A major figure in the American Trotskyist movement beginning in the 1930s. Leader of the minority section of the Socialist Workers Party that split with Trotsky over the analysis of Russia and formed, in 1940, the Workers Party (eventually the Independent Socialist League). Later, in the late 1950s, the ISL merged with the Socialist Party. Editor or contributor to The Young Worker (1923), Labor Defender (1925), The Militant (1929–34), Socialist Appeal (1937–40), The New International (1934–58) and Labor Action (1940–58).
Send corrections, comments and additions to Einde O’Callaghan.
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Works
Books and Pamphlets
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1920s:
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1871: The Paris Commune
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1925:
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Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg
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1927:
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Sacco and Vanzetti, Labor’s Martyrs (4.1MB PDF)
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1933:
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Genesis of Trotskyism
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1935:
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The People’s Front – The New Panacea of Stalinism
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1936:
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Behind the Moscow Trial
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1943:
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The Struggle for the New Course
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1946:
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The Fight for Socialism: Principles and Program of the Workers Party
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Articles
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1920s
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Aug. 1924:
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For the Communist Ticket (The Young Worker)
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Oct. 1928:
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For The Russian Opposition! Against Opportunism and Bureaucracy in the Workers (Communist) Party (with James P. Cannon & Martin Abern) (The Militant)
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Dec. 1928:
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The Results of the Election (The Militant)
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Jan. 1929:
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The Crisis in the German Party (The Militant)
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Feb. 1929:
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Platform of the Communist Opposition (with Martin Abern, James P. Cannon & Arne Swabeck) (The Militant)
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Feb. 1929:
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Trotsky’s Deportation (The Militant)
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Mar. 1929:
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The Civil War in Mexico (The Militant)
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Mar. 1929:
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A Letter to International Labor Defense (with James P. Cannon & Rose Karsner) (The Militant)
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Mar. 1929:
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War, Kellogg Pact and the Soviet Union (The Militant)
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Apr. 1929:
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A New Dawes Plan for the Old (The Militant)
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May 1929:
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Uniting the Textile Struggles (The Militant)
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June 1929:
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What the T.U.E.L. Conference Should Do (The Militant)
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July 1929:
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Putschism and May Day in Berlin (The Militant)
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Aug. 1929:
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The End of the Cloakmakers Strike (The Militant)
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Aug. 1929:
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Lovestone’s Appeal to the Party (The Militant) [PDF Version]
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Sept. 1929:
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The T.U.E.L. Conference at Cleveland (The Militant)
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Oct. 1929:
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The Conflict in the Muste Group (The Militant)
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Oct. 1929:
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Palestine – Pogrom or Revolution? (The Militant)
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Oct. 1929:
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The T.U.U.L. Conference (The Militant)
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Nov. 1929:
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What MacDonald ‘Accomplished’ Here (The Militant)
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Dec. 1929:
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The Capitulation of Bucharin (The Militant)
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Dec. 1929:
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“Hoover Brings You Peace and Plenty” (The Militant)
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Dec. 1929:
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Lovestone and the Russian Revolution (The Militant)
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1930s
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Jan. 1930:
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Rosa Luxemburg – 11 Years After (The Militant)
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Jan. 1930:
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Leninism Lives! The Opposition Carries It Forward (The Militant)
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Feb. 1930:
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The Indian Revolution at the Crossroads (The Militant)
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Feb. 1930:
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The Proletariat and Peasantry in the Indian Revolution (The Militant)
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Apr. 1930:
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The Autobiography of Leon Trotsky (book review from The Militant)
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Apr. 1930:
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Sellier is Right – Lovestone Wrong (The Militant)
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May 1930:
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A Big Step Forward – The International Conference of the Left Opposition (The Militant)
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May 1930:
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Co-operatives Confer at Superior (The Militant)
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May 1930:
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Left Wing Needle Trades Crisis (The Militant)
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May 1930:
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MacDonald’s Assault on India (The Militant)
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May 1930:
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A Visit to the Island of Prinkipo (The Militant)
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June 1930:
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Back to Lenin! Manifesto to the Rank and File and Seventh National Convention of the C.P.U.S.A. (with James P. Cannon & 5 others) (The Militant)
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June 1930:
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In India – Simon Report Declares War on Revolution (The Militant)
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July 1930:
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Capitalist Murder on the Streets! (The Militant)
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Aug. 1930:
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The Right Wing Moves Closer to Social Democracy (The Militant)
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Sept. 1930:
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Vote Communist! Against the Parties of Unemployment and Wage-Cuts, and the “Socialist” Reformers (The Militant)
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Sept. 1930:
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An Opportunist Campaign – The Communist Party in the Elections (The Militant)
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Oct. 1930:
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Hoover Advises Labor – Workers’ United Front vs. “Optimistic” Pledges! (The Militant)
