PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931 FORCLARITY AND ACTION Hail The Russian Revolution. EDITORIAL NOTES Activities in the Ranks of the Opposition of. Young Spartacus» to Appeal to Membership of Three leading members in the Chic, Opposition is keenly felt. An organ that a world wde campagn for the extension Congresses of the Communist Interna(Continued from page 1)
During the period of Lenin life four AMTER WILL GET YOUR ences, forums and other places where the ago District of the Young Communist would reflect these developments from of large and long term credits to the tional took place, as follows: First ConMONEY BACK!
The New York municipal election Fend there the ideas of Marxism on con organization. All three comrades, Nor advice and criticism, point out the nec Stalin and his stupid lackeys branded Third Congress 1321: Fourth Congress campaign of the Communist Party has crete issues of the class struggle. Andman Satir, Ruth Andras, and Nathan essary steps, and finally guide them into. 19:29. Tenin death followed in Janu.
not been without its funny vide, even with a growing response. The Oppost, Gould pure for members are the best on. Maar het text helt that the communiary. It conflicted with the theory of ary 19124 and the Fifth Congress was in the joke has been at of Bureau. They were betion, is the next link Communism. This 1924; four years cluped between the cause of the sharp criticism they levwas to be expected encounter.
ist League of America must forge in its socialist in one country.
The Conditions in the Factories Fifth and Sixth Congress of the with Israel Amter as the head of the Wherever we have forces they are ou elled at the character of the regime that chain of steady progress. Our Young ticket. Amter is the candidate for borol the offensive, and their confidence grows prevails in the In essence it Spartacus must become a powerful in It is axiomatic from a revolutionary and there is not yet a word about a in 1928; three years bave since passed president of Manhattan. If he is not every time they pit the platform of the was an attack on the strangulating burstrument for the intensifications of the standpoint and the aspect of the develop seventh Congress. Thus loudly. but struggle against bureaucracy in the ment of workers control, that for every elected it will not be because he dla Marxist wing against Centrist empirie eaucratism in the not try not because he stopped short of ism, whether it be in general discus The action of these comrades must be and for genuine Marxist education, Increase in the productivity of labor in without words shouts stalin his con extravagant promises. The revolutionary son of principles or in the considera hailed as a progressive sign and a re The Young Vanguard, even were it to the Soviet Union, there must result an Here we will only mention that Stalinapproximately corresponding increase in ism, carried over into many other coun Marxists have always regarded elections tion of tactics in a single action. In this awakening iny the ranks of the appear with unfailing regularity in the standard of living of the workers tries, as in Great Britain, hoped to jump as an opportunity for revolutionary pro conflict of ideas which is at the bottom When it is recalled that practically the Milltant could not possibly have that wpthe paganda Amter has been demonstrating of the factional division in the Commun: one form of expression of dissatisfac peal for young Communists that a sep their wages, working conditions, etc over the inevitable step of the develop how they can also be utilized for the ist movement, even the youngest and tion in the for the past period arate opposition youth paper would un The industrial proletariat particularly most vulgar reformist vote catching. We most inexperienced representatives of the has been an ever accelerated turn over doubtedly have. The appearance of the carriers of the future hopes of bothus helped to carry out the engling ment of a British Communist Party, and are well enough acquainted with the typl Opposition have an incalculable advan in membership, then this latest manifes. Young Spartacus will unquestionably manity, must participate in every sain of the British proletariat and Party cal American bourgeols politician, among tage. The appalling ideological socialists can be in of the Centrist leaders is demony tation is indeed insignificant. It proves arouse widespread interest the ranks that the Stalinist bureaucrats cannot of the It will immediately pose whom the remise the voters anything on every occasion.
But under Stalin, there has been by through the actions of the now dead, rob all the young Communiss of a sense in the minds of numerous mem and large a policy of production for the tee. And the manner in which Stalinism cluded, who but unlamented Anglo Russian Commitand everything. It is a strange role for The whole district apparatus of the of self reliance and capacity to think, bers the fundamental questions that sepsake of production, a false concept of aided by Mensheviks Communists, however, and not an edity. in New York haul to be brought though they may clothe themselves in arate the Left Opposition ideologically socialist construction productivity has helped to strangle for years to come the ing one.
