The Workers Abroad

...An aggressive ally extend I neither in laboi organizations, allies of the movement at dustrial Demot to imitate thi j Communists si of democracy I "PITIABLE By Covi THE position of tenant farmers [he means "share-croppers"] shoved off the land by the Government's crop reduction program is "pitiable," according to Harry L. Hopkins, administrator of the FERA, successor to the CWA, but about the same thing or worse...

...When theHeimwehr was informed of this, they came in two large trucks, surrounded the court and with the help of the police rounded up those whom the court was forced to acquit...

...This became noticable since January, both in the urban and rural districts...

...L'Emancipation, Communist publication of Saint-Denis, denies the right to expel Doriot and promises an appeal to Moscow...

...As long as Rakovsky was in exile his friends abroad, the Trotzkyitea, did not want to harm him by telling this story...

...He withstood the pressure and as soon as his wounds were healed he was sent back to Barnaul...

...Every daily paper brings ns the glad tidings that soon the Administration will move a lot of saps out of the ante and coal field) farms...

...With money one can at present buy a number of household articles that could hot be had before in the government-owned and controlled "commercial," "factory" or "cooperative" stores...

...Most emphatically the same sort of criticism can •be made of the right wing infantilism of certain recent defenders of democracy in Socialist ranks...

...In Hitler's Retch I AST month's trial at Bresden in which 42 Social-Democrats were sentenced to leaf prison terms was followed immediately by another trie...

...I do not believe," he writes in bis letter of resignation to the Central Committee of the CP., "that fascism in Spain has been defeated, as Comrade Stalin stated in bis last speech...

...In another district conference in the North, Thores carried the central committee policy by a very narrow majority only...

...And in Austria QN March 25, the fascist gov" ernment of Vienna called a general meeting of the street cleaners...

...Perhaps this appeal smacks a little of what Lenin called "left wing infantilism...

...IT is far too late an hour at night for me to make any lengthy speech on Socialist policies...

...The story appeared in the Paris Populaire (issue of April 25) with a guarantee as to the reliability of its source...

...This was a little over a year ago...

...that made the life of the Russian workers so miserable during the last two years of the First Five Year Plan and the first year of the Second Plan is disappearing now...

...Some of them are under the "unheard-of pressure" of which the Trotsky statement speaks, from the time when both Trotzky and Rakovsky were themselves the dictators instead of the victims of dictatorship...

...We need, however, to give new clarity to the ideal of democracy and new vitality to it in action if it is to have any chance of prevailing...

...But luck here turned against him and he was shot and gravely wounded by the Soviet border guards...

...These I have discussed so often in my column and in a series of articles in the World Tomorrow that further comment may be almost superfluous...

...In the beginning of 1928 Rakovsky, then an internationally known Bolshevist leader and statesman, was arrested in Moscow and exiled to Barnaal, Siberia, where he spent Ave years in unheard-of isolation that with the years became more and more complete...

...Leading Communist Deputy Thrown Out of French Party THE Communist deputy, Doriot, *¦ Mayor of Saint-Denis, the most important city of the Paris region and founder of French Communist Youth organizations, was expelled on April 11th from the Communist Party...

...The extreme lack of the most elementary consumers' goods (clothing, shoes, textile, household articles, etc...

...The accused, from the leader down to the humblest rank and file showed an undaunted spirit and revolutionary pride in their convictions...

...There was also talk of abolishing the very unpopular police-arm of the Soviet dictatorship, the G.P.U., and of ajifting of the political oppression...

...He covered the city with large posters, announcing his resignation ss slderman and mayor and challenging the central committee to oppose his reelection.., . Since this industrial district is predominantly Communist, the outcome at this election may have a considerable influence oa the struggle for a real, united labor and Socialist movement in France...

...the "New Desk to the workei America...

...Conquering all obstacles he reached the border and tried to cross it...

...He received all the necessary medical care, but was subjected at the same time to severe pressure to make him recant his views and renounce Trotskyism...

...It even went further and by a two-thirds majority (110 against 61) indorsed Doriot's position and decided to ignore the decree of the C.C...

...That, is extraordinarily generous, considering the vast natural resources of the Land of Dixie and that the fool white folks down here have never voted "anything except the straight democratic ticket" for over two generations now...

...For he was greeted with a general and unanimous "pfui...

...and only then shall we be able, without fear, to dedicate ourselves to the tasks of organising a workers' and peasant's government based on Soviets...

