PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931 IN THE INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements Day by Day On the Road to the Proletarian Revolution in Spain that the strikers were enemies of the eration was accused of being Trotskylary in the service of the exploitation Alloy way Indeed the living and lynamic and country who seek to burst the chains that this party can only be the Comof. ON THE WORKERS FRONT. Economic Crisis and the Strikes tions to be made: economie revoluIn Spain tion, the political revolution, the nationClearing Away the Petty Bourgeois Fog al revolution and the religious revolution. The Catalonian Communists declare themselves to the separatists. The Catalonian Federation is ne lecture tour on the Russian revolu cursed of being Trotskyist by the Stal. Continued from last Issue) of their present semi feudal possessions. tions coinckle against the capitalist state, But this is not enough. The proletartion and the situation in Spain has just inints and of being Stalinist by the Yo, the Spanish monarchy does not The Democratic Revolution in full decomposition, lies a whole world iat, in order to win, requires an energebeen held by comrade Nin in the Astur Trotskyists; the Federation is in dis constitute a feudal state. The founda In this problem due to the backward posibilities for victory, for with it tie gifted and disciplined leading party: ias. The Asturias are an outstandingly agreement with the policy of the tion of the Spanish monarchie state, ness of the Spanish land, there is somethe revolution equires grandiese propor a party that knows serkusty how to calculate the greatness of its mission; miners district, where about 30, 000 min. in Spain and cannot declare its solidarity beginning with September 1923, is not thing of the lemocratic revolution. tions democratic revolution led by ers work. Nin arrived on the day when the the Trotskyistsbecause there the the property of the arletocracy constant In vain will be the efforts of the decurty capable of appreciating at every the strike broke out. The movement was helieve that the Five Year Plan is the dered as such, but rather the property of whom? By the petty bourgeois intellecoratle petty hour colle to take the sub iven moment its own forces and those launched ly the revolutionary trade un vietory of the revolution. of the enemy: a party that knows how the capitalist bourgeoisie. It is of littuals? We are not today. In spite of stance ont of the character of the rev.
ton, led by the Communists and the renin then showed that the revolution tle import that the aristocracy, old or the doctrine of Marcelino Domingo olution, juggling away the coming stagou to throw ont of its midst mercilessly, dicalists. The strikers denanded espec. had falled in China, in Germany, etc, new, has preserved itself in the warp and company, in the epoch of the Tennis and setting down certain limits. The ll the demagogic fanfarromado of ignor lally the seven Hour day, established just because the Russian experience has and woot of the state. In the dominant court meeting. What we have in Spain truele is opened against the capitalistance: a party which is not amenable to before the dictatorship of rimo de Riv been forgotten that in Spain there were sphere of the state machinery the semi today is quite different from what we state, betore which no oher forco can the adulation of incompetent or to the era and abolished by the latter. The not four revolutions to be mado, but only feudal remains are effective only by the had in France in. At that time, the arise but that of the industrial proletar intrigues of arrivists or the struggle movement thus had a very acute political one; that the Communists cannot declare fact that they are in the hands of the bourguolle was the revolutionary van ine for the possession of the land. It among the militant for detenerate and visional Government and above all the they must contine themselves to recor The Spanish monarchie state functioned peasant mass submitted to the cruel is not the fendat state that we have which appreciate the merit of each of character and put to the wallet ble enhed themselves to be separatists too wurzeoisie, and not of the aristocrats. cuard which had behind the Woule lat drawing with the pica suntry contempor motives a party finally socialists. Those who a few years agonizing the right of the peoples to disas a capitalist apparatus, and for yoke of the feudal state, constituted out for till but the capitalist bourgeoiste its men for the intrinsic value which exercized hegemony among the minera, pose of themselves to the point of Heparistocratic caste privileges.
of the aristocracy, the church, and crown with all it arms We have lere no he hold for the revolution and not for openly sabotaged the strike, declaringaration; and finally, that if the FedAlfonso was nothing but a functioned by the absolute monarchy by divine lavex to liberate from the yoke of aris the degree of servile obeclience whicha right. At that time, the lourgeois idcotocratie despotism, but workers of town ho pretends to have. There is no doubt republle and directly collaborated with 18t hy the Stalinists and of being Stalmonopolistle capital, for which work the Guardia Civil in order to guaranteeinist by the Trotskyists, Ht was because Primo de Rivera was the broom which theory of the revolutionary needs of lourger. is exploitation. We are not munixt party. Infortunately, everything the freedom to work. The socialistat had no precise political line.
