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April 15, 1929 ILE MILLIANT Page THE MILITANT April 1s, 1929 The Draft Program of the Comintern the it.
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chac of the ex expelled of new attacks.
Instead on present leader policy of TO BE CONTINUED regime.
fakers and To the Convention quently demonstrated. The revolutionary youth must reject both the corrupt, dilletante Lovestone group in the League and the capitulation Statement of the Expelled Communist Youth ist minority. The latter, standing as it does on the platform of the Stalin faction, is waging a Our expulsion from the Young Workers the beginning of the decline of the organiza accession to leadership in the League would Its League, perpetrated by the Party bureaucracy and its colunterpart in the League, took place crisis front which the leadership has been tion. The League was thrown into a factional signify a victory for Stalinism, but not a vicbecause we announced our solidarity with the able to extract it to this very day. Incompetent un tory for the proletarian revolutionary current International Leninist Opposition and our inand bureaucratic, divorced from the prosleparat not be separated from those in the tention to struggle for the line represented by The Communist movement.
lifferences existing in the League cantof We view the campaign against thë Leninist Darcy (Lovestone)
leadership of the struggle in the whole International. The Tess petty bourgeois Opposition as the sharpest danger the League led the organization along the difficulties in the International cannot be the effect it could have no other of strengthen ening the Right wing cverywhere. The united transfersing the opportunism of their Party Staliny but only by the victor of the Leninist and hardly interrupted pace. This leadership. Bucharin Tontsky Rykov) and the Center attack on gamitihe best comes to live by the content faction firectly into the League has been opposition led baconeca de Trotsky. To this Center groups has tionary youth movement.
and make more severe the difficulties of the have been active members of the League for comrades of Opposition Soviet Union. The Stalin faction, unable to The Accomplishments of the Preserit solve these difficulties of the Soviet Union, Leadership many years, engaged in work in many on the basis of correct Bolshevik policy, has of League activity. The expelled. comrades are Instead of unifying the split ranks of the proletarians who have in many cases played a resorted to expulsions, emprisonmente portieren olicy. League, the present leadership has led it from leading part in the work of building the move, and deportation as its one factional crisis into another. Instead of ment. The first condition for the unification of foundations of Marxism Leninism against all of the Opposition has been to maintain the increasing the membership of the League, it the League and Party is the immediate rein has driven avay workers so that the learno kult erights of discussion and clarification, It has fought against all odds to statement of all the expelled Communists with uphold the revolutionary character of the membership today is considerably the League, the per For the Opposition Platform!
in which these find themselves today can only centage of intellectuals and students is today The Platform of the Opposition, sent to the be solved on the basis of the correct political higher than previously, as even the Sixth Convention of the Party, correctly says: must admit. Instead of strengthening the press, line of the Leninist Opposition. The main task of the League members is to monthly fight relentlessly for the line of revolutionary paper that is, back to where the League was The Struggle of the Opposition The Opposition has conducted an energetice praise, the League is today as organization allie eradication of all corrupt petty bourgeois tenprinciples now being defended by the Leninist building a complete socialist society in one nucleus reorganization remains on position of the Comintern in the Anglo Russian campaigns are non existant and trade union work is a formality in which a handful of with the working class movement.
ing in the path of the Fapportunist followof smart Aleckism. cynicism, and playing Committee and their failure to break with the British trade union following their open functionaries participate. The anti militarist of the General Strike. c) against the Wil We stand on the line of the International from bourgeois pacifism to the in the Chinese wild leftism of military training, unstorms, pool in the United States, as the expresand the Platform of the Communist vik litle of the alliance a. The parliamentary of the League can probably best beacher sion of the correct revolutionary course to be the national bourgeoisie in which the interests and peasants were sacrificed ican scate. The League as a whole must adopt (d)
this the clear and determined struggle foon of the Young Worker did line.
We are determined to carry on the the constantly increasing Kulak and Nepman som some time after Hoover election The level struggle for its victory.
danger. e) for the establishment of Party DeSIGNED: Albert Glotzer, Mike Zalisko (Chicago. Joe Angelo of understanding of the membership is at doux mocracy on the basis of Lenin resolution at the horn Russian Party Congress, and against Communists is confined chiefly to cramming (Springfield, Ill. Gerry Allard (Christopher, li. Martha Burns (Gary. Sam Curtis, Martin Payer, the bureaucratic regime, the means through the falsifications of Stalinist revisionism down Charles Mahler, Carlson (St. Louis. Ruth Reynolds which alien classes are exerting pressure on the throats of the membershp. Detroit. Carl Cowl, Sarah Avrin (Minneapolis.
the Party and the Soviet apparatus.
