102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 103 The attitude of American courts of justice toward labor in the past has by no means justified undue optimism. If one can speak of class justice anywhere it is here in America, where its operations have been so shameless that even Samuel Gompers has been ...

62 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 63 accept revolutionary action, and the conservatism of which, moreover, is strengthened by the party bureaucrats dominant in its management.
The People Council is being used by the Socialist Party officials to make votes for the party. This may succeed, temporarily, ...

C 96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TASK OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 97 Let us take, as an example, the question of the President of the Republic. In a Republic the president appears as the head of the State, just as the monarch represents the head of the State in monarchy. The greatest majority of the r...

104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 105 CURRENT AFFAIRS all Socialists to fight their own capitalist governments and give no quarter. By using Liebknecht name in this peculiar manner they not only do injustice to the Socialist movement of the United States but create an impression of Karl Liebknecht which can...

2 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER FROM LEON TROTZKY Moreover, even though the reasons for this action against me have not been communicated to me, whom they above all concern, these reasons have been stated by Mr. Briand to the deputies and to the journalists.
In Marseilles last August a number of Russ...

43 THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE of the proletariat. The Mensheviki represented those social elements which everywhere have dominated organized Socialismthe intellectuals, liberal democrats, small traders and the lower bourgeoisie, and above all, skilled labor, which everywhere...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 47 the power of the proletariat, and that it was necessary to stir the European proletariat into action. Moreover, the Bolsheviki organized a campaign to split the peasantry, to align the proletarian peasantry with the revolutionary workers. This p...

52 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 53 action to defend the Revolution. demonstration was organized for July 17 in Petrograd. All parties, including the Bolsheviki, tried to prevent the demonstration, the Bolsheviki because they knew counter revolutionary gangs had been organized to ...

J ACCUSE 65 64 THE CLASS STRUGGLE do not attribute this to the ill will of individuals. Individuals have made mistakes. The great tragedy lay in the labor movement itself, lay in the supremacy that the bureaucratic machine of this labor movement has won over the future aims and interests of the p...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF CAPITALISM 73 72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Recent Development of Capitalism in Japan By KATAYAMA Japan is a snug home of modern capitalism. The government of Japan has been very eager to make it so. It helped capitalism to grow, politically and financially, in every possible manne...

88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OLD MASTERS 89 After the revolution of 1848 had failed to create a united Germany the German government tried to utilize the growing need of economic unity, for dynastic purposes, to create, not a united Germany, but as the then King William put it, an elongated Prussia....

90 THE CLASS STRUGGLE OUR OLD MASTERS 91 Notwithstanding the severity with which Marx and Engers condemned the annexation of Alsace Lorraine, they never supported the French agitation for revenge, after the annexation had become an accomplished fact. Always and ever, they were guided by the princ...

OUR OLD MASTERS 92 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 93 war in which Russians and Frenchmen invaded Germany would be to the latter a life and death struggle, in which its national existence could be assured only by the application of the most revolutionary measures. The present government will surely not open u...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE TRIAL with the operations for the success of the military and naval forces of the United States, and the charge is based directly and simply on these men membership in the that they have received cards of membership, voted in meetings, paid dues and distributed literature...

18 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PASSING OF THE NATION 19 its own product as directly answers its needs, and exchanging the balance with similar producing organizations for such useful articles as it does not itself produce. And this view is undoubtedly justified by the historic origins of the modern na...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 39 advantage of their victory. Nor has the revolution given to Russia any war measure that would place it at an advantage over its opponents.
And there is still another difference. The significance of the French revolution was tremendous. It was the si...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 49 Political Parties in Russia By LENIN. Aids to an understanding of the proposed platform drawn up by Lenin for discussion at Bolshevik meetings. The printing of the proposed platform has thus far been held up only by the insufficient typographical resources at Petrograd. T...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 51 Small entrepreneurs, small and middle class proprietors, small and more or less well to do peasants, petite bourgeoisie, as well as those workers who have submitted to a bourgeois point of view. Class conscious workers, day laborers and the poo...

56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL PARTIES IN RUSSIA 57 made from the Germans (their colonies) and take away from the Germans all conquests made by those robbers. We shall, since we have not yet relinquished all the unfounded hopes which the petite bourgeoisie attaches to the capitalists. No, for th...

410 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LABORISM AND SOCIALISM 411 Laborism and Socialism An Analysis of the Inter Allied Socialist and Labor Program on Peace, and the British Labor Party Program on Recon:irúction after the War.
By LOUIS FRAINA our Socialist activity, activity that is dynamic and prepares the Rev...

438 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 439 Allies naturally suspected every approach on the part of the Bolsheviki as an effort to obtain information for the German army. But even that is no excuse at all. For more than a year the press has been shouting that Lenine and Trotzky are paid agents of ...

454 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 455 Reconstruction in Russia resentative of the Finnish Workers Republic, am officially sending your Government a proposition of mediation between America and the Russian Soviets. Not that for a moment believe that such a proposition will be enterta...

456 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 457 Capitalism. The revolutionary Socialist assumes that the process must be a revolutionary process operating upon the basis of the proletarian state a process of reconstruction which alone annihilates Capitalism and introduces Socialism. Moreover,...

458 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 459 sion of the masses, its bureaucracy, and its anti proletarian character. The new state is the state of the organized producers; as the old state was an instrument for the coercion of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, so the new state is an ins...

280 THE CLASS STRUGGLE MARX AND THE INTERNATIONAL 281 99 of labor. He described the purpose of capitalist development in the years after 1845. He described the terrible misery that existed on the one hand, the mad thirst for wealth of the ruling class on the other. It is a great fact, that the mi...