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Nov. 1930:
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The A.F. of L. Convention and the November Election (The Militant)
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Nov. 1930:
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Introduction to Leon Trotsky’s The Strategy of World Revolution
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Nov. 1930:
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On the Proposal for a New Farmer-Labor Party Fraud (The Militant)
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Nov. 1930:
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The Plot Against the Soviets (The Militant)
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Nov. 1930:
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13 Years of Russian Revolution! (The Militant)
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Dec. 1930:
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Stalin Grants Two Interviews (The Militant)
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1931:
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Introduction to Leon Trotsky’s Problems of the Chinese Revolution
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Jan. 1931:
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Lovestone Prepares the Front with Musteism (The Militant)
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Jan. 1931:
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Lovestone Looks with Favor at the Socialist Party (The Militant)
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Jan. 1931:
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“Order Prevails Throughout Spain” (The Militant)
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Feb. 1931:
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The “Left”: Saviors of Reformism in the Socialist Party (The Militant)
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Feb. 1931:
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Mooney’s Betrayal by the Labor Bureaucrats (The Militant)
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Mar. 1931:
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On the “Sectarians” ... (The Militant)
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Mar. 1931:
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The Right Wing Liquidators and the S.P. “Militants” (The Militant)
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Apr. 1931:
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Illinois Miners’ Convention (The Militant)
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Apr. 1931:
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Republican Revolution in Spain (The Militant)
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May 1931:
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The Daily Worker Explains Some Differences (The Militant)
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May 1931:
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The Theory of Stalinism and the Revolution in Spain (The Militant)
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May 1931:
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Weisbord – Cult of Confusionism (The Militant)
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June 1931:
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America’s “Pacifism” in Europe and ... Litvinov’s (The Militant)
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June 1931:
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Stanley Disappoints Lovestone (The Militant)
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July 1931:
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Combine the Miners’ Struggles into a United Front! (The Militant)
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July 1931:
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Manuilsky Makes an Unintentional Admission (The Militant)
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July 1931:
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Paterson on Strike (The Militant)
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July 1931:
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The Revolver at the Head of France – The Hoover Reparations-Debts Scheme (The Militant)
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July 1931:
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Stalin’s “New Economic Policy” (The Militant)
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Aug. 1931:
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The End of the Labor Cabinet (The Militant)
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Aug. 1931:
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Mining and Textile Strikes in Danger (The Militant)
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Aug. 1931:
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Stalin in 1921 (The Militant)
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Sept. 1931:
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The Anonymous Factional Struggle in the Party (The Militant)
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Sept. 1931:
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Credits for Soviet Union (The Militant)
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Sept. 1931:
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The I.L.D. “Acts” on Mooney (The Militant)
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Sept. 1931:
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Stop Making a Faction Football Out of the Mooney Case! (The Militant)
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Nov. 1931:
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Political Banditry in the French Communist Party (The Militant)
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Jan. 1932:
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In Spain – “The Democratic Republic of the Workers” (The Militant)
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Jan. 1932:
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Is Stalin Preparing New 1923 in Germany? (The Militant)
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Jan. 1932:
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Lovestone Splitters Call for Unity (The Militant)
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Jan. 1932:
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Marine Defense Meet (The Militant)
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Jan. 1932:
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Opposition in England – Party Members Form Nucleus to Fight for Leninism (The Militant)
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Jan. 1932:
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The Recent Outbreaks in Spain (The Militant)
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Feb. 1932:
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In Spain – The Socialists and State Power (The Militant)
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Feb. 1932:
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Pravda on the Second 5 Year Plan (The Militant)
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Feb. 1932:
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The Right Wing of Spanish Communism (The Militant)
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Feb. 1932:
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Spain’s Bourgeoisie on the Offensive (The Militant)
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Mar. 1932:
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The Spanish Communist Party in the Revolution (The Militant)
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Apr. 1932:
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Lovestone and the “Pseudo-Revolutionists” (The Militant)
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Apr. 1932:
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War and Social Chauvinism (The Militant)
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Apr./Nov. 1932:
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Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition (series) (The Militant)
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May 1932:
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Trotsky and Brandler; or Lovestone and Principles (The Militant)
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June 1932:
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A New History Making Trotsky Book (book review) (The Militant)
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July 1932:
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Geneva ‘Peace’ Swindles (The Militant)
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Aug. 1932:
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Fascism – U.S. & German (The Militant)
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Aug. 1932:
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Left Opposition Alone Raises the Voice of Lenin at N.Y. Congress Against War (The Militant)
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Aug. 1932:
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Who Is Leading the Barbusse Congress (The Militant)
