and the Tasks of the Party Books SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931 THE MILITANT PAGE theses, the Labor party was visualized fascists. or their Left wing, produce influence of the Communists. The fret the alm of strengthening the trade un, against the Party. On the contrary, it league for their liberation from the us the alternative to the dictatorship of a new set of reformists of the old Fitz ides lead the party into premature acon movement as a whole under rev. makes every endeavor to unite the Com Centrist bureaucracy. from epportunism, tions into adventures, from the defeats olutionary guidance and with a revolu munist movement annust the liquidatory and adventurism the bourgeolxle! It was planned to be trick type.
It is only lynnel inthe principal lever in unsenting the ComThe American Communists cannot u vulvar opportunism of which it frequently revils to the most tionary policy. This course must also be light. Thx does not mean that the imate contact with the imermont Hire pers bureaucracy. It was regarded as an immediate max dertake tu organise petty hourgeois Communist party. It was conceived a workers party tanding lietween the police and we the blue streets to wish (traternal ordera, coeperative ete. o II ranks the militants who were then will leave the creampie, en la an embellished and more palatable subbourgeoisie and the proletariat. Ab iden alienates the communists from the should turn its back upon the Left wing tactics and indefensible course of Cen The Taft Omoslil must the direct stitute for the Communist party. It was startly considered to be sure were non party workers particularly the pro unlons under its control. On the contrism. Quite the contrary, it attion towar new wave of viewed as an unavoidable and neces there a las movenient which would or pressive minded and socialist workers. trary. The work of organizing the un This viewpoint, further, determines the support from the ranks of the party.
sary reformist stage through which sanize a later party the Community and enabled the treneheroes leaders of organized majority of the working chin attitude of the Left Opposition to the The contradiction between the interests the Ameriken workers had to pass before would have to take up the question of the latter to render and keep their tol in the United States is the foremost opportunist and confusionist standpoint and needs of the party, and the false The task of the Communists, task which of Welsbord. Posing as an adherent course and fempetence of the bureauwhich the conmunists had to initiate cleus. But this is a different matters first step of real progress for the party they must initiate and lead. But the of the Lett Opposition, which he its cracy, cannet forever to suppressed by to build up into strong movement has less of a timely significance today these indicais be condemned and rejected. foreground of the strugkle for the un right wing liquidators nzatnst the party ment in our direction will be considerists were to write and defend, whose even alixtractly than in years, its Ited front. They must be kiven a life criminals in order to do mass workably accelerated by the events in the leadership was to be in our hand since there is no substantial movement at the party must, instead. take as point of departure the iead that the pre of their own, organizationally indenen and to separate the Communist move international, and above all, by the events sumally. It would not become action. The Communists will enter that ready exist in the United States; that erty of actiou under the political inttu which is represented in the Communist tlon must be alive to the situation and from the very beginning so that, pre all for her party in the 1982 dec mises for a genuine radicalization al dent, with their own initiative and lit ment as a whole from lenshevism in the Soviet nion. The lett Opps accident and this shameful seroit in the in direct struccle nainst their reformsent crisis opens the perspective for They must be built up and the basis liquidators. We lord course could of the new movement in our direction.
ist history of American Communism ca.
It is the reformists of all shades, the coming strugulex: that this intuence can not by party decrees, but by function of course, he can never constitute. The ranks of the opposition. As is inevit.
widesprend Communist influence in the for their existence is extremely broad only leal towards a second party which. This reputrex a firm tightening up of tno bence also the incraceful manner Thomases and the Mustes, who seek to De won los mobilizing the workers of all ing us militant Industrial union organ Latt Opposition has no need or reason alte elements tond to enter our ranks with the petty tourcos Polletto set up this patty bourgeois party as a political and economie opinions in Xizations in the dully struggles of the to do through the disastrous experience as a place of refuge from movement and the flourishing of the wall against the workers progress to wenuite united front on the basis of a working class.
struggle.
of Urbahns, Pax, or Lovestone com others look on their title of Ler Since they all functioned mder the ideas are only fulfiling their mission and role che rest not the oljective situation whiched to mean the organization of carica recapitulated as Wetsbord program. Five self criticine dully work for the This must not, however, be interpret. Muation of whose policies and views are Oppositionist an annelution from ac.
see which had conquered wwer the reformist hrined in the development defects in the party today. This cause emphasize this point because of the tea with the views of the left opposition room in its ranks for such clo and political platform the parts acrttent that the right wing liqludators the party itself. In its leaders and their such counterfeits aus genuine movements. the orxanization of a new party out of ence.