...The conference took the stand that the struggle against fascism of the official Communist Party is a sham and the district groups must continue their loyal cooperation with the Socialists and other labor organizations in the permanent anti-fascist "vigilant committee...

...The fan supported eigM the "depressk* the loan...

...One of the best informed Kremlin correspondents of the Socialist Vestnik wrote on April 12 of a serious trend in the Politburo toward some new economic reforms, as a further retreat from the rigorous policies of 1928-1933...

...That i action on the and the SocU the labor move meant that wt the concept of so that wnikii sional folks aw will feel at hoi proletariat toi victory alone armed to the ti of a fascist nw tary and pott from men who in terms of t» the little man i a fundaments] and organizatk Carrying oul discipline, but discipline, the who accept k help to impose selves...

...Yet tin of the Govern...

...It is, indeed, a glowing picture Mr...

...But this is not all the "New Deal" is going to do to us landless...

...It is, indeed...

...Hopkins paints for the future of us "backward people" of the "Solid (and Squalid) Democratic South...

...Here is one j friend of ads Emerson, nearI has been fstj loan so she *¦ net, have to go' lines...

...far it has noV condition of tl "pitiable...

...An official conference of the Communist Party in the Saint-Denis district, called to ratify the action of the Central Committee, refused to follow orders...

...Sbt more, one of *J>J the Farm 14 Orleans, La., n the loan was...

...The old revolutionary succeeded however, in breaking through the elaborate chain of guards and spies and escaped from Siberia...

...but...

...What is still worse is that some defense of democracy is hypocritical...

...in Paris and London...

...as transmitted by Tores, Moscow "eye" in France and present head of the French Communist Party...

...All 60 Socialists were taken to the concentration camp at Messendorf, near Graz, where they still enjoy the hospitality of the Dollfuss-Fey Christian dictatorship...

...The expulsion of the French Communist, leader Doriot is not meeting with much approval...

...In reality he was brought from the border to Moscow and placed in the private clinic of the Kremlin...

...Nevertheless,- the final draft of the appeal of the Committee of 47 is so far superior to the first draft which I sharply criticised in The New Leader that I think it shows a possibility of genuine progress by the right sort of discussion of great issues among Pocialists...

...However irritated we may be at times at the Communists, our real enemy in Am« of Communist Fascism has s in store if we * in time...

...Spanish Leader Resigns JOSE BALBONTIN, head of the official Communist Party of Spain, has resigned from the party because the Moscow leadership of the Comintern insist on "fighting Socialism as if it were a wing of Fascism" and this is "Inimical to the interest of the working class...

...At this point, bowever, I should like to congratulate the present Labor Committee of the Socialist Party for the vigor of its action in vindicating true democracy in inion circles...

...There are in the Soviet Union scores of Socialist leaders, older than Rakovsky and under a much longer and more severe pressure—physical, moral and political—who still refuse to repudiate their past by signing recantations...

...The comrade adds, among other things, that Kalinin, Voroshilov and Molotov favor certain concessions to the farmers...

...He started his harangue with "Vienna was with the accompaniment of cannon fire finally liberated from the Marxian bacteria" and had to stop...

...I agree with him that that document is not an altogether satisfactory statement of the position of its own authors, that any Socialist endorsement of the dictatorship of the proletariat can only have the effect of causing us to be ground between the upper and nether millstones of Fascism and Communism...

...Jacques Doriot did not stop at that and on April 19 took another dramatic step...

...They, however, preferred to remain passive.' THE WAR IS A( Norman Thomas Discu Socialist Party To Right ant Tkit i* the address delivered by Norman Thomas at The New Loader dinner April Ibth...

...So much so that during the last two years even his wife, a voluntary exile, was deprived of all legal means of communication with her son, a young student in Paris...

...Recovery Signs in the Soviet Union HTHE Moscow correspondent of the same publication * reports a considerable improvement in the food situation of the Soviet Union...

...It was then that the world press reported that Rakovsky was gravely ill, dying and even dead...

...None of them attempted to deny their Socialist faith or activities, their opposition to the Nazi dictatorship and their willingness to die for Liberty, Democracy and Socialism...

...of 52 Socialist...

...Ksganowlcs, of the Moscow Soviet, is inclined to support Kirow...

...For myself, I reiterate my belief that the ideal Socialist society must be a democratic society and that even in a transitional period the ideal to hold up and to work for is workers' democracy rather than a dictatorship of the proletariat, which means a dictatorship of one party...

