THE MILITANT Page SA wwe 28, 1930 Party Group for Opposition A SQUEAK IN THE APPARATUS be silent, whether you believe or do not be lieve in the genius of the leadership: be silent, do not arouse any doubts, not the apparatus is threatened by an intervention of Trotskyism! This is the sense of (Continued from: Page 1)
failure. In the New York Cistrict out of democracy, to the fact that taey can find Yaroslavsky article, this is wbat its politcover that we were always inclined to the total recruitment, 40 never appeared no opportunity for revolutionary expression ical music consists of.
wards heretical deviations, and that we never and 18 dropped out immediately. The inside the League, to the opportunism and were much good anyway.
But this music can no longer drown There will be unemployment campaign has collapsed like adventurism of the present leadership. The a house of cards.
much slander and dirt as there has always What has happened to Young Communists can only find a solution the squeak in the apparatus. As a resulu been towards those comrades who have the million and a quarter workers who were by finding their way to the platform of the of the most recent tests, which showed that embraced the Marxlan opinions of the Left supposed to ready to follow the call of Left Opposition.
the leadership plays around brainlessly, Opposition. For the phrasemongers, shal the Party? Why is no mags campaign Hence we demand: the differentiation inside the Party will low minded bureaucrats, and despicable op started to free Foster and the others? Why The liquidation of the regime of greatly increase The Rights will unWe is nothing done about the workers facing bureaucratic suppression in the Comintern portunists we have only contempt.
doubtedly experier ce a new growth, will address ourselves to those sincere rank and the electric chair in Atlanta, Georgia? Why and the opening of an untrammeled discus bring forth new leaders, perhaps with lesfile comrades who are devotedly sacrificing is not a broad united front movemenu sion of the balance sheet of the Stalin ser names but more fundamental and more for Communism, but have been misled by launched in accordance with the big pos regime and the Platform of the Bolshevik persistent. This danger must be foreseen.
the Browders, Fosters and Lovestones. Let sibilities and necessities of this case? Why Leninist Opposition these past six years.
But also in the proletarian ccre of the there be no surprise for our and other is there such paralysis in the Party? What The re establishment of Party demParty a deep awakening will take place.
comrades sudden conversion to the sup explains that there were only 300, 000 work ocracy and the re instatement in the Party, undoubtedly is taking place already.
port of the Platform of the Left Opposition, ers demonstrating on May while there International and the Soviet Union of the From day to day the urge to underBureaucratism Supreme were a million and a quarter on March 6? exiled and persecuted members of the Lefu stand the latest Left jump in connection Scolding and trying to place the blame on Opposition.
with the whole general line which alas, In Party which no longer permite the membership for not doing enough work The re examination of the Program does not exist in nature, will grow. It is disagreements with the official line burcannot explain it. The reason is to be adopted at the Sixth World Congress and quite possible that the pre Congress diseaucratically proclaimed from above, in sought in the anti Leninist theory of the the elimination of all the revisionist theor cussion will not be as quiet as the Bonaa Party in which there no longer exists third period and the ultra Left adven ies of socialism in one country. and the partist elements would like. The news that the last vestige of centralized democracy, turistic policies that follow from it. The rejection of the Menshevik colonial and Stalin attempted once more to postpone in a Party which demands only slavish obe.
empty shouting. bombast, and sensation national policies pursued by the bureau the Congress until the Autumn, that is to dience and mechanical execution of tasks, alism must be abandoned, the Party must cratic leadership in China and India. complete angther alternative overturn in a Party in which self criticism means return to the policies of Lenin, upheld by Long live the Leninist Unity of the the one hundred and first by this time, and Do not dare to criticize the leadership in the Left Opposition.
Communist International!
that his own Central Committee resisted such a Party where all honest opinion 18 Ruinous Policies Long live the World Proletarian Re is highly credible and at the same time very driven underground, many unforeseen surIn the Young Communist League we volution!
bymptomatic. This signifies the beginning prises are to be expected. When we read have indeed seen a most deplorable state of of the Party awakening.
in the Daily Worker (June 3) such remarks affairs. The does not seem to be HARRY MILTON Long Island as written by Herbert Benjamin, of the able to hold the members who come into new chapter opens before the Opposi.
Unic District, as No one in the Party now its ranks. The membership turnover has Outside of MORRIS Bronx Unit, No. tion a. very responsible one.
dares to deny the correctness of the basic assumed an alarmingly rapid pace. Young MORRIS SPECTOR East New the Opposition nobody will give the Party analysis of the Comintern and Central a clear picture of what is happening at workers come and go. Members who have York Unit.