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Oct. 1932:
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Browder on the Chinese Revolution (The Militant)
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Oct. 1932:
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Left Opposition Movement Growing in Canada (The Militant)
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Oct. 1932:
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A Picture of the Party from Inside (The Militant)
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Oct. 1932:
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“Socialism in One Country” (The Militant)
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Oct. 1932:
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Zinoviev Expelled Again (The Militant)
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Nov. 1932:
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The C.P. in the Elections (The Militant)
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Nov. 1932:
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Leftward Shift in German Vote (The Militant)
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Nov. 1932:
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What Do the Communists Say About Mr. Duranty and Comrade Stalin? (The Militant)
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Dec. 1932:
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Ala. Negro Croppers Resist White Terror (The Militant)
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Dec. 1932:
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The Death of the Father of Revisionism (obituary) (The Militant)
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Dec. 1932:
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A Footnote to Browder’s Record in the Chinese Revolution (The Militant)
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Jan. 1933:
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Daily Worker Decries Promoter of the Amsterdam Congress (The Militant)
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Jan. 1933:
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Left Opposition Demands Broad United Front at N.Y. Unemployment Conference (The Militant)
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Jan. 1933:
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Left Wing Victory in the I.L.G.W.U. (The Militant)
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Jan. 1933:
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United Front Call Issued for Unemployment Insurance (The Militant)
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Jan. 1933:
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We Are Counting on You for Aid (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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To Delay Anti-Nazi United Front Is Fatal (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Fascists Command Police – Shoot the Reds! (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Fascists Frame-up the Communist Party (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Fascists in Complete Control of Police – Party Must Act Now! (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Hitler in Power; Civil War Starts (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Hitler Is Consolidating the Power of Fascism in Germany! (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Hitlerites Shut Down Headquarters of the Communist Party (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Hitler Lays New Trap for Workers (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Tardy Acknowledgement (The Militant)
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Feb. 1933:
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Why Is the Comintern Silent on Germany? (The Militant)
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Mar. 1933:
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Anti-United Front Policy Plays into Hands of Socialist Party Bureaucrats (The Militant)
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Mar. 1933:
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Communist International Changes Policy! (The Militant)
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Mar. 1933:
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Fascist Elections Show Stalinist Bankruptcy (The Militant)
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Mar. 1933:
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Lovestone Group and the Opposition – A Political Swindle Exposed (The Militant)
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Mar. 1933:
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No Retreat! Struggle or Annihilation! (The Militant)
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Mar. 1933:
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We Demand Plain Speaking on Germany! (The Militant)
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July 1933:
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The Death of Com. Klara Zetkin (obituary) (The Militant)
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Sept. 1933:
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Congress of Second International (The Militant)
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Sept. 1933:
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Hands Off Cuba! (The Militant)
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Sept. 1933:
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60th Birthday of Rakovsky – His Activities During War (The Militant)
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Oct. 1933:
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Two American Congresses “Against War” (The Militant)
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Nov. 1933:
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M. Litvinoff and M. Bedacht (The Militant)
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Nov. 1933:
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The New Rift in the Lovestone Group – and the New Party (The Militant)
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Nov. 1933:
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The Price of Recognition (The Militant)
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Nov. 1933:
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The Rift in the Lovestone Group (The Militant)
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Dec. 1933:
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Hooliganism Spreads to Brooklyn – An Open Letter to the District Committee of the Communist Party (The Militant)
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Dec. 1933:
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Hooliganism Spreads to Brooklyn – An Open Letter to the International Labor Defense (The Militant)
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Jan. 1934:
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Lovestone Discovers Esthonia (The Militant)
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Jan. 1934:
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Teachers of N.Y. in Protest (The Militant)
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Feb. 1934:
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Austrian Workers Show Proletarian Will in War Against Fascism (The Militant)
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Feb. 1934:
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Collapse of Austro-Marxism in the Vienna Struggle (The Militant)
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Feb. 1934:
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Oneal Discovers “Trotskyism” (The Militant)
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Feb. 1934:
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The Program of the A.W.P. (The Militant)
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May 1934:
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“New Group” for a “New Party” (The Militant)
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June 1934:
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National Tour Finds League Advancing (The Militant)
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June 1934:
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National Tour Shows League Influence (The Militant)
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July 1934:
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Dictatorship of Party or Proletariat? – Remarks on a Conception of the AWP ... and Others (The New International)
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July 1934:
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Fatal Admissions (book review from The New International)
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July 1934:
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Two Congresses and One Opposition (The New International)
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Aug. 1934:
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The Second International in the War (The New International)
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Sep. 1934:
