The Catalonian Federation Platform The Unemployment Problem for PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931 The British Scene so when the socalled bill of repeal was promulgated it could easily be allowed to le ditched and die in committee.
Meanwhile when the Scottish and Welsh miners fought against the spread over (th have just read for the first time In Where and when has a republic existed 12. The Workers and easants cight hour day) and to uphold the more La Lutte de Classes of the platform of which satisfied at the same time the in Bloe. that is, the workers and pensants Two yearn ago when the British of course, or the communist party recent Coal Miners which provided the socalled Workers and Peasants terests of the bourgeoisie and those of party, promises at the end of its platInit party won the parliamentary ele were called upon for help. The royal frat for a seven and a half hour day and Bloc under the name of which the Cat the workers? From the republic bour form to light with all its strength for thons de lliy tex glittering promises Comuisxion was created and it returned July a seven hour day. MacDonald alontan Federation acts. acknow geoisie, we can and should demand dem the complete replization of the demof gradual development into socialism a report a cut in the dole and an advised the miners to accept the sprend. ledge that the document is translated in Ucratic rights and social reforms, cenze ocratic revolution Does this mean and of delile cure for the unen increase of payments to the fund. Acover in return for a promised minimum La Lutte de Classes in a thorough and lessly exposing the bourgeois, even the the hourgeois republic on the basis of ployment wituation. It naturally stood cording to the report unemployment re wie law for miners a correct manner. The document as a arch democratie republle as a machine democratie parliamentarism? Then one out in bold contrast to the reactionary Her would be reduced, for example for To expect from this champion of grad. whole, from beginning to end, produces which the bourgeoisie uses to squeeze must say 80. but in this case it is nee sovernment.
However, a family with three children, from 00ualness to sponsor a movement for the painful impression. All that have the sweat and blood of the workers and essary at least to put forward demands when in power, the labor ngents of in weekly to 25. Workers with jobs shorter workday to relieve unemployment written in my latest work: The Spanish the peasants.
for democratie electoral rights, inasperialism, even to attain their promised would be required to my to the un would, of course. be ridiculous. His Herolution in Danger. against the of The reference to the republic of much as before the rational republic reforms, would be compelled to go be employment fund cents more weekly. gradualness leads in the opposite dir. Acial policy of the in the Spanish 1873 is accompanied by this ineredible and the rational organization of su yond the bounds of reformism and on employers cents and the state cents ection knowing, as he does that the question, applies entirely to the Catalon moral: Thus, a complete division was lety is realized on the Terian Penin Even more, the lat created between the power and the 100 sula, it necessary that the bourgeois ekor the system from which they would for the labor government to support. to the absolute surplus value still poeter commits errors which the leader ple. The abstraction of the people is republic of Zamora at least five to the gage in a struggle with the actual rul more. However, this was too raw even shorter workday, would cut directly wlan Federation again have to draw certain revolutionary It would have become dynamite to the keted by the lords of finance and to ship of the has already given up separated from the abstraction of the workingman and the workingwoman, the power. Herhaps the bourgeoiule Hepar peasant and the peasant woman, the right tween yesterday and today. And in pol ranks, so it confined itself to sponsoring the productive capacity of British indus 11. The document is issued by the Work ated itself from the working people? The to vote.
ities, it is one thing to promise and an bill for the elimination of abuses try and the output per man has grown ers and Peasants Bloe. Whnt is this? example of 1873 must be referred to 13. The name of the Socialist party other thing to attain. Of course, the of the dole evidently hoping that in the to an extent making a demand for Apaeudonym for the Catalonian Federn not in order to invist that the bourgeoiste is not mentioned in the platform. Not MacDonald coterie of leadership never process, in committee, more teeth could xlx hour day without reduction of pay tion? The bloe, that is, the union of becomes nofter, better, more gen. a word is said about the anarho syndihad any serious Intentions with their be put into the bill. For the sake of a potent ax was the demand for the the workers and the peasants, is a clerous more tender, but in order calists. The official Communist party in promised reforms.
facilitation Snowden had already an eight hour day when first advanced. antic political task which the proletarto tench the manse not to believe not mentioned. One might say that the But the working masses who expected nounced, prior to presenting his budget. There are at least good reasons lan vanguard must accomplish. This tank for a single instant in the more gen) Workers and enrant Hor is presomething from their support of Macthat only drastic and disagreeable sume that it could become in the prel must be written into its platform. In erous. the softer. the tenderer hour. pared to act in the void.
