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War Policy Causes Clash in Students Unity Conference – Resolution Adopted Ambiguous on Crucial Question of Soviet Union; S.Y.L. and Yipsel Members Fight Stalinist Social Patriotism – Student Unity Conference Clashes on War Policy
Strike Nears in Texas WPA Crisis – State Relief Administration "Plays Ball" While Woreers Starve (Special to New Militant) by James Evans
Issue Call for Packing Meet
Road is Cleared for French Fascist Coup – People’s Front Abandons Defense Corps – Blum, Thorez In New Betrayal by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]
Question for Stalinist Sages
Utica Conference of "Militants" Deepens Rupture in Socialist Party
Olson Calls Out Militia In Strutwear Hosiery Strike in Minneapolis – Troops Summoned Aftyer Cops Prove Helpless In Protecting Scas in Face of Courage and Militancy of Striking Workers by Carl O’Shea
Latimer Urges Bosses Break Agreements – Coal, Transfer Employers Reject Plan to End Contracts with 574 (From the Northwest Organizer)
2 Year Strike is Called Off
Scratch a Sectarian
Illinois, Iowa Relief Workers Plan Walkout
Theater Benefit ("Let Freedom Ring" is The Play)
Question Box by A. Weaver
Sectarianism, Centrism and the Fourth International – Leon Trotsky Analyzes the Role of these Tendencies In the Revolutionary Movement by Leon Trotsky
March of Events by Jack Weber
Betrayal in the Present War Crisis by John West (A Chapter from West’s pamphlet "War and the Workers")
The Monkey Strike by Bill Haywood ("Big Bill" Haywood I.W.W. leader)
Theatre Review – Winterset (The Bridge of Sighs) by Maxwell Anderson
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NJWPA Men Win Wage Rise – Officials Back Down in Face of General Strike Threat by Felix Giordano
NEC Suspends N.Y. Old Guard as Socialist Party Splits Wide Open
Cleveland Hot-Air Fest A Pacifist Jamboree – Patriots Take Lead in League for War Against Fascism Congress by Philip Stryker
Next Week
Left Wing is Only Hope in Silk Strike – Must Fight to Save Union From Stalinist Suicide Policies
Workers Pay for Tire War Report Shows by Jack Wilson
Stalinists Pledge Faith to Greek Monarch
Toledo Auto Plant Shut Down By Mass Picketing – Two Months Old Strike Galvanized by Militant Tact – Wins First Concession From Mathers Spring Co.
WPA Official Gets Told by Project Union
Protest Lays Cuban Terror Regime to Roosevelt Gov’t
Progressives Gain in AFL Union Meets – Radio Workers Decide to Affiliate with Lewis Movement by Arne Swabeck
President’s Speech Prepares the Masses for War with the Lie of "Peaceful" Imperialist America – He Flaunts U.S. Slave Hold on South America by A.J. Muste
"People’s Front" – New Panacea of Stalinism by Max Shachtman
"Rally ’Round the Flag"
The Maritime Federation
Socialist Party Split
Gen’l Fang, Stalinist Hero, Kuo Min Tang Butcher by Lo Sen
New York Theatre Party (The play is "Winterset")
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Under the Banner of Lenin by James P. Cannon
California Parole Board to Meet on Mini Case – Only Pressure of Workers’ Organizations Can Prevent Unfavorable Action by Reactionary Forces
Plowing Under the AAA by George Marshall
Ohio Drivers Local Flourishes Under Rabid Boss Attacks – Youngstown Local 377 in Union Drive
Packing House Workers Plan Union Merger
Defense Plans New Federal Appeal in Scottsboro Case
Tampa Aid Group Balks Whitewash – Florida Victims Hold N.Y. Mass Meeting January 22
Strike Ties Up West Coast Shipbuilding
Conflict Looms on West Coast – Maritime Federation Is Threatened with General Lockout – New Struggle Finds Workers Prepared by C. Curtiss [Charles Curtiss]
Toledo MESA Local Wins Real Victory In Ten-week Battle
March of Events by Jack Weber
Statement of Bill Reich by Bill Reich (Criticisms of Louis F. Budenz and his endorsement of C.P. positions)
Program of Cleveland Congress Reeks With Pacifism; Class Struggle Omitted – Neutrality, Major Plank of Platform, Guarantees Support to U.S. Government by Phillip Stryker (Second installment of his article on the League Against War and Fascism Congress in Cleveland)
