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* What is Communism? / [Paul Mattick] [Offprinted as What Communism really is, 1936]
* The U.W.P. Groups / [Paul Mattick]
* Forthcoming Articles in the Council Correspondence
* For Those who read German* Future of the German Labor Movement
* Unity for What? Communist League and the American Workers Party Move to Form New Party
* We Wish to Announce: A Monthly Organ of The International Communist Workers' Council Movement. "Living Marxism"
* The Strike Wave

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-"The permanent crisis": Henryk Grossman's interpretation of Marx's theory of capitalist accumulation

-The struggle against the reduction of unemployed relief in Amsterdam (From Raetekorrespondenz #4 of the Group of International Communists of Holland)

-The class struggle in Spain

-Upton Sinclair on the road to fascism?

-Home coming: the end of the Trotsky movement

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-Theses on Bolshevism

-What's behind the "New Deal"?

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-The Babbitts have a program: on the program of the National Association of Manufacturers

-Capitalism and planning

-On the new program of the "American Workers Party" by Karl Korsch

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-Leninism or Marxism by Rosa Luxemburg

-The American Federation of Labor and the present crisis

-Marxism without doctors: review of The inevitability of communism by Paul Mattick

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-Daniel DeLeon by Kristen Svanum

-Capitalism's conservation corps.

-The scum of humanity

-A.F. of L. and administration break

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-The bases of Japanese imperialism

-Workers' councils and communist organization of economy

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-Revolutionary Marxism

-The next world crisis, the second world war and the world revolution: a thesis

-Discussion on thesis by Karl Korsch

-Capturing the A.F. of L.

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-The Americanizing of Marxism

-Marxism and anarchism

-The Franco-Russian pact

-Inflation

-Marxism as a religion

-Guy Aldred's "mission"

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-The rise of a new labor movement

-The class "in itself" and the class "for itself"

-National socialism

-The struggle for democratic rights

-Class struggle and communism

-The self-movement of the masses

-The new labor movement

-Party or "work groups"

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-Germany today

-National Bolshevism

-The Brussels conference

-The competitors of fascism

-From the "dictatorship" to the "People's government"

-The Belgian success

-The triumph of the united front

-The last Congress of the Communist International

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-Revolutionary parliamentarism

-Anti-parliamentarism and council communism

-Report from Denmark: 22nd Congress of the D.S.P.

-The Third International in the opinion of the bourgeoisie

-Critical remarks concerning "The rise of a new labor movement" by H.W.

-The intellectuals

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-The Breathing Spell [on cover: Will there be prosperity?] / [Paul Mattick]
-The Lenin Legend / [Paul Mattick]
-On the resolution adopted by the Brussels Conference
-Please Notice
-Portrait of the Counter-Revolution

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-Notes on the War Question / [Paul Mattick]
-Please Notice
-Trade-Unionism, by J.H. [=Anton Pannekoek]
-Problems of the New Labor Movement / [Paul Mattick]

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-The Development of Soviet Russia’s Foreign Policy / [by “Marxistisk Arbejder Politik”]
The Period of the Revolution
The First Defeat of the Bolshevik’s Foreign Policy
The Period of Civil War
The Turn Towards National Self-Assertion
Entering International Diplomacy
Russia Becomes a Factor of International World Politics
The Pacification of Russia’s Western Policy
Russia Turns East
The Betrayal of the Chinese Workers Revolution
On the Way to the “League of Nations”
Peace Diplomacy in the World Crisis of Capitalism
Entry into the League of Nations
The Inner-Political Presuppositions of the Latest Phase of Russian Foreign Policy
The Liquidation of the Comintern
Conclusion
-Current Trends in Czechoslovakia / [Paul Mattick]

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•Election Year / [Paul Mattick]
1. 2. 3.
•Forthcoming Articles in the Council Correspondence
•The Miner’s Strike in Belgium
◦The Situation before the Strike
◦The Strike
◦The Trade-Unions choke the Strike
◦The State Participates
◦Conclusion
•Boom with Twelve Million Unemployed
•The “Victory” in Spain
•Marx on Social Reform
•Workers’ Councils, by J.H. [=Anton Pannekoek]
•[Quote from Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire]
•Book Reviews / [Paul Mattick]
◦Conze, Edward – The Scientific Method of Thinking. An Introduction to Dialectical Materialism. Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, 1935
◦Uphoff, Walter, H. – The Kohler Strike. Its Socio-Economic Causes and Effects. – Chas. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, 1935

