PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 EDITORIAL NOTES Stalin and the Chinese Revolution Facts and Documents of tang. Its strong sides and its weak adire to the workers, rather than usklespread al militant moveinent or careerist, a participant in the Chinese role of an executioner, he wanted to in of the mines themselves inst forwarıl by the party, in tead of a cover lahor protest, which alone can save Ovents, at present one of the leaders or have the cover of world communism and the national hoursie 11 what formi, of counter Congress: and the faint hearts, would have nothing to do with Mooney. He was charged with dynamiting, and they fled in terror from the issue.
It remained for a mere handful of radicals to organize and lead the fight.
The others followed, but they did not THE DOWNFALL OF THE official policy. They are again leginning come in time. It Mooney escape from VOLKSZEITUNG in cautious, Murreptitious buck door the gallows was due to the handful of The Chinese Revolution of 1925 1927 advance the revolution with seven league, humor, it is at any rate not arbitrary, the editorship of the New York Volks. Opposition. We hear more and more talk the world and that is the indubitable history after the Revolution of 1917 in ideological and political influence of the humor is thickly colored with Shanghai zeitung unallizes the passing of the attente necessity of credits to the Nov fact then the delay, organizing History Over the problems of the Chi Kuo Min Tang. Ibid, page 50. kreat mass movement of defense, and the nese Revolution the basic currents of bloosl.
paper from the Right fringe of the Com In this manner the task of the ComIn the New York Herald Tribune forsy footing policies later introduced Communism came to clash. The present intern consisted not in liberating the mimist movenient to the camp of social The Strategy of Lenin and the democracy. br. Lipshity, the new editor. December 11th there appeared a letter into it, were and remain responsible for official leader of the Comintern, Stalin. workers sind peasants from the intence Strategy of Stalin comes from the German Social Democar from the Fricuds of the Soviet Union his long imprisonment, What tasks did Lenin pone before the the larly and wex his election to the signed by the national secretary, Marcel We face the same developments and has shown himself in full stature in the of the bourgeoisie, but, on the contrary. Comintern in relation to the Intekward triumph of the Right wing socialist ele Scherer. Among other things it says the the same dangers in the case Soder events on the Chinese Revolution. The subordinating them to their influence ments in the cooperative association following: berg, Bunker, and Trajer the union which was the pur. The new policy The Friends of the Soviet Union to workers who have been selected as the nese Itevolution are dispersed, scattered, Chiang Kai Shek. armed by Stalin, march. The necexsity of a decisive structe of the Volkszeitung reflects the decisive day are working for the immediate recox victims in the New York dynamite have been forgotten, some are carefully ed, at the head of the workers and pen against the repainting of the bourgeois sants subordinated to him, with seven democratic liberation currents in the change. Tall atul ball Communism which nition of the Soviet government by the plot. They are no longer leverteu anu On these pages we want to reproduce league boots towards. the Shanghai backward countries into the color of in this can always prepared the United States government, free trade alone. The influence of their appeal Communism way for outriglit socialist reformism is relations and the extension of credits. Eins ground from day to day. The mill the basic stages of the Chinese Revolu cop Etat.
tion in the light of articles and speeches In executing this the Kuo Min Tung finally replaced by it. Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek This would bring vast Soviet orders to tant activity of the Defense Committee which had promised to establish in China This reactionary victory is a tragedy American factories at the rate of is putting their case on the agenda of of Stalin and his closest aids, and also After the Canton coup Etat, engineer het a bourgeoisie rexime. was mit for the paper that wike for the workers 1, 000, 000 of orders daily and would the labor movement. The blackwards Stalin. For this purpose we use genuine by Chung Kal hek in March, 1920. ted into the comintern.
