September 4, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Feuchtwanger Defends Stalin Sacco Vanzetti Rally Letters from Barcelona Picture Against Attack of Andre Gide Disrupted by Chicago Bourgeois Stalinist Repressions Clarity Leaders The overalls.
we to wa on The following extracts are fighting rages in thra. The By Blake Lear By Melos Most from a number of letters, sont attack here has not developed.
from Barcelona between Jan. 25 We were warned that the Assault Rudely shaken for the first time to catch the modulations of the CHICAGO. Sacco and Van and May 15, 1937. Their auther Guards might now alla by the German fascist dictator Russian language and, when zetti Memorial Rally held by the ship cannot be revealed test the we got ready. cuit cut ship, thoroughly permeated with translated, it can very easily have Socialist Party Chicago GPU murderers and as the because all the nearby streets liberal bourgeois prejudices, and a superlative, extravagant and south side was disrupted in the victim to their list.
are in the hands of the uniforms.
shamelessly, virginal politically, odd effect. This from a man presence of protesting outsiders Lion Feuchtwanger tills to a who confessedly doesn speak by a group of Clarityites led by JAN. 25. Counter revoiutinn We will not attack but will not nic ty the role of literary advo Russian!
Roy Burt, national party sec continues making headway, and die without a fight. We hear some cate for the Stalin règime. Why were there no documents, retary, and Maynard Krueger, each day we are in a more and sailors have fraternized with the delicate Feuchtwanger pot boiler, Mos no witnesses? Details of cir national action committee mem more situation.
CNT has ordered the overalls cow 1937, is explicitly directed cumstantial evidence, documents ber, in an attempted coup PSUC under Moscow orders as against André Gide Return from and depositions may interest etat to capture a left wing interpreted by the Barcelona back again, this time threatening the USSR and his Retouches, bit jurists, criminologists, and histor center.
to disown them if they dont obey.
Consul (Antonov Ovscenko. is ter criticisms of the Stalinistians, but we should only have At the rally, held August 17 organizing physical repression. The friends of Durrutti have bureaucracy, which have created a confused our Soviet citizens had by the Jackson Park branch, Burt They already have their Cheka, given out a leaflet king the furore in Europe. More xenerally we spun out all kinds of details. and Krueger appeared with a directed by elements from out workers to stay in the streets to defeat the counter revolution, a town near it is addressed to the liberal in What typical contempt for the group of Clarityites some of side. Tonight telligentsia of the world, whose masses is expressed, and what whom had to introduce them Barcelona in Tarragona province and hailing POUM as a comrade faith in the USSR has been sev cynicism!
selves to the branch membership. there is fighting with gun he organization. The machine gunnerely shaken by the recent execu Does Reuchtwanger consider Before lecture could begin, cause PSUC elements have tried ing is getting louder.
MAY All over, at least tions.
the defendants guilty? Well ah Burt personally rose to move to occupy CNT headquarters.
temporarily. On Thursday Only the fact that the good yes! must admit that, al that four branch officers be con This we interpret as a provoca were told to give up cur arms bourgeois Feuchtwanger trembles though the trial has convinced sidered removed and new elec tion against the Cnt. It was and that all armed forces would sympathetically all the bour me of the guilt of the prisoners, tions be held then and there, initiated by flying squadrons of be taken off the treets. Our geois manifestations of the Stalin can find no completely satis without even time for the re the PSUC, composed of foreign military committee agreed. The règime, as one tuning fork does factory explanation of their be quired official notice, on the basis ers. Yesterday there was a doors were opened anil in came to another, can explain his state haviour before the court. Fur of a reapportionment of dele meeting in Barcelona at which the Assault Guards, Extat Catala ments upon the key questions of ther: What have understood gates made by the County Dele it was proposed that POUM be and some PSUC people. They took soviet life. Let us examine a few: is excellent. From which con gate Body the night before. liquidated. The man who said our guns. Some of the yergs clude that the rest which have Outsiders Protest it was Carrillo, the same who, among them wanted to kill Bourgeois Defense not understood is also excellent. The action was so disruptive United Socialist Youth, declared posters and papers, smashing at the Valencia Congress of the and took a workout tearing up On wage differentials: The idea What is necessary to make that, so long as citizens in a o. everything comprehensible? It that outsiders present who were it necessary to invite the Cat furniture etc.