class risine to power. Therefore the marching towards the conquest of the still remains to be done. we must dit swept away the remnants of the un themselves opened fire upon the strikers The Relation of Forces clean aristocracy, putting the whole state peasant, led by the bourgeoiste could rights of the hourgeoisie eltizen, but to dangerous illusion if disaster is to and wounded three women. This contributed enormously to undermining the The Madrid Opposition is doing good wachinery into the hands of Industrial destroy the feudni state. This happened ery whitch is based upon these contemp pe an iron weapon, but the truth is that It is true that influence of the reformists who can no work and has a pretty substantial Inila and financial capitalism.
in France a century and half ago. ille rights, right now it is nothing more than a longer claim to represent the workers. ence in the local autonomous Communist the Spanish countryside requires vers since then, things have changed just al The extemporaneous, anachronistic and wooden word. To the proletariat which, urgently a revolution to liquidate large The strike was effectively followed by section. We have organized a second more than seventy percent of the miners lecture tour (at Madrid and in the Astlanded property. The peasants will have little Wit. even for Spain. The bour ridiculously messiande attitude of petty its all, we must expound the naked the government to find a solution. In well received. few words on the ing its owners of all their privileges and Stational revolution. Jealous of its laughter vere it not for the fact that it truth. The responsibility of the people privileges, it lives entrenched in the entails a counter revolutonary maneuver, that find themselves today at the head reality, the strike was lost, but it dealt party and on the Catalonian Federation fortresses of the state, devoting all It Isu question of throwing and in the of the communist party is truly enor.
a very serious blow to the reformists The relationship of forces has not chang.
energy not to the liberation of the pea eyes of the workers so that they nyomus. They think that the revolution and strengthenod the prestige of the ed radically during recent weeks. The But we encounter a great obstacle: the sainty huo heir explolation. From this not see the ground beneath their feet. can be ime of dance.
Communists who led the movement. fortress of the official party is still official party and the What an exploitation, it draws not a few resource This is the most suble and targer Ir all the objertive conditions are The secretary of the trade union 18 Seville. They have not the strength they enormous responsibility these people for the sustaining of its domination. The same of the botireoisie. The idealistic splendid for future triumph of the an excellent Communist, enjoying a great claim, but it is more than they have in bear! The letter of comrade Trotsky to formula for the pasantry le 110 longer. demagony of the intellectual, of the petty proletarian revolution in Spain. one prestige among the miners and who does the rest of the country. At Madrid, the the Political Bureau has produced an with the bourgeoiste for the destruction onrecolle ennily krip the working cannot say the same about the capacity not concenl his sympathies for the Left local Independent section should have excellent impression. We must pursue of the feudal state, but rather: With the mos. kood proof of this is the and organization of the wolutionary Opposition. The stalinists have been un from to 600 members and publishes with redoubled energy our work for unl proletariat for the destruction of the obvious influence which social reformism party, the Communist party. And the able to do a thing against him for thes a weckls. La Antorcha. The party group fication. It is a question of life or death bourgeois state. How can the bonge and anarcho syndicalism the two opium il is not the present incompetence, would have encountered the most en should have about from 70 to 80 mem for our morement.
oisie, big or small, be the initiator of the smokers whom the bourgooisio has lo The Spanish Communist Party can and ergetle resistance on the part of the min.
bers. In Catalonia, the official party We must also give a firm ideological peasant lemocratic revolution?
called in the workers camp exercise must organize in snel a way that in the relatively proximate future it will me era. The same niso holds true in the has made no essential gains, except for orientation to the proletariat in the rey.
There is an identity with the Spaulsh over the workers.
case of the secretary of the Youth, who a few dozen unemployed, drawn over bs olutionary situation through which we rerolution except for differences of The Need for a Party quire the strength an effectiveness that is an avowed Oppositionist and an ex. the demagogle agitation of the Stalinists. are passing. The anarcho syndicalista secondary order, in the Russian revolu.
It is a very arduous task to get the is lacking today. What is to be done?
cellent young militant, working in the The Catalonian Federation progresses have fallen into a frightful confusion. tion of October. The destruction of the proletarint to judge the social struggle Change radically all the measures of arms factory of Oviedo.
