THE NEW INTERNATIONAL

A Monthly Organ of Revolutionary Marxism

VOLUME XII
JANUARY TO DECEMBER. 1946
NOTE: The issUJes of June and July were not published.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
AR: Archives of the Revolution; BR: Book Review; D: Discussion; E: Editorial Comment;
C: Correspondence; R: Resolution

ALPHABETICAL INDEX BY AUTHORS

Month Page Month Page

ARLINS. A.
Correspondence May 158 The Wallace Dismissal .............................................. Nov. 262
The Republican Sweep .............................................. Dec. 291
ARMOR. JACK Trieste-City Between Two Worlds .......................... Dec. 293
Report on Italy ............... ................... ........... ............. Nov. 282 France's "No Exit" Sign ............. ............... .............. Dec. 295
BERG. SAUL ERBER. ERNEST
The PostLiberation Struggle in the Philippines .... Jan. 15 Leon Trotsky and the Workers Party ........................ Sept. 201
BLACK. JIM FABIUS. G. H.
The Farmers' Last Frontiers (BR) .......................... Jan. 24 Technological Progress in Agriculture .................... Apr. 116

BROOKS. W. FARRELL. JAMES T.

Correspondence .......................................................... Aug. 191 The Pope Needs America ................................. ......... Feb. 43
No Immigration to Palestine, Arab Freedom the Stalinist Literary Discussion .................................... Apr. 112
Main Issue ............................................................ Nov. 271 A Comment on Literature and Morality .................. May 141
The Problem of Public Sensibility .......................... Aug. 183
COOLIDGE. DAVID American Literature Marches On-I ...................... Sept. 218
Negroes and the Labor Movement ......................... .. Mar. 89 American Literature Marches On-II ...................... Oct. 243
Cain's MovieTone Realism ........................................ Dec. 308
CORBIN. DAVE
Correspondence .......................................................... Nov. 286 FENWICK. JAMES
Politics of the International Working Class ............ Jan. 12
EDITORIALS
The Strike Wave ........................................................ Jan. 3 FINDLEY. EDWARD AND ALBERT
The Crisis in France .................................................. Feb. 35 Assimilation Utopian; Self Determination of the
The Strike Settlements .............................................. Mar. 67 Jews ...................................................................... Nov. 267
The New Russian Imperialism .................................. Apr. 99
FOREST. F.
The Railroad Strike .................................................. Aug. 163
Luxemburg's Theory of Accumulation-I .............. Apr. 207
The Indian Negotiations ............................................ Aug. 165
Luxemburg's Theory of Accumulation-II ............ May 137
France Shifts to Right .............................................. Aug. 167
The Nature of the Russian Economy ...................... Dec. 313
The Struggle on the Price Front .............................. Sept. 195
Poland's Political Pattern ........................................ Sept. 196 G.
Paris Peace Conference ..... .. ...... .. ........ .. ........ .... ....... Sept. 199 Correspondence .......................................................... May 159
Welcome SWP Minority ............................................ Sept. 200
GARREn. EMANUEL
Wage. Price Spiral and the Mood of the Workers .... Oct. 227
Class Nature of Stalinist Parties (R) ........................ Apr. 126
The Paris Conference ................................................ Oct. 228
The Jews of Europe and Immigration to Palestine .. Nov. 259 GATES. ALBERT
Paris Conference Another Zero ................................ Nov. 261 The Meaning of Self Determination (D) .................. Aug. 181
Russia, Twenty-Nine Years After .............................. Nov. 262 The Heroic Period of the Comintern ........................ Sept. 205
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GERMAIN. E. LEDER.H.
Sectarianism and Democratic Demands .................. May 150 Why the Germans Failed to Revolt (C) .................. Nov. 277

