Articles from this packed issue of NI by Swabeck, Spector, Trotsky, Muste, West, Novack, Feroci, and Walter Held are linked to online text below.

The New International. Vol. 2 No. 7. December, 1935.

Contents: Sanctions and the Coming War by Maurice Spector, The AF of L Begins to Face Issues by Arne Swabeck, The ILP and the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman’s Straw Man by John West, Some Notes on Workers’ Education by A.J. Muste, Marxism and the Intellectuals – The Marxist Theory of the Intellectuals – Non-Marxist Theories of the Intellectuals – Reaction and Anti-Intellectualism by George Novack, Romain Rolland Executes an Assignment by L. Trotsky, The Comintern and Social Patriotism by Feroci, Book Reviews: Stalin in Reality and in Legend by Walter Held, War by Norman Thomas by JW.

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.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol02/no07/v02n07-dec-1935-new-int.pdf