SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931 THE MILITANT PAGE IN THE INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements England Goes to the Polls The Elections in Hamburg Notes from Berlin THE BRITISH SCENE or chaos! Only the iron broom of reyTHE SITUATION IN GERMANY olution can be relied upon to cleanse with completo efficiency, this Augean Stables.
The events of the last few weeks have shown that the Inevitability of gradu alness only applies to overthrowing Capitalism. There was nothing gradual about the methods taken Mesars.
of the terrific plight of the masses. It (Continued from page 1)
MacDonald Snowden and Co. to save it. Classion, the Hamburg election banner of capitalist slogang. It does not is still posible to throw the blame for Reformism presupposes a stable and exstill of Interest as a barometer of the worse.
Although it is a little late for dis Iines. The relation of forces throughout, against Fascism as the principal danger.
are Germany, we can say definitely, is still To put itself in position to subdue Fasc.
require a profound knowledge of Mari the crisis not on capitalism, but upon panding capitalism as an essential pre German political situation.
ism which has gone over to the offen.
1am to see through the pretence of Soc its local form, e. free trade. Until liminary to its reforms, and an even This situation ought to have determin sive on all fronts, the the only Lalium as advocated by the Labour protection also has demonstrated its relatively stable capitalism can in Brithe voters taking part in the elee what is it actually doing? It talks only sharp turn in its policies. Today in According to the figures of the 83 of ed all the policies of the but one who can subdue Fascism, must make Party Congress at Scarborough. very complete incapacity to restore Britain tain only be achleved over a literally tion, the Nazis gained 58, 000 votes (40. of Communist victory Red elections. the face of the threat of counter rertwo Labour governmenta la suficient to the opinion of the writer, pasu luto conclusion of reformism is undoubted and took the second place with 202, 000 Red Hamburg. They talk about the clution in Germany, this turn is more reveal only too well the nature of the the revolutionary stage.
19. that of MacDonald; since, unless votes against 214, 500 for the victory of the Nazis casually, as a mat indispensable than ever. socialism that the Labour Party adProtection has thus twofold root. It Capitalism can be first saved, obvious tonale, after a long period of defeats at it (literally. Remmele in his speech be, to tell the truth, not to understate The first elements of this turn should vocates in practice. It is a socialism necessary prop to declining British. It cannot be reformed! The post. also gained (12, 000 votes. The laughed at it. or they give irresponsible the success. to re esablish Party demthat differs from capitalism precisely as capitalism. and 18, as such, a convinetion of the Fallenrefore, there closed D: lost only 10 of its voters, which a explanations which are as ridiculous avocracy: to break with National Com Labour Party that was put out by a Red allem, which once arrogantly spurned farce, and the attitude of the Las surprising. In fact, as a result of munism: instead of trying to gain SchLetter will not return by means of an all forms of protection. It is also in trying to pour the new wine of rew their polley of tolerance and of using the success of Fascism is more an echo the Social democratie worker; to give up In the Communist press, they say that eringer on this soll, to find a way to obvious red herring! The sight of Mr. paychologloul necessity to the Brtilab olution into the old bottles of reform the club, one might have expected. of September 14th than a new George Lansbury leading the Labour bourgeoisie, in that it enables them to ism, 18 merely a grotesque comedy.
the theory of social fascism and the Red Congress to the refrain of the Red offer free trade as scapegoat to the If the is a comedy, the Commuch greater loss.
swing. The Communist newspaper at Trade Union policies of the Flag no longer moves the British work starving masses who are thus prevented munist Party is a tragedy. In an era ember 4th, 1930, these two factors, the gain in votes, the Nazis even in HamThe same as in the elections of Sept Hamburg writes that In spite of the The creation of the Workers Soclallat ers. The excutioners of the Indian peotrom realizing that it is capitalism which when speedy revolation has become the increased growth of Fascism on the one burg, have become Party (Seydowitz Rosenfeld) is a strikple And it difficult to act a revolution is the cause of the crisis, and that it one crying necessity of the not stronger buting proof of the crisis in the ary part, and if Jesus ted the multitude forms are immaterial. By this means, class, the only working hand and the large masses of workers weaker. and so on. do not take on the one hand and at the same time alleged revolutionary who are still mbre numerous in the the time for the other explanations, on a proof of the inability of the his Labour disciples were quite prepared to political representatives of the ruling party Indulges in chartist antiqarlan than in the German Conmunist level with these where with shrewd to win the revolutionary workers away to starve the unemployed. class are able to draw the masses from Isa, converting the living slogans of the Party, represent the unfavorable side for sophistry they try to prove that Ham. from social democracy.