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A Stupendous Bureaucracy (The New International)
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Nov. 1934:
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The Russian Revolution 17 Years After (The New International)
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Nov. 1934:
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What Next in the Socialist Party (The New International)
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Dec. 1934:
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Right Face in the Socialist Party (The New International)
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Jan. 1935:
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Behind the Kirov Assassination (The New International)
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Jan. 1935:
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Letters (correspondence with Alice Hanson & Francis Henson) (The New International)
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Mar. 1935:
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Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg (The New International)
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Mar. 1935:
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The Problem of the Labor Party (The New International)
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Oct. 1935:
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A Bolshevik Fugitive (with John West) (The New International)
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Jan. 1936:
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The People’s Front – The New Panacea of Stalinism (New Militant)
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Mar. 1936:
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The Spanish Elections and the People’s Front (New Militant)
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Apr. 1936:
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A Dubious Ally for Stalinism (New Militant)
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Apr. 1936:
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Jobless Masses Unite Ranks (New Militant)
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May 1936:
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Browder – The Man & His Book – 1 (New Militant)
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May 1936:
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Browder – The Man & His Book – 2 (New Militant)
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May 1936:
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Day to Day Report of S.P. Convention at Cleveland, Ohio (with John West) (New Militant)
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June 1936:
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In Opposite Directions – The Cleveland Convention of the Socialists and the Swing to the Right of the Stalinists (The New International)
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Oct. 1936:
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The Moscow Trial (Socialist Appeal)
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Nov. 1936:
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Nineteen Years of the Russian Revolution (Socialist Appeal)
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Feb. 1937:
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Prospects for a Labor Party (Socialist Appeal)
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Mar. 1937:
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Introduction to Leon Trotsky’s In Defense of the Soviet Union
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Aug. 1937:
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The Politics of Gus Tyler – A Genuine Case of Rotten Liberalism in the Party (Socialist Appeal)
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Sept. 1937:
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“Supporting LaGuardia Betrays Socialism” (Socialist Appeal)
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Dec. 1937:
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New G.P.U. Frame-Ups Exposed; Purge Continues (Socialist Appeal)
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1938:
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In Memory of a Stainless Revolutionist – Leon Sedoff (Labor Action)
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Jan. 1938:
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Russia (The New International)
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Mar. 1938:
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Stalin Directs Blows at Revolution Itself; Trial Testimony Crumbles at First Touch (Socialist Appeal)
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Mar. 1938:
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SWP Leaders in Mexico City Support Workers Struggle (with James P. Cannon) (Socialist Appeal)
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Apr 1938:
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Comrade Trotsky’s Life Is Menaced (Workers’ International News/Socialist Appeal)
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Apr 1938:
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A Personal Note – The Pot Without Gold (Socialist Appeal)
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May 1938:
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Lenin and Luxemburg (The New International)
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June 1938:
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All-American-Pacific Pre-Conference of the Fourth International (Socialist Appeal)
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June 1938:
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“Keeping America Out of War” (Socialist Appeal)
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June 1938:
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The Socialist Party: A Head Without A Body (The New International)
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June 1938:
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A Veteran Passes – Rodney Salisbury Dead (obituary) (Socialist Appeal)
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July 1938:
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The Case of Joseph Zack (Socialist Appeal)
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July 1938:
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An Open Letter to Moissaye Olgin (Socialist Appeal)
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July 1938:
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Some More Questions to Moissaye Olgin (Socialist Appeal)
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July 1938:
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A Turn-Coat on the Witness-Stand (Socialist Appeal)
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July 1938:
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The Stalinist Convention (The New International)
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Aug. 1938:
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The Question of a Labor Party: The Challenge and the Answer (with James Burnham) (The New International)
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Oct. 1938:
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Congress Climaxes 15 Years’ Struggle (Socialist Appeal)
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Oct. 1938:
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The Early Days (Socialist Appeal)
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Nov. 1938:
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Balabanoff’s Memoirs (book review) (The New International)
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Nov. 1938:
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“Story of CIO” (book review) (Socialist Appeal)
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Nov. 1938:
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The 4th International is Launched (The New International)
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Dec. 1938:
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China’s Tragedy (book review) (The New International)
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Dec. 1938:
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Footnote for Historians (The New International)
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Dec. 1938:
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Paper Will Wield Double Strength, Says Shachtman (Socialist Appeal)
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Jan. 1939:
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Intellectuals in Retreat (with James Burnham) (The New International)
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Jan. 1939:
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New Leader Promises Nice War If We Are All Good Patriots (Socialist Appeal)
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Jan. 1939:
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Two Labor Prisoners – Two Labor Leaders (Socialist Appeal)
