PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931 The Result of the Elections in Spain The Pittsburg Conference MacDonald Victories the tish workers to recognize the banalities mony within the capitalist world is de wrong will not triumph; but by the of their profesed kraduate of soc termined by nothing but armed forces is faith, the persistence the energy and ialism. On the other hand, had the perfectly well known to the pious gen the determined human heart, that which understood correctly the revolution tlemen of the MacDonald government we recordax precious, that which we ary art of unmasking their deceptive who look with berror toward force up and as essential to the divine purposes (Continued from page 1) tion? Let them endeavor to show us. ter in the history of the Stalinist lead reformist position it would at least have plied by proletarian revolutions. So poace of Tcation, is bound by patience, on the basis of a genuinely univerzal Stalinist Slander ership canot le expunged. The Opposi enabled it to secure the worker contacts while they talk peace and reduction of by enery and ly faith to the carried to and direct suffrage for men and women As for us, we will recall to them that ton found a copy of the telegram in which could become particularly valuable armaments the follow the tradition of triumphant issues in the course of world from the age of 18 In other words: tc when the Stalinists conducted in China the minutes of the olitical Burean it now with the additional experience of continuity of policy of the imperialists affairs.
the non democratic and tricky Cortes we the policy of the four classes the Pol denonnced and doomed to shame tht be labor in office. However with the ser of the previous cabinets. For purposes But what his swoch actually implied must, at the present stage, oppose the itical Bureau, under the leadership of trayal of the ngrarian revolution. Now lous errors of the Anglo Russian UH of publle consumption MacDonald wound was a call upon al jatriotic Britons genuinely democratic and honestly cl Stalin sent telegrams to the Central these gentlemen srek to attribute to nsity Committee remaining uncondemned up his peace sermon at Albert Hall to more effectively to maintain by ected popular Cortes.
Committee of the Chinese Communist in Spain the crimes which they commit and unclarified; with Stalinist re with the following drivel: The problem forve the diminishing imperialist ration Weakness of Spanish Communism Party demanding the curbing of the peated in China. They will not succeed visionism saturating the ocre of its lead that we have got to face is the man and against the competing powers, this time sant movement in order to repulse now the Opposition has its section in erxhip, this could not be expected. the woman that onn come up to the as particularly aiming at the former ally Had the Communists tried today the revolutionary generals. Stalin and almost every country which will not France.
In the language of hourgeois diplo sault be beaten buck, come back again to turn their backs upon the Cortes set Moletor introduced a small restriction perinit them to spread llex and confusion mats the MacDonald government is crull of heart and xpirit, knowing that!
ting up against it the slogan of Soviets into the agrarian program: the confisca with impunity. The Left Opposition will dited with a brilliant record in colo ARNE SW. LECK.
and of the dictatorship of the proletartion of the lands of the Wie landlords ex clarify all the fundamental dispute nial and foreign affairs. It upheld the lat, they would only have showed that copt for those belonging to the officers questions in the light of the Spanish Milish tradition of continuity in for they should not be taken seriously. But wince all the landerwners and the revolution and it will take a giunte elun affairs in other words it proved itThere is not a single Comnunist in the song and nephews of the landlowners en step forward. Not for nothing is the self an effective agent in carrying on Cortes (according to the Turkish presstered into the army of Chiang Kai Shek. revolution the locomotive of history. Continues from NO 1)
was changed. What an hour or two It is lions that the revolutionary the union of the revolutionary officers wing is much stronger in action, in the Burs. It has been characterized by that only from below. All thix in kpite of between frieuds became LEON TROTSKY.
Kuarantee for the property of Resolutions were adopy for the prestruggle than in parliamentary repre the landowners.
bourgeois diplomats call a policy of the fact that the credentials committee This shameful chap. Kaillkoy, July 1, 1931 sentation. Nevertheless, there exists firmines in Egypt and Indiu. which showed that out of a total of dele tease of every dass war prisoner certain relationship between the strength means that the laor covernment has thes, only 65 came from the ale but of course. Morgenstern and of a revolutionary party and its parlia The British Scene known how to interchango sucully and they came mostly from minority Codman were completely corrposementary representation. The weakness at the right moment diplomatic trickson in the mines and not the locally forgotten they are left option of Spanish (ommunism has revealed it.
ery or open brutal suppression: to sub unions approximately three delegates ints.