The Manager’s Corner
The Supreme Court, the New Deal and the Class Struggle – Supreme Court Integral Part of Capitalist State by John West
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Jugoslav Communist Escapes from Siberia; Bares Anti-Bolshevik Terror of Stalin – Revolutionists Held in Jails, Solitaries and Concentration Camps – Three Loyal Hungarian Stalinists, in Conflict with Bela Kun, Clapped into Jail by A. Ciliga
A Statement of Fact on Stalin’s Terror, On Mr. Hearst and the Sunday Worker
Bakers Union Official Framed in Youngstown – Third Unionist Arrested in Anti-Labor Drive Led By Reactionary City Administration by George Truhar
Ohio WPA Union Wins Wage Rise – Rapid Growth, Militancy of Union Causes Many Concessions (Special to New Militant)
WPA Teachers Form Union in Minnesota
Utilities Brotherhood Hits Edison Layoffs – Lays Power Tie-up to Undermanned Crews at Power Houses
Morgan Coined Gold out of Workers’ Blood in 1917-18 – - With Wilson’s Aid by Arne Swabeck
Fight Police in Vermont Walkout – Marble Workers Battle Militantly After Three Month Siege by Cyrus Rigby
Developments in the Needle Trades; A Program for the Progressives by A.J. Muste
"Soviet Russia and Ethiopia the Goats" – Behind the Scenes by James Evans
Relief Roles Are Pruned in Texas – Starvation, Graft, and Corruption Rife in State by James Evans (Special to the New Militant)
Hangmen of Finnish Workers Pay Homage to Scandinavian "Socialists" – - and they Reciprocate by A.J. [A.J. Muste?]
Who Are the Exiled Revolutionists In Jails and Concentration Camps?
News From Norway
Danger in Scottsboro – An Editorial
The War Policy of U.S. Imperialism – Neutrality Laws and War – Pacifism versus Revolutionary Policy by John West
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Stalin’s Terror Against Bolsheviks – Speakers: James P. Cannon A.J. Muste (Headline above Masthead)
Pen Prostitute No. 1 – Hired Liar No One
Next Week! (Another installment of Anton Ciliga’s exposure of Stalin’s repression aginst revolutionists especially in the Jugoslav C.P.)
Cablegram from Leon Trotsky Hits Hearst and Daily Worker Lies
"Socialist Call" on "Hearst, Trotsky & the Communists (Editorial reprinted from the Socialist Call, Feb. 1, 1936
C.P. Plans to Wreck Local 574 by Carl O’Shea
Directives of the C.E.C. of Communist Party to the District Committee – - Minnesota
700 at Tampa Protest in N.Y.
"Tell the Workers the Truth About Stalin’s Hounding of Revolutionists in the Soviet Union" – - Trotsky Urges by Leon Trotsky
Bring the Slanderers Out Into the Open – New Militant Editor Calls for Impartial Committee to Pass Judgment on the Stalinist Frame-up (Letter to James Baldwin, Director, A.C.L.U., from James P. Cannon)
Bare Murder on WPA – Toledo Union Demands Federal Investigation Into Case
Local Wins Recognition – Mpls Power House Union Forces Wage Rise and Seniority Rights (Reprinted from the Northwest Organizer)
Powell Framed; Scottsboro Boys In Peril – Mass Protest Only Means For Freedom – Smash the Bourbon by Mobilizing the Labor Movement! – Labor Defense Front
Social Security and the Class Struggle – The Townsend Plan – The Panacea of a Quack Doctor
Russian Fascists Hail the Anti-Bolshevik Terror in Soviet Union
The Manager’s Corner
The Crime of Scottsboro – An Editorial
Zeller Pamphlet Out!
Troyanovsky Dodges Sergei Trotsky Issue (Letter from Roger Baldwin)
Will the A.F. of L. Split on the Issue of Industrial Unionism – Miami Meet Sharpens Cleavage Between Old Guard and Lewis by Arne Swabeck
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Milliners Stoppage Settled – Trimmers Suffer Cut As Contract Is Made Behind Closed Doors
Furriers Strike Is Scotched – Gold Forces Wretched Agreement on Union – No Closed Shop by J. Rabinowitz
Hunger Stalks Poor Texas Farms As Roosevelt Plans Take Effect (Special to the New Militant) by James Evans
Next Week! (Articles by Leon Trotsky and A. Tarov on the condition of the Bolshevik-Leninists in the Soviet Union and exile.)
