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WORKERS ought to unite about itself the rising mass es of the people with one aim in view to seize governmental power. And three BOOKS FOR Biography and Revolutionary Struggle days later: If the first nustan Revolution «Mass Work» in Philly in 1905 brought about the revolutions in Asia, in Persia, Turkey, China, the se. The present state of the newly created The struggle of the factions in the the heir to the revolutionary legacy of cond Russian revolution will be the begin North Philadelphia branch of the Comintern is in the last analysis a strug. Marx and Lenin.
ning of powerful revolutionary struggle in the membership of which has fallen away gle of the classes. Once more the revolu Bolshevisın did not spring fully grown Europe. Trotsky found himself in abso to ter within a few weeks, is another mall tionary Marxists are a persecuted and cal and accoutred like Pallas Athene from the lute accord with the April theses. He had but instructive Instance of the havoc being umniated minority in the International they head of Jove in the Greek fable. Russia.
remained outside the Bolshevik faction be wrough in all Party organizations through founded and Tolshevism an upstream cur wrote Lenin. Las attained Marxism. by cause he feared a tendency would de stupid bureaucratic control.
rent in the revolution it created. This dint of fifty years travail and sacrifice.
velop within it to linit the revolution to This branch takes in the proletarian turn of events can only deter those who Thanks to the emigration forced by the democratic objectives. Fortunately the line Kensington area and was started on the fail to understand the dialectic process. Czar, revolutionary Russia in the second of Lenin and the elan of the masses proved initiative of a few enthusiastic workers, of History obstinately refuses to flow in the half of the 19th century came into posses.
stronger than the democratic Right wing whom only one was a Party member. By smooth and unruffled channels marked out sion of rich internatiocal connections, of which did indeed crystallize. History fused dint of hard campaigning, and without the for it by Fabia. doctrinaires of gradual the grasp of superlative forms and theories the theory which is anathema to all bureau least help from the crackpot ism. Only in the brain of a Bucharin is of the revolutionary movements abroad as crats the permanent revolution with the organizer. Murdock, or the other Stalinit possible to tract the Soviet Union no other country had. The road of fundamental strategy of Leninism.
isu job holders, they built up a membership from the development of world economy Bolshevism runs through the struggle with The surpation by the Bureaucrat of thirty native born workers and were ia a and the correlation of class forces.
the populist Narodniki, syndicalist econThe crisis in the International begins fair way to make things hum around here omism. ultra Left otsoviem. and Menwhen the bureaucrats stepped in.
Two Phases of the October Revolution with the usurpation of power by the bureaushevik and conciliatory opportunism. crats. The suruggle to put an end to the The Parts Strait Jacket The October Revolution falls into two But not the least of the obstacles it had alternative zig zags of opportunism and They laced the branch in a strait Jacket: phases separated by the death of Lenin. to clear cut of its path was the conserva adventurism is inextricably linked up with programs and policies worked out behind The first was the stage of the conquest of tism of the old Bolsheviks who more the struggle for a correct Party regime. closed doors at the Party headquarters were political power and the military and econ than once, declared Lenin, have played a The base of the leadership in the Soviet literally Jammed down its throat; anything omic consolidation of the proletarian dic melancholy role in the history of our Party Unioa lias become more dangerously nar. not contained in them was taboo. Demotatorship through the instrumentality of by repeating senseless and obsolete forrowed. When Marx characterized Bakunin cratic election of functionaries and comthe conscious Communist vanguard. Tbe mulae.
he anticipated Lenin characterization of mittee. free discussion from the floor.
second phase is marked by the growth of These preliminary struggles of BolStalin, Marx wrote: Theoretically he is suggestions for real organizational work, the elements of dual power, the economic shevism have significance only as they a cipher but. a schemer he is in his objeccions to the brazen company union advances of the urban and rural petty bour serve to prepare the Party for the conquest ele. cent. To leave a disloyal figure like procedure were squelched at once. Seeing geoisie the subjection of the Party to the of political power. Not one of the epigones Stalin at the helm is. as experiences amply that in the eyes of the bureaucrats they bureaucracy, the replacement of the line who called themselves the Old Guard demonstrate to court disaster for the rero were not self reliant workery but suckling of Communism by Centrism.
measured up to the demands of the grunt lution. The Party regimes in the various babes, the disgustod members began dropTo screen their back sliding the Party October ordeal. Not one had advanced be.
sections of the Comintern have been made ping out by squads.
bureaucrats had resort to the invention and yond the position of a Left democrat prior over in his image bureaucracy tempered As was pointed out recently in the campaign against Trotskyism. Lenin who to the arrival of Lenin and his April Theses. only by tear of the Opposition.