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14 Feb. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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21 Feb. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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28 Feb. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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7 Mar. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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14 Mar. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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17 Mar. 1939:
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Stalin Offers an Olive Branch to Hitler (Socialist Appeal)
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21 Mar. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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28 Mar. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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5 Apr. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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12 Apr. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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19 Apr. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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26 Apr. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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2 May 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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9 May 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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16 May 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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23 May 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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30 May 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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6 Jun. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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13 Jun. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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20 Jun. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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27 Jun. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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June 1939:
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Old Garbage in New Pails (The New International)
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4 Jul. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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11 Jul. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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18 Jul. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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25 Jul. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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1 Aug. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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8 Aug. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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11 Aug. 1939:
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SWP Gives Workers an Opportunity to Vote Against War (Socialist Appeal)
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15 Aug. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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22 Aug. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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29 Aug. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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29 Aug. 1939:
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National Committee Issues Call to Party on Stalin-Hitler Pact (Socialist Appeal)
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Sept. 1939:
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Behind the Stalin-Hitler Pact (series) (Socialist Appeal)
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26 Sept. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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Oct. 1939:
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Let the Readers Decide – An Appeal (with Martin Abern & James Burnham) (The New International)
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Oct. 1939:
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On the Russian Question (speech) (SWP Internal Bulletin)
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10 Oct. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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17 Oct. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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24 Oct. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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7 Nov. 1939:
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In This Corner (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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16 Dec. 1939:
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In This Corner – The Hue and Cry About ‘Poor Little Finland’ (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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23 Dec. 1939:
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In This Corner – The Diplomatic Double-Cross (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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1940s
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7 Jan. 1940:
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In This Corner – Finland – And a Word About Poland (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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10 Feb. 1940:
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In This Corner – An Appeal from Our Polish Comrades (column) (Socialist Appeal)
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Mar. 1940:
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The Crisis in the American Party – An Open Letter in Reply to Comrade Leon Trotsky (The New International)
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Apr. 1940:
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The Soviet Union and the World War (The New International)
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May 1940:
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Against Both War Camps – For The Camp Of World Labor! (Labor Action)
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Sept. 1940:
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Leon Trotsky – His Heritage (The New International)
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Sept. 1940:
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The Murder of Leon Trotsky (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1940:
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Fascism and the World War – Article One (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1940:
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Fascism and the World War – Article Two (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1940:
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Fascism and the Imperialist War – Article Three (Labor Action)
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Dec. 1940:
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Fascism and the World War – Article Four (Labor Action)
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Dec. 1940:
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Give a Gift for Christmas! ... (Labor Action)
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Dec. 1940:
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Is Russia a Workers’ State? (The New International)
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1941:
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Shachtman contra Burnham (letter)
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Jan. 1941:
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Fascism and the World War – Article Five (Labor Action)
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Jan. 1941:
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Fascism and the World War – Article Six (Labor Action)
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Jan. 1941:
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Working Class Policy in War and Peace (The New International)
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Mar. 1941:
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How Not to Make a United Front (Labor Action)
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July 1941:
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The War Today Is What It Was Yesterday – Imperialist! (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1941:
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“Defend the Soviet Union”? (Workers Party Internal Bulletin)
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Aug. 1941:
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“Mixed Wars” and the War Today (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1941:
