MIA: History: International: Communist International: The Communist International vol. 14, 1937 [U.S. Edition]

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The Communist International
Organ of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
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Volume 14, 1937



Contents: The Communist 1937 Volume 14, U.S. Edition


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Number 1, January, 1937

3 The Berlin Agreement of the Chief Instigators of War
12 For the Defense of the People and the Republic – by K Gottwald
22 The Militarized Economy of Germany and the Tasks of the Anti-Fascist Struggle – by F. Dengel
34 Questions of Unity Among the Youth Raymond Guyot
45 The Convention of the American Federation of Labor William Z. Foster

Third Anniversary of Leipzig Trial
51 Dimitroff’s Great Victory – by Wilhelm Pieck

The Heroic Struggle of the Spanish People
57 Fallen in Battle
61 The Second International and Spain

The United Natioruzl Anti-lmperialist Front in Chino
62 Concerning Events in Sian (Shensi) – by I. Jack
68 Open Letter to the Kuomintang – by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Political Notes
76 Hitler in Alsace – by Hugo Eberlein
81 It Was a Case of Joyless Love – by H. Walecki

Comintern People
83 Nikos Zachariadis
International Labor Movement
86 Before the Presidential Elections in Finland – by H. Hyakinen

Book Reviews
94 Reporter in Spain
97 Spain and France – by T. M.


Number 2 February, 1937

103 The Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
109 The New Phase of Struggle for a Democratic, Independent Spain
114 The Economic Prospects of England – Eugene Varga
121 The Struggle Against the Penetration of Hitler Fascism Into the Balkans – F. Spiridonov
130 The Union of the Youth of Belgium – C. Gentenaar

The Heroic Struggle of the People of Spain
136 Decision of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I. on the Work of the Communist Party of Spain
139 The International Youth Conference in Aid of Spain – A. Massie
142 In Memory of the British Comrades Who Have Fallen in Spain – Harry Pollitt
146 To the Memory of Guido Picelli – M. Ercoli Political Notes
148 The “Merry Wives of Windsor” to Fascist Music – R. Page Arnot
151 The Struggle for Democracy in Iraq and for Universal Peace – Salim Abud

The Anti-Fascist Movement
156 The Correspondence Between the French Communists and Cardinal Lienert – Fritz Lang

Comintern People
160 William Z. Foster – R.

In the Sections oj the Comintern
164 A Mass Election Congress of the Communist Party of Holland – C. Schalker

The International Labor Movement
166 The Campaign for Unity in England Book Reviews
170 The London Conference of the First International – E. Rubenstein
177 The Spanish Exhibition in the Museum of the Revolution V. L.


Number 3-4 March-April, 1937

183 Some of Our Achievements Marcel Cachin
190 The Popular Movement in Indo-China After the Victory of the People’s Front in France – J. Lun
195 The Defeat of Fascism at the Finnish Presidential Elections – O. W. Kuusinen

The Heroic Struggle of the People of Spain
199 The Plenum of the Central Committee of the United Socialist Party of Catalonia
203 The Conference of the United Socialist Youth of Spain – Jose Maximo Martin

Political Notes
207 Vandervelde at the Crossroads – G. Walecki
211 For the Concentration of the Democratic Forces Against Fascism in Rumania – Boris StephanovThe Struggle Against the Trotskyite Agents of Fascism
215 The Path to Treason Ernst Fischer
221 The Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Center as Treated in
the Press of the Capitalist Countries – A. Kellerman

Comintern People
227 Two Bolshevik Heroines-Anna Mai and Anna Pauker – C. Bobrovskaya In the Land of Socialism
230 The Ideas of Lenin in Actual Practice – A. Stetsky
242 In Memory of G. K. Orjonikidze, Great Fighter for Socialism
246 Economic Results for 1936 – M. Braun
251 Pushkin Anniversary Days in the U.S.S.R.

International Labor Movement
255 An Historic Step Toward Trade Union Unity in Czechoslovakia – G. Oldner
260 The Swiss “Directive Movement” – K. Mayer

In the International Control Commission
263 The Accomplices of Trotskyism in the Ranks of the Communist Party


Number 5 May, 1937

267 Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating the Trotskyites and Other Double-Dealers – Joseph Stalin
280 Reply to Discussion at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, March 5, 1937 – Joseph Stalin
289 The Historic Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
297 British Arms-Against Whom? – R. Page Arnot
304 The Key to the Salvation of the Chinese People – Wang Ming

The Heroic Struggle of the People of Spain
318 Organizing for the Victory of the Spanish People – Jose Diaz
332 In Memory of Three Comrades – Raymond Guyot

Political Notes
335 The Hitler Putsch in Hungary – Peter Viden

In the Land of Socialism
338 The Revolution of February, 1917, and Lenin’s April Theses” – A. Kuchkin


