The Militant 1930 Volume 3 January 1 Jan 4, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Industrial Depression Growing -Anti-Labor Drive Now Under Way Exports Increase The Austrian Crisis And Communism by Leon Trotsky The Strength of the Social Democracy As Important Instrument of Capitalism Fascism, Bolshevism and Social Democracy Hundreds Killed by Marines in Haiti Illinois Miners Urgently Need Relief Lost Fliers and Hoover Refuse 6-Hour Day Concede Cleveland Unemployment Hoover Prosperity French Aim Blow at U.S. -Raise Tariff on American Autos Plan High Auto Tariff U.S. Will Fight Back Another Haymarket Cop Dead by T. P. Lewis Suppress Mooney Report -Young Hid Evidence Stalinist Repression -Hound Trotsky's Kin Ford's Treatment of Labor Swedish Workers Protest Barbarity in Carolina Mellon's Pa. Domain Rises -Workers Squeezed for Profits by Arthur G. McDowell Workers Make His Wealth Mellon Advances in New York Open Forum of the New York Communist League Naval Bases and Imperialism -The Struggle for Position at the Coming Conference in London by Albert Glotzer The New Economic Center of Gravity The Conflict in Ratios England's Naval Bases England's Favored Position New Methods of Sea Struggle A Proposed Party Questionnaire No Work in San Antonio -Labor Warned to Stay Clear by Esther Lowell Strangers to Rock Pile Merry Christmas -Starvation in North Carolina The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Thermidor or Party Rehearsal of Thermidor? Urbahn's Mistake in the Question of Thermidor Throughout the World of Labor * The Leninbund on the Wrong Road by Kurt Landau * The Betrayal in Austria * In France: A la Americaine by Pierre Naville What Now? -The Bolshevik Opposition and the C.P.S.U. by the Editors of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition (Continued from last issue) The Question of Unity The Pot of Gold for Unemployed by Robert L. Cruden Convention of the Textile Workers Union The Problem of the South A Workers Convention Shortcomings of Conference The Daily Worker Gasps for Arguments Centrism Out of Its Element Letters from The Militants * The New York Building Trades by Jack Sprague * Two Kinds of Corrupted Press by James Economou * Merry Christmas in Youngstown by Charlie Byrne * Nationalism vs. Internationalism by Pauline Gutringer * Greetings from Alabama by Sarah F. J. Linn Where to Buy The Militant 2 Jan 11, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Karl Liebknecht Day -At the Martyr's Grave-side by Karl Radek -Murdered January 15, 1919 by the German Junkers and their Socialist Allies At Liebknecht's Cradle Imbued with Revolutionary Traditions The Imperialist War Comes Workers Stand by Liebknecht Fallen in Battle A.F. of L. Opens Up in the South Remember Passaic! Velvet Words Conceal U.S. Arms Growth by Scott Nearing 1930 to Be "Lean Tough" Year What About the Workers? Profits Rise Poverty Spreads in St. Louis Export Industries Will Be Hit Heavily Pullman Co. Absorbs Notorious Union Foe A Company Town Boy Scout Movement Anti-Strike Free Meals Pass Out in Yuma Racketeer is Pal of Matty Woll by Harvey O'Connor Matty Woll's Pal Notorious Gangster 12 Lynchings Known in 1929 Philadelphia: Meeting in Philadelphia Philly Class N.C. Wants Anti-Labor Law, Too The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Not Centrism in General, but a Certain Kind of Centrism "A Kerenskyism Upside Down" Proletarian or Bourgeois State? What Would the Policy Have to Be if Thermidor Were Now Accomplished? For Proletarian or for Bourgeois Democracy? Throughout the World of Labor * The Split Danger in the French C.G.T.U. by A. Rosmer * New Turn in the German Trade Union Tactics by Kurt Landau * The 11th Congress of the British Communist Party by S.B. The Austrian Crisis And Communism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Bauer's Juridicial Formula Austrian "Democracy" Condemned What is Social-Fascism? The Danger in the Stalinist Theory Church Reports Marion Hell -But All that Preachers Offer Are Empty Promises and Pious Prayers Worked More Than 64 Hours a Week Workers Shun Church Pontiac Has "Novel" Way to Cut Wages No Pay for Make Ready Unemployment Raises Mortgage Shut-downs by Joseph Hutter Lumber Camps Aren't Hit by Prosperity by Harold R. Johnson A Bit of Olgin's Infamy Letters from The Militants * Another "Victory" in the Independent by C.C. * Diary of An Unemployed Plumber by P. * Who Supports the Stalinists by Max Kaufman * Peonage on the High Seas * Daily Worker and Illinois Strike by Joseph Angelo * On Trotsky Where to Buy The Militant 3 Jan 18, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Heavy Decline in N. Y. Jobs -Every Industry Reports Slump Mill Bosses Plan Company Unions -To Counteract Trade Union Drive "Selling" Labor New Chain 1500 Unemployed Demonstrate in St. Louis -Mayor Answers the Demand for Work or Relief by Arresting Two Leaders by H.L. Goldberg Tear Gas is "Popular" Weapon against Labor by Harvey O'Conner Chicago Building Takes Sharp Drop; Thousands Jobless by T. P. Lewis 35 Electricians Will Burn to Death in 1930 Massachusetts Building Trade Workers Severely Hit 5,000 Fewer Jobs in Boston Police Called Out for Jobless Birmingham Big Open Shop Center -Unemployment Rife in South by T. S. Rawlings Acute Unemployment Sixty-Hour Week Attempt new Frame-up in Gastonia Bishop Demands Catholic Unions in Canada by John Robur Company Union Established in Elizabethton Chicago Opposition Active Fear Soviet Invasion in Arizona 60 Hours a Week for Women in Kentucky -Negro Workers the Worst Off Louisville's Labor Budget The Minnesota F. L. P. -Six Years of Confusion and Disappointment in a Two-Class Party by Vincent R. Dunne F.L.P. Policy Benefits Officialdom Farmers Outvote Workers "Unity" in a Two Class Party Pepper's Bold Plan Workers Used by Farmers Gertrude Duell Joins the Opposition A Real Red ILD -And Hell Hath No Fury Like an Engdahl Enraged. 150 Workers Laid Off Rosa Luxemburg -- 11 years After by Max Shachtman The Communist fight Against Imperialist War by Charles Curtiss The Role of the Socialists From Bosses' War to Class War Throughout the World of Labor * The British Miners and the Labour Party by S.B. * Opposition Progress in Spain by Fernando Salvatierra * A New "Workers' and Peasants' Party" in France from "La Verite" The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Even While Retreating Before the Marxist Criticism, Urbahns Combats not Korschists but Marxists Practical Tasks in Case of War Does the Defense of the U.S.S.R. Mean Reconciliation with Centrism? How Has the Discussion Been Conducted? Lash is What Convicts Need An Economic Analysis? Or Factional Demagogy & Forgery "Trotskyism" Dead Again The Professor's Nightmare -A Story of the Great American Worker-Boss that Never Existed Karakhan Takes a Pleasant Trip to Turkey -But, Unlike Trotsky, He is not Confined on an Island by Friend Kemal Pasha Hutchison Expels Militant -Louis A. Roseland Removed from Minneapolis Carpenters Union Rank and File Opposes Move..... Officials Want No "Interference" The Struggle of the Miners in Taylorville, Ill. by Fritz Bode Sr. Bessedovsky -Trotsky on the "Revelations" by Leon Trotsky 4 Jan 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Leninism Lives! -The Opposition Carries It Forward by Max Shachtman -Lenin's Work Lives in the Opposition! The Great Men of the Proletariat A Party--Not a Sect Exceptionalist or Internationalist? From Hillquit to Lovestone Mass Unemployment Continues Enormous Profits in Southern Tobacco Enormous Company Profits Virtual Famine for Workers A Step Down by the International Right A Break with Communism The Right Wing Doesn't "Intervene" Roy's Nationalism Trotsky (Discussion of the writings by Trotsky published in The Militant and planned future publications of his writing) The Struggle for the South -Green's Plea to the Bosses, the Progressives and the Communists by James P. Cannon The A. F. of L. Program The Bosses' Program and the A.F. of L. Program Mistakes of the Party Leaders The Removal of Weisbord Prospect Bad for Builders by T. P. Lewis Peak Reached in 1928 Burden Workers with Losses The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky What is Radicalization of the Masses? The Strike Curve in France What do the Data of the Statistics Show? Facts and Phrases Throughout the World of Labor * The New Udral Government in Czecho-Slovakia by H. Lenorovics * Fascism Still Alive in United States The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Danger of Sectarianism and National Limitedness Conclusions A Letter from the Chinese Oppositions by P. $2,500,000 in Profits in 1929 Carry Out Lenin's Will! -Lenin's Last Words to the Party, Still Suppressed by the Stalinists by V.I. Lenin Ford's Parts Factories Drive Workers by Robert L. Cruden The Depression and Labor -Prospects for the Approaching Struggles in the United States by Arne Swabeck The Role of the A.F. of L. The Pressure of the Banks A False Assumption The St. Louis Unemployment Demonstration St. Louis Hard Hit Demands Proposed Cops Break Up the Meeting February 5 Feb 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Police Murder Steve Katovis -Communist Worker Shot Down in Cold Blood Savage Attack on Demonstrations United Front Against Police Terror Naval Conclave Shows No Unity Italo-French Conflict Merchantmen Limitation Hits England Green Stabs Marion and Gastonia Mexico Breaks with Soviet Union After the Miner's Strike -Operators and Reactionary Union Leaders vs. the Illinois Miners by Joseph Angelo Labor Bosses As Operators' Tools Trial Served Good Purpose Stalinists Retreat Partially Prospects for New Struggles in New Bedford by Frank Bromley The Indian Revolution at the Cross-roads by Max Shachtman A Keystone in the British