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. . T~df!!! the Brit.iaf. r>oi-ty bet;·an its. :~on.v:e~tion. It had j· _the air_. oi:,-an .-.intEJrn8.ti_9flal' --_() ongre6s_ Oecn.u_ae_ · o!. the: __ many
_ ·A~t~at.e~al- :~de~~Sa~G~)l:.~r~ :t~:,:.S:r;~~e-~_--:-~~6 .--~-Q~~e~t;_0~7::_~n.! .~.P.?t~h { .- H~whi"_h ~has ,~50_;m~~e~-~ _~ada ._;:~!>.~l~ ~n_o~vl,1 t. ~r~up_s, :)~h~ -~-~f'•
~-, :; .. -~H-~4_-:Y,CUttl~ ~ho_ h~v~ ne{ve;r_,b.e_e:n.,i~-- ~~a .. ·:onO:VC_~e-~t-,J:'r~,~~?~~~Y) t.hay -:-;i_hav:·e ,,c_ent~:;:~4 :the_i;- ~g:1. ~l_;l.~i~~- a;--ott~~ th~ -~~lo~a~ ~~ .. ~t,~~~ ·boycott
:9f ,gocds to the Dutch iruper~r-.l.ist ai'mies-_in !nd.on~_B!it;:'-~9<1 _npw ,the trade unions h.-.v.e o.ccoptod th&.t slogan; and"tho'.i!ri:Ualuqrlll: .f<CP _of course recordeP. its sup·p-ort to this rooveoent); the Franc:h (who_ now cummf:.nd- aboiJ:t. ~:150-~000 votes in t·l.w 3 el_e.c~ora.l _districts Jn which they !uttction; cont.ro_l.--.:t.Jle SP -y~~~"fupver.-;t:tt"t-:-.:·about_ 2•000 ~;mp110rt !J-6• and o:f· theao_ f>Ver l."OOO."'we~.;\.)~~!(-~c';tpep __ t, tC., set B:t-_.._~~-<,~)le·ne.:tt convention tu,-.J.ie h~ld ci"' .A;>g 15th;··~. al/Jilt:""'f~~J;~of ·.· c' · occ}.m>O.ll<!')>b.Oilt>-20:'dele,¢;t:~s oi"'"-,th~.lll? 11l.o ·are J1:it1ding thei'£ cofif< ~~t._- same ·t.ime, a.nd' who· "dii JOin .uft!l -th-e_ Youth\in 'Jco_tji.ne;: ov- Cr: \~ ;u~'l:-) i1 .t~1e _Ind~~~ 'tglioj hr;.·ie_ ~\c.ti Vll~Y par_ti.CipE'.~ed in both . tl"-..0_ · --:
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_.. :: 1 5~ I- made the foll~ottitl,s deelal"'a.ti.un: ttT11e Jol::n~on-Forest ·-- ;_Tt'itlf~~).•\:.:vn ~11--l:s~- tr;"i.~g_ .. ~3 .... in(~g:Ut.e _i tee. ;t. f into ~~lt.a. ~1~_rth
Int'Q tionaJ.,, ia happy· tJ gl'<!Ot the<.50_!lY~j;i,?n Q;f",\j;ne,·i«:l? •. who no ;i-e,·o~utiope.I'l(. ~ight against. .f.h& imperis.l_ist war serve~_ to inap_ire :;.u ~ti_gn·s·,-"'!f th~ .•• ~o~.t{l 1 .'!-"d. partie\lf"-rly ue in AllleH~a. ·It.. is ~o ace ident e..t\~11- -tit!t:t ·_:tl'le-.) RCP made,i.'t;3. ta?.:> ... ~.:- :f~9~!tl.:d-~~~~.i~dco· _ _ --
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pr,~c,!_aely !Jecaus~ or the a.nti-war work s1.~ce. th.eo.Jsta.l~nist_'\. · _ Inter~lationa.l. pluye_d the ro~e o:f _betra.)rer::~thnt the ~_econd ·p~ayed ~.