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The Organizer of Victory and the Organizer of Defeat (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1941:
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The Revolutionary Optimist (The New International)
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Sept. 1941:
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The Cannonites and Iran – Silence Is Golden (Labor Action)
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Sept. 1941:
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On Some Aspects of the Russian Question (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1941:
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For a $5,000 Party Building Fund! (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1941:
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On the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of the Great Russian Revolution (Labor Action)
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Dec. 1941:
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The Bill of Rights and the Minneapolis Convictions (Labor Action)
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Jan. 1942:
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Straddler Norman Thomas Jumps Into the War Camp (Labor Action)
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Jan. 1942:
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The Strange Silence of the Militant (Labor Action)
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Feb. 1942:
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Ambassador Davies’ War Mission (New International)
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Feb. 1942:
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Duranty Confesses (New International)
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Feb. 1942:
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Walter Reuther, UAW Official, Proves the Case for a Workers Government (Labor Action)
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Mar. 1942:
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The Future of the War (New International)
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Mar. 1942:
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Will a Frameup Whitewash a Lynching? (Labor Action)
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Apr. 1942:
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An Impudent Slander (New International)
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May 1942:
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The Hope of Humanity – SOCIALISM! (Labor Action)
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May 1942:
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Two Years of the Workers Party in Review (Labor Action)
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June 1942:
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China in the World War (The New International Supplement)
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June 1942:
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Don Basilio Replies (The New International)
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June 1942:
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The Stalinists Start a New Union-Busting Drive (Labor Action)
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July 1942:
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Two Proletarian Soldiers (The New International)
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Aug. 1942:
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Trotsky’s Struggle Against Stalinism (The New International)
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Aug. 1942:
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Trotsky taught independent class action (Labor Action)
Trotsky taught us class action (Workers Liberty Website)
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Sept. 1942:
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Russia’s New Ruling Class (The New International)
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Sept. 1942:
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What Are the Russian Workers Fighting for? (Labor Action)
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Sept./Oct. 1942:
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China in the War (series) (The New International)
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Oct. 1942:
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Why Did President Green Join with the Stalinists at Shipyard Convention? (Labor Action)
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Oct./Nov. 1942:
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Who is Behind the Conspiracy to Suppress Labor Action? (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1942:
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Leon Lesoil (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1942:
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Marx, Trotsky and Lenin on Russia (The New International)
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Nov. 1942:
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Nine Lessons of the North African Invasion (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1942:
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Sharecroppers Attend Full-Time, Two-Week School on Socialist Principles Organized by Workers Party (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1942:
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Should Labor Have Supported Dean Alfange in the Elections? (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1942:
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W.P. Sends Letter of Solidarity to Militant (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1942:
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25 Years of the Russian Revolution (The New International)
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Jan. 1943:
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Workers Party Salutes Tresca (Labor Action)
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Mar. 1943:
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National and Colonial Problems (The New International)
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Mar. 1943:
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The Victories of the “Red” Army and the Struggle for Socialism (Labor Action)
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Apr. 1943:
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Introduction to Trotsky on the Workers’ State (The New International)
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Apr. 1943:
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Mr. Willkie and Comrade Muratov (The New International)
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Apr. 1943:
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Three Years of the Workers Party and Labor Action (Labor Action)
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May 1943:
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The Reasons Behind the Russo-Polish Break Have Little to Do with the Smolensk Corpses (Labor Action)
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June 1943:
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All Workers Must Unite Against Jim-Crow Terror (Labor Action)
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July 1943:
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After Two Years of War with Germany – Notes on Russia in the War (The New International)
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July 1943:
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‘Nationalize the Mines’ – Must Be Miners’ Demand (Labor Action)
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July 1943:
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New Stalinist Plans to Undermine Labor (Labor Action)
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July 1943:
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Trotsky on Democracy and Fascism (The New International)
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Aug. 1943:
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My Reply to the Open Letter from a German Comrade (The New International)
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Aug. 1943:
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What Is Cost-Plus? & A Cost-Plus Wage! (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1943:
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Workers’ Power – The Way Out for the Italian Masses (Labor Action)
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Sept. 1943:
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Problems of the Italian Revolt (The New International)
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Sept. 1943:
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What Class in Russia Owns the Nationalized Property? (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1943:
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The Auto Workers’ Convention (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1943:
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Notes on Russia in the War – The ‘Enigma’ of Stalinist Policy (The New International)