It can be said with allute ertainly self completely. Under these conditions, stitute machine guns and deadly poison to a mine croup. kasses for the mere police lathi and cane Question of National Strike that the delegates are returning home to speak of the overthrow of lourgeois to subjugate their relwellious colonial The conferener very properly decided with renewed vigor to carry out the parliamentarism ly the dictatorship of the proletariat would mean quite simply people. If the recognition of and trada not to call national strike a yet. The strike 10 a nurul conclusion. And to play the role of wimpletons and prot Only a full understanding of the ra a bloc with the labor party against the relations with the Soviet Union re us credentials committee report showed that provided adequate relief reaches the field rrepresenta the strike is great posibilities. It can ters. The task is to become stronger ther stormy development of the class reactionaries in power support (it)tabilised log the second MacDonald gor the delegation consisted on the six of the parliamentary stage rule in Barland during recent years the same way as the rope supports the ernment has not yet brought a favorable lives of 37. 279 miners still at work, and also be said with Jint as much of the revolution and to assemble the can explain the rise to power and a twoman who has hanged himself. trade balance to British capitalism, they of 41, 491 mients who were on strike. Tance that the policies of Poster, Boriel.
year regn of the MacDonald Labor It would, of course, be foolish to at. undoubtedly still have hopes raha masses around oneself. It is only in this therefore wecomes alwolutely necessary and company on the imited front will way that parliamentaris can be van party leadership. But it must also lend tempt to interpret ench advice in the ing this point. At the Hague, the lit t: xpired and deepen the strike at this constitute ho help but rather a tremea quished. But it is precisely for this that to the conclusion that it has passed its sense of applying literally or in curence he giant hilip Snowden, in the words state of the same the national strike doux olostacle in the way to further krowth of the left wing in the mining It is indispensable at present to devel. zenith and is facing itx period of decline, at all timese But how for the Brit of the New York Current History, pre is still a matter of the future.
on a violent agitation under the slogans not merely by the Conservatives saintne ish 1. under the direction of stated British claims with a pertinacity The six hour lay was incorporated in industry and in undermining the faith was of the workers in the ressive of the most decisive and the most ex at its expense emt jirimarily by the inism, han departed from this fundament which the most imperialistic conservative to the program. Yo explanation trome democracy, coming turn towards the Left of the al aproach in two important situations who ever lived could not have surviven as to why the cith hour day slohe Keeney. Ilowal. Meie type. The What are the criteria for putting British working class. This grows in Hrstin Right opportunist direction, la pell Even Arthur lenderson has an earlier in the strike was policies must le replaced loy a corret forward these slogans? On the one hand, withis out of the conflict of the shabby ter in a Lettint direction, has been clear proven his brilliancy in defending changed to the six. The Lapproach to the weds of the present One must have in mind the general dir Pallian imperialist position of this leadly recorded by history.
Britislı imperialist interests in forein wave the wind and the leaders for situation a cennin uniteil front.
kot that the seven hour clay prevails in ection of the revolutionary development ership with the actual needs of the work The first instance we have in mind was affairs.
the sorry role cut out for the communthe Soviet Union. and the program GEORGR. AKE.
which determines our strategic line: on Ing class MacDonalds Imperialist Policy the other hand one must inke into ac The stormy strikes of 1917 to 1920 ints in the Anglo Itussian Unity ComBut it is now in most resent European count the state of mind of the masses. terminated in the defeat of Black Fri mittee during and after the beneral devlopments that these hybrid pietists.
HELP THE PRESS OF THE The Communist who does not reckon with SPANISH OPPOSITION this last factor risk breaking his neck. British workers turned their attention unitd front the Communist party ap who abhor all force and violence. exLet us reflect a little on the question of to the political parliamentary field, to parently fouined in Intluence and follow cept when in the interest of British im From our Spanish comrades we have port?
knowing how the Spanish workers, the support of the labor parts which became ine, particularly for themMinority Moportunity trillantly to serve these in received the following appeal: This letter needs no rument except Their leaders, the socialists, are in powowink elections of 1122. The Labor sained for ani a following built around ists proceel in their ruthless expansion passing through today should be of this to emphasize the trency of the res!
er. This increases the demanis ant their polled 4, 236. 733 votes, almost dou the Left deceivers, those who also in endeavering to put the European powers Greatest interest and a serious lesson to our comradlex in Spain have an immense intransigeance of the workers. Evers sling its vote at the preceding elections the name of the united front. betrayed on. through striking worker will believe that he need in 1918. Again in 1926, the general the strike. With the collapse of the not only have no fear of the government strike came to itn inglorious defeat and strike and the final collapse of the directa a blow at France.