over huny decades, not without reclive employment to hundreds of thou and scoundrels who attacked the help and which our pres passed in xilence, Lenin, it is understood. recognized the tiveness at times and not without honor sands of unemployed workers. Our les prisoners in the first days of their texts from our archives. We particular when the Communists were reduced to necessity of temporary alliances with the ly print the excerpts from the speech of on some crucial occasions when other emphasis. arrest who spread poisonous slanders Chitarov, a young stalinist, at the 15th the role of sorry supplements of the tourgeoix democratie movement, but he orean faltered and betrayed their trust. That argument as far as it goes is asuinst them in order to paralyze their Congress of the Communist kuo am Tag and even signed an obliga understood by this, of course, not at all arty It is likewise a tragedy for the man unassailable. The trouble with it is defense are being driven to cover. The the Soviet Twion, which were conculcation not to criticize Sun Yat Senism. linnce with the bourgeois parties de who stood at the helm and reflected in that it presents only one side of the honest and class conscious clements from the Party by state. The readers Chiang Kai Shekha remarkable detail cviving and betraying the petit borrels his own person the qualities Volkszeitung throughout those turbulent per agency and it is rected to the themselves in favor of a united movement sous significance of the testimony of Chiance of the Kuo Min Tang into the and the small city folk, but an alli of the question, it is put forward ly an impro all workers organizations are asserting will convince themselves of the tremen. Indeed started to insist on the accept revolutionary democracy (the parents years. Ludwig Lore was the Volkszei. wrong address. The slogan should be to defend the victims of the framewtarov. young stalinist functionary. comintern: in preparing himself for the ance with the organizations and groupThe greatest danger now is that the xides, its inconsistencies, its rood inten to the bourgeois press It should be put tions its frequently dubions perthe he achieved it. The Kno Min Tang. then, in Lenin visualize the alliance formances were of one piece with the organization the chief function of which them, will come too late. All in all the In order to make the facts and cita led by Chiang Kai Shek and Wu Wan with the bourgeois democracy of the cold personality of the man. The shift Control puts an end to the contradictioneerists and false friends of the Sovietl known it is a race with time. Every day lions more comprehensible, we think nmin, was accepted into the Comintern (as unie? To these, tre, le rives all answer of to provide a hunting ground for car cases which the labor movement has in the position of the paper. In the long tinion who will desert it at the first secs new forces recruited for the fight. eful to remind the readers of the Sea wympathizing party. While in the in his thesis written for the Second decisive revolutionary action in April, 1927 the change will help to clarify is sign of real danger. And it should em. But every day likewise draws us nearer quence of the most important events of preparation The Communist International could sues that have been muddled and conphasize also the need of the Soviet Un to the trial where the scales will be March 20th, 1926 the first overturn of Chiang Kai Shek at the same time took enter into temporary alliances with the fused in the German American labor ion for economic collaboration with the tipper decisively one way or the other. Chiang Kai Shek in Canton.
care to exchange portraits with Stalin. bourgeois democracy of the colonies and movement The immediate effect will be advanced capitalist countries enforced The labor movement of America has This strengthening of the ties of frierul backward Autumn of 1926 the VII enum of ship was prepared by the journey of means fuse with it and must unconditioncountries, but should by no to strengthen the reformist and reacby the demand of the workers in order) poken out loud on many occasions tionary elements.
that it may build its industry quickly against the frame up system. But all the C. with the participation of Hubner, a member of the Central Com ally retain the independence of the proThe clownfall of the Volkszeitung de and thus strengthen the economie foundatoo often this protest has been deferred Chiang Rai Shek delegate of the Kuomitter and one of Stalin agents, to letarian movement even in its most emuntil the prosecution has gained the admin Tang.
monstrates once again, by an example, tions of the workers rule.
Another Chiang Kai Shek.
April 13, 1927 the coup Etat of Bubnov journey to Canton coincided It seems that in executing the decisions detail :bryonic form.
cline ait hand, the instability and the To appeal to the workers for a sloga vantage of a conviction on perjured eri ang Kai Shek in Shanghai.
with the March coup Etat of Chiang of the Second Congress, the communist transitory nature of indietween positions of long term credits on the ground of dence. This was the case with Stooney The end of May. 1927 the counterKul shek. What about It was the case with in our time. Since the world war the their own immediate material interest and Billings, Bubnor? He many revolutionary overturn of the Left Kuo obliged the Chinese Communists to sub. Tang and the Kuo Min Tang wals Party was made to join the Kue Min issue and the choice between social de in the alleviation of unemployment Ix Sacco and Vanzetti, and all too mocracy and Communism mit and to keep quiet.
has stood quite correct. Its practicality in this others. Let us hope it will not be the Min Tung in Wuhan.