hide the transparently obviough face nimat the side track of tariee reform. lt 1o not period of capitallam rise Into musty communism, of the resent situatlon burg is a commercial town, this is my the Social Democracy is now part of until this also proves a blind alley that falsehoort din the period of its decline. Particule sa thiet 33, 00 votes (25. gure of 202, 609 could represent the the house war certainly not the table the issue of revolution as the Ineseup When the particularly at the expense employees the normal machinery of the capitalist able Issue from permaneat crisis will never before in British history, the party This is obviously an important suc only! At the same time the fact that to meet the enormous tasks which it state. The slogans of the opposition may faces.
the little employees have followed the have a left sound, but their program is raise itself with frresistable force in the skulking in a sectarian corner, striv cess.
ing valnly to cling to the coat tails of But compared with the victory of the Nazis only speaks against it, the a program of capitalist reform and reminds of the masses.
the militant workers outside.
Berlin, Oct. 31st, 1031.
Fascists, the G. on the contrary which has not known how to at construction, and we know that in pracIt a forecast may behazarded, it would Objective Conaftions Favorable to has suffered a defeat, which becomes tract them and has completely neglecttice such reconstruction will be at the seem that a conservative victory at the All these figures are in comparison expense of the broad working masses. polls is indicated, backed as it is by al Revolution still more serious if we examine the ed this work as a Hamburg correspond with the elections of September 14th, 1930 Indeed, so completely hus vulgar figures since February, 1928: the Fascent tens us.
The General Election is therefore, a terrific mass drive on the part of the By its policy of concealing the vic By the way, this shows that the bourgeois election. The alternative propress. It may also be predicted with empiricism succeeded and superceded aists have gained 188, 000 votes, the comgrammes that are offered to the workers reasonable certainty that, in the event Marxlan analysis, that theory in the munists, 51, 000. The real victors are tory of the Fascists and of shouting defeat of the Fascists loudly proclaim. is despised on the eminent the Nazis, They are on the upswing deafeningly about its own victory the ed by the Social Democratic and Demare merely programmes for the recon of a decisive victory, the Torles will ly bourgeois ground that it is only democratic press after the plebiscite, did not struction of capitalism. In actual fact. serve MacDonald as in 1922 they served calIn the laboratory of these. The tendency of the September 14th leadership of the the workers are merely asked to write Lloyd George when they no longer needemists, the word Intellectual has untions in Oldenburg and in Brunswick stead of orientating them and concen party that realy lost, in the plebiscite, alch clections has gone further. The elecbilizes and disorientates the masses, in in any way correspond to the facts. The on the ballot the name of the party ed him. An imperialist bourgeoiste in which is to reduce their wages!
variably cherishes an immense esprit dergone a translation. In the epoch several months ago followed the same trating all its efforts on the struggle was the Torles Shift to Protection Issue de corps which makes it instinctively de of Marx and Lenin, the term Intellec spise Judas Isarlots of the MacDonald tual denoted a revolutionary student The economic necessities of the bour. Thomas type whom it spurns when it with the intellectual problems that are geoiste find expression in politico econ no longer needs them.
omic formulas. The 17th century revInseparable from a revolutionary anThe opposition will consist of the alysis. In the epoch of Stalin and Pol The Abend, the eveninge edition of the, Kurfuerstendamn, the day of the Jewish strong tendency to leave the party among olutionary bourgeoise put forward its Loobur Party plus the free trade Liber litt, an intellectual Is scouted and convorwaerts in its issue of September 17. New Year. The demonstration was well many of its members. These elements demands under cover of the demand for als with a programme of free trade plus demned as a counter revolutionary claims that the socA1 democratie press organized, the demonstrators did notae ready for action. but cannot be the supremacy of the House of Com a few platitudes about bankers. Shy merely because he possesses an intel has retained all its readers, but that, gather in large masses, but formed lit. confined any longer bv a political or mons. Today, the demand for tarifs lock versus the people. etc. In this sect! It is only such an attitude that on the other hand, the economic crisis tle groups shouting. Deutschland Ersanization.
represents the ing ruling class of Britain. The desire George will swallow Henderson and be Twins as the Workers Charter and the the sale of the various other papers. mixed with the crowd, re forming their its propaganda methods. Instead of posof the decline opposition probable that Lloyd could produce such theoretical Siamese has at the present caused a drop in wache, Juda, Verrecke! and later on The party has implified and vulgarized of the Tory party for protection pre come leader of the Labour Party In fact doctrine of socialism in one country. It quotes the Frankfurter Zeltung, the ranks again further on. For more than ters, they are now content with inacribcipitated the election, and protection ver. If not in name. In that case, Labour with its corrollary of friendly (sic) com Deutsche Tageszeitung, the Germania an hour, the police, which arrived much ing slogans of a primitive character on u free trade will form its chiet bat would probably shed its hocialism petition with the world bourgeoiste.
