Stalinists Split Trade Unions in Spain Bolshevik Leninists Head mata por democrata, demand the French Opposition the most part belong to the federation, German Campaign Miners Strike in Belgium com.
created the of slander PAGL THE MILITANT SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932 them for the unification of the trade Now, when the bourgeoisie, with the union forces in the only possible manner, that is, by bringing the autonomous un heads of the active elements, who for lons into the the class struggle trade union center) and by fighting of the Chevaliers du Travail (miners)
that all the expelled militants, whether the socialists are coming out of their Third Center Formed expelled through the sectarianism of the collars. They are returning to the strik Bureaucrats Resort to Violence anarchists or through the adventurous ers and are attempting to get the workWe reproduce below extracts from polley carried on by the official ers under their control. They are makAfter months of intense agitation by the circular Isued by our Spanish be readmitted Left Oppositionists on the Charleroi Firing Line! ing parliamentary maneuvers with the our French comrades inside and outside comrudes relative to the creation in The Executive Committee of the Spanbourgeoisie, achieving only wretched of the Communist Party of France, and Spain of a third trade union center.
ish Communist Left knows that in the means prohibition of all demonstrations, promises, which in the last analysis can under pressure of the events themselves Comrades: future the struggle Inside the trade un Bulletin: of gatherings of more than five persons, change nothing in the situation of the as well as the alarm of the party mem.
be Against the will of the existing trade ions will become sharper and will Our herole comrades Lesoll, Huet of all vehicular trafie. In spite of the roletariat. Above all, they are attempt bership, the stalinist bureaucrats in Paris Vanderborght, Henin and Lebrun are police apparatus, equipped with machine ing to instigate the strikers to return to were forevd to call a meeting on the union centers, against the will of the made even more difficult and painful, Spunish workers, against the interests precisely because of the state of split of languishing in the Jails of Belgian kuns and supported by the military, the work. It still remains to be seen what situation in Germany at the Salle Bulproletariat declared its will to demon the workers will do alwut these new lier of the Spanish proletariat and even which we have been speaking. The capitalism. Mad with fury over the strate. But unfortunately, the provoca proponit of capitulation which are being the strike, the bourgeoisie success agalust the very interests the trade un stalinist elements bear the principal re The French Taft Opwition immediatetions of the police did not permit this made by the three big partics, is seeking vengeance, in an attempt to the ly welcomed this important step and an ion unity of the Spanish working class wponsibility in this question insofar as to go on very long. And soon fierce bat. Catholics, the Liberals and the Socialists. nounced ly placards all over the city. Just as we foresuw and forowaruod they have contributed more than anything embroil our comrades in one of its infamous conspiracy trials.
tles ensued, barricades and little forts But these are only plasters on a wood tlut representatives of the Opisition the criminal act bus been perpetrated of else to exhaust all spirits and all of creating a third trade union center, forts, especially within the were erated against the armed forces. en leg which will break again and once would be on hand to present the LuinBut they will not stop our advance.
which will even more divide the forces The working class must be aroused Everywhere, our Opposition comrades more reveal the really deep contradicit point of view.
The meetings of the Left Opposition stood at the head of the struggle.
are packed to the doors. The circutions of a regime which can never satisfy on the date of the meeting, July 28.
of the Spanish proletariat precisely at against the maneuvers of those who The socialist lenders of the trade in the demands of the working class. our comrades took their places in the the moment when it is more necessary place above the Interests of the prole lation of our Belgian paper, La Voix than ever to achieve the unification of tarian organizations the interests of their Communite, has been quadrupled. ions had shut themselves in, in their The winds is our sails and although hall. Immediately upon cutering, they The Left Opposition which has show Maisons du Peuple, their citadels, in we have momentarily been weakened by were intimidated by the bureaucrat all workers. The Stalinist bureaucracy jobs and servile obedience to those who has realized its arbitrary aim.
hand out the pay. fratricidal strugfear of the wrath of the thousands of the many arrests, our activity will go Reynaud, who called out to our ed its ability to create the united workers who wanted to confront their on as always. We are counting upon rades in his wrath. front of the striking workers is on It will be said that the Conference of gle is being started in the trade unions.
leaders. Even Vandervelde could not a serious strengthening of our group You had better make sure you re Madrid has been an enormous success. In order to achieve the thing which the the lips of all and sundry.
