The Militant. Vol. 7 No. 4. January 29, 1934.

Contents Include: Strike Spreads to Biggest New York Hotels, Toward the Catastrophe by Leon Trotsky, Japan Moves Toward War Against the Soviet Union by Lucifer, The I.L.P. and the Comintern by T.C.

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.

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