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From New International, Vol. 4 No. 3, March 1938, p. 95.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
ON PAGE 42 of the February issue, James P. Cannon, writing on the Chicago convention of the new party, said: “The resolution of the National Committee, which calls for the unconditional defense of the Soviet Union against imperialist attack – a position which necessarily presupposes an uncompromising struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy in war or peace – was adopted by a vote of 66 against 3 for one minority position and 2 for another.” Attention has been called to the possibility that some readers may gain the impression that the difference between the National Committee resolution and that of the NC Minority related primarily to the question of defense of the Soviet Union. If the author has inadvertently made such an interpretation possible, he requests that it be corrected. The NC Minority resolution expressed itself in favor of defense of the Soviet Union from imperialist attack. It differed with the Majority resolution essentially on the question of the nature of the Soviet state.
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