Comittee, when we hear such remarks been a short while in the League become RAYMOND SPECTOR (George Ray)
present in unbreakable connection with the during a pre convention discussion period passive and discouraged. They drop out or policy of the whole period after the death Section 8, Unit then indeed do we declare that Party demof Lenin. No one except the Opposition is are expelled. This is the reaction to the MAX STOVER Section Unit 3F ocracy is an absolutely dead institution.
bureaucratic regime, to the elimination of to secure for the Party a correct able DAVE WEPER Section 1, Unit The whole course in the Party and the principled orientation,. has shocked and aroused us. The The eavesdropper cites new declara resent ultra Left adventurist line, which tions of repentance and skeptical voices is discrediting Communism in the eyes of of single Oppositionists. By the combined tile workers, and which is destroying what ever Communist influence there has been in. Continued from Page 4)
forces of the starvation diet, of PU on the Permanent Revolution. in all the past, led us to a complete re examinameasures, Yaroslavsky admonitions, and ultra Right course the theoretician of these works, expose on the basis of exact ton of the course pursued by the Party and the theoretical belaborings of the red yer which was Bucharin deafened by the Stahistoric data, documents and quotations, the Comintern for the last seven years.
low professors, a new group of capitulatan linist apparatus, flung the direction of the fraudulent web of the Stalinist school We studied such basic and fundamental complete collectivization. It for the peain which Yaroslavsky oocupies a shameful is being prepared for the Sixteenth Cutgress. But Yaroslavsky passes in silent questions as socialism in one country, the santry the Ainging is a historic misbut not the last place.
Chinese Revolution, and the course of 30the new hundreds of arrested Oppositioniste fortune, then for the Party as a conscious In regards to these books which have viet economy. We iound that in the past in Miscow alone, the revival of the activselection such a condition is not only a already been published in many languages we had been deceived about these ques.
ities of the Opposition in the Party ranks misfortune but a disgrace. It is the Staand continue to be translated and repubtions. We found that Lovestone and Fos: and the growth and consolidation of the linist regime, in which Yaroslavsky occulished, the Stalinists have adopted complete International Opposition.
ter had lied about the Left Opposition and pies a shameful but not the last place that silence. Let them try and refute my ex about the leader of the Bolshevik Leninist brought the Party to this disgrace.
position. Let them defend themselves Singly and by groups, Oppositionists Opposition in the and the Interwho went dizzy over the complete collective However, about which of my past views against those slandersous contradictions, national, comrade Trotsky. They suppressfalsifications and slanders of which accuse ization are compelled by the logic of inof the peasantry as an enemy force does ed the real opinions of the Opposition and them on the basis of undeniable documents ertia to present their repentance to the Yaroslavsky write? Aren they those views ascribed to them false and untrue viewand more often on the basis of their own Sixteenth Congress, at a moment when the that expressed, let us say, thirty years points. When for the first time we read the previous declarations. Let them deny at difficult process of soboring up is beginning.
ago, during my first exile, and about which truth about the Menshevik and disastrous Yaroslavsky gave an immeasurably enthusleast one of the quotations or at least one Well, another group of crushed revolutionChiang Kai Shek course pursued by Buiota of the evidence used by me.
iastic account in the Spring of 1923?
ту ary reputations will be added. In their carin Stalin in the Chinese Revolution, we stead many hundreds more have already Around himself. Yaroslavsky tells us, cannot do it they stand convicted by their were stunned and appalled. Then we saw come out according to the statistics of the Trotsky saw only the village.
own deeds. They are in the clamp of their He was who are the real opportunists, and who own contradictions, they are compromised tomorrow thousands and tens of pained by its needs. He was depressed by carries forward the traditions of Lenin.
its isolation and lack of rights. etc.
by their own denials, they are revealed ide thousands will follow. It is not the YarYarFundamental Questions oslavskys who can break the Opposition Gslavsky considered it necessary not only ologically impotent by the inconsistency of their own lies. Life is not stagnant. Life Away from the Party, no, now lesg than at From the beginning avoided being to glorify my exceptional attention to the peasantry and equaintance with the entire goes its way bearing out the criticism and provoked by the stupid blunders of the any time before.
prognosis of the Opposition.
Prinkipo, April 13. 1930.
