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THE MILITANT Pte June 1929 Stalinism in the Canadian Communist Party orders.
Wallace, gress of the States; The organ: in the effective was CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Canada affords yet another illustratron of the years ago, the older Smith who heads the By Maurice Spector Labor Defense is fact that under the best of all possible CominMethodist a parson in holy tern regimes, nothing is changed there is Alderman Kolysnik of Winnipeg, the only one unprincipled faction fight the more.
bership was informed, could not indulge in the party only parliamentary representative is The Canadian Party, within the living memory luxury of discussion or of groupings. Trot: a successful businessman.
the coof have called a monoin his palmy days writer and a deserter is an Wing deviation, a Left Wing deviation, a petlithic party Bolshevising Aving in the consondaHaving barely survived the a university graduate, a practicing Churchman, of the Fifth Con ty bourgeois deviation, an anti iniddle peasant con deviation and finally a counter revolutionary who impartially disposes publicity to the capthe sections of the anti Soviet plot.
italistic parties at election time for a considerComintern are now ationi. Limitations of space prevent is from ting effects of the Sixth Congress, on the With the expulsion of the comrades of the enlarging this list of stone throwing denizens heels of which, faction fights and expulsion Opposition it inight be expected that all of of glass houses.
epidemics have broken out in the Soviet Union, iginal sin had been uprooted, and henceforth Czecho Slovakia, the The condition of the Canadian Party is at United and forever only bliss and the oldest Old Boland even Canada at the periphery has not escaped punishment. Tho Canadian Party whose sions were the prelude to the calabrese compone low ebb and unprincipled faction fighting will protection in the Comitean bisher to hate been poisde presterea den der ized officialdom, who have also initiated a fake poisoned atmosphere.
discussion to divert the membership from conbout, who lived without praise or blame has ship has proven incapable of organizing any achieved the dignity of those other elect whose tamination by dangerous thoughts. resistance to the expulsions from trade unions de Already before the Sixth Congress discon and trade councils, has failed to counter the ference to cablegrams from Moscounted Mean tent was beginning to manifest itself among disintegration of the Canadian Labor Party while the air is thick with theses, counterthe younger elements, with the organization the TUEL exists on paper only.
political united front theses and mutual accusations of opportunism conservatism and political inertia of the party and dishonest political intrigue. Isn this secretary, Macdonald. In the December ization of the unorganized has proceeded by the Third Period. fits Dress inakers It is only a few months since the Canadian Lovestone attempted to saddle responsibility shadow. The automobile aign in which the Buck faction were organization camp: niand for a sincere discussion of the funda present writer the leader of the Canadian shape of an irresponsible adventurer Communist Party, unfortunately, used to be who became Secretary of the Union, is estimaposition and the crisis in the International. an ex comrade by the name of Macdonal faction to amount to Communist Jan. Feb. 1929. Not mere mopector. The ted by thes. row of The officialdom has proved party history attested to the interest of the desty but the interests of historic truth, how impotent to organize any resistance to the porank and file in the issues at stake. But in their ever, and the fact of the actual balance of forces fear, the party officialdom countered with in the Canadian compel me to disclaim Speech Conference, in winch the Macdonaid bureaucratic repression to stifle this interest, Cannon was as little the faction were active, is described by the other while their machine worked overtime to luli leader of th Únited States The Labor Defence has failed the membership with a broad ideological cam regime of Jay Lotestoniates Partiyonunder the to organize any nation wide mass drive for the ase tacit but none the less paign of bulls and encyclicals, threats and release of Vaara, ihe Finnish hehe membership of the rich slander. Party of Action, the mem bloc of the Finnish and Ukrainian and in jail for sedition who regarded everything with an eye on on their party is declining, the English speaking secporperty interests, plus like Buck, Custance, Shoesmitust elements tion is down practically to zero.
the membership is Finnish and it is held in factured leadership beneath this corduroy peerless Buhay, the umble the Communist party by compulsion. The shirt there beats an honest proletarian heart, Roberts, etc. Macdonald himself is the limited Finnish Organization of Canada is a social and o Voraris sir. in prospect, it is obviously necessary to type of trade union Ish Princecinitke in partit pelled automatically to take out card in isha give the Lovestones, Peppers and Gitlows the works. And to satisfy the for He has consistently been a barnacle Party or be blacklisted or expelled.
