THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition Vol. III, No. 22, Telephone: DRYdock 1656 NEW YORK, utileday, June 1930 PRICE CENTS Electric Chair Threat to Indian Ferment and Build Mass Movement Chinese Lessons for Mar. Jailed Six workers face death in the electric Growing out of the campaign on be.
chalr in Atlanta, Ga. because they adhalt of the millions of unemployed workers dressed meetings of Negro and white workin the United States, and directly from the ers and urged them to fight against lynchMarch 6th Unemployment Demonstration ing and unemployment. They include two in Union Square, New York City, Wm.
white women and two Negroes.
Reports from subsidized sources minim dred Amritzar massacres to maintain the Foster, Amter, Robert Minor and RayThe six workers are held under a state ize it but British Imperialism is nevertheless Empire. No revolutionary Marxist expected mond have been serving sentences of six months to three years upon trumped up law passed in 1861 which calls for the unable to suppress the fact that the Indian anything else from the Labor government but death penalty for those convicted on the charges and conviction for inciting to Up ferment is still gaining in breadth and in the continuation of the long chain of crimes charge of inciting to insurrection.
depth. The ingurgents have begun to pass and betrayals committed by the Second riot. In unparralleled star chamber prountil the present time no one has ever been over from breaking the government salt International snce 1914. Socialist reformism geedings denied. ball and jury trial and an convicted under that law.
opportunity to have defense witnesses monopoly to the refusal to pay taxes. Sim inevitably becomes socialist imperialism, The prosecuting attorney has stated ultaneously the civil disobedience campaiga But it would be a profound mistake and beard, the defendants, Communista, were that when the six workers are brought to which the petty bourgeoisie, in fear of delusion to conceive of the present crisis railroaded to long, harsh prison sentences.
trial he will demand that they be sent to real mass action strives to hold within the in India as the decisive struggle for freeNew York capitalism has demonstrated the chair. Only if the jury that convicts limits of pacifist non resistance 18 over dom from British Imperialism. The movegraphically the viciousness and hatred of them urges clemency, can they be given a flowing the barriers erected for it by the ent of the masses still has no other leadercapitalist class justice against workingmen prison sentence instead of being burned Nationalist Congress.
ship than the bourgeoisie and all historical and their leaders. In other parts of the to death, The Southern capitalist class After generations of oppression and ex experience bears out that the bourgeoisie country, the bourgeoisle follow the lead wants to quickly stamp out any efforts to ploitation, the Indian masses moving in tid will betray the struggle at the first opporof New York in the extension on national organize the Negro and white workers for al waves of revolt are presentng the world tune agreenient that they reach with the scale of the persecution of the Communista a united struggle. There is no doubt that with one of the grandiose spectacles of his foreign Imperialists and at the first sign and other workers. maximum effort will be made to secure tory. The uprising of the colonial Orient, that the masses are turning not only The passivity and apathy with which e conviction, hoping in that way to terrorprecipitating the solution of the agrarian against the foreign but no less against the the New York convictions have been met ize the workers.
and national problems of the democratic native exploiter. The bourgeoisie in the 18 appalling, and symptomatic of the imThose facing the electric chair are revolution in conjunction with the interna epoch of imperialism is incapable of carry passe which the official Communist Powers, Communist Party organizer; tional and socialist revolutionary whose class ing on a consistent struggle for the dem Party has reached. Hardly any agitation 19 Joseph Carr, Young Communist League orbearer is the proletariat this is one of the ocratic revolution, and has no intention of carried on by the Party press or Daily ganizer; Mary Dalton, National Textile outstanding features of the final stage of peacefully allowing the proletarlat to as Worker to effect the release of the four Workers Union organizer; Anna Burlak, capitalism.
sume the leadership. Here the lessons of Communists and to expose the machinery International Labor Defense organizer; MacDonald Bourgeols Agent the Chinese Revolution are an invaluable which brought about their conviction. Why Gilmer Brady, national organizer, American It is no less characteristic that the torch source of instruction and guidance for the has the Party made virtually no efforts Negro Labor Congress and Henry Storey, a carriers of the imperialist suppression of proletarian vanguard in India.
to rally on behalf of the four convicted member of the Atlanta branch of the the Indian revolt, should be the socialist India and the Proletariat leaders those workers who it declared folA.
