The Militant (1933) Volume VI No. 1 [No. 148] Saturday, January 7, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 2 [No. 149] Saturday, January 14, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Japan Seizes North China, 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 Volume VI No. 3 [No. 150] Saturday, January 21, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 4 [No. 151] Saturday, January 28, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Comrade 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 Volume VI No. 5 [No. 152] Saturday, February 4, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 6 [No. 153] Saturday, February 11, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 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 Volume VI No. 7 [No. 154] Monday, February 13, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 8 [No. 155] Wednesday, February 15, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Permanently 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 Volume VI No. 9 [No. 156] Friday, February 17, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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! 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 Volume VI No. 10 [No. 157] Monday, February 20, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck To Delay Anti-Nazi United Front Is Fatal, Hesitation at This Time Is a Crime — by Max Shachtman 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" 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 Volume VI No. 11 [No. 158] Wednesday, February 22, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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) 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 Volume VI No. 12 [No. 159] Friday, February 24, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 13 [No. 160] Monday, February 27, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 14 [No. 161] Saturday, March 1, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 15 [No. 162] Friday, March 3, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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. Volume VI No. 16 [No. 163] Monday, March 6, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 17 [No. 164] Wednesday, March 8, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 18 [No. 165] Friday, March 10, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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) Volume VI No. 19 [No. 166] Friday, March 18, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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) Volume VI No. 20 [No. 167] Saturday, March 25, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 21 [No. 168] Saturday, April 1, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 22 [No. 169] Saturday, April 8, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Oppositionl Three Expulsions by C.L.A. Tri-City Branch Volume VI No. 23 [No. 170] Saturday, April 15, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 24 [No. 171] Saturday, April 29, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 25 [No. 172] Saturday, May 6, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 26 [No. 173] Saturday, May 13, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 27 [No. 174] Saturday, May 20, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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! Volume VI No. 28 [No. 175] Saturday, May 27, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 29 [No. 176] Saturday, June 3, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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. Volume VI No. 30 [No. 177] Saturday, June 10, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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. Volume VI No. 31 [No. 178] Saturday, June 17, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 32 [No. 179] Saturday, June 24, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 33 [No. 180] Saturday, July 1, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 34 [No. 181] Saturday, July 8, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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) Volume VI No. 35 [No. 182] Saturday, July 15, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 36 [No. 183] Saturday, July 22, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman 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" Volume VI No. 37 [No. 184] Saturday, July 29, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 38 [No. 185] Saturday, August 5, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Foreign Developments After the Collapse of the London Confab, by B.J. Field Economic Trends in the U.S. France and the Crisis/dt> 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 Volume VI No. 39 [No. 186] Saturday, August 12, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 40 [No. 187] Saturday, August 26, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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) Volume VI No. 41 [No. 188] Saturday, September 2, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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. Volume VI No. 42(sic, mislabeled as #43) [No. 189] Saturday, September 9, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman 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 Volume VI No. 43 [No. 190] Saturday, September 16, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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! Volume VI No. 44 [No. 191] Saturday, September 23, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 45 [No. 192] Saturday, September 30, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman 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 Volume VI No. 46 [No. 193] Saturday, October 7, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman 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 Shactman The New York Barbusse Movement and The "People’s Council" of 1917 The Stalinist Theory About War A Striking Comparison A Superficial Distinction Volume VI No. 47 [No. 194] Saturday, October 14, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck "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 Shactman 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 Volume VI No. 48 [No. 195] Saturday, October 21, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 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 Editorials: 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 Volume VI No. 49 [No. 196] Saturday, October 28, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 50 [No. 197] Saturday, November 4, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman 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 Volume VI No. 51 [No. 198] Saturday, November 11, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The New Rift in the Lovestone Group—and the New Party, by Max Shactman "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 Volume VI No. 52 [No. 199] Saturday, November 18, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman 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 Shactman 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 Volume VI No. 53 [No. 200] Saturday, November 25, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman 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.)\r 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 Volume VI No. 53 [No. 201] Saturday, December 9, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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) Volume VI No. 55 [No. 202] Saturday, December 16, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Volume VI No. 56 [No. 203] Saturday, December 23, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Shactman, 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 Shactman, 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 Shactman Volume VI No. 57 [No. 204] Saturday, December 30, 1933, New York, NY THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition] Editoral Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 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 Militant Main Index | Encyclopedia of Trotskyism | Marxists’ Internet Archive Last updated on 8 September 2011