THE PROLETARIAN PARTY CUBA AND MONTEVIDEO Support greit ad also to SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16 1933 THE MILITANT PAGE Discussion Article as Keracher was always obviously Problems of the Cuban Revolution overloaded with work. This willingness and ability did not exist any where in the except in a very limited degree. Naturally the rischer rettetion of his or became a direct reflection weak points as well as of his strong points. The writer of this article was As time passed the Communist himself said the revolutionary party Previous to his revolutionary The great importance of the Mon American imperialists position to so that when the conference is over, for over 10 yoins a member of Party and the Communist Labor might be small but good. Suck career Keracher was a small store tevideo Pan American Conference consolidate its position and delude or maybe twcfore it all goes well he Proletarian urty of Amer Party becure the Workers Party were the arguments used by the keeper in Detroit. He carried into for the Cuban workers and their the masses of the country. The Washington will be a whole lot its bargaining hund for recognition ica, serving for everal year while the roletarian University be leaders. They did not know, or the Party work the same narrow, American imperialist masters can on its National Essen came the Proletarian Party. Later they forgot, that at the time Lenin petty, inefficient methods that he be seen in the latest developments army high command told the Cuban stronger.
mittees and for Bolshevik party had had employed in his own business in the world former sugar bowl. Department of Interior delegates Cuban Workers Need International.
year and a hulf, as its Nutional Secretary on the Workers Party received the wrote this, the boss whers lh Petro His book keeping and office proecd. At Montevideo the Latin American to the meeting of the electric work.
Patty recognition of the Communist Inter several thousand Ile las recently resigned from national and thus becume the Com grad alone and that the Bolshevik ure are something atrocious and as capitalists, supported and inspired ers which decided on the strike That is how the government to the arty as a result of the de munist Party of America. But the Party was relatively small but not an executive he is on a level with by the English and Japanese im. that it would not interfere with the res the lay of the kund. But what cisions of the convention held maneuvering for strike. This is a bid for support about the workers? They are still recognition of the did very Insignificantly so. At no time in the average small storekeeper. To perialists, are in September.
little to correct the errors of the its history did the Proletarian Party place a man of this type in the post advantages for themselves and by the masses.
putting forward only economie de This article is written with of. It remained terribly reach a membership of 500. tion of chief executive, with almost Uncle Sam rivals at his expens.
the intention to not only throw At the same time it is part of mandy. We take that is it sign of left sick. Its programs were Organizational Weaknesses complete control, was to condemn The is sitting so tightly on e comprehensive scheme: The the ubsence of an intluential revoluthe the eld that about. they can do light on the recent controversy grosely reformistic and opportun. But in addition to the programorganization to death.
in the roletarian arty but ist in churacter. the Not only was Keracher incapable is, to borrow a word from the Blue to the Electric Company to reduce it La Follette the hurt played its electrie and gas rutes by forty Fallguard could take by the lion in the Amincident of 1924 is an examples matie and tactical weaknesses thereof any important constructive work Eagle general, chisel.
were weaknesses of a structural and himself but on those rare occasions of the situation in the in But the Proletarian Burty develop organizational nature that prevented when others of some ability triederican moneybags in delicate sit reduce salaries or discharge work ly raising the strugkle to the poll Just the same they have the Am tive wrcent and had forbidden it to terests of the workers by conscious crican labor movement and to, ux neurly as possible, appraise ed in the opposite direction and the arty from becoming a true to cooperate with him he proved nation. If he makes a miscue any ers in carrying through this neces. lical plane under the slogan of na.
posed to the antics of the of Communist party. These last were quite incapable of working the lurty isefulness to the a program of Education, Falu inherited from the Socialist Party. them harmoniously. He would al. conference is on they will squeeze the rates. In a previous article we workers control of production. The with place in Latin America while this sury and insufficient reduction in tionalization of Intentry under tollers of the cation and more Education. In the roletarian Party constitution ways oppose them and work for him for all they can get out of.
