C. Ordered to Work for Victory Of Stalin Hitler War Alliance IN THIS CORNER at 116 SHERMAN SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939 Ukraine is at this moment one of the most imSOCIALIST APPEAL portant strategic slogans to set in motion the new VOL. III, No. 73 Tuesday, September 26, 1939 revolutionary upsurge.
It is primarily from this point of view that Published Twice Weekly by the revolutionary workers should view the present SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASSN 16 University Place, New York, events in the eastern section of the old Polish imperialist state.
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shibboleths coined by the different imperialist The military alliance between Hitler and Stalin, The Communist Party has giving American help to either ponds to the shifting needs and Reentered as second class matter February 16. 1933, et the post office at New York, NY, under the Act of March camps for purposes of deception. Defense and just announced its new line on side of the imperialist conflict; tactics of Stalin, cruelly attested by the partition of Poland, undoubt3, 1899.
edly has deeper implications than appear on the Aggression, the inviolability of artificial na the war situation in a Declara. second, find the most effective The first phase of the second tion to the American People. means of keeping the out world war opened with the Gersurface. We do not refer to the latest discoveries MAX TMAN tional borders established by previous military (Daily Worker, Sept. 19. of war, without any regard to man invasion of Poland immeabout the Soviet Union and the Stalinist regime THE CHARACTER OF force, the struggle of ideologies, the right whether these means incident diately following the signing of made by the Serious Thinkers of the democratic Associate EMANUEL GARRETT of one gang of imperialist robbers to what they THE WAR ally happen to conter some the Hitler Stalin Pact.
front. When it appeared that Stalin would enter FELIX MORROW The war that has broken small advantage to one side or Stalin desired a prolonged the war against Hitler on the side of England and General Manager: TASLEY have previously stolen and the right of another France, these Thinkers were magnanimously willMARTIN ABERN out in Europe is the Second Im the other.
war between Anglo French imgang to regain what it has lost and conquer more perialist War. The ruling capit It finds peace and pro war perialism and German Fascing to paste the label of democracy on the Moscow autocrats. Fundamentally imperialist patriots all this kind of talk is conscious deception to alist and landlord classes of all forces on both sides of the ism. Even after he signed the both before the Stalinazi pact and after it, they are FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST fool the people. Whoever permits himself to be the belligerent countries are dispute on raising the arms em pact with Hitler, probably in now just as lightmindedly declaring that there is WORKERS PARTY FOR: swayed or influenced in his judgments by such equally suilty for this war, it bargo and condemns those cluding secret terms for joint not, after all, a particle of difference between Hit who demand the repeal or re division of Poland, the Baltic ler and Stalin, between Fascist Germany and the job and a decent living for every worker. considerations, whoever indulges in this kind of But. the day after Eng vision of the Act for the pur countries, etc. he feared above Soviet Union. Open the idle factories operate them under chatter, thereby takes his place either as a con land and France declared war pose of help to British and all, a quick victory of Hitler in They never understood the first thing about the workers control.
scious agent or a helpless dupe of one imperialist der Se invasion tool Poland, the Eye ara wingeramerica minoltre the hostile camps by a German Soviet Unton de regime and its foreign policy, and Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works camp or another. The revolutionary movement, Dally Worker wrote. war.
and housing program.
case; quite often, however, they understand well under penalty of annihilation, must rigorously ing. three fronts: the front of present war, the Daily Worker That is why at this stages the Two weeks ago, during the raine, that is, a new Munich.
enough but are interested for good and patriotic 30 weekly minimum wagequarantine its ranks against infections.
fascist aggressive imperialism declared in a leading editorial in assigned to his agents in the reasons in not having anyone else understand 30 hour weekly maximum for all workers on all jobs.
On exactly the same order is the democratic which has been waging the war In his radio speech to the democratic countries mothe The New Bureaucracy clap trap about the identity of bolshevism and for the past two and a halt nation following the outbreak task of arousing mass move Among the forces that impelled Stain to make Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability fascism, and about the Soviet Union and Hitler years.
