Stalinists Expel 6 Youth; Join S.Y.L. and League September 35 Sep 1, 1934 Textile Strike Begins Today Workers in Wool Trade Join Cotton The Yellow Press Howls Again Sinclair Plan a Daydream of Middle Class E.P.I.C. Sinclair Sold on New Deal A Socialist? Jail International Communists in Mexico Richberg Report Omits Wage Drop Richberg Forgets Real Wages Drop Steel Salaries Slashed; Wage Reductions Next Cuts Announced in Big Companies More Profits--Less Wages A New Stagger System God and Bosses Scare Hopkins out of Feeding Strike Hopkins and Relief God Against Workers Hopkins Reassures His Masters Food Prices Soar; Roosevelt Plans Are Responsible Utility and Truck Strikes Loom in N.Y. Cuban Comrades Need Support, by Arne Swabeck (National Secretary, Communist League of America) We Are in a Crisis Reviewing the News, by Bill Birthday Greetings Prosperity Drought and Snow Another "Splinter" Duranty and Stalin, "Times" Correspondents Blah! Blah! Baseball, Wages and the Rising Cost of Living Living Costs and Profits Rise Pledge Fund To All Pledgers Correction ("Red Flag" is an unofficial Communist publication, not an official organ of the International Communist League) In The Trade Unions (The next 5 articles are on this topic) Onion Workers Appeal Against Terror Court Outlaws Closed Shop in N.J. Painters Strike Ends; Zausner Collects Boss-Painters Also Wanted Strike Stalinists Wreck Left Wing Is Zausner's Charge True? 100 Brush Workers Strike in N.Y. Plug-Uglies to Break Strike Shovel Workers Rebel In West Virginia, by G.N. "Law and Order" Terror Bosses Investigate Themselves A Ruse Is Spiked March of Events, by Jack Weber The United Front and the Defense of Trotsky The United Front in Belgium The Movement Begins Here International Youth Day, by Joseph Carter Origin of Socialist Youth Movement Anti-War Position at Berne Steps Toward New Youth International Trying to Turn the Clock of History Back, by C.C. Stalin's Camp Followers on Latin America, by John Coates Muenzenberg in a Web of Contradictions Make This Out--If You Can! World of Labor Youth Unite in Belgium Notes on the United Front Czechoslovakia Britain Holland Sweden Condemnation at Any Price New International Off the Press United Fruit Company Vs. United Banana Workers, by Jean Mendez International Solidarity in Strike Strike Triumphs Lessons of Strike Labor Day--1934 An Offering of Capitalism Cotton Mills Close on Labor Day Stronger and More Confident Onion Workers Battle Terror, by Harry Milton Demand 35 Cents an Hour Mayor's Home Bombed Tom Mooney Appeals to Labor for Assistance, by Tom Mooney 36 Sep 8, 1934 Minneapolis Drivers Win In Elections Labor Leaders Say "No War on War" Major Angas Arrives With Big "Boom" Few Suckers This Time "Richer"--How? Whom? Climbing Out Lid Comes Off In Armament Disclosures Busy With Death Sir Basil Cleans Up The Fire Behind the Smoke Textile Strike Sweeps Over Nation; 10 Killed as Workers Defy Thugs, Armed Scabs, Troops; South in Fore Shady Deal Looms in New Negotiations Bulletin Every Loom Idle is Aim Can't Get Enough Soldiers South Takes the Lead Green and Woll Bide Their Time Flying Squads Strike Fear Into Bosses A First Class Weapon Dern Deplores But Workers Are Shot South Awakens; "Mill Hands" Become Fighting Legions What Do the Prayers Mean? The Mill Town "Cheap" But Not "Contented" The Changing South Kensington Strike In Militant Start Reviewing the News, by Bill The Hope Diamond The U.T.W. Strike Unemployment and Cost of Living Upton Sinclair Labor Day Speeches Speech by Mr. Flea Stalin's Praise for Kemal, Oppressor of Turkish Workers, by Brown Old and "New" Turkey Trade Unions Banned Minorities Oppressed In The Trade Unions (Next three articles fall under this topic) N.Y. Upholsterers on Strike Dental Mechanics in National Drive N.Y. Truckers Win Demands Vancouver Activities Other Organizations in B.C. The Stalinists The American Federation of Labor All Canadian Congress of Labor The Unemployed General Remarks International Bulletin Out Price Reduced What a Scoop! Lovestone Group Cracks in Detroit; 5 Join League Condemn "Socialism in 1 Country" Lovestone's "Democracy" March of Events, by Jack Weber Shifting Class Relations The NRA as Precipitant