the entry the Into the World War atan understanding the leaned ment, the terminology being in honest criticam with trickery and tremendous amount of controversy over too far and became almost ex many pluces vague and indefinite decelt and also with attack on the 17 cents a kilowatt bour in position How is also in the Strike Wave Rising Again an 20 cents in the Interior; kixt analysis, the weakness of the mulurally arust in the American clusively an educational organizalabor moet to the attitude tion. Both parties occupied extra and lentving room for quite different motives of the critic, all with the The news coming out of Cuba is high rate of and cents a kilo ling workers movement could also pared to New York which has a Martin gorernment. The advane toward the war. This controversy sitious. The great teed was there is a definite duplication of his position in the Party and, if either capitalist or stalinist in for at another Morgan outfit, the Cubrican imperialists mition, its preinterpretations. In some places object of removing the critic from fragmentary and unreliable, being watt hour. second order struck count on the weakness of the Amthe rovellesand he water in necessary from the Party nota con WorkerBot understand Party, whes leaders, like the lead. Alarxian proportions both educat the highest Cubanan Telephone Company, a subsidi menit, necessary reluctance to assist ex of the European partics of the tion and action. But such an or that Uncle ury of the International Telephone the belegnereel wetty bourgeols This condition might have been more than one occasion.
Sam necessity for stepping warily and Telegraph Company, also con overnment.
Second International, lud betrayed anization did not appear.
The Peterson Dixon Group the uganization to the capitalist excused years ago when the princi: gives them more lattitude. The trolled by Morgan.
Proletarian Party and class. Opposition to the leadership ples of Bolshevik organization and In 1931 an attempt was made by strike wave is rising high again. If cune very strong and resulted in wholesale espulsion of the opp played by each of the two parties by Lenin, were still unknown to us bers of the Executive Council, to Imperjalist Delegation to Cuba, is. The attack on the utility rates is should be exploited in another way It is difficult to extironte the part democratic centralism, an outlined the eterson Dixon group, as mem Harry Gannes, head of the Anti Strategy of the Martin Government The momentary weakness of the revolution. An ine. The expelled gronis formed oito pole. Tonbtless they exertime there was no excuse for a retary, on matters pertaining to the sugar mills in Santa Clara pro visle who have had to hear the literation protest themselves into a comunist Party. Ised some intuence on each other party calling itselt revolutionary expenditure of press funds. Ker vince have been involved in strikes traffic workers town in the intending hands of Cuba, cererile Communist Laber lurty, a role. But the objektive factors difficulty in recently (Daily Worker, December terior have long without gas and in Latin America, and on Montev.
tarian University, ele.
much more favorable to the growth recent controversy in the Party getting this group expelled from 9, 1983. The scope of this strug clutricity although culpped History of the arty Holxler organization was based almost entirely on an the Party chlody because the group cle can be seen from the fact that, use them. The threat to take over embarassment and would weaken It is in It can be safely said that the CLARY Seatiment in favor of the changed on to conform to the rise tedescous effore taking bilis su this province in 1923, near the rate reduction is net we fort tot deutely the col rulettrian University February in against this connection and at this moment From Russian Revolution was taken and helples of democratic. Dership und later ax Thuc roletarian Parts and en de resulted in soud del social ter plek enoughens die stead of sticking to the revolution: Mills on the island, producing the periodistesentiments is the list orjentation of the Communist had the soundest pwwtion in regard of popular activity such striker changing conditions, yirticularly y principles that were involved seventeen percent of all the bags workers and the two leverenoster The Parties.
It is not too late to build the 1917, the attitude toward the demonstrations, demais for Soviet with regard to finances. From the In the controversy. But in the sum of sugar of that year.
time the National Oflice of the mer of 1032 another controversy That task Impriulit War, and in Marxian recognition, etc.
workers are out in thou. ort by labor, Ixtands high on the agenda of inthat time and students of Marxism. and determined stund was taken was made National Secretary, it the first Proletarian Party firm Chen in 1912, and John Keracher of the same conditions that caused sunds; all the Woolworth Co stores. Now the Martin government can ternational working class problems Many of the numerous blunders of against any sort of immediate or wits almost entirely a one man orJOSEPH KNIGHT.
the other lart will krou coula irtial demands. Anything that wadation with Most important among the strikes is doesn cost it anything now. It their failure to understand the Keracher as the (Continued in next issue) the strike against the Cuban Elecknw that only the most direct problem and build the movement.
have been avoided hund they accept howed signs of rallying any contric Co. of which Machalo is aand serious threat to the stakes of The Left position together with ed the ideas put forth by the Protexiderable number of workers to it one man. There were very few able LABOR AND INTER vice president, an affiliate of the Wall Street in Cuba will cause all other revolutionnry clements Turban Chiversity group. But the support was frowned upon as op met the Party which explains NATIONALISM ubjective conditions of that time portunism or left sickness. It was er. gool deal of the work of the The Pioneer Publishers has see The Rimperor of America, Latin America and playing into the call to the masses of the United on the part of the majority of the last and all the time, according to the shoulders of the National Esperational labor movement en Bond and Share is can be seen formand Japan by sending arned entire world to organize the moveat limited number of copies of Morgan, is the big shot in both of Jeft wing numbers. The Bolshevik the leaders. The Party programsecutive Committee was neglected of the these ont ontfits. How bly the Electric pain into Cuba.