The end of May, 1927 the VIII Plen. After the Shanghai overturn, the of the regate is called Leninism.
mitted into the cominterni, 411 this in entorically. Nobody has been able to respect can be easily demonstrated. And fate of Soderber, Bunker, and Trajer.
The great task in protecting the laborum of the proclaims the duty tres of the Comintern upon Stalin or: The Government of Chiang Kai Shek stand between them or to reconcile them. such an appeal to the material interest remain wit in the er, attempted to deny that the execu.
And nobody will Loires Volkszeitung of the workers will move them faster movement from this heavy blow is to of Communists to tioner Chiang Kai Shek was still remainAs Live Refutation of The State aspired toward communism. Itut it was and fu far greater numbers, than a thou speed up the fight, to extend It on all Left Kuo Min Thung.
fronts and unite all forces. Then it August 1927 the Chinese Communisting a member of the Comintern. They Ilow the founders of the communist break with the routine, the traditions tense of the Soviet Union. But tode will be a movement for victory Instead Party proclaims a course toward an up had forgotten the rote at the political party of the Soviet lion evaluated the and the material interest that weighted velop the political implications of the of a protest against defeat.
hurenn, when all against the vote of one government of (hinn, Kalixhek one year December, 1927 the Canton insurrec (Trotsky) sanctioned the admission on after the first canton coup Etat (March it toward the Nt. The paper wax moremnt and to strengthen its internation.
the Kuo Min Tang into the Comintern. 1:120) is well nen in the public bound through the shareholling cotional spirit it is necessary to show to operative and in a hundred other ways the workers that by helping themselves February, 1928 the IX Plenum of the with a consultative voice. They had weches of the members of the Polit proclaims for China the course forgotten that at the Vil plenuni of the Bureau. With those sections of the German they are also helping the workers of the New York Open Forum toward an armed insurrection and Sor ECC. which condemned the lett Here is how Kalinin spoke in March, movement for whom socialism had long Soviet Union. This is the way to strenceased to be a doctrine of action. Their then the bonds of internationalism to NEW YORK The Soviet Union and lets.
Opposition, comrade Shao Li Dzi a de 1927 at the Most factory Coszunk July, 1028 the VI Congress of the legate from the Kuo Min Tang partici. All the classes in China, deadly conservatixing intinence was upon make the workers feel that they are the World Crisis was discussed by comComintern renounces the slogan of arm pated. Among other things the said: with the proletariat and ending with the the par all the time, paralyzing it at participating in the great comic adrade Cannon at the New York ed insurrection as a practical slogan. Comrade Chiang Kai Shek in his bourgeoisie, hnte the militarists as the every fun with contradiction and convinces of the Workers state, not merely Forum of the Communist League of Am1. The Block of Four Classes fuxion. The result was a mish masa pole watching them from the sidelines. By erica (Opposition) at the Labor Temple speech to the members of the Kuo Min puppets of foreign capitul: all the classicy to the right of allicial Communism presenting the slogan of the Opposition last Friday. Many Party members were Stalin Chinese policy was based on nexe Resolution would have been moon government the national government of Tang Party pointed out that the Chies in China equally consider the Canton and to ww Lali of social democracy. Such in its double aspect, and organizing a present and a lively question and disawock of four classes. Here is how ewivable, it it could not correctly solve the whole of China. Isvestia, March position, by its nature and by the na proletarian mass movement around it, son period ensued.