There is the camp of of war in Europe, President ments of pressure on the resthe pact with Hitler, there is one that has received pension.
Germany being one and the same thing. This which this war is directed, but which it seems to us have the most vigorous prosecution of no treatment in the general press: the new bureau Expropriate the Sixty Families.
cracy that has developed in Russia in the recent idea. to dignify a stupid fraud with a desig had been retreating. And then approval of the majority of the the war by Anglo French impe7. All war funds to the unemployed.
there is the third front, the real American people. rialism against Hitler. They years.
nation it does not deserve is only the ideolog8. people referendum on any and all wars.
peace front, which, so far, inBefore his saddening capitulation to the Stalinist When the President spoke of were instructed to attack the ical justification for the advocacy of a war of cludes the Soviet Union as its a true neutrality for America alleged indecisiveness of Chamclique, Christian Rakovsky wrote in exile one of No secret diplomacy.
main country along with the we feel that American interest berlain and Daladier and to the most interesting and penetrating analyses of democracy versus totalitarianism, and is al10. An independent Labor Party.
the transformation of the Soviet ruling circles we most invariably followed by it. That is all right throughout the world who sup Neutrality Act which now independent Poland by a new peoples demands the repeal of the false warn against their betrayal of have ever seen. He traced the profound changes 11. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante that had taken place in the leading staff of the for imperialists and their social democratic lack port it. Daily Worker, Sept. stands exposed as being the op. Munich.
and Fascist attacks.
Bolsheviks after more than a decade of the revoposite of a true neutrality. It However, events move with 12. Full social, politioal and economic equality eys. They need deception, they need to muddle Questions and Answers. II. WHAT SHOULD THE MASS is obviously not in America lightning rapidity. Hitler con lution. Most of those who had gone through the rigfor the Negro people, things up in order to lure the worker into a war ors of the fight against czarism, of the world war, ES IN THE BELLIGERENT Interest, not in the Interest of quered the western sections of against his own interests. But it is shameful and COUNTRIES DO? true neutrality that America Poland, and Stalin decided to of the two revolutions and the civil war and intervention that followed, had grown tired. World rev.
impermissable for a revolutionary worker to toy The recent Declaration of shut off its trade with Poland, jinvade the eastern regions of Stalin Invasion of with these false and treacherous formulations. the states: England, France, Canada and Poland. The second phase of the olution? Perhaps, but not in our time; so why waste Communists in all the bellig Australia. Sept. war was thus opened by Rus efforts on promoting it. Faith in the vast resources Those who do so have already put one foot in that had brought them to power, gave way to cynerent countries are exposing the The slogans of action ad sia open military alliance Polish Ukraine the camp of the class enemy.
imperialist and predatory char opted by the national comittee with Germany for the partition icism. The disolation of the country was taken for acter of the war, they will vote of the Communist Party on of Poland. Continued from Page 1)
Stalinist Bureaucracy Doomed against war credits, they go Sept. include: Stalin sent out new instruc Stalin? scoundrel, but a brutal one you couldn The nationalized economy established by the among the soldiers at the fronts Full moral, diplomatic and tions. The Poland of Beck and The secret motives which prompted this imOctober revolution has shown its vitality and suand the masses at home ex economic help for the Polish Smigly. Ridz, which yesterday Meanwhile, hold fast to everything you can, including the not inconsiderable and not uncomfortable mediate militray action are not known to us.
privileges of the bureaucratie hierarchy.
Whether there was a secret agreement with Hit periority under every test over a period of more the people nothing but misery, land defend its national inde ple of the world, suddenly be came a fascist and imperialist And these privileges, which gave the party func ler for the partition of Poland; whether Hitler than twenty years of world crisis and internal burdens, destruction and pendence. Embargo Japan and Ger country. The support of Anglo tionary a decent apartment in town and perhaps a army advanced further than Stalin anticipated convulsions. It survived the early wars of inter death.