Middle Class a Decisive Factor An Interesting Note Question Box Pioneer Notes To the Bolshevik-Leninists of the U.S.S.R. Herbert Zam Quits the Lovestone Group, by Max Shachtman World of Labor Welcome! Polish Youth Mensheviks in the Open With the Grace of Stalin Doom to Failure Text of the United Front Youth Pact in Belgium (Signed by the Young Socialist Guard, Young Communist League and the Leninist Youth League) The First Thousand Years Are Hardest Editorial Note Bound Volumes of the Militant The Meaning of the Textile Strike, by Arne Swabeck Strike Will Awaken Workers Union Organization is Issue Officials Under Pressure N.T.W.--A Name of the Past Mass Unions Beginning New Period Opening An Interview with the Managing Editor of the Minneapolis Truck Drivers' Strike Bulletin Says Union Won on Main Issues Northwest Workers Inspired Sinclair Finds His Mentor in F.D.R. Bill Green Gets Radical; The Old Game-New Cards From Him Who Hath Not Shall Be Taken There's a Catch to It 37 Sep 15, 1934 Communist League and A.W.P. Move to Form a New Party Both Organizations Declare Desire to Hasten Union of Forces Arms Inquiry Is Too Hot for State Dep't Deputize the Strikers? Who Owns This Country, Anyway "It's Unheard Of" Whose "Law and Order" The Bullet-Bayonet Lesson Mill Workers Slain by Guards; Governor Raises "Red" Scare Strike Ranks Firm; New Mills Close in the North and South Shall R.I. Follow Frisco War Veterans or Thugs? The Truth About the Morro Fire Railroading Testimony Wanted Alagna's Crime Delay in S.O.S. A Damning Indictment Fire Alarm Unheard Aid for All Where Did It Start? Roger's Testimony Workers Are Disarmed by Spanish Gov't Indian Summer Festival R.I. Solons Save Roosevelt From Sending Federal Troops Work or Jail Says Paterson Court Order Vicious Paterson Injunction Reviewing the News, by Bill Dern, the National Guard and the Workers Nazi Gems Mussolini and the Stork Tears from a Crocodile The Workers Bookstore The Munitions Inquiry The American Legion Strike Statistics a la T.U.U.L. Embarrassing Questions Meeting to Defy Nazis in Yorkville In the Trade Unions Salem, Lawrence Workers Confused, by Stanton McMahon Responsible Lawrence Suffers from Old Wounds Textile Strike in Connecticut, by Jay Harde Hoover vs. Roosevelt, by Hugo Oehler "Tories" Still Alive Half-Truths Facts vs. Conclusions The "Liberty" Racket Competition for "Forgotten Man" The Middle Class Backing of Sinclair, by Jon Dane Hooliganism Again (From C.L.A. and S.Y.L., Pittsburgh Branch) Letters to the Editor March of Events, by Jack Weber The State and the NRA Owen D. Young and the Farmer Monopoly Capitalism Crushes the Farmer Question Box Manifesto of the Workers Party of Canada (Taken from the "Vanguard," organ of the Workers' Party of Canada, formerly the Left Opposition) World Crisis of Capitalist Decay The Menace of Fascism The Conquest of Political Power Defence of the Soviet Union (Variant spelling of "Defense") Pioneer Notes Bound Volumes of the Militant Economic Conditions Behind Textile Strike Crisis Intensified Squeezing the Workers "Labor Specialization" The "Stretch Out" History of Unions World of Labor Puerto Rican Communists Rebel Against Stalinism International Communist Sentenced Saar Workers Begin Active Resistance to Fascism Costa Rican Banana Workers Strike The Advance of Fascism in Spain Editorial For the New Party - For the Fusion of the League and the A.W.P., by James P. Cannon Pioneer Book Shop (Opens September 17th with a complete line of working-class literature) The Stalinists Turn to the Right In the Sphere of Literature, by R.M. Radek Orders Right-About-Face "Fighters for Progress" Carte Blanche to Communists The Peculiar Mode of the Announcement 38 Sep 22, 1934 Soviet Joins The League Of Nations, by Hugo Oehler Fascism Dons White Hood As Klan Rides Again in South The Klux Brains Miners to Be Buried Alive Pocketbook Makers Out Pocketbook Workers On Strike Bosses Refuse Committee Demands Tasks of Strike Marine Union Appeals for Strike Here Babes Born With Gun in their Mouth Proposals of the Roosevelt Board Would Continue Present Coolie Conditions in the Textile Industry Relief is Vital for Victory in Strike Battle Dye Workers Strike Call Winant's Proposals A Good Example of the Run-Around Cold Steel for Textile No Settlement a la Winant Relief! Relief! 