\'11'/I and only· the Trothy:i:_a.F.a,--~ld_,JU.:;.:>;ft the,. ba,r.mer,\of. ,re;v!)lutionaz:vl· . o::::.:s:::y --·--~~_.;'-·;·t:;-:"~ ~ -,"" -," -r
of _the Fourth ~s t~e turn j that the ,-_·
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~il!ii:~'';~{)J:··~! ,~u !rC1hux;~;l,JiJ.\~:l{~;~~fl:~~~~~~~:\:~~:m ~""b workingclas B gov e:cnment. RCP
~kz~~!:J!~t~~ilt~~~~-~.:t:~;o;:l.~ is task. ~ow:i:ns. -rii..l1~ -'i<eJ.l t~t secretary c"nnotbr1ng to Eliro~-d·wh .. t. ·\}C"il<t>;_P.J. ~1dsl\B.ll u.w-u- e~terrl-."-to ·this vonenti.otf Ou·r-.frn.tez•tlal
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··30ur fi(l\Q::--£ ~~.:_~~~:::,~~~~ ty ·rel>resuntt.t.:tou o_n ?:B; I IO::nciOSe ;'t!~e f: by Min".,;a.nd r~j&ctod by convention. Naturally ~I did aides in ox'b .. repor.t cr dincuasion; hut I Uid. recOrd my consultati.vc· vots in !F:...?.or of'< thu llet'.J.y .Heu. 1·or ~1in. represcnt~t.ion, and cent. Jock a personlil note. :: · Th~ lJutch cotJrhde ht~s mo.de t-:. tJonderi~l imp:-ssoion·
· Cn ce--ho :is -n. veey- eriouo st.udtmt type -29 ~-·but ·looks yonnccr. i hm•U BiVen bin Grice's articla· on Bcono::r1ac & our nbstruct on ~~ ii.nd __ he haa pro:nin&d to nrra'ric:;e u m4et1ng rOr me in liollnnd, fi'fld tl.lso t-o introciuce m_e to Pa.n'nakok, ..mo belon.:;a to_ sottie ul t.Z.u.- •,
l.eftist gro~ijiii:. ,to .... h1ch thi.o comrnde u.acd to b~nllg,c
. . :r.t. is past. miclni,sht. & I !:lUst ·hurry to. slenp ...., ! ,_~lJ. ·:hay~. to· ~wi.t.k'e· eu.r~y to apPear at _seauiO_c~:f tOWiTO-ti•·-:·
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Here, :finRl.l.y, is nbricf' resume o:f the se·s-Sions.THAT NO COrY OR J>XCEJrtfS OF. THIS ARB MADE, although you can its contents to the sc, resident. Many .o:r tr.<> detaii's will.
U b~ f'il.led- when I first -cOtue bUck,. e.n:l sorile of it- ci_n-· Francli parey ,, !- ui.l:t c;iv_e _ yo_ti. rather -from _my _own point of _:vie_w as soon_\·8s.; ;; .· Z:i'es ·o.t· m·e~ting-'·I'm_:ha.ving ·u:ith the ·di:f1"erent> t_endencies is·· ccmca·~>o.e!l ' j' ; ·-.. ... I ·_returil inste'ad _:_to Oile point. O:f inf'_ormation i -_hare·: ,, re~at_ed B.a 'to -interna.tional. discussiori~-·vmi~h wi~~- at_ the·- · l~ t."lro·w e. ~ight- upon:-~ata_"Other_-than·-pUt.ti~ng our·_·t.tnldency!:on
hod a:tatl.ng· __ ou: posi:tiolt ·eve:t";j'lfhere, I pl.en on S.ccompl.ishi~g ;: i\b n.· reat.ilt -:o1· ·tbO~e- c.Lis~usa:tons I- got Hans. a yo wig· Austrian i:. cO:raroo_e-t :mo ~was. not· a re'sp::-esent~ti.ve of'_ any section, who:· cai-rie
.no _vOt_cs --s_o- _to ·speal:, _b:bQ dOes_ not even have our positiOn -of. ce.pita:l,ism l thouGh he is. a tlefeatist, but pre:fers cnlling it degen·orr.ti.on o:f. a 'WOrkers sta.te" -:ln order to retain historic
'!· Wl::!r.!t- he doen hE.ve is a sterJ.:!.ng·_.revol.~tiollary·ne.ture,· a real. for the. ph1~-osophy- -o~ llarxism, a.nd youth. He was;a. seaman (mliy .
