![]() ![]() Owing, however, to the political backwardness of these masses, resulting from historic conditions, they are far from ready to join any outright revolutionary organization. The contention of the labor-partyites runs that the American toilers are “beginning to realize the need to separate from the bourgeois parties and to resort to independent political action in their own interests. Nothing reveals more clearly the utter fallacy and bankruptcy of those who call for the formation of an American labor party, than a speech by Alfred Bingham, Farmer-Laborite supporter and editor of Common Sense. The answer to this offensive and to the incipient fascist movement will be given by the increased militancy of the working class. of L., the Hearst anti-red campaign, the Sacramento criminal syndicalism case, etc. The offensive is apparent in the recent court decisions against the labor provisions of the NRA, the Roosevelt decision against the “prevailing wage”, the drive for company unions and against the A.F. The “white terror” of the bosses is intended to prevent the workers from fighting to regain lost ground in the matter of wages and living conditions. They are the symbols heralding the conversion or transformation of the capitalist offensive to terrorize the working class so as to stop further organizing of the unorganized, into a fascist mass movement. The danger to the proletariat from these elements can hardly be exaggerated. Butler resorted to a clever bit of advertising to permit him later to act completely in the interests of capitalist reaction under the halo of a great lover of democracy. The real motive of Butler in making his revelations concerning the attempt by Morgan interests to bribe him into leading and organizing a fascist movement here now becomes clear. To the forces of the Delta Dictator, Father Coughlin brings the aid of clerical reaction hiding under the pseudo-radical guise of “social justice”, and Smedley Butler contributes the strength of the military arm of reaction. Here we have a triple alliance of three demagogues who supplement each other in the possibilities of building up the mass basis for an American fascist movement. General Smedley Butler came out in hearty support of the “two lions” Long and Coughlin. Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’ Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).Īn item in the press recently, in connection with the General Johnson-Huey Long controversy, reveals a growing line-up of forces that may prove of the utmost danger to the working class. Jack Weber March of Events (16 March 1935)įrom The New Militant, Vol. Weber (Jacobs) Archive | Trotskyist Writers Index | ETOL Main Page Jack Weber: March of Events (16 March 1935)
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