Donada have received nothing but disil means wonld prevent the country from sent unemployment situation, a powerful place of this, the Workers and Pigeoisie. That is how the Marxlats put Spanish kuo Min Tangism lustonment. What among the grotesque slipping into ankruptcy.
There are the rapid ohjections that figures in knee breeches at the British The Communist Party and Unemployment means of unifying the employed with the rancie Bloe becomes the name of the the question.
believe it necessary to make on the It seems quite paradoxical that the victories won in the diplomatte feld, British Communist Party has proven itto help bridge the kult of the present workers and peasants party. Yet even in all the provinces on the basis or de classes. It is possible that, already.
are not worth a brass farthing to the self almost entirely unable to take ad retreat and defensive toward the work: the sixth Congress of the comintern revolutionary Juntas. To what end de Catalonian wederation intro masses. On the contrary, it has only vantage of this long protracted serious in class offense, Elrom the point of nounced this reactionary ide under the programe is Indicated. Xot only is! cluced into its platform some change, not indicate that Juntas of this kind correction or amendment, or other. and hence their dissatisfaction with the course, religiously observed all the stal futilized by the Coinmunist Party. this criticism of the Left Opposition. In all the documents the word Lahor government is now growing ust calendar dates of unemployment slogan could undoubtedly become an ef. Communism is not pronounced a single will have to guarantee the revolution. am rendy, to he sure to welcome every but ace. Thus the future doce hold pro demonstrations, but they have become fective supplement to the feeble demands toe. Whoever hides his Communism kry passage of power into the hands or step of the Federation in the sense of Marxism. But the document as it stan mises for the British workers, and far mainly formal exercises. Their signio of the charter movement. Oh yes, the from the masses, consey be a Commun.
the workers and the poor ands represents a pure kno Min Tangism ndere real than MacDonald election cance as well as the number of partiet party has already adopted the seven hour a program of transitional Ist.
not put forward. hour working day, transporter to Spanish xull. The ideas promises. The future holds promises otpants have dwindled. The party in the day slogan: but apparently it overlooks Menshevik Criticism and the methods against which the Oporganization of production, defeat of the disgraceful illusions of unemployment situation has not been. the fact that the seven bour das is able to set the workers into motion today supposed to le law for the coal They speak of the democratie res through revolutionary Jonths of work position fought implacably when it was In the two major problems facing the around a revolutionary perspective, nor miners and as a slogan for a movement olution, of the democratie republic, ofers and of soldiers for the agrarian Da question of the Chinese polley of the British working class directly at home to instill the life and spirit necessary It could hardly mean much to them. the popular revolution, without the rising. They do not mention by a stu comintern. And their most disastronte expression in this document. As far as to which splendid promises had been to advance.
What Does the Balance Sheet Show!
slightest attempt at a class analysis. ale word that the Junta is an organizaI know the leaders of the catalonian given, those of the unemployment situa The crux of the party demands bas The kovernment is accused of indecl. tion of the proletariat and the exploited The salient fact 18 that the consider slon, of vacillation, etc. But now masses against the class which is in Federation systematically draw a line repeal of shift the of here Is it said it government poweristhe.
of demarcation from the Left Opposition.
unton net, the lavor government failed ment from the workes to the hourgement once existing has practically dis berehe hourgeoisie, an enemy to the peto The Junta is taken as a revolutionary Thuise Sainot enough the left opposition sigually or what would be more cor otsic. Thus its outlook became limited appeared The British Communist Party ple. The Celtleism of the Zamora organization in the spirit of the Span must draw a line of demarcation in a rect to say It acted precisely as a rov. to one of a purely national reformist nied to consolidate this movement and ernment coinciden entirely with the crt. ish pretty bourgeols tradition.
ernment, capitalist also in name, would character. It could make little or 10 to help assure it revolutionary course. tetsm addressed by the Mensheviks and In speaking of the importance of hy the leaders of the Catalonian Federatand the methods which are expressed have acted.
distinction from the views of the Leti it talled in the necessary class educathe Social Revolutionists to the govern the agrarian uprising the platform retion in the document which we have The Serious Unemployment Situation within the labor party and the trade tion and thus could not raise the gemment of Prince Lxov Kerensky. On the fers to the French and the Russian rerAt the time of the liberal labor pol union officials who contends that the eral class level of this movement, subject of the Macia goverument nothing olutions. Not a word about the experiJust analysed briefly. file point of Iticlans taking over the colden reis not sure work for its citizens it must costly experiences of the British workers is now falling to take advantage of the said.