In the Sections of the Comintern
351 The Tenth Anniversary of the “Stato Operario” Gregori Dimitroff
353 The Struggle of the People’s Front in Jugoslavia – K. Horwart

Bibliography
358 “Die Internationale,” Theoretical Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany – A Kraevsky


Number 6 June, 1937

367 New Tasks of the Communist Party of Germany – Walter Ulbright
380 Results of a Year’s Work and Current Tasks. – C. Cognoit
386 The Power of the General Confederation of Labor in France – Henri Raynaud
391 The Struggle for the People’s Front in the United States – Earl Browder
397 The Renaissance of the American Trade Union Movement – William Z. Foster
403 The Negro Masses in the United States – James W. Ford
409 A Defensive Alliance Against Fascism in Scandinavia – R. Magnus

The Heroic Struggle of the People of Spain
415 The International Brigades Yesterday and Today – Francesco Leone Political Notes
419 The Pope’s Encyclical in Regard to the Position ofthe Catholic Church – Franz Kraus

International Labor Movement
422 Australia and the Fight for Peace – S. Mason
426 Hitlerism in South Africa and the Struggle Against It – A. Woodward Book Reviews
431 Two Posthumous Works of Ralph Fox – T. D.


Number 7 July, 1937

435 Antonio Gramsci
437 The Slogan of Mastering Bolshevism. and the Study of History – the Sections of the Comintern
444 The Lessons of Almeria Georgi Dimitroff
447 Correspondence Between the Communist International and the Labor and Socialist International
451 The War of Independence of the Spanish People – Andre Marty
467 At the Italian Pole of the “Rome-Berlin” Axis – M. Ercoli
477 The People’s Front and Working Class Unity in France – G. Cognoit
487 The Economic Situation in the United States E. Varga

The Women’s Movement
493 Women in the Struggle Against Fascism and War

The Youth Movement
499 New Tendencies in the Student Movement – V. Ducros


Number 8 August

507 A Bolshevik Blow at the Fascist Warmongers
512 Spain Calls for Unity
518 Hitler Fascism, the Chief Incendiary of a New World War – Wilhelm Pieck
525 Gramsci and the Communist Party of Italy . M. ERCOU

The Heroic Struggle of the Spanish People
538 Why Did the Largo Caballero Government Resign? – Jesus Hernandez
553 In Memory of M. I. Ulianova Political Notes
557 The “Third Front,” a Dangerous Illusion of Catholic Circles – Fritz Lang
561 The Fate of Three Anti-Communist Laws – K. Mayer
564 The Twentieth Anniversary of the Foundation of The Communist Party of Sweden .

The Struggle Against the Trotskyist Agents of Fascism
568 Drive the Trotskyist Wreckers Out of the Labor Movement
572 Trotskyist Reserves in Rumania – I. Stanki

The International Labor Movement
575 Strike Struggles and the Labor Movement in Canada – N. Morgan Problems of the Sports Movement
579 The Sports Movement and the United Front


Number 9 September, 1937

The Electoral Law of Socialist Democracy
597 Unity of Action Is Possible Everywhere – K. Gottwald
603 The French Cabinet Resigns, the People’s Front Remains – J. Cognoit
614 Whither the Capitalist World? – E. Varga
621 Mass Unemployment in the Capitalist Countries and the Tasks of the Trade Unions – A. Lozovsky

The Heroic Struggle of the Spanish People
633 A Year of the Heroic Struggle of the Spanish People Georgi Dimitroff
638 Fascism Is War – Georgi Dimitroff
642 The Time Has Come to Create a Single Party of the Proletariat in Spain – Dolores Ibarruri
656 Mathe Zalka (Lucacz) 656
659 Blagoye Parovich (Schmidt) 659

Political Notes
660 Airmen of Two Worlds – Ernst Fischer
663 The Recent Advance in Marxist Thought in England – Clemens Dutt
667 Catholic Fascists Incite to Murder – P. Viden
669 The Sixtieth Birthday of Comrade Kolarov

In the Sections of the Comintern
670 The Foundation Congress of the Communist Party of Slovenia – K. Horwart
675 The First Communist Deputies in the Iceland Parliament – A. Henson
677 The International Women’s MovementThe Struggle Against the Trotskyist Agents of Fascism
680 Trotskyism in the Service of the Reactionary Catholic Hierarchy – Franz Lang

Book Reviews and Bibliography
683 The “Newspaper of the Working People” L. Farkash.


