New International responds to the opening of World War Two. Highlights include George Novack’s continued series on U.S. slavery, Rosa Luxemburg’s ‘The Socialist Crisis in France’ in its first English translation, and debates on Palestine and the P.O.U.M.

The New International. Vol. 5 No. 10. October, 1939.

Contents: Let the Readers Decide, The Second World War by the Editors, “Trotskyism” and the PSOP by Leon Trotsky, The Friends of the War Referendum by Hal Draper, Negro Slavery in North America by George E. Novack, British Imperialism in India: A Chart of the Exploitation of 375,000,000 People by Sherman Stanley, The Socialist Crisis in France by Rosa Luxemburg, CORRESPONDENCE: Rebuttal on the Palestine Question, A Letter from Bolivia, Kronstadt Again, Whitewashing the POUM by Douglas Conley and Mary Wills, Organizing Negro Labor by B.J. Widick.

The New International began as the theoretical organ of the Communist League of America, formed in 1928 by supporters of The International Left Opposition in the Communist Party. The CLA merged with the American Workers Party led by AJ Muste to form the Workers Party of the U.S. in Dec 1935 before intervening in the Socialist Party, at which time this magazine was suspended. After leaving the SP, the main Trotskyist forces formed the Socialist Workers Party in 1938 and resumed publication. In the split of 1940, the State Capitalist/ Bureaucratic Collectivist faction left the Party and held on to the magazine; the SWP then produced ‘The Fourth International’ as their organ of theory.

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