Empire Loss of India a Fatal Blow The Nationalist Bourgeoisie Gandhi's Record At the Cross-Roads Stalinists Disrupt Minneapolis T.U.U.L Conference $81,000,000 Corporation Refuses to Pay 37 Cents an Hour N.Y. Telephone Grabs $14,000,000 More The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky Crisis of Conjuncture and the Revolutionary Crisis in Capitalism Economic Conjuncture and the Radicalization of the Masses Fake Revolutionaries Fear Economic Processes Throughout the World of Labor * the Developments in Germany by Sam Gordon * Communist Injunctions... by M.Q. On the Chinese Revolution -Trotsky's Reply to the Letter of the Chinese Opposition Group by Leon Trotsky The Constituent Assembly in China Stalinist Impotence and Violence Hoover Prosperity Invisible in State of Illinois Mummery in Labor Unions by C.R. Hedlund Bosses are Wiser Militant Twice Expelled Young Vanguard -- A Section Devoted to Problems of Working Class Youth * The Last Plenary Session of the Y.C.L. by R. The Cause for the Situation Is -- The Situation Confusion on Right and Left Danger * The Disruption of the Canadian Youth League by M. Quarter Responsibilities With Y.C.L. The Hypocrisy of the Stalinists The Curse of Mining Accidents by Fritz Bode Sr. Speed-up Causes Accidents U.M.W. Officials Delinquent The New Industrial Unions -The Mass Organizations of the Workers or Narrow Party Sects? by Arne Swabeck Revolutionizing the Unions The Third C.I. Congress on Trade Unions New Unions Everywhere? The Responsibility of the Right Wing Cleveland Labor News by John Foley Where to Buy the Militant 6 Feb 8, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Dress Strike On -Schlesinger and Bosses Cooperate -Left Wing Can Win Workers by Quitting its Isolationist Attitude Workers Need Left Wing Left Wing Errors What's Happened to Blumkin? -Let Stalin and the American Party Leaders Answer! City of Chicago Goes Bankrupt by Arne Swabeck The "Poor Policemen" Tax Valuation Cut Enormous Profits in U.S. Steel Hoover and the Farmers by Peter Hansen The Capitalist "Solution" The Communist Answer A Repast of Wild Beasts -French Communist Viewpoint on the London Naval Conference by Paul Sizoff The Importance of Naval Transport "Humanizing Warfare" The Washington Conference New Kind of Trade Union Work by Carl Skoglund United Front in Boston in the New Style by Charlotte Shechet Everything is "Properly" Arranged Opposition on Side of Union The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky What are the Symptoms of the Political Radicalization of the Masses? What Are the Immediate Perspectives? Throughout the World of Labor * A Step Backward by French Syndicalism by Pierre Naville * Lovestone's German Friends by Roman Well The Results of the Soviet-China Conflict by Leon Trotsky The Proletariat and Peasantry in the Indian Revolution by Max Shachtman The Indian Proletariat The Spoilation of the Peasantry Peasantry and National Bourgeoisie The Absence of a Communist Party Where Roy is Right and Wrong Roy's Line Was Stalin's Line Foster's Return and the "New Wind" in the Comintern by Leon Trotsky The "Leftism of the 5th Congress The Change in the Russian Situation Manuilsky Warns the Apparatus! The Right Wing Approves New Attitude Towards Right Wing Leadership in the Coming Struggles by Arne Swabeck The Workers in the Basic Industries Communist and Conservative Unions Problem of the United Front Practical Strike Demands 7 Feb 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Dressmakers Again Betrayed -"Impartial Commission" Formed to Sell Out Workers No Militancy Displayed Working Conditions Unchanged Left Wing Failed to Propose United Front Imperialist Powers Quarrel at London America Spreads Her Wings Yes or No! Has Blumkin Been Assassinated? -More Facts on the Disappearance of the Fighter for the Russian Bolshevik Revolution Unemployment Stalks the Middle West Only 44% Work in Toledo "Welfare" Dept. Jammed Man versus Machines 35,000 Jobless in New Jersey Industrial Center Taxi Maintenance Men Join Strikers Reports Bode Ill for Auto Slaves Birmingham Wages Miserly by T. S. Rawlings Weavers Walk Out in Carolina Mill Help Us sustain The Militant The Socialist Party and Radicalization of the Masses by James P. Cannon A Period of Communist Growth The Course of Lovestone's Faction The Strike Barometer The Fosterite Contribution to the S.P. American Labor and Reformism The Fundamental Principle Errors of Syndicalism -To Serve in the Discussion with Monatte and the Pure Syndicalists in General by Leon Trotsky Lenin and the Syndicalists Monatte's Fetishisms The Dangers of State-ism Throughout the World of Labor * The Crisis in the Spanish Labor Movement by Henri Lacroix * The League Against Imperialism by Kurt Landau * The British Daily Worker by S.B. Low Wages for Unorganized Miners in W. Va. by August Valentine The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky The Art of Orientation Molotov "Enters With Both Feet" Are Economic Strikes Called Forth By Crises or Rises? The Rise of the U.S.S.R. as a Factor in the "Third Period" The Slogan of the General Strike "The Conquest of the Street" For an International Conference of the Left -The Need for Organizing the World Opposition by Martin Abern Opposition Problems Need Elaboration Opposition Growing An International Opposition Organ Anthracite Takes Heavy Toll in Accidents The Strike of the Toronto Cloakmakers by M. Quarter Right Wing Leaders Sabotage Pittsburg Cab Drivers on Strike by James Sifakis Minneapolis Stalinists Disrupt the Ladies Auxiliary by Clara Kaufman Minneapolis Workers School Quaker city Knitters Revolt on Wage Cuts 8 Feb 22, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite in Struggle for the Jobless! -Unite Forces on March 6th Demonstrations! U.S. Capitalism Offers No Relief Councils of Unemployed All Out on March 6th The Party "Answers" on Blumkin -But It Fails to Make a Straightforward Reply to the Questions We Have Raised Naval conference at a Standstill N.Y. Times is Cynical Thomas Apologizes for MacDonald Illinois Jobs Declined Building Trades Hit in D.C. The Anti-Soviet Crusaders The Crime of the Soviets Detroit Prosperity Help Us Sustain The Militant Passaic Strike Anniversary -Some Lessons in Militant Labor Leadership for the Future by James P. Cannon The "Right to Think" by George Ray No Discussion, Say Lovestone-Foster $200,000 Profits and--Unemployment Can Monopoly Capitalism Be Organized? by Arne Swabeck Opposition Platform Forecast Present Crisis Hoover's Program Capitalism Can Only Intensify Anarchic Production Lenin and Trotsky Combat Bucharin's and Stalin's Economic Theories Lovestone and Bucharin Approach Social-Democracy's Views The Centrist Phrases and the Results An Opposition Group in Mexico Formed Gastonia Stoolpigeon Got His American Plan Means 55 Cents for Machinists Miners Would Like to See Part of Steel Trust Gold They Produced Throughout the World of Labor * The Stalinization of the Mexican Party by Rosalio Negrete * Mondism and Unemployment Grow in England by S.D. * After the French Socialist Congress from "La Verite" The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky "No Agreements with the Reformists" Do Not Forget Your Own Yesterday Once More on War Danger Groupings in Communism Letter from Moscow: How Stalin Murdered Blumkin: Radek's Judas Role by N. The Russian Opposition Knows Its Path! -Note by the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition Ludlow Killer Rewarded Billions Made by Big Industrialists General Motors Heads Lists Enormous Profits Continue The Situation in the Mining Industry Typos Defeat Salary Boost Gain 40-Hour Night Week "The Great Disciple of Lenin" by Denis Plarinos St. Louis Fakers Try Militant Painter Machinist Unemployment Worst Since 1921 60,000 Unemployed in K. C. Rail Workers Discuss Mergers Our Youth Section March 9 Mar 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Murder of Blumkin is an Act Against the Russian Revolution Opposition Pressure Forces Stalin to the Left Stalinists Politically and Morally Bankrupt Trotsky on Stalin and Blumkin by Leon Trotsky Build a Broad Movement to Aid the Unemployed by Martin Abern Organize the Unemployed on Elementary Issues New York T.U.U.L. Conference a Talkfest How Not to Aid the Unemployed Develop a United Front Movement 40 Percent Jobless in Bay State Snow Fails to Bring Jobs to Jobless Equal Opportunity Mocked by Income Report Mass. Employment Continues Down Too Many Labor Officials by C. R. Hedlund Breeding Bureaucracy Prepare for Convention Long Hours in Steel Mills More than Half Work over 48 Hours The New Bedford Textile Workers and Stalinist "Politics" by Frank Bromley Factionalism Hurts Development Conditions of Metal Scrappers Steady Work Need Union Rank and File for Labor Party The Mining Situation and the Tasks of the Left Wing -Statement of the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) The N.M.U. Strike in Illinois The Fishwick-Howat-Brophy Convention The Coming Convention of the N.M.U. What is "Permanent Revolution"? by Leon Trotsky Opposition Serves the Bolshevik Revolution by Leon Trotsky Quarter Million Jobless in N.C. Throughout the World of Labor * The Fall of Primo De Rivera and its Consequences by Gorkin Bourgeoisie Desert Primo Financial Crisis in Spain The Growing Republican Movement The Need of a Communist Party * German Unemployed Defy Tyrannous Laws * German Unemployed and the First of February Wherein Lies the Defeat of the 1st of February Why was the Defeat Inevitable? by Kurt Landau La Verite and The Militant Actors Equity Deprecates Company Union Plan St. Louis Jobless Swamp Charities Imperialist Development and its Inevitable Doom by Arne Swabeck The Imperialist Struggle for Market Control American Expansion