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Oct. 1943:
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On the Question of Russian Morale (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1943:
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On What Class Owns Russian Property (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1943:
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The Progressives at the UAW Convention (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1943:
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Workers Party Speaks to the Union Movement (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1943:
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Dividing the Spoils in Moscow (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1943:
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The “Mistakes” of the Bolsheviks” (The New International)
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Nov. 1943:
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Stalin Finds a New “Hero” for Russia (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1943:
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Stalin’s Aims in Europe (The New International)
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Jan. 1944:
|
The Meaning of the New Yugoslavian Provisional Government (Labor Action)
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Jan. 1944:
|
Now YOU Look HERE, Seaman Walsh ... (Labor Action)
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Jan. 1944:
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Stalinist “Liberation” of Poland an Imperialist Grab (Labor Action)
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Feb. 1944:
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FDR for Any Anti-Labor Bill (Labor Action)
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Feb. 1944:
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Only Socialism Can Bring Peace and Freedom (speech) (Labor Action)
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Mar. 1944:
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Fight in ALP Subject of Talk by Shachtman (Labor Action)
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Mar. 1944:
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It Is Time to Understand (The New International)
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Apr. 1944:
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The Second Stage Opens in Italy (Labor Action/The New International)
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Apr. 1944:
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Why Does Labor Need a Program of Action? (Labor Action)
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May 1944:
|
A Blow at the Fourth International (Labor Action/The New International)
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May 1944:
|
For a Labor Party and a Workers Government! (Labor Action)
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May 1944:
|
On with the Struggle for Socialist Freedom (open letter) (Labor Action)
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May 1944:
|
Workers Party Platform (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1944:
|
The “Big Three” – Hitler’s Aids (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1944:
|
An Epigone of Trotsky (The New International)
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Aug. 1944:
|
Misunderstanding or Folly? (exchange of letters) (The New International)
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Aug. 1944:
|
The Tragedy in Philadelphia (Labor Action)
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Sept. 1944:
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How the UAW Ranks Organized for Victory (Labor Action)
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Sept. 1944:
|
Referendum on No-Strike Pledge! (Labor Action)
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Sept. 1944:
|
Workers Party Salutes Labor Union Conventions (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1944:
|
An Epigone of Trotsky – II (The New International)
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Oct. 1944:
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New Shift in the CP Line (Labor Action)
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Oct. 1944:
|
Politics Among the Auto Workers (The New International)
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Nov. 1944:
|
From the Bureaucratic Jungle (The New International)
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Nov. 1944:
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The Party That Won the Victory (The New International)
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Dec. 1944:
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Hands Off Greece! (Labor Action)
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Feb. 1945:
|
Behind Jones-Wallace Fight (Labor Action) (series)
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Mar. 1945:
|
From the Bureaucratic Jungle – II (The New International)
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Apr. 1945:
|
Five Years of the Workers Party (Labor Action)
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Apr. 1945:
|
Five years of the Workers Party (New International)
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Apr. 1945:
|
An Open Letter from the Workers Party to the Y.P.S.L. (Labor Action)
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Apr. 1945:
|
Roosevelt, Far-Sighted Strategist of His Class (Labor Action)
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July 1945:
|
Statement on Ben Davis Case (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1945:
|
British Labor Goes Left! (Labor Action)
|
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Aug. 1945:
|
Letter on Question of Unification of the Workers Party and the Socialist Workers Party (Fourth International/Labor Action)
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Sept. 1945:
|
On Basis For Unity (Labor Action)
|
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Oct. 1945:
|
Letter on Unity (Fourth International)
|
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Oct. 1945:
|
On WP-SWP Unity Negotiations – Letter to Cannon (New International)
|
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Oct. 1945:
|
Security and a Living Wage (Labor Action)
|
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Nov. 1945:
|
How “Practical” Is Capitalism? How “Utopian” Is Socialism? (Labor Action)
|
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Nov. 1945:
|
On WP-SWP Unity Negotiations – Letter to Morrow (The New International)
Also: An Exchange Between WP and SWP Minority on Unity Issue – Letter to Morrow (Labor Action)
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|
Dec. 1945:
|
Pre-war Perspectives and Post-war Realities – An Analysis of the Politics of the Fourth International (The New International)
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Dec. 1945:
|
The UAW Strike – The Road to Victory (Labor Action)
|
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Mar. 1946:
|
We’re Going to Have an 8-Page Labor Action (Labor Action)
|
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Apr. 1946:
|
The New Russian Imperialism (The New International)
|
|
1 Apr. 1946:
|
Auto Labor’s Struggle for GM Strike Program (Labor Action)
|
|
1 Apr. 1946:
|
Six Years of the Workers Party – Our Record of Triple Vindication (Labor Action)
|
|
29 Apr. 1946:
|
The Significance of the GM Strike Program (Labor Action)
|
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29 Apr. 1946:
|
U.S. Labor – Forge Victory of Socialism! (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1946:
|
WP Sends Greetings to the Fourth International (Labor Action)
|
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26 Aug. 1946:
|
Resistance Flares in Palestine (Labor Action)
|
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16 Sept. 1946:
|
A Stalinist Swine Insults the Working Class of Italy (Labor Action)
|
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28 Sept. 1946:
|
Shachtman Radio Speech Calls for Meat Control (Labor Action)
|
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Oct. 1946:
|
Setting the Record Straight (The New International)
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Oct. 1946:
|
Trotsky’s Stalin (The New International)
|
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11 Nov. 1946:
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To the Convention of the SWP – What Are the Facts on Unity? (with Albert Gates) (Labor Action)
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16 Dec. 1946:
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A Balance Sheet of the Coal Strike (Labor Action)
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23 Dec. 1946:
|
An Appeal to Every Reader of Labor Action! (Labor Action)
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6 Jan. 1947:
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Hugo Urbahns – Farewell to a German Comrade (Labor Action)
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Feb. 1947:
|
Reply to Grant (The New International)
