A programmatic document and factional positioning from the Communist League of Struggle led by from 1934. Online text linked below. The Communist League of Struggle was formed in March, 1931 by C.P. veterans Albert Weisbord, Vera Buch, Sam Fisher and co-thinkers after briefly being members of the Communist League of America led by James P. Cannon. In addition to leaflets and pamphlets, the C.L.S. had a mostly monthly magazine, Class Struggle, and issued a shipyard workers shop paper,The Red Dreadnaught. Always a small organization, the C.L.S. did not grow in the 1930s and disbanded in 1937.

The Struggle for Communism: The Position of the Internationalist-Communists of the United States by the Communist League of Struggle, New York. January, 1935.

Contents: Theses of the Communist League of Struggle (December 1934), I) The Present Crisis a Combined One, New Features of the Cyclical Crisis, The Increasing Weight of the Crisis, The Contradictions of Capitalism Even in “Normal” Times, Capitalism Preparing the Way for Socialism, II) Capitalism Ripe for Revolution, The Impact of the U.S. in World Affairs, The Breaking-Up of the British Empire, The Break-Down of Europe, The Fascistization of Germany and Middle Europe, European Explosion Points, France is Next in Order, Revolution in Spain, The Breaking Point in the Far East – The Manchurian Adventure, Chaos and Civil War in China, Ferment in India, Revolution in Cuba, III) The Origin of Fascism, Fascism and the State, Bonapartism and Fascism, Fascism and Social Democracy, Fascism and the Trade Unions, Fascism and Liberalism, Fascism at the Heart of Capitalism, Italian and German Fascism, Perspectives for Fascism, IV) The Degeneration of Proletarian Power in the Soviet Union, Soviet-Capitalist Co-existence, The Self Sufficiency of the Soviet Union, Execution of the Five Year Plan, Proletarian Control Destroyed, V) Economic and Political Crisis in the U.S.) The U.S. at a Turn of the Road,The First Period, The New Deal, On the Road to Bonapartism and Fascism, VI) For a New Communist International, The Collapse of the Communist International, The End of the Socialist International, he Breakdown and Liquidation of Trotsky’s “Left Opposition”, The Communist Movement in the U.S.A., Bureaucratic Centrism in the U.S. Today, The Right-Wing Lovestone Group, The End of the Cannon Group (Fake-“Left” Centrists), . The A.W.P. – Cannon Fusion and the Break-up of the Socialist Party, The Reconstruction of a Leninist International, VII) Tasks of the Communist League of Struggle, To Win the Working Class for Independent Revolutionary Action, Our Policy on the Labor Party Question, For United Front for Insurrection Against Fascism and Imperialist War, Unemployment Work, The Trade Union Work, Negro Work, . A New Orientation Necessary, For A New Communist International, Appendices. 56 pages.

Access to original pamphlet: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112060017461

Online text of document: http://www.weisbord.org/Theses.htm