tle cry. While the Beaverbrook wing of (wihch is in any case too obviously ahand other paper trusts. Then the Abend too late, could not reestablish order the walls and on the side walks.
the party advocates Empire Free Trade ward to continue to be of any use; the the era of gradual reform is over, and which it says, it is in a position to give monstrations were held by llttle groups between Soviet Russia and Germany What is our conclusion? It is that proceeds to the Communist press, on in the street, precisely because the de The problem of the economic relations become a practical issue. Betore Brt. led, and the Labour Party would become law of the pendulum applies to politics are told, does not have its origin in the worthy in these demonstration is the easton between Communist and Social tish polities pass into the openly rev. an avowedly liberal party; position The decline of British Imperialism will police occupation of the party headquar fact that they were made up of young democratic workers.
olutionary stage of fascism versus com which could not last long in the con be of a corresponding magnitude with ters during a period of ten day munism, it must be demonstrated that ditions of British decline.
its unparalleled ascent, and the speed occupation, according to the affirmation partly also of rowdles, to be sure. Their The social democracy has begun ana capitalism is itself the inevitable cause. CALUS GRACCHUS. of its world decline will be matched by of several party functionaries, no dom dress contrasted violently with the gar this shows how important and how dif.
the ferocity of its drive against the ination made itself felt and nothing prements of the Kurfuerstendamm crowd, ficult this question is for them, broad working class. It the 2nd Labour Gov. vented the Central Committee from be and it was by this mark, cap and no press campaign on this question. At ernment represented the last ineffective glaning to function either. There is a necktie, that they were recognized by times, it gives articles, like that by splutterings of British democracy, the central publishing house of the party, the police.
Heinig, that credits, cannot be of any National government represents the the where all the different pubuse for the working class. Then, it also first stage of British fascism, which only lications of the party are required Part of these young Nazis, members has a supplement in all the papers: Is The contemporary situation in Britain, ployed and employed alike) is merely requires time to become fully articulate. give an account every month, particu of the sturm Abteilungen (shock brig a Soviet Germany possible. in which can only be understood against its his the first step in the process that wil Under these conditions, the period larly on the state of its readers in the ades) live in armories, kept and Atted proves that the possibilities for mutoric background. Considered as a thing render the socially unnecessary workwhen the working class mustered under local groups. These reports are given out by the Nazzis. Very significant too, tual economic work between Germany the banner of the Labour Party, with its in terms understandable to all and kept was one of the remarks of an arrested and Russia are very narrow. This sub Ingless as would be a single algebrate que 18 now transparently clear. If the hourgeois outlook and evolutionary on tle. trunk full of these files was Naxxl before the bench: We wanted to ject has called forth a bug discussion in formula deprived of its correlative fac capitalets are shown in the light of and an epoch of revolution is already thon in the haste, and no measures hay and with gold, who parade along the ecutive of the It has been recog socialism, 18 doomed to a speedy end, probably carried off during the occupa show the Jews, covered with diamonds the factories. At the sessions of the Extor. The problem of Britain are pro Marxian science to be a sotally blems that halatory bas placed on the or necessary class, it to clear that the button two things are indispensable. entrusted Just to anyone at random. in Germany who actually suffer from are not capable of giving an answer to the rising above its ruins. For that reving been provided for such a case, it was Kurfuerstendamm, that there are people nized for a fact that the party members an order are not to be arbitrarily check (In, at any rate, anything like its pro militancy and ed or swept back by the broom of the sent dimensions) locompatible with there, and grows rapidly of that there bring the trunk back, it could not be that is revolu After the evacuation of the Karl Lleb: hunger.
tionary to the enhe militancy is knecht House, when they wanted to An oppositionist member of the party.
bourgeois Mrs. Partingtona. former ultra leftist, a capitulationist who has been entrusted with a post, says The Industrial Revolution created new conditions in Britain, Ita classical home tain, the classical a paradite tontier party is lacking, and the time is short celved, it was in this manner that the opposition groups in Moscow are dead. weak. The work rests on the shoulders this fact is most of all evident in But can be no doubt whatsoevers. Only the found. According to intormation were who lives in Moscow, said that all the that the organizational system is very To serve its newly acquired world mar whose World Empire has gone but whose ket, British capitalism brought into or swollen slave class yet rontains.