ture of our ch. can have only a the workers will begin to identify their Since Christmas and New Year eached this policy: the agrarian peasant question. What the 1927. kuo Min Tang strives for is that there Another member of the Polit Jurcan, transitory influence own welfare with the fate of the Soviet fall on Friday, the Open Forum has been Even on the tenth of April (1927)
should not be created a urgeois com tudxutak, kike a few days later it a The exceptional personality of Lore Union. This is the chief alm and the postponed for two weeks. The Forums Martynov argued in Pravda quite com ination after the nationalist revolution gathering of the street car workers. The endowed this policy with an abnormal chief value of the slogan.
will be resumed again on Friday, Janu prehensively and. altogether in Menary 8th, 1931, at P. at the Labor shevik style the correctness of the of in China, as happened in the West, as Pravda report states: endurance. But the life of the paper we see it now in all the countries, except Pausing further on the situation in was franght with continual crisis and a straightforward and Marxist manner speaker and subject will be announced in necessity of retaining the block of four the R. We are all convincem. China, comrade Rudzutak points out that final show down was inevitable. The while the workers are being deludled with a few days.
speed with which this show down came the fiction that Russia can build social classes. not to rush with the destruction that under the leadership of the Com the revolutionary government has behind intern, the Kuo Min Tang will fulfill it all the classes of China. Pravda, after the retirement of Lore from the ism alone without any ontside help. 16 CHINA SILK INDUSTRY STAGNANT Workers are in session together with the its historic task. Russian Minutes Vol. Marc. 1927.
Hlitor hip shows how shaky was the polis this harmful fiction that stands in SHANGHAI. Fenprecor. The silk big hourgeoisie, not to hang on to them page 150)
Voroshilov spoke in the same spirit itical foundation of the paper. In these the way of a genuine application of the filature industry here remains in a con. prematurely Socialist task (Socialist This is how matters stood at the VII more than once, events the similar dioom of other political slogan and the organization of a great dition of chronic stagnation. Of 106 fichesky vestnick No April 1997. mennm in the Autumn of 1926. After Truly in vain di tenint clear the movements of the same kind is for international movement around it. That Alatures in this cits, which is the main page sludowed. The left socialists (such is why it is sneaked in, distorted and contre of the Chinn industry. only 25 What did the policy of coalition with the member of the Comintern, comrade Marxian theory of the State from the Chiang Kai Shek. who had promised to petit bourgeois arbage. The epigones as the Musteitos) and the Right Com. then promulgated in a polite letter to employing less than 10, 000 workers, are the bourgeoisie look like? Let us bring solve the tasks under the leadership succeeded in a short time to cover it munists (such as the Lovestone faction which in different degrees and under stitute organization which ont of fri others having suspended operations.
the bourgeois press by a worthless sub functioning at the present time, all an excerpt from the communist Inter of the Comintern, solvel only one: pre with twice as much refuse.
somewhat different circumstances re endship for the Soviet Union ought to national. theoretical organ Ed. cisely the task of a bloody crushing of Buen on April. Stalin spoke in the Nearly 50, 000 Alature workers are un peat the experience of the Volkszeitung le abolisheit.
of the of Columns in defense On the fifth of January 1927, the the revolution, the VIII plenum, in May. Hall are marching towards the same fate.
employed and suffering frent hardships. Canton government made public a new 1927, declared in the resolution on the Communists temaining in the Party of But that is the way they do things. The China silk industry has been effec Inw on strikes, in which the workers are Chinese question: Chiang Kal hek, amil what more, he The midille ground between Communism That is the way they play with the great tively throttled by Japanese competition prohibited from carrying weapons at de and social democracy is quicksal. The EC states that the events denied the danger of betrayal on the part The personal defeat of Ludwig Lore economie collaboration slogans. But in spite of that the slogan of and the boycott has afforded no relief monstrations, from arresting merchants fully justified the programs of the VII of his ally: Koralin Ion guard! The in the rain of the per which was his credits corresponds to reality. Its time and long term and industrialists, from confisenting their enlarged plenum. Russian edition, overturn ocured exactly the week later.