The Morgenstern, Sol Lankin, Leon Goodman, Nathan Shanker, These wrong policies of the Comintern he outstanding and incontrovertible fact is Joe Lesack (Philadelphia. Mac Kudler, Irving Spreireleadership are reflected in the Young Commu that in spite of the far more favorable objective ore conditions, the struggles, and the experiences gen, Joseph Fox, Harold Robins, Joseph Friedman, George nist International. Instead of Clark, John Justin, Sam Watts, Leon. Dennenberg, ground in the struggle against opportunism, the League has enjoyed in the last four years Harry Stone, Louis Stone, Paul Green, Jean Tishman, has been transferred into a rubber weak, lure placentia estar enthet League today is Ben Gross, Kari Hall. New York. Bob Green (Wilwhich endorses the position of the Stalin tionalism. That is the balance sheet of the faction on every occasion. The sharp decline in The rumental in of the League which has been inLeague membership throughout the world, and Where to Ruy The Militant China and the United most canche expelling many of the best and particularly in comrades from the for organization States, plus a noticeable weakening of the The following is a partial list of newstands, bookstores, and cruiting power of the Leagues, is testimony to support to the revolutionary line of Agents from whom The Militant can be purchased. The Militant the Opposition.
the is also obtainable from our Opposition Group Secretaries: false line followed by the in The opportunities for growth have been many MALDEN, MAŞS. Comrade Dubin, 15 Semmett St.
recent years. woeful passivity, indifference and frequent. The effects of rationalization and BOSTON MASS. Shapiro Bookstore, Beach St. near Washand stagnation characterizes some of the largest sections of the Communist Youth. generally increased exploitation of the youth, ROXBURY, MASS. Charles Goldberg Store, 536 Warren St.
the growing militarization of the country with The Situation in the American League its threat of imperialst war to the workers, NEW YORK CITY AND BROOKLYN The situation in the American League merits the growng resistance of the workers expressed way; Second Third Aves, on 14th St. newstands in the Bronx, the deepest attention of the entire movement.
in the struggles in the coal, clothing, textile and various stands in Brooklyn. Also, at The Militant, 340 East and other industries all of these show that TROY, Allen Bookstore, Hendrick Hudson Hotel.
until 1925, under the leadership which fertile field for agitation and recruiting was steadily unti NEW HAVEN, CONN. Gendelman, 393 Sherman Are.
because of their adher open to the League. These can still be taken PHILADELPHIA, PA. Lcon Goodman, 327 So. 11th St.
Calida elled (Shachtman, Abern, advantage of if a turn is made by the League CLEVELAND, OHIO. Joseph Keller, 3004 Vega Ave. Bryar, free from faction struggle until the latter etc. In that period, members.
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, Denis Plarinos, 387 East Federal St.
DETROIT, MICH. Barney Mass. 8720 12th St. Apt. 2; The Capitulators in the Minority of it when it was introduced by the Lovestone Aidas Book Shop. 1713 24th St.
group, League units were organized in every The struggle of the League Opposition was CHICAGO, ILL. Cheshinsky Community Store, 2720 part of the country. The third convention found hampered in the past by the confusion and Division St. Bornstein Bookstore, 1326 So. Kedzic Ave. Albert Glotzer, 2610 Thomas Ave. Horsley Bookstore, 1625 a League with a member of more than 3, 000. capitulationist The Young Worker had been changed from a Harvey, and for a time, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Joe Angelo, 431 No. Wesley Sc.
magazine to a militant weekly news Kaplan. Attempting to make a mechanical ins SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. McDonald Bookstore, 65 Sixth paper, issued regularly. The influence, activity separation of the struggle within the Party LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Western News Stand.
and idealogical level of the League was on the from that in the League, they weakly surrenincrease.
dered the principle. mechanical reorganization of the the interests of unity ST. LOUIS, MO. Foster Book Store, 410 Washington Avenue League leadership, during which the leader it actually resulted in the further intrenchment SEATTLE, WASH. Raymer Bookstore; 1616 Fourth Ave.
ship selected by the overwhelming majority of the Lovestone group in the League and the TORONTO, ONT. Maurice Spector, 231 Palmerston 58. of the membership was removed by the rep intensification of the factional situation. The Goodman, News Vendor, Queen St.
resentatives of the and agents of the futility of their struggle and their hopeless EDMONTON, ALTA. Labor News Stand, 9796 Jasper Ave.