The Dally Worker of October 27th reyoung Oppositionists whose questions usurp the traditions of the October rev tions. For the first time young com class: that is a damning indictment of low che Beratung Need we mention ports the appearance of our candidate at and arguments regarding the policy in olution.
a meeting of depositors of the Bank the Mooney campaign they could not rades who hitherto have been oblivous to Stalinist practices. The regime within how the Communist International for An interesting aspect of this latest re these burning issues, and have followed the shombas deteriorated adore this Revolution, still in mighty motion, who are still whistling for their money answer. The open forum conducted by volt against the bureaucratte regime is in blind faith the decrees handed down less, control, must be vested in the might hurt the preservation of the pace ing great ovation was given Amter enlivened lately by the participation of grounds. It does not assail the policies these problems, and will want to know mittees, their unions. Instead, man tion and close instead was of Europe: forgot the cause of revoluwhen he was introduced says there. Trotskyites who have gained ground in of the Party, it is not organisationally more about them.
agers, trade union officials and state and reed of peace hy agreement with caplport. And the Jubilation of his hearers every discussion. It is true that the related to any group in the Party, nor Our Young Spartacus must become a party bureaucrats increase their domin talism, of collaboration peacefully of ation over the workers. Dissatisfaction ing his speech he was loudly applaud bureaucrats revenged themselves by set. does it connect itself ideologically with ed. If these cheers were for Coming hooligans upon the young Marxists any Party current, as for example, the positive factor in saving for the Com naturally arises with this non proletarian the Soviet and capitalist world. Litvinolt)
munism one could only be glad. But to beat them up as they left the meet Left Opposition. While this demonstrates munist movement Soviet Russia. the Fortress of this, unfortunately, was not the case.
ing last Sunday But that is a poor re the vitality of the Communist youth and young workers who are lost in the as polley: workers shift from sob to job.
discipline become weakened, which the World Revolution The depositors had something far more compense. The Communist workers will auguns well for the future the ability tounding turn over in the y. Our hoping for betterment: shop control and immediate in mind when they shouted know how to SS judgement on this of the youth on its own initiative to fight paper will explain to them the causes for stalinist bureaucracy thinks can be over Despite all, Soviet Russia remains the for the standard bearer of the revolution form of debate. The political line is for correct regime it at the time re their unfavorable reaction to the life come by decree. principle of Com fortress of the world revolution, it preIf this reof the and show them the way munist management and workers con lude. The Russian Revonltion still is Rry party. They were simply excited a stronger than the hooligan list and veals a profound weakous present which will lead to a Leninist regime introl is involved in these prevailing Stal powerful in its own right despite Stalvolt were not to transcend the prospect of the recovery of their will prevail over it.
inist methods in the Soviet Union. inism. The fundamentals remain which lost deposits, and were hailing the man What is needed to lasten this victory stage, it would merely dissipate itself. the But in order to transform our good In the field of foreign policy, there the second party and fourth international who dangled this prospect before them. is an intensification of the political al and lose the real value it could contriplans into better reality, we must have has been a wide departure from the advocates fail to see The prevailing The report in the Daily Worker quotes tivity of the Opposition, as was indicat bute to the Communist movement.
the assistance of all those advanced carly days of Lenin, Trotsky and Chich property relations are the socialized and We Must Reach Amter as saying: The Communist Party ed by the National Conference, the first Communists who realize the significance erin. It is indeed a long journey from nationalized means of production and pledges to you that if be elected in fruitful results of which have already It is particularly when faced with of our project. We are confident that that period to the diplomacy of Stalin distribution; the monopoly of foreign use all my official power as boro prest been recorded. These activities and resuch developments that the unpostpon their response will be commensurate and Litvinoff who finds it possible on trade by the State remains as a bulwark, dent to organize all the 400, 000 workers sults demonstrate that the adherents of able need for a youth paper of the Left with their understanding behalf of the Soviet Union, to sign the The Proletarian Dictatorship stands; Kellogg Pact of the imperialists and to Soviet Russia is a WORKERS GOV.
fight to get their money back. Such are to conduct the political struggle. This justify this non revolutionary action on ERNMENT. The education of the inassthe campaign argements Stalinist is not a secret art. It consists primar.
the ground that the Kellogg Pact en es, the militancy and achievements of Communism.