Party and falling precipitately into the 01 peasant life. but he also demanded that my portunist arms of Lovestone. We avoided youthful articles on the peasantry should Why the New Polemic. studying the problem superficially, that is, be compiled into a textbook for the study merely examine this or that tactical error of the young generation. Literally!
Why after all the preceeding liquidaBULLETIN OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION but went into the fundamental questions mentioned this grossly fiattering retions, crushings and funerals o! the 01 Published in the Russian Language which we have mentioned. From Herberg sponse in my Autobiography throwing into positiot is Yaroslavsky compelled or of the Lovestone group we have heard ench the face of Yaros avsky and may others of more correctly why was Yaroslavsky com CONTENTS remarks as, Who cares about socialism my critics their own words of yesterday.
missioend to entder into such a highly prinin one country? don care one way or In cow. ection with this Yaroslavsky speaks cipled polemic with the Opposition? Even Big Step Forward: Trotsky the other. The American working class is Towards Capitalism or Towards now about Trotskys self praises in his though with the grossest distortions, the Socialism.
not concerned about socialism in one Some more on come auto biography.
eavesdropper was nevertheless compelled He only forgets to add rade Blumkin.
country. We have known how to estimate Trotsky. to quote the Paris Bulletin of the Oppothat these self praises consist of quotasuch a crass opportunist and unprincipled Squeak in the Apparatus; Gret tions taken form sition (Bolshevik Leninists) and to inform those under whose The Collectivization of the Vilapproach to the international problems of leadership the campaign of poison and partly because of noed, partly because of the working class. Give the Lovestone thoughtlessness something very inconvenlages; Collectivization in slander the dimensions of which were un.
faction a united front a la Kuomintang or Central Asia; Apparatus Falparalleled. went on for the past seven fept for the Stalinist faction pro Purcell and they are happy. But for us sity and Reality; Kote Czinczadze years. To stir all this refuse does not If we look closer at Yaroslavsky arthe question cuts much deeper than that. Letter to Okudszava; Letticle we cannot but come to the coaclugive us any pleasure. In this will be beters From the Soviet Union, For us the question is either the reactionlieved, not only by a revolutionist, but by sion that he wrote primarily in order to ary, utopian, anta Marxian theory of soTHE PROBLEMS OF THE INTERfrighten the lower ranks of the Stalin apany thinking man, who is not poisoned cialism in one country Lovestone exNATIONAL LEFT OPPOSITION by the degrading spirit of a Chinovnick paratus. Bringing quotations from the Bul. Trotsky An open Letter to the ceptionalism in a Russian dress. or a letin, clearly inconvenient for Stalin, Yaro(bursaucrat) careerist. merely carried Italian Communists of the Prorogram of the internatonal revolution. out what considered my revolutionary slavsky speaks to some one: You hear meteo Group; Manuryn and the what the Opposition says?
The Decline of Party Influence duty. Stalin and his Yaroslavskies carry Take care Comintern; From a Group of Fornot to on against me precisely because represent repeat these words!
Failure after failure stares the Party Under mer Red Army Slovaks to all the the pressure from the bottom the alarm in the face. The most outstanding charac system of views which they despise.
In the apparatus is growing, the doubts in Former Fighters of the Red Army; teristic in the life of the Party today 18 For the sake of this struggle they the leadership are growing and the voices Mayakovsky Suicide; Zaslavits absolute inability to take advantage of considered it necessary to stir up the whole condemning the latest zig zag are growing.
sky The Prop of Stalinism; the favorable objective conditions which history of the Party and Revolution, not Precisely in view of this Yaroslavsky so Voice from the Apparatus Ranks; confront it the incessant lagging behind. leaving single, living point untouched. To The forgetul Miasnikov; unexpectedly speake of Trotsky hopes In the old unions there is not to be found defeat then their whole slanderous front and other importnat items.
to be called upon to save the Revolution.
a trace of Party influence. Work there has it was not so much matter of personal Yaroslavsky was slightly over conscient25 cents each 18c in bundles been completely forsaken. The new uniong self defence, as a matter of political sec fous ran too far ahead and revealed an Send orders and funds to have steadily dwindled, and whatever magg ebsity. fulfilled this in several works. over abundant alarm. squeak in the apcharacter they once had has disappeared. In the book The Revolution Disfigured. paratus 18 heard, and Yaroslavsky IrightTHE MILITANT The membership drive has been a miserable The Autobiography and finally in the book ens. whom? His own people: sit straight, 25 Third Avepne New York, Number 11