Hoover moratorium, andia. We wall arrive at the social revolution for which can really he wanted non in Spain (unnot lie foretold, but the ot to help unify the communist movement but, on the contrary, that help may be once more the British workers put theirl Anglo Russian Unity Committee the armament reductions. MacIonald also jestive situation is cbiously a revolu and thus take the first step toward preexpected from it. The Communists must faith in the labor party is expressed in influence and following remained by and see his opportunity.
That the Eur emide ehet houdt he the workers pre the following elections of May 1:12. It large with the deceivers who had merely pean bourgeois powers will fight more munist opposition bas great possibilities the proletarian revolution. We pu tionary one. The inish Left Comparing the Spanish Working class for cisely in this wense: Demand ererything awnin immensely increased its vote, polle functioned temporarily as the left desperately between themselves for their of development. We belteve we do not their appeal on to our renders and supfrom the cavernment, since your leaders ing a total of abont 00. 00. For the shield for the utterly reactionary trade diminishing rations is now being histor exacerate when we expect that within porters. Will you help as generously as are to be found in this government. second time it took over the government. union leaderslum. From this blow, the scally proven. The French bourgeoiste a short time the left Opposition in sou can? Will you forward your conThe socialists will reply to the workers delegations that they have not the maj. Without a question of a doubt sertous cuperated. It could not then and could not consc conditions for financial Spein will be the most important to tributton without delay for xporuly trans: assistance to Germany. The MacDonald tion of the International Opposition. We mission to our Spanish comrades? Send ority. The reply is clear: If the genu economic struggles are once more loco not since unmask these Lefts because overnment equirming under the press have within our ranks very active com all funds to Gonzales, care of the fuely democratic right of suffrage is ob ing in England. The all important ques the error of this spurion united fronture its capitalist masters already suf rades of considerable authority in the Militant, si last 10th Street, Yrw York tained, and if the walltion with the tion Ix: All the British workers now has remained uncondemned.
fer for the American colonies, fight Spanixh working class movement, as for City. All funds will be receipted and Bourgeoiste is broken, the majority will know how to draw the correct political The Third Period in England the harder for its diminishing ration. It! example, comrades Andres Nin, Loredo announced in these columns.
be guaranteed. In that is just what conclusion? Will it mark a period of The second instance came after the joins the demands for armament redue Aparicio, Exteben Bilbao, Gorkin, La the socialists do not want. Their posi growth for the Communist party? Stalin directed Comintern hnd officially tions in France. On July 11, it organ croix and Juan Andrade.
National Committee, Communist laue tion puts them into contractiction with The 1923 elections, if they recorded proclaimed the third period. At the ized a peace parade through London, But the difficulties we fs. ce are great.
of America. Opposition)
the bold democratie slogans. If we sim anything, recorded a victory of reform parliamentary clection, the winding up in Albert Hall. All three We have before us the official party ply oppose the dictatorship of the pro ism over communism. From the time entered its candidates under the slo party leaders, MacDonald, Baldwin with its denunciation and slanders of letariat to the cortes we will succeed of the general strike, the decline of in ans clans against class and ht all and Lloyd George, spoke for race. They u. Although the party has very little in groping the workers around the soc Huence of the Communist party seeming three capitalist parties with the char professed armament reduction in England authority among the masses. it attempts ATTENTION, YOUTHI!
lalists. Because hoth of them will sny: ly correspond quite closely, in its relative acterization of social Fascism. As an and strongly alluded to certain other to use the prestige of the Russian rerThe Communists want to command ns. proportion, to the growth of intluence of analysis the former is of course, cor powers (primarily France) who had im olution to fight us and to split the Com The June 15th is no of the Young While by democratie slogans and by the the labor party. In future perspectives rect. Moreover, in the class struggle it mensely increased their armaments. munist movement. We fight for unity Vanguard contais our appeal to the rupture between the socialists and the this must le seriously taken into acix always a matter of class against while British Imperialism is losing its of the communist ranks. But we havo convention of the Young Communist bourgeoisie, we drive a wedge between count: and it hecomes an imperative class. But as a concrete slogan and with world hegemony it fixhts desperately for not the funds to issue the necessary ma League. It summarizes in conelse form the workers and the socialists and we duty for the British first of all to the combintion of the latter it could a European hegemony, However, the pers, lentlets, etc. We were able to the position of the Left Opposition youth.