GOLDMAN. ALBERT LEONARD. JOSEPH

Replies to Questions ................................................. . Feb. 55 The Vatican's New Line ............................................ Aug. 188
A Note on the Defense and Nature of Stalinist Oct. 240 LOGAN. DAN IEL
Russia .................................................................... . The Eruption of Bureaucratic Imperialism ............ Mar. 74
The Basis of Workers' Democracy ............................ Dec. 305
LOU MOS. PETER
GORMAN. WILLIE Correspondence .... .. ....... .. .... ..... .... ... .......................... Dec. 320
Germany-Still the Key ............................................ May 154
M. S.
GOULD. MIRIAM Setting the Record Straight ...................................... Oct. 247
Women, Biology and Socialism .............................. Feb. 46
Profits and the Housing Crisis .................................. Mar. 83 MORRISON. HENRY
Germany's First Post-Nazi Electi.on ........................ Mar. 81
H. J.
MORROW. FELIX
Politics of the International Working Class ............ Nov. 284
318
To the Secretariat of the Fourth International ...... Jan. 13
Politics of the International Working Class ............ Dec.
On the Tempo in Europe ............................................ Feb. 49
HARVEY. MARTIN
MUNIS. G.
Lessons of the Detroit Elections .............................. Jan. 17
Relationship of Program to Mass Influence ............ Apr. 105
Big Business in a Democracy (BR) ........................ Feb. 53
The Age of Jackson (BR) ........................................ Apr. 119 MORARJI. SUREN
The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie ................... Dec. 301
HOWE. IRVING
Human Nature (BR) ................................................ Aug. 189 PHILLIPS. RUTH
Reviewing "The New Course" .................................. Sept. 210 Correspondence ...................... '" ............... .................. Jan. 32
The Significance of Koestler (C) ........................... : Oct. 250
The Withering Away of the State (BR) .................. Oct. 254 PROCUNA. ENRI9UE
Social-Democracy vs. Communism (BR) ................ Nov. 285 The Roots of Stalinism ........................................... .. Apr. 103

JASON. WALTER RUDZIENSKI. A.

De Gaulle as Military Theoretician ............ . Jan. 8 Problems of the Polish Revolution .......................... Aug. 172
Russian Imperialism in Poland ................................ Sept. 215
JEFFERS. A.
Politics in Occupied Germany ............ ..................... Jan: 9 SCHAPIRO. MEYER
A Note on "The Open City" ..................................... Dec. 311
JOHNSON. J. R.
Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution SHACHTMAN.MAX
(D) ........................................................................ Jan. 25 Trotsky's "Stalin" ........ ............................................. Oct. 229
Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution-
SHIELDS. LEON
II (D) .................................................................. Feb. 59
Role of the Indonesian Leadership .......................... Mar. 87
After Ten Years .......................................................... Oct. 236
For Self-Determination in Palestine (D) ................ Aug. 180
JUDD. HENRY STANLEY. GEORGE
America's Role in Europe ........................................ Jan. 5 The Stalinist Bureaucracy from the Inside (BR) ...... Jan. 19
England and Its Labor Government ........................ Feb. 39
France in 1946 ............................................................ Mar. 69 STILER. ROBERT
The Germanies-I ........................................... May 131 The Politics of Psychoanalysis Aug. 176
The Germanies-II......................................... Aug. 168 STOKER. RICHARD
Kravchenko-Product of the Stalinist Era ...... ....... Oct. 248 Prater Violet (BR) ................................................... Apr. 118
Why the Germans Failed to Revolt (C) ....... Nov. 277 For Thee the Best (BR) ........................................... Apr. 119
Behind the Hindu-Moslem Strife .............................. Dec. 296 Our Threatened Values (BR) .................................. Dec. 319
JUDSON. ROGER STONE. RIA
Correspondence ....................................................... . Aug. 192 Germany-Still the Key .......................................... . May 154
LAWRENCE. SHIRLEY TOBIN. GEORGE' W.
The Myth of German Character ........ . ................ Nov. 272 Modern Man Is Obsolete (BR) ................................ Apr. 112

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TROTSKY, LEON WEBER. JACK
The Church Struggle Under Fascism (AR) ............ Sept. 213 The Great Conspiracy Against the Revolution ....... May 145
The Timetable for Revolution (AR) ...................... Oct. 252

VICTOR, A. WEISS. NEIL

Beatrice Webb (BR) ................................................ Oct. 255 The Significance of Koestler (C) ... ....... ... ...... ....... .. Oct. 250