700 in N.Y. Mass Meet Protest Stalin’s Terror – Vote for Resolution Calling for Committee to Probe Charges Made by Ciliga and Tarov
Labor Skate Disbands Militant San Diego City Labor Council by Richard Fraser
Motor Products Strike Enters its Third Month – Detroit Auto Workers Battle Bravely Against Motor Dynasty, Police Terror, Dillon Sabotage
Rubber Baron Grants Union Demands – "Sit-Down" Protest over Discharge Forces Reinstatement by Jack Wilson
Bulletin by Jack Wilson (Sit-down at Goodyear in the wake of successful Firestone sit-down strike)
Pekin Strike Called Off; Paralyze City in Fight To Remove Police Chief – Green Succeeds Where Bosses and Tear-Gas Were Powerless
The Wolf at the Millionaire’s Door – The Poor Rich by John G. Wright
The People’s Front as Applied in China – 1927 – Hitherto Unpublished Document Reveals Betrayal of Revolution Through This Policy (The minutes of the Chinese Sub-Committee of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, May 1927)
Anton Ciliga Describes Wrecking of the Jugoslav C.P; Tells of Opposition Struggle in the Soviet Union by A. Ciliga [Anton Ciliga]
Revolutionary Defeatism in Practice in the Ruhr in 1923
“The Press Is the Collective Organizer”—Lenin
Lewis Robs the Treasury
The Wall Is Cracking
For the Unit of Unemployed
The New Labor Press
Socialist Call and Daily Worker
Shades of Lenin!
News Flash! (Dressmakers impending strike)
A Cry of Protest From A Siberian Exile Camp – Letter of 13 Bolsheviks, Written in 1934, Comes to Light for First Time
February Issue of New International Out Soon
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20,000 Oppositionists Expelled From the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Recent "Cleansing" – Forces of the Fourth International Grow in the Strongest Fortress of Stalinism; "Purging" of Critics Conducted by G.P.U. Behind Backs of the Membership; Prepare Another Mass Ousting for Spring by Leon Trotsky
Rebel Spirit Stirs Akron Gum Miners – Successful Sit-Down Strikes Impel Militant Action In Rubber Unions by Jack Wilson
Trotsky Cables Denial to AP on Daily Worker Lies – Denounces Repressions Against Bolshevik-Leninists by the Stalin Bureaucracy (The article contains the text of the cable signed by Leon Trotsky)
Find WPA Head Guilty of Murder – Worker Jury Unanimous in Verdict; NUL, WAA Leaders Speak
Mooney Appeals For Aid – Funds Badly Needed to Fight Activities of Calif. Frame-up Crew (Letter from Tom Mooney)
Miners Convention Hurls Defi at Green Ultimatum on CIO – Complete Solidarity with Industrial Union Movement Spurs Organization in Other Industries by Arne Swabeck
Meat Packers Launch Drive in Industry – Affiliate with CIO; Fight for Unrestricted Industrial Charter in AFL
Minneapolis Unions Join Lewis Set-Up – 22 Locals Take First Step in Conference; 574 Represented
New York Dressmakers Force Bosses to Terms – Strength of Union Forces New Contract – Report Gains on Major Issues of Conflict With Employers
Laundry Strike Remains Solid in 9th Week
Two Pamphlets ("The Road for Revolutionary Socialists" by Fred Zeller and "War and the Workers" by John West)
C.P. Union Reneges On Office Workers
Our Revolutionary Heritage: The Corn Rebellion by Leighton Rigby
The Treachery of the Spanish "Labor Party of Marxist Unity" by Leon Trotsky
"My Escape from Stalin’s Prison" By A. Tarov
Hike With Lumen Club
Roosevelt Carves A Latin American Empire by John West
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Mass Action Forces Amnesty in Spain – Government Compelled To Release 30,000
Dutch Gov’t Clamps Down on Revolutionary Party, RSAP, for Anti-Imperialist Campaign – Fourth Internationalists Strike Back as Police Raid Homes, Party Printshop, Confiscate Issue of "Neuwe Fakkel", Party Organ
Vigilantes Prosecute Militants – Leader of Cal. Tar-Feather Mob Sues Victims for Assault and Battery by Ernest Besig, Director, A.C.L.U., N. Cal. Branch
The Stalin Frame-Up Mill at Work (Letter from Trotsky to Olav Scheflo, connected with the newspaper "Soerlandet," an organ of the Norwegian Labor Party.)
