EDITORIAL NOTES The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern This gels, signifies the disappearance of the To make confusion worse confounded, political state which is conceivable only as in the characteristic manner of Stalinist a class instrument, the organized power revisionism, the editorial demands ...

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RALLY to the DEFENSE of the SCOTTSBORO BOYS!
Au Appeal to Our Readers United Working Class Front Will Prevent a Legalized Lync...

Seasonal Improvement. Where? Weekly by July1 Montreal 46 TROTSKY The Revolution in Spain a The Question of Trade Union Unity we NO The hope of American capitalism in wage cuts. But this plan to institue wage (Continued from page 1)
pect every comrade to do more than the the Spring period to indic...

The Unemployed Cutters Rebel thers by sharing their work with them.
The demand of the unemployed for a 36hour week with 40 hours pay is a reasonable one and can be carried out by the union with the assistance of the cutters in the shops.
All the above mentioned conditions are absolutely necessary...

«America Conquers Britain»
church, who will give their blessing in the name of Jesus Christ. We may quote here an expert in these matters. Rear Admiral Fisk, Retired; Your economic prosperity rests ultimately on your world banker, she is being superseded by ability to defend it. Your prosperity m...

What Is Happening In Spain Today: Recent Events to come to one conclusion after reading these articles: if the bureaucrats strike so riolently against the Trotskyites. it is because they are pretty strong there. These readers will not be deceived. In fact, if we are not very strong from the organ...

The Question of Trade Union Unity We propose The question of the unity of the workers organizations is not subject to a single solution suitable for all forms of organization and for all conditions.
The question resolves itself most categorically for the party. Its complete in.
dependence is the ...

Results of the Illinois Miners Revolt wing.
even Who Has the «Leopard Spots. The result of the miners convention held at St. Louis on April 15 has already been characterized by us as another setback to the most recent rank and file revolt. It failed to materialize in the formation of a new union....

EDITORIAL NOTES their own bail. Up to the present date the party, through tht door of Muste and the Party press has suppressed all news of counterfeit militants. and thus to close their case. The publicity ignores the avenue of approach to the Communist them. On top of that the united front con w...

TROTSKY: Trade Union Unity ONDAGE THEMILITANT Revolutionary Progress in Spain Published Iwice (Opposition)
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The Militant and the Events in Spain The Tasks of Spanish ...

THE YOUNG VANGUARD Youth Notes The Young Communist League Convention the socialism of the Hillquits, the Lees, the Vanderveldes, the MacDonalds. They are supporters and instruments of the capiTHE YOUNG VANGUARD talists in time of need. This is the kind In the last issue of the Young Vanguard of s...

LETTERS from the MILITANTS Letter of a Deported Oppositionist ON THE PARTY TURN IN THE NEEDLE TRADES BOSTON. At the last council meeting of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, Finegold reported for the National Board on the change in policy for the union. He declared that the had decided ...

Organization Notes tions. There is, of course, plenty of oppor you are about to extend further, appears tunity left for others also to become certi to me to be excellent. We cannot seriously ficate holders.
approach the masses without steeling our The first book of be published by the own cadres ...

The Theory of Stalinism and the Revolution 111 Span.
reOne of the surest marks of the philisBy MAX SHACHTMAN more dangerous.
tine in the revolutionary movement is his Paradoxically enough, it appears that contempt for the theories which underlie it. archists lie the threat to both of them of may ...

JC CASE OF RIAZANOV At the moment we write these lines, By LEON TROTSKY would have gained by that? Who sought we know nothing about the expulsion from this international scandal around the name the party of Riazanov except what is com party. But the Riazanov affair cannot foreign languages. Bolsh...

Next Steps in the Needle Trades The Daily Worker Explains Some Differences Potash is now proposing with the discredited labor skate Sorkin (of the Furriers. It seems that the Potashes have learned nothing from the past betrayals. Again we hear the voice of the Lovestone ideology The four weeks st...

EDITORIAL NOTES TROTSKY The Revolution in Spain Miners Revolt Checked at Muste Confab The LAVAVAVO ADb ALLOC SUVILAUAY LA VLLL LL LLL to put social questions on the agenda for that avenues of escape from the working free discussion without arbitrary professor class are becoming fewer and narrower...

THEMILITANT Workers, Out On May Day!
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PRICE CENTS ous charges of dumping to distract the workers attention from the capitalist criminals at home to whom they owe their distress a...

Slogan of the Hour Day The and the Unemployment Problem present moment in England. This is an That the struggle for social important point in their exposure.
presents greater dangers of oppor cu.
All of the above does not prevent the viations goes without saying. The history revolutionary party f...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...