Zero hour in Germany. Max Shachtman’s ‘To Delay Anti-Nazi United Front Is Fatal! Hesitation at This Time Is a Crime!,’ Hugo Oehler’s ‘America’s Role in Germany: Wall Street’s Stake in Germany,’ and Leon Trotsky’s ‘How Can Fascism Be Smashed in Germany,’ first written in December, 1931, linked to online texts below. During the German crisis of early 1933, The Militant, normally a weekly, was printed three times a week.

The Militant. Vol. 6 No. 10. February 20, 1933.

Contents: To Delay Anti-Nazi United Front Is Fatal! Hesitation at This Time Is a Crime by M.S., How Fascism Can Be Smashed in Germany by Leon Trotsky, League Obeys U.S.A. in Move Against Japan by J.W., Quits “Anti-War” Group by Manny Geltman, Boston I.L.D. Expels Two by Charlotte Schechet & William M. Konikov, Appeal for Aid to Readers by J.P. Cannon, German Meetings: Oehler Tour – Minneapolis Mass Meeting – Abern to Speak in Boston, Lynching Campaign Against Zangara by G.C., A Letter from the U.S.S.R, from Tonov, German Campaign: Minor Challenged at Philly Meeting by L. Roberts, America’s Role in Germany: Wall Street’s Stake in Germany by Hugo Oehler, German Opposition Overwhelmingly Against the Handful of Capitulators, Lovestone and the Capitulators.

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.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/themilitant/1933/feb-20-1933.pdf