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•The Power of the Classes, by J.H. [=Anton Pannekoek]
◦I.
◦II.
•Communism and Religion [Anton Pannekoek]
◦I.
◦II.
◦III.
◦IV.
•Forthcoming Articles in the Council Correspondence
•Class Struggle in War (from Räte Korrespondenz)
◦Second World War Inevitable
◦The Ideological Preparation for the Second World War
◦The Jingoism of the “Working Class Movement”
◦National Independence and Leninism
◦The Fourth International (Trotzky Opposition) and “Leninism”
◦Prevention of the War
◦The Enemy is within the Country

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•On the Communist Party, by J.H. [=Anton Pannekoek]
◦I.
◦II.
•The Dictatorship of the Intellectuals (Critical Remarks on the Reflections of Max Nomad) / P.M. [=Paul Mattick]
◦I.
◦II.
◦III.
◦IV.
◦V.

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•The Defeat in France / [Paul Mattick]
•Notice
•The Role of Fascism, by J.H. [=Anton Pannekoek]
◦[I.]
◦II.
•Luxemburg versus Lenin / [Paul Mattick]
◦The Collapse of Capitalism
◦Spontaneity and the Role of Organisation

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•The Land of Promise. Report from Palestine [Tel-Aviv][=Walter Auerbach]
•Masters of Tomorrow, by Max Nomad [reply to Paul Mattick in International Council Correspondence, Vol. II, no 7]
◦I.
◦II. Fascism and Bolshevism
◦III. “Councils” and Soviets
◦IV. The Permanent Revolution
•The Party and the Working Class [Anton Pannekoek]

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The Civil War in Spain / [Paul Mattick]

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•Work Shop Committees in England (Leeds, England)
•On the Soviet Constitution (open letter to Feuchtwanger taken from the Sozialistische Warte of Aug. 15, 1936, by A. Rudolf, former Soviet official; author of Goodbye to Russia)
•What must be done? Introducing our new pamphlet What Communism Really Is (The Social Average Labor Time as the Basis of Communist Production and Distribution)
•To the Reader
•Max Nomad’s Masters of Tomorrow / P.M. [=Paul Mattick]
•To All the Workers in the World, by The National Confederation of Labor, The Iberian Anarchist Federation
•The “Popular Front” and Fascism
•Democracy in Russia
•Roosevelt's Prosperity

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-The era of good feeling: Roosevelt's second term

-State capitalism and dictatorship by Raete Korrespondenz

-The maritime strike by J.Z.

-A letter from Germany

-Notes on the question of unemployment

-To the right there is no limit

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-"Soviet" Russia today by Raetekorrespondenz

-Russia's latest executions: why?

-Fascist corporatism

-New strikes, new methods

-Two new Marxian quarterlies

-Review: Controlling depressions by Paul H. Douglas

-Review: The sociology of invention by S.C. Gilfillan

-Review: An outline history of unemployment by W.T. Colyer

-Review: Studies in the intellectual development of Karl Marx by Sidney Hook

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-The end of a strike

-Supreme Court reform: new bllod in the judiciary

-War prevention schemes

-What next in Spain

-The situation in England

-On fluctuation of wages

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-The brownshirts of Zionism by Abner Barnatan [=Walter Auerbach]

-Child labor: a class issue

-Wages and prices

-Shop delegates and workers' control

-Notes on productivity and profits

-Trotsky and proletarian dictatorship

CONTENST

-Much ado about nothing: the future of the CIO

-Control of markets and world capitalism

-"The barricades must be torn down": Moscow fascism in Spain

-Racketering: a phase of class conflict

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-The war in the Far East

-One year "People's Front" in France

-The old Hegelian dialectic and the new materialistic science

-The non-intervention comedy comes to an end in Spain

-Hitler's National "Socialism"

-Review: After the Revolution: economic reconstruction in Spain today by D.A. Santillan

-Review: The crisis and decline of capitalism by International Council Correspondence

-Review: Economic welfare by Oscar Newfang

-Review: An outline of finance by Arthur Woodburn

-Review: Social security by Abraham Epstein

-Review: Industrial unionism in the American labor movement by Theresa Wolfson and Abraham Weiss

-Review: The labor spy by Gordon Hopkins

-Review: John L. Lewis exposed by Eric Hass

-Review: The Soviets by Albert Rhys Williams

-Review: The letters of Lenin

-Review: The web of thought and action by H. Levy-Watts & Co.

