The New International. Vol. 5 No. 8. August, 1939.

Contents: The Editor’s Comment: The Revolutionary Party as the Union of Theory and Practice-The Mystic Cult of Action and The Mystic Cult of Abstract Ideas-Three Stages of the Fourth International Movement in the United States – From Left Opposition of Communist Party to Independent Center of Advanced Militants – Recent National Convention of Socialist Workers Party, The Moralists and the Sycophants against Marxism by Leon Trotsky, The Socialist Crisis in France by Rosa Luxemburg, The Struggle for National Supremacy, 1789–1848 by George E. Novack, A Graphic History of Bolshevism, Marx and Engels on the Proletarian Party, The Suicide of Ernst Toller by Oscar Fischer, Reading from Left to Right by Dwight Macdonald, Cotton Economy in Depression by Jerry Pytlak, Economic and Political Life in Argentina by Pedro Milesi, The Congress of the PSOP by Fauchois, Ten Years of the Russian Bulletin by Editorial Board of the Russian Bulletin, Irish Labor and the Bombings by William John MacCausland.

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 Bureaucratic Collectivist faction who no longer defended the Soviet Union, left the Party and held on to the magazine; the SWP then produced ‘The Fourth International’ as their organ of theory.

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