Frisco Central Labor Council Calls for the Release of Mini
Another Enemy of Labor Council Enters Presidential Race – Landon "Balanced Budget" at Expense of Workers, Unemployed and Poor Farmers by James Evans
Pickets Blockade Akron Co. – Threat of Injunction as Lines Stay Solid in Walkout by Jack Wilson
Force State Wide WPA Wage Rise – Ohio Pay Increase Laid to Action of Jobless Organizations by Art Preis
Left Wing Group Gains in Phila Needle Trades Union – Stalinists and Lovestoneites Support Administration; Sabotage United Front
Social Patriotism Routed in Debate Between YCL-YPSL on War Question
The Manager’s Corner
"Assassination" by Postcard, or the New Stalinist Frame-up – Use Incident in Effort to Deport Leon Trotsky
Fred Zeller Uncovers Real Motive of Campaign by Fred Zeller (From Revolution, Organ of the Revolutionary Socialist Youth of France)
Roumanian "Peoples Front" Finds "Democracy" in Military Dictatorship [Archaic spelling of "Rumanian"]
"Our Line’s Been Changed Again"
How Stalinism Prepares For War
Stalinists Return to Old Love in China, Gen’l Fang – Ally and Butcher of 1927 Revolt is Seen as Hero of 1936 Peoples Front by Lo Sen
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Japanese Invasion Threatens Soviet Union – War Looms as Anti-Soviet Gang Seizes Nippon Gov’t – Military Clique Wreaks Vengeance on "Moderates" In First Step to Hasten Drive of Imperial Conquest and Assault on Soviet Union by Lo Sen
Support the Rubber Workers! by Farrell Dobbs, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 574
Nations Jockey for War at London Naval Conference
Massed Goodyear Pickets Throw Back Police Army for First Major Victory in Rubber Strike – Union Threatens General Strike if Militia is Called Out by Carl O’Shea
Every Aid Promised by Akron C.U. Committee by Jack Wilson
Terror Rages as Arkansas Bosses Battle with Starving Sharecroppers – Death by Hunger Stalks On Pres. Roosevelt’s Poor Farms by James Evans
Perspectives of the Akron Strike by Jack Wilson
Sit Down Hits Chem Plant in Akron Boro – 500 Barberton Workers Force Managers to Vacate
Green Urged To Organize Steel Plants – CIO Challenges Old Guard In Answer to Threat Of Mass Expulsion by Arne Swabeck
The Hunt for Trotskyist Contraband – History Books for Sale! – The New Revision Under Way in U.S.S.R. by John G. Wright
Daily Worker Distorts Lenin’s Teachings – What Price Alliances? – Social Patriotism Scorns World Revolution by Dan Eastman
Father of His Country Now Sires "People’s Front" – CPers Discover Workers’ Hero in Slave Owner George Washington
Austrian Centrist Party Takes the Count
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Lift Strike to Tie-up New Areas if Realty Board Stays Adamant – Militant Spirit and Action Pervades Workers’ Ranks in 2nd Week
574 Pledges Aid to Milwaukee Strikers
IWA Leader Is Framed on Fake Charge – Auto Accident Used as Blind for Four Month Sentence of James Cross by Gerry Allard
Hold Ohio WPA Meet
Hearst News Gripped in Milwaukee – Bottom Drops Out of Advertising as Guild Continues Strike
Jail French Bolsheviks in Class Fight – Solidarity with Brest-Toulon Strikers Evokes Repression by C.P. Allies (From Revolution, Paris, France)
St. Louis Kroger Clerks Ask Labor Aid for Long Strike
New Japan Gov’t Tool of Army – "Moderate" Cabinet Stop-Gap Until Road Is Clear for Final Lunge by Lo Sen
Hitler Makes Bid for Anti-Soviet Alliance – Invasion of Rhine Drives Nail into Versailles Coffin – Italy Holds Trump Cards as Powers Face Alternative of United Front Against USSR or Anti-German Bloc
F.D. Sharpens Ax for WPA Relief Men – Hunger Only Solution of Capitalist Politicians for Unemployment Crisis by James Evans
Reichstag Fire Defendants Persecuted – The Case of Popov—Tanev – New Light Shed on Comintern "Helmsman"
Convention Resolutions – Adopted by 2nd National Convention of the Workers Party
Three Editions – - Three Versions
The Spanish Elections and the People’s Front – People’s Front Acts as Brake on Upward Movement of Masses by Max Shachtman
“Speed Up or the Scabs Will Take Your Jobs—” Straw Boss? No, West Coast C.P.