. ; up in US) o.ni has--been_:throughout the wor~d. incl.uding Palestine. a.nd haa· cste.bl.i_ahed contact. everywhere, incl.uding GermBny. It·1s-th1s typa~ o:f norker-yo~th- I +r.._.,. ·concentrate on s.s a. .eadre to, be 1.e:rt behind when I sci gone. lie considers -himsel"f a ·"near" al.ready, :in begi:~1ni.n.,s _to. st)ldy Hege~. knows 'Ge~n. French and 3ns21eh,- and has a conep'tion or prol.et~ian revolut_ion'·tlla:t iS I!' I ca.n -work up a :reW ~ike tht!.t in .the various c:)·l.-~triea, the wUl. have _been· w;rorthwhile. · -~
!"rom you No" to, some detalls: I have heard no1hing yet/regarding
"Y. projected depe;rture in Nove!:lber; al.so none~ TeSa.rding mOneY~ -;;bich now needs be on:ty a total of $250 ($~50 f'or_ I,S: and $~09 _-f'O_:t:"_ ue} G.nC. idlich shouid be sent _me pronto i.:f not ·a1ready been sent; cl.so .none !'rom youth. either ·regarding the possibi11 tli o:C··a doriati from them to French youth, or whether they pimeogrnphed that li essay by Krupskaya which the youth here is very anxious to get. The youth here is ?~so anxious to get w~tten contributions to naner: \1ews or-- anal.Y.sia of" youth groups and Gi.tuat1.on in USo
?).ease -tell MartY -cha.t J. -·have iU:.d no· ·tim-e t.oc but have very. much appz~c1ate~ hearing :from.hi.mi he ·wa~a.01;~,~s~~ii.;~ Who-gave :ne any· news ·of the :fraction. cecl:;)f;re,~-ga1nS • .J.
I say is one person who is not so abstract es to rorget oi' organiza:tion. i.~Go, his articJ.e R];leport Po~i tic a" is a piece. In my rebuttaJ. on the· Jc!maon question., I t-ook gr.eat in reading :t:rom it, and advertising it (Ike's "Q.uestion llark Shnch+~sn· also sot a b~urb !rom ~e there), and it did ~ound was not only JohnY on the spot but actuaJ.~y a prophet, since quib had arriTcd but a fen hours berore session.
I'm &ettinG lonasome for our bunch. whic~ shows that -the ChP.rcs of Fa.ris have their ~imi t. or • a.s the Frenchmen. say, e.r"' :tdelic;i ted frotJ" the wot"th oi Ol.(r tenderJC.:Y.
,-.-.-~ i,Bfl ~ :t ·ne\·r world. ___ ·_!'he ruiner is played up as the
__ :i~ied· bcicause he StJ.-.fe .up hiS Saturdays f'or 11his 11 -·
thq -_Brit-ish m~ners· I met--and a·tat:tstics ve~l.t'"".f 1. aricid:z.n~_ but the ru1e--sa~, 11 Cf' course# I gave up bUt. I _stay e.~·iay e.lJ. d':l.y _!-!onda~s. 11 The \·mrnen too 1oent·-ro1e--as the wcmen of' the Ruhr miners ";Tho
·mines tO rnalro sure their husbands would be· braVe to a < _dtisl!;te the· occ:upying -povers. And ,.,e live in so soc :tal a· t.!-.a:t_-_-the -I:talian· masses ·have al:ready achiev-ed ·.·rhat 1t· tOok·"·"'''"~
~:,;;.,~,_,, .··, · .. -Russ:ta.n· r6\1"olut_i0n tc. bring- 'iogethei--t.he collaboro.ti'cn.· of"·'.~.·,, ..•.• ,~. -·ra:.rmer•s_~; an·Q'- rt-lral "~o_rka1 .. s "vti th- the .urban . .,.,.orkers. 1fh11e ·;I
""''"'·''·'' c' in---Europe \'19 had the -T.I11It~±:f±v.eltl; great general stril:e of' farm wOrkers Rt the same time as th.."l.t o::' the me'tal~ worke t"or.:tme. Frennh- workers, i.n whose every step you f"eel the
. o:f revo~utio:~a :from ~789, ~848, ~87~ a d the great strikeao.r l936: I should .like t.o describe to you the
.'tiM.on Setp. 5 at!C::ha!Dp de!·4 · · ·.. . L-~---~ r
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tha.t •trikes is the VITALITY o~ the masa~s ,/;~-
tetJ CHAMP DE HA.R8--Sept;.5th-1. 789 1.871. . 1.848 1936
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and it ·~ bore . fru1 t: .9 ! _let anti-l'rar gathering and thla .
enme yo~th ~~ founded YCI
while ori platform I was wondering, l'rhat an American·del.ega:te could! give.this you~h, who, even in 1 SPORTS has .ito
MOVEMENT
our DELEGATE; Ovation at end of epeech and demand
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he answer_. the1r own speaker on eeotar1an1sm & unity c:r action, which he demand by ini:ieting now the l.et thing is to decide road of reform
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Singing of Int"rnational; decision to :!'orm COMMITTEES OF REVOLU"· · TIONARY REGRCIIOPMENT ..