ment of support and defense of the the long run war heute established in the election to our statie a faire and the boy that body either on account of the labor and International from the fact that its subsidiaries At the same time the government Culun revolution.
of the earth surface. This greut luistic. Party leaders prided them was taken care of by Keracher, ut books at a bargain which will be thirty eight percent of the populain 1930 supplied light, power, gas, is strengthening itself internally. STAMM cvent hall kindked tremendous en selves on this stiffness and explain terint, atter a fashion thusiasm und keen desire for aced their temporary isolation from One Man Party passed on to the readers of the tion.
PIONEER PUBLISHER NOTES tion of Soviet foreign policy under tion in the of of workers but there was no corre correctness of their position. The There was little attempt in those publishers price is 00 It can be Importance of the Strike puding desire for careful and masses are not yet ready to accept days to restrict Keracher or to secured from the ioneer Publish The importance of the strike lies Soviet Automney under Lenin and trom the first Cominisar unge on the history of Litvinov Stalin, the glaring Foreign ainstaking tudy of the event. such an advanced position. It will criticize his methods of carrying on ers at price postpat not only in the size and importance under the Stalin regime is in pre Affairs to the present incumbent, Most of the 411 wing leaders de take time to win considerable the work because such criticism Send orders to: of the company. The Martin gov. paration and will be published by from Brest Litovsk to Washington.
clared that the time for study was number to this view.
PIONEER PUBLISHERS The Bolshe would have acquired a willingness ernment, government of the pretty the Pioneer Publishers. This pampast and the time for action had vik Party was very small up to the and ability on the part of the critic Send all funds to Pioneer 84 East 10th Street bourgeoisie, is using the strike and phlet will present documentary ma tublishers East 10th Street, come.
eve of the revolution and Lenin to undertake more work himself, New York City the temporary weakness city.
Other Party was moved from Detroit to arose in the Party, and as a result Itabikes are Tilkins Place. Magen is part of the bid for up defense movement.
on of Discussion Articles Spartacus Youth Clubs Proposed by revolucion of the Spartacus Youth to the for the first time in a working class, and so on, should be stressed as an Clubs which will make them the Spartacus Youth League along the must merely recognize the limita organization.
essential part of the education of cultural centers of the youth. lines proposed above.
Lions involved in such a method Uniform Constitution the class conscious youth. For this 12. Our aim should be to con International Afiliation and Tasks and recognizing these limitations The of the National purpose, popular pamphlets should vert Young Spartacus into a live propa The task of building a Fourth emplausize another method which is Youth Committee in suggesting to be issued by Pioneer Publishers un and aggressive Communist the spartacus Youth Clubs a un der the imprint of the Provisional ganda and agitation super which International assumed by the Inter more dificult but will in the comis torm constitution which provided National Committee of the Spar will attract the youth to Commun, national Left Opposition raises the run yield tur greater results.
Draft Resolution on the Tasks of the The turn to a tow party means the Clubs to the Left Opposition Committee of the Spartacus Youth groups. We should strive to make Communist Youth International. la turn to mass work for the imfor the political subordination of tacus Youth Clubs (or Nationalism and the Spartacus Youth necessity of constructing a new while organizationally autonomous League of America)
aud making the National Youth pamphlet under similar tabloid size paper which can actu The Spartacus Youth League of mediate purpose or gathering revCommittee the provisional national imprint should National Youth Comm. of the committee of the Spartacus Youth as feasible on uue issued as soon ally reflect the problems and needs America when organized will beolutionary workers for the building Who Are the Spar of the young workers, educate them the American section of this youth Clubs was a further step forward tacus Youth. this to be the first in Marxism, and play an active role international. It is our task toru ww party. Needless to say hasten the formation of such a recruiting workers for the building Our efforts have been pro the problems of the American young 13. We propose that the coming world union of youth which can of a new purty cumot be success We print below the draft regressively in the workers youth and indus. Lully merely by exa napolitically puiulug to tlum the correctus solution on the tasks of the American the theory of revolution partacus Youth Clubs adopted against the bourgeois and petty which would function as the Comployment and the youth and so on, the national youth committee to, subordinate to it. The theme only su contradistinction to socialisten by the National Youth Commit iwanixations and intuence, as the States. This League will underphlets on the biographies of our ference, call a national con and behind it sneh a powerful wucleusers to our side moins participation section of the which has one country. Winuing over worktee of the Communist League of cultural center and political leader take the tasks and assume the form ary leaders should also be standing international America. With the publication of the youth.
all other youth groups which are for a revolutionary youth organiza in the workers struggles. It means of this druft the columns of the outlined in the first three section of ary Militant are opened for contri.