...As to the "boss," Stalin, he refuses an yet to commit himself either way...

...L'Humanite claims that Doriot and his followers could not remain any more in the party because they took an "opportunist stand" on the question of a, "united front" and favored cooperation with the left Socialist Party of France...

...Such d of a party wi of itself if the ciently aggrei negative disci...

...It seems to me that fascism in Spain marches apace, and has one foot in the government already, and it will soon succeed in monopolising the government completely if we do not hurry to stop it by a sincere united front against fascism...

...He was interrupted by many voices, proclaiming "Long Live Mayor Sets- Long Life for the Red Mayor I" The hall was full of police...

...shewed such a cowardly weakness...

...Charged with the same offense— smuggling in and distribution of the Socialist Neue Vorwaertt— they were punished even more severely than their predecessors...

...It seems evident to me that Spanish Socialism and Anarchism want sincerely to fight against the fascist danger, and that in this critical moment the Spanish Communists must join loyally with the Socialists and Anarchists in a united front from below snd from above, suspending all internal factional struggles in answer to the demands of the masses...

...Those who want to defend democracy have something else to do than to criticize this appeal...

...There must be something fundamentally wrong with the "ideology" of Trotskyism, writes the S. W., if all its leaders but one (Trotzky...

...But now, when his surrender is an accomplished fact, the same group thinks it advisable to tell the "real significance of Rakovsky's capitulation...

...Ft toto, only he w his and other can work part tries and in I raise gardens i to toil for the lower wages II piste of Big I paying them...

...In Bremen the Nazi secret police succeeded in rounding up, what they claim to be a Socialist defence organization, an underground, illegal continuation of the Reich's banner...

...Today such an endorsement plays into the hands of the incipient fascist movement...

...48 officers of this German Schutzbund were arrested together with a large amount of printed Socialist literature...

...The heads of the Soviet administration in Leningrad—Klrow—is opposed to these concessions...

...The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy New Light on Rakovsky's Recantation THE Bolshevik press here end abroad is making much ado about the sudden reconversion to Stalinism of Christian Rakovsky, former President of the Soviet Republic in Ukraine and ex-ambassador of the U.S.S.R...

...Further, wis bringing ex-fal industries snd "subsistence fa sands of "subsi right now.beini "small tracts" states by the fusel to loan ti purpose of sav homes...

...A fascist commissioner, Stoger, was the official speaker...

...We must suppress effectively the advances of fascism...

...On March 14, the Leoben District Court in Austria released 60 Social-Democrats...

...So "something is going to be done about it"—some time, provided the landless farm-slaves do not die while all American industry is being "decentralized...

...This surrender of their leader in the Soviet Union hit the Trotzkyites hard and as a consequence forced Trotzky and his friends to release an exceptionally interesting story they had kept a secret for over a year...

...All of us who have been "shoved off the land" and have nowhere to go except the river, are to be given "a small tract of land— a decent tract of land...

...a home to live in, a decent home...

...When alleged Social Democrats in unions or in a party support the high-h-.nded practices of which I continually hear complaints, it is no wonder that skepticism about a formalistic democracy grows...

...My friend, Louis Waldman, is terribly perturbed about the appeal of the Committee of 47...

...He became more careful and proceeded to assure the street cleaners that the new fascist mayor, Schmidt, will be very considerate to the municipal employees...

...The addrettet of James Oneal and Louie Waldman have already appeared...

...At this moment in Spain, it seems to me too premature to insist on imposing upon the great revolutionary mass the leadership of a Communist Party which has hardly begun to sprout If you insist on an immediate displacement of Socialist and Anarchist leadership, in place of treating with them provisionally, you are preventing a proletarian bloc and you are facilitating the complete triumph of fascism, just as was done in Germany...

...Socialistitcheski Vestnik, official organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, considers in its issue of April 25 the facts in the Rakovsky story as very interesting but futile, as an attempt to lighten the moral and political responsibility of Rakovsky's capitulation...

...actly that...

...Here the watch was doubled, the isolation increased and the moral pressure continued until the 61year-old revolutionary—sick, morally broken, losing all hope of a new successful escape—signed the recantation...

...Then each of ns is to be presented with "s mule, a cow, a pig, some chickens, and, if necessary, enough groceries to live (T) on" pending the time we become "subsistence farmers," if we over do, or get a job in s little "decentralised industry...