Number 10 October, 1937

687 Two Years of Struggle for the Anti-Fascist People’s Front
696 The People’s Front and the United Party of the Working Class – Maurice Thorez
705 The People’s Front in Germany – Wilhelm Pieck
714 The Fight Against Fascism in Hungary Alexander Poll The Chinese People in the Struggle for National Independence
719 The New Stage of Japanese Aggression and the New Period of the Struggle of the Chinese People – Wang Ming
737 Declaration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
740 In the Far East and the Far West

The Heroic Struggle of the Spanish People
745 In Memory of the Fallen Fighters of the International Brigade in Spain

Political Notes
748 About a Certain “Scare Story” – P. Viden
751 Beasts of Prey Preach Humanity – F. Ernst

In the Sections of the Comintern
755 Improve the Political Education of Party Personnel - Master Bolshevism!
760 The Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of France Documents of Unity
764 Program of Joint Action of the Socialist and Communist Parties of Spain
768 The New Unity Pact Between the Socialist and Communist Parties of Italy – S. GopnerR

The International Youth Movement
771 International United Action of the Youth on Behalf of the Spanish People – Gil Green
774 An International Students’ Alliance of Struggle for Socialism – V. Ducros
779 In Memory of Alexander Poll


Number 11 November, 1937

783 The Forces of War and the Forces of Peace
789 The Nuremberg Circus – K. Hassl
795 Problems of the People’s Front in the United States – Gene Dennis
804 Against the British Plan to Divide Palestine – Wm. Gallacher, M.P.

The Heroic Struggle of the Spanish People
808 Reply to Enemies, Slanderers and Wavering Elements – Dolores Ibarruri
814 Fascist Trotskyite Espionage and Diversion Against the Spanish People – B. Elleno
822 In Memory of the Fallen Fighters of the International Brigade in Spain

The Chinese People in the Struggle for National Independence
824 Tasks of the National Anti-Japanese United Front in China – Mao Tse-Tung

The lnternational Labor Movement
831 The Growth of the Strike Movement in Japan – V. Assagiri

The Peasant Movement
835 The Solution of the Agrarian Question in Spain – L. Manuel
842 The Struggle of the Communist Party of France for the Peasantry – Renaud Jean
847 The Political Strike of the Polish Peasantry – L. Goretsky



The International Youth Movement
852 Unity of the Youth-A Mighty Weapon in the Struggle Against Fascism – M. Federico
857 Some Problems of the Youth Movement in the U. S. A. – Gil Green


Number 12 December,

863 Historical Documents of the Great October Socialist Revolution
887 Manifesto of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
882 Greetings from the Executive Committee of the Communist International to Comrade Stalin
885 The Soviet Union and the Working Class of the Capitalist Countries – Georgi Dimitroff
891 The Victory of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. and the People’s Front Movement – O. Z. Manuilsky
898 The Dictatorship of the Working Class and the Building of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. – A. Stetsky
915 Two Decades of Capitalist and Socialist Economy – E. Varga
921 The Leaders and the Masses in the October Socialist Revolution – E. Yaroslavsky
930 The Peace Policy of the Soviet Union – K. Gottwald
934 The Victory of Socialism and the Friendship of the Peoples in the U.S.S.R. – S. Dimanstein
945 The Role of the Trade Unions in the October Revolution and in the Building of Socialism – Wilhelm Pieck
954 The Great October Revolution and Its Influence on the Peasantry in the Capitalist Countries V. Kolarov
961 Capitalist Barbarism and Socialist Culture – E. Fischer
971 The Soviet Youth – R. Guyot
979 The Wealth of the Soviet Union – I. M. Gubkin

The Great October Revolution and the International Labor Movement
986 Two Anniversaries – J. Diaz
990 Greetings from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain
992 The Struggle of the Chinese People Against the Japanese Aggressor, and
the Great Socialist Revolution in the U.S.S.R. – Wang Ming
1002 The Great October Revolution and France – M. Thorez
1007 The Land of Socialism and Capitalist Britain – Harry Pollitt
1013 The Soviet Union and the German Working Class – V. Florin
1018 Greetings from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States
1019 Czechoslovakia and the Great October Revolution in the U.S.S.R. – V. Kopetsky
1023 Reminiscences of the October Revolution and of an Interview with V. I. Lenin – W. Gallacher

Friends of the Soviet Union About the U.S.S.R.
1028 Writers, Scientists and Politicians About the U.S.S.R.
1040 From the History of Factories and Industrial Plants
1060 What Everybody Should Know About the U.S.S.R.
1073 New People of the Land of the Soviets

Political Notes
1085 The Pact Against Democracy and Peace – V. Peter
1088 Aye, It Doesn’t Depend on You, Mr. Bauer! – P. Viden
1091 The History of a Certain Date – A. Kellerman
1093 The Gestapo Against the German People – E. Funk

International Labor Movement
1096 The Struggle for Trade Union Unity in the U.S.A. – W. Z. Foster
1102 The Struggle for Unity in Great Britain – R. Page Arnot
1107 The Belgian Labor Party Congress – T. Alvarez Book Review
1113 About Feuchtwanger’s Book, “Moscow, 1937” F. Ernst

INDEX for 1937 CI
1116 Index, Volume XIV, 1937