Ten Years: History and Principles of the Left Opposition by Max Shachtman. Pioneer Publishers, New York. November, 1933.

Contents: Foreword, The Left Opposition and the Communist Movement, The Fight for Party Democracy, The Lessons of October, The Theory of Socialism in One Country, The British General Strike of 1926, The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Planned Economy Industrialization and Collectivization of Agriculture, The Break-Up of the Bloc of the Right Wing and the Center: The Launching of the Third Period, The Dangers of Thermidor and Bonapartism, The International Left Opposition. 79 pages.

Here Max Shachtman gives a history of the Left Opposition, which he dates to the ‘New Course’ and the ‘Letter of the 46’ in 1923. Written by Shachtman in January, 1933 and published in November of that year as a pamphlet produced by Pioneer Publishers, the publishing house established by the Communist League of America (Opposition) in 1930. It later served the Socialist Workers Party and was superseded by Merit Publishers in 1965, and later by Pathfinder Press in 1969.

PDF of pamphlet: http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A5558/datastream/OBJ/download/Ten_years__History_and_principles_of_the_left_opposition.pdf