departure during a revolution in inevitence of the Chinese revolution which, inably translated in the course of events The document speaks of ra der our very eyes, has just been stranthere were a total of 1, 161, 125 unem provide them with contre anges or who put their fate into an excursion tional construction of society. without eled by the leadership of the Dia ish Left oppositionwell oricu Sarat 1331, their numbers hnd more than do thing else to do than attempt as best the unemployment problem is still the language of the true socialists of the question China correctly? Not a word proletarint and to the Spanish revolu can render enormon services to the bled and were 634. 288. The dole system initiated in 1920 and intended then inevitable dole. Until the Brlitsh ever more acutely for a solution. be must signity a new social organization not profited by the lessons of the CNtion. But in order to fulfill this mission, it must establish in its own ranks as a temporary measure, has since be Communist Party is able to extricate itkinning enn be made only when the mass Whten? Is it a question of a hourgeois ese revolution has no risht to address regime of clarity, of honesty and of inwill remaines are actually set into motion upon a regime or of socialist regime? The himself to the masses in order to teach transigeance. It is to this that call corne permanent in character. And while self from such view it the weight of the dole is becoming rather pretty well paralysel.
definitely revolutionary course. platform plays Wide and seek with capt them and to issue appeals to them, aw our Spanish frien Irksome to British capitalist society the The Art Truide Union Act With its two years in power the Fab talism and with socialism.
pecially in a revolutionary country. labor cabinet is considering means of June 12, 1931 The vicious Trades Dispute and Trade lan gradulness of reformism has quite The fact of having given Alfonso 10. The platform ways: We are sup lightening this burden by shifting the Union Act, legislated by the preceding clearly revealed its miserable role. From the possibility of fleeing abroad is pre porters of a State for each LEOX TROTSKY nation.
load to the backs of the workers. Baldwin government after it hnd become once having played a historically pro sented as a first profound mistake of What does this mean for Spalu? What It attempted to substitute migration o frightened during the general strike. gressive role, it is reaching its inevitable the provisional government. Mistake nation is involved? The Pan Spanish of the unemployed to the Dominions. But increased the miners workday from seven conclusion. At its very apexits true Is this to menn that Zamora is not suf state organization is defined as follows: CHICAGO MEETING this had to be liscarved even by the to eight hours: it prohibited any coer character is being exposed. The labor ficlently sensible in his revolutionary The Union of the Republic of Iberla.
hidebound reactionary Jimmie Thomas cire strike over wages or similar disputes party leadership as a reactionary obeta polley? This is how the Russian Men What does this mean? It it means a JOHN EDWARDS lord privy seal and first minister of un which may tend to have a will speak on direction cle is losing its hold upon the masses. sheviks put the question. To call a federation, it would be better to way ko.
employment. The Dominions, having against the established order: It prohl There is today a mighty abyss created mistake that which with the bourge 11. The defense of the revolution must WHAT IS TROTSKY PROGRAM?
such problems of their own. did not want bited civil service employees from Join the contradiction between the vital otste is a deliberate counter revolution be the supreme law. Defense against the unemployed. He found a perplexing ing unions: finally it also prohibited ang needs of the masses and the reactionary ary calculation, means to whitewash the whom? The bourgeoisie in power deproblem and succeeded in getting reliat levy upon trade unions for political pur imperialist course of the lubor govern bourgeoisle and to cover it up before fends its revolution against the pro1118 West Madison Street only for himself in form of a change to poles. To the liberal labor party lackey ment. In this lies the great future the masse.
Ietariat. Whoever conceals this fact be.
on the Dominions. His successor to tackle this latter clause became the only real spects for the British Communist Party The republic must not only behind hollow phrases on the defense in unemployment Saturday, August 8, 1931 problem, Vernon obnoxions part and accounts for their Despite all its wasting of the capital of conquest for the hourgeoisie hut nao general of the revolution in general Hartshorn, died in office. So while the wal in election promises to repeal the the world revolutionary movement it for the workers. What is the mean against enemies in general, helps the Admission free unemployment problem renained and te act. But then, after assuming power u still has the opportunity to utilize these ing of this menly mouthed, rularly de Bourgeolxle to stitte the proletariat un Auspices: Chicago Communist League came more acute all parties, exclusivo way was easily found to overcome Nut, porsibilities. ARNE SWABECK mocratie and profoundly false phrase der the banner of the revolution.
control laborism.
