Second section containing documents of the founding conference of the Fourth International.

Socialist Appeal. Vol. 2 No. 46. October 22, 1938.

Contents: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International – Transitional Demands Will Mobilize The Masses, World Congress Greetings to Leon Trotsky, Manifesto of the Congress – Against Imperialist War!, Greetings to the Fighters in Spain, from The Executive Committee of the Fourth International, Salute to Our Living Martyrs in Our Heroic Dead, On Organizing Defense and Relief for Persecuted Revolutionists, On the Mexican Question, On Unification of the British Section, On the Greek Question, Statement of the IS – On the Moliniere Group, Other Congress Documents.
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. After the Workers Party (International Left Opposition) entered the Socialist Party in 1936, the Trotskyists published Socialist Appeal as the paper of the “Left Wing Branches of the Socialist Party” replacing New Militant as the main voice of Fourth Internationalist in the US. Socialist Appeal became the weekly organ of the new Socialist Workers Party in early 1938 after the expulsion of the Trotskyists from the the Socialist Party. Edited by James Cannon and Max Shachtman,Felix Morrow, Albert Goldman, in 1941 Socialist Appeal became The Militant again.

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