League Subordinate to Party sympathetic to communism (as tion. Therefore a heavy part of not oyly struggle but struggle on a our 2nd National Conference Youth under youth auspices butions on this question.
The Lengue which aspires to be theses (quoted above. 10. The Spartacus Youth Clubs embodied in the program of the Lathe work in the building of a new correct busis with correct slogans. Somrades are invited to send the leader of a section of the work This does not exclude the (and Langue) should be extremely low and agree with the essence of world communist international falls it means the gaining of the contidence of the workers in our ability in their contributions. Articles in class, the youth, is politically possibility of forming or cooperat careful to avoid the mistake of the our youth platform, to organize a upon our shoulders.
to lead.
xubordinate are to not exceed 750 words.
The superiority and correctness The analyses of the entises of the arts, the vanguard of the prole. not murtacus Youth Clubs, but party. that is, assume the same rise and fimetion of the Command tactics of the party of our theories eu be convincing With Whom and How Shall We Build to the workers through our success.
are the localities where a cannot Ities and methods of work as the the themes on the Youth Question of this political yubordination is ac exception in strategy and tactics of the League. Immediately be forced. Under these adult Communist organisation. This ful activities in mass work. By this the is inevitable in the first stage of the New Communist Party time this proportion should require no argument. logical presentaCommunist 1e of America (se autonomy of the League, e. its than spartacus Youth and have cadres are being assembled. The tion of the incorrectuess of the Militant, Asunt 15th. 1853) bolo right to elect its own committees the character of discussion groupe tract into thelr ranks youth com concerned the necessity for a new near Communist groups in this it not accompanied with practical Spartacus Yonth Clubs should atgood in its essentials today and otticers, and As far as the Left Opposition is ship of the various Communist or theory of socialism in one country, ot regulame the or study classes. Our comrades three sretions Politicul subordination is main tempt to convert them into sections fledged Communists whose place to ed and has passed the stage of even if we should succeed in con unions, amongst the unorganized or of the proletarian families into the side the League, which directs and should be considered as temporary organization should contain youth new party came As a surprise to membership of the correctness of der. Effective work amongst the a good of that amongst the temployed will be met by a mere shrug of the shoulporodiculver. The cheapes whose average age is 17. Older many members of the o. its ador their labor power, their physical indst exchange of representa organisations and intellectual immaturity, their Marxian policy in the class strug Position Towards Existing comrades should be drawn into the visability and necessity became so our ideas, we would not be much employed and unemployed workers latek of trade union organization gle which the Leaguers will readily Youth Organizations drop their membership in the youth that practically not a single volce the second place, the existing to the idea of building a new party, Our attitude toward nakes the particularly profitable follow. thorough discussion of Young Communist League is that League is organized the age limits was raised in opposition.
the groups. When the Spartacus Youth and Communist objects for xploitution. the party question affecting the But, having accepted the idea of groups have definite viewpoints of To use comrade Trotsky phrase cine christlich the needs age should take place during his stayinist organization is should be 16 to 23. Comrades over which have clung to for quite a long time there are two lovers growing out of themed for the latter pre convention clincus. capable of effectively educating the the age of 21 who have been in the the necessity of a new party. we are their own, viewpoints which they of the two levers, one can say that plynical and intellectual developion.
youth to communism or leading Spartacus Youth groups for more immediately faced with thieto sursa It is folly to expect that because must use in preparing the groundment, for play. social life were the restatement of these ele work with the in order adult organization.
them in struggle. We continue our than six months should join the tion: with whom and how to build we change our position from that work for the new party. One 10 From puisition of helpers and ap mentary and fundamental principles to win its members to our ranks.
of the official Communist 11. To avoid becoming a youth was partly involved in the discusor considering ourselves a fraction the short lever of discussion with to those who have already accepted prentices the youths were absorbed of the Communist youth, laid down in all fields of activity our organi party two đangers must be avoid ston on the necessity of a new party ever more into the general indus by the first three congresses of the nation will appear a rival of the ed: First, the danger of separating but only incidentally. At present that of a Communist party most of the fundamental principles group to build a new party, we should of Communism and with those who tries and process of capitalism. est is made imperative by their stalinist while at the same the economie work of the youth some müre or les clear and deathereby almost immediately succeed are travelling away from the social2. The was founded in revision in theory and practise, by time proposing to it and partici from the adult organization. Where ite answer must be given other in winning these groups over to democrucy towards Coromunism.