20,000 Dyers Get Strike Call This Monday Georgia Brings Hitler Methods to The United States Cripples Meet What Price Strike-Breaking? "American" Wages Reviewing the News, by Bill Strike Contrasts The Battle Line Capitalist Press Definitions Flying Squadrons General Hooie Johnson Hot News Generous America "The Hatred of Communists" Liberal "Spirit" Again Yachts and Scabs Money Still Needed The Pledgers Upholsterers in Critical Situation Paterson Group Calls For Violation of Injunction Injunction is Gallows Noose "Smash Injunction" Protest to Judge Drug Clerks Prepare General Strike "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Capone Can't Take It Johnny Goes For a Swim Are Tomatoes Cheaper? March of Events, by Jack Weber Relief The Constitution and the NRA Question Box The Rise and Fall of a Gangster-Journalist By Mid-Western Correspondent Tool of Citizen's Alliance Guilford's Bile Greetings from Fellow-Murderers For God and Pocketbook The Bosses' Scruples The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger The Blacklist Majority for Strike Ryan's Maneuvers Workers Support Marine Strike Manifesto of Worker's Party of Canada (Continued from last issue) For the Fourth International The Crisis in Canada and the Workers' Party World of Labor Young Leninists of France Take Decisive Step American Workers Party Sends Letter on Unity, by A.J. Muste, Chairman, Provisional Organizing Committee American Workers Party No Recovery Here, by Paul Schwalbe Privation Everywhere What the People Think About Understanding Still Superficial Opportunity on the Slave Market Coolie Conditions Come to America Marxian Information Scarce A Comment on Belgian United Front Pact Cannon-Bingham Debate 39 Sep 29, 1934 Textile Strike Debacle, By James P. Cannon The Strike Settlement Rank and File Disarmed A New Vanguard Immediately Youth Unite Against Fascists Relief System Endangered in New York For the New Party (Appeal of the National Committee, Communist League of America) Jobless Will Demonstrate November 24th Blackshirts a Challenge to N.Y. Labor Parrots Not Students Fontamara's Challenge Down With Mussolini! Green & Co. in Control as A.F.L. Convention Opens in San Francisco, by Hugo Oehler Left Wing Lacks Clear Program and Capable Leadership Meets After NRA Period Fakers Lie About Facts The New Opposition Opposition is Heterogeneous Incipient Revolts Organizing the Left Wing The "Red" Scare Against Political Discrimination A.F.L. Leaders Plot Against Food Strike Bulletin Reviewing the News Bayonets and the General Strike "Preparedness" Itching Palms--Police and Clergy The "Red Joiner" Mellon's Stolen Millions In the Trade Unions (Three articles on this topic) African Laundry Workers, by Murray G. Purdy, General Secretary, The Committee Pocketbook Strike Bulletin Button Workers Strike The Discipline of Failure, by E.B. "Reward Your Friends" Take Orders from Bosses Only Rights and Rights A "Dark Horse" for Green March of Events, by Jack Weber The Credit System Attempt to Control Credit A Government Central Bank Question Box China's "Red" Generals Recant, by Lucifer Capitulate to Kuomintang and Attack Erstwhile Comrades Shanghai, China Ho-chung Surrenders Military Adviser to Chiang "Advice" from "Red" Commander Inventions Unnecessary Here Another "Red" Traitor "Soviet China" Faces Extinction Peasant War Will Continue The Passing of a Shadow The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Continued from last week) World of Labor British Workers Overwhelm Fascists Left Socialist Threatened Banana Workers Hold Firm French Bolshevik-Leninists Decide to Enter S.F.I.O. as Faction, by James P. Cannon Declaration of French Bolshevik-Leninists (Translated from "La Verite," statement of the National Conference of the Communist League of France) Third Conference of French League (Translated from "La Verite") Foundation of "La Verite" and the Struggle for the Reform of the C.I. The Degeneration of the C.I., The German Defeat Our Record in this Period Toward the Fourth International For a United Revolutionary Party! Disapproval and Equivocal Approval Communist