leaders, they on the ship in every situation the painter alive Ukrainian membership claims to influence this The were thrown the bones of Bittelman. heavy sacrifice, it is true, but unavoid In the current discussion, he is correctly Ukrainian Labor Temple Association, but in able one. Our throat thickens kan we think enough accused of being a Right Danger. of the course of the Free Speech fight in Toof how Foster, who was only yesterday failing to read the economic postion, of cover ronto the Temple refused to place its hall at humble worker in the vineyard of comrade ing up the tail end role of the party in the Osh the disposal of a demonstration on the plea Bittelman, must today take the scepter of awa Strike and many other things.
that it would endanger their financial insestpower without the presence of his faithful BorBut who are his accusers of the Left? Our odin, almost never failing Colonel House, and enthusiasm suffers a slump when we recog There is no need to minimize the objective think tearfully how he, Foster, who was only nize the bland countenace of our old time ac difficulties in the path of building up the comone who liquidates everything connected with has becoine the big chief of the discontented quaintance Tim Buck of the Foster caucus. He munist movement, the defeats in the big miCommunism today sits with the mighty while younger group that had begun to crystallize cratic illusions connected with it, etc.
ners struggles, the prosperity and the demohis best friend and severest critic must eke out before the last Congress, and which lacked the The a exil.
Communist Opposition does not pretend that As for Alexander himself, he has damned Macdonalds, the Peppers, the Lovestones, out of their sleeves in six courage in the test to face the fact that the Central Committees can shake mass parties little consolation, but he has some.
As he But there Thaelmanns, months.
Fosters are all either part and travels the cold wastelands of the Buriat Mon parcel or aspirants of the Stalin regime. All velopment of the Communist are also considerable opportunities for the degolian Soviet Republic or shifts to fabled Sa. they envisage is the perspective of a long rent conditions which embrace rationalization, under curmarkand to lecture the Uzbecks on the Apex of drawn out see saw struggle between the ins American imperialism, he can reflect that all and outs, garnished with bitter exploitation and low wages for masses Period, and that Time is a great healer. Let Open Letters.
that there may yet be a Fourth plementary decisions. Plententia and sup of the unskilled, organization of the unorgan iaries and ized, and so on.
Under the incompetent directBut the pre requisite for a him bear in mind the solacing words which the militant party is a correct regime, Spanish philosopher, Unamuno, reports were ion of Buck, his opportunist personal united fronts, the TUE has become an empty The Communist International is a product of inscribed on a tombstone of the Mallona ceme shell and the trade union work of the party the Russian revolution. The regime in the tery in his native town of Bilbao: Comintern and its sections is determined by came to a stand still. supporter of Mac the regime in the Russian Party. Under the Aunque estamos en polvo convertidos, donald writes the director of the Industrial Stalin regime in the Comintern, the rank and Department, Comrade Buck enumerates in the file of the parties are not being educated but Que tornaremos a vivir vestidos Trade Union Thesis about twenty five failures. Con la carne y la piel que nos cubria.
drilled into mechanical obedience in a barracks, most of them having to do with his own dede The leaders of Which can be literally translated by Bittelof the national sections are to bureaucratic submissiveness and not to criman and repeated to Stalin as follows: The Buck faction FideoMogilar feader tical and half baked Bachelor of Arts ated from the Stalin Academy misnamed the shippement. Though we are become dust, revolutionary thought independent gradu and They rule the member In thee, Lord, our hope confides, were the worst enemies of the workdemagogy and Lenin held that de That we shall live again clad was still of the OBU and SP of persuasion The function of the Opposition In the meantime let him wait, with the and had to be bribed with a secretarial post will be to rouse to revolutionary consciousness patience of all faithful believers in the inevitto enter the Young Communist League. that section of the membership which is not able coming of the Resurrection. Personally, Incidentally, the revolutionary records of actuated simply by primitive Russian patriotwe feel sorry for the exiled Aleck and we fully some of the other old bolsheviks who de ism or sterilized against revolutionary thought intend to drop a salty tear into the next bowl nounce Trotsky as a menshevik make by their property interests.
of Russian Borsht our straitened circumstances edifying reading. One Halpern who vociferallow us to order.
ously edits a party organ was a Zionist three leader.
when we nient.
party is yet conscious En Ti, Senor, nuestra esperanza fia, trained recently In the flesh and skin that once covered us.
ing class.
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