It, as Disraeli once said, adventures P, got into possession of the exact The only Opposition that exists ideol. of a few. The majority of the mem Rre to the adventurous. It is no leer data on the party press. great part, ogically les, although to true that revolutions can only succeed of the Rote Fahne, the Abend says, and organizationally are the bership does not participate actively.
istence a population of wage slaves far British Situation Is Beyond Refon in excess of its domestic Capacity to 11, and when they are led by revolu. fgoes to Russia and hundreds of coples with them means to go to fall or to be even they are only seen on parade sympathize Even the majority of the functionaries maintain on even the barest subalatonbe mere mechanical and then than to that of the general strike of 1920, Bri trade representation and other organizaselt, according to his statement, agrees problem of replacing the prescribed Viewed from this angle, nothing couldtionaries. From the era of Wat Tyler to are read by the Russian embassy, the sent to the deportation camps. He him (hig meetings, etc. For instance, the ered to its fathers and the world bore isolato the crisis both from what pretish history affords examples to show tions close to the party.
with the Left Opposition 98. But newspapers by mimeographed sheets has of the past, to in the British bourgeoiste finds itself faerd after it. The present attack on the leaders fear Wictory more than defeat: formation we have received from a well count these are probably the two Berlin, september 31, 1931 enatore to its previous rigantic action and with an Imperialist bourgeoisia problem in England, all the ingredients situated comrade, the Rote Fahne has that include the isolators. The markets have gone but the work notoriously, appetite comes with eat are there except one: the most essential 18, 873 subscribers and sells only from to 6, 000 coples besides, which shows ing clase remains! The problem Ing. The British working class is not, of all the party that is not afraid both great decrease with relation to the letter from a village on the Baltic.
British Impenalism, today, is to ro therefore, fighting merely for trade to think and fight out the problems of Here is the informtalon of the Abend During my vacations, which spent Annual Dance to their revoluduco ita population in proportion to the son standarda.
It is, ultimately. Agt the British proletadsh revolution which has been confirmed entirely by in my native village on the Baltic coast.
rapid loss of its markets. How the ing for bare existence. And the savetionary end.
18the comrade mentioned above. noticed that the big landlord of the can be done without rlot, Ineurrection, the mark, is the time that the mandarins now attaining dramatie proportions; The second week in November marks There of the deem fit and proper but it is a drama without centre; are several hundred local locality allowed this fields to le idle.
And, altimately, civil war; that is the the third anniversary of the issuance of The Mutant, official organ of the Comquation of the day to the Britle for the slogan of a workers charter and Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark, groups, says the Abend, that do not He had no money to buy seeds. Natur All the problems of the have in their ranks a single reader of ally, he is a national socialist. He can munist League of America (Opposition. ruling clase.
Taken in its broadest sense Issue were left to reformism, the only British revolution are now reduced to the Communist press, mainly in the folo ko papel de poultry Vand and het: The first issue of the paper found in history, unlike the blatorlan, nero working. clans are likely to get is and concession that the members of the this single problem. Without the lead lowing regions. of a mass party, revolutionary energy Munich 62 groups without a render about 200 inhabitants and serves as a day our ranks have grown to more than them crow of hunger. It is a village of and just a very few sympathizers. To nardow) the presenteres is werely stake in the country large enough to will dissipate itself in abortive and Nuremburg 44 Pomeranta 34 scattered riots. The problem of the residential section for small employees. ten times that number.
that the World Banker London, u contain their coffins Koenigsburg 34 This year, the railroad has issued a followed London, the commercial metre We are still a small group. But the It is clear that the situation has now revolution now; simply and solely, Dresden 33 thousand tickets less for this station polls, into limbo: the British bourgogot beyond reform. It no accident the problem of a party. RIDLEY. Essen 26 than last year. However, the conditions force of our ideas, the correctness of our obsle has lost no time in reminding the that there is a simultaneous collapse of British working class that it must 20 the bourgeois reformist Liberal Party as well as others. in Brandenburg, the of the unemployed agricultural workers policies in given situations, and our domain of the Rote Fahne Stect the are not very bad at present. They re eriticisms of the official parts are penelonger remain on the stage now that it and the working class reformlet Labour raison etre, the world market, 15 Party whose policy s, in any case, mere greatest figure of all is attained with 154 celve some relief, and they get little trating dally into the rank and file of groups without a reader. This says the jobs that cannot be submitted to control the party members and the Left wing thing of the past. The concertod attack ly the cast of clothes of liberalism. It Marxism Abend Is taken from a report to central there are also a few opportunities for workers who are willing to read and think for themselves. The recent banon the whole working class. unom is Socialism or starvation, Communium Instructor: Arne Swabeck organs of the party. Six months ago. them.
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