-Review: Review: Earl Browder: Communist or tool of Wall Street by George Marlon

-Review: From Lenin to Stalin by Victor Serge

-Review: The Stalin school of falsification by Leon Trotsky

-Review: World revolution 1917-1936: the rise and fall of the Communist International by C.L.R. James

-Review: The national debt and government credit

-News notes on the CIO

CONTENTS

•Against the Stream
◦The Future of Unemployment. Unemployment and the Labor Market
◦Unemployment and Accumulation
◦Unemployment and the Unemployed
•Literature on Unemployment
•Planning New Depression (from the book “Karl Marx” by Karl Korsch)
•The Right to Work
•Marxism and Psychology / [Anton Pannekoek]
•Book Reviews
◦Reuben Osborn, Freud and Marx
◦Upton Sinclair, The Flivver King
◦Bruce Minton and John Stuart, Men Who Led Labor

CONTENTS

•Welcome the Depression
•A Bird in the Hand. Thurman W. Arnolds The Folklore of Capitalism
•The Marxist Ideology in Russia / l.h. [=Karl Korsch]
•The Simple and the Complex / H.
•What can the Unemployed do? (to be continued)
◦Unemployment and the Labor Movement in American History
◦Welfare and the Unemployed
◦“Self-Help” – The American Way
•Book Reviews
◦Spy Overhead, the Story of Industrial Espionage, by Clinch Calkins. The Labor Spy Racker, by Leo Huberman
◦Japan and Asia, by W.H. Chamberlin
◦Forty Years of American-Japanese Relations, by Foster Rhea Dulles
◦The Origin of American Intervention in North Russia (1918), by Leonid J. Strakhovsky
◦A Real New Deal, by Charles E. Carpenter
◦Science in the Light of Marxism (Die Wissenschaft im Lichte des Marxismus), by H. Wallon, M. Prenant, H. Mineur, J. Baby and others

CONTENTS

•German Fascism on the Offensive/ S.P.
•The Lorelei
•Economics and Politics in Revolutionary Spain / l.h. [=Karl Korsch]
•The Dominican Republic Solves its Unemployment Problem/ Fritz Hennsler
•What can the Unemployed Do? (to be continued)
◦Bootlegging of Coal in Pennsylvania
◦Beyond the Confines of Private Property
◦The Struggle against Bootlegging
◦The meaning of it all
◦What Bootlegging means for the Workers
◦Nationalization of Coal
•Book Reviews
◦America’s Stake in International Investments, The Brooking Institution
◦Caste and Class in a Southern Town, by John Dollard
◦America on Relief, by Marie Dresden Lane and Francis Steegmuller. Trends in Relief Expenditures, Works Progress Administration
◦This Question of Relief, Public Affairs Pamphlets

CONTENTS

•Organizations of the Unemployed (to be continued)
•The Masses and the Vanguard
•Communist Production and Distribution
•Marxism and the Present Task of the Proletarian Class Struggle / l.h. [=Karl Korsch]
•Southern Negroes
•Book Reviews
◦Eagle Forgotten. The Life of John Peter Altgeld, by Harry Barnard

CONTENTS

•The World War in the Making
◦Czechoslovakia – the Stepping Stone
◦The Future of the Danube
◦“They Dress Like Mourners, Yet Rejoice”
◦American “Isolation”
◦We Are All Marxists Now
•Lenin’s Philosophy (Some additional remarks to J. Harper’s recent criticism of Lenin’s book Materialism and Empirio-Ctiticism) / l.h. [=Karl Korsch
◦Leninism Goes West
◦Leninism versus Machism
◦The Present Impact of Lenin’s Materialistic Philosophy
•General Remarks on the Question of Organization / J. Harper [=Anton Pannekoek]
•A “Marxian” Approach to the Jewish Question
•The Workers' Alliance

CONTENTS

•The Jitterbugs (“Their Ecstacy is without content”, T.W. Adorno)
◦Hitler Lied!
◦Stalin and Hitler
◦The Peoples’ Front
◦Officials make Escape
•Union Unity?
•The Concentration Camp Grows
•Collectivization in Spain / Karl Korsch
•Marxism and Marginal Utility Economics
•Book Reviews
◦Karl Marx, by Karl Korsch
◦The School for Dictators, by Ignazio Silone / K.K. [=Karl Korsch]
◦The Story of the C.I.O., by Benjamin Stolberg. Labor’s New Millions, by Mary Heaton Vorse
◦Life of a rebel, by Angelica Balabanoff