Will Bring Revolutionary Disturbances Capitalism Can't Harmonize Contradictions Finance Capitalists Direct Government The Petty Capitalists are Ground Under The Increase of Bankruptcies The Growth of Communism World Textile Situation Bodes Workers Ill by Robert W. Dunn Young Vanguard: A Section Devoted to Problems of the Working Class Youth * The Decline of the Y. C. I. by Joseph Friedman Y.C.I. Follows the False Path of the C.I. The May Day and August First Fiascoes Big Loss in Membership Manuilsky Passes the Buck The Opposition Youth is Taking Hold * Lovestone's Whining Baby by A. M. G. Present Disintegration of the League Needs of the League Foodless Mother Tries Suicide Operators Speed-Up Illinois Coal Diggers War's Glory by Peter Hansen 10 Mar 8, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Demonstrate on March 6th As Unemployment Grows Immediate Needs of Miners Stalin Persecutes Rakovksy Miners! Build Left Wing at Springfield Immediate Needs of Miners Send Delegates to March 10th Convention Flood Control Contractors Gyp Negro Laborers Over 8,000,000 Women Toil at Low Wages Long Hours for Women Night Shifts in Auto Plants The Coming Paterson Strike by Frank Bromley Better Preparations Are Needed Sailors Face Jobless Problem Registration of Aliens Fought Miner's Death Toll Mounts (From Federated Press) Cab men Reject Scab Terms by Arthur G. McDowell The Proletarian Revolution and the Shooting of Blumkin by Martin Abern The Five Year Plan The Bureaucracy and the Working Class Stalin Splits the Communist Movement Lenin Rejects Stalin The Daily Worker "Answers" Rakovsky and the Centrists What is to be Done? "In the Name of God" The Sick War-horse of Religion The Opium of the People The Policy of the Leadership and the Party Regime by Christian Rakovsky The Changes in Class Relations Industrialization and the Classes The Five Year Plan Centrists Fear Workers and Poor Peasants The Party Regime The Stalinist Bureaucracy What Road? The Political Situation in Germany and the Crisis in the Communist Party by Kurt Landau The Legend of the New Revolutionary Wave Toward the New 1923? Radicalization of the Workers, Political Mass Strike, and Struggle for the Streets Is the Party Threatened by Illegality The Struggle for a New Left Wing in the Party Workers Nail Employment Lie Polish Conditions Grow Rapidly Worse Long Hours, Low Wages, for Foundry Workers Mass Unemployment in Rochester Building on the Chute in Pennsy Reveals Crime of Archangel Expedition (From Federated Press) No Murder Charge Against This Judge by Frank L. Palmer Stalinism in Chicago I. L. D. Young Vanguard - A Section Devoted to Problems of the Working Class Youth * Whither the American League by George Ray * The Militarization of the American Youth by A.M.G. Wage Cuts in Oil Fields Rail Telegraphers Add New Members Trade Union Membership at Standstill The Class Character of the Constitution by Peter Hansen The Exploitation of Labor and the Law Abolish Capitalism My Part in the October by Leon Trotsky A Supplementary Insertion A Letter from England by Millicent Shooter 11 Mar 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck March 6 and After Unemployment--a Permanent Phenomenon The Failure of the "General Strike" The Reformists Step In The United Front Tactics Unite the Left Wing Forces London Naval Debacle by Albert Glotzer Issues at the Conference The Lineup Against the Soviet Union Conference Can Offer No Solution Gold and God United Against Soviets Haitians Demand End of Wall St. Rule Amalgamate Engineers and Firemen by C.R. Hedlund Bureaucrats Hinder Progress Northwestern Shuts Down Roundhouse Baldwin Locomotive Lays Off 1,200 Labor Party in Kenosha Miners Not Consulted in Drawing Up Agreement The Paris Commune and the Proletarian Revolution by Maurice Spector The War and the Misery of the Workers The Proletariat Struggles for Power The Shortcomings of the Commune The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie The Lessons of the Commune Auto Industry Moves South by Robert L. Cruden Sacco-Vanzetti Case Reopened in Boston The New Course in the Economy of the Soviet Union -Adventure in Economics and Its Danger by Leon Trotsky The Meaning of the Stalinist Zig-zag How Stalin Handles the Five Year Plan The Bureaucracy and the Kulaks The Basis for Collective Agricultural Economy The Bureaucrats About-Face The Kulaks and Industrialization The Class Character of the Collectives The Kulaks in Masquerade The Panicky Retreat of Stalin What the Bureaucrats Will Say Our Estimates for Industrialization The Restoration of the Right-Center Bloc What to Do? Save the Party and the Proletarian Dictatorship Restore the Comintern Next Steps of the American Worker by Arne Swabeck Unemployment--A Spur to Class Action Some Labor History and Struggles The Political Action of Labor The Rising Struggles The Labor Party and the Communists Hoover Speeds the Postal Clerks Throughout the World of Labor * From Moscow by R.R. * The Struggle Against Unemployment in Europe and Its Conduct Unemployment and the Workers' Morale by K.L. Civil Liberties Union Charts Labor Danger Zones Hosiery Scabs Kill Striker, Wound Two Open Shop Paper Approves A.F. of L. Ella May Lynching O.K.'D Where to Buy the Militant 12 Mar 22, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite for the Unemployed! -Resist Attack of Bosses and Government by Martin Abern The Proposed Frameups and Police Brutality The Labor Spy and Blacklist of Militants The Drive Against the Foreign Born Workers and Civil Liberties Revival of Criminal Syndicalism Laws The Bosses Organize Mass Unemployment Remains Create United Front Defense Movement United Front for the Unemployed The Springfield and Indianapolis Miners Conventions Split in Miners Deepens Progressive Measures Brought Forward Communists Adopt Isolation Policy Heavy Unemployment Among Clothing Workers The Aberle Mill Strike in Philly by M. K. Whitten Militancy of Strikers Outstanding Philadelphia's Labor Record Left Wing Isolated; Fakers Pleased Establish Roots Among the Workers Monarchist Spain Refuses Entry to Trotsky Business Men Jeer Parade of Jobless Destitution Fall Over Northeast Philadelphia Cold Comfort for Workers in Loan Society Report Big Profits for Loan Sharks Reveals Workers Extreme Poverty Pittsburg Papers Incomplete on Westinghouse Records N.Y. State Job Figures Continue to Decline Says Music Wasted on Future Wage Slaves Workers Help Jobless Where to Buy the Militant Rail Clerks Ask Six Hour Day in New Pact Salvation Army Bread Line Long Fight Registration of Foreign-Born Capitalists Aim to Establish Spy System A Letter to the Italian Left Communists (To the Adherents of Comrade Bordiga) by Leon Trotsky The Nature of the Party Theoretical Perversions of Stalinism The Class Character of the U.S.S.R. The Analogy of Thermidor What is Thermidor? The Stalinist Leadership of Italy Letters from the Soviet Union * The Five Year Plan and the Kulaks * Stalin Endangers the Proletarian Dictatorship by S. Morale of Opposition Excellent The Struggles of the Opposition Employment Sharks Exposed (by Federated Press) Employers in on Gypping Game Half Million Strikers in India in 1929 Jobless Costs on Charity Mount Pittsburgh Cabmen fight Traitors Naval Conference Talks On Milwaukee Cops Abuse Children in Jail Marion Workers Discuss New Strike With Lenin Against Stalin by Leon Trotsky Women Suffer in Present Era Marriage Increases Burden A Seaman on Conditions by James Russell Seamen Disorganized A Narrow Policy 13 Mar 29, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Cubans Strike -Defy Machado -Demand Unemployment Relief The Bloody Rule of Machado Wall Street Continues Cuban Penetration Mass Unemployment Continues by Martin Abern Iron and Steel Production Slow Bosses Cutting Wages Socialists Propose Unemployment Census by Police Repressive Acts Against Workers Don't Solve Unemployment Crisis Trotsky Seriously Ill Haiti Struggles -Demands Independence from Wall Street Rule by Albert Glotzer Election of Roy-- A Sham St. Louis Bus Drivers on Strike for Union Kansas City Building Trades win Five-Day Week The National Textile Union -Sectarian Policy Hindering Organization by Frank Bromley Role of the Reactionaries Need of Systematic Work in the Mills Dynomite in "Dynamic" Detroit Anthracite Miners Hit by Unemployment Hoover's Prosperity Racket Fades in Middle West The Shooting of Blumkin -Stalin's Story in Process of Preparation Running Away from the Facts Stalin Prepares His Story The Dictatorship of Stalin and its Consequences Suffering Among Jobless Grows An Open Letter to All Members of the Leninbund by Leon Trotsky Has the Urbahns Faction Any Adherents? Do Not Forget the International Opposition The Urbahns Block, Treint and Paz It is Indispensable to Obtain Unity of the Opposition True and False Internationalism A Choice Must Be Made Throughout the World of Labor * Conditions of the German Workers and the Communists by Sam Gordon Bourgeoisie on the Offensive Social Democrats Continue to Sell Out Workers The Attack on Workers' Organizations The Opportunism of the Brandlerites The Need for a Clear Left Communist Opposition * The Labor Movement in South Africa by C. Frank Glass The Working Class in South Africa The Comintern Policy The Labor Party and the Tasks of the Communists by Arne Swabeck Status of the New Unions The Labor Struggles in Recent Years Perspectives in the A.F. of L. Some Labor Party History The Sectarian Party Policy Role of Labor Fakers and Socialists The Labor Party--A Perspective Milwaukee Communists Appeal Workhouse Sentences Unifying the Left Opposition by the Editorial Board of the Russian Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) An International Organ Unity Upon Principle Agreement Injunction Judge Halts