An interesting document for a number of reasons. While this Platform of the Communist Party for the 1928 elections, which saw William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow’s presidential run, is imbued with the then Lovestone leadership’s ‘right’ politics. The ‘Roaring Twenties’ of relative stability and expansion were coming to a close. It would be the last platform of a unified party before the major splits in the months following as the Trotskyist and Lovestone tendencies were expelled and the Third Period inaugurated.

‘The Platform of the Class Struggle: National Platform of the Workers (Communist) Party. Workers Library, New York. 1928.

Contents: Foreword, America Today, The Curse of Unemployment, The Offensive of the Bosses, The Heroic Struggle of the Miners, Colonies and Imperialist War, Defense oft he Soviet Union, Capitalist Democracy and the Government-Strikebreaker, A Labor Party, Social Legislation, Tariffs and Taxation, Plight of the Farmers, Oppression of the Negroes, The Foreign-Born Workers, Working Women, Youth Child Labor and Education, Housing, Prohibition, Forward to a Workers and Farmers Government.

Workers Library Publishers replaced Daily Workers Publishers as the main pamphlet printing house of the Communist Party in 1927. International Publishers was originally meant to translate works into English, but became the CP’s main book publisher.

PDF of original pamphlet: http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A5310/datastream/OBJ/download/The_platform_of_the_class_struggle__National_platform_of_the_Workers__communist__party__1928.pdf