at the ALFA: aim cause Manuilsky himself, with his cher quotation marks by Trotsky himself. The struggle for proletarian cul disfigurement of the past. Just think of acteristie cynicism, portrayed this deal Auerbach is exact and serupulous. But ture. something in the form of con. it: Here this Auerbach comes ont as an with reference to persons, revealing his in spite of this, the Auerbachian style plete collectivization of all the achieve Instructor and tutor of the proletarian a high talents as a raconteur of national of the quotation, and particularly of its ments of humanity in the franework of south! He. Auerhach, paves the way and other ancedotes. We repeat this last phrase. It is significant that in the Five Year Plan had at the begin for proletarian. culture. man never took himself serlously, elther this sphere even then, the conflict bening of the October revolution char People who can judge by symptoms MANUILSKY, THE LEADER 1922, consequently, at tho time when politically or morally. And he has now tween Lenin and the author of these lines acter of Utopian idealism and precisely should understand from this examplo OF THE COMINTERN Lenin illness was already drawing its been put at the head of the Communist was revealed puzzlink. Thus, Trot along this line met with a rebut from alone what a fatal langer the present final balance under the relationships International. And he is now working sky not only points out that he had dis Lenin and the author of these lines. party regime represents for the devel Nothing can be done about it: Man between Lenin and Trotsky. Here is what out the routes for the Spanish revolu agreements with Lenin ona definite In this maner, Trotsky says that the opment of a socialist society and a socuilsky is at present the leader of the Manullsky wrote in the article, devoted tion!
question, but he even hurries to em philosophy of proletarian culture metallst culture.
Comintern. The strongest side of this to the memory of Chudnovsky. The AUERBACH CAUGHT WITH phasize the significance of the fact with a rebult from Leniu and the author man lies in the fact that he does not take Social Democrat, published in Switzerland THE GOODS that these disagreements were revealed of these lines. But Auerbach Note by the Editor: In corrobation of says: Alfa remarks, we print the following himself seriously. This is evidence that comrades Lenin and minorier; the In Moscow, there is published a Lit. even then. that is, it would appearl even then, the contiet between Lenin parts of speech of Trotsky together is incline self eri Whether aris Golos, which was subsequent to its erary Garette, the origin of the Pedera that Trotsky makes veal and the author of these Ines was rewith the quotation by Manuilsky to which Comintern serionsly, or for some other named Nasha Slovo, directed by comrade paper is Auerbach. His rights to leader Auerbach, however, does not spare any man who pored as a proletarian critic y Manuilskyluring Trotsky speech. it is because Stalin does not take the suppression by the French police, re tion of Soviet Authors. The critic of this himself. This sounds somewhat puzzling. veuled. neither more nor less! The Alfa refers, as well as the interjertions Manusky, who does not take hinsell of the Third International the funda one hand loy the fact that he doverted obvious, he says the frank declara: swindler. This time, he has been caught literary product and became aware of single seriously. In the most sultable man for mental fragments out of which the new in time, the ranks of the Opposition. tion about the most suitable place. And who else revolutionary (deology of the Interna into which he came accidentally (I. Lenin. Really Auerbach is correct. Ity, relieves us of the necessity of Hunk of it also only a few weeks ako was to be put there?
If a complete collection of the works miut. Annals of the Revoluon. No. won stay with us he too lattonous says: We must be grateful: What is cannot help reminding that Auerbach universal theory out of this theory, to tional proletariat has been hammered Smirnov used to say about him: Ho something is obvious. Further on, iting any further comment. However, we which the attempt is made to make a of Manuilsky should be rathered, we 1, page 220, 1922. for the ranks of the burenucracy, where more pleasant to read than the acknow. mendacity assumes a still viler character present attitude of Lenin. will read it as an improvement in the would have, if not an instructive, at any At present Manullsky proves that dur. he is quite at home: on the other hand, ledgment by Trotsky himself of Lena Decause he himselt rate an entertaining trook. Manuilskying the war Trotsky was a pacifist and as the fact that he has absolutely no la reement with his views on litera:about Leninx and Trotsky relations to that it have a better notre not com ture and general questions of culture. the Auerbachian margarine of literary mon with this interpretation: was always somebody armor bearer, Kautskyan, that Leninism and Trotsky Literary Anir, to which every line of The phrase is constructed in an alter und cultural philosophy.
moreover, he changed his knights many ism are two irreconellable entitles, his own writinge bear witness. In the Auerbach ate manner, like the majority of Auer knows how rigorously Lenin came out tonally limited revolution of 1905 1906. Russian Rolshevism, born in the naas waroslavxkyy armor bearer is one of. deology of the international proletar Tempos of self Revelation. com Tvot the conclusion: The speed of the sell this movement had a revolutionary conteatures of national peculiarity. In order known Alexinxky. At present, Stanuileky por less than that the new revolutionary bach wrote an enormous article entitled tech obra se bodo les possible to us against the theoreticlans of the socalled had to poutherange erbe pour le bon raison Trotskylst ideology. Under his own name communism, was created by Lenin ana ling. In the center of the article is revelation is significant.