Union Taxi Service Attention, Boston! The Struggle in the I. W. C. Buffalo Charity Outlay Climbs Steadily Building Trades Drop in Mass. Shopmen Work Five Days to Avoid Layoffs Sportswear Workers Win Strike Independent Workmen's Circle Confronted by a Split by L. Schlosberg At the Chicago Convention The "Left Wing" Branches Again a Split Policy Naval Parley Sinking Possibilities for Continuation Slim Pre-Conference Situation Remains April 14 Apr 5, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Pittsburg -Taxi Men Solid on 12th Week Building Workers Ask Mooney-Billing's Release Sharp Decline In Illinois Construction In the Next Issue Relieve Unemployment -Demand Large-Scale Credits to Soviet Union by Martin Abern Wm. Green's Report on Unemployment Bosses and Government Ignore Needs of Workers Workers Begin to See Capitalism as Cause of Unemployment To Aid Unemployed, Demand Credits for Soviet Government Unite Forces on Behalf of Jobless Demand Communist Party Change Its Isolation Policy Methods in the Unemployed Movement Tasks of the Communists Yellow-Dog Judge -Hoover Nominee for Supreme Court Polishing the Guns for the Next War Only Soviet Union for Peace The A. F. of L. in the South by Arne Swabeck Green Meets the Bosses The Wage-Cutting Campaign and the Strikers Southern Workers Show Militancy Left Wing Must Adopt United Front Policy Auto Bosses in Struggle for World Markets European Capitalists, Resist American Penetration No Compensation for Fingerless Boys Type Men Meet in September Labor Haters Merge Forces American Capitalists Combining Bitterly Anti-Labor State Labor Head Shows Heavy Unemployment in Michigan Communist League to Print Important Books Buffalo Unemployment Heavy From a Southern Worker The Period of Right-Centrist Down-Sliding in the C. I. by Leon Trotsky The Revisionism of Stalin and Bucharin The Results of the Anglo-Russian Committee The Role of the Russian Unions in the Bloc The Bloc with the General Council and "Stabilization" The Rotten Strategy of Right-Centrism Throughout the World of Labor * In Spain after the Fall of the Dictatorship -Monarchy, Republic or Proletarian Revolution? by Gorkin Why the Petty Bourgeois Are Republican Fear of the Proletariat The Condition of the Workers and Peasants The Workers' Awakening The Opposition and the Party * War on Russia Cry U. S. Imperialists Militarist Hounds for War on Soviet Union Gandhi's Policy and the Proletarian Movement British Policy in India Gandhi's Policy is Unstable Indian Masses Militant Comintern Policy Continues Wrong Line Task is to Build a Communist Party The Split in the Leninbund by Roman Well The Theoretical Misconceptions of the Leninbund Political Bankruptcy of Urbahns The Decline of the Leninbund Trench Episodes A.D. 1936 A Short Story by Bertram Chambers "Services No Longer Required" by Charles Curtis Misery Wages for S.C. Bag Workers In the Opposition Ranks -International Left Forms Provisional Bureau (Signed by Shachtman (Communist League of America) (Opposition), Markin (Russian Communist Opposition-Bolshevik-Leninists) and Rosmer (Left Communist Opposition of France) Northern China Organizes Opposition by North China Executive Committee of Chinese Leninists (Opposition) 15 Apr 12, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The 5 Year Plan and World Unemployment by Leon Trotsky The Bureaucracy Runs Blindly World Unemployment and the Soviet Union Ways to Aid the Unemployed and the Soviet Union Unemployment and the United Front Socialist Construction and the International Revolution Rally Workers on May Day The Situation of American Labor The Issues for May Day For a United Front Opposition Paper Published in the Argentine 12 W. Va. Miners Fatally Gassed St. Louis Busmen Win Strike 6-Hour Day Aim of Twin City Rail Workers Consider Labor's Economic and Political Problems Resolution Minnesota's "Farmer-Labor" Meet -The "Practical" Politicians and Business Men Take Charge Left Wing Presents Program; Denied Expression Left Wing to Continue Fight for Fighting Workers' Movement Labor Party Sentiment Polled in Philly Economic Reaction World-Wide Bosses and Government Do Nothing for Jobless Relieve Unemployment Through Broad Economic Relations with Soviet Union 20,000 Rush Ford's Plant for Work Toothless Foster Silent at Party Plenum The Situation Among the Coal Miners by Arne Swabeck Serious Errors of Wrong Analysis What Does the New Union Signify? Reactionaries Strengthen Hold--But Workers Move On How Far Will the Rebellion Reverberate Left Wing Facing Serious Problems Machines Displace More Miners Sixteen Coal Miners Die in Blast Steel Slaves Need Union Throughout the World of Labor * In the Soviet Union -Our Statement to the XVI Party Congress What to Tell the Party The Centrist Adventures * The Communist Workers and the Opposition The Opposition and the Rank and File * In India -Gandhi Enters the Field of "Struggle" Gandhi on His Knees Before the Lord Viceroy The Workers Will March Beyond Gandhi * The Durban "Raid" in South Africa by C. Frank Glass Japanese Radical Held for Deportation Sellier is Right-- Lovestone Wrong by Max Shachtman Internationalism is Forgotten Travelling Toward Menshevism Naval Parley Bound for "Davy Jone's Locker" Conference Cannot Solve Its Problems Attempts at Security Pacts Fail Secrecy Prevails in Conference Police Kill Worker at Anti-Fascist Meet Rochester Typos Share Jobs with Unemployed Where to Buy The Militant Street Railwaymen Ask Raise Beating the War Drums War Department Calls for Free Hand Turning the Factories into War Machines All Workers to be Entrapped Trotsky on Foster and Lovestone No Wage Increase for Memphis Street Car Men Police Board Approves Blackjacking Students Back Jobless Against Police Fines and Jail for Jobless Capitalism Blamed for Crime Problem Letters from the Militants * The Party Mathematicians at Work by Frank Bromley The March 6 New York Demonstration In the Unions Untruths and Illusions Don't Help the Communists The "Cooperative" Cafeteria * Dividends Go Up! Wages Come Down by J. Mihelic * Matthew Woll Proves Himself by Harold Preece Woll's Poison Goods 16 Apr 19, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Five Communists Framed -Unite Working Class Forces for May Day Demonstrations by Martin Abern L.D. Trotsky's Autobiography "My Life" Corporations Make Huge Profits U.S. Steel and Standard Oil Get Huge Profits "Public Service" Corporations Rake in the Dough The Naval Conference "Agrees" American Imperialism in the Ascendency Rakovsky's Illness B. of L. E. Convention -A program of Action for the Engineers by C. R. Hedlund Floating Worthless Stock The Officials Loot the Treasury The Real Estate Racket A Program for a Rank and File Union Illinois Elections Ignore Worker's Needs by Arne Swabeck A Contest Between Groups Labor Fakers Play Usual Game Independent Political Action Raised in Federation Stalin Silent on Blumkin; Jacquemotte Speaks Railroad Workers to Meet on 6-Hour Day by O. Coover Dispatchers Need Shorter Hours Washington Governor Pardons Crooks, Refuses Wobblies Atlanta Threatens Death to Communist Organizers $50,000 Minimum Budget for Young N. Y. Banker The Ultra-Left Policy on Right Dregs by Leon Trotsky The German Defeat of 1923 The Bulgarian and Esthonian Adventures (Variant spelling of "Estonian") Falsification and Fiction Replace Facts and Truth The Illusions About the Peasantry Zinovieff on Raditch The LaFollette Maneuver The Farmer-Labor Party and the Class The Course Toward the Kuomintang The Party and Proletarian Revolution Throughout the World of Labor * In the Soviet Union -First Flutterings of a New Course A Rebirth for the Kulaks! The Changed Course Toward the Church * The Elections to the Factory Councils in Germany by K.L. The Party Fails to Lead The Left is Assembling Its Forced * Strikes and Peasant Uprisings in Greece Rationalization and Suppression Mass Unemployment Continues The Adventurist Party Course * Spanish Opposition Endorse International Conference The Lessons of Capitulations -Necrological Reflections by ALFA (Leon Trotsky) The "Leaders" Renounce Themselves The Capitulations by the Right How the Capitulations are Obtained And Radek Yelps, "Me, Too." Zinoviev and Kamenev "Repent" Once Again Stalin's Equilibrium is Shaky The Danger of Bonapartism Book Review: Karl Marx, the Man -Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs, by Karl Liebknecht reviewed by James P. Cannon Scientific Truth Was Marx's Guide Marx in Exile at London Marx the Teacher Harvester Profits Soar; Lay off Men Newark Jobless Haunt Newspaper Office to Scan Want Ads Wisconsin Federation Meets July 15 Expose Revolting Conditions In Canneries Letters from The Militants * The Estonian Press Hews to Party Line--The Results by P.S. Workers' Clubs Disbanding Stalinism Wrecks Esthonian Movement Also (Variant spelling of "Estonian") * Lovestone Speaks His Piece by G.R. Sprinkler Fitters Take 5-Day Week American Capitalist Development by C.L. Where to Buy The Militant 17 Apr 26, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck International Labor Day I. L. P. "Turns Left" May Day in New York -With the Militant Workers -Against Whalen and the Legionaries! -All Workers Out to Rutgers Square on the First of May Capitalists on the Offensive Organize Labor's Resistance Unemployment Unrelieved The Policy of Bluff in the N.T.W.U. by Frank Bromley The Southern Membership and the Organizers Blumkin Issue Will Not Down by "La Verite" Ford Makes Profits on Men Ford Cuts Wages $25 Minimum for N. Y. Girl Police Charge Into Crowd of Jobless Pittsburgh Car men Stand Pat for More Pay Furniture workers Get 49 Cent Wage Jobless told to Leave Detroit "Nothing Doing" Bankers Move Phila. Hosiery Co. -South to Get Scab Labor The Autobiography of Leon