thus prepare the next stage of the rev furnish a sober analysis. One may be not at all serve to win the workers. It French longeoisie have had the andae start the publication of our theoretical It can serve as a means of awakeninx gin by asking how did the party follow repelled them and threw them hack into its even to surpass England in armament or an thanks to the contribution of our interest in our platform among the more The Slogan of Soviets the advice given by Lenin to British the arms of the lourgeois pacifists of expenditures. According to the report French comrales. Can we count tpon active and advanced Lers. It is All the considerations mentioned Communists in his polemies against the laber mirty leadership. The brief of the World Peace Foundation, the you to help spurend our revolutionary therfore important that we have a wido above would remain a leal letter were Leftism in. ommunism? This experience of the nine months govern figures for the last tical year were (at propaganda material to the Spanish distribution of that Issue among the we to contine ourselves to the democratic pilet. written in 1920 it will be recallment of these politicians in 1924 had least the public figures) France 16. 950. speaking workers in the Cnited States. communist south Comrades should slogans in the parliamentary sense. ed. proposed to the Communists to form by no means been sufficient for the Beugland 46, 255, 000. That heyecan we eemt upon you for financial sup make efforts in this direction, There can be no question of this. The Communist participate in every strike.
it: every manifestation of protest, in coalition. Such a solution of this task with the composition of the Cortes. But compromises: Brenk with the bourne every demonstration, they aronse ever or some other, is possible only in con other events, as for example the repres, oisie, take over power and we Bolshe more numerous strata. The Communists nection with important political events, are with the masses and at the head under the drive of new movements of sions against the masses, can confer an viks will fight inside the Soviet of the masses in every fight. On the the masses, etc. Thus, under the drive exceptional acuteness upon the slogan of power lo normal (peaceful means.
basis of these fights, the Communists of the movements of the masses in Itas. Dawn with Zamora aura. Victory in Had there been no difference between put forward the slogan of Soviets and sin, there was thrown overboard from this field, that isthe resignation of Zain the conciliators and Kornilov, who was build up thene Soviets on the first oc In a letter to comrade Lacroix, pre of power, for the creation of the pro the coalition government first Gotchkora, might at the given stage have al the genuine Fascistthien no common casion as organizations of the proletar sented some supplementary considern. Setarian regime.
and ukor and late on rince Lvor: most the same significance for the sub strugxle of the 150lxlviks and the conlan united front. In the present stake. tions on the subject of the situation in ciliators against Kornilov would lie possiThe participation of the Communista Kerensky was put at the head of the the Moviets can be nothing but this. But Spain. Unfortunately. have not the in these struggles and above all their government, the number of socialiste eqnent development of the revolution alle. Yet this rule play a great role Alfonso in if they arise antichting organizations of complete information meded to know how participation in the leadership of these increased, etc. After the arrival of order to issue such slogans one must be in the development of the revolution, tuy the proletarian mited front, they will the sanit Communists of the various struggles requires of them not only Lenin, the Bolshevik party did not sol rulded not to doctrinary abstractions repulsing the attack of the counterrov: fuevitally Income, under the leadership croupine pose the present politica clear comprehension of the development darize itself for an instant with Kerent by the state of mind of the masses. the Bolsheviks to tear the masses away surrection and then also the organs of Linary situation under these conditions a capacity for issuing such speciile burn. helped the masses to remove the bourge es produce upon the masses. The upcompletely from the conciliatorx.
power.
is harder than playing chess withouting and militant slovans which do not otsie from power and to put the govern position pure and simple of the slogan of The nature of the pretty bourgeois dem In developing Wdly the tigrarian looking at the chess loard. There always now directly from the program tut ment of the conciliators to the test to the dietatorship of the proletariat or of ocracy les precisely in the fact that it program, one must in no case forget the remain questions which require a sup which are dictated by the circumstances action. It was an indispensable stage the workers and peasants republic swingx between communism and Fascism, indepetuient role of the agricultural plementary study. Before a resorting to of the day and lend the masses forward. on the road of the rise of the Bolsheviks to the present regime, is entirely inade During the revolution, these swings are workers. This is the most important the press, now want to pose thee ques Everybody knows the enormous role to power.
quate, liecause these slogans do not move particularly accentuated. To record the lever of the proletarian revolution in tions before you, and through you, he played in 1917, during the Russian coal. Communists and Socialist Workers the masses.