The task of the Left Opposition is not ments only at the risk of its own derad.
groups of that period shared to varying of the lowest me group have all the cenTasks to every Oppositionist! Ae.
the responsibility for the essen tally revisionist conceptions that lay at the Lahor party formation is an 5tral point in their program the idea that that the party must take to mitigate and and undafluential committees, endowed moralized, pissive, burnel out elements Great efforts and saerifice for the movethe basis of the whole aborty sential and imperative step for the An into which it has been thrown?
eventually to purge itself of the crisis with the title of Industrial unions on the fringe of the Communist movement! These must be inseribed mpon perlod. and the practises that flowerican workers, which the Right wine particularly in such industries where the ment. Our task is the winning of tho the hanner of the organizntion. The un from them.
is really to initiate to form and build The party must shake off the burj decisive bulk of the workers are already communist workers to the principles avoidable organizational looseness that The first has been manifest up to now ust be All these conceptions and practices up. It is this perspective which it re eaucratic rexime which struggles its ini organized in conservative unions can which lie at our foundation, new un step in accomplishing this task hos al sharply checked and eliminnted.
must be thrown overhoard, because they commends to the Communist movement tintive, Its Independence, its ability to only discredit the idea of as a whole to adopt. The lett Oppost crow. The appointment of party of ion movement. The equally Injurioue ready been taken in the rallying of the The Luft Opposition has assumed a were originally wrong. The contrition, at its formative stage. leaned in als must be discarded and replaced by policy of splitting away snall minorities initial cadrer of one movement consti. Klantte historical task: the restoration motivate the change of course they have the direction of the reformist perspectications Free discussion must take the unions with the aim of establishing munist militants who, in the party in ment to the revolutionary principles tention that conditions have changed. tent an uneritical carry over of the pre: the narty press must be opened imme regardless of its strength, its Influence and views of Centrism and the Richtited States thatnsk ix rendered dolly aud because the reformists have now to the time when the left wing took diately and not only during the spurions and its prestige, must also be rejected wing, and separating themselves from a sitticantly the general backwardnes of the working class, the weakness of tion is both false and furierons, and romping distinct from all the others in golux and honest discussion of the party which the new morement will grow adopted the principles of the Internathe Communist movement, and by the leaves the real problem undecided. It the movement. The firmer establishment crisis by the party members. and gain in influence among the work tional Marxian wing. The preservation magnificent rerolutionary of the party, but the maintenance of the with this early standpoint and the adoperated analysis of the tempo of deve masses, connecting this movement with heescarily forcupied the main place in letarian movement. The Marxist must The party must discard Its exagers. Concentration upon the unorganized and training up of the first cadres has which are brine opened up to the pro To condemna labor party policy now adoption of this reviset point of vtw. adjust its course to the real relationship untons to our side by concrete and united States since its establishment and their task. Standing upon atletiem fonn.
because of an alleged the period and the result of clarification in its own or forces in the class struksle and the practical issues this is the way in which in spite of the enormous difficult tos, and of the interantional proletarial, enriched an alleged transformation of the reform rank, marks a step forward that will pace of its development. The parts the new unions will gather strength and with only an insignificant handful of hy the lessons of the revolutionary strucIsts into acciat fascist leaves the door enable the opposition to bring greater must finally rld Itself of the ruinous influence. For this. furthermore, wide open for a return of the labor clarity on this vital problem into the Age of remnants of the third per stilling mechanical regime which has stons in the organization, the absorptionable in principle and remaining true 10 the enpitulators to Centrism. The discusgies of the last two decades, irencil party policy when the third od revolutionary and labor movements as lod. and partieularly of the theory of been transferred into these untons of the experiences of the Opposition in its own past the left opposition powes kires way to a fourth and the Wocial a wholc.
social fascism. broad. genuine pol and baggage from the party must be other countries, primarily in the Soviet forward to the struggles of tomorrow ley of the united front must be promul climinated ruthlessly.