Wie went out in two and they must all live meanly, or at to make their guilt and their sin the left wing, took the floor to tion because we have stoppen threes and got over Lo GHQ, Western Protest that we have come here being Marxists and are fighting which sent some new to hear about Sacco and Vanzetti, for Spanish independence.
overall any rate very modestly, seems to comprehensible me an atavistic derivative of minds not your internal squabbles. The guards over to our place. urgprimitive Christian views and Swears by Stalin Burt Krueger Clarity packers, MAY am writing to the ed them not to, saying the men more pious than reasonable.
however, refused either to refer rhythm of pistol shot, rifle shot, would be held as hostages. The On freedom of political critistilt Could it possibly be that Stalin the question to a special meeting an occasional hand grenade, and argument cism:. one never hear criti has concocted a frame up? Oh, or to move executive session some machine gun firing. The when the police phoned up: the cism of the general principle of no. Read any book or any speech (fearing too much discussion. Ramblas are held by the CNT. new guards were already pinched.
the Party. In this they conform, of Stalin s, look at any portrait Burt finally accepted an amend FAI POUM. Since yesterday Fortunately, we had a couple of that is true. And elsewhere: At of him. It at once becomes as ment to hold the election at the afternoon the overall element is Assault Guards under arrest and bottom, the Soviet dictotorship is clear as daylight that this mod next meeting when members de back on the street, armed and we made a trade.
confined to prohibiting the propa est, impersonal man cannot pos clared they would otherwise boy with barricades springing up like All Thursday was tense, algation of two opinions in word, sibly have committed the colos cott it and protest its legality, mushrooms. The uniformed crowd though we enjoyed senshine and deed, or writing: first, that the sal indiscretion of producing but refused to call a closed meet retired to their strongholds, and fresh air for the first time in five establishment of socialism in the with the assistance of countlessing before then at which his case from there keep up intermittent days. We could go around the Union is impossible without a performers so coarse a comedy. for a midterm election might be firing. It started with provoca lower end of Ramblas, but not to world revolution, and, secondly, tion from Let it not be thought, however, examined.
government armed the Plaza Cataluna. saw a coupthat the Soviet Union is bound to that Feuchtwanger, who can ad The members of the branch, forces. Yesterday the Commis le of doctors from the S. amlose the coming war.
mit that a petty bourgeois men now forewarned, will overwhelm sioner of Public Order sent out bulance corps; they wanted the On Stalin estimation of the tality is developing in the USSR, ingly repudiate this action at the the uniforms to take the Tele dope and seemed not to have masses: If he tolerates all the and who can dismiss criticism in next meeting and uphold their phone Building. The overalls re swallowed the Stalinist line 100. cheering, he explained, it is be the USSR as carping, whining, branch officers. Several Clarity sisted.
The mass aroused. per cent. But they are very concause he knows the naive joy the land alarming, without a qualm, rank and filers have begun to Without orders from their orga fused. We worked all day and uproar of the festivities affords has no criticisms to make. He express doubts about the unholy nization, they went out into the spent the night in an exthose who organize them. dislikes totalitarian regime alliance with Burt, an Altman streets, and there they are. Last brothel, very luxurious, he says, Why did Trotsky lose in his in literature, he thinks that Thomas sympthiser. Charges night CNT FAI ordered their including soap, while stayed at figth against Stalin in the Soviet sabotage is caused in great against Burt are being preferred men back, but the overalls paid the Hotel for 12 pesetax and got Union?. Trotsky clung to the part by incompetence pure and by 14 branch members present at no attention.
no soap. The government had principles which had been proved simple, he is opposed to the ful the meeting.
