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From The New International, Vol. XIV No. 9, November 1948, pp. 258.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Max Shachtman, national chairman of the Workers Party, has been giving a series of four lectures in New York on contemporary political problems, and we are making plans to publish at least part of these contributions in The New International ... The first two were: The Russian Revolution – A Re-Evaluation, and Stalinism – Wave of the Future? ... The former is likely to appear next month ... Meanwhile, the continuation of his report on the Fourth International congress is pending ...
Definitely scheduled for next month’s issue are: Labor Politics and the City Machines, by William Barton, in which the author sets forth an interesting angle on American municipal politics; an article on the economic crisis in France and its consequences, by Henry Judd; and a number of book reviews which were crowded out of this issue.
Valentin Toma’s first promised newsletter from Eastern Europe and Russia’s satellite zone appears in this issue ... We are hoping to be able to make this a more or less regular feature of the magazine ...
The October 15 issue of La Batalla, organ of the Spanish POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unity), has some nice things to say about us which we pass on. Reviewing our July and August issues, it writes:
“Among the Marxist journals published in the world, we can say that none is comparable to The New International, with respect to the investigation and analysis of contemporary political problems. Every issue of this theoretical journal of the Workers Party supplies its readers with an assemblage of criticisms and interpretations on all political phenomena, economic developments and social events. On the basis of its contributions, every militant interested in theoretical study can arrive at his own orientation and conclusions on all these questions.”
... However, it is not modesty which causes us to make demurral at the word “all” in “all political phenomena,” etc. But we would like to deserve this compliment, and shall try to deserve it indeed ...
The draft resolutions for the forthcoming national convention of the Workers Party are being issued in mimeographed bulletins for pre-convention discussion. Interested readers can obtain them by writing to the Workers Party, 4 Court Square, Long Island City 1, New York. Most of them are fifteen cents each.
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