Sharecroppers Take Vote on General Strike by H.L. Mitchell, Executive Sec’y, Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Arrest 14 in NY WPA Protest
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Workers Press for Action in Spain – Azana Lays Ground for Action in Spain – Leraders Still Playing Fatal Game with Republicans by Alfredo Rojas
Shuffle New War Cards at London – Revolutionary Working Class Can Upset Applecart of Capitalist Politicians and Warmakers
Service Strike Terminates in Compromise – N.Y. Realty Board Refuses Reinstatement of Many Strikers
Union Plans to Mobilize All Ex-Soldiers
WPA – 1936 Football (Special to the New Militant) by James Evans
Goodyear Picket Line Retains Firm Control; Prepared to Counter Bosses’ Vigilante Terror
Extracts from the Rabble-Rousing Radio Speech of Former Mayor of Akron
Gum Miners Reject Bad Settlement
Appeal Hearing on Sac’to C.S. Cases Expected Soon
Soil & Profits "Conserved" (Special to the New Militant) by James Evans
The Great Marxist Teachers on the Commune
The Tradition of the Communards by Maurice Spector
Socialism in Words but Treacherous Patriotism in Action – Beware of Social Patriotism Masking its Judas Game Behind Empty Revolutionary Phrases by John West
March of Events by Jack Weber
World of Labor – CPers Neutral to Lithuanian Fascist Gov’t In a War with Germany
53rd Anniversary of the Death of Marx – Marx – Leader and Thinker – Engel’s Speech at the Grave of his Friend
Readers, Attention! (The March 7 issue was skipped due to an unavoidable machinery malfunction)
Gold and Dust
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Call for Revolutionary Mass Action in France – Fourth Internationalists Alone Follow Liebknecht Slogan in Rhineland Crisis
Picket N.Y. WPA
Unions Aid Sac'to Victim
Easy Terms for Socialists – Victory for Austrian Labor
Spanish Masses Demand Results – Unemployed and Land Workers Begin to Take Matters into Own Hands; Azana Dismayed by Alfredo Rojas
Police Aid Hearst in Guild Strike – Milwaukee Workers Hold Firm Against Arrests and Sluggings
From Fish to Browder – Marcantonio Takes Another Leap on His Flying Trapeze
Sit Down Wins in Minneapolis
Blacklist Ruled Out in Akron Fact – Workers Feel Strengthened Though Settlement is Compromise
Strike Sweeps Pa. Projects – Eastern Part of State Tied Up – 7,000 WPA Workers Respond to Call of Joint Action Committee of Unemployed and Unions
New York Painters Defend Rights
After Five Months of Sanctions – Its Effect upon the Italo-Ethiopian War, The Great Powers and the Workers by John West
March of Events by Jack Weber
World of Labor – Stakhanov Campaign Gripped by Serious Crisis In the Soviet Union by John G. Wright
Gt. Britain Rearms – On Land, Sea, Air British Imperialism Girds Itself for New War – - While Workers Starve by T. C.