Young Spartacus can be purchased at commodities, and which extablishes Inge 219. TROVINKY.
life is sad to contemplate. Among Comliness grows more obvious with every all newsstands, mokstores, meetings, etc. compulsory arbitration for (o le contime a series of Justified, and even in full! If this is munist, for whom political consilera, accentuation of the unemployment sit where The Militant is now sold. If you conflicts. This Inw contains paragraphs tions are the decisive criterion, personal untion in the capitalist countries and are unable to get a copy at these pinces imiting the interests of the workers.
relations play a hurt that is necessarily the increasing SECOND ISSUE OF YOUNG But along with these paragraphs there Bubordinate. In that sense and tor that economy, which arise in part from the write to Young Spartacus, 84 East 10th are others, which limit the freedom of SPARTACUS IS OUT reason we do not speak here as a friend workel economie The second, the January, issue of strikes more than is required by the YOUNG SPARTACUS is out. It contains BOOKS BY We went part of the way together, but for that reason it will make its way crisis of capitalism. Street, New York, interests of defence during a Revolution many interesting articles and educational our faiths were not the shine. In re through all machinations. The Coun.
ary war. Communist International cent years they diverged more and more.
1But for all that we never lost a regard must and will become one of the Interter revolutionary slogan of Trotskyism 1927, No. 82. page 11. features that are of value not only to for the admirable personal qualities of national slogans of the Communist workIn the rope placed upon the workers the Communist youth, but also to the the man. Among the people who have ere.
by the bourgeoisie the threads para adult in the movement. There is a re graphs. favorable to the workers are Trotsky at the time of the death print of the historie words of Leon atequired prominence in the revolutionary traced. The shortcoming of the nose Lenin, Farewell lyiteb. an article by of THE STRATEGY OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION labor movement of our day he has been is in the fact that it is tightened more distinguished by an integrity and dignity 86 pages, two colored paper cover, 250 than is required by the interests of de George Kay on the student role in the Introduction by Max Nhachtman that is all too uncommon. He was not RACE WITH TIME fence (of the Chinese bourgeoisie. Communist movement. The article by one of the oflice loys who take onders, Police frame ups are an integral part The Minneapolis Branch of the Con Lenin, Liebknecht, This is written in the central organ of Joseph Carter, on THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF THE not one of the camps who slander for of American labor history, as every munist League of America (Opposition)
COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Throughout the numerous is conducting an Open Foram each Sun the Comintern. Who writes! Martynor. Luxemberg stresses the determination Criticism of Fundamentals When does he write it? On the 25th displayed by these revolutionary leaders In his rebellion against the regime which repititions of this phase of the class day afternoon at PMmehat athe news of February, six weeks prior to the line continuing the stormekle eine snite are Introduction by Camon elevate this canaille Lore showed the struggle the same general pattern has headquarters of the Branch as well as Shanghal blood bath.
1440 pages, hard paper cover, character of the fighters will appeared nain and again. This applies general public meeting room manera times had and as the Left Opposition THE SPANISH REVOLUTION that neht we had common ground with both to the prosecutions and the defense the Spanish Revolution, the Manchurian The Perspectives of the Revolution is now doing. Also this issue contains 100 him. It was his failure to bring the movements against them. The present According to Stalin 30 pages, paper cover. Lenin will the statement of lenin 4. THE SPANISH REVOLUTION IN right political weapons to the fight that of the New York Marine workers, Situation and other subjects.
How did Stalin evaluate the perspectill hidden from the Russian Communist marked off he course from ours. And in all of its aspects, presents more and DANGER Among the lectures arranged for forth lives of the revolution led by his ally arty by Stalin. On current events.