Militant. the Kensington area is panting was safely embalmed in a mausoleum could The slogan of the democratic dictatorship If the policy of the Comintern official for organization. The workers there are be disregarded by the bureaucrats but of the proletariat and peasantry as Lenin dom in the period of the British General savagely exploited textile slaves of IrishTrousky remained as the living symbol of concelved It bore two aspects, one that Strike and the Chinese Revolution was a American and German American stock with the heroic phase of October. To destroy looked to the past and the other to the fue tragedy. that or the so called Third Pera proud and militant history. Dut neither bis immense revolutionary authority there. ture. The epigones only saw the part of iod las the elements of a tragic force. during the reign of the Trotsky phobiac fore became the bureaucrats prime con. this slogan. They were prepared for no What must be done? We recall that there Benjamin, nor since. wic the Trimmer cern. To this end history and biography more than bourgeois revolution, that is was another third period a way back in Gardos on the throne. have the Party olli.
were monstrously perverted. An English Russia a free market, no repudiation of for1902, when Lenin was fighting one who is cials raised an eyebrow in its direction.
critic definition of history as a Missisippi eign debts, no assistance to the interna.
a present theoretician of Stalinism. namely The only part played by them in the heroic of falsehoods was never more fully meritd tional proletarian revolution. no nationalMartinov. To the question, what must we Aberle mill strike was that of war corres.
than by the conscienceless fabrications of ization of the means of production.
do, Lenin wrote: We must give the brief pondents behind the firing line. sending the school of Stalin.
If according to Lenin the role of Zin reply: LIQUIDATE THE THIRI) PERIOD preposterous bulletins to the Daily Worker The powerful sweep of Trotsky ovie and Kamenev was no accident. nei. Lenin. 1902. Que Faire. Paris about their wholly fictilious leadershin.
Autobiography leaves the whole tissue of ther could it be an accident that from the 1925. And we must add, liquidate the as of the strikers. And when through the traud and misrepresentations woven by the distance of New York, Trotsky reached the cendancy of the epigones. purge the pro efforts of rank and filers who toooli the official theoreticians in shreds and tatters. same conclusions regarding the revolution. gram of the Comintern of national Social recruitment campaign of the In the light of this inemorable work how ary motive forces as Lenin in Switzerland. ism, and restore the Bolshevik Leninist seriously organization in Kensington was pitiful even to his own faction must appear On March 19, 1917 Trotsky wrote from Opposition to its rightful position in the actually begun, they promptly ernshel it to the scurrilities with which a Yaroslavsky America: In this struggle the proletariat Paray. MAURICE SPECTOR death. ARCHICANO like the Fat Boy in Dickens, seeks to make our flesh creep. The motley careers of those who sat in Judgement on the Opposition, wearing the saintly reole of the Old Guard are here passed in merciless CHICAGO cured the floor and turned the attention or the six hour day, whatever is necessary review. Concurrently the organizer of the The Chicago Federation of Labor now towards the real problem the unemploy. to bring the relief needed. Thirdly, the Red Army sets out the course of the de typical of central bodies of the of ment crisis. He said: 1f the connections Soviet Union, which is now engaged in velopment which led to his complete fusion and quite oblivious of its past militant tra of the lee employment agencies are as building up industry for its workers is in of goal and method with Lenin in the sur dition, has shown a decided fear of ven stated by president Fitzpatrick, which need of large scale credit to enable it to buy reme crisis of October. The biographical turing into as much as a discussion of the believe to be a correct statement, cannot machinery and material and you know the test. Trotsky once declared to an Oppost present unemployment crisis. Nevertheless see what the Chicago Federation of Labor Soviet Union is the only country which has tion baiting plenum is not decisive. Bern at its meeting, held May 4, a discussion can expect to accomplish in an investigation insisted upon union made products. This stein who was the literary executor of En did take place, initiated by comrade Arne to be conducted jointly with the Chamber of country has enormous funds available in gels wound up as a rabid revisionist. Franz Swabeck, who has been a delegate from the Comnierce, as the main object of this body the control of Wall Street which could be Mehring who approached Marx in a critical painters union for a number of years. will naturally be to protect such institu used for such a purpose. It would be a spirit ended in the camp of Spartacus. But At the early part of this meeting a com tions and to clamp the lid down on any ex worthy cause for American labor to take up if blography is indeed to be treated as the mittee previously appointed made a report posure of this form of racketeering. ID this demand and bring its mass pressure criterion, then let us have exact biography on prospects for the establishment of a would be much more appropriate for the to bear upon Wall Street to grant such not of Trotsky alone but of all concerned. daily labor paper, to be published by the federation to conduct an investigation of its credits with which machinery and material The owl of Minerva, that bird of wisfederation, recommending that as a nec own. Not only that but to look up the un can be bought in America produced by essary condition for a daily the present employment situation in general.