Lovestone faction put in their place, marked confusion and political cowardice has been fre WINNIPEG, MAN: National Book Store, 441 Selkirk Are, Opposition and to protest against the de goetation of comrade CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS ISSUE insurrections in traps or to chase humbly after the It is not difficult to understand that the first Criticism of the enemy banner.
stage of the coming third revolution can in a difThe resolution of the condemns itself ferent and greatly abridged form repeat the stages Fundamentals to impotence by the fact alone that in arguing which have already been passed, for instance, an most abstractly concerning the inadmissability of imitation of the common national front. But By Trotsky skipping through stagės and the harmfulness of will that first stagę þe sufficient to give.
the Computschism, it entirely ignores THE CLASS CONmunist a chance to put forward and an quidation literally, e. actual elimination of the TENT of the Canton insurrection and the shortnounce its April theses, that is, its program and Chinese revolution, that is, the very possibility and lived Soviet regime which it brought into existactics of the capture of power before the masses? inevitability of its revival on a new plane? One tence. We Oppositionists, hold that this insurrecWhat does the draft program say on this? can speak of such a perspective seriously only in tion was an adventure of the leaders in an effort as The transition to the proletarian dictatorship is two cases if China would be doomed to dismem here coipa. only after a series of pre bermeħt and complete run for which there is not also an adventure develops acearding to certain paratory stages only as a result of a whole period the slightest reason to think, or if the Chinese definite laws which are determined by the strucof growing over. of the bourgeois democratic re. rosii In other words all the stages that have al algeoiste would prove capable to solve the basic volution into the socialist revolution.
of Chinese life in its own non revolu seek in the Canton insurrection the features of ture of the social environments. That is why we ready been gone through are not taken into actionary way. Is it not this last variant that the the coming phase of the Chinese revolution. These count. What has been left behind, the draft pro who forced the Communist Party under the heel analysis of the Canton uprising. But how much gram still sees ahead. This is exactly what is meant the bourgeoisie, ascribe by dragging behind the tail. It fully opens the to us now?
The strength of Marxism lies in its ability to that the Canton rising was a correct and proper more imperative is mintang rehearsal. Thus the concealment of the foretell, in this instance the Opposition can point link in the chain of struggle to give a clear class old solecisms inevitably prepares the road for prognosis by of the by characterization history. At first Canton insurrection. Howerrors.
The se enter the new uprisings, which will develop whole, then concerning the left Kuomintang and tion of the although the Plenum met. imat an incomparabiy more rapid rate than the last ent. and finally, concern mediately after the Is this not ing the one, with a plan of democratic dictatorship that the Canton insurrection.
What other confirmation ship of the Comintern, because it pursues a false the most convincine Canton events the doubt that the third revolution will be lost The very same opportunist line which by the the Canton insurrection of 1927, the meaning of just as the second one. ADVENTURISM AS PRODUCT OF ready brought the revolution at its first two phases; the East which is outlined in the draft program?
The second paragraph of the same resolution of phuree online. pod made the defeat final.
a policy of adventurous attacks on the the February plenum of the says: CANADA PROTEST AGAINST THE The first wave, the broad revolutionary moveIf the leadership had hurried yesterday to leap DEPORTATION ment of workers and peasants which in the main across the defeats which it had brought about it The Communist Opposition of the Canadian Party led by proceeded under the slogans, and to a coppidérable would first of all have explained to the Communist comrade Maurice Spessor bas juse sisued a four pase leatles situation Soviet Union and centers of the revolutionary movement with HEAVY sweep, that on the road to an armed insurrection The leaflet, which is published simultançously in English. Jewich DETEATS, for the workers and peasants, the phy.
and Ukrainian, Appeals to she workers of Canada, particularly the, Communists, to defend the Soviet Majon against world tionary cadres of the labor and pleasant more memelin paralleled struggle for political influence on the capitalism and the Stalin regime to she Bolshevik general. Our emphasis. peasants ahead.
