262 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LEFT OR RIGHT?
263 For decades the Socialist movement of the world has predicted the coming of a great world war. Yet when it came, five years ago, it found the international Socialist movement totally unprepared. The leaders of Socialist thought in Europe and in this count...

260 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LEFT OR RIGHT?
261 This same policy of straddling, of begging every question until circumstances force a decision has dominated the party ever since it has become a recognized force in this country.
And that is particularly true in its treatment of organized labor. For deca...

258 THE CLASS STRUGGLE LEFT OR RIGHT?
259 promise everywhere, condoning the outrages committed by social patriots, on one hand, making occasional concessions to the party membership which clamored for more revolutionary methods, on the other.
nay more, it vehemently insisted upon his re nominatio...

THE CLAJ STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE AUGUST, 1919 No. Devoted to International Socialism PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 15 Spruce St. New York City Issued Every Month 25 a Copy; 00 a Year Vol. III Editors: EUGENE DEBS, LOUIS FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE VOL. III AUGUST, 1919 No. Left o...

THE CLAY STANGGLE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. III AUGUST, 1919 No. What is Bolshevism?
By Rosa Luxemburg The Development of Socialism from Science into Action By Karl Radek The By Max Eastman Russia and Germany By Sachs Left or Right?
By Ludwig Lore Samples of Allied and Bolshevist Pr...

256 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE MYSTERY SOLVED The Question is often asked How do these Socialist publications get their support?
This seems to be the Mystery of the day. We will let you in on the secret. The answer will be obvious as soon as you have properly filled out and mailed the subscription bl...

254 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 255 Berlin, October 31 st 1918.
To the workers and soldiers of the entente!
not being satisfied with the streams of bdoed that tre flowing everyo here in the west in the east, in the south the send you, British more kers, to fight against us, the Russian workingme...

250 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 253 To the British Soldiers.
Now igånt it clear that English and Amerioan soldiers are being fooled when they believe that a mob of robbers and crimipals have seized power in Russia and are murdering right and left. Here is an example of a Scotch soldier taken pri...

248 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 249. w Quit Fighting, British Soldiers And Join Your Russian Comrades!
Englisk prisoner from Archangel front writes to his brother Scots Is it right for working peopls of one country to kill working people of another. The Allied troops, invading Russia, have so of...

246 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 247 FACSIMILES OF SOVIET CIRCULARS issued to Foreign Soldiers on Russian Soil RUSSIAN SOCIALIST FEDERAL SOVIET REPUBLIC.
Why have you come to Ukraine?
izers of the capitalist production the owners of plants. factory owners, bankers with all their clique of lackey ...

DOCUMENTS 245 244 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ice, were interested only in keeping their own jobs safe, completely forgetting the hopeless situation of the lower employees.
Thus the railroads of our country were gradually enveloped in an increasing state of disorder, the possibility of through traffic and...

DOCUMENTS 243 242 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Let us have complete independence of the Young People League; but let us also have complete independence to criticise them! They do not want to be flattered.
Among the errors of this fine periodical we have just named, are, principally, the following three: On...

240 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 241 finds itself involved, does not consist in the fact that proletarians must fight each other, but it begins only when they want to conquer each other. And as this will to victory is present in the majorities of the Socialist Party of all countries, all hopes fo...

238 THE CLASS STRUGGLE DOCUMENTS 239 without sparing ourselves or anything or anyone else. For this we are working, erring and suffering with the eager hope for success, leaving to the just decision of history all our acts; follow us in our struggle against the old order, in the work for a new fo...

236 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 237 Documents Maxim Gorky Confession It would seem as if the much ridiculed methods employed by the Russian Red Guard at the various fronts have, after all, not been without a marked effect upon the Allied forces. When we consider that the British forces are in grave danger...

234 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 235 The Butte strike was equally important and dynamic; it was directed by an actual Soldiers and Workmen Council; it showed the to be a real industrial force; and again it was the conservative craft unions that broke the strike. In these two strikes there was ma...

EDITORIALS 233 232 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Mass Strikes. he was employed as the American representative of the great Demidow Steels Works of Russia. He combines therefore a knowledge of business affairs with an impeccable record as a So cialist and revolutionist, a combination that will make him an id...

EDITORIALS 231 230 THE CLASS STRUGGLE With these splendid words Debs has set us a standard that we must uphold and carry out. To accept less, to ask for less, were an insult to the man whose courage and whose cheerful readiness to endure the fullest measure of sacrifice with his comrades has stru...

228 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 229 compromise; to compromise is to betray revolutionary Socialism. On with the war against moderate Socialism in our party! Turn to the left.
Eugene Debs, a Revolutionist The revolutionary Socialist who would promote its policy must align himself with the left w...

226 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 227 New York locals, which are dominated either by the right or by the center, a mass movement of the membership has produced the organization of a Left Wing Section, the Manifesto and Program of which have already been adopted by a number of locals of the party....

EDITORIALS THE CLASS STRUGGLE 224 225 tionary government has appointed a commissariat for housing problems, which has gone at once to work not only to formulate, but to put into immediate practice a thorough going system of housing reform. According to the conditions laid out by this commission n...

222 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 223 Hungary. We call upon the Tchecho Slovak peasants and workers to shake off the yoke of their oppressors. Although we are determined to defend our republic.
against all attacks, we hereby declare our firm desire to make peace as soon as it is possible to do so...

220 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 221 crowd. shot from a neighboring house called forth an answering volley from the crowd. Hand grenades were thrown and several persons were more or less seriously wounded.
As a result of these and similar uprisings 56 Communist leaders, among them Bela Kun, Bela...

218 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 219 were republic, was a liberal democrat of the finest type, honest in his intentions. But just as the Kerensky government in Russia was doomed to failure, and just as surely as the Scheidemann Ebert regime in Berlin will finally succumb to the insistence of the...

216 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 217 EDITORIALS Communism in Hungary made during the transition period for the protection of small owners of stock. f) The sozialization of foreign trade.
These are not the immediate demands comprised in the social reform planks now in the platform of our party; they are not...