Trotsky "My Life" reviewed by Max Shachtman The Role of the Individual in History The Making of a Revolutionist Trotsky's Activity in Exile The Truth Confronts the Stalinist Liars How Mediocrities Like Stalin Arise The Stalinist Intrigue Against the Bolshevik Revolutionists A Great Political Document "Pure and Transparent as Crystal" by ALFA (Leon Trotsky) The Race Between Lovestone and Foster Why Does Stalin Publish These Speeches Now? The Mud Upon the Crystal Arriving at a Decision Foster Proves His Loyalty Kussinen Mumbles "Amen" What Next for Foster? Police Help Auto Plant Subdue Negro Workers The Crisis of Italian Fascism (Faenza and Milan) The Economic Stages of Fascist Development Nitti or Mussolini The Proletarian Revolution Only Can Defeat Fascism The Outbreaks at Faenza--A Signal of the Future The Economic Causes of the Milan Movement The Proletariat Must Lead the Struggle Against Fascism Policy of Centrism Has Been Ruinous Influence of Stalinized Communist Party at Minimum The Policy of the Left Unites the Masses for Struggle Unite Faenza and Milan Under Communist Leadership for the Proletarian Revolution A New Stage of the International Communist Opposition by Maurice Spector Mexican White Terror Continues Communist Oppositionists Deported Mooney Incensed by Liberty Mystery Yarn The Events in India -The Naval "Pact" by Albert Glotzer The Masses Struggle Despite Gandhi The British Labor Government Defends the Empire The Persecutions of the Indonesian Revolutionaries Demand the Right of Asylum The "Safeguard Clause"--Build Bigger Navies Soviet-American Trade Up 61% Phila. Shoe Workers Await Militant Union Lead Wage Cuts Threaten Denver Labor Letters from The Militants * The Noose on the "New Line" by J. Archipenko An Active Party Rank and File A Strike is Called Arrested Striker * Communism and the American Negro by J. M. * On Organizing the Seamen by M. R. The Narrow Line of the Marine Workers League Unite All Militants to Build Seamen's Union Where To Buy The Militant May 18 May 3, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck A Big Step Forward -The International Conference of the Left Opposition, by Max Shachtman The Conference Representation The Origin of the Opposition Our Recent Successes Towards an International Conference Conflict Sharp in India -The Popular Militant Spirit Conflicts Increase Attention! (Announcing a mass meeting to hear Max Shachtman report on his trip to Europe, his visit with Trotsky in Turkey and Trotsky's current views.) The Left Wing and the Amalgamated Convention The Marine Workers Convention by S.M. Rose The Mink Explodes The Ship Councils Idea Stalinists Endanger the Movement A Telegram to Comrade Leon Trotsky (From the first international meeting of the Left Communist Opposition) The Left Wing and the Amalgamated Convention (Comments on the national convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Printers Privileged Position Doomed Two Threats to "Labor Skill" May Scrap Pressmen, Too Street Car Men Demand 6-Day Week The Seamen's Convention -Bureaucracy Perfected! by John Horne Johnstone's Manipulations Organization a la Mode 200 Men Control U.S. Industry Illinois Jobs Much Scarcer Than a Year Ago On Seattle: A Correction In Our Next Issue Throughout the World of Labor * Exit Monde! Exit Henri Barbusse! by Pierre F. Naville * The "Red Peasants" Meet by A.B. * Reactionary Maneuvers in Spain by Henri Lacroix The May Day Meetings In the Party -The N.Y. District is Re-Organized by B.T. A Little Purification by James Sifakis The Men's Clothing Union -In the Amalgamated: From Class Struggle to Class Collaboration The Betrayal of the U.G.W. First Victory of the A.C.W. The Early Successes In the Soviet Union -Stalin Assassinates Two More! Message to Siberia by Pushkin (Poem translated by Max Eastman) In the Railroad Brotherhoods -The Legislative Board Game by C.R. Hedlund The Make-Up of the Boards How the Racket Works "Legislative Program" Shall Three More Workers Burn? by Frank Bromley Electric Chair for Leaflets Facts of the Case Suppressed A "Broad" May Day Conference Oppositionist Ejected From Hillquit to Lovestone -Pointed Parallel between Two Generations of National Socialism by Marsh The Impotence of Centrism The Real Sectarians A Couple of Exceptionalists Nationalism and Internationalism Ross Arrested in Minneapolis Billings' Release "Postponed" Trotsky's Autobiography Free! Or You Can Get a Free Copy of "The Real Situation in Russia" We Also Offer a Free Copy of "Since Lenin Died" Under the Lash of Unemployment * The Crime of Being Jobless Clubbed to Death * Labor Camp Jobs 1-10th of Former Years * The Census Taker Reports by X. Wilkes * He Starved Amid Plenty The Crime of Joblessness * Master Plumbers Offensive 19 May 10, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Whalen's Anti-Red Forgeries The Pressure on the Soviet Union Peshawur and the Gandhi Arrest (Alternate spelling of "Peshawar" which is generally considered the correct spelling) McDonald: Servant of Capital The Meaning of Peshawar N.Y. Jobs Scarcest Since 1914 Judge Denies Bail to Foster, Minor, Amter Wall Street Speaks * Hoover's Bunk Cynical Over "Predictions" * Little Piece of Forgotten History Bluff, Brother, Bluff! Someone Will Believe It Trotsky's Autobiography Free! After May Day's Demonstrations Achievements of Meetings Opposition Active In the Amalgamated -Hillman and the Left Wing Capitalist Corruption in the Union Hillman Fools the Left Hillman's War on the Left What Must be Done Stalinist Splitting -Bordiga Expelled by X. A Visit to the Island of Prinkipo by Max Shachtman Trotsky's Health Stalin and the Five Year Plan The Danger of a Retreat The "Old Bolsheviks" On the "Farmer-Labor Party" Internationalism and the Theory of "Exceptionalism" by Leon Trotsky -Preface to the American Edition of "The Permanent Revolution" Industrialization and Socialism Marxism and World Economy The Law of Uneven Development Character and Limits of Our Faction by James P. Cannon -Lessons from Recent International Experiences of the Opposition Internationalism our Touchstone The Limits of a Faction "The Case of Roy Stephens" Tactics Copied from Fascism Away with Fascist Tactics! Unemployment in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl Unemployment Severe Cramer Has Ross Pinched After Yen Bay -The Revolt in Indo-China The Inconsistency of the S.L.P. by Harold Preece Doonping on China -Charlatanism as a Cover for the Concealment of Adventurism What Should Not Be Forgotten Trotsky on the Constituent Doonping on Browder In the Soviet Union -And the Kulak? Voronezh versus Tomsk! 20 May 17, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck MacDonald's Assault on India by Max Shachtman -The Labor Party's Message of Peace Comes from the Mouth of Machine Guns Puzzled and Powerless! The Week * Whalen's Forgeries * Tariff and Trade * The Lynching Bee The "Red" Guerilla War in China -Stalinist Adventurism by Niel-Sih Rich Peasant Elements in Party Tehu-Deh's Forces Co-operatives Confer at Superior by Max Shachtman Conflict Comes to a Head The "Reliable Fighters" What Next? Plan Two Toronto Dress Strikes Trade Conditions Rotten Why Left Wing Fails Johnstone's "Self-Criticism" -Crisis in the Needle Trades A Scandalous Record Lovestoneites Mainly Responsible Johnstone Then and Now From Bad to Worse Prelude to a President's Swan-Song by R.T. Where Hyman Has Fallen Down Internationalism and the Theory of "Exceptionalism" by Leon Trotsky -Preface to the American Edition of "The Permanent Revolution" (Continued from last issue) National Revolution and World Economies The Growth of Contradictions The "Mad Gallop" and the Panicky Retreat In the Party * N.Y. District Plenum by Roger * The Pittsburgh Expulsions by James Sifakis * May Day in Youngstown by Denis Plarinos In Italy -Crisis in the Communist Party by H.S. Opportunists, Real and Faked The Minority Viewpoint The Role of the Vanguard The Socialist Party and the Prospects for Communism by Arne Swabeck The S.P. and the Middle Class Communists and Unemployment For Correct Policy Toward Socialists A National Tour for the Communist League A.C.W. Convention -Hillman's Record for Toronto by A. Schneider Hillman's Kind of Labor Unity Trotsky's Book Free! Books for Workers -Biography and Revolutionary Struggle by Maurice Spector Two Phases of the October Revolution The Usurpation by the Bureaucrat T.U.U.L. -"Mass Work" in Philly by J. Archipenko The Party Strait-Jacket Proposes Fight for Jobless in Chicago Labor Body 21 May 24, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Left Wing Needle Trades Crisis by Max Shachtman False "Self-Criticism" A Zig-Zagging Leadership Re-Establish Workers Democracy Organize the Unorganized Organize the Right Wing Workers The United Front The Week * Sandino * A.C.W. in Toronto * U.S. of Briand * A Tearful Appeal * In the Factories by L. (A letter from Moscow) Stalinist Brutalities in Russia * A Raid on Rakovsky * On Guard In the Party -The Convention Nears by B.T. Passivity and Indifference Meetings Unattended Our National Tour - New York Begins with a Successful Meeting Speaks on Five Year Plan After the May Day Meeting in Boston by A.K. An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky Kulak and Kholkhoz The Threatening Crisis The Stalinist Retreat The Theory of the "Third Period" In Italy -How Does Italian Fascism Stand Today? by Akros The Class Character of Fascism The Period of Civil War The Bourgeoisie Behind Fascism A Stalinist Canard The I.L.P. -Saviors of Reform The Discrediting of Reformism Maxton as MacDonald's Savior The Incapacity of the C.P. The Fight for Harry Eisman by George Clarke It Depends on Whose Holiday It Is Unemployment -A Capitalist Monstrosity by George Roberts Super-Machine Age