ily in the assimilation of scientifie Marx forces moral (sic. obligations on the the workers and Bolsheviks during alt With all due respect to the intentions ist ideas and the intransigeant defense We have mentioned in a previous is Sheckett, Boston capitalist powers who also signed it. the years of the Russian Revoultion, of the candidate, we do not think he of them. The Opposition is armed with sue our intention of organizing a group Joseph Carter, New York The Changes in the Communist Party bave planted deep the roots of revolucould make good with this promise even an invincible platform which has been of active Militant builders. This is now Capelis, New York In the Communist Party of the Soviet tionary practice and the doctrines of 11 he is elected boro president. We go verified in every concrete question by the taking form and has already some reUnion there have Shulman, New York been tremendous Marx, Engels, Lenin. Trotsky. On an further and say such promises should test of experience. It is this fact which sults to show. We named already in Kent, New York changes, which too) on the speed of a international scale, in varying degrees, not be made by a Communist in any case, gives the Opposition fighters such unour announcement some comrades upon locomotive with the expulsion of Leon this is true also. Therefore, the InterIt would be far better and certainly for bounded contidence and assures them an live Sylvia Bleeker, New York Trotsky and the Left Opposition from national still lives and the Opposition more in keeping with the elementary increasing influence in the ranks of the whom werelled to make this a item. This depends entirely upon their Jack Carmody, New York the Party. The Party, in a fundamental calls for the policy of the regeneration conceptions of communism to ex proletarian vanguard in proportion to Plarinos, Youngstown, activities. We have heard directly only sense, is non existent it is melted into and reform of the Communist arties plain to the depositors that the ex their activity and agressiveness in ex from two of these comrades mentioned Brayer, Cleveland the masses by the method of mass infil. and the Communist International The propriation of small owners by banky pounding the platform.
by name. Meanwhile a number of others Sheckett, Boston tration into the party hy whole factories, Opposition and its ideas live and will swindles is just as much a part of the have already inade their application and Iedlund, Minneapolis etc. The actual role of the Party as conquer. The HERITAGE OF THE capitalist system as their ruin by combecome accepted in the group.
the lealer of the masses is vitiated by RUSSPAN OCTOBER STILL REMAINS.
Leon Goodman, Phila petition, and that salvation lies in the THE MILITANT The qualifications for membership are the bureaucratie control of the Stalin. It is for us to be dedicated to the task revolutionary overthrow of the regime CLASSES BEGIN very simple. Just hustling for Militant ist apparutus which tolerates no critle of preserving that and not in the promises of a city official Published weekly by the Communist subs and in this manner building the heritage and inThe class in the Fundamentals ofism or program other than its own. Thus, creasing its wealth Stalinism destroy to halt normal processes and restore League of America Opposition circulation to make the Left Opposition Communism. conducted by comrade the proletarian dictatorship still exists, but Leninism rebuilds agalu and again that which existed yesterday.
at 84 East 10th St. organ a much more powerful medium, Martin Abern has begun, and classes are but Stalinism 1s eating at its roots and on a higher plane.
Communism is the doctrine of the a much more powerful organizer for our held each Monday evening at the hear its heart, the Party.
socialization of property, including the EDITORIAL BOARD The Platform of the Opposition And movement. This includes also the secur quarters of New York Branch of the The Stalinist polley is the policy of banks. The small proprietor cugrossed Martin Abern the Future James Cannoning of renewals for the expired subscrip Communist League (Opposition. 84 Isolation for the Soviet Union, an underwith his little store, his little farm or Maurice Spectortions. We are sure we have many com 10th Street. There is still opportunity estimation of the role of a Communist slan Opposition, we say, even as it was With comrade Trotsky and the Rue his little bank deposit is not a Commun. Max Shachtman rades ready and willing to take up this to enroll before the next class, after Party and the Communist International. said to the Stalinist Central Committee ist. He can become one only insofar as Arne Swabeck work.
wbich registration for this class is closed. With the acceptance and espousal of the on October 23, 1927 he comprehends the hopelessness of the contest with centralized capital and ad November 28, 1928 at the Post Office at Entered as second class mail matter, We list under this heading only such The class in Marxism to be con anti Marxian theory of socialism in one We stand at the helm of Bolshevism.
opts the property viewpoint of the pro New York, Under the act of by the efforts of our comrades, not those Monday, November Prospective stu In the Soviet Union, but throughout the are going to hold it true. Yon will not new subscriptions and renewals secured ducted by Arne Swabeck will begin on country. It was inevitable that not only You will not tear us away from it. We letariat. Communist propaganda among March 3, 1879.