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Mar. 1947:
|
Joint Statement on Unity (with James P. Cannon) (The New International)
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Mar. 1947:
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The Nature of the Stalinist Parties (The New International)
|
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Apr. 1947:
|
The Nature of the Russian State (The New International)
|
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May 1947:
|
The Russian Question – A Debate (with Raya Dunayevskaya)
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Feb. 1948:
|
The Nightfall of Capitalism (The New International)
|
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Feb. 1948:
|
Stalinism – Anti-Labor in Theory and Practice (Labor Action)
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June 1948:
|
Tug-of-War in Europe – An Eyewitness Picture (Labor Action)
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July/Aug. 1948:
|
Attorney General Agrees to Conference
with WP on “Subversive” Listing (correspondence with T. Quinn) (Labor Action)
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Aug. 1948:
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Tito versus Stalin (The New International)
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Oct. 1948:
|
The Congress of the Fourth International (The New International)
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Oct. 1948:
|
Who Are the Subversives? (Labor Action)
|
|
Nov. 1948:
|
A Debate on the Social Philosophy of Marxism vs. Catholicism (with Fr. Owen Rice) (The New International)
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|
Nov. 1948:
|
1928 – Twenty Years After – 1948 (Labor Action)
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Nov. 1948:
|
On Bolshevism and Democracy (Labor Action)
|
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Jan. 1949:
|
Is Socialism “Subversive”? (Labor Action)
|
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Jan. 1949:
|
Soviets and the Constituent Assembly (The New International)
|
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Jan. 1949:
|
Under the Banner of Marxism (extract) (Workers Party Bulletin)
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Apr. 1949:
|
For Socialist Democracy! (Labor Action)
|
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Apr. 1949:
|
ISL Fights to Take WP Off ‘Subversive List’ (Labor Action)
|
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May 1949:
|
Martin Abern (obituary) (Labor Action)
|
|
May 1949:
|
RDR Muffed Its Chance to Take Clear Stand (Labor Action)
|
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Sept. 1949:
|
Left Wing of the Labor Movement? (The New International)
|
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Sept. 1949:
|
A Socialist Portrait of Reuther and the UAW (Labor Action)
|
|
Oct. 1949:
|
Stalinism Is Not Socialism! (Joint Statement by Three Socialist Tendencies) (Labor Action)
|
|
Nov. 1949:
|
Russians Act to Clip Titoism in China; Spanish CP Cracks; Anti-Tito Purge On in Poland (Labor Action)
|
|
Dec. 1949:
|
Four Portraits of Stalinism (Part I) (The New International) (critique of Walter Duranty & David Shub)
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1950s
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Jan. 1950:
|
Four Portraits of Stalinism (Part II) (The New International) (critique of Bertram Wolfe I)
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Jan. 1950:
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Reply to David Shub (The New International)
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Mar. 1950:
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Four Portraits of Stalinism (Part III) (The New International) (critique of Bertram Wolfe II)
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Mar. 1950:
|
Fact or Fiction on Lenin’s Role – A Reply to David Shub (The New International)
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Mar. 1950:
|
Is Russia a Socialist Community? (debate with Earl Browder) (The New International)
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Mar. 1950:
|
Our Right – Your Duty! (Labor Action)
|
|
May 1950:
|
Reflections on a Decade Past: On the Tenth Anniversary of Our Movement (The New International)
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|
15 May 1950:
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On Political Action Policy (Labor Action)
|
|
29 May 1950:
|
What Is New in American Politics Today? (Labor Action)
|
|
12 June 1950:
|
It Was a Victory, But – (Labor Action)
|
|
July 1950:
|
Four Portraits of Stalinism (Part IV) (The New International) (critique of Bertram Wolfe III)
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Sept. 1950:
|
Leon Trotsky, 1879–1940 (The New International)
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|
Sept. 1950:
|
Socialist policy in the war (Socialist Leader)
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|
Sept. 1950:
|
Four Portraits of Stalinism (Part V) (The New International) (critique of Deutscher’s Stalin)
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|
Jan. 1951:
|
Aspects of the British Labour Government (The New International)
|
|
Feb. 1951:
|
Kerensky, head of the government that Lenin ousted, debates Max Shachtman (Labor Action)
|
|
Apr. 1951:
|
An open letter to “our friends in Asia” (Labor Action)
|
|
May 1951:
|
The Roots of Stalinist Imperialism (Labor Action)
|
|
May 1951:
|
Socialist Policy and the War (The New International)
|
|
June 1951:
|
Comrade Natalia’s Indictment [of the SWP] (Labor Action)
|
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July 1951:
|
Socialist Policy and the War – Part II (The New International)
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Sept. 1951:
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Socialist Policy and the War – A Reply (The New International)
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Nov. 1952:
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Stalin on Socialism (The New International)
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1953:
|
Bureaucratic Collectivism – Two Eras (The New International)
|
|
1953:
|
For a democratic foreign policy (Labor Action)
|
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Mar. 1953:
|
A Valuable Aid for Understanding Russia (The New International)
|
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July 1953:
|
Who were the leaders of the East German Uprising against Stalinism? (Labor Action)
|
|
Nov. 1953:
|
Twenty Five Years of American Trotskyism (The New International)
|
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Nov. 1953:
|
Why the working class is central
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Mar./Aug. 1954:
|
The End of Socialism: A Review of Isaac Deutscher (New International)
|
|
May 1954:
|
The Stalinist Social System (Labor Action)
|
|
Spring 1955:
|
“Co-Existence” as a Catch-Phrase in the Cold War (New International)
|
|
Fall 1955:
|
Socialism in the United States – What Can Its Past and Present Disclose About Its Future? (New International)
|
|
Summer 1957:
|
A New Stage in the Russian Crisis (New International)
|
|
Sept. 1957:
|
October was a true working class revolution (ISL Internal Bulletin)
|
|
Fall 1957:
|
American Communism – A Re-Examination of the Past (New International)
|
|
Nov. 1957:
|
The October Revolution was made for freedom in equality! (Labor Action)
|
|
Winter 1958:
|
A Rejoinder to Theodore Draper (New International)
|
|
Spring 1958:
|
The Counsel of Despair (New International)
|
|
Summer 1958:
|
ISL Members to Join SP-SDF (with Albert Gates) (New International)
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1960s
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1960s:
|
The Trotsky I Knew
|
|
1961:
|
Introduction to Leon Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism
|
|
May 1961:
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On Cuba (Two Views on the Cuba Invasion)
|
|
1962:
|
Introduction to Franz Mehring’s Karl Marx
|
|
Apr. 1962:
|
1939 – Whither Russia? Trotsky and his Critics (Survey)
|
|
Sept.–1963:
|
After the March on Washington (New America)
|
|
1964:
|
Personal and Political Dimensions (Dissent)
|
|
1965:
|
Introduction to Leon Trotsky’s The New Course
|
|
1967:
|
Introduction to Leon Trotsky’s Problems of the Chinese Revolution
|
|
1967:
|
Remember Leon Trotsky!
|
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Photos
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1938:
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SWP political meeting (with Felix Morrow, James Cannon, Max Shachtman, George Clarke, James Burnham, Nathan Gould and Martin Abern)
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1938:
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Max Shachtman (with James Cannon and Martin Abern)
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Reference
Max Shachtman, a political-biographical essay, by Albert Glotzer et al.
Shachtman Papers (Tamiment Institute)
Bibliography
Biography and Bibliography from Lubitz TrotskyanaNet
Yetta Barsh Shachtman
Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line
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