ALPHABETICAL INDEX BY COUNTRIES

BELGIUM On the Tempo in Europe-Felix Morrow ................ Feb. 49

The Importance and Scope of Democratic Slogans The Vatican's New Line-Joseph Leonard .............. Aug. 188
(R) ........................................................................ May 152 Paris Peace Conference (E) .................................... Sept. 199
The Pa.ris Conference (E) .............. " ... ........... .... ...... Oct. 228
ENGLAND Paris Conference Another Zero (E) ........................ Nov. 259
England and Its Labor Government-Henry Judd .. Feb. 39 Politics of the International Working Class-H. J .. Nov. 284
Trieste-City Between Two Wor Ids (E) ................. , Dec. 293
FRANCE Politics of the International Working Class-H. J... Dec. 318
De Gaulle as Military Theoretician-Walter Jason Jan. 8
ITALY
The Crisis in France (E) .......................................... Feb. 35
France in 1946-Henry Judd .................................... ' Mar. 69 Report on Italy-Jack Armor ......................... ....... Nov. 282
Correspondence ........................ ,... '" ,..................... '" .. May 157
France Shifts to Right (E) ........................................ Aug. 167 PALESTINE
France's "No Exit" Sign (E) .................................... Dec. 295 For Self-Determination in Palestone (D) - Leon
Shields .................................................................. Aug. 180
GERMANY The Meaning of Self-Determination (D)-Albert
Politics in Occupied Germany-A. Jeffers ... Jan. 9 Gates .................................................................... Aug. 180
Germany's First Post-Nazi Election-Henry Mor- The Jews of Europe and Immigration to Palestine
rison ...................................................................... Mar. 81 (E) ........................................................................ Nov. 259
The Germanies-I-Henry Judd .............................. May 131 Assimilation Utopian; Self-Determination of the
Germany-Still the Key-Ria Stone and Willie May 154 Jews-Albert and Edward Findley ...................... Nov. 267
Gorman ............................................................... . No Immigration to Palestine; Arab Freedom the
The Germanies-II-Henry Judd ............................ Aug. 168 Main Issue-W. Brooks ...................................... Nov. 271
Correspondence-Roger Judson ................................ Aug. 192
The Myth of German Character-Shirley Lawrence Nov. 272 PHILIPPINES
Why the Germans Failed to Revolt (C)-H. Leder The Post-Liberation Struggle in the Philippines-
and Henry Judd .................................................. Nov. 277 Saul Berg .............................................................. Jan. 15

INDIA POLAND
The Indian Negotiations (E) ................................... Aug. 165 Problems of the Polish Revolution-A. Rudzienski Aug. 172
Behind the Hindu-Moslem Strife-Henry Judd Dec. 296 Poland's Political Pattern (E) ................................ Sept. 196
Resolution on "Pakistan"-Bolshevik-Leninists of Russian Imperialism in Poland-A. Rudzienski .... Sept. 215
India ...................................................................... Dec. 300
The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie-Suren Mo- RUSSIA
rarji ....................................................................... Dec. 301 The Stalinist Bureaucracy from the Inside-George
Stanley .................................................................. Jan. 19
INDONESIA The Eruption of Bureaucratic Imperialism-Daniel
Role of the Indonesian Leadership-Leon Shields. Mar. 87 Logan .................................................................... Mar. 74
Wartime Moscow (Interview) ....... .. .... ... ...... ..... ... .... Mar. 77
INTERNATIONAL Wartime Murmansk (Interview) ... .... ........ .... ....... .... Mar. 79
Politics of the International Working Class-James The New Russian Imperialism (E) .......................... Apr. 99
Fenwick ................................................................ Jan. 12 The Roots of Stalinism-Enrique Procuna ............ Apr. 103
To the Secretariat of the Fourth International- The Great Conspiracy Against the Revolution-
Felix Morrow ........................................................ Jan. 13 lack Weber .......................................................... May 145
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Correspondence-W. Brooks .................................... Aug. 191 Goldman's Replies to Questions-Albert Goldman .. Feb. 55
Reviewing "The New Course"-Irving Howe ........ Sept. 210 The Strike Settlements (E) ..................................... . Mar. 67
Trotsky's "Stalin"-Max Shachtman ........................ Oct. 229 Profits and the Housing Crisis-Miriam Gould ..... . Mar: ~ 83
After Ten Years-J. R. Johnson .............................. Oct. 236 Negroes and the Labor Movement-David Coolidge Mar. 89
A Note on the Defense and Nature of Stalinist Rus- Resolution on Organization and Tasks of the Par-
sia-Albert Goldman .......................................... Oct. 240 ty (D) .................................................................. Mar. 93
Kravchenko-Product of the Stalinist Era-Henry Technological Progress in Agriculture-G. H. Fa-
Judd ...................................................................... Oct. 248 hius ........................................................................ Apr. 116
Russia-Twenty-Nine Years After (E) .................... Nov. 262 Founding Principles of the Workers Party (D) ...... Apr. 124
The Basis of Workers' Democracy-Albert Gold- The Railroad Strike (E) ............................................ Aug. 163
man ...................................................................... Dec. 305 The Struggle on the Price Front (E) ........................ Sept. 195
The Nature of the Russian Economy-F. Forest.. .... Dec. 313
Welcome SWP Minority (E) .................................... Sept. 200
UNITED STATES American Literature Marches On-I-James T.
The Strike Wave (E) ................................................ Jan .. 3 Farrell .................................................................. Sept. 218
America's Role in Europe-Henry Judd .................. Jan. 5 Wage-Price Spiral and the Mood of the Workers .... Oct. 227
Lessons of the Detroit Elections-Martin Harvey.. Jan. 17
American Literature Marches On-II-James T.
On the WP-SWP Unity Negotiations (D) .............. Jan. 21
Farrell .................................................................. Oct. 243
The Farmers' Last Frontiers (BR)-Jim Black ...... Jan. 24
The Pope Needs America-James T. Farrell .......... Feb. 43 The Wallace Dismissal (E) ...................................... Nov. 262
Big Business in a Democracy' (BR) -Martin Har- The Republican Sweep (E) ...................................... Dec. 291
vey ........................................................................ Feb. 53 Cain's Movie-Tone Realism-James T. Farrell ...... Dec. 308