In Belgium, in Spain, in China, In get their attention and called for the after this battle.
some lodine and bandages on hand.
it will be claimed that it was not a massee mock at as a miserable abortion From that momeut on our comrades matter of creating a new trade union of a new trade union center, the trade Hungary, in Greece, everywhere the police, tee shamefully under the pro In the course of the skirmistres, we tection of the bourgeois powers. Then have had to mourn the loss of the dead were subjected to an uninterrupted barcenter. But it reality, underneath the union morement is to be enfeebled and Left Oppositionists are in the forepollee were posted in front of the reform and of the numerous wounded. On the use of provocations, which they met words, we huve seen the culmination of the working class disarmed before the front on the firing line, facing bour.
geois repression. This is the true face ist citadels, to guard then against the other hand, class consciousness has risen with fearless discipline, marching in a split in the name of unity, in order enemy!
workers who had wanted to storm them. tremendously. An irreconcilable hatred group formation to the center of to give satisfaction to the ambitious of! In the struggle to prevent these con of the Bolshevik Leninists, whom the the In the Maison du Pemple at Gilly, the has been sworn to against the police meeting room some and in order to secure their post. sequences, the Spanish Communist Left miserable mercenaries of the Stalincenter of the revolutionary forces, the hordes. To the soldiers a fraternal hand The chairman, one Arrachel, opened tions. No matter what name is given to will occupy the first place, by demon! Ist bureaucracy characterize as the police forced their way through to the has been extended.
the meeting under the sign of Anti Trotwhat has been perpetrated at Madrid, strating that we have nothing in com il vanguard of the counter revolution. bureau, to chase out the workers and Need for Revolutionary Leadership skyixm and declarod that the Left op the fact remains that the conference mon with those who in this case have had the soldiers clear the nearby build We can openly say that this struggle, sitionist would not be granted the an organism called the Unitary proved to be the avowed enemies of which is not ended yet, arose from tho Hoor. Gabriel, Perl, ate of the parliaA Letter from our Charleroi Comrades ings.
trade union unity.
General Labor Confederation.
Against the splitters! Against this Dear comrades: Signs of the times! The workers depths of the proletariat. We could mentarian creatures of French Stalinism Conference a Swindle new trade union center, created and awakening! new stage begins. The sense that the workers wanted As you have probably seen from the socialists beat a retreat. The Influence than the programs proposed. The work himself almost entirely to an attack full more was the main speaker and restricted The Madrid Conference was a swindle dressed up in a hypocritical mask! For press reports, we have passed through of the Communist Left Opposition is oners have realized more than ever carried out on the working class. In the revolutionary trade union unity of the some very significant events in the his the increase in the region of Charleroi. necessity of creating for themselves calumny against the the first place, why was it proclaimed Spanish proletariat! For the consolidatory of the Belgian labor movement.
Bolshevik Leninists. erre Somard, the that it would be held with the aim of tion of the and for the strug: Mainly in Hainant, Mons, Le Center, Opposition Progress revolutionary leadership. It is lacking general secretary of the and one making a decisive step toward trade gle to change the orlentation which still Charleroi Under this threat to the bourgeoisie in the present action of the most corrupt of the International union unity? Secondly, why, in order to remains the same Inside of the organi it is not over yet numerous arrests were This struggle is a precious experlenco stalinist bureaucrats followed along the justify a splitting act (which has been xation.
We wish to report here as briefly as made among the Communist elements, for the working class youth of Belslun, same lines.
Madrid, July 5, 1932 possible but with all desirable clarity realised) have thousands of adherents several essential details of this battle. From the ranks of the Oppositionists, which had already forgotten the history After a whole nerley of Insults and Lesoil, luct, Vander of the struggles of 1883. The year 1932 pithetslinging. Semurd Mally sulda been invented which have never existed and do not exist today? Two or three which has superseded in its energy all our comrades examples will clarify the matter, The Letter to the Zurich Workers the struggles of the past. In this report borght, Henin and Lebrun were arrest is new stage for the entire Belgian few words about the united front. App plause greeted these remarks. That wa we will naturally describe the circum od. At the present moment, that is quite proletariat.
Association of Commercial Employees of (Continued from page 4)
The Left Opposition of all And Semard pleked this very moment stances which brought the Communtet an unsalutary bargain. But we shall do Madeld Algures on the lot of those that democrnoy concealing ito task the The to give the signal! Throw them outl. of Left Opposition to the head of the column all that is necessary to see that our attended at thy coulorence with treachery with calumnes against the paper, La Volx Communiste (The ComCharlerol Group.
in the struggle of the unions, he ghouted.
member. The Spanish Tobacco Workere munist Volce) appears twice a week.
July 16, 1932.