It a sorry sight to see the the phones and we had to talk during the heroic, emotional some praise of Stalin, he has his Telephone Building with only the guardedly whenever we called.
period, but which were bound to doubts about the Moscow trials Attack on Left Catalan and Spanish flags and Friday was relatively qniet, go awry the moment they had to yet, in the end, he finds the at The Jackson Park branch, seno anarchist flag. It is the first although 5, 000 police from Vaserve everyday needs. In ad titude which many Western in cond biggest in the city, is the time since July 19 that the black lencia paraded provocatively. On clared world revolution to be a the Soviet Union short sighted It ranks first in fund raising, at have come down in the city that arms to their unions, etc. The dition a grievous error he de tellectuals have adopted towards south side center of the left wing red symbol of proletarian power Saturday all the workers were necessary condition for the estab and without merit.
tendance at city wide functions, the CNT FAI masses must feel streets swarmed, as they still do, lishment of socialism; he adhered Moscow 1937 is significant be and union activity.
rigidly to the Marxist doctrine cause it indicates the struggle terrible.
Having no Altman to do their with armed police of all varieties, of absolute internationalism; he which has begun among the in dirty work for them, the Clarity just came in; he says the including many foreig Stalinists advocated the tactics of the per tellectuals over the question of ites themselves have had to take CNT at p. ordered its people and professional gangsters. They manent revolution and demons. Stalinism. Preceding every deep the initiative in beginning the to drop arms and retire to work patrol with fixed bayonets in the correctness of the Marxist precedes the storm, comes ideo by disrupting a public Socialist locked in, running low on food iiso howling for suppression of proposition that the establish logical turmoil among the intel meeting is only one more proof but trying to hold out.
ment of socialism in any one lectuals. Some come over to the of the fact that they can only MAY It is 11:30. tells MAY 15. want you to use country was impossible. side of the socially progressive carry out their plan of stopping me that in about 10 minutes the these letters to counteract the Story teller Story forces; others, like Feuchtwanger, the leftward advance of the mem overalls will attack the Assault international stander campaign for long or for short remain bership by trying to liquidate barracks around the corner. The The May events have clearly deIt is not hard for Feuchtwanger with the reaction.
the Party.
slogan is: CNT FAI POUM! monstrated the counter revoluto prove to his complete satisfacLong live the revolution! tionary role of Stalinist in bourtion that Trotsky is a terrorist. California YPSL foundation for future study and Trosky has given expression The night was terrible, with geois service, Hand in hand with time and time again to his unSummer School activity.
radio speeches by CNT leader police and reactionaries they go bounded hatred and contempt for After six hours of work, ap in Valencia pleading with the around in searching parties, using Stalin. Would he not translate This year annual Socialist petites were sharpened with overalls to back down. An Assault strong arm factics, tearing up into action what he had expressed Summer School in California met the dinner gong rang and the to know, what will we do if the Youth found dead in Sardanola.
swimming, baseball, etc. until Guard just came over. He wants union cards, arresting, shooting in Word and writing? with unprecendented success. forks began to fly. At night overalls attack them? He knew They have enlisted writers in What impression did the trial From all parts of the State mem around a bonfire impromptu en. in advance; as far as rive?. the impression one re bers of the YPSL and their tertainers amused the camp, and make out, his real purpose was their slander service, They pay ceived was that the accused, friends arrived by thumb, truck, voluminous voices stirred the to insinuate that if the attack well.
prosecution, and had the and train to spend a week of hills with revolutionary songs.
sume, might almost say sport highly concentrated study at the Aside from winning many new in some of his crowd aš prison the republice so well in his Imant breaks, we can get ready to take showed up the real character of its, interest in arriving at a workmen Circle Camp in the recruits into the League, the en ers; they don like fighting the and Seven Red Sundays, has been Does the language of the trial der the trees or in the cabins of new blood run thru its veins Guards were disarmed and ar undertakes to modify his books teem melodramatie, like a bad students assembled to read and when the students returned, and rested without a fight.
tacam? That the contention discuss Martian economics, philo has started on the road of devwwhded emotional is due chiefly sophy, history, or union organ eloping a powerful revolutionary thing the overalis did not let the will he ten. MAY 544 It a good Passos knw thing or two, bert the translation. It is difficultinational work, cementing a real cadre of youth. Tids Moore. phone building go altogether but