readers who on their own initiative dents should send in their names at social democratic theories would cut us off from the party. You will not the members of these doomed classes Vol. IV, No. 30 (Whole No. 89)
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931 cut us off from the working class. We Such events as the bank failure create During the last two weeks the follow STUDY GROUP The Development of National are familiar with repressions. We are favorable opportunities for its reception. Subscription rate: 00 per year; for ing comrades have results to show for study class in the Fundamentals of Socialism accustomed to blows. We will not surTherein lies their chlet value to the reveigh 50. Five cents per mops. their efforts by way of actual subscripCommunism, composed mostly of yonng Theory has no boundary lines, Even render the October Revolution to the pol olutionists.
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workers, is being conducted by the as the Left Opposition warned, nationalities of Stalin the entire essence of The Stalinists, who stand everything Philadelphia Branch of the Communist socialism developed among the Commun which is contained in these few words: on its head, made an excepLeague of (Parties Repression of the nucleus, endeavors to mobilize the petty bourge.
327 So. 11th St. Philadelphia, Pa. The of all countries, the oisie for the election they do not stop (Contiued from page 3) on May 21 22 of 18 comrades, one of CHICAGO CLASSES one country became Internationalized. world bourgeoisie.
at holding out to the samll owner the uullised owing to the absence of a Com whom is a member of the standing comA class in the Fundamentals of Com. With it, to mention but this major cause, Illusion of security in his possessions. munist party. The ferment is so deep wittee another important Opposition munism is being conducted by comrade there followed the decline of the Com the table of the Party. The proletariat The platform of the Opposition is on Thuesit even promise to restore that which and strong that not only the lower see worker was arrested on August 16th. Charles Curtiss on Thursday evenings munist parties. The War Danger and ininks slowly, but it thinks strong.
has already been taken away. And this, tions of the Kuo Miu Tang are more Despite the blows dealt mind you, under the existing capitalist pronounced dissatisfied with the policy tion, we still march forward, publishing Branch of the Communist League (Op without relation and analysis to the with the political course, and not with regime in which the progressive exproof the clal Kuo Min Tang, not only journal organizing workers. In Shang position. 1435 No Western Ave. current situation and burning issues of the bureaucrat fist.
priation of the small owners and the is the military grip to a certain degree hat, we are organizing anti Japanese im Additional study classes are being con the day, the central slogans of the Com Your persecutions, expulsions, ar munist Parties. Lip service was given system itself. By such methods the pet great extent free to write slogans, hola Min Tang workers.
small producer proceeds by a law of the slackened so that the masses are to a perialism Sociations among the Kuo ducted by comrade Hugo Oehler in the to the fact that the best defense of the Texts, will make our platform the most Our central organ, The Spark, now also a class in the Fundamentals of Com Soviet Union and for the temporay stavment of the international workers moveform of a Marx Lenin study group, and ty bourgeois masses will not be won meeting and express views; but even in popular and the closest and clearest docuover to Communisın, but the Party itselt the Nanking government, the strong bull has been transformed from a semi month munism by comrade John Edwards at ing off of another world war was ment. Expels. You will not stop will be dragged into the petty bourgeois wark of reaction and counter revolution, ly into a weekly, unfortunately in mimeo: 1118 West Madison Ave.
swamp certain opinions are expressed against graph form. Besides, there is a local Chicago workers wishing to register struggle against one own capitalism on the victory of the Opposition the vie THE OPPOSITION ON THE the random slaughter of Communists be Shanghai semi weekly for the workers: OFFENSIVE cause they are vigorous youths, and that we are planning to start another legal in any of these classes may do so by Uring issues. The Communist Partiestory of the revolutionary unity of our party and the Communist International.
The correspondence from the beld in the Kuo Min Tang itself is guilty since and printed paper. The workers now setting in touch through the Opposition have in the main become reduced to au.
headquarters.
xHiaries for the Soviet Union. MARTIN ABERN.
recent issues of the Militant tell a it cannot put the country in order. The are beginning to move and we shall grow convincing story of the increasing ac masses need leadership. Provided with with their movement. The sustenance tivity and aggressiveness of the members correct tacties, the Comunist party would of the national movement hereafter will of the Communist League. The reports, grow rapidly.
ehiefly depend on whether the workers will actively enter the arena with antishow beyond all doubt that the system Progress and Hardships of the Japanese strikes and manifestations atle educational work, upon which our Left Opposition (We reprint here the leaflet address, open alliance with the landowners, mine, our power to obtain the reinstatement The Chinese Left Opposition, after a Despite the fact that the Stalinists con faction is grounded, is being supplesooner had tinue to slander us and call us liquida sailors on October 10th at Salonica, and militarists.
ed to and distributed among the British owners, bankers and other big capitalists of all expelled Left Communists into the mented more and more by direct partie long period of disunity.