League Replies to Letter Of A.W.P. on Unity (By Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee, Communist League of America) October 40 Oct 6, 1934 Issues of the Day at the A.F. of L. Convention, By Arne Swabeck Strike Truces of the Past Real Issues to the Fore Strike in War Time Green's Record Organizing the Unorganized Pressure on the Workers Read the Crime News and Forget Your Troubles, by Henry Cape Sensation Made to Order To Make the Workers Forget Cannon, Muste Address Paterson Silk Workers Paterson Silk Meet Huge Success Muste Scores "Settlement" Cannon Analyzes Strike Wave Youth Demonstrates Against Italian Fascism Friday Anti Fascists to Rally on Oct. 12 Build the League Armed Clashes in Spain as Civil War Begins Workers Conduct Militant Struggle Against Fascism Armed Clashes Socialist Party Appeal World Labor Must Aid Spanish Workers Destiny Hinges on Militant Action, by R.B. Political Crisis in Spain Socialist Party Manifesto Aim to Conquer Power Sabotage of the United Front The Minority Groups Reviewing the News, by Bill Stalinism on Parade Some Lighter Touches of the Chicago "Anti-War" Congress Young Socialists Give Young Stalinist an A.B.C. Lesson on the United Front (Signed by Ben Fischer, Executive Secretary, N.Y.C. Executive Committee YPSL) The Y.P.S.L. Letter Manifesto of the Workers Party of Canada (From the Provisional National Committee, Workers Party of Canada) (Continued from last issue) The United Front The Trade Unions Program of Action Join the Workers Party! March of Events, by Jack Weber Doumergue Prepares the Next Stage Palestine and the British Empire Question Box A Reformed 2nd or a 4th International? by Rous A Discussion of the International Left Socialist Declaration (From "Verite") The Left Socialist Declaration Bankruptcy of the Second International The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Continued from last week) International Tense Situation in Costa Rica Mendieta Regime in Crisis Bolivian Communists Reorganize Chaco War Threatens Other Countries Editorial Trade Union Perspectives Drug Clerks Union Calls Bronx Strike Robins-Gras Appeal New York Newsstands (That carry "The Militant") Good News 41 Oct 13, 1934 Vertical Union Plan Is Adopted by A.F. of L. at Convention in Frisco, by Hugo Oehler But Right Wing Steers Toward Class Collaboration Policy A. F. of L. Convention Anti-Labor Drive Prepared A.F. of L. Gains and Loses The Vertical Union Decision Prices to Rise In Fake Truce of Roosevelt Vote for the New Party in the Elections The Gift-Horse Perfidy at the Ballot Box Don't Vote for Parties of the Past! For the New Revolutionary Party Scottsboro Boys In Danger As I.L.D. Tactics Enable Lawyer to Knife Defense "Democracy" in the I.L.D. Sectarianism Bred Opportunism Raise New Party Fund! Recruit Sympathizers! Build the League! Workers Battle Heavy Odds in Spain Against Onslaught of Reaction Best Fight Is Waged in Districts Led by Worker's Alliance United on the Barricades "July Days" in Spain Power of Workers Alliances Anti-Fascists Demonstrate In New York Stress Need for Unity Reviewing the News, by Bill Kidnapping "Periods"--Second or Third? With the "Daily Worker" What! No Father Divine? Browder Analyzes Textile Strike "A Truce in Industry" Workers "Greet" Black Shirts in New Haven, by Jay Harde In the Trade Unions (Next two articles) The Electrical Workers Struggle, by Karl Oswald Dividends and Relief Bonus Cancelled Unrest Grows "Loyal" Workers See Trick Brotherhood Strengthened Strike Threatened Drug Clerks Strike Winning Letters to the Editor March of Events, by Jack Weber The Spanish Insurrection Lessons of the Struggle The United Front Belgian Y.C.L. Divides on United Front Issue, by Harry Strang The Stalinist Letter Stalinist "Facts" "Trotskyites" and the United Front Question Box Robins-Gras Appeal New York Newsstands (A listing of stands where "The Militant cab be bought) "Off Again, On Again, Gone Again, Finnegan" Program of the Latin American Bourgeoisie, by C. Curtis The Apra Program Menshevism in a New Guise Kinship with Stalinism The Latin American Proletariat The Road of the Proletariat Perspectives World of Labor Bolivian Communists and the Chaco War Strike Wave