THE CLAS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. III MAY, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 243 55 th Street, Brooklyn, Issued Every Two Months 254 a Copy; 50 a Year Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III MAY, 1919 No. The First of May, 1919 CONTENTS Page The First of May, 1919. By 129 131 Church and School in the Soviet Republic. By Bukharin 131 139 What the Under Class Answers to the Most Impressive Phrases of the Upper Class. By August Strindberg 139 144 The Truth About the Allied Intervention in Russia.
By Philips Price145 154 Berne. Post Mortem Conference. By Ludwig Lore 155 162 Russian Tale. By Maxim Gorky.
162 165 Japan and China. By Sen Katayama.
165 172 Can the Exploite) and the Exploiter Be Equals. By Nikolai Lenin 1724 178 Socialism and the League of Nations. By Maurice Sugar 178 187 The Logic of Insanity. By Charles Rappaport. 187 192 An Unusual Friendship. By Franz Mehring. 192 200 Bankruptcy or Revolution Which? By André Courland 200 208 Party Discussion 209216 Manifesto and Program of the Left Wing Section, Greater New York.
Editorials 217 236 Communism in Hungary. The Left Wing. Eugene Debs, a Revolutionist. The Representative of a Free Working Class. Mass Strikes. Archangel, a Hopeful Sign.
Documents 237 246 Maxim Corky Corfussion. Letter from Friedric. Adler. The International of Youth. Manifesto by the Soviet of Railway, Petrograd. From the Commissariat of Labor to all Workers. Facsimiles of Soviet Circulars issued to Foreign Soldiers on Russian Soil. 247 255 The Mystery Solved 256 Ever since the first day of May was adopted by the International Congress of Paris in 1889 as the International Socialist holiday it has been the milestone from which the class conscious labor movement has looked backward over another year of activity to gage the work it had accomplished. On that day workingmen and children, in every civilized nation in the world lined up in impressive demonstrations to demand from a capitalist world greater political and industrial freedom and better conditions of livelihood. It was conceived particularly as an international demand for an hour day, for social legislation, for equal suffrage for men and women, and as a protest against militarism and war. In most countries the first of May was celebrated as a workers holiday. On this day the class conscious workingmen and women asserted, if only for a day, their freedom from capitalist domination. And by this token it signified to them the great international brotherhood of the working class, fighting for liberation from capitalist oppression.
Then came the war, and the first of May became a day of sorrow. May 1, 1915, was one of the most tragic days in the history of the International. Instead of brotherhood there was mass murder and hatred, in the place of anti militaristic propaganda there were war credits, in the place of better industrial conditions had come industrial slavery, political freedom had made way for political oppression. But events move swiftly in war times, and a year later the black despair of that first May Day had given place to a new, more hopeful spirit. The neutral countries once more celebrated their proletarian holiday with 23 The Co Operative Press 15 Spruce St. New York