An Ally! – C.P. Supports Cardenas of Mexico; He Calls Troops Against Peasants
Why the Czechs Had to Eat Crow by Henry Thuman
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Trotsky on the Stalin Interview
Norman Mini – Class War Prisoner No. 57606
War on S.U. Behind New Border Clash – Nippon Gov't Driving Toward Open Outbreak In Mongolia
New Support For Newsmen
French Gov't Jails Zeller, Youth Leader – Zeller is 2nd Arrested As Capitalists Prepare for War
Militants Sweep N.Y. Socialist Primaries
Croppers Aid Group Forms
Move Trial From Tampa
Jobless to Unite in Nationwide Army at Great Washington D.C. Congress Meeting on April 7-10 – Mass Reply to New Gov't WPA Slash – Fighting Policy Is Prime Task of Jobless Gathering
Stalintern Ready to Embrace Chiang Kai Shek – Offer Chinese Red Army in Return for Resurrection of Disastrous 1927 Bloc by Lo Sen
World of Labor – London International Labor Conference Endorses Imperialist War Policies by John G. Wright
A Letter from Italy – Nationalist Maniacs Driving Nation Through War into Collapse and Ruin
Spanish Revolution Reaches Critical Stage – Workers Misled as Capitalist Class Conspires Against Them by Alfredo Rojas
A Dubious Ally for Stalinism – How the "Old Guard" becomes a "Friend of the Soviet Union" as Soon as Litvinoff Plays League of Nations Politics by Max Shachtman
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Launch United Unemployed Organization – March on Capitol Is Last Act – Johnson's Rump Convention Folds Up – - A Fiasco
Klan Pays Defense Attorney – Whitewash Planned in Tampa Flogging Trial
Unions Flay Grand Jury
Tokyo-Berlin Alliance Against USSR Reported – Adequate Soviet Defense Made Extremely Difficult By Stalinist Manoeuvers With Chinese Bourgeoisie by Lo Sen
Facts on Tampa
Sentence Chambers, Mini, et al. – Calif. Prison Board Sets Sentences for Sacramento Defendants
Muste to Speak on April 19
Azana Speaks Firmly For Conservative Spain – Loudly Applauded by Stalinists and Monarchists--Caballero Cautious; Swing to Right Apparent by Alfredo Rojas
Croppers Swindled
Akron Guild Man Fired by Blake Lear
American Labor at a Glance – 574 Leader Gives His Impressions of Industrial Union Movement in the East (From Northwest Organizer) by Farrell Dobbs
Southern Illinois Unions Back Kroger Strike
Craft Union Blocks Shirt Workers' Organization by Albert Dane
Ferrero-Sallito Denied Writ By Federal Court Judge
Peoples Front – John Bull Model
March of Events by Jack Weber
The Electoral Pact – Full Text of the People's Front Agreement in Spain for the Election to the Cortes (As Translated from El Socialista, Jan. 16, 1936, organ of the Socialist Party of Spain)
World of Labor – What Happened at the Trade Union Unity Congress in Toulouse, France by John G. Wright
Results of the Spanish Elections
The "Suicide" Advice of the German C.P. in Plebiscite – A Counterpart to Social Patriotism in France, Equally Disastrous
A Jingle of Lies to Please the "Master" by Alpha
Prospects for a Farmer-Labor Party in the 1936 Elections
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Woe to the Vanquished—Mussolini Slogan – Fascist Army Overruns Ethiopia – Two Internationals Reveal Bankruptcy Once Again
Jobless Masses Unite Ranks – An Analysis of the Washington Unemployed Convention and the Task Ahead by Max Shachtman
Jail 1,000 Bolsheviks in Chile
The Old Guard and the SP Primaries by John West
In Stalin's Prisons – Dr. Ciliga Continues Series on Persecution of Revolutionists Under the Stalin Regime by Dr. Anton Ciliga
Huge Student Strike Nears – 350,000 Expected to Join in Protest Against War in Nation's Schools
Malcolm Cowley: Portrait of a Stalinist Intellectual – The Saga of the Literary Cop Who Patrols the New Republic Beat for Stalin by Felix Morrow
World of Labor – Polish Bund Flays Stalinists for Pogrom Incitement Against 4th Internationalists by John G. Wright
Analysis of the Akron Strike And the Role of the CIO – Industrial Unionism in Mass Production Industry by A.J. Muste
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Down Tools May First! Demonstrate Against War and for Workers Republic – New York Labor to Unite in Huge Parade – All Political Tendencies Combine for First Time in Years; Only Bankrupt Old Guard and Labor Bureaucrats Sabotage by Martin Abern
Seamens Struggle Settles – West Coast Unions Retreat; But Employers Aims are Spiked by Arne Swabeck
Donkey and Elephant Gird for Election Spree – G.O.P. and Democrats Vie for Privilege to Represent Capitalist Class and for...the Gravy by John West
Red Scare Is Raised in Tampa – Mimeograph Machine Becomes Threat to "Civilization" by Sidney Hertzberg
On the 50th Anniversary of May Day – An Editorial
Two Negro Boys Framed in Arkansas – Protest Must Stay Hangman's Hand Acting on Platers Orders (Special to the New Militant) by James Evans
Hunger Strike in Stalin's Prisons – Heroic Struggle of Revolutionary Political Prisoners Against Despotic GPU Is Told by Dr. Ciliga in Fourth Installment of Series by Anton Ciliga
British Imperialism Faces Dilemma As Line-Up in Europe Changes by Maurice Spector
March of Events by Jack Weber – Decline of the British Empire
France at the Crossroads – In Lieu of an Introduction to the Second Edition of "In Defense of Terrorism" by Leon Trotsky
Announce New Lecture Series (Trotskyism or Stalinism?
