An Opportunist Campaign George Saul Tours for Opposition The Communist Party in the Elections At that time their actually To begin with, a Two declarations of the Left Oppo campaign, however, they have been honored to the third period. to the revolutionary Comrade George Saul has begun a sition. intimately related to each other, more in the breach than in the observance upsurge. to the crisis worse than 1914.
national speaking tour for the Communist are being confirmed with greater rapidity and that with calamitous results.
to the possession of the streets. They League of America (Opposition) opening than many expected. The frst is that Our Proposals have been dissolved into a legally perfect, up in Denver, Colorado, with a number of Centrism has no independent or consistent irreproachably few months ago, the Left Opposition, worded bill to be presentstreet meetings. From Denver, he will political line of its of its own. The second, that ed for enactment to Congress.
proceed to Kansas City, with a possible оны, the stormy through the Militant, proposed a number ultra Left zigzag of Centrism of concrete issues as a program of action That is not all. Combined with this mismeeting in Sterling en route. In Kangas only a prelude to a new rampage in the erable campaign of opportunism, is similar for the Communist movement. Leading them City, two or three meetings are scheduled direction of crass opportunism. The conwas the need of a campaign for social inreformist nonsense, subsidiary in form but for him. One of them is a meeting of the tentions are already being confirmed in all Communist League branch, another is the important parties of the Comintern, surance that would set a broad class move. no less harmful.
including the Russian. In the United States, ment going and involve masses in struggle.
public meeting in Forum Hall, 1218 East The funds necessary for such insur12th Street, September 16th, p. on is most crudely manifested in the present time the proposal was not only ance, writes the Daily Worker, can be Boss Persecutions in the South. and a election campaign of the Party.
strictly taboo in the taboo in the columns of the official provided by Stopping armaments and Party Conditions for Election Work street meeting may also be arranged. St.
other war preparations and assigning the press and all Party documents, but it was looked at with a glaringly suspicious funds hitherto spent for these purposes Louis is also arranging a branch and pub Why and under what conditions do Communists participate eye by the Stalinist mannikins as something lic meeting for comrade Saul in the Public to a social insurance fund. 29 1930. parliamentary Library. From St. Louis, it is expected to activities?
akin to it not worse than social fascism. No genuine pacifist could fail to be deAmong the many conditions, continue the tour through Springfield, Cht. these stand out: To utilize the interest We never conceived such a campaign lighted with such proposal, which is also words cago, Detroit, Cleveland, Youngstown, Pittsadvanced in the form of a slogan: Not a aroused among the workers during election in the sense of a vulgar parliamentary We burgh cent for war.
and points in the vicinity.
comedy that goes without saying.
times for revolutionary agitation and orComrade Saul was was one of the active ganization of the workers. To point out urged it upon the Party, which finally acPetty Bourgeois Pacitism figures in the Colorado coal strike of a few that the Communists do not seek seats cepted it when word had come from MosNot once but a hundred times did Lenin years ago, and recently one of the leaders in order to use the bourgeois state apparatcow that even in the third period such excoriate the petty bourgeois pacifists in a proposal was not entirely a bad one.
of the textile struggles in the South. He us as an instrument of the workers, but unt the ranks of the socialist movement who was sentenced to six months on the chain to use it as a forum where the decadent It was from then on that we were presentadvanced these and similar proposals and bourgeois parliamentarism is exposed and ed with an almost incredible performance gang in the Carolinas for his activities. His His slogans.
which reaches new depths with the passage Assurance remain just as recent agreement with the standpoint of the the illusions of the workers in it shattered correct today, even when they must be diCommunist League brought about his exTo utilize election ction periods in particular of every day. From yesterday hardly conrected against the chameleons of the third pulsion from the official Communist Party.