Rises in Cuba Repressions in Costa Rica The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Concluded in this issue) Editorial (Next 3 topics) Stalinism in an Impasse -- About Some Contemporaries.. Crocodile Tears -- 42 Oct 20, 1934 Arbitration Award Won by Local 574 Minneapolis Union Forces Wage Increases; Triumphs in Minor Strikes (From the "Organizer," official weekly of General Drivers Union Local 574, Minneapolis) Time and a Third for Overtime Another Bone to Chew On Poincare Dead; Slew Millions Stretch-Out Okayed by New "Order" The Old Stretch-Out Remains Six-Hour Day, Five-Day Week is Now Watchword for Labor Terror Rules as Spanish Revolt Ends United Defense Action of World Proletariat Sole Hope of Rebels Suicide Strike Inspires New Open Battle $2 a Week Many Driven Insane Capitalism Must Go! Government Shows Colors in Houde Case Attorney General Decision Reveals N.R.A. Promises To Be Soap Bubbles Getting Away With Murder! Write in J.P. Cannon as Your Vote for New Party in Elections (New York District, Communist League of America) Price of Militant 3 Cents on Nov. 1st 9 Negro Boys Need United Movement Left Wing is Crucial Issue In A. F. of L., by Arne Swabeck Forward Step of Industrial Unions Is Checked by Reactionary Leaders Industrial Union Move Checked by Right Wing Dilemma of Labor Skates The Industrial Union Issue The Scramble for Spoils Rogues Gallery of "Progressives" Adding Pitch to Black Reviewing the News, by Bill "Peace! Peace! Where There Is No Peace" Results of Bureaucratic Degeneration Roses and the Thirty Hour Week The Hearst Press and Leon Trotsky "Class Brothers" or "Fascist Twins" Lessons of the Revolt in Spain, by Rosalio Negrete Weaknesses of the Uprising In the Trade Unions, by B.B. (The Next two articles) Seamens's "Strike" Flops Ballast and Noise In the Philadelphia I.L.G.W.U. The Smoke-Screen The "Nice" Bosses Some Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Basis of "Youth Problem" The Role of the Youth Organization Question Box Leading Philadelphia C.P. Member Declares for Fourth International, by James W. Watson The Negro Question The Utopian Dream of Self-Determination Under Capitalism Negroes are Not a Nation in the United States Race Equality in the United States, Self-Determination for West Indies, Haiti and Africa For War Against Our Own Imperialists Trade Union Policy and Its Relation to the Negro Problem Democratic Centralism versus Bureaucratic Centrism Discussion Article, by Simon Williamson A Critique of the Stalinist Theory of Self-Determination World of Labor- Non-Aggression With a Vengeance Strike Wave in South America Bolivian Communists Threatened With Death Penalty Stalinists in a Panic as Organization of New Party in U.S. Approaches, by Max Shachtman A Decadent Party Founded on Marxism The Mind of a Bureaucrat "Armyless Generals" Burglary Again Bittelman's Lies A Startling "Discovery" Negotiations in Open 43 Oct 27. 1934 P.L. Bergoff, Rat Chieftain Brags of Scabbing in Press Proposed Program for the New Party Prepared by Joint A.W.P.-C.L.A. Committee) Foreword Program Decline and Collapse of Capitalism Imperialism and War Fascism America's Place in the World The Roosevelt Program The Only Way Out The Working Class and Its Allies The Capitalist State and Democracy Role of the Revolutionary Party Conquest of Power Consolidation of Workers' Rule Foundations of a Socialist Society The Goal of a Classless Society World-Socialism Inadequacy of Existing Parties Socialist Party The Communist Party The Defense of the Soviet Union Intermediate Groupings Labor and Farmer-Labor Parties For the New International The Main Task The Trade Unions Agricultural Workers and Farmers Negroes and Other Oppressed Racial Groups Colonial Peoples Professional and Technical Workers The Unemployed Struggle Against Imperialist War The Young Workers The United Front Conclusion What is Happening In the C.P. Militant Will Print Startling Documents and Material Bulletin (News from Spain) Boost New Party Fund Silk Industry Tied Up as Strike of 25,000 Dyers Involves Eastern Cities Higher Wages and Union Shop Are Issues of Walkout Workers Want to Fight Grounds for Victory Roosevelt is Applauded by Bankers Reviewing the