The Militant. Vol. 3 No. 5. February 1, 1930.

Contents: Police Murder Steve Katovis, Naval Conclave Shows No Unity, Green Stabs Marion and Gastonia, Mexico Breaks with Soviet Union, After the Miner’s Strike by Joseph Angelo, Prospects for New Struggles in New Bedford, The Indian Revolution at the Crossroads by Max Shachtman, Stalinists Disrupt Minneapolis T.U.U.L Conference, The “Third Period” of the Comintern’s Mistakes by L.D. Trotsky, On the Chinese Revolution – Trotsky’s Reply to the Letter of the Chinese Opposition Group (December 22, 1929), Hoover Prosperity Invisible in State of Illinois, Mummery in Labor Unions by C.R. Hedlund, The Curse of Mining Accidents by M. Bode, The New Industrial Unions – The Mass Organizations of the Workers or Narrow Party Sects by Arne Swabeck, Cleveland Labor News by John Foley.

The Militant was a weekly newspaper begun by supporters of the International Left Opposition recently expelled from the Communist Party in 1928 and published in New York City. Led by James P Cannon, Max Schacthman, Martin Abern, and others, the new organization called itself the Communist League of America (Opposition) and saw itself as an outside faction of both the Communist Party and the Comintern. After 1933, the group dropped ‘Opposition’ and advocated a new party and International. When the CLA fused with AJ Muste’s American Workers Party in late 1934, the paper became the New Militant as the organ of the newly formed Workers Party of the United States.

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