Just one essay this issue, C.LR. James’ ‘Capitalist Society and War.’ Full online text here.

New International (Workers Party). Vol. 6 No. 6. July, 1940.

Contents: Capitalist Society and the War, Introduction, “Dynamic” Fascism, “Decadent” Democracies, The Future by J.R. Johnson (C.L.R. James).

‘New International’ in 1941 became the theoretical journal of the Workers Party led by Max Shachtman. There have been a number of paper’s named ‘Labor Action’ in our history. This Labor Action was the paper of the Workers Party (United States) founded in early 1940 from a as split in the Socialist Worker Party over the class nature of the U.S.S.R. The Workers Party determined, after an internal debate, that the Soviet Union was a ‘bureaucratic collectivist’ after over a decade of increasingly fractious debates with in the movement that began as the Left Opposition. The new party was led by long-time leading communist activist Max Shachtman, who also edited Labor Action. The split was large, taking the large majority of the YPSL and roughly 40% of the SWP’s total members at the time. Others who joined the new party, at least briefly, included Hal Draper, C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Martin Abern, Joseph Carter, Julius Jacobson, Phyllis Jacobson, Albert Glotzer, B. J. Widick, James Burnham, and Irving Howe. The paper continued as Labor Action after the Workers Party changed the name, and orientation, to the Independent Socialist League in 1949 until the ISL joined the Socialist Party in 1957. Helping to define the ‘Third Camp’ tendency that would, in many places, grow to overshadow their Trotskyist forebears.

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