Three months ago it had almost 1, 000 The Stalinists are conducting a non state is lezun with a ferbie capitalism from a strictly class standpoint, a con procedure Depose this false doctrine Influence of Left Opposition dues paying members. Now it has 2, 700. sensical policy. The Catalonian Peder. in power. This capitalism, without en dition without which the working masses artifically imposed the partyeliinfluence in the district, except for Gljon, resolute, undefined. At the Unity Con tcy. The Opposition thus has an enorThe Communfats have the dominating than 20. 000. Its orientation remains ir Madrid have not, truth to tell, any pol lourgeoisie which never had either rev: egnences. It is true that the proletar dered from above. It must be stated olutionary ability or courage. finds itiat has its best political school in this that the anti Marxit muse of the where the anarcho syndicalista prevail. grers, which win be held in August, mous task to fulan in this sense. Itself attacked by a double revolution very revoluion. The steps of the great hien philosophy of Nialin not the Thelt state of mind is that of a deter. there will inevitably come forward a will fulfill it. The review. communismo the proletarian revolution in the citie clarifying the atmosphere of the revolutariat with the dialectie of triumph.
struggle will be made progressively. most appropriate to Inspire the role mined opposition to the party lendership new party. The idea of unification is can play a great role in this.
and entirely favorable to unity. But the very popular throughout the country. Madril, June 23, 1931.
try. In the fact that these two revolution and eliminating all the falsehoods Bilbao. April 1981 prestige of the International and of that stand in the way of the fighters. ESTERAN BILBAO. Moscow still exercises a great influence upon them, which prevents them from taking the decisive steps. They In France have a very pronounced sympathy for us and comrade Loredo is achieving a work in favor of the Opposition the fruits of which we shall noon see.
The lectures of Nin had an enormous (Continned from laxt issue)
success and everywhere a great number officers are giving them. more and masses of the fighters and in this manner After the Pocketbook Makers Strike of party members came to speak with more.
The compulsory contributions of the to win over brond sections of the work him at length. At Gijon, for instance, Something new has developed in the workers to social insurance marked the ing class to the Communist slogans. The they came in group at the end of the It is over a month since the fak ment will now have to work with two, Industry since the agreement were sign first waxe decreases. The party and the result was a new ebb of their influence; leone use and one of them se care to put over the treacherons agreement in the kethook makers. board of stan open their shops again by changing Their slogan against the workers contriin ily to membership. municipal councul others: Even though you are expelled Cooper Union. In spite of the fact the cards means to speed up the workers and first or second name and thus becometion. after a series of vacillations, dur election in Tourcoing, fourteen days at from the party, we consider you as a majority of the workers were against to adjust prices to meet the needs of new employers. When the workers going which they sometimes demanded the tor the end of the strike, showed a sub comrade and as a revolutionist. Trot The tellers, who were a part of the the losses.
to the union office, they are told by the struggle against the whole social insur stantial decline in the votes kiven to sky must be reinstated into the party so machine, could not count up more than The workers, on the other hand, get salesman manager that they are not en anco law, or else the creation of Insur the party.
During the course of this, the capitalist that we may work together. But they ment. When the Administration saw the administration raves so much, une fem. This is done by the union officers the purpose of carrying out the law. offensive ngainst the miners in the Northa small majority vote cast for the agree under the new agreement, about which titted to the jobs because it is a new ance treasuries by the trade unions for of the Spanish Party and the Cominters that they hnd only a small majority of employment insurance for which he or to help the horses bring wages down to these vaelllations, together with the polern department, that is, against twowill finish by understandlug their orror Jerses locals.
45 votes, they added 850 votes from Now she will have to pay two and a half the scale provided in the new agree ley of the Uurd period hurt the rov. tbtrds of the unton membership, opened and will stretch out their hands to.
percent of the wages and the employers ment. This is done because there are olutionary organization tremendously. up in all fury. The announcgment of These comrades have undertaken to en The administration was victorlous over will pay the same amount. Dues and workers who still earn 50 to 55 a week. and when they finally issued the slogan an impending wage reduction evoked ter Into regular correspondence with the workers clue to the fact thnt the taxes will be taken off this fund, so when their shops open again as new Agotast the workers contribution. strong dissatisfaction amont the miners, us. third period politicians allowed a vote to you can imagine how much the workers Arms, and the boss has a right to take they no longer found any strong coho to Extremely favorabile opportunities for On June 7, the first conference of the be taken by hands, Instend of putting up will get from the unemployment insur on new workers, he will not pay more the masses. In the North, the influence an action were at hand. Here too the Opposition took place at Madrid, where a fight for a referendum vote. This mi ance!
than the scale, which is at present 44 exercized by the reformista through the reformist influence was appreciablo: out the collaboration of all our comrades take cannot be overlookeil. The work This fake agreement could not be made for mechanics, especially now, when there communal administrations, cooperatives of a total of 200, 000 miners abouy 6, 000 was fortunately assured on the basis of ers nre paying the price already and by the bartender, Barnet Wolff, and his is so much unemployment in the trade aport leapues, workers singing societies, members fall to the revolutionary and They came for about 50, 000 members to the reformist the resolutions adopted. The results of they will continue to pay if such mis sangThey needed a wizard to bring this shows how the union misleaders te very extensive the conference are excellent. We are takes are not corrected in the future such a wonderful ngreement. They found help the employers on destroy the union ward as the mout zealous agitators for union, the latter being the strongest trade now working with grent hopes in the From the very first The Agreement him. This genius and renegade from What is to be done in order to oust the law which they had themselves de union in France.
future.
