THE CLAS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, 1918 No. Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 119 Lafayette St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor. LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORR VOL. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, 1918 No. A Letter from Leon Trotzky to Ex Minister Jules Guesde CONTENTS Page Letter from Leon Trotzky to Ex Minister Jules Guesde Samuel Gompers. By Adolph Germer 15 Peace and the International. By Rosa Luxemburg 16 25 The Proletarian Revolution in Russia. By Louis Fraina 29 Armistice on all Fronts. By Ludwig Lore 68 72 The Common Enemy. By Boudin 73 95 Disarmament. By Fabian.
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Bolshewiki the Masters of the Revolution. By Louis Brandt 101 105 Plechanow and Breshkovskaya. By Algassov 107 10:3 Documents for Future Socialist History Forward! By Leon Trotzky. The Coup Etat of October 25. Menshivist View.
By Martov 110 112 Current Affairs.
113 123 The Peace Negotiations. Eleventh Hour Conversions. Who Speaks Our National Executive Committee. St. Louis and After.
Translated by MARIUS. This letter was first printed in the French periodical Demain, of the Zimmerwaldist Guilbeaux, Geneva, August, 1917. It was addressed to Jules Guesde when the Government of the French Republic, in coalition with the Social patriots, ordered the expulsion of one of the most enlightened and self sacrificing representatives of international Socialism. Mr. Minister: Before leave the soil of France, under the escort of a police officer, who personifies the liberties in whose defense you were appointed to the national ministry, consider it my duty to express to you a few thoughts, not in the vain hope that they may convince you, but that they may at least be useful and of value against you. When my expulsion from France was decided upon, your colleague, Mr. Malvy, the Minister of Justice, did not have the courage to tell me the reasons for this measure. Nor did that other of your colleagues, the Minister of War, consider it proper to enumerate the causes that led to the suppression of the Russian newspaper Nashe Slovo (Our Word. of which was the editor, and which had, for two long years, suffered continually the trials of censorship, under the watchful eye and special care of that same Minister of War.
Still need not conceal from you the fact that the reasons that led to my expulsion are no secret to me. You felt the need of adopting repressive measures against an international Socialist, against one of those who refuse to accept the part of defender or voluntary slave of this imperialistic war.
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