to mobilize the workers against the stilling cealed contempt for social fascist insurperiod. Not so very long ago, the whole On this tour, comrade Saul is speaking on farce of the polling booths and for transance. the Party leaders swung around helsea Party was stirred up against Bittelman for Boss Persecutions in the South. Prob ferring their demands and attention outcustomary 180 degrees, and turned the issue his petty bourgeois slogan: No more cruislems of the American Working Class. and side parliamentary boundaries and into which can have a serious significance only ers! Does the new pacifist slogan of the Program of the Communist League.
the open field of struggles. demonstraas a demand for which worker armaments and war differ in any essential Further details on the tour will be publishtions, strikes, etc. etc. To advocate such fight into a cheap electoral game. from Bittelman s? It does not.
Like its ed in forthcoming issues of the Militant.
minimum (immediate) demands as do not a social insurance bill predecessor, it has no place in a Comby the party in the lism (that is the job of the reform capitalism was formally drafted by the munist movement.
social democrats) but as entrain masses best manner of skilled parliamentarians.
It may be objected that these are isin struggle outside the ballot box decepWe are even ready to acknowledge that the olated quotations.
This objection is 205 tion, and incessantly to combine the minbill is perfectly legal and its language irvalid. The quotations are only typical of imum and maximum programs of the revreproachable. Too legal and irreproachable, what can be read every day in the Daily olutionary proletariat, the immediate dein fact. It tells us that a national pubWorker and the rest of the Party press.
THE RESULTS OF THE mands with the final aim of the seizure of lic. emergency now exists in the United The bill itself was drafted by the Party power. To point out to the workers that States of America. leaflet of the New leadership evidently with the practised GERMAN ELECTIONS parliament and elections are a sham and York Party District informs us that the aid of some of the present leaders who Communists offer a remedy. and the will be the subject of the next open meeting a deception practised upon them by ti bourgeoisie and their reformist HeutenDaily Worker adds: not so long ago studied how to be good Society owes these of the Branch of the Communist parliamentarians under Victor Berger, Alants, that reforms cannot improve their categories of workers a living. In fact, the League of America (Opposition)
gernon Lee, Louis Waldman, Meyer London wretched lot which is produced by the sysonly essential difference between the Com and Morris Hillquit. The editorials cited munist Bill and the Socialist party pan.
Max Shachtman tem as a whole.
are written by no less a figure than In the United States, where so many aceas is that the demands 25 a week Hathaway, graduate cum laude of the Lenwill be the speaker million millions of workers participate in elections, per unemployed worker, to be paid by the in school, and now member of the almighty Questions and Discussion will follow web parliamentary illusions are deep and government, while the does not deParty secretariat. The turn from ultraThe meeting will be held in the strong, where reformist quackery has been mand so much. very cheaply purchased Leftism is quite official.
so prevalent and nefarious, and socialist radicalism. indeed!
Stuyvesant Casino reformism has assumed (for decades) such How the Opportunists Write of Their Bill This is not the first time this has hap9th St. and 2nd Ave. Room 3, a crude bourgeois character, the observance pened.
This very parliamentary bill has beAfter the Fifth Congress of the Thursday, September 25, at p sharp of the above mentioned conditons are imcome the very acme of the struggle for Comintern, which followed the collapse of All Invited peratively needed gurantees for a comAdmission Free munist movement social insurance conducted by the Party, the Right wing leadership in Germany (1923)
against degeneration the center of the election campaign as and Czecho Slovakia, the International into opportunism. In the present elections the Daily Worker says. We refrain from Centrist regime also embarked on a shortquoting much from the Daily Worker, but a lived Leftist zig zag. It was the period few sentences must be cited here. They of Ruth Fischer and Treint leaderships and are breath taking.
policies, of playing at goldiers as Comrade Andres Nin, former member of vote for the candidate of the Com later termed. But this ultra Leftist jag frontier, without a cent, wthout a document, the Profintern secretariat and leader of the munist Party is a vote for the enactment of was only the prelude to the worst period of without his family!