ALPHABETICAL INDEX BY SUBJECTS

AMERICAN LABOR AND POLITICS COLONIAL STRUGGLE

The Strike Wave (E) ............................... . Jan. 3 The Post-Liberation Struggle In the Philippines-
Lessons of the Detroit Elections-Martin Harvey. Jan. 17 Saul Berg ............................................................. . Jan. 15
The Strike Settlements (E) .... " ....... '" .................... .. Mar. 67 Role of the Indonesian Leadership-Leon Shields .. Mar. 87
Profits and the Housing Crisis-Miriam Gould Mar. 83 The Indian Negotiations (E) .................................. .. Aug. 165
Negroes and the Labor Movement-David Cool- Behind the Hindu-Moslem Strife-Henry Judd ..... .
idge .................................................................. . Mar. 89 The' Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie-Suren Mo- Dec. 296
The Railroad Strike (E) . .............. " ........... . Aug. 163 rarji .................................................................... . Dec. 301
The Struggle on the Price Front (E) Sept. 195
Wage-Price Spiral and the Mood of the Workers FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
(E) .................. .. .................................... . Oct. 227 Politics of the International Working Class-James
The Wallace Dismissal (E) Nov. 262 Fenwick ........................................ '" ..................... Jan. 12
The Republican Sweep (E) Dec. 291 To the Secretariat of the Fourth International-
BOOK REVIEWS Felix Morrow ...................................................... Jan. 13
The Farmers' Last Frontiers-Jim Black Jan. 24 Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution
Big Business in a Democracy-Martin Harvey ...... Feb. 53 (D)-J. R. Johnson ........................................... Jan. 25
Modern Man Is Obsolete-George W. Tobin .......... Apr. 112 Correspondence on IKD (C) .................................... Jan. 30
Prater Violet-Richard Stoker ................................ Apr. 118 On the Tempo in Europe-Felix Morrow .............. Feb. 49
For Thee the Best-Richard Stoker ........................ Apr. 119 Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution-
The Age of Jackson-Martin Harvey ...................... Apr. 119 II (D)-J. R Johnson ............... Feb. 59
Human Nature-Irving Howe ............... . Aug. 189 Sectarianism and Democratic Demands-E. Ger-
The Withering Away of the State-Irving Howe ...... Oct. 254 main May 150
Beatrice Webb-A. Victor ....................................... Oct. 255 The Importance and Scope of Democratic Slogans
Social-Democracy vs. Communism-Irving Howe .. Nov. 285 (R) ........................................................................ May 152
Our Threatened Values-Ricqard Stoker ................ Dec. 319 Setting the Record Straight-M. S. Oct. 247
CINEMA Politics of the International Working Class-H. J. Nov. 284
The Problem of Public Sensibility-James T. Far- Resolution on "Pakistan"-Bolshevik-Leninists of
rell ........................................................................ Aug. 183 India ...................................................................... Dec. 300
A Note on "The Open City"-Meyer Schapiro ........ Dec. 311 Politics of the International Working Class-H. J. Dec. 318
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JEWISH 9UESTION Class Nature of Stalinist Parties (R) -Emanuel
For Self-Determination in Palestine (D) - Leon Garrett .................................................................. Apr. 126
Shields ........................................... " ................ " .,. Aug. 180 The Great Conspiracy Against the Revolution-
The Meaning of Self-Determination (D)-Albert Jack Weber ............................................................ May 14.5
Gates ..................................................................... Aug. 180 Poland's Political Pattern (E) ................................ Sept. 196
The Jews of Europe and Immigration to Palestine Russian Imperialism in Poland-A. Rudzienski ...... Sept. 215
(E) ........................................................................ Nov. 259 A Note on the Defense and Nature of Stalinist Rus-
Free Immigration Everywhere; A Free Palestine sia-Albert Goldman .......................................... Oct. 240
with Majority Rule-Resolution of the Workers Kravchenko-Product .of the Stalinist Era-Henry
Party ................................................................... Nov. 264 Judd ...................................................................... Oct. 248
Assimilation Utopian; Self-Determination of the The Basis of Workers' Democracy-Albert Gold
Jews-Albert and Edward Findley .................... Nov. 267 man ..................................................................... Dec. 305
No Immigration to Palestine; Arab Freedom the The Nature of the Russian Economy-F. Forest.. .. Dec. 313
Main Issue-W. Brooks .... ~.................................. Nov. 271
LEON TROTSKY
Correspondence-Dave Corbin ..................... ~ .......... Nov. 286
Leon Trotsky and the Workers Party-Ernest Er
LITERATURE ber .......................................................................... Sept. 200
Stalinist Literary Discussion-James T. Farrell. Apr. 112 The Heroic Period of the Comintern-Albert Gates Sept. 205
A Comment on Literature and Morality-James T. Reviewing "The New Course"-Irving Howe ........ Sept. 210
Farrell ........................................................................ May 141 Trotsky's "Stalin"-Max Shachtman ...................... Oct. 229
After Ten Years-J. R. Johnson .............................. Oct. 236
American Literature Marches On-I-James T.
Farrell .................................................................. Sept. 218 WORKERS PARTY
American Literature Marches On-II-James T. Resolution on Organization and Tasks of the Party
Farrell ........................................... ...... ................. Oct. 243 (AR) .................................................................... Mar. 93
Cain's Movie-Tone Realism-James T. Farrell Dec. 308 Founding Principles of the Workers Party (AR) .... Apr. 124~