The Position of the Communist Movement nion, the publication of the Militant, confident of the ultimate vietory.
kated and every effort made to win the The work of strengthening the the Interuntional Bulletin, and recently, nonparty workers on the basis of it. The arbitrary and unconditional party and ridding it at its bureaucratic. the issuance of a number of fundamental polley both in theory and practise od revisionist deformations is inseparable works in English all these have been of deserting the reactionary trade unions from the work of the Let Opposition. invaluable aid in educating the first tionary advance of the American move tanght a reactionary contempt for theor lowing must be radically revised.
The possibilities for a rupid revolu replaced elections. The membership is which still have a relatively large fol. and cannot be carried out without the cadres of the left Opposition, and what is more of breaking down a large med The latter. The Left Opposition must be sure of the hostility against te artificencounter a tremendous retardias etieal considerations and is instilled in party must again penetrate into erery taken back to the party to which it leially fostered in the party by the upby Leon Trotsky influence in the form of one of the most stead with a vulgar practicalness. It trade union and build up the influence tongs so that all its forces and ideas paratus.
striking contradictions in the interna is toll, in effect to do the work it is of the revolutionists on the basis of con may be freely available in the work of THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF THE tional labor movement: the growing up commanded to do and not to do any crete demands and daily struggles, with regrendrating the communist party.
One in the main achievements of the COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL between the increasingly favorable sit. thinking or discussing about it. It is Opposition has been its abllity to con Criticism of Fundamentals uations and the decreasing capacities to constantly taken by surprise with new tribute to the redressment of the party Introduction by Cannon exploit them of the official Communist turns. in winch the old policy is just course. By its comradely criticism to 1:40 pages hard paper cover parties. This holds true with particu as little explained away as the new polthe party members and intransigeant THE STRATEGY OF THE WORLD lar force in the United States. It is the toy is justified. Bewildered by the conMovement opposition to the xlyx of the CenREVOLUTION work of closing the blades of this open stant changes ordered from above by a trist leaders. the Left wing has uc 80 pages, two colored paper cover 25e ed scissors that invests the Left Op leadership tloundering in its own incom ceeded in influencing the policies of the Introduction hy Max Nhachtman position with its historie wigniticance.
The International Left Opposition came to discredit and destroy them. The Left party to a far greater extent than is petence, offended and degraded by the THE SPANISH REVOLUTION In spite of the manifest multiplication internal regime, like that of Prussian to existence as the counter agent to the Opportion is not a party: it is a fac apparent. The partial turn from social 30 pages, paper cover of objectively tavorable opportunitics army officers, the worker Communist Thermidorian reaction in the Soviet Untion of the Communist party from which makcine and isolation in the needle COMMUNISM AND SYNDICALISM for progress, the Communist Party of drops ont of the party or sinks into a ion and the bureaucratie degeneration it has been expelled by the bureaucrats trades was considerably accelerated by The Trade Union Question the United States has, in general, only passivity from which he is only infre: Left wing did not establish itself out esta of the movement. The Left Opposi sectarian policy pursued among the. of the Communist International. The against its will and against the inter the propagation of our viewpoint. The Introduction by James Cannon 61 pages. per cover time when its ranks should be in appeals for shock troop netivities by Ade the ranks of Communists or of the tion does not seek to constituto see ineis miners was largely cast overboard THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION creased manifold, it is barely able to a lendership incapable of regulating Communist movement. It was brutally ond party on the contrary. It categor: through the combined effect of events 208 ponge bookcloth bound 00 paper hound the more Impressive in face of the obtlonists, loyal to the party and educate of the official parties by the repressive direction. The party of the Opposition ism of the left. The results obtained hold its own. This phenomenon is all healthy party life. While tried revolu and disloyally detached from the ranks calls repudiates all tendencies in that and the direct intervention and event TURN IN THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE masses for the ideas of communism and expelled, new inembers are recruited dir and Right wing bureaucracy, acting as those established and tested for the rev this work.