News, by Glee Some Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Youth - Adult Relations The Economic Struggle of the Young Workers In the Trade Unions, by L. Brown Teachers Attacked by Ives Bill New Espionage System The Economy Knife Modern Lusk Laws Humble Slaves Not Teachers Ives Bill Attacks Labor March of Events, by Jack Weber Hunger Strike of Workers Unity of the Working Class A Sign of the Times Question Box What Next for French Labor (From "La Verite") Strengthening of Bonapartism and the Struggle Against the "Common Front" The C.P. and S.P. on the Plane of Bourgeois Legality The Only Perspective: Fight for a Workers and Peasants Government! The Methods of Struggle The Question of Trade Union Unity Anti-Fascist Militia and the Arming of the Proletariat to Beat Back the Reactionary Bands Discussion Article, by Hugo Oehler The Question of Intervention by U.S. Imperialism in Cuba World of Labor Trade Union Unity in France Expulsion in Britain Sir Stafford Muddles Out 44 Nov 3, 1934 10,000 Pennsylvania Silk Workers to Swell Ranks of Striking Dyers Union Solidarity with Unemployed League Strike Ranks Swelling Unemployed League Aiding Instructions for New Party Voters Police Attacks "Deplored" by Tory Diehard Election Balm for Cracked Skulls New Dealers Bolt Sinclair in Epic Fight Joining Ranks of Forgotten Men He Calls to God for Succor "Liberal" Versus "Liberal" Your Duty to New Party Union Fight Forces A&P to Back Down Spreading of Strike and Boycott Threat Calls Bosses Bluff Arrangements Completed for National Convention to Launch New Party in U.S. AWP-CLA Set Nov. 30th for Meeting Demonstrate November 24 for Job Relief Russian Revolution and Militant Issue Labor Editor Threatened by Fascist Thugs The Chauvinist "Anti-Japanese Campaign" of American Stalinists The Significance of the Comintern Document (From the Executive Committee of the Communist International) Reviewing the News, by Glee Egregious Social-Democratic Ministers and Worms Jehova for Sinclair Angels for Amter Tears, Tears, More Glycerine In the Trade Unions, by Eva Winer Another Paper Union Folds Up Looking at the Record Will the Workers "Come Back"? Discretion Better Part of Valor March of Events, by Jack Weber Second International Begins to Crack The American Socialist Party Question Box Has the Comintern Learned? by Erich Wollenberg A Critique of Criticism Spreading Illusions The "Revolutionary Upsurge" Muenzenbergism! "Without a Stalin There Could Be No Hitler" The Author of this Article (About Erich Wollenberg) Six Years of the Militant Addressograph Contributed World of Labor Religious Conflict Flares in Mexico New War Threat in South America Spanish Reaction Prepares New Blows Editorial (Next 2 articles) Radek for a New Party?.... The Times and Fascism.... "Organizer" Raps Vigilantes Cops--Deaf, Dumb, and Blind "Organizer" Denounces Raids Remember "Deputies Run"! Who Are the Vigilantes? Stalinists Bewilder Workers Insurance for Defeat Organize Against Vigilantes Mpls. "Organizers" on Sale League Expels Goldman for Capitulation to S.P. (By National Committee, C.L.A.) Increase in Militant Price 45 Nov 10, 1934 Fargo Drivers Win in Militant Milk Strike Dunne Jailed for Activity; Released by Mass Pressure By Our Mid-West Correspondent Cannon Forum Postponed Membership Meets Sun. Gorman Plans a Love Feast With Bosses Textile Workers Get It in the Neck While Faker Talks "Cooperation" It Seems... Cooperation with Mr. Legree National Jobless Day Supported by Unions Not An Appeal - An Alarm! Dyers Strike Holds Lines in 2nd Week Convention of C.L.A. Call November 26, by Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee C.L.A. "Truce" Government Falls in France; Class Lines Drawn, by P. Franck French Bolshevik Paper Calls for Decisive Steps The Aims The Methods S.P. Groups Prepare for a Split in Party, by Joseph Carter Thomas Begs for Unity as Forward Crowd Takes Steps for Schism Right Wing Steers to Labor Party Unity with "Sewer Socialists" Thomas Panicky What Shall the Left Wing Do? The Chauvinist "Anti-Japanese Campaign" of American Stalinists (Continued from last issue) The C.I.'s Guilt for the Policy of the C.P.U.S.A. Reviewing the News, by Glee What's Wrong With