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-To \ci-de~stB.a--- t~e ·even-ts in· E-.i:i-ope- today \·te must· go_ ba.Clt:_·: to· -1.933lih!!d_.the rise· of_ ~ar. fascism posed the Cluest16ri _of vrorld counter··r_uVolut.ion_ agdinst the inherent world r"E::~io'!'l•-- ·. ' · ·
As LT tllen "ttrote. "The' decli.ne or capi talisin pr_o_mi.ses ·to· be· st11~ more stormY, drama"t!ic (l.nO. bloody than_ its ri~e~
-:._ . .;-f(;hav9···since. bad. ia.6-C:i~t~--a·e~cen~ ~poD. Eu-~ .. opei ~nd through ·too_ cehtr'9.11Zat.i'o:l of cap"l t"al and- dest-ru.ction of' workers Orgariiz"a:tiori · cflltl:l:-:enge ·_','old __ capi ta.l1sm11 :for wor.ld ·?aw:er~ ·
::_.-The. "ttl'?l"'k!?J~·~-- ont~i1.e_1r . .--81ae;' :rrorn the··. S':t t-do'-m strikes- :frmm: in --France o:tmx..6'i::e_Id:lU::je _the .Spanish- revolution 1n .1937 tried to ; ·get- -"i-id-- of' the· .bloody ._ce:pitalis t rul.e,-. _aee1n5 vrell- that.. thel'~e .is ·no middle ro,a_d~-·_thera ia:td:_only._eith~r f"~scism, N the gory-·r-u.l.~.-·o'f _de~D."~ent- c:n.pitn.l~siJ,.,or there. is the p:·oletarian revolution. ~-r~o.t, -~orar1l_y, see"r.led to B"Pell" the· rule of'
·---~ .. \·~or·l_,l··COUlltf7r-!'evolut1o::J. :ts,:.tJ."t..e. -?~Bthe TP ~ta.tes in .its f'ir_st and· last -.ml"'ds,. the t~ea.chorous ::'Ule of the pro~etarian
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···) .. · . ~ -.-~ f Let us exe.mine one country--France--to see Hhat had
oCcu;~d, once the road 'rihich opened to the•- pro1ot.a.r1'an re··,r.,. _ wasnot taken ..
-By 1938--ProduCtion lesat.han th-;:.:t' "c:!" 1.913~ .~:- _ ___ 1-!unioh removedposo1b1l1ty of'- E.E.
allies previously pi-epping up Fr. FEAR OF REV. AL!.lEADY LED FR. BOURGEOISIE- TO RELY ON- HITLER_.
/ (C:f .. Pel-tinax' s ·analysis) . --· --~ · -T~s: Vichy govt. vm.Sonly· oouro19t.ion of ch:ni tulation. to
Nazi control· of'. Europe begun by Fr. 'bourgeo:1.sie with_1936 strike.
---~---becaus-e it sho\·rs .th&.t comt·ter-r-cv. vs .. worlters ·unrea.J_1z...; ·.~::;J .e..ble by Fr. bour;;eoisie t.fithout.. interna_tioual support
· · and backing. \'le >-rill sec le~ter tho :parallel in US~&-de Ga:ttlc. As :?~ 11 personal1ty11 Schumann is less than
Von Pa.pen, of -•~thorn LT sad: · 1 'I·he Von Ps..pen govt. (:!'aad Schur.tan
emerged. :rrom e.n 1rnnacu~.1·t:.e bur. conceptipn .. __ .With the right o1bm-; :tt rests upon Eitler 1 s shoulder -(I'ead:de G 1 :3). '1,·/it.h t.he police fist (n9.y ariny noW) it. t\'aPds o'ff the prol. to the L'3:ft.Thercin lies the eecret of' 1ts 1 stabi11ty 1 ,that is,
a. 1 ta birth. . - . -·-~ . · ~a. f the fa. ct 11 tlw.-t it did. not ~~~~s~ at t. he momet:tt.Y ....
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At the hOUr' of danger, said I.T, tho Stalinist. Party Pl'OVOd- to be a oorpoe. 11 Nothing lu~ e.1.ded, can ero.se thn.t fa.ot from h1s.
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During "~~~~-nta1riist·s~ed. res1stauce· t.O t:az1.S not an·· cla.no ·but.-. on r..a tiona.l basis--and, tr...at. onl.y after Hitler turned against Russia~ . What Wasne·eded '•"~aB :rra:ter.-:
n:1sation _with German __ s~l.die~s and· boldl.Y" :fighting for SUSE.
-~~:t1n1sts. S:c~ieVed·.Qlo~t. s_-ta.tu!:' w1th._l-1berat.1.on in 19~and to 1947. · l:olicy of' :i'Ocreased production. Revival. ·o:r pl:-od..-with _oons~quent· 1llusi_ons 1n all heads of the already :f'ea.x-_
.· ba tj:.ered (rear Ol' uroJ.. · rev~) . prol. ieaders--90% 01' 1938 · · . . . DUE. ONLY TO C?.ECK STALINISTS <EXERCISED OVER \'.'lffiS. Thus . '< '
--B.ppaeranco of e·conomi'c re-Vi.val· :f'B.ke ot act.ual~:t.Y-~of'· social rSVojf;·:-.