But. the Communist Par. many for the defeat of fascist French imperialism by the and the invasion of the Red Army was hastily vention and a great civil war in a country al ties of France and England vot aggression and for establishing Communist parties in the first at his disposal, plus, perhaps, one of his own, an decided as a protection of the Soviet border from ready devastated By the ravages of Russia pared for the same war, told the a democratic peace. Sept. stage, is now to be converted in better and then a much better gown for his Wite plus a bit of finery all these contributed to general atmosphere that imperceptibly but inexthe fascist partner. whether a re shufiling of ticipation in the world war. It has survived over soldiers at the fronts and the so that on the question of the to an opposition to the war as a an agonizing period of fifteen years of the Ther for national security and ures that the workers in the bel. der support to Roosevelt orably washed out it of his consciousness all the rev olutionary feeling and spirit that possible the anticipated or feared, with Hitler, bought off by midorian reaction of Stalin. Stalin could physic against dascist ateression lerent countries should take, program of uning up the great working class triumph in November 1917 these treacherous actions of should do, the Communist Par and France is now changed into Since Rakovsky made this study, which we re on the Soviet Union from the vantage ground made the revolution, but he could not destroy its their colleagues ly has renounced the position an opposition to the President printed some time ago in the New International Maurice Thorez, the transformation fruit the new system of nationalized economy.
general which they defended in the first proposal to lift the embargo and has proceeded at a terrific of conquered Poland the secret moves and the pace. The decisive element in the Soviet bureauhidden cards are not known to us.
He could undermine it, weaken it, choke its de secretary of the great French days of the war (to say nothing a campaign against those who Communist Party, has present of the pre war Stalinist pro seek to drag the United States cracy is no longer the degenerated old Bolshevik.
velopment and reduce it ih many respects to a ed himself for military service gram. into the war.
In fact, his whole generation has been wiped out Real Road to Liberation frightful caricature of its natural operation un with the army of France.
The Communist parties have physically. ex oppositionists and capitulators KREMLIN AUTOCRATS been ordered to do all in their along with real oppositionists. Its place has been But we do know that Stalin military invasion der a truly revolutionary regime. But up to the Now that Munich has led to war, Thorez, the Communist DICTATE LINE power to help the victory of the taken by a new generation which now makes up of Eastern Poland is inspired solely by the one present he has not been able to overthrow it. leader beloved of the French the bulk of the bureaucratic apparatus.
The zig zag course of the Stalin Hitler alliance. As agmotive that inspires all the actions and policies The mission of the reactionary Stalinist bu people, offers his life to defend Communist Party cannot be unents of these dictators natural No Ties With the Revolution of the Stalinists the self preservation of the reaucracy was to destroy all the conquests of the the national security of derstood unless one all import. Hy they speak against the oppoThe new bureaucracy has no real ties with the bureaucratic caste. The Ukrainian and White October revolution and transform the Soviet Un France. Daily Worker Edito ant fact is kept in mind: the nents of their masters, that is grand revolutionary tradition. The tradition is either horribly distorted or else looked upon with Russian people were not consulted; their rights ion into a colony of world imperialism. But, The next day its London cor in every country determined American imperialism. These the upstart contempt. The socialist foundations and desires are of no more concern to Stalin than after fifteen years, the Stalinist bureaucracy enrespondent reported that the at each stage by the dictates of unscrupulous tools seek to utilupon which the life even of a man like, let us say.
to the Polish masters who ruled and oppressed ters the period of the new World War, which vigorously proclaimed that it An occasional misunderstand working class against all impe Zinoviev, was built and maintained, at least to one degree, or another, are entirely absent in the new bureaucratic layers. To the latter, socialist The unhappy people who suddenly find them spells its doom in any case, with its reactionary continues to work more active ing on the mastems understand walkmanla sagainst star Homme selves under the gruesome protection of Stalin distorted and twisted out of shape in many rewar against fascist aggres ried out clumsily by bewildered their bosses. That is the real terminology and slogans play about the same role as did the anti capitalist slogans of the Nazi masion. Sept. henchmen. particularly when meaning of the new line of the chine a few years ago: a means of duping the will find the road to their true liberation only spects, still retains its basic features. That is the III. WHAT SHOULD THE they are changed so suddenly! Communist parties, contemptible masses.