The Miners situation About afty of the boronucrat beach Federation, with 18, 000. It is quite cer proletarian revolution. It is underminThe situation of the Belgian miners men Immediately pounced on the Opposttain that both of these organtentions, ing the authority of the workers stato tion comrades. At their head was the after the conference will break oft auto the great profit of the authorly of had sunk to a level of misery and de whole bureaucracy of the Parla district.
relations with the splitting elements. The the bourgeois state by placing on the privation which they could no longer en disgraceful and repugnant scene onUnitary Federation of Asturian Miners, tton and the violence of reaction.
violence of the revolu dure. For some time great dissatisfac.
tion has been current without finding any sued. Oppositionists were thrown to the of which it has been said at the confer hope that every Zurich worker, the means of expression. The diplomacy of Under sensational headline Caught. form because of a wave of revolutionary ground, kicked in stomnch, in the head. ence that it represented close to 10, 000 social democratic worker included, win the trade unton leadership succeeded to the Daily Worker about ten days ago ex radicalism sweeping over the lelds and one youth comrade was beaten til ho members, in reality does not number more deeply reflect upon these events and upon the last day in suppressing this need posed a flagrant windle practised by the mines of Kansas. Is it, then, possible lost consciousness. All this time, Semthan 000 ever since it has come under the role which the socal democratic lead and in carrying through all of the pro well known socialist mountebank, Mr. that he found Foster speech, an official ard and the chairman were excitedly apthe leadership of elements from the of ers have played in them in order to posals of the employers for wage cuts. Haldeman Jultus, editor of the socialist Communist party declaration of such plauding the attackers and egging them ficial party. In this manner all the fl draw the necessary political conclusions. one after another. In Le Borinage, the weekly, the American Freeman, and so nature that as a social reformist he on right from the platform. After about ures have been puffed up to prove that Only then will we be able to say that presumptuousness of the bosses gets its clalist party candidate for Senator is could adopt it words, commas, exclama quarter of an hour of this pogrom, numerous unions with thousands of mem the Junte victims will not have ebrs belong to the new trade union cen sacrificed in vain.
been first shock. The poor standard of living. Kansas. This respectable elder had simtion marks and all without altering a our comrades were bodily ejected from the spreading strike and the newly plan ply taken the official acceptance speech line. Is it possible that the platform the hall.
ter The bureaucrat Thorey took the floor LEON TROTSKY.
ned wage reductions serve to stir up un of William Foster, the Communistis cut, trimmed and styled by the Honor.
All argumentation attempted against rest among the miners participating in party candidate for president, copiat itabile Socialist Candidate for Senator from after this incident. He raised his foot these facts futile and false. What the Principo, June 25, 1932.
an isolated strike. The social democratic word for word, and presented it to his the State of Kansas? We find it hard to demonstratively and pointed to it: This Left Opposition has warned against BOUND VOUMES OF COMRADE leaders maneuver desperately to localize readers as the platform of the Socialist. believe.
is the method to deal with them! and from the first has been confirmed by the TROTSKY PAMPHETS the contlict, which in spite of everything, party. Virtually the only change made The Daily Worker has been asking, then proceeded to sput his share of inacts. The trade union split has become So many comrades and sympathizers manner, the leaders of the district cen Communist was replaced by the word plagiarism which must undoubtedly be Numerous party comrades in all parts reality. The conference was an obvious come in and write in for comrade Trotexpands over the entire region. In this in the whole text was where the word Norman Thomas questions concerning the sult and venom, organizational defent. The workers were ter of the reformist miners are forced Socialist. The two texts, Foster very embarrassing for him to answer; of the meeting room protested and some when presenting to be brought the one new the and the situation in Germany. riseke swiftly. The miners of the Bor plagiarism, were published side by side by mitted to pnt our question to the Daily tacle of the Salle Bullier has not gone Haldeman Julius bala nor has he answered. May we be per even left the place in protest. The specthis, which shonld have sufficed for some this pamphlet together with The Draft the support of the miners in the rest of at the two reveals one of the most de Was it Haldeman. Jullus alone without effect. Letters from party memof the leaders more conscientious about program of the Comintern. and World the country, they will be defeated, occupy spicable pieces of political fraud that was caught? Wasn somebody else dally to La Verite, the central Orga who, bers and militant workers are streaming titude, has, on the contrary, given our are out of print and available only in lerol, to call upon all for solidarity in Unemployment and the Five Year Plan Le Centre, march forward toward Char has been practised in recent times.
caught too, or almost caught. Stalinists the pretext to consider this the bound volumes of Trotsky pam the struggle. The federation of the Dally Worker fatis to note a feature of But in its rightful indignation, the sympathy with 119 and their disillusion conforence as a success unprecedented phlets. REMINDER ment with the Stalinist bureaucracy, in the history of the Spanish labor move The number of these bound volumes bor) quickly issues a call on the evening indicating. Mr. Haldeman Jullus is Chevalters du Travail (Knights of La this theft which we cannot refrain from This is to remind our comrades that subscribing to our journal and enclosing ment.
