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From The New International, Vol. XV No. 1, January 1949, p. 2.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
As Father Rice points out in his presentation (see debate in this issue), a long time has gone by since Marxism and Catholicism have been set up against each other in a debate between authoritative and recognized spokesmen for each ... We understand that back in the 1930s Father Rice also tilted with Clarence Hathaway, then editor of the Daily Worker, but from reports we gather it was not much of a debate: the Stalinists were then in the midst of their People’s Front period of the outstretched-hand-to-the-Catholic-Church, and Hathaway gave a good imitation of a salesman trying to avoid a difference of opinion with a customer ...
We suggest to our readers that their Catholic friends (and especially members of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists) would probably be interested to read the debate for themselves. Just to underline that there is no merely commercial motive in this suggestion (though what’s wrong with that?) we would add that it would even be a good thing to lend them the copy ...
As anyone can see, we’ve skipped the December issue, but as usual this does not affect the number of issues that subscribers receive.
The Memo in the last issue referred to the discussion bulletins now being published by the Workers Party in preparation for its coming national convention ... For interested readers, here are the leading contents of the Convention Discussion Bulletins so far issued (seven to date with more to come) ...
No. 1: National Committee statements on the party’s policy in the national election, on the Italian election, and on the Palestine war; article by Max Shachtman on ‘Party’ or ‘Propaganda Group’? ...
No. 3: Discussion articles on party perspectives; Letters to Comrades in Europe, by Shachtman ...
No. 4: Draft resolution on the international situation – Capitalism, Stalinism, and the Third World War ...
No. 5: Draft resolution on the Reconstruction of the Socialist International; draft resolution on the Slogan of an Independent Western Union; discussion articles on the Negro question, trade-union policy, etc. ...
No. 6: Minority amendments on the international resolution, and discussion articles on the same resolution; documents of the Bund (presented for information) on the Jewish question ...
No. 7: Draft resolution on the Situation in the United States and Our Next Tasks ...
The bulletins are fifteen cents each or $1.50 for a sub to ten issues ... Order direct from Workers Party, 4 Court Square, Long Island City 1, N.Y.
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