when they unite with their brothers on the Rus great difference between the Soviet Union and AMERICAN PEOPLE DO? Browder, Thorez and Pollitt (The Socialist Appeal will All of them, of course, are ardent champions of sian side of the border in a determined struggle all the capitalist states, including the fascist. The latest line states: received their line of yesterday continue the analysis of the new the theory of socialism in a single country. First, allow no single meas and of today from Moscow. line in coming issues. Ed)
for an independent Soviet Ukraine, a stage in which, as Trotsky pointed out in 1928, gives them The war will prove which is the stronger. If a feeling of Messianic Russian superiority. This the revolutionary struggle for the re constitution the Stalinist bureaucracy is not overthrown by feeling has been fostered systematically by the of a Soviet federation of free peoples purged of the Russian masses, the Soviet economy will purely Great Russian patriotic propaganda of the the treacherous parasitic caste of bureaucrats surely go down in ruins and be superseded by the past years, the glorification of most of the despots of czarist times, of victorious reactionary generals, whose name is Stalinism.
restoration of capitalist private property and a and the like It is not by accident that the newly.
This idea, advanced with remarkable foresight genuine fascist counter revolution. On the other appointed official, equipped with plenipotentiary by Comrade Trotsky some months ago, reveals hand, if the Soviet masses overthrow the bupowers by the Kremlin, operates in the provinces, and especially in the national republic of the So itself already as the great illuminating slogan of reaucracy, they will be able, thanks to the ecoviet Union, in the spirit of imperial arrogance so the peoples caught in the three sided trap of Stal nomic system inherited from the October revo(Continued from Page 1) the same time both call for ever Nevertheless, it is quite probin, Hitler and the allied imperialists. This slogan Jution, to overcome all adversaries, and the Sovi veut to Landon of national un bigger armaments, and both able that the war measures to characteristic of the czar chinovniks.
of self determination, penetrating deeply into the mass of Ukrainian people can fuse them together tionary solution of the war.
et system will conquer all of Europe in a revolu partisanship in the crisis. In able the Sixty Families to gain win not be limited to repeal of entirely devold of the spirit of socialism and interother words, the authoritative a maximum of war profits the reprhatians, New balik armed imitating the successes of Hitler, for whom across all the artificial national borders and in They lie who say that the Soviet Union and pledged that in relation to the smokescreen or the bitter ena at civil rights, new legislation admiration? Far from being inconceivable, it is spire them with the hope of salvation.
the fascist countries are the same. They lie who war no personal or factional fight over the arms embargo, preparing for conscription and more than likely. gang that was able to frame up The Need Is Social Revolution say there is nothing left of the social conquests differences will interfere with both groups aim to suppress the Day may well reach the floor and destroy the whole leading staff of the Bolshevik before the session adjourns.
their united defense of the in democratic demand for a The defense of the Soviet Union, e. the de of the revolution worth fighting for. The issue is revolution on the most infamous of charges, is terests of United States imper lar referendum to decide the Roosevelt ended his speech on capable of anything. They are far from having fense of the great conquests of the October rev not yet decided. We know that Stalin is capable ialism.
question of entry into the war, an ominous note. should like to be able to reached the boundaries of their degeneration; oltuion in the field of economy, will not be weak of any treachery. But Stalinism, by its very naAs the Special Session open If either of them actually were they still have more than one surprise in store ened, but on the contrary would receive a mighty ture, is a transitional regime. It is incompatible impotent isolationist bloc, head try out of the war, how could pass. cannot. The facts comed, seventeen members of the serious about keeping this coun offer the hope that the shadow for us.
reinforcement by the revolutionary overthrow of with the further existence and development of ed by Senators Borah Vanden, they argue against the popular pels my stating with candor How much pressure does this layer exert upon the formation of official Kremlin policy? Far more the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Ukraine and the the Soviet economy. It is incapable of conducting ber. Hiram Johnson, Clark and referendum?