vious increase of sympathy among the in Communist principles, are summarily organizational measures of the Centrist is the Communist party. Its ideas are in this field dictate an intensification GERMAN SITUATION the Soviet Union, and the demonstrated ectly into the party from street meet the couscous and unconscious agents of olutionary movement Ly Marx. Engels, rendiness of hundreds of thousands to ings and deinonstrations, The Left Opposition cannot rent con30 pages. paper cover Lenin and Trotsky. The Left Oppiwithout any reaction.
SINCE LENIN DIED rally behind the leadership of the Com serions qualification test without any tion therefore strives at all times to be tent with or contine itself simply to a IBy Max Eastman munists.
subsequent education to fit him for mem the left Opposition is determined by the condition of an acceptance of all its with Centriem on national The present numerical weakness of reinstated into its party, not upon the repetition of its fundamental differences socialist The leadership imposed upon the parts in the chest organ of the pro: detents of Communism on an interna ideas and principles, but only upon the versis the permanent revolution, on the 158 page book printed in London THE REAL SITUATION IN RUSSIA tion has showed a tragie bankrupte in political ideological level of the member tet Union and throughout the Comintary right of all Communist workers: the colonial houseoisie, Introduction by Slax En man on the struggle all fields. The condition which the ship has suffered an alarming decline.
365 page look formerly now 00 Third Congress of the Comintern These are some of the results in the tern was organizationally defeated only freedom to defend its revolutionary point against war. on the role of reformism, MY LIFE GIN seribed as the crisis in the leadership parts of the bureaucratic degeneration Russia (1923 1928. of the defeat of the per way, and through the proper chan position to intervene actively. ns an or Just of the Press ganixeil group, with its own proposals THE SPANISH REVOLUTION a greater or less degree at all times. main at the head of the party only to German October, the Chinese Revolu nets.
by tion, the English general and miners and program of action in every situaIn the United States where the party strangling it.
attitude towards the tion. This intervention must take place IN DANGER This general strikes, of the victory of capitalist stabG Nges paper cover has been confronted for the past two to The record is no less disastrous nilization in Europe following 1923, etc. party at the same time determines the within and around the organized ComPROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPthree years with the need of adjusting those movement une the party lead etc. The growth and victory of the lott Attitude of the left Opposition towards munist movement, and not outside of MENT OF THE af to the new situation and of reap crap, The and its affiliated Opposition, therefore cannot he foundnd other groups in the labor movement.
Its it, without it, or without regard to it.
48 pages, per cover ing a rich harvest of new strength, in antons have been reduced to skeleton or upon the defeats of communism and the structle against Centrism has not recon The Left Opposition must appear not Hluepce and prestige in the working knizations (resolution Special Rates In Bundles of or more of the Profin. Communist parties. on the contrary, ciled it to social democratic or anarcho nerely as an organ of criticism after Order from class, this crisis has assumed a perman tern. The has stood still or they are inseparably connected with the syndicalist reformism on the contrary, the event. It can and should come ferent character.
Increasing in acuteness to declined (resolution of the futernational growth and triumph of internationnist has rendered it more contransigeant 10:1 ward in every field of the Communist PIONEER PUBLISHERS direct proportion to the inereasing pow. Red Al Plenum. The Unemployment Communisun. This determines for us in the working class for it is against culated to advance the interests et the sibilities for success.
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sistent Marxian line as against the con All the fantastie myths and deliber rusion and zig zags of Centrism. This WANTED in 1926, has barely been checked by the fractions and an ever changing handful ate it to help cleanse it of the evils that!