The 1919 a in ever possible the industriel trac wise there is danger of our wasting our point of view. Not so easy as other is the long and more importin organization which would attern and The terment in the American tions of the youth Limited experience with Comant lever of organizing employed trnet he working youth towards partici Comminism, win, organize and train munist youth work requires that requires that we pay together with those of the adult achieving any noticeable results.
The only possible method of or pating and fit for the most parties. The youth tactics, demands, slogans and tension to communisthe young the one that you thing rentis field posle question ansamely event whom the sanizing a new party in the nearest and boy sudi. ctivities to the need for a special organization is special organizational forms shoula Spartacus Youth groups. We should ally subordinate to, and should answer to the second part how Cature on the basis hot. com xisting Gallet forth by the wychological be put forward not as dogmas or endeavor to build a Communist work closely with the adult organi will readily follow.
near Communist over new forces with which to build take the groups is to permit all groups join the new party.
ity and impulsiveness, its impulsive ersal vallity, but rather with a view traction within the Yipsels through zations. Secondly, the danger of The temptation is to turn to real mass work will be which we can carry on our pro narrowing down the Spartacus easiest road. We want to organize Inc in the formation of a new party Selalun and its physicni ing the results, and thereby laying Around this fraction we should ons Communists by the formation groups with strong nice in the new This of reembers. It will mean that they and intellectual uirements. These the ground for more effective tac build a broader Left wing on the of permament periphery organiza: wards Communist principles. Why leanings to course is out of the westion. What will no knger confine themselves methods, activities and can be sained only by tics, slogans, etc. The Comintern basis of concrete clase atruggle 19 tions. The youth, theses of the 2nd not enter into a discussion with ever It might be it would not be aſ to the study and discussion of what tion.
the Lists. On definite class struggle ised that one of the reasons for the them as possible to our viewpoint munist groups would be advisable members confrontal with the task kind questions. Our The LX broad eduten into factional pawns. Youth polsues we will attempt to form tional organizers of youth. Com icles were completely subordinated fronts with the into a youth purty was precisely and form the new party? Such a or the intimate linking up of moment.
munist training and education re to the factional requirements of the It is essential that in the Its policy of forming youth sections solution hag a certain plausibility a step towards the formation of or talking to workers will learn educational and propaginda of the of every auxiliary of the Communand, moreover, the path suggested a new. Communist party. This is new language and will concem exceedingly doubtful the theoretical with the practical. The election of a national Spartacus Yonth Clubs and Young ist party, youth clubs and groupe by it presente no serious difficulties, aby means ruled but not by themselves, in addition to questions out altogether. At of Communist theory, with ques the study group with the field of youth committee and the establish Spartacus, American revolutionary of the essential educational with and winning over the class struggle. The ment of Young Spartacus were traditions, bourgeois But to depend upon discussion any rate, it would not be a party. Lions affecting the everyday life of nature which dup working licated of those Does it follow then that we should the worker. Our members will is in the forefront of the struggles two decisive steps which facilitated class, play a predominant role. The cultural, and sometimes porpaganda who claim to be Communists or cease discussing questions of prin learn the intimate connection be of the working yonth; lends and first, the organization of the youth revolutionary lessons of the Amer. work of the The formation those who are traveling in that clples, and tactics with other groups tween International and highly organizes it for immediate economic in the Left Opposition, and second, ican Revolution of 1776, the Civil of sports teams, dramatic groups direction for the formation of a new. for the purpose of froning out dit theoretical questions on the one. American labor and the conducting of social activ party is to inyite sad disappoint ferences and winning these groups hand and the more immediate prostruggles inside an outside the arm youth clubs. large percentage movement, blographical sketches of ities should be an important part ments.
or some of their members to our blems of the working class.
ed forces against capitalist militar of the members of these culbs are outstanding revolutionary leaders, of the work of the Spartacus Youth In the first place, the member. viewpoint? Decidedly not! We ALBERT GOLDMAN.
These we of testing them in practise, examin maganda work in that organization. Youth Clubs to advanced or consci: new arty. There are several to lead a more or less Independenta very valuable training for our and