Zig-Zagging Policies Decline in Membership The Guerilla Warfare Ruining a Movement -Decline of the Chinese Communist Party by Niel-Sih An Open Road to Adventurism Throws Hundreds Out of Jobs Trotsky's Book Free! The Young Vanguard * The Breakdown of the Mexican League by Russell Blackwell The Apparatus Men Get Busy Expulsions Continue * The Rank and File Is Ominously Silent! by Leo Ring League Members, Wake Up! * In the Y.C.L. -The Plan of Action by George Ray "Do More Work" The "Plan of Action" June 22 Jun 7, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Electric Chair Threat to Left Organizers Maintain the Weekly Militant! Indian Ferment and Chinese Lessons by Maurice Spector MacDonald--Bourgeois Agent India and the Proletariat Build Mass Movement for Mar 6 Jailed -Free March 6 Jailed Deny Aid to Meerut Victims Our National Tour Shachtman Tours for Opposition Additional Cities Added Rank and File Unrest in the Amalgamated The Blumkin Assassination In Germany -The "New" Turn in the C.I. by Sam Gordon The Real Responsibility The Turn a la Thaelmann and Co. Effects of the Turn Finding a Scape-Goat The Perspectives An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Position of the Left Wing The Role of the Social Democracy Against "Socialist" Treachery Stalin's Victory Over the Party Conditions of the Opposition Cadres A Tribute From a So. African Militant by Manuel Lopez In Italy -Italian Fascism and the Economic Crisis by Akros After the War The "Crisis of 1921" The Revival of 1923 and the New Crisis Rationalization and the Capitalist Monopoly International Monopolies Socialist "Ultra-Imperialism" Sharpened Contradictions The Plenum of the American Communist Opposition by James P. Cannon Political Unity of Plenum Opposition Platform Confirmed Perspectives of Party Crisis Preparing New Forces The Needle Trades Situation Maintain the Weekly Militant Trotsky on the Militant Strengthening the Center Consolidation Mexico Stalinists Continue Splitting Social Democracy Betrayed -Answer to a Socialist Worker by Maurice Spector Indictment of Social Democracy A Record of Betrayals The Role of the Maxtons The Way of Thomas The Line of Bolshevism The Suicide of Vladimir Mayakovsky A Stalinized "Ten Days That Shook the World" by W.P.S. Towards the XVI Congress of the C.P.S.U. -Dissolving the Communist Party into the Class by N. Markin Collective Admission A Premium on Political Illiteracy The Gap Between Leaders and the Masses Trifling With the Textile Workers Union by Frank Bromley 23 Jun 14, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Back to Lenin -Manifesto to the Rank and File and Seventh National Convention of the C.P.U.S.A From the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) signed by Martin Abern, James P. Cannon, Albert M. Glotzer, Max Shachtman, Carl Skoglund, Maurice Spector and Arne Swabeck) The Economic Crisis American Reformism Fruits of the "Third Period" The United Front Policy International Roots of Party Crisis The Right Wing and Stalin Factions Solution of the Party Crisis For the Unity of Communist Ranks (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) Rally to the Weekly New York Leads the Way For the Unemployed For the Opposition Our Appeal Left Needle Workers Convention Meets Save Georgia Class War Prisoners Senate Red-Baiting Probe Starts Our National Tour -Meetings Stir Great Enthusiasm Splendid Meetings in Boston The Philadelphia Meeting Stalinists Boycott Meeting but Workers Turn Out in Toronto Chicago, Twin Cities and Lake Cities Prepare Extensively Upholsterers Organize to Fight Speed-Up The Work in the Old Unions (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 Klorkeit #2 (Organ of the Jewish Left Opposition in France, published in Yiddish) Scab Gunman is Acquitted Leftist Sectarianism in Toronto Needle Trades The Slogan of the National Assembly in China by Leon Trotsky The Constituent Assembly in Russia A Slogan to Mobilize the Masses In the International Opposition -Questions to the Prometeo Group by Leon Trotsky The Economic Crisis (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) In Germany -The Menace of Fascism by K.L. The Communist Party and the Leftward Movement The Bourgeoisie Dismisses the Social Democracy Spanish Left Organ Appears Discussion -Communism and the Negro Problem by K.M. Whitten Lovestone's "Americanism" by George Clarke Covering Lovestone's Misdeeds Evading Questions of Principle The Role of American Imperialism (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Barred from Union Activity for "Trotskyism" by Charlie Bryne The "Mass Political Strike" "My Life" and Its Critics -DeWitt, Browder and Gold on Trotsky's Autobiography by James P. Cannon Political Autobiography The Social Democrats The Stalinists Browder Joins the Freudians Mike "Arrives" The S.P.-Stalinist United Front World Union Membership Declines The Young Vanguard * The Misery of India's Youthful Toilers Wages in the Cotton Industry by Days * Communist Youth and the Left Opposition by Albert Glotzer Bigger and Better Wars 24 Jun 21, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unemployment and Communist Tactics Defeat the Capitalist Offensive! -Organize United Front Against Unemployment and Wage Cuts! by Maurice Spector The Crisis of American Capitalism The Open Conspiracy of Communism The Tasks of the Communist Party For Communist Unity! Hugo Oehler Joins Opposition by Hugo Oehler (Personal Statement) Bankruptcy of the Centrist Party Regime The Menace of Revisionism The Struggle of the Left Opposition The Hawley-Smoot Tariff and American Imperialism by Maurice Spector Class Legislation The Economic Crisis The Workers' Position Attack on the World Market Financial Yoke Towards Proletarian Revolution Do Your Share! New Forces from Party and Youth The Militant and the Economic Crisis The Militant as a Pivot for Communist Growth Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention -Questions of a Left Wing Program by James P. Cannon Party Factionalism Dominates False Attitude on Left Wing The Relation of Forces Vitality of Lefts Delegations to U.S.S.R. and the Opposition by Ian Frankel Trade Union Policy (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 29, 1929 A Squeak in the Apparatus -(A Popular Explanation of Rights and Lefts) by Leon Trotsky The Tempo of Industrialization Collectivization The Opposition Platform Collectivization and Adventurism Our Slogan of Collaboration with the Soviet Union In Germany -Comintern Loses Fresh Opportunity by Roman Well "The Acute Revolutionary Crisis" Facts and Figures Party Influence Sinks Percentage of Total Votes in Leuna Works, Berlin V.A.G. Social Democracy Betrays The False Approach of the Stalinists In France -Opposition Defends Indo-Chinese Rebels by Pierre F. Naville Diego Rivera Retires from Political Life Towards a Concrete Program of Action by Maurice Spector Social Insurance Social Insurance as a By-Product of Struggle Capitalist Responsibility for Unemployment Credits for the Soviet Union Economic and Military Defence (Alternate spelling of "Defense") International Solidarity The Party and the Unorganized Masses (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 In India -The C.I. and Two-Class Parties by Joseph Carter The "Two-Class Party" Policy After the Sixth Congress The "Workers' and Peasants' Party" Sofarov's Apologetics for Stalin Flaunt Royal Courts at British Workers by Millicent Shooter One Year of Labor Government New York Open Air Meetings Our National Tour -Shachtman's Tour is Extended Chicago, Minneapolis Hold Good Meetings Return Engagements in Montreal and Toronto Capitalist "Disarmament" Win Five-Day Week U.S. Imperialist Contradictions (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 Red Army Men Urge Trotsky's Recall Where to Buy the Militant Militant Outing 25 Jun 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Jobless Millions Must Organize! -Demand Immediate Relief! by Maurice Spector No Signs of Ease-Up in Crisis The Industrial Reserve Army The General Crisis of Capitalism The Socialist Five Year Plan Organize for Action! N.Y. Party-Y.C.L. Group for Opposition (Signed by Harry Milton, M. Morris, Morris Spector, Raymond Spector (George Ray), Max Stover and Dave Weber) Bureaucratism Supreme Fundamental Questions The Decline of Party Influence Ruinous Policies Demonstrate for the Indian Revolution! Bureaucrats Rule C.P. Convention In Canada -Stalinist Officials Sabotage Communist Unity by M.Q Officialdom Bars Opposition Communists But the Pearle Zionists are Seated Opposition Slogan for Soviet Credits...Rejected Our National Tour -Meetings Mark Left Advance Good Results in Duluth Superior, Wisconsin Kansas City and St. Louis Forthcoming Meetings In India -Simon Report Declares War on Revolution Operators Prey Upon Passivity of the Coal Miners by Arne Swabeck New Union Grows Under "Friendly" Auspices of Operators Will the Two Unions Unite? Where is Howatt Going? Preying Upon "Miners" Momentary Passivity Fatal Blunders of the Left Wing Result in Isolation Left Wing Must Return to Fundamental Task "Revolutionary Age" Barred from Mails A Squeak in the Apparatus -(A Popular Explanation of Rights and Lefts) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from the previous issues and concluding the the article) From the Left or From the Right Tail-Endism (Chvotism) or Adventurism Our Prognosis Flattering the Peasantry Why the New Polemic? The New Unions and the United Front (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 In Germany -Fascist Gains in Saxony Switchmens' Union Convention Red-Baiter Resolution Defeated Resolution for Railroad Councils General Strike in Spain Where to Buy the Militant Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention -Character