64 pages, paper cover, 150 from this also arises his present political more the old familiar picture. It struck coming weeks at the Minneapolis Forum Chiang Kai Shek? Here are the least there appears an article on the Marine lefeat.
the movement like a bombshell. In the are the following: scandalous of the declarations of Stalin Workers Defense and a statement by THE REAL SITUATION IN RUSSIA first days of pinie the frame up kang All meetings, unless otherwise men (the most scandalous were not publish one of the young defendants, William Introduction by Max Eastman seemed to have everything their own tioned are at P. Trajer. Many other interesting features 364 page book, formerly 000; HOW 00 HOW THEY PLAY WITH THE way. Then a defense movement began; Sunday, January 3rd, 1932: Debate The revolutionary armies in China are to be found in this number. MY LIFE (Autoblograhy)
GREAT SLOGANS it ninel momentum. and now it forces Will Farmer Labor Party Emanel (that is, the armies of Chiang Kai Shek) The first issue was well received and 600 juges, 00 grow from day to day. But the scales pate the Workers? Spenker for the Com are the most important factor in the widely circulated. Already the effects The slogans of the Opposition travel are still weighted heavily on the side inunist League, Vincent Dunne: struggle of the Chinese workers a uniform course in the Communist In of the frame up conspirators of the rur speakers to be announced.
and of the issuance of a Left Oppositiouſ COMMUNISM AND SYNDICALISM The Trade Union Question peasants for their liberation. For ternational. First they are denounced as ing class. The question who will pre the youth paper can be seen, not the least advancement of the Cantonese Introduction ly Cannon means of which is the beginnings of a study counter revolutionary: then they are vall? remains undecided Sunday, January 10, 1932: Tom a blow at imperinlism, a blow at its corner in the Young Worker. YOUNG G4 pages, paper cover lic smuggled into the official policy in mutilated form ani misapplied. This is haphave seen Mooney and the American Frame Up agents in China, and the treetom op SPARTACUS will continue to appear re PROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT In all this there is nothing new. We System; Speaker: Carl Cowl.
assembly, freedom of press, freedom of sularly. Copies of the first and second fore in almost every pening now to the slogan advanced near Metall. Bven the slowness of the gen ism: What Next. Speaker: Vlucent ments in China in general, for the work.
Sunday, January 17, 1932: Imperial organization for all revolutiounry ele numbers can be obtained by writing to pages, paper cover, 1:16 ly two years ago by comrade Trotskyeral labor publie to recognize that it is Dunne.
YOUNG SPARTACUS SINCE LENIN DIED for economie collaboration between the not a criminal case. but a direct blow Sunday, January 24, 1932. DEBATE: tives of the Chinese Revolution page ers in particular. On the Perspec84 East 10th Street, capitalist countries and the Soviet Union at the organized labor movement, has Evolution or Revolution. Speakers: 46. By Max Tastman New York, and the extension of long term credits many historie precedents.
158 page book, printed in London, 1994 great deal of Ink wnn spilled in de Communist League and Socialist Party The army of Chiang Kai Shek is the The working men have no country, In a chapter of Emma Goldman 1 to be announced.
Special Rates in Bundles of or more.
monstrating the counter revolutionary autobiography she recounts the early army of workers and peasants. It car. We cannot take from them what they nature of this slogan. It was uniled on history of the Moones case a story that posed Sunday, January 31, 1932: The Pro ries freedom for the whole population have not got. Since the proletariat must Order through Rallroad Wage more than one occasion as the final proofs familiar to old timers in the militant Speaker: Hedlund.
Reductions. for the workers in particular first of all acquire political supremacy, PIONEER PUBLISHERS of the complete renegacy of the Trot labor movement, but probably new to All these lectures and debates will be revolution? Little: What is needed for the success of the must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute Itselt the nation, 84 East 10th Street, skyites. Now things are beginning to many. In the first and most critical held at the Workers Open Forum, 1530 The student youth (the revolutionary it is, so far, itselt national, thongh not loak a little different. The logic of the days the official labor movement, the con Fast Franklin Ave. Minneapolis, Minn, students. the working youth, the peaNew York, situation has again collided with the servatives, the respectables, the liberals in the bourgeois sense of the word.
The Admission is fr sant youth all this is a force that can Communist Manifesto.
Leon Trotsky Attention. Minneapolis Open Forum 10 ad. all Gec