In this manner, in the year 1930, Truth of the bureaucratic charlatans. Auer to receive all the civil rights of in and again proved the irreconcilability of see the light of truth? Neither in 1914 sky suicide. From this note, Auerbach sky revealed himself in the fact that bach knows that it Trotsky had disternational Ideology. Theoretically, this Trotskyism and Leninism. But he has 1916 when he worked with Trotsky in extracts quotation devoted to proletar. he did not agree with Lenin on his views agreements with Lenin on this question, tinge adhering to it was carried through not always spoken this way. In 1918. the Paris paper, Nasha Slovo, nor 16 ian literature. The self revelation on literature. On this score, Auerbach they were perhaps expressed in the fact in 1905 by Trotsky.
Alanuilsky issued a pamphlet in which 1917 1022, when Manuilsky, together with consists of the fact that Trotsky ha celebrated victory and speaks of the that Trotsky had a softer attitude than the Russian revolution into harmons Bolshevism from national limftedness and ership of lenin, was the light of truth opposition of his views in the question Year 1928. Trotsky was exiled to Alma ists of proletarian culture and at times of the proletariat in the fdral of the per Its transformation into a theory of in rerealed to him. Only after illness and of proletarian culture and proletarian Ata, and in 1929 was expelled from defended them before Lenin. Auerbach manent revolution.
ternational proletarlan revolution, leit was longs to Trotsky.
At one of the ranks, and the epigones spurred on bs ever let in produce the quotation from tivatsinand the preparation of an armed literature in agreement with Lento, who written in 1918 by comradewho wears Plenums of the Comintern, Trotsky wave of Thermidorlan reaction, de Trotsky article in the form in which uprising against the Soviet power. or insisted more than once that Trotsky the name of Manuilsky.
quoted this cltation, amous in its clared war upon the ideological heritage It is quoted by Auerbach with his own what significance, in comparison with shonld first of all work out the chapter MANUILSKY: So did say something way. In the presence of Manullsky and of Lenin under the name of Trotsky parenthetical remarks.
this fact. is Trotsky disagreement devoted to proletarian culture and print stupid, and you repeat It. The struggle for proletarian culture with Lenin on his views on proletarian It in Pravda. By the way, its publica TROTSKY: Something stupid? Absotion and its author. The pamphlet was sight. By the way, not all at once. The quotation marks by Trotsky. iterature? Where and in what does the tion was not accompanied by any com lutely right. Laughter. But you need written by Manuilsky after the October Trinity (Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenevwmething in the form of general col spoed. of self revelation lle here ments or footnotes by the editor. Yaro have no concern about comrade Manuli revolution and what is more after its kept him in the background for a long lectivization (his own quotation marks. Is it not the other way around?
publication not a single hair fell trom time, and only after it had by that. of all the intellectual achieve not this disproportion in the accusa. Trotsky that he agrees with the view. for be himself calls it a stupidity. But this was prior to the. trade union sive him an ultimatum. open up a cam the Fire Tear Plans had at the such a the political side of the matter. Auerbach, because as one of the young bnted to me a tremendously herofe ded: aspirants to proletarian literature, he without my having earned it, will soon changed his views. Not in the least. duction to a campaign against Trot Utopian. Idealistic character. It is The fact is that Auerbach led from attempted more than once in those years again, without my having earned it, at Recently, we came across a quotation sky. Manullskyafter wavering (Rakstenificant that in this sphere, even then, beginning to end. The quotation which to find in Trotsky defender against tribute to me two mistakes and in this from an article by Manullsky written in ovxky prestige too high the contradiction between Lenin and the he made is not a quotation. It is a falat Lenin views, but Invariably met with manner draw his balance. Laughter. accepted the condition thus author of these lines was revealed. fication. crudo Illiterate, insolent a rebult.
From the Minutes of the Plenum of Unfortunately, am obliged to make hought himself a place on the Central The whole quotation, as we see, is la Auerbach. Here is word for word the Literally, whichever aspect you touch, the November 22this quotation from memory, but fally Committee of the party. This deal was in quotation mark, and what is more passage from Trotsky article which the ideology of the Centrist bureaucracy December 13, 1926. Germ guarantee the accuracy of thought. no secret to the broad party circles, bel Aeurbach correctly points out the single Auerbach alsdgured: built upon lles, falsifications, on the edition, page 583. Berlin, on was and