of the Right Wing Unions by James P. Cannon Attitude to Right Wing Unions The Company Union Argument Class-Collaboration Unions The Young Vanguard * Y.P.S.L. Appeals to Young Babbittry by George Ray Socialist "Doctors and Dentists" The Conditions of the Working Youth Trotsky on the Grown-Up Yipsel * Opposition Recruits Youth Right Wingers Distortions The Future to the Youth Self-Criticism (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) License for the Shriner's Clubs for Workers by Sam Gordon (? very difficult to make out author) License for "Shriners", Clubbings for Workers July 26 Jul 12, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Appeal to Our Readers Mooney-Billings Stay Jailed -Appellate Court Turns Down Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond Lovestone's Symbol! Capitalist Murder on the Streets! Police Savagery Workers Stirred The Crisis in the Communist Movement -New Party Forces Continue to Join the Communist Opposition -The 7th Convention of the Party -a Debacle by Maurice Spector The New Zig-Zag of Centrism Bureaucracy Versus Bolshevism Jerry Hill for the Opposition by Jerry Hill The Rank and File of Newark Speaks Out by X.Y. Former N.M.U. Head for Left Group by John J. Watt Aftermath of Needle Trades Convention -Tactics and Slogans for the Left Wing Struggle by James P. Cannon Can a Left Wing Be Organized in the Old Unions The Program of Demands The Tactics of the United Front The Slogan of Unity The Question of "Reforming" the Old Unions First Henri Barbusse - Is Michael Gold Next? The Revolution in India - Its Tasks and its Dangers by Leon Trotsky Social Antagonisms in India The Jailing of Gandhi The "Only" Missing Condition Centrism's "Left" Jump Who Will Lead the "Bloc" The Apotheosis of Confusion Some Stalinist Activities in Czecho-Slovakia by Jan The Soviet Diplomats and the Police A "Communist" as State Attorney How the Workers Think Public Warning! Lessons of the Chinese Revolution -The Constituent Assembly and the Soviets by Arne Swabeck Browder--Professional Confusionist Browder's Confessions Stalin for Hankow The Bourgeois Democratic Revolution Lenin on the "Democratic Dictatorship" A "Revolutionary Upsurge" Here and in China A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Open Letter to the C.P. on the Elections by the New York branch of the Communist League of America (Opposition) India -Browder vs. Luhani Solidarity on the Streets -New York Demonstrates for India by Sp. Clarification by Reva Craine The Foster Faction (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) A Stalino-Fascist Attack -Cleveland Workers Reply to Hooliganism by M. The Opposition in Brazil After the Cleveland Riot by Joseph (last name unreadable) 27 Jul 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck What Fish Committee Means -A Fighting United Front Needed Against the Sharpening Offensive of the Capitalist Class by Maurice Spector A Forced Retreat The Mass Workers Join the Opposition! -George J. Saul Also Demands that Party Reinstate Our Group by George J. Saul The 16th Congress of the C.P.S.U. The Chicago Conference -The Unemployed Gather by Arne Swabeck Many Extravaganzas First Tasks The Program of Action The Iron Heel Grinds Mexican Labor by R.B. Yes or No? Northwest Experiences -Farmer-Laborism in Action by A. Ekstrom Reformist Labor Parties Theory of Labor Reformism A "Two-Class" Party Why Doesn't Lovestone Answer Trotsky? The Man Stalin Chose to Succeed Blumkin! by O. Klorkeit No. 4 (Klorkeit is the organ of the Jewish Left Opposition group in France) France -Opposition Progress by Sam Gordon The Party Up a Blind Alley Opposition Growth What the "New Masses" Refused to Print -Concerning the "defenders" of the October Revolution by Leon Trotsky Hypocrisy for Art's Sake in the New Masses -Correspondence between Max Eastman, Walt Carmon, Mike Gold Notes of a Journalist -(Concerning Zinoviev, Manuilsky and "Radovoy") by Alfa Zinoviev and the Evils of Printing Has France Entered the Period of Revolution? Another New Talent Correction Opposition Problems -Deeper into the Party! by James P. Cannon A Question of Tactics Need Flexible Tactics The Character of the New Movement Closer Bonds with the Ranks Our Independent Activity The Truth About the Bolivian "Revolution" by Camilo Torres A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) The Strike in Full Swing The Sources of Manuilsky and Co. by D. A Plagiary from Oskar Blum Lenin on the Libelers of Trotsky The Lying Campaign by Lillian Bord The Young Vanguard * The League's New "Plan of Action" by George Ray The New "Shock Plan" * Scranton Police Seize Communist Workers * Camp Nitgedaiget in Boston by C.D. * Lenin and the Youth Concerning the Students Just Out! (Bulletin of Russian Opposition Double No. 12-13 for June-July 1930) August 28 Aug 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Wage-Cutting Drive -What Green's Sellout to Hoover and the Bosses Really Means to American Workers Green Remains Loyal Sixty Wage Cuts Twelve Month Comparison of Volume of Employment in Percent For Social Insurance What's Going On in China by Maurice Spector Sands of Illusion The Correctness of the Opposition Our Class War Prisoners Must Be Freed! Is Sylvia Bleeker to Be Expelled? A Typical Case The Aim of the Browders The National Miners' Union Passes by Marsh How the Retreat is Covered Up Bluff and Adventurism Our Policy and Browder's Tested The Big-Hearted Boss...(Political Cartoon) Wherein Lies the Difference between Them? by J. The Real Results of August First No "General Strike" The N.Y. Demonstration How the 16th Party Congress Was Prepared -The Persecution of the Russian Bolshevik Opposition by N. Markin Non-Party Workers Arrested In the Solitaries A Hunger Strike in Ichim Sosnovsky in Danger Between Black and Red -The Danger of Fascism in Germany by Kurt Landau What Are the Driving Forces of Fascism? The Weakness of Communist Leadership--the Strength of Fascism Differentiation within Fascism A "1923" Upside Down A letter on Michael Gold by R. Notes of a Journalist -(Who Is Responsible for the "Turns"; Yakovlev's General Line) by Alfa The Responsibility for the Turns Lies With...Trotskyism Yakovlev's "General Line" The Right Wing Moves Closer to Social Democracy by S.-n. A Heavy Defeat for Brandlerism The Czech Right Wing Travels Fast Who is Disintegrating and How? A Saslavsky Doesn't Change Group vs, Branch Banking -A Struggle of Interests in the Ranks of the Capitalist Class by H. Where Does the Italian Opposition Stand? Stalinists Lose Their Heads in Boston by L. Schlossberg New Crimes on Stalinism's Law Books The Party's Progress A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Klorkeit No. 4 (The organ of the Jewish Left Opposition in France) Strong-Arm Stalinism Defeated in N.Y. A Correction on China ("The Proletarian" is published by the Right Opposition group, not the Left Opposition group, which publishes "October." The Ultra-Left Opposition group publishes "Our Word.") Blumkin's Successor -Stalin and his Agabekov by A. Who Agabekov Is The Breach in Stalin's Monolithism A Slanderer Answered -Who and Where Are the Real Deserters? The "Final" Merger Comrade A.C. Miller Suspended The Epoch of Stalin by Valentin Olberg September 29 Sep 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Military Revolt in Peru by Russell Blackwell Vote Communist! -Against the Parties of Unemployment and Wage-Cuts, and the "Socialist" Reformers by S.-n Capitalist Bankruptcy The "Bulwark Against Bolshevism" The Main Issue Where We Stand Blumkin Dead-Is Rakovsky Next? Carolina Demands Its Pound of Flesh "Third Period" Bluff -Bessemer City Strikes Again by Hugo Oehler A Year Ago and Now Result of Phrase Mongering News from Southern California The Liberals' Pet Union -After the A.C.W. Convention by A. Schneider Convention Accomplishment The New York Lock-out The "Organizational Campaign" Where is the Left Wing? Maurice Malkin Stands with the Opposition! James McInerney Case of Cold Feet by A.A. Buehler Who Will Prevail? From the Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) Stalin's Figures The World Market The Party Regime Stalin's Repressions In the International -Where Is the British Party? by "Black Diamond" A Nine Years' Balance Robotizing the Party The Minority Movement The Fight of the New York Plumbers Helpers by J. Sprague Self-Determination -The Problem of Mobilizing the Negroes in the Class Struggle by H. Is Slogan Correct? The Garvey Movement Racial and Economic Oppression Problems of the Revolutionary Movement -A Statement of Views on Some Disputed Questions by Albert Weisbord Stalinists Before and After the War Errors of Party Leadership The American Crisis Slander Won't Win by J. Chiplowitz A Revolutionary "Social Fascist" A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Blackmailers Cloaked in Red Mantles by Joseph Keller The Young Vanguard * The Y.C.I. Letter is Brought to Light! by George Ray Amateur and Skilled Suppressors The Y.C.I. Estimate of the Y.C.L. No Solution of the Problem * International Youth Day As it Should Be As it is What is to be Done * Lenin and the Youth (A speech delivered to the Russian Young Communist League October 4, 1920) Training the Youth, The Tasks of the Communist League The New Generation Will Build Communism The Task of the Youth is to Acquire Knowledge What to Learn and How to Learn It Theory and Practice; Knowledge and Struggle * The Youth and the Elections by Joseph Friedman Winning the Young Workers Youth Omitted in C.P. Platform 30 Sep 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck In Stalin's Exile -Rakovsky in Danger! by N.N. On Rakovsky Letter from Russia Issues in the Elections -Capitalist Parties Put Up Fake Issues to Conceal Jobless Sufferings Reformist Aides to Capitalism Vote Communist A Yankee Revolution in the Argentine The German Elections George Saul Tours for Opposition Comrade Andres Nin Expelled from Russia An Opportunist Campaign -The Communist Party in the Elections by S.