dom, takes flight when the dusk gathers, the American workers and thus not only weekly publication be first extended in cir It is about time for the Chicago Fedruns a familiar saying of Hegel. The temstrengthen the bonds between the workers culation. In the discussion ensuing several eration of Labor and for the trade union porary cloud on the October Revolution is of these two countries but also be a great of the delegates who spoke emphasized the movement as a whole to concern itself with the last thing any of us desirel but the factor in helping to relieve unemployment need of reviving the militant spirit of the this question. It has done nothing so far to here.
facs being what they are, the theoretical and past and voiced some criticism of the pre endeavor to protect the workers interests political contributions of Trotsky since his The motion was put, and carried. The sent trade union officialdom in general. in this situation or even to begin to fight struggle with the epigones began, are of debate was closed when president Fitzat It was upon the conclusion of this de for the measures which could to an extent inestimable service in the education of a rick, using the privilege of making a bate that a letter was read proposing that become alleviating and which have be statement from the chair. got up and ad.
whole generation of younger iarxists. Histhe Chicago Federation of Labor join in the come a pressing need. The American Fed ministered one of his notorious backhanded torical Materialism is no philosophy of blind impersonal forces. In reply to the efforts now being made unitedly by the eration of Labor leadership has done ab. slaps. He tried to accuse comrade Swaveck social charities, the Illinois State Fedcriticism of the Gotha program. the older solutely nothing is a concrete way. It has of not being sincere, of being an obstrue.
eration of Labor and various civic bodies. even proceeded, true to its reactionary tionist and a destructionist who had doua Liebknecht declared that Marx stood higla including the Chamber of Commerce, to con. position, to oppose any form of direct un. everything in his power to destroy the in his esteem but the party stands higher.
This is the veriest fetishism, creating an duct an investigation of the free employ employment insurance.
American Federation of Labor. Some arment agencies. Upon a question being can think of three important mea. dent claquers immediately began pounding entirely false antithesis between party and asked the president, Fitzpatrick, explained sures which the Chicago Federation of principle, beween organization and leadthe palms of their hands, but when the genthat what we are after is not so much to Labor can take up a fight for in order to The choice of leaders is as ineral audience failed to follow it died quick.
ership.
investigate the free employment agencies bring some relief to the unemployment escapable today as when it had to be made ly as a fizzle.
but rather the fee empolyment agencies situation. First, to take up the fight for between Marx and Bakunin, between Lenin When comrade Swabeck left the ball which are completely interlocked with the unemployment insurance. Those who have and Plachanov, between Rosa Luxemburg several rank and file delegates came to and Lautsky. The Autobiography before superintendents and managers of the big done the productive work but cannot now him to shake hands as a token of their corporations in getting a rakeoff from the find jobs are entitled to it. Secondly, to us perfectly fulfills the requiremente of agreement. One remarked: dirty slam workers when placing anybody in employ take up the demand everywhere for the Lassalle dictum that the beginning and is no answer and the correctness of your nient.
shorter workday. do not mean merely end of all great political action lies in the arguments could not be contradie.
At this point comrade Swabeck seTrotsky is the Ave day week. but the seven hour day.
statenient of that which is. Proposes Fight for Jobless in Chicago Labor Body