The Opposition and Maurin Now let us review in brief the terms pert Intely among the Forward demand from the Officials that member order to put an end to the dissatisfac communists on the base of the generalCommunism, Dr. Hendin, is an ex. these misleaders. 1) The workers must wanded with a great vocal display. In day, it should have been the task of the of the agreement signed between the sang. investigating one group of crooka ship meetings should be called (2) Altton which arose as a result of the with rated demand against any waxe reuprofitiere he stay in Madrid for leather conds manufacturers and the ageinst anothier, in order to rob and these meetings, to demand a reckoning holding of five percent of the wage by ductions to net up the unted front.
nnion. The chief demands of the union take the workers more and more.
lecture at the Ateneo on the present were. 1) a 40 hour, day week. 2)
on the sellout. 3) To oust them in the wees for the compulsory insurance propose to the reformist runnizations second stage of the Spanish revolution. unemployment Insurance paid by Do you think that this faker made our representatives. This can be achieved contribution, the reformist organizations Jout action, a foluit strucule that The Ateneo today plays a great role aces and administered by the unlons: On ho! There will be the administra de committee with other revolutionary wage increase of one fourth of a frane the revolutionary unlon should have the the job because he is a philanthropist? when the Stalinists unite the rank and of the North raised the demand for a should have been the first step that lectures delivered from this tribune have repereussion throughout Spain. order to raise the underpakt workers. 3) to regulate the scale of wages in ton of the unemployment insurance fund and sincere progressive groups in the per hour (about cent. that is, they taken. The Centrists vacillated lack HO that The first the reformist. ommunist which will pay a nice wiary. So you union. am sure that with united ac accepted basically the payment of con and forth levture deliver The employers made counter demands, can see why this Dr. Hendiin was 80tion, the workers can get rid of these tributions by the ed from this tribune, from which such as a 25 percent wage reduction, a much interested in the Pocketbook Workofficials who betrayed them.
union Tonders were workers. The great trade able to the Communists had not yet spoken, 20 percent reorganization during the ers Union Then majority of the workers took out their shameless treachery hy Maurin leader of the year, and a joint employment bureau.
through the rank and file the workers struggle for one fourth of a frane wage and consent to a wage reduction with Catalonian Communist Federation. It!
Do you think the bosses are satisfied will be in a position to build a union for increase. The and the G, out a serious revolt of the workers rewas a real disaster. It was the speech more than they wanted! They got a reThe new agreement gave the employers with the agreement? No! They are the workers and not for misleaders. 11, in spite of the relatively favorable, plying to thelr crime. The miners had of radical petty bourgeols. He made a duetion in wages of from 10 to 15 per.
demanding more and more and the unton. DAVIS.
conditions, did not understand how to no confidence in the revolutionary unton.
very harsh criticism of the Provisional cent. 10 percent reorganization, which establish the united front, and instead Finally, the found itself comGovernment, but he completely forgot the goes to arbitration, a joint employment they isted the slogan of one half of a pelled Ro as not to discredit itself forincrease.
proletariat and the party. As a perspecburean to go to the impartial chairman frane wage Without any ever in the eyes of its members and tive, be only indicated a. convention within two months for a decision. The hindrance from the revolutionary trade sympathizers to call the strike itselt, in which the leading role would be played employers will have extra demands they unions, the reformists had a free hand Only a minority of 20, 000 miners fol hy. the left elements of the Ateneo. nerer asked for at the first conferences.
for their parliamentary horse trade with loved its call, a vanguard whose strug We were all very much disappointed. These are: an extra helper, which means the bosses and were able after a few cle was followed with sympathy by the unable Maurin is theoretically very inconsistent, that a pocketbook mechanle who worked weeks of struggle to stranglo the strike whole proletariat, but which but his lecture was even beneath him with only one helper under the old agreewith Impunity. They abandoned tho one to convert this sympathy into deeds.
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