· _--. ····r; .-.~Torlt.~rs breal'. st.mngle:hold or Ste.llni~ts ;.~ t' ~e~e.ult\ . ~"'-'._ · . . . . st •. 1ke .~ . '
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IT WAS THE ACTION OF THE !-IASSE3 I"THICH ;;ROKE COALITIO!I GO'!T. & FORCED STALIHISTS OUT •. Italso brought· de Gaule oat- as movement;_ ad turned Tr-..1~~-e~rine into Marshall Plan--
·~~ ~ -.") . ~~f~;;-\ · Commun1st.s .. ·- --~ ~)~. ";!'t .... _ ---~~LIAT'I'I: "•;TA/XTRXS'k±tlxxha.vent - \ ~ - ci::l.a.np;ed our p~ogramf'or ro:rorn since_ we ~
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No wOnder the strike j_n Ro:nc XEX±x failed-. :Its: LT had J.cng ago characteriZed this Stalinist betrayal. f'or \-!hat it 1s: · ·
11 '!'ho CDintern h~sset out-to 'follou the path o:f SD in an Gpoch of decaying ca.p: \·Then in general there can be· no ___ discussion of' ·s;rstema tic soc.1al reforms &the ra~1ng of the masses living st~ndards;
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\'lhen f'!· .. ,-ery serious de!!la.nd of_ the prol. and even ever.y sePious demand of' the p.b. inevitably reaches beyong- _
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~-----------------------------~:?r ni~emma of CP today ie not the -Kl~ewlin' s inotie;a tion of' the strikes. O:f couT'se thnt i.s no. -But tho eoncnca of' the na.tter is that, conrrontcdb~r da Go.u~le,. nnd the unbearable living condi tionn, the rnn.cnos a.re prep!'l.rcd to struggle fat .. pm-tar. THE ·:!P ~j,?~~;oT LEAD T!·!IS r.:o~n~:r.nT--thoy are more ntro.! ot" prol. pO\o.:er than ev"'r- the Hanshevil~s \-tore. A':.d they are but one s'b..ado removed i'r-:.m the miaerc.ble SP tr:at helps pave :the pavo for de C~ulo. So degenerated nro the of~icial prol. 9177
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>; -::;,--:ri~~{~i-~\Ath -~·r:d_>_o/:j:t£~---~d eilrlY _ _1947 vorker_e be~. ,,:·?_;_.:}:· 'g~-~:-. to.~-~c~-: ~~ ti_Gt.i v~ ,n:·~~.: -fiam;'.Stalini:O:t ·lond.ership·~ ~ . ;-._.'_.:;-.'~:~·:ID._-_:l9t~; ::e.g.- _'Po'ct_al._.- .. ::i:J.e-rk:s ._Who.re _iriflU:e·rice_ of_. CP -~ . '·:·~~:::.~:· ~~L.-~ --Jlut.';:J. -1947_ Wi th:_R~nnU:tt ~trike/ -Qastio~·--of" · · ;~~- ~-~qP:-_:P'(?\1~~:~::':_. ,~: ,:· ·.··-' <-~ :- ·:_ · .. , -·;~<-. · --- -: -·: -_--_:.~~- .
