2 SOCIALIST APPEAL January 1, 1938 Red Flag Flies Over Latin American Notes von illegal the bourgeoisie.
anthe by his was uns By Bernard Ross Chile the company reported that the enterprise could easily grant The bankruptey of Popular 26, 000, 000 pesos annually in wage Frontism and Stalinism becomes increase. The workers originally more evident with each passing demanded 16, 000, 000 pesos. Continued from page 1) and political situation of France. Stalinist Maneuvers in day. Recently, the reactionary The anti imperialist CardeNo wave of the magic wand of general Caelos Ibanez del Campo nas government which recently Goodrich factory must be evathe Labor Movement class collaboration (People cuated before negotiations coula Frontism) can change this basic who only a few years ago was granted large concessions to the start. Times, December Finally, it would be a mis driven out of power by the Chil British Royal Dutch Shell, be Moreover, the Chautemps take to ignore the labor move The Nacista Party, headed by of a fact.
ean masses, returned to Chile. sitates before the handing down 25. It is necessary to recall that government is doomed, because decision. Incapable of compulsory arbitration is the ment, and especially its most Jorge it has accomplished its basic task important section, both numeri promptly decided to support the and threatened by feudal reac Gonzales Maree, fighting against imperialism law of the land and that all and therefore can no longer serve cally and politicalls the Stalin candidacy of Ibanez in the com tion, the liberal bourgeoisie head strikes are therefore under the People Front. The The formation of the Chau have been clamoring ists. For months the Stalinists for the ing presidential elections. And ed by Cardenas cannot afford to cou: alienate working class support.
support The most likely result will be a to save its prestige. Besides, for tically the assumption of the of with the Social Democrats. Fol. lition also decided to some time now the bosses have fensive in the class war by the lowing the conclusion of the pact Ibanez.
been on an open offensive to capitalists. The People Front between the Russinn trade unions compromise decision.
The Communist party issued The American Smelting Co. hour week and to pave the way able and conservative rails. The of the Second International, the all leftist organizations to sup rest in Mexico, bringing its Amebreak the unions, abolish the 40 was shunted onto more respect and the Amsterdam Federation a manifesto declaring itself behind General Ibanez and urged largest imperialist mining intefor the counter revolution budget was Needless to say, throughout all at least the reforms of the Blum that now Blum co would come port that candidate against the rican investors 25, 000, 000.
this, the lackeys of the French government were to be comple along into the folds of the united openly reactionary, former Mi nually, refuses come to terms nister Finance, Gustave Ross with the Miners Union.
formist and trade union bureau ally and externally, France was party of the proletariat and the In that same manifesto The conditions of the miners crats have been quiet. They to be made safe for the capital people. Imagine their surprise Communist party criticizes the are deplorable. Working more certainly don want any strikes. ists and their profits and equip bureaucracy abruptly broke Socialist Party for having its than eight hours a day, under But the workers are becoming ped to conduct the coming im. off negotiations at the end of lonel Grove, and forms against legs knee deep in mud, inhaling more and more incensed. While truces are reported, above all. that the armaments Dimitrov as pretext, claiming Trotskyite tendencies in the so poisonous vapors, the miners the fall of the Chautemps go. had to be taken care of.
barely receive a subsistence wage.
that this proves the is do cialist party.
vernment is imminent. The To date the Cardenas governminated by a foreign War Budget Voted widespread labor troubles threatgovernment.
Mexico ment using dilatory tactics has ened a split in the Popular succeeded in warding off a strike, Front, supporting the Chautemps Unanimously Immediately, the Political Buro Evilio Bandillo, former mem urging the miners leaders to argovernment. Times, Dec. The debates of the Parlia resolution (published in Huma the Mexican Communist Party of the French adopted a ber of the Central Committee of bitrate the issues involved.
25. Even more revealing, is the ment on the war budget are very nite on December 7) which is was sent last summer article on the financial page of revealing on this score. Not only noteworthy not only for what it party to study in Soviet schools.
Cuba the Times (Dec. 27. This re was the war budget voted una. omits, but also for what is says. He mysteriously disappeared and The Cuban military dictator, fer des certensible amotiver deshanas nimously, 6030s. in the Chamber Placing the onus for the rupture rumours are afoot that he was Colonel Fulgencio Batista is an for higher wages to meet the in. gest in French history the re into history to prove that the apprehended as Trotskyist. apt pupil of Gestapo crease in cost of living, but finan cord sum of a Not satisfied with the reign of cial observers wonder if it was francs, an increase 12, 934, 000, 000 has always been for the Trotskyist but, on the contrary, terror he has established on the of 17 unity of the proletariat. Going his record was that of an out island, his government not engineered by extreme Left over the 1937 war budget. The back to the Congress of Tours in spoken supporter of Stalinish: agent provocateursmana protes sends politicians with a view to creat. total armaments budget, which 920 when the French was But the assassinates and sional gunmen ing difficulties for the present includes the navy, the air and formed as the result of the adhe, persecutes not only revolution emigre circles.