CONTENTS

•Karl Kautsky, From Marx to Hitler
•The Struggle for Democracy
•Curbing Big Business? / P.W.
•Discussion. On the Impotence of Revolutionary Groups / Sam Moss
•Book Reviews
◦The State and the Socialist Revolution, by Martov
◦Mussolini’s Roman Empire, by Geoffroy T. Garrat
◦Apostles of Revolution, by Max Nomad
◦The Origin of the Inequality of the Social Classes, by Gunnar Landtman
◦American Labor, by Herbert Harris. Union of Their Own Choosing, by Robert R.R. Brooks
◦The New Deal in Action, by A.M. Schlesinger

CONTENTS

•Security With 403’s/ Paul Mattick and Walter Auerbach
◦What you ought to know about relief and WPA
◦The dream was short
◦The wonders of WPA
◦Why do these things happen?
◦Divide and rule
◦And your organizations?
◦What is to be done?
•On the Economic Theory of Socialism
•The Struggle against Fascism begins with the Struggle against Bolshevism/ Otto Ruehle
•Book Reviews
◦World Communism, a History of the Communist International, by F. Borkenau

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•War and Revolution / Karl Korsch
•Stages of Totalitarian Economy / H. Bruggers
•Two Men in a Boat – Not to Speak of the Eight Points / Paul Mattick
◦After the Debacle
◦Hitler as Peace Angel
◦You cannot Trust Hitler
◦British Imperialism: Old and New
◦The End of Appeasement
◦The Struggle for England
◦The German-Russian War
◦America-Germany-Japan
◦German Europe
◦Hitler’s “Secret” Weapon
◦The Atlantic Brenner
•Book Reviews
◦Workers Before and After Lenin. Fifty Years of Russian Labor, by Manya Gordon

CONTENTS

•Notes on History / Karl Korsch
◦The Ambiguities of Totalitarian Ideologies
◦The Old and the New Imperialism
◦Revolutionary and Counter/Revolutionary Aspects of Totalitarianism
◦The Historical Philosophy of Nazism
◦The age of Pan/Historism
◦Towards a New Function of Historical Knowledge
•Materialism and Historical Materialism / J. Harper [=Anton Pannekoek]
•Marxism and Empiricism. Preliminary Remarks / Fred
•The Heydrich Pattern / Alpha
•What Destroyed Democracy? An Analysis of Capitalist Technology / Julien Coffinet
•The Structure and Practice of Totalitarianism / K.K. [=Karl Korsch]
◦Why Behemoth?
◦The Legal Mind
◦Ideology versus History
◦The Native Returns
•The Marxian Dialectic and its Recent Critics (to be continued)
◦Introduction
◦I. Development of Bourgeois Science and Philosophy
◦[II.] Metaphysics and Empiricism
•Book Reviews
◦The Structure of the Nazi Economy, by Maxime Y. Sweezy. The Social Policy of Nazi Germany, by C.W. Gauillebaud / P.M. [=Paul Mattick]
◦Foundations of Modern World Society, by Linden A. Mauder / M.
◦The Nature of Modern Warfare, by Cyrill Falls / l.h. [=Karl Korsch]
◦Challenge to Karl Marx, by John Kenneth Turner/ Luenika [=Paul Mattick]

CONTENTS

•Wilson vs. Roosevelt: Reflection on a Charter / Dwight MacDonald
•A Historical View of Geopolitics / Karl Korsch
◦The Status of Geopolitik in the U.S.
◦The Historical Approach
◦From MacKinder to Haushofer
•The Bureaucratic Spirit / Sebastian Frank
•Marxism and Pragmatism / C.P. West
•Competition and Monopoly / Paul Mattick
•Philosophy and the State (continuation of The Marxian Dialectic and its Recent Critics, to be continued)
•Book Reviews
◦And Keep Your Powder Dry! An Anthropologist, by Margaret Mead / K.K. [=Karl Korsch]
◦Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm / Victor Serge
◦Make This the Last War, by Michael Straight / W.B.
◦The Silent War. The Underground Movement in Germany, by J.B. Jansen end Stefan Weyl / M.
◦The Principle of Power. The Great Crisis of History, by Guglielmo Ferrero / M.
◦Conditions of Peace, by Edward Hallet Carr / M.

CONTENTS

•Vladimir Korolenko / Rosa Luxemburg (July 1918), translated by Frieda Mattick
•The Modern Machiavellians / Paul Mattick
•Societal Implications of Russian Resistance / George Kimmelman
•Pragmatism: the Logic of Capitalism / C.P. West
•Book Reviews
Germany’s Master Plan. The Story of Industrial Offensive, by Joseph Borkin and Charles A. Welsh
In Defense of Marxism. Against the Petty-Bourgeois Opposition, by Leon Trotsky