Labor government of the canting MacDonald. The Indian Revolution will triumph lowed its banner at the height of the unThe International Labor Defense is How can any worker still cling to his ninder the leadership of the Indian proletar employment crisis? Why are there no conducting the campaign for the defense last remnant of faith in the social democ iat or not at all. It will triumph as the steps taken for a wide united front to arouse of these six workers. So far it has failed racy? The Indian situation fully confirms the dictatorship of the proletariat or not at all. the working class to demand these comrades the to arouse the masses to action. Only a few Justice of Lenin contention that This means that there are certain in be released forthright from their incarcerIsolated meetings have been held which socialista are agents of the bourgeoisie, dispensible pre requisites for the revolu ation? It can and must be done. Various have hardly received any publicity in either Mac Donald is prepared to repeat a hun tion. That the Communist International, elements in the labor movement can unthe capitalist or Party press.
the world organization of the revolutionary questionably be brought into action in this organizers. broad united front movement must case.
working class, should have to enact the be started all over the country on behalf Powers and Carr are scheduled to go role practically of a passive onlooker in Rumors are widely current in Party of the six workers. The International La on trial on June The date for the trial the present crisis, is one of the most damn circles that behind the scenes a game is bor Defense together with all labor organ of the others has not as yet been set.
ing indictment of the Stalin regime. That being played to obtain the release of the izations that can be brought into action The time is short. Action must be swift.
there is no Communist Party in India today framed up men. This is wrong and will must arrange mighty protest demonstra Let the campaign to free the six workers worth its salt is the direct outcome of the get the movement nowhere, and least of all fous demanding freedom fon the jailed be started on a basis than can bring success. Continued on Page Continued on Page Maintain the Weekly Militant!
Shall the WEEKLY MILITANT continue. Our readers, the sympathizers.
supporters and members of the Left Oppositiou have to decide this question now and decisively.
On November 15, 1928 the first number of the semi monthly Militant appeared, and first publicly broke the conspiracy of silence and the reign of ideological and hysical terror of the Stalins and Bucharins, the Fosters and the Lovestones, carried on for years against the true standard bearers of Bolshevism, the Russian OppositionBolshevik Leninists, led by Leon Trotsky. For over a year and a half now, the actual views of the International Left Opposition have been regularly brought before the American Communists and the working class. The Militant, official organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition. has been all this time a flaming torch, burning away the poisonous roots of the Centrist and Right wings in the Communist International and the United States, and guiding the bewildered Communist movement again onto the path of Lenin teachings.
The incomparable writings of Leon Trotsky. Christian Rakovsky and other outstanding Bolsheviks have appeared regularly in the Militant, and only in its columns.
The truth about ihe cinditions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the causes of the divisions and splits in it. the ramifications of the Russian strualo in the Communist movements of all countries, the program of the Russian Opposition to save the Bolshevik Revolution from the danger of Thermidoriau developmenty, has been unfolded the Mutant.
Now more than ever the Militant must remain a weekly. The present adven.
turist course of the Coramunist Parties internationally follows upon the heels of the brazen Right opportunism of the previous period. We are now paying the price for all these years of accumulated blunders, in the prevailing apathy among Party members, in hundreds of good fighters quitting the struggle for lack of perspective.
We are losing one position after another in the unions. The Left wing Industrial Unions have been reduced to impotence. Only the Mhitant presenting a clear line of Leninist tactics, combatting the irresponsible regime of Browder Foster as well as the Lovestone Right wing can turn the wave of apatby into one of struggle, can prevent the Syndicalists and Socialists from turning the crisis in the cominteru to their part The Communist movement and the working class can ill afford to lose the Militant, or to have it retreat to an existence again as a semi monthly publication, Witn confidence and faith in the integrity of the rank and file of the American Communists and the working class, the National Conference of the Communist League of America (Opposition) held in Chicago in May 1929, decided to launch the Weekly Militant, and to rely for its continuance upon the support of the honest workorCommunists in and outside the official Communist Party. period of six months trial for the Weekly Militant was projected, Ву might and main. by heroic efforts by the members and sympathizers of the Opposition, the WEEKLY Militant has been maintained now for almost seven months.
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