this Picture The Majesty of the Law or What's Sauce for the Goose is Poison for the Gander Fish, Flesh or the Best Disciple of Lenin? Between Ourselves Warning Support the Militant; Continue Your Pledge Special Offer Add Your Name to the New Party Honor Roll March of Events, by Jack Weber The Danger in France The Commune Once Again Question Box Draft Thesis for C.I.A. Convention The Need for a National Spartacus Youth League Discussion Article, by Simon Williamson The Fight for Full Social, Economic and Political Equality Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Anti-Militarism and the Struggle Against War Socialist Education of the Youth World of Labor Norwegian Labor Party Elections Victory Executions in Spain Mendieta in Straits Militant Circulation to All Branches Militant Greetings History in the Making Health Lectures The Truth is Alien to Them, by Harry Strang Stalinist Hokum on Minneapolis Country Electrified The Spleen of the Stalinists The Workers' Illusion The Leaders' Policy Opposition to Olsonism From Words to Deeds Olson's Friends A Crime Against the Class 46 Nov 17, 1934 Weavers Will Decide On Joining General Strike of Dye Workers Dyers Spurn Boss Truce Offer and Continue Struggle Fighting the Strike with Bullets Striking the Stallers Giant Meeting Dec. 2nd to Greet Fusion Workers Set for Elevator Strike Here For a New Revolutionary Party! by James P. Cannon The Influence of the Fusion The Post-Lenin Scene The Test of Present Conditions The Course of the League The Fate of Our Critics Dilemma of Propaganda Groups Gitlow and Zam--Renegades! Mistaken Analogies Goldman's Desertion The Principles of the New Party Security Plan Nails Wolf to Labor's Door Unemployment Insurance Scheme Provides No Solution Roosevelt Plan Fails No "Wild" Ideas Wanted The "Security" Grave Mooney Wins Court Hearing; Mass Action Need of Hour The "Big-Hearted" Decision Protest is Only Weapon Minn. Union Progressives in Conference Militant Program Outlined by Fifteen Trade Union Representatives Accommodations Needed for Convention Delegates Students in Free Speech Fight in L.A., by Bill Monroe Cops Guard "Academic Freedom" Support from Stanford Jobless Organizations Lay Nationwide Plans for Big Demonstration 1,100 Local Bodies March Nov. 24th for Relief Demands Reviewing the News, by Glee Weekly Prosperity Note Morning, Noon and Night The Majesty of the Law Idea for a Braintruster with Streamlined Brains Flash! Announcement (The second installment of the series of articles on the Communist Party has been delayed.) Organization Notes - N.Y. In the Trade Unions A Worker Looks at the A. F. of L. Convention Industrial Unionism Jurisdiction Squabbles The 30-Hour Week Faith in Roosevelt Special Offer to Expire (Combo package of a subscription to the Militant and a book or pamphlet) The Crisis is Still With Us! March of Events, by Jack Weber Lull in the French Storm War, Politics and Diplomacy World of Labor (By the International Secretariat, International Communist League) Lessons of the Spanish Revolution New York Trade Unionists Quit C.P. Join Movement for New Party in U.S., by Jack Taylor "Independent Action" Local 499 Painters Local 2717 Carpenters Rival Unions Bureaucracy Political Work Statement of Comrade Alfred Terry, by Alfred Terry (Concurs with Jack Taylor's statement above) November New International Out Question Box The Heritage of October, by Arne Swabeck 17 Years of the Workers State The Contrast Struggle to the End 47 Nov 24, 1934 C.L.A. and A.W.P. Head for Fusion Delegates Meet to Decide on New Party at Conventions Wall Street Conspiracy for Fascist Coup Revealed Morgan Lurks in Picture Offered Three Million Army Generals Involved Trying to Laugh It Off Weavers Set Deadline for Walkout Keller's Pussyfooting Aids Bosses Against Strike Keller's Stalling Expelled Members Reinstated Youth Greet Convention (From National Committee, Spartacus Youth League of America) Easley Plots Against Nine Negro Boys Chronicle of Scottsboro Case Reveals I.L.D. Role Last Minute Call (Appeal for food for the delegates) Mass Meeting To Greet the National Conferences of the American Workers Party and the Communist League Unemployed to Demonstrate Today National