f ~·~,_urn. Q.uo~ :· t • HF~r th~ fir~t tim• in Franc~, -th~ Stalin~sts ·w 'J held in chock for 15 d.-~s 'by 'the- !lenaUl.t:"Worlc.er!\:-- ~i.i-_~_.~ -'1:;.tradit-io-na1' _'b2.Stion •. ,Thu1,e'worker!i_ :foll'owed'·lD. the ' -~.:'_gr·~·n-::t. ;~oil ty. th_tt-_ Coinui tt'tt o'f ctrllggle, · demoC:rati-ea y ~!-_::: tl~rels~·edo:: -0-Dpo_~ed --tO' ~_he:'Stltiini_a_t. t. u.- 1eadf:"r"'ihi.,. ,~_,G-I-_t~~:~-~ .·n. !'nCt- Whi~b:.-~rk_~- i_ncou~~_eta~:>~-Y- on~ i~ort.J<nl . ;.:_~;,etep· in" tlle' li:fe :of ,.th" French ln"bor mov~rn~nt ... Thil!f ::_-fi·~XB.-:rip_i_lll was given b~fo_re:·t~o __ whole_ .Fr ... _ :workin£ _ cl.ass. ;.,_V.;Atld-:ru.J. th~ maneuver~ of t:::.-e Stalinistt; to #;r,.ppei\r;· a£ er ~_._, \.COtt:P·. ·a(_ the init_i~_t!bru·'and defende-rs of th~ ;,.,.-iciX>c/ :_:~<JcUrrent of dftme.n.dtt which·mrlmat:~~d th~ -.:-ot•kert: ...... wi ~;'_-.·._~lOt-)il.l.O"it- th_Crn -to. 'r_,p_'a.ir .t_heir. det~rior_~ted- r'el.P~tic IB _
;r:7:·_~ ... itn,tne ""~:>.Ile•<! l"Y•::.~;'-~~>,~~~':•" .·. ~.':~-· ,~-~De:m~t9_.-th::ir·~t(;!a.l.l.y: l.i_u1t~d. i"orcez, the.PCI~ _1\· \ ._.,- ~ h~ -Tr'Ottlcylst orgn· inFru.D.cC ·_Q:ppe:~red iri the t:_tiuggle~~-r_.,·_- hi'c;:h-·_Cxn'J.odeU.· P.£_~_i_n~ti the:. vill. oi' the- tr~acher_ouB lent r-:?__:«ir_-~; ~ i.~.e:~-th~-_real -rol:voluti':lm:.r';r l~s.der3hip to whomi .. . tne,_i'uture--belo%:8s.. , -:-J. : . . •. . . . ) f(<·_ ~.:_ -, ~ho- ~~·~t_t:kyil'\t __ tail! t;mts cU.d not sim-a~ support ~e r.:·-;t.trlle..c'l·e. they_ were at:._ R~tnault nnd _i~Hiflfibther: r~ec·t~r~~', _k":_.-t~~~-·-:teji~ .. i~~}?i~er;-. '}.e~_ders ~-d orgA.nize_r!l· "t!hO kn~\of i~r~- , £,:;· ~:? _c_i_ve. ::-:'cie~:r cXpr~eeion t-o _tht-- J.esir.r: :..nd. th-~ ... ~_11" · :
\ ;, ?f th• ·AOrkm ._ . _ _ -. __ _ J · c\ ·. -~ .. ; the fir•t yictory of th• Fr. prol•tr..ria, .Jri••r th• ~\-~liJ'!g_: cl~~ P.ince th~ _LHJer:\t~on, R:Pd morot _p;--:(ctly';-~- ·.-~_1!\C:c 1.936~ ·- ~--~ · · ; --" :.·\ .•. ' ·. ":: ._· · _ ___._,,.::,_..~ ... ~~. ·-·' \ ,..,...._, .. -~--
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We must :remember !iha"t the youth movements the WORLD OVER
started_not w~ere the 9ation-had achieved freedom ~ut where
·1t hed n~t, so it~wae ~n--1340 in Italy, in 1860 _1.n -:Russia~ In other words, in-the youth 1 a r1g~t ror a free~,
life they were in ao~uality fighting the HISTORIC struggle of
humanity to escape the realm' of_ necesGity S:nd leltp·in'tc-·-th.a
ren~m or freedom. Just as
r1rst found way to
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, ~_eaders, tha.t · Mkxi:x~'I"X the -·m9.r.n·ar in w ,ich LT charaCterized .the:> -· Rad:ical Socia.iiBts, _1-.e-. '!:>-~~ BOURGEO d. ?ARTY, now applies :tO - . the-· Social1 sts ·and -sta11.niat.e. a ten:
u· Under thetbrea:t. of fascism· and ,s~i~l more under thA threat.of tho
pl~ole_, the._-·Rad _Soc. (re<id _SP':"'CP) have ·:round-_ · then;sel·~-es .C!b11ged_: to pass:f_re:m. the -camP o_f-
. parl_iaroonts.ry _ • demo a~·· over to the camp _o.:f- __ -:: Bone.part_ism. Lilts· the- camol under the driver• a·:-·
.. ·wh~p,- Radicaisni .gets do'Wtl on :its:. · ~::l'X f'_our knees_ to let. ·
"reaction si"t be:t,.rean its humps a ·-pOl_.- suplJort -of' the Radicai., ·_the- ~c·~~;~~~j~~~r~~--Sch~Jm_s.nri}(~ovt.·: would at present be
Arid· 8.11 th9:r~slt is : to o.1 J?~-rt· of the r.:ovt!.. P<eoel..,-
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y. r. .· T L·no+t. "u•s . turn then to \Itaiy-.. -·.·:~. '.-.~-~--i -\ '. ,.__--\
\. . \ In .. _.Italy,'rnore. .. than a.ny-'tihere else ·- the maa:1eshave .th~. Conf'~dence_ that comes with the fact that,
