100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 101 Meyer London In the last election the Twelfth Congressional District sent Meyer London for the second time to the House of Representatives. But America working class is without a representative in Congress.
Rarely is the representative of a revolutionary...

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 ...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 41 40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The Russian Revolution and its Problems By MORRIS KOLCHIN The failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and of the revolutionary movement was brought about by a combination of forces. The bourgeoisie, hoping to obtain a home market and the freedom t...

42 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 43 and the conflict remained unsettled, the needs unsatisfied. To be sure, great changes were made, important reforms introduced.
The dissolution of the peasant communities, the division of community lands and the sale of a great number of nobility est...

44 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 45 True, this opposition of the bourgeoisie was rather of a harmless nature, for it was also in opposition to any non parliameniary steps, but it isolated the autocracy completely. It gave aid and comfort to the working class who remained as revolution...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 47 46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE All these days the Duma Committee was irresolute, for the members of the committee realized that the council was the real power, that the council and not the committee had the masses behind it. True, the committee did appoint commissions to look aft...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 49 coalition cabinet as their victory, and in some socialist quarters of the United States it was considered a victory for socialism.
It was of course neither of the two, it was a hard blow to socialism, to the socialist movement of the world. True, on...

LABOR AND DEMOCRACY 61 60 THE CLASS STRUGGLE formerly bitter critics of the of acquiesced in every single reactionary action. The disgusting level to which these renegades stooped may be seen in the pledge which they and every other delegate had to sign. The undersigned hereby affirm that it is t...

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...

4 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LETTER FROM LEON TROTZKY Republic, for the Franco Russian alliance and its consequences, for the conquest aims of the Czar, and for all the aims and methods of this war it remains for you to accept as well the renown for the deeds of these agents provocateur of his Majesty th...

THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 33 32 THE CLASS STRUGGLE former, the phrase surpasses the substance; with this one, the substance surpasses the phrase.
It is only in appearance, accordingly, that the Russian Revolution and its stages are comparable with previous revolutions. In one stage alone is this...

34 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 35 influence, and a new ideology. Industry developed in great proportions, absorbed from without and reproducing all the features of large scale, concentrated industry. The industrial technology, not being developed slowly from within but acquired ...

38 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 39 antagonism of the proletariat to the bourgeois policy is not disorganized, inchoate, unaware of means and purposes: but organized and disciplined, the instincts of the masses unerringly pointing the way to future action, in spite of immediate he...

40 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 41 tions and control of industry weights the balance in favor of the ruling class. Revolutions march from action to action; action, more action, again action, supplemented by an audacity that shrinks at nothing, these are the tactics of the proleta...

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...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 49 talk but could not act, because of the antagonism of class interests; or else, under the pressure of events, it might act, but in the interest of one or the other group. It was no accident of history that the head of this government was Kerensky...

50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 51 tionary policy was abandoned, and the Council co operated with the infamous gathering of the social patriots at Stockholm, against the protests of the Bolsheviki, who insisted on co operation only with revolutionary Socialism. It required only t...

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 ...

THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 57 56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The rapidity of events should not obscure their developmental character. As a revolutionary process, the proletarian revolution in Russia has developed through all the necessary historical stages. The overthrow of Czarism resulted in the establi...

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...