-n. Conditions for Election Work Our Proposals How the Opportunists Write of Their Bill Petty Bourgeois Pacifism Our Reply to the Right Wing -Lovestone's "United Front" Maneuver by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The United Front Unity with "Counter-Revolutionists"? Questions to Lovestone An Answer and a Challenge to a Debate From Communist League of America (Opposition) Socialist Indignation Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky The Peasant's Balance Sheet of the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions Notes of a Journalist by Alfa Two or Not Even One? (Blucher's Enigmatic Speech) The Sermon on Cockroaches A Self-Portrait of Yaroslavsky A Reply to Comrade Weisbord by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The Need for Clarity An Ambiguous Position on India Road to Ruin, Not to Victory Problems of the Revolutionary Movement -A Statement of Views on Some Disputed Questions by Albert Weisbord The Slogan of Soviets The Problem in China The Five Year Plan Read-- -Number 14 Bulletin of the Russian Opposition (Entirely in Russian) A Letter from Shanghai -What is Going On In China? by Peter In the Party The Red Army In the Party -Why I Joined the Left Opposition by Sylvia Bleeker Records Needs No Apology A Contemptible Slender Communism Weakened by Expulsions Stalinist Party Folly in St. Louis by H.L. Goldberg Opposition Organizes Unemployed Books for Workers by Carl Cowl (A review of "Since Lenin Died" by Max Eastman October 31 Oct 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck China -Manifesto of the International Left Opposition -To the Chinese and World Communists! -Perspectives and Tasks of the Chinese Revolution -The Left Opposition and the Chinese Events From the Provisional International Secretariat of the Communist Opposition: Rosmer, Landau, Markin, Russian Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) Leon Trotsky, Communist League of France (Opposition) A. Rosmer, United Left Opposition of the German C.P. (Bolshevik-Leninists Kurt Landau, Spanish Communist Opposition, Andrade, Gorkin, Belgian Communist Opposition Hennant, Communist League of America (Opposition) Shachtman, Communist Left of Austria, D. Karl, C. Mayer Is There a Soviet Government? The Crushing of the Revolution The Peasant Uprisings The Slogan of Soviets Toward the Third Revolution Hoover Advises Labor -Workers' United Front vs. "Optimistic" Pledges! by S.-n. Hoover and Wage Cuts Two Servitors of Capitalism The United Labor Front Danville Workers Out on Strike by Frank Bromley Boris Selinitchenko Under the Lash of Unemployment * A Concrete Program for Organizing the Unemployed by Albert Weisbord Unemployment to Become More Serious How the Party is Working The Basis for Unemployment Work * Wrong and Right Tactics in the Unemployment Movement by Hugo Oehler The Program of the Official Party The "Social Insurance Bill" The United Front The Hillman-Beckerman Union -How Do the Cutters Stand? by Albert Orland Where is the Left Wing in the Local? Wipe Hooliganism Out of the Movement! Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Aim of the Opposition The Problem of the "Scissors" A "Bourgeois Prejudice" Four New Organs of the Left Opposition Mimeograph Wanted The German Dilemma: Communism or Fascism? * The Election Results by Kurt Landau The Middle Bourgeois Parties Beaten Fascism, the Real Victor And Now? * The C.P.G. in the Campaign by Sam Gordon The C.P.G.'s Programmatic Declaration Lenin's View The Capitalist Offensive The Role of the Thaelmanns On Maurice Malkin Radek's Novitiate -What is Social-Fascism? by Alfa Who Is "Betraying" Labor Defense Unity? Besmirching the IWW Pearls of Priceless Purity (From "Daily Worker" editorial 9/20/1930) A Case of Base Ingratitude Just Received -Klorkeit No. 6 (Jewish Organ of the Left Opposition) Stalinist Antics in California by B.B. A Persecuted Socialist Weisbord's Statement Our National Tour -Good Meetings for Saul in Mid-West Cities Quotations That Somehow Do Not Tally... The Militant Needs Aid! November 32 Nov 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 13 Years of Russian Revolution by S.-n. The Obstacles in the Road The Treachery of the Social Democrats The Meaning of the Opposition Results of the Election The Democratic Sweep The Communist Vote In the Next Issue The Coming Dressmakers Strike -The Bureaucratic Leadership Fails to Make Real Preparations by Sylvia Bleeker The Strike Plan The Strike Demands The Danger in the Strike Sylvan Pollock for the Opposition by Sylvan A. Pollock (Pen name "Frank Bromley") Against Opportunism and Adventurism of the Right Wing! -On the Proposal for a New Farmer-Labor Party Fraud from the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) per Max Shachtman -On the New Farmer-Labor Party Proposal Marine Workers' Rank and File Revolts An Appeal to the Members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union Our Aim Tactics Bankruptcy of the Present Leadership and Its Policies Background of the Wrong Policies of the Bureaucracy Incompetence and Irresponsibility of the Bureaucracy The Bureaucrats Hold Masses in Contempt The Origin of the Document Against the Stalinist Union Bureaucracy! by Marine Workers Industrial Union Rank and File Committee The "Leadership" Ruins Strikes Bureaucracy Cripples Our Union The Irresponsible Methods of Work and Organization Out With the Destructive Bureaucracy -- For Correct Constructive Policies to Build the Marine Workers Industrial Union The Outlook for the New Movement A Concrete Program on the Unemployed by Albert Weisbord (Continued from last issue) Spreading Parliamentary Illusions Street Demonstrations Urgent Appeal! Our Study Classes After the German Elections -Where is Thaelmann Leading the German Party? by Kurt Landau Young Vanguard by J.F. The Civil War in Brazil by Russell Blackwell A False Analysis of the Situation The Party Putsch 33 Nov 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Plot Against the Soviets -Stalin Imprisoned the Opposition Bolsheviks and Allowed the Counter-Revolutionists to Get Into Positions of Power by S.-n. The "Denials" of the Plotters The Opposition's Warning Stalin and the Right Wing For a Genuine United Front of the Millinery Workers by S.M. Rose The Origin of the Movement The Committee of Seven Party's Arbitrariness Organize the Left Wing! Are Walker and Lewis Going to Unite? -Illinois Miners -Howat and the Rank and File Movement by Joseph Angelo The Bureaucrats Unite In the Miners' Rank and File The Position of Howat New Seamen's "International" The Big Efficiency Union -The Benefits of Hillmanism by Albert Orland Militant Collaboration What the Bosses Want What "Temporary" Means in the A.C.W. Hillman Gives the Bosses a Break! Rose Karsner Bus. Manager The A.F. of L. Convention and the November Election by Max Shachtman The A.F. of L. Convention Labor's Dissatisfaction The A.F. of L. Decline The Fall of the Strike Curve What About Radicalization The Place of the Left Opposition How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution a letter by Tchen Du Hsiu A Pillar of Stalinism Molotov's Prosperity in Knowledge by T. Stalin as a Theoretician -Ground Rent, or, Stalin Deepens Marx and Engels by Leon Trotsky Young Vanguard * The Struggle of the Plumbers Helpers by J. Sprague A Militant Policy The Y.C.L. "Appears" * The Peasants' International and the Anti-Imperialist League * Opposition Group in Bulgaria A Plan -For You to Study December 34 Dec 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck For the Thirty-Hour Week! -No Wage Reduction -For Social Insurance -Against the Petition Delusion -For Credits to Russia The Program of the Bosses Credits to the Soviet Union Will Release Comrade Malkin December 20 Mother Jones Dies To Members of the Communist League of America (Opposition) and Sympathizers Two Events in the Labor Movement -The Railroad Brotherhoods Meet by Arne Swabeck The Railroad Conference "The Capitalist System is Shot" The Party's Tactics Lessons of the Marine Workers Union Struggle The Warnings of the Opposition The Reactionary Role of the Right Wing The False Tactics of the Syndicalists Left Wing's False Course -T.U.U.L. and Amalgamated by Albert Orland The Left Wing at Low Ebb The Workers Do Not Follow Social Reformism in the United States by Hugo Oehler Reform Parties and Reform Litvinov at Geneva The Soviet Delegation Stalin Grants Two Interviews by Max Shachtman What Trotsky Did "Too Late" "The Ten Years of Peace" The Daily Worker Silent Again Stalin Catches Up with the Opposition Weisbord's Proposals on Unemployment How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution a letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Proposal to Withdraw from the K.M.T. A "Revolutionary" Court Where Responsibility Lies The Life of the Exiled and Imprisoned Russian Opposition by N. Markin The Crisis in the Opposition The Ideological Life of the Opposition The Social Nature of the State The Slogan of a Coalition C.C. The Opposition's Growth New Deportations Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Formulae of Marx and the Audacity of Ignorance The Process of Extended Reproductions Stalin Refers to Marx Stalin Discloses the Un-Marxian Village! Peasant Economy and "Socialist" Industry "Capital" and Socialist Reproduction Slander Answered -Pollack Case: A Statement of Fact by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Comrade Pollack's Statement by Sylvan A. Pollack A Dance in Chicago Chicago Study Class