General Strike Marks New Left Trend in Spain – Azana Directs Shafts at "Communism" in Reply to Provocation from Fascists but Workers Action Makes Them Run for Cover by Alfredo Rojas
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Workers Throng the Streets on May First – Thousands Expected To March – New York Parade Will Mark High Point In Many Years
Tasks of the Fourth International in Spain – A Letter to a Spanish Comrade by Leon Trotsky
Law'n'Order Ruse Flops – Akron Vigilante Frame-up on Trade Unionists Falls Through
Cops Maul Guildsman – Guild Protests to Hoan After Many are Slugged by Police
"We Have Been Naught, We Shall Be All!" (Political Cartoon concerning May Day and Labor demands)
Peoples Front Salvages Bankrupt Radicals in First French Election – Real Issues Will Be Decided in Streets Not By Ballot Box
Jersey Jobless Ousted – Bourbon Politicians Inflict Final Injury on Unemployed
May Day Greetings from Comrade Tom Mooney by Tom Mooney
New Trends in the Evolution Of the Unemployed Movement – Problems Arising from The Washington Unity Conference by A.J. Muste
The Roosevelt-Lewis Coalition And the Farmer-Labor Party – Lewis Takes the Wind Out of Stalinist 1936 Sails
Townsend Plan Hits The Downward Trek
Browder: The Man & His Book – The Stalinist System of Beloved Leaders by Max Shachtman
On the Soviet Section of the Fourth International by L.T. [Leon Trotsky?]
"A Sensational Interview" – Azana Sends His Best Love to Stalin (Comments on an interview in the Daily Worker)
France at the Crossroads – In Lieu of an Introduction to the Second Edition of "In Defense of Terrorism" by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue)
Dubinsky Finds a Haven in Roosevelt Camp
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Radicals Hold Whip Hand In French People's Front – Their Aid is Vital to S.P. and C.P. Plans – Social Patriotic Policies Hold Sway in New Left Coalition
The Meaning of the French Elections by John West
Rubber Co's Grant Wage Increases
Solidarity with Cuban Comrades! – Widespread Support Needed Against Reaction
The New Constitution of the U.S.S.R. by Leon Trotsky
Progressives Triumph at Auto Workers Convention – Dillon-Green Machine Receive Smashing Defeat; Plan of Action Drafted by Jack Wilson
Terror Reigns in F.D.'s Cubs – Hundreds Jailed and Tortured – Batista Attempts to Cover Up by Investigation (Special to New Militant)
France at the Crossroads – In Lieu of an Introduction to the Second Edition of "In Defense of Terrorism" by Leon Trotsky
From Pacifism to Social-Patriotism – British Workers and War – Stalinism: Yesterday and Today by T.C. (London)
In the Dark of Night the C.I. Prepares The New Betrayal for China – Members of CP Are Kept in Ignorance – Bolshevik Leninists Point the Way by Li Fu-Jen (Translated from "Struggle," Organ of Communist League of China)
An Unnoticed May Day Funeral (The funeral of the myth of "Soviet China")
Milwaukee Labor Council Urges Unions Aid News Strike
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Communist Party Trails F.D. Bandwagon – Browder Borrows Farley Campaign Slogans: New Deal Demagogy Aided as “Labor Party” Flops
Aid the Russian Bolshevik Exiles!