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party membership is still considerably trouble of being formally liquidated as The Left Opposition categorically Right wing liquidallers (Lovestonestlon. hy convincing the revolutionary Special indument to employ.
ed comrades, in the way of a 1924 1925 figure. The arbitrary, bureau virtual decay. The other auxiliary or philistine idea propounded by Stalinism ganizations show the same or a worse and shared by many pseudo Opposition wing is a bridge from the Communist neriences that we stand Ermly for the liberal discount.
One comrade in New York sold vitlates even the present tow ngure: the picture. In none of these organizations, ists that the communist party is iden movement to the social democracy. That Puilding of the revolutionary movement over 500 pamphlets within 10 new member remains in the ranks of the particularly in the left wing unfons, istical with its leadership. This is equt what it was when it was the main at every stage of its development.
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turnover in membership is enormous even the party member. made to feel at cayed beyond hope, for the present lead intern (1923 1928. and it is that evention must reorganize and consolidne its Pioneer Publishers Literally thonsands of new members Join home. The party bureaucracy is so unership of the Comintern and the parties more so todas. outside the Comintern. faction inside the party and 84 Fast 10th St. the party only to take the place of other certain of its policies that it dares not is bureaucraticalls and cynically degen The Right wing docs not move towards gaining to its side the best party milli submit them for the workers to juderated and lives purely parastle existthe social democracy at one step or in tants, working inside the party and New York City party members are ruled like political serts, therefore force its policies and its lead to us and to the thousands upon thou has already gone over completely to the the regime is increasingly mechanized crship upon the workers and even the sands of militant workers in this counsocini democracy (Czecho Slovakia, parts all live and free internal life, all Initha party members by outrageus mechant try who are in its ranks or under its of the Brandlerites in Germany, Miller TWO NEW PAMPHLETS tive, all inquiry and discussion of tal cal measures. This fact alone is an ob leadership. The party is the embodi and Co. in the United States. elseproblems are strangled upon appearjective testimony to the fallaciousnessment of a system of revolutionary ideas where it has capitulated to Centrism For the Pre Conference Dicussion ance. The functionary rises to leader of the present political course. The which the apparatus men have been un (Bucharin in Russia. elsewhere it exship upon the basis of ever ready obedi workers, however, cannot be won to Comhy LHOX TROTSKY ence to the leader next in rank and munist leadership by tricka or violence. of the militant workers, it represents the whether inside the party or outside of immediately demands the name They can he won only by persuasion and life and the traditions of the workers it whether the immediately next step THE SPANISH REVOLUTION IN DANGER It still of the Right wing is to the social dem ence from those below him; he falls by their own experiences. The at latherland, the Soviet Union.
15e per cops Special Rates in Ibundtes from leadership on the basis of the tempts win them by the present men embraces or influences the overwhelming ocracy directly, or indirectly through the theory of scapegoats. Leadership trased ods can only result in continuous losses bulk of the active organized and semi Communist party (he temporary capituPROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE upon an ability tested in such a man and defeats.
48 pages. 150 per copy bi sed upon truitful initiative and insupone bewoners pelle de still hered country. It is upon them that the lett nevertheless remains the courselor din a stormy uprurgo Opposition bases its activities and its uidating the Communist movement and PIONEER PUBLISHERS pendent thought, upon devotion to the of the American workera under the lend hopes for growth. We are conducting its ideologieal foundations. This alone movement Instead of to the authorities ership of the Communists and the front no struggle against the ideas, the prin determines the fact that the left Oppost.
New York City (the day. 13 non existent in the party. al attack upon the social fascists. Lciples, the traditions of Communism, tion makes no alliance or lloc with the alliance pointments have almost universalis e. upon all those who are not under the but a struggle against those who seek Right wing, which means an The Left Opposition and Its Role in the 35c 100 3c 30 10e 192 FOK de 00 1ns 16 RI Kast 10th Street below 10. 06, that is, less than half the a petty bourgeois stampin ground by its Jeets the narrow minded, bureaucratie. Brandler, Sellier, etc. etc. The Right militante, on the basis of their own exthousands who leave, and to be displaced them as applied in practise: It must ence. The party is something for greater one straight line. In some places. It obedi GI pages S4 East 10th Street