Spanish Communist movement, was deprived the Unemployment Insurance Bill (8 29 opportunism in Comintern history: the adof all work and removed from his post in He was still held a few days by Stalin 1930)
venture with Chiang Kai Shek, 1928 fter his courageous speech at the guards, and his vite, together with two The Party called together a mass un Follette, with Raditch and other peasant fourth Congress of the children one years old and the other employment united front for the purpose leaders, with Mesars. Purcell and Co. The years old held with him.
of discussing. the enactment of the indications are that such a catastrophic Nin had definitely sided with the Left Workers Social Insurance Plll as proposed swing is to be repeated now.
Opposition: he had excoriated the opporThe bureaucracy of Stalin knows no by the Communist Party (9 10 1930. Centrism has no consistent policy of its tunist trade union policy of the Anglo Rus.
limits. The revolutionary workers must ask This bill must not only be brought own.
the leaders of the for an explanasian Committee, he had developed the interIt is a parasite which lives on the to the workers in the shops, trade unions, pieces it bites of from the Left and Right national perspectives of the Opposition, and tion of the case of Nin.
for their endorsement, but the Party must alternately, but it always ends by sinking a our point of view on the Chinese question, Upon their return, the American dele also consider the utilization of the initia foot deeper into the swamp of opportunism.
Since then, Nin was held a prisoner in galea to the congress must be asked tive and referendum laws as a means of As in 1925 1927, it is carrying through a Moscow Plut his presence irritated the for details on the case of Nia.
struggle for this bill. 2 1930. turn to the Right with an accompaniment of Stalinists and they have just accomplished their base aims by expelling him under scan.
In what way does this destroy the ultra Left trumpets.
Nin is a tested revolutionist. With him, parliamentary Illusions of the workers, or turn from the prevailing ultra Leftist dalous conditions.
ae with our non Russian comrades, as with direct their attention and efforts to the course, embodied in the spurious philosocomrade Santini who is now in Moscow, Sta extra parliamentary fiela? The answer is: Since hypocrisy and high politics are phy of the third period is essential for lin and his valet Losovsky, do not dare to In no way! Instead of telling the workers the Party, But Centrism cannot execute part of such a game, the French and Chinemploy the solitary prison, exile, or the rifle ese delegates to the recently concluded fifth bluntly and honestly that even their sim such a turn without springing back to its congress were made to propose a resolution squad they must limit themselves with explest and most elementary demands can be old Right wing positions. The vigilance pulsions. But attained not by bills and ballot boxes endorsing the expulsion.
and comradely criticism of the Left Oprevolutionary trade union movement. but by genuine mass demonstrations and position must assist the Communist workers Comrade Nin was expelled on August The Left wing militants in this country strikes (we do not mean the kind the in the ranks of the Party to make the 21 under shameful conditions. Arrested by must conduct agents of the he was seized as being persevering struggle against Daily Worker organizes at its headline turn from the present line to the positions these methods which not only play into the deska. by guilty of counter revolutionary actions by arousing the mass organizations of Marxism.
hands of the Right wing and reaction, but of the workers to fight for these demands, virtue of article 58 of the Soviet code, like (The next issue of the Militant will destroy the prestige and effectiveness of the domrade Trotsky, and conducted to the the Party glues the eyes of its followers to further discuss concrete election problems.
Communist movement.
a. bill. What has suddenly happened Ed. THE MILITANT, Vol. III, No 30 September 15 1930. Published twice monthly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) at25 Third Avenue, New York, Sub scription rate: 00 per year; foreign 50. Five cent per copy. Bundle rates cents per copy. Editorial Board: Martin Abern, James Cannon Max Shachtman, Maur ice Spector, Arne Swabeck. Entered as se cond class mail matter. November 28 1928 at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March 3, 1879 (Tutal No. 65)
Comrade Andres Nin Expelled from Russia was with La.
these methods dishonor the