The same dirts job is Communist Parties, pation in the life of the Left wing labor achieved unity under the leadership of tors and counter revolutionaries, the ru Greece by the comrades of the Left Op committed against the British workers Proletariat Greets Sailors Strike movement. The Oppositionists are penethe International Secretariat and coming Kuo Min Tang has a sober view upon position in Greece, the organization of the Hendersons, Maxtons and Kirk Comrader! Your strike trating into the unions and non party rade Trotsky, then the blows of the Kuous. The Stalinists fall to compromise the Bolshevik leninists After the arrest us by expulsion, the publie and the work lists. The previous Issue of The Moods who are agents of the possessing world capitalism and met with great en (Archio Marxfrightened organizations. They appear at confer Min Tang fell upon us.
classes among the British proletariat. thusiasm from the ing class recognize us as Communists, tant mentioned this distribution of an work proletariat.
just as we never fail to recognize Wang, appeal at the time of landing of the The post of these traitors is full of You, by your action, have forced the Chang Wel and Co. as Kuo Ming Tang sailors from British boats. We are ind such treacheries against the working capitalists to retreat. You have learned ists despite their expulsion by Chiang to print the entire appeal as an evidence class. In the General Strike of 1926 the from your own experiences that only Kal shek. By the expulsions, the stall of the policy of international solidarity same leaders betrayed the struggle of your organized and concerted action TO inists only weaken Communism and on behalf of the working class. Ed. the British working class, with the col secures victory. Your example revives make possible their bureaucratie self. The appeal follows: Soon laboration in this instance of the Stal the history of the Russian comrades Out preservation, inist leaders of the British Communist holsted the flag of the Revolution and THE APPEAL TO THE BRITISH In the theses of the propaganda de Party.
aided in the destruction of czarism.
partment of the of the Kuo Min SAILORS Hence, the world proletariat considers Watch For It Tang, sent to its local organizations, after To the British Sailors. When the Communist Party of Great your action as a good beginning and blow Published by the National Youth Committee, Communist League of analysing the controversy between the To the British Working Class and the Britain could have really become the against the British money bag. To America (Opposition)
Stalinists and the Trotskylsts, they reworld proletariat.
vanguard of the struggling proletariat gether with the proletariat of your coun acted in the following words to the con YOUNG SPARTACUS Oflictal organ of the Communist youth opposiand unmaskedd the treachery of the Maetry, you must accomplish the destruction tion in the United States, prints news, articles, educational material and troversy: the taeties of the Trotskylst Comrades: Donalds, Citrines, Purcells and Company of your capitalist regime, under the editorials on the economic and political situation in the United States and group towards China are more venomous month ago 12, 000 sailors of the the British Communists worked hand in leadership of the Communists and the elsewhere, particularly as related to the youth and young workers in in and dangerous than those of the Stalinist British Navy struck in protest against hand with them in the Anglo Russian International Left Communist Opposi.
dustry. It prints also the writings of Leon Trotsky and other leaders of group. After the defeat of the Stalin the attempts of British capitalism to Committee instruction from the tion, the International Left Opposition of the Communist movement.
ist tactics guerilla warfare, the Com shift the burden of the economic crisis, Communist International from which the The Greek workers are whole heartPublished Monthly 88 East 10th Street munist party will go over to the Trotsky engendered by the New York, capitalist system, best Bolshevike, among them Leon Trot edly with you.
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YOUNG SPARTACUS The Kuo Min Tang indeed knows which the unemployment dole, reducing wages. Long live the British Red October. 84 East 10th Street New York, of us is the more serious enemy. It is while the expenses for armamento, for Comrades! Today, in the whole world. Long live the Soviet Socialist Work a better answer to the Stalinist slander the preparations of a new war are con in your country also, the great workers Republic of Great Britain Enclosed please find fifty. 50) cents for one year s, subscription: than any on our own part. We hope tinually increasing.
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