MISCELLANY Welcome SWP Minority (E) ....... " ..... " ................. Sept. 200
De Gaulle as Military Theoretician-Walter Jason .. Jan. 8 WPSWp UNITY
The Pope Needs America-James T. Farrell .......... Feb. 43 On the WPSWp Unity Negotiations ...................... Jan. 21
Women, Biology and Socialism-Miriam Gould ..... Feb. 46 Goldman's Replies to Questions-Albert Goldman .. Feb. 55
Luxemburg's Theory of Accumulation-I-F. For-
est .......................................................................... Apr. 107 WORLD POLITICS
Technical Progress in Agriculture-G. H. Fabius. Apr. 116 America's Role in Europe-Henry Judd ............. " ... Jan. 5
Luxemburg's Theory of Accumulation-II-F. For- Politics in Occupied Germany-A. Jeffers ." ........... Jan. 9
est ................................... May 137 The Crisis in France (E) .......................................... Feb. 35
The Politics of Psychoanalysis-Robert Stiler ........ Aug. 176 England and Its Labor Government-Henry Judd. Feb. 39
The Church Struggle Under Fascism-Leon Trot- France in 1946--Henry Judd ........................... Mar. 69
sky ........................................................................ Sept. 213 Germany's First PostNazi Election-Henry Mor-
The Timetable for Revolution-Leon Trotsky ........ Oct. 252 rison ...................................................................... Mar. 81
Russia, Twenty-Nine Years After .................. Nov. 262 The Germanies-J-Henry Judd ."..... May 131
The Myth of German Character-Shirley Lawrence Nov. 272 Germany-Still the Key-Ria Stone and Willie
Why the Germans Failed to Revolt (C)--H. Leder Gorman .................................................................. May 154
and Henry Judd .................. " .... "" ........................ Nov. 277 France Shifts to Right (E) ........................................ Aug. 167
The Germanies-II-Henry Judd ............................ Aug. 168
STALINISM
Problems of the Polish Revolution-A. Rudzienski Aug. 172
The Stalinist Bureaucracy from the Inside-George
Stanley .............................................. . 19 The Vatican's New Line-Joseph Leonard .... " Aug. 188
Jan.
The Eruption of Bureaucratic Imperialism-Dan- Paris Peace Conference (E) .................. "." ............. Sept. 199
iel Logan ....................................... . Mar. 74 The Paris Conference (E) .................................. " .... Oct. 22B
The New Russian Imperialism (E) .................... .. Apr. 99 Paris Conference: Another Zero (E) .......... "......... Nov. 259
The Roots of Stalinism-Enrique Procuna Apr. 103 Report on Italy-Jack Armor .. ,," .................. Nov. 282
Relationship of Program to Mass Influence-G Trieste-City Between Two Worlds (E) ." .... " .. Dec. 293
Munis .................................................................... Apr. 105 France's "No Exit" Sign (E) Dec. 295