·_- ·they, not the imperialist._ nrrnies, brour;ht about t..he down:t'al._l
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. • ... -:.- - c:f- :ro.oc!om; , __ tr...a.t th~y,. not, T.hE- imperialists, got rid· _of .- l!ussol1n1, and in good prolet.~rian fashion. They threw ·o:rf'
20--yearsof-- f'ascism a. a a dirty rag \·:hich does- not belons, and . prooeeded -directly to the building o!'sov1ets 7 of' taking over
·.· \- and running :rri.ctories. Throughout the Uorth, both in to\'m · a~d country, theY could z~le today. They held power for 1
...••.•. ~Yt in Nilan and Stalin turned it back to that nonentity ·r a~ Ge.speri; t.ho;: held pc~cr ir: ;n::.ny to':'!:! ~nd. YilJ.A~As, but f, they move not total!:e ever po\>:er. They march 30, 000 partisans \, into Rome for mere dls-ola.y, though those who remomber 1922 t say it made Musso11n1 1 s f'asolst army look lll<o a. clumsy parade "t:. of Boy Sc_ou-~s
1 then ma.rt1h tho-rn out a.e:.ain--aildJ' roee:to±Kl;X -
~a.ving invited dofeat in _Franc_e_ by not aiming f'or power, -they ~ow ·co.ll a. striko !.n -HolD.~. It. i~iz.·:l~s, and- the \'Feakling ije Gs.speri getc:J 'th9_ highest. confidence vote he ever coulc! liavo commanded.
_ '~ _ · ~-'t"ho doc on' t .rornembel:' Tf'.n.olmann' s 21 mis ta1tes 3.:~d tht1 ompty bcmb~ut which. ·.-rhon they i'in:>.1ly cnlle:d upon ,,., 'Cl"k<>rs fefJ:' '901. striko m~t \'11 +Jh ...,c renponse?
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11 ?J~DA!TE::1TAI, FA.CUI.TY OF R'!!:V. 13 TO SUB!UT TO A I'Jil'TD & PlTILES3 F:XAHillf,TION OF ALL
nac~rRI?-!:'~:5 ,<~ ALL }.rsTEOi:B. The punichment, 11
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LT, 11 o.lm«:"'r:tt. :1r:'!TT!Ad1;:."tt.olv f'ol1olrS tha crimo. ' -
·\OLU~x To look at Schumann in France and de Gaepei'i
;.:.and then eee that all. the Still1n1sts ask :ror is to be
-the- 'GoVermemtn--!a --to rea11ze ihe DEPTH oF THE
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· Ot- -S:tal1r:1sm. iri- Germany, T:rotsky_. had. ·said tbe.'t -WhAn the hour-.
struck, the CP was :found to be B. corpse 1 "Nothing, n ·he ·said
"ca.~ erase that t'rcm h1etory. 11 Nothing will •
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i, ~· xlr!lox~omxh:rtki!<XJ!JUUd:U . In France,·
< 1n Italy, the Stal1n1sts _m111tarit are :moving toward us. But
I even of gres.ter s1gn11"1cance
In the
of' a mass youth movement-, what could ~~~~~~;:~~~~L.----j-=j: But d1scuas1on \d th Trotskyist youth
showed me
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VIL: set as :first task:
but because CLARI'rY i e
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.:In-this case the Roman workers ·f'a11·~-·tci -reapond- and ·1 mllli.on oi" t.he. 5· m11~1.0n ::'ci_GT · ·!llombers _te?.i-; up_ .their cards.· ,·,.
N7iT.f] -:c:s_:~-·~Cuh~~,i;:· ~:rl>beh~n~:_-hi~- :ln · thia··-__ case __ -_.are . . lln~d;- _not·- uncha.ra.ctorist._ica.lly",:-··13v~ryotle --:frOm - de Gaul_e_ -t~ :_anarchists~-nto!J._·_~~e mo_'frem9rit? · · ·
··r-~i11~ __ -h~ -•~l~~ ~~~-a:lni~,· of'f" ~~ ~e·~-~d,in~ -be:rO~e--:: \- f"aacisru f'or -aa~ruggle ag:;~.inst ·-it -~tl"in;_-t,hO · wOrkers to· his s'ide? No, unl·eaB the':;J.;rid:%:
FElT .PA.-qT".[ shows "the -.... ,ny ~ there is· the ,;danger·· the.t :fascism \1'111 be not_·only-the p~.b·~--. ·
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Can t-,he Marshall Plan? Ho, it 1s no more than t_he Ne\"t __ Order ,_of' HitTer_ :f~,r-t.."t.lrope:o _-1.947 Xlll!r:&±n:a pre-'\'lar versirine ···sec·.o:r -:·State !-!ar.sh .. .all·ca~. not ,...i'!.1g_to :!!:urope '\·rha.t.·.Gene·ra1. !{a~aha1l .