construction of an independent Soviet republic a war. The war, which it fears above all because LaFollette, held their own oppothan most people imagine both direct and indirect pressure. There is no doubt in our mind that their sition conference to map parlia the delegates to the special While Congress was opening, that darker periods may lie there. Such a free republic would unquestionably, it necessarily arms the masses and sets them in mentary strategy. This confera Pan American conference were future danger to the security of Further, in the event of any influence will be even more openly revealed in the period ahead. little thing like a military alliance and of necessity, turn immediately to the masses motion, draws its bloody days to an end.
with Hitler, another detail like partitioning Poland, of Great Russia with the proposal of economic, Will the Soviet Union itself, will the national caually pleased to ignitshipatria the coast artillery at Panama. event of need for any new leg or the Baltic or the Balkans, with Hitler, still anpolitical and military cooperation in a reconsti ized economy perish with the perfidious regime otism and non partisanent open This meeting, designed to com islation of importance. will other detail like carving up China between Russia and Japan all these are trifles in the mind of an tuted Soviet federation, rouse them to their feet of the bureaucracy, or will the Soviet Union, ing up in the Special Session Perence in bringing all of Latin immediately reconvene the con eager and rapacious bureaucracy which is interand aid them in a revolutionary fight to wipe the purged of the bureaucracy by a victorious polit takes on the character in America under the firm domin session ested entirely and exclusively in keeping itself in accursed bureaucracy off the face of the earth. ical revolution, surge up with a new invincible to appear to the public as the supervised by the reactionary sions about the new legislation Let no one be under any illupower And if its sell preservation means the radical By the inspiration of this example the incalcu power. that is the question to which the fur defenders of peace and the under Secretary of State, Sum of importance which Roose alteration of the foundation of present day Soviet lable revolutionary energies of the German pro ther development of the war will indubitably America out of the war. At Roosevelt has asked the Spe spoke: He meant, simply and economy, it will not hesitate too long before mak letariat, dammed up so long by the combination give an answer.
ing that alteration, even if it means the restoration of capitalist private ownership of the means of of fascist terror and Stalinist betrayal, could Let those predict the worst disaster who will; Harlem Mass Meeting exclusively to revision of the flatly, the declaration of war.
production and exchange. During the war.
again find release and sweep through Germany an identification of the Soviet Union with fascist THE NEGRO AND WAR Neutrality Act. Insofar as this Bound Volume of Trotsky said two years ago, the allies can impose and all Europe in a mighty, irresistible flood. capitalism is a renunciation of the struggle in Wed. Sept. 27, p. attention to the terrible condi SOCIALIST APPEAL on the Soviet Union such concessions that the Soviet state can become a bourgeois state.
Humanity, trapped in the bloody shambles of an advance. There is a trace of revolutionary at the tion of the unemployed, left NOW AVAILABLE What percentage or section of the bureaucracy other war, would find the way out on the road will in such an attitude. But the revolutionary 180 West 138th St. stranded by the Roosevelt First months of 1939 will be the victim of such concessions, and wha: of social revolution. The war, in fact, so far worker will cling to the end to everything that SPEAKERS: Woodrum relief bill, which has (52 issues)
percentage the beneficiaries, may soon be seen McKinney sent WPA rolls down to a new from sounding the death knell of revolution, as remains of the great conquests of October and 00, including postage In any case, it is not decisive. Decisive for the Rueben Plaskett low of 1, 600. 000, insofar as it Order now from: salvation of the remaining conquests of the Russian philistines, pessimists, skeptics and cowards defend it, arms in hand, against all enemies.
Nathan Gould means no measures whatever SOCIALIST APPEAL Revolution is the position and the action that will imagine, has put the social revolution on the That is the way matters stand in all events afStanley Jobes that would be of benefit to the 116 University Pl.
be taken by those numerous millions in whose ADMISSION FREE workers of the country, he will order of the day. The slogan of an independent fecting the Soviet Union in these fateful days.
New York City hands lies Russia future the now gagged and undoubtedly have his way.
fettered workers and peasants.
Roosevelt Message to Congress Session Speeds War Intervention popu ahead.