we have on hand a number of pamphlets donations. Whole columns of the cur Opposition Fights in Trade Unions small and slowly diminishing. We of July 8, appealing to the miners in au faltig ein forlous sociadenreformist, who that are very useful in our daily pro rent issue of La Verite are alled with We have said what in our opinton con happy to see them reach workers who establish a program of action. Monster dubious radicalism to which the shoddy ist Manifesto: Socialism Utoplanand letters Bureaucratic Impotence All over at the unification of all the Spanish trade their contents; sorry to realize that with ate declaration of the general strike is tends. We are hardly inclined to believe Value, Prlos, and profit. We still have As in New York, in Athens, in Shang: the World union forces ly normal means by be cach one we are getting closer to the decided. The miners in every plt pre that he felt obliged to decorate himself a number of Whither England by ions for the purpose of propagating our we consider the texts of the future andres menatale contine Pore hteo things that has with a revolutionary Communist plat adrotsky The amounts that we get the bureaucrats of the Stalinist camp revolutionary and unitary points of view. of the revolutionary movement. But we never yet happened in the Belgian labor mmmmm who want them should order at once.
are small and they move fast. Comrades express their bankrupt despair, their ut That is why, in spite of the splitting ac. have no choice and since we must strike movement. The miners demand lampe, ter political impotence by violent physition of the elements who convoked the a balance we advise all our readers and PROBLEMS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY go down into the shafts, persuade their cal assault against the Left Opposition.
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LENINY a Who Was Actually Caught. WHATNEXT?
BRANDLER?
HINDENBURGT LEFT OPPOSITION SOCIAL DEMOCRACY NATIONAL SOCIALISM!
ADOLF HITLERI PEOPLE REVOLUTION?
ULTIMATISM?
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CENTRISME COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL: Party Member: There you are. You and a spontaneous form Workers all ity at once. The only way to destroy Trotskyites gathered gloom and pre band as workers without in any way Fascism is by bringing about the true dicted disaster in Germany, and in accepting one or the other teadership united front.
DICTATORSHIP stead we won a glorious victory, poll The Communists support a Socialistde United front with the workers, ed a tremendous vote, and smashed monstration and Join them in fighting not with the leaders and the traitors.
the Fascist advance.
the Nazis; the Socialists in turn help We are going to gain more and more Oppositionist: We predicted and st111 and support the Communists in the Socialist workers, until there will be predict disaster for your tactics, but same way. That is not the tactle of nothing left of the social Fascist or BRUENING?
not for Communism How was your the united front from below, but an ganizations.
victory won?
inevitable toward the program of First by fearlessly exposing the a true united front, as it was out Opp. Comrade, you must wake up, and lined in the Opposition program; real stop mumbling in your sleep. If there social Fascists, and then by resolutely unity without forcing party leadership were years before us, perhaps what applying the correct party line: the you say can be accomplished. But then With Germany on the edge of the volcano that threatens to erupt at upon Socialist workers.
united front from below.
there would be no need to speak of any any moment, Leon Trotsky penetrating analysis of what is next on Opp. What do you call united front You would twist it around. That kind of unit At the prethe order of the day in Germany is the most timely revolutionary is the way we always understood the from below?
sent moment, we have reacbed the united front.
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other workers to unite and to follow Opp. Yet curlously enough, you never you will find Fascism smashed is in the Communist leadership and thus applied it as such. In fact the changed the columns of the Dally Worker But 35c 63 create a real united front against the attitude of both Socialist and Com in Germany the Nazis are now at the In Paper In Cloth enemy.
munist workers was quite mexpected height of their power. The stage is Opp. How have the workers of Germany by the leadership of both parties. The set for their coup. In the government PIONEER PUBLISHERS responded to your tactics? Did they workers feel the urgent need of un they have secret or passive allies. It 84 East 10th Street, New York, accept them? Not at all. The union iting their forces and Trotsky took over the police force of 90. 000 between the Socialist and Communist thundering voice alds them in finding from the Socialists in Prussia and it HIHIHlifiH NHTHIRTS LAS Workers takes on an entirely different the correct ways of bringing it to real restored to the Nazis the right to their military organization. They have the direct support of 13 2 million voters and can expect support from another 2 million. Who opposes themy divided working class. Five million Communist voters alone cannot stop the Nazis. To lull the Communists now with the fable that the Nazis are stopped or smashed is to commit a crime against the proletariat of Germany and of the world. Only the united efforts of Communist and Soclalist workers will save Germany from Fascism. The workers of Germany are doing it themselves, and this action spells the doom of the Nazis. Trotsky correct application of Marxian tacties save the situation for the party leadership. The Communist party will have to Accept a united front from above, from below and from all the other sides the onset of events and the pressure exerted by the workers will force it.