among Cuban government and thus preparing colonial defense, well sion of a majority to the Third aries, but its own lackeys when return to power of a Cabinet over 30, 000, 000, 000 francs e, International, the resolution goes it suspects that the latter are Mexican police investigating the All this was established by the dominated by Socialists and over billion dollars, about the on to say: The working class not sincere in their protestations assassination of an emigre namCommunists.
size of the American armaments of France has thus known the of servility to Stalin.
ed Torrado. One of the suspects Two Alternatives Be budget. And when one considers hard proof of the split, which the size and population of France, the for its part, has never apprehended was classified as a fore Bourgeoisie the figure is staggering. It would considered as definitive. This is The insolence of American and well known Cuban gunman with correspond to considerably over the clearest expression of the British oil interests in Mexico very bad antecedents. The poObviously, if the strike wave billion dollars on the part of Stalinist line that the Third In reached new heights when they lice discovered on his person cregather momentum for as long American imperialism, which ternational should never have announced that they will not ac dentials from the Batista governas a week, the French revolution, even our jingoists haven begun been formed and thus there cept any government decision ment. One other suspect testified whose tempo has been extremely to reach.
should be organic unity with the granting the workers more than that the Cuban government, slow, will enter a new stage. The French bourgeoisie must In the debates, none (no So Second International naturally, 13 million pesos in wage increases. through the national Chief of then cialist or Communist. even on a reformist program.
This in spite of the fact that a Police, Pedaza, was responsible choose one of two alternatives. dreamed of questioning the need government commission investi for the murders of Torrada and Either they will decide to crush for strenthening to the utmost Role of in Strike gating the financial status of a number of other exiles.
the workers by force, using the the national defense of French Wave army and the fascists; or, they imperialism. When Daladier, the will drift along for a while with War Minister, declared. The Reports on the strike wave inthe current, make a few conces eyes of the army are fixed on dicate that the Stalinists sins, and then call upon their the frontiers and not on political supporting it; or, at least, not agents in the labor movement to strife, he was cheered on all opposing it. There are two imswindle the workers out of their benches. No, the only question portant reasons for this. 1) the gains. This would mean the for was why so much money had to membership of the is baof a Blum Thorez go be spent on armaments, so that sieally revolutionary in France.
vernment, where the Stalinists the balancing of the budget was They are the ones on strike. In would bear the brunt of the dirty being threatened.
order not to lose the support of work, e. the execution of the Here, the summary of the de. its following, and also to counterorders of the French bourgeoisie. bates printed in the Paris Le act the exposures of Barmine, In the event of a protracted strike Temps, of December 1, is amaz etc. the is forced to go movement, the latter is indubit ingly clear and most revealing along now the better to strangle Twenty Years After ably the more likely alternative. The chief factor in the increase the movement in the end, as For one thing, the fascist move of the credits demanded by the Blum did in 1936.
By VICTOR SERGE ment is by no means ready to Minister of War and National (2) There has been a veritable take power; and, even more im Defense for the 1938 budget as campaign in the bourgeois press. 00 portant, the French capitalists, compared with that of 1937 is against continuing the Francsand their British and American the rise of prices. The price Soviet Pact. It is only a serap copy of Serge From Lenin to Stalin will be FREE brethern, cannot afford, in view of a day food (for a soldier) of paper. Russia is a dubious given away free with each order for Russia of the international situation, is being increased from fr. 11 ally at best, etc. Thus, Stalin Trenty Year After which is received by Dec. 10th.
civil war in France at the mo to fr. you can just imagine can very well use the French ment.
what kind of slops the conscripts labor movement as blackmail Possible Truce Only this is less than 250 per day for He will sell it out yes, but for The Rise and Fall of the Communist International Temporary the average soldier. for a price! Namely, the continuation 1938. The coefficients of in of the French Soviet alliance.
by JAMES There is a third possibility. crease are 62 per cent for meat, The entirely new feature of That the government will be able 100 per cent for wine, 140 per the situation, therefore, is that. 50 to force through sufficient truces cent for uniforms (cloth. 165 the Stalinists appear likely to World Revolution by James may to break the momentum the per cent for boots. There is some play a dominant role. They will SPECIAL be purchased in a special combination strike movement. This would en thing still more serious. the no longer be able to escape the with The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trotable it to stay in office for some increase in prices for shells and responsibility for their tretch weeks, but would in no way bombs has gone up 109 per erous policies. The rank and file sky. 50: Both for 00 (Saving 00. change the basic analysis that cent. And if the army has of the French proletariat is face Order From we have made. The strike wave to pay such increases for basic to face with its most crucial excan be temporarily postponed or necessities, imagine what the perience. Inevitably, they will Pioneer Publishers diverted into so called peaceful economic situation of the average be forced to the conclusion that and orderly channels, but it is worker is, and you have the real only on the road of the Fourth 100 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, inherent in the entire economic cause of the strike wave. International lies their salvation.
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