Sinsheinlists as a series of Fas the country. With the peasants, before the Spainish Communists and before ition of the socialist conciliators and the The elections to the Cortes will reveal.
cism means to kivempatilizing their Inworkers make an alliance, while the agri all the sections of the International Operals, by the Bolshevik siogan: Down from what can judge from here, and the question of As a counterpart to what has just been evitable swings to the last this means cultural workers are part of the prole thosition. social Fascismi to cut off for oneself the road to the tariat itself. This profoun:l difference The Intermediate Revolution masses still had confidence in the soc. pulslicans, of the type of Zamorn Maurs come forward again. This stupid socialist and the syndicalist workers.
must never be forgotten. considerable portion of my article falist conciliators, but the most confid. They will sive a preponderating advancracy becomes today in Spain the great learn from La Verite that the on the dangers which threaten the Span ing masses always have an instinctive tage to the petty bourgeois conciliatorsext obstacle on the road of the reroluTo conclude, must emphasize tha the merciless criticism of Spanish anar Stalinists accuse the whole Left Oppost: ish revolution is devoted to showing that distrust of the bourgeoisie, of the cx of various colors: radicals, radical 50ction. Let us return again to the Rus chosyndicalism today presents the mos against the immediate confiscation of olution of April and the future proletar. this that the tactie note the Bolsheviks this, one can predict with certitude that the social Kerolutionists, being in power lected for a single instant At its to landed property. Tents, it is hard to fan revointion, there is no room for an was based for a definite periode enched the socialists and the social radicals will conducted the imperialist war, theo de anarcho Syndicalism is the most masked foresen in what direction the demagogie intermediate worker peasant revolution. Het was. Down with the socialist immediate confination of the land not mean that the party of the prole slon Hown with the Provisional with Zamora Jaura is quite opportune. ers, they proceeded to arrests, they inthe Right wing allies. The slogan Down the soldiers. the peasants and the work one form of conciliation with the hour krojsie. Among the workers who con signity? By whom? By what organiza tariát, up to the final struggle. must commonly highting and actual slo: only one thing must be understood. the troduced capital punishment. they prostitute the ranks of awarcho xudicatum, he Peri aflirmed back in April that the forces. Such a conception would be anti santly on the same nall: Down with the Leroux ministry, they take no responsi they compelled Lenin to lend an llegal tion! It is true that the incompara. occupy itself solely with accumulating man. But for that we always hit inces Communists make no agitation for the tected the natalsins of the Bolsheviks, there are potentially very creat forces for the revolution. The fundamental Spanish peasants were building up sov. revolntionary and worthy of philistines. ten capitalist ministers! This slogan bility for a socialist ministry, but at lets and that the workers were follow. If there cannot exist an intermediate relayed an enormous role, since it per every given moment they direct their existence, they kept the other leaders of fark of the Community here is the same ing the Communists in masses. Natural olution, an intermediate regime, there waitted the masses to convince themselves blows against the most determined and worst slanders against them, etc. etc ranks to the tolloweverthe work spread the towards the socialists to oppose the ly, we agree that the Soviets (or unions, can on the contrary he intermediate that the socialist. conciliators thought the most consistent class enemy, and by all this was more than enough for call.
must be carefully adapted to the specific or committees) should Immediately take manifestations of the masses, strikes, de much more of the capitalist ministers that they weaken the conciliators and ing them social Fascist. But in 1917. spirit of trade intim organization and the land of the large words their monstrations, encounters with the police than of the working masses.
clear pecifle character o for the proletariat. this word did not even exist which did to the anarchist hands. Only the peasants must be and the army, violent revelationary coll Slogans of this type correspond better The Communists say to the socialist work not, as is known, prevent the Bolsheviks insist once more: The articles, renomaxk. On this point, in another letter.
aroused. And for that, the workers must lisions during which the Communists than anything else to the present stage en Wow have confidence in your soc from coming to power. After the territons, paltform: et of the revoin be torn away from the influence of the will naturally be in the frent ranks of the Spanish revolution. The prolecalist leaders, compel them then to be persecutions against the Bolsheviks tonary organizations and group in other. Would the stalinist like to say sense of these intermediate struggles pushing the Spanish socialiste to take while have no confidence in them. And other with the social Fascists in the Guto French and sent to all the sections even in calumny there must be logic. ocratic changes in the hourgeois repub the coalition must be broken up. The them to the test and we shall see who the beginning of September, Lenin, from How does the defense of landed pro lican regime and on the other hand, they present task consists of the struggle to was right we or you.
perty flow from the permanent reovlu can prepare the masses for the conquest drive the bourgeois ministers out of the his secret hiding place, proposed to the This is dealt with above in connection Russian social Fascists the following Kadikoy, June 24, 1931 LEON TROTSKY olution.
for Problems of the Spanish Revolution the grou that we favor landed property? But On the one hand, they can proroke dem the power into their hands. That is why when they are in power, we will put organs of struggle against Kornilov. At for translation into other languages.