Appeal to the Party Members in the Needle Trades FOR UNITED FRONT OF THE PARTY AND THE LEFT OPPOSITION AGAINST THE REACTIONARIES, THE PSEUDO PROGRESSIVES, AND THE RIGHT WING LIQUIDATORS. the Lovestoneites)
The pressure of facts in the struggle, bureaucratic maneuver which will only make labor mov...

THE YOUNG VANGUARD What is the Situation in the Youth Notes The Young Vanguard, the voice of the Left Opposition youth, is henceforth going to appear as a regular monthly section of the Militant. Through these columns we will endeavor to speak to the youth leaguers, as well as to the general work...

THE MILITANT «Progessives» Meet Published Iwice a Month by the Communist League of America (Opposition)
VOL. IV, No. (Whole No. 65 NEW YORK, MARCH 15, 1931 PRICE CENTS Prison.
ALetter from Exile Middle Class Impotence Can Solve the Burning Problems of Labor have already written you that one of th...

EDITORIAL NOTES MORE TREASON TO THE MINERS Events of the past week in the Illinois coal fields provide another striking illustration of the role of pseudo radicalism as a come on for reaction. The great revolt of the ininerx there, which broke out of the bonds of Lewis and his outspokenly reactio...

The Strike Strategy of the Left Wing The Anti Red Drive in Greece both organizations. The fact that the ru.
actionary leaders of the would resist should have been no deterrent. The workers would be sure to be in favor, which would swing them all the more under the In a serious discussion of probl...

THE SUCCESSES OF THE DANGERS OF SOCIALISM AND ADVENTURISM We have always emphasized the uniBy LEON TROTSKY times higher than with us.
versal and historical importance of the exThe power of primary mechanical inperiences and the economic successes of the the principal argument against the Trot wro...

Stalin Speech on the Five Year Plan Ghandi Makes His Peace with Imperialism Stalin speech at the conference of the published the following note under the title crees the completion of the Five Year Plan simple and as impotent as the urguments responsible directors of industry in the Sov Alarm Sig...

Elections in the Amalgamated: What For?
The Stalinists in the Hungarian Bureau Run Amuck conthe clothing workers has reached the climax. Too many grievances have accumulated. revolt in the is unavoidable. In this revolt, the cutters will play their part. They may be destined to strike The approac...

THE MILITANTS BOOKSHELF the fact that the vast majority of SocialDemocrats are almost entirely immersed in local work, which narrows their point ofview, limits their activities and affects their conspiratorial skill and training. It is to this fact of being scattered that we must ascribe the vaci...

LETTERS from the MILITANTS Organization Notes BOSTON Our branch here is now on a better working basis. For some months difficulties existed, arising out of disagree ments on how to proceed with practical activities, with the result that the branch work suffered and opportunities available were no...

THE MILITANT Published Twice VOL. VI, No. 18 (Whole No. 66 a Month by the Communist League of America (Opposition)
NEW YORK, APRIL 1, 1931 PRICE CENTS Illinois Mine Workers in Revolt What Has Happened in Illinois?
Rank and File Rebel Against Fishwick Lewis Agreement; New Union Call Issued MILITAN...

EDITORIAL NOTES would be changed and that our criticism warn the Communist workers against this would be a factor in hastening it.
danger.
Events have already confirmed this prediction, and unavoidably 90. The party THE DEATH OF JOHN DONLIN does not and cannot operate in vacuum.
John Donlin, vete...

For Economic Collaboration with Russia deals term German Communist pe ty, follows tais with a headline Five Year Plan Gives Work To Tens of Thousands of German Workers.
What part was played in this matter by the German Communists? Absolutely none.
The last census figures record more than By SAM G...

THE SUCCESSES OF THE DANGERS OF SOCIALISM AND ADVENTURISM (Continued from Last Issue)
dictionary.
combined coefficient of retardation of the that. But what we must not forget above At the conclusion of the five year plan, grain storage official, in explaining plan will thus be greater than 30 per...

The Communists and the Progressives Two years ago when the Muste moveBy JAMES CANNON In the course of the struggle we, of ment began to take shape in the Confercourse, will maintain our separate organience for Progressive Labor Action we de primarily a period of mental preparation of much more of...

larly in the trade union field: the result of Dressmaker Strike Ends such an investigation could only be murs Los Angeles «Radical»
parade.
The Agrarian Congress in Puebla whole On March 18, the Dally Worker published a brief Official announcement that the New York dresmakers strike called by the...

The European Grain Meet Communist Tasks and on February 28, they met for a two day the Workmens Circle As a first move in his general economic, and later, political unity plan, Briand called together twenty four European countries.
recently and France, The American Big Stick Succeeds in Disruptin...

Expansion Program Headway Organization Notes Expansion Program Since our last report of progress on our Program of Expansion we have received further definite word from various braches, The Minneapolis branch definitely pledges to raise 500. 00. The Boston branch pledges 100. 00. Two of our small...

Published Iwice a Month by the Communist League of America (Opposition)
VOL. VI, No. (Whole No. 67 NEW YORK, APRIL 15, 1931 PRICE CENTS THE MILITANT Republican Revolution in Spair Ill. Miners Convention Penn. Sedition Act Seeks Victims order.
Alfonso has quit the soil of Sr.
the hourgeois republi...

ITORIAL NOTES tures and held no conversations with ished lately with cooked up disclosures abou Lovestone. And that is not because we re overtures and conversations in the sumject the idea of talking to political op mer of 1930 is a third. All the rest folponents, but because to the leaders of th...

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The Trial of the Russian of the Russian Mensheviks The Illinois Miners Convention re What about u.
miners are streaming en mas THE REAL DISPOSITION OF THE FIGURES ON THE POLITICAL SCENE Secondly, at the convention to which the miners should not send delegates, acThe connection of the Mensheviks...

THE DANGERS OF SOCIALISM AND ADVENTURISM porte. Continued from the Last Issue)
By LEON TROTSKY of Soviet economy is decided economically Pravda itself (October 27) is compelled in the knot of foreign trade, just as it is to observe: This danger is all the more acute and men different matter of li...

NOTES OF JOURNALIST we Revolution in Spain STALIN AND THE COMINTERN By ALFA In the course of his opposition struggle, Lominadze put into circulation one of find better ones? They haven any revoluhis conversations with Stalin about the Com tionaries. Naturally, if we could give them intern. The in...

N. May Day Conference who had spoken from the sat platforms being disrupted. After the Clevelar with him, who had helped organize together ing, which was held in the party con with him, believed that he too should be Workers Home, the Uj Elore published tuu excluded from the conference. For. sald...

Defend the Philly Militants. Organization Notes THE LAST OPEN FORUM Several weeks have elapsed since the task to defend workers as soldiers in the THE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE ORGANIZATION PROGRAM arrest of comrades Goodman and Morgen class struggle. To pretend that the stern of the Philadelphia branch...