. _ destroyed in Europe _ _ _ · -. _- · _. ___ ··- . -·- ·--T e economiesof' Et..,_rcpe can only 11 s~agger
.. -on· ·rrOlri one ba111tru-otc-v to another". As The Londo!l EConomist sees -very nlearJ.y:. /"' -----·- ----------- -- ;~;~-t~·-.;:;;;;-;;-·--'-''--:.c__-.,i. ?~
. -----~J'-'!.'he cog '\·Theels are tctrni!lg, but they . Co not mesh, & the _reason for this maladjust!Jiflnt. i.sl'">...ard.J.y 'i"Conomic ·at a11·-.- It
is -pol .. & rnor8.1 ~~ its root~ie in distrust. The- trut.h 1s. -·;_-·. that· Fr. ha.snot yet aohievea. the measure o_f cohesion--necessary
--_f'or ~lt!'l -,3co. ·systet:1 to -:.vor1t ainoothly •. ; The- dream·_ of-the-·5.es1stanco h~s f'~.lledJ a•1d French sonlet:r is back in th!3 irnpaf:"lses ;thlch dest.royed the ?_opu~P..!' Front in 1936.
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N"o,- th9 Resistan.ne drea~, aslt. \-Ie.s drea:nt .. by· th1'3. masses- ~-not: interpreted by t'hP,iP treac1_;~!'CU:3 leaders is not dead._ .But. the a.n9·-;-r~r 1a rtot nat. but int.ernat1ona.2. !iev<:l'r •.-m.o the slogd.n SUS::!: more -vi i:.-:'11. Never 1-ra.sthe're agrea.'ter oppoi•tunity -tor the Tr-ists. The St:;~.~1nint.a11C.Vta be~n J.e:f'eated, but- not the mr..saes .. It1.s Jul;,-· days, not J!!.n., and Oot .. 19-- still to come~_"·
course, no crlrJ:ts, by itself', is fnt-:~.1 to thr;o bourgeolsie. decisiv~. role will_ be :;ivf3n b;r thP. ·act-.1.vA m"Ct.ssos on the
historir:: sta.e:e. Out> role, asdescr:lbedin I·:ilitant, hasfot• the first time a.sc brou.:!ht uo in contant v1ith the ~XX:S!ISX ranks or. the CP ".o~ho are movinf! :from· thslr _lAr ... ders, and eJ .. m, wit.h
d""e no.aaes -r.or rev., A~ LT ~G:ti!X H:r-ote -in- '-'lhithe~ F:rance
-'!n ·order ·to brl~~- tho _si t.vatlon to 1 tsfull maturity, there · · muRt 1)e an immtidle.te, vle;orous, unremitting mobilization ·· ·.\_.of' tho r.2e.sses, under the slogan oi' tho co':l.qucst _of' po,1ot~ in·
t.....:.;_iamo of eonialism. Th:ts .ls tha only way ••• 11 -- .
·:Today-' thoreaan be no tuPn:tng bo.ok. The nl3eds of hundreds of' m1~11ons of poopla are r.:ryin.~ cut. for an expresalo-:1 "Vthich·· on1Y. t.he, soc.· rev. can giv(•. Tho:roc is no povrer on earth -thnt can
, oupproas tl1.am. ·9182 Tile American poibletar1at toe hauits role, and we must bring
nwhen a progr~ or·an org. wears
-~_U'?, thn.-ge_n_~~·ation which carried
,__. 1 t ·on 1 ts a·h.Oulders wears out wi tb · _ i .. ···.- '? <.tu- .:..d)f&'J/'W't .z.r~"Q -.- · .. .1[ , 1 t)'-ctl~e movement is:·revi tali zed· by_ th8: ·ya~t
who.aE• g~p~~ :!'reo or responsibil•
'1 ty :!'or the past... The F! pays particular
atte~tion to the young generation o:!' the
~-roletnriat. -~11 o:!';ita policies etrive
to inspire the youth With beliet 1n 1 ts
own strength and in the future. Only the
:!'resh enthusiasm and aggressive spirit or
the·youth can guarantee thP. preliminary
suooess-es in th..e struggle; onlY tho~e -~· successes can l"eturn(:the beat elemente- or
the older generation to the-road of revolu-; ' tion. Thue.it was, thus 1t will be.~-
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