On September 17, 1927 we said to the presidium When the wave was surging high the of the tribused in the important centers of Canada. said that the movement is entirely under the Today papers report that the revolutionary army banner and leadership of the Kuomintang which has taken Swatow. The armies of Ho Lun and Ye even takes the place of Soviets. It is precisely on Tin have been marching already a few weeks.
that ground that the Communist Party was subor Pravda calls these armies revolutionary armies. But dinated to the Kuomintang But that is exactly why the question is what prospects does the movement of the revolutionary army which captured Swatow raise the revolutionary movement ended with heavy de TROTSKY before the Chinese revolution? What are the slogans feats. Now when these defeats have been recog.
of the movement? What is its program? What nized, an attempt is being made to delete the Kuo should be its organizational forms? What has be The Draft Program of the mintang from the past as if it had not existed, as come of the slogan of Soviets, which Pravda sud.
denly advanced for a July?
if the had not declared the blue banner Without first Comintern its own There have been no defeats either in Shan against the Kuomintang the Communist Party in its entirety, without ghai or in Wuchang in the past; there were agitation among the masses for Soviets and a Soviet Criticism of Fundamentals merely transitions of the revolution into higher of the masses under the slogan of Government, without an independent mobilization phases that is what we have been taught. Now Introduction by James, Cannon the sum total of these transitions is suddenly declared to be heavy defeats for the workers and of workers, soldiers, and peasants deputies in the tion, broadening arm ancipation, without the crea.
This edition is the first in the peasants. However, in order to mask to some ex localities, the rising of Ho Lun and Ye Tin, let world to be published in book form. 11 contains Trotsky tent this unprecedented political bankruptcy of brilliant criticism of the Draft transitions and evaluations, the concluding para an isolated adventure, a pseudo Communist their opportunist policy, could not fail to graph of the resolution says: tional Makhno feat, which could not but clash against The makes it the duty of all sections of the to fight against the social demo.
its own isolation, and it has clashed.
Il gives a thorough answer to these cratic and Trotskyist slanders to the effect that the The Canton insurrection was a broader and burning questions of the revolutionChinese revolution has been liquidated. deeper rehearsal of Ho Lun and Ye Tin advenIn the first paragraph of the resolution we were ture, only with immeasurably greater tragic con.
Can Socialism Be Built in One Country What Are the Lessons of the Chinese told that Trotskyism was the idea of PERMA sequences.
Revolution?
NENT revolution, that is, a revolution which is The February resolution of the com What is the Bolshevik Attitude to the now growing over from its bourgeois to the sobats certain pụtschist tendencies in the Communist Peasantry and to Farmer Labor Parties?
cialist phase; from the last paragraph we learn that Party of China, that is, tendencies in favor of tion has been liquidated. How can a liquidated Trotskyists withe Chinese refiere espera dienaetiores alte does to say howevere that CLASSIC OF LENINISM!
revolution be a PERMANENT revolution?
Only complete and reckless irresponsibility, perportunist policy of 1925 27, and an unavoidable consequence of the military commanding Bound in stiff paper cover: of such contradictions which eat up given from above to lutionary change the without at its roots.
step 35 cents each 25 cents in bundles revolution the fact that the labor and peasant offen clear, perspective. Ho Lun march and the Canton the basis of the tactics, without Limited Edition bound in blue cloth cover sive has been and drowned in blood, that insurrection were and had to of spora gold stamped. 00 each the masses, are state of retreat, that before an adic other onslaught there must be, apart from many action. real to putschism as well. POSTPAID as opportunism can be a clear understanding of 140 Pages other things, a. molecular process at work among the the truth that from now on it behoves the commasses which requires a certain Order now from length of which cannot be determod of time the munist Party of China to guide the armed insur beforehand; rections of the workers and poor peasants, the capTHE MILITANT if liquidation is to be understood in this way, ture of power and the institution of a revolution Box 120, Madison Square Station it does not in any way differ from the heavy de ary dictatorship. If it will thoroughly assimilate feats which the has at last been comNew York, the understanding of this, it will be little inclined pelled to recognize. Or are we to understand li to improvize military attacks on towns or armed workers the stamp mington)
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understand liquidation of the appraising all that had uitben leaders (Williamsologom. of a section of its a set back antidote The