Delegation to Present Demands in Washington What the Inner Regime of the Communist Party Looks Like Inventing Miniature Stalins The Rubber Stamp Pol-Bureau Rife With Intrigues Stacked With Pie-Card Artists Hand-Picking Convention Delegates Barracks Discipline Leaps In--Bounds Out The New Party- The Answer to Stalinist Corruption Reviewing the News, by Glee So You Can't Take It, Mr. Young! Is There Any Possible Connection Department? Friend or Foe--We Want to Know For a Nickel on the Drum You Get a Strikebreaking Bum Meet the Gang! Six More Weeks to Go! (Subscription Campaign) March of Events, by Jack Weber Upturn Hangs Fire Danger of Fascism Our Task Question Box November New International Out Who Are the Defenders of the U.S.S.R.? The International Secretariat Replies to the Calumnies of the French Stalinists Reply to the I.L.P. Copy to All Working Class Organizations Spiking a Canard in the Daily Worker A Statement by Joseph Fox on His Resignation from the C.P.U.S.A., by Joseph Fox Out of C.P. - For New Party, by S. Greenberg and I. Greenberg, Unit 2015 N.Y. Organization Notes World of Labor The L.S.I.-C.I. Negotiations The Events in Spain and the Fourth International "Republican Militia" Marches in Chile Newark Anti-Nazi Protest Split by Stalinists, YPSL, by Arne Colts Spartacus Youth Convention Two Anniversaries Consolation in Figures Revisionism with a Vengeance Celebrating October Under NEP C.I. and Soviets in Joint Session Under the Cloud of Reaction "Emphasis on Soviet Defense" N.Y. Student Strike Slams Robinson An Honor to Be a "Gutter-Snipe" Students Expelled Class Struggle Reaches Campus Help! Is Needed at Once (Militant needs donations) 48 Dec 8, 1934 Launch Workers Party of U.S. C.L.A. and A.W.P. In Fusion Convention of U.S. Revolutionaries Fusion Endorsed Third Convention of League Draws Balance Sheet of Six Years, by George Clarke C.L.A. Endorses Fusion Program Party Maps Big Drive to Rally Jobless Spartacus Youth Meets Canada W.P. Greets New Party's Birth Canada Hails W.P. Build New Party Workers of N.Y. Rally to Support Party Trade Unionists Speak Unemployed Leaders Speak Minneapolis Bosses Plot Frame-Up of 574 Leaders Minneapolis Frame-Up Attacked by Dunne V.R. Dunne Promises Fight Workers Party Facts Old Guard Threatens S.P. With Split Old Guard Delivers Ultimatum "Militants" Have Cold Feet W.P. to Back Left Wing in Trade Unions This Issue is Last of "The Militant" (It will be replaced by "The New Militant" due to the C.L.A.-W.P. merger) Party to Act on Defense Resolution on Mooney Resolution on Holstein Resolution on Labor Defense Workers Party of the U.S.--Declaration of Principles The Decline of Capitalism Imperialism and War Fascism America's Place in the World The Roosevelt Program The Only Way Out The Working Class and Its Allies The Capitalist State and Democracy Conquest of Power--The Workers' State Role of the Revolutionary The Workers Party of the U.S. Foundations of a Socialist Society The Goal of a Classless Society Criticism of Existing Parties Socialist Party The Communist Party Centrist Political Groupings Labor and Farmer-Labor Parties The New International Struggle Against Imperialist War The Defense of the Soviet Union The Main Task The Trade Unions Agricultural Workers and Farmers Negroes and Other Oppressed Racial Groups Colonial Peoples Professional and Technical Workers The Unemployed The Young Workers The United Front Constitution of the Workers Party Constitution of the Workers Party of the United States Name Purpose International Affiliation Members Organization Administration Initiation Fees and Dues Discipline Qualifications for Election National Conventions Fractions Amendments N.U.L. Led Thousands On Nov. 24, by Anthony Ramuglia Were More Than Parades Authorities Stand By Delegation Visits Washington Perkins Doesn't Know Unemployed Getting Enough Tony Bellussi Quits U.S. In the Trade Unions, by Robert Strong Independent Unionist Resigns from C.P. Party Democracy Dead A. F. of L. Fetishism Members Quitting Franz Bobzien Murdered Weisbord Group Breaking Up, by X. A.W.P. Votes Fusion Plan as Drafted, by Louis Breier Historic Occasion Adopt Organization Proposals --------------------------------------