Union Blooms in Akron by Blake Lear
Out of Their Own Mouths
C.I.O. Faces Challenge of Steel – Drive to Organize Industry Major Problem Before American Labor by Arne Swabeck
Roosevelt Steals Labor Party Thunder – Labor Chiefs Use New Deal as Safety-Valve by Arne Swabeck
John L. Lewis and Industrialist Serve Same Master in 1936 Elections
The World of Labor – The Liquidation of the Russian Komsomls (Y.C.) as a Political Organization
Daily Worker Performs Sleight-of-Hand on Elections in France
People’s Front Boosts Azana into Presidency by Alfredo Rojas
In the Columns of Pravda...by Alpha
Browder: The Man and His Book – 2. The Wooing of the Socialist Party by Max Shachtman
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The Death of the Little NRA – An Editorial
Croppers Rebel At Slave Wages – 5,000 Arkansas Sharecroppers Strike Against System of Peonage on Cotton Plantation
Jobless Hit Pa. Relief – Workers Alliance Calls for Appropriation for Emergency
”Third International After Lenin” Off the Press, A Lexicon for the Revolutionary Movement
Parole Mini; Free Others, His Demand – Mini Appeals for Struggle To Force Release of Chambers, Deckers
New Sitdown at Goodrich – Rubber Workers Rap Violation of Union Regulations by Blake Lear Blum Upholds French Capitalism – People’s Front Leader Pledges “Safe” Regime, Socialism, Only Solution to Crisis, Is Remote to S.P. – C.P. Moguls
Book Review by Jack Taylor (Discusses Stalin’s comments on Trotskyism and the history of the October Revolution in his published works)
Whitewash Lynchers in Tampa Flogging Trial
France—The Last Week Before the War by A. Rosmer
Olson’s Confab A Roosevelt Rally – Farmer-Labor Party is Ruse for Political Trades by Arne Swabeck
World of Labor – Labor Party Leaders Vote Arms Budget in Belgium; Anti-Semitic Riots in Poland
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Tobin Plug-Uglies Slug 574 Heads – V.R. Dunne and Geo. Frosig Attacked by Thugs in New Union—Busting Campaign by Reactionaries
Fascists Gain in Belgium – People’s Front Losses Mirror Future for France
Spanish S.P. Nears Split – Right Wing Takes Sanctions Against Left; Convention Postponed
Day to Day Report of S.P. Convention At Cleveland, Ohio by John West and Max Shachtman
Statement of Minnesota S.P. on Farmer Labor Party Question
2 Shot, 15 Jailed In LA Bean Strike – “Red Squad” Unleashes Terror Against Walkout of 5,000 Agricultural Workers; Defense Funds Urgently Needed
Unions Rap Co. Plot – Rubber Workers and CLU Rally Against Provocations of Barons by Richard Ferguson
The Problem in Akron by A.J. Muste
Cotton Lords Ape Hitler – Concentration Camps Set Up to Defeat Tenant Farmers Strike
Persecuted by Stalin – The Honor Roll
On the Flying Trapeze Again – Bittelman Takes the Swing this Time in Pamphlet “Going Left”
1914-1936: The Same Social Patriotic Tune – Dividing World into Good and Bad Nations, Browder Voices Same Phrases as Social Democrats by Arne Swabeck
Editoral Board:
Workers Party Call All Revolutionary Workers to Join the Socialist Party
Stalinists Hedge on Committees; Explain Non-Revolutionary Aims – From Revolution (Paris)
The Anti-Trotsky Cliques Fold Up
T.J. O’Flaherty Dead
Stalin Destroys Conquests of October Revolution
* Bolsheviks Hounded; Class Enemy Granted New Rights
Announcement (With the entry into the Socialist Party the press of the Workers Party suspends publication.)
Blum-Thorez Strain to Head Off Strikes – Blum and Stalinists Place Preservation of Capitalist Order Above Workers’ Interests
Stalinists Incite Pogrom Against Revolutionists at Commune Rally
A Balance of Spanish People’s Front by Alfredo Rojas
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