MIA: Comintern Archive: CP Great Britain: The Labour Monthly (1930-)


The Labour Monthly

 


Editor: R. PALME DUTT
Contents By Issue
1930-


 
 
Vol. 12  January 1930  No. 1
Page 3 Notes of the Month:
THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, AMERICA AND THE SOVIET UNION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 14 Economic Struggles and the Minority Movement, G. Allison
Page 19 Communist Party Congress at Leeds, William Rust
Page 24 The Speech of the Prosecutor in the Meerut Case
Page 30 Capitalism and Class Struggle in Japan, Freda Utley
Page 42 A Reply, W.N. Ewer
Page 54 The Recent Events in South Africa, E.R. Roux
Page 58 World of Labour:—Germany—U.S.A.
Page 61 BOOK REVIEW:
The Basis of Marxist Philosophy

 

 
Vol. 12  February 1930  No. 2
Page 67 Notes of the Month:
DISARMAMENT PROPAGANDA AND WAR PREPARATION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 79 The World Crisis and Trade Unionism, John A. Mahon
Page 90 The Situation in Ireland, Thomas Bell
Page 97 The Speech of the Prosecutor in the Meerut Case
Page 106 Capitalism and Class Struggle in Japan, Freda Utley
Page 117 World of Labour:—South Africa—Germany
Page 121 BOOK REVIEWS:
Chartism and Marxism, Reg. Groves
A Dyspeptic Interpretation of Marx, Reg. Groves
Technique not Political Economy, H. S.

 

 
Vol. 12  March 1930  No. 3
Page 131 Notes of the Month:
UNEMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE WAR DANGER, R. Palme Dutt
Page 142 The New Role of the Minority Movement, John A. Mahon
Page 148 The Seamen’s Strike, F. Thompson
Page 151 Bible and Bayonet in Western Samoa, A. Eaglesham
Page 159 The Class Character of the Palestine Rising, J. B.
Page 167 The Workers’ Sports Movement, G. W. Sinfield
Page 172 Marx and the Labour Parliament of 1854, Reg. Groves
Page 177 The Speech of the Prosecutor in the Meerut Case
Page 184 World of Labour:—The Textile Situation in the U.S.A.—The Fight against Unemployment in Germany—Manifesto of the All-India T.U.C.
Page 190 Correspondence:
The Pauls’ Translation of Marx’ Capital

 

 
Vol. 12  April 1930  No. 4
Page 195 Notes of the Month:
THE ANTI-SOVIET WAR CAMPAIGN, R. Palme Dutt
Page 210 The Economic and Political Crisis, R. Page Arnot
Page 220 The Struggle Ahead of Us, Harry Pollitt
Page 226 Many are made Dizzy by Successes, J. Stalin
Page 232 Model Statutes for a Collective Farm
Page 237 Prepare for May 1, R. W. Robson
Page 242 The Class Character of the Palestine Rising, J. B.
Page 251 World of Labour:—New South Wales Coal Strike
Page 254 BOOK REVIEW:
Marxian Economics applied to Conditions To-day, W. H. W.

 

 
Vol. 12  May 1930  No. 5
Page 259 Notes of the Month:
MAY DAY AND THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 267 Some Lessons of the Woollen Textile Struggle, Clemens Dutt
Page 278 The Unemployed and May Day, Hugo Rathbone
Page 290 The Fight of the Engineering Workers, J. R. Scott
Page 298 Folded Arms!, Reg. Groves
Page 305 War and the National Question, N. Lenin
Page 316 World of Labour:—U.S.A.
Page 318 BOOK REVIEW:
The Early Intellectual Development of Karl Marx, H. C. S.

 

 
Vol. 12  June 1930  No. 6
Page 323 Notes of the Month:
THE INDIAN NATIONAL REVOLUTION, Clemens Dutt
Page 334 The Woollen Strike and the Struggle for Power, John A. Mahon
Page 339 Finance-Capital and the Coal Bill, D. J. Parsons
Page 348 The World Crisis in Textiles, Freda Utley
Page 356 The Revolt in Haiti, George Padmore
Page 367 The Negro Question, P. G.
Page 373 World of Labour:—Indo-China—The Revolt of Yen Bay
Page 375 BOOK REVIEWS:
Building Socialism in the Workers’ State, Maurice H. Dobb
A Gentile’s Survey of Zionism, R.F. Bridgeman
The Communist Manifesto, Reg. Groves

 

 
Vol. 12  July 1930  No. 7
Page 387 Notes of the Month:
THE SIMON COMMISSION REPORT, R. Page Arnot
Page 404 The Economic Crisis of British Imperialism, William Rust
Page 413 Who is this Gandhi?, Shapurji Saklatvala
Page 418 The Place of the Peasantry in the Indian Revolution, Hugo Rathbone
Page 429 The Growth of the Indian Strike Movement, 1919-29, Percy Glading
Page 435 Strike Experiences of the British Minority Movement, John A. Mahon
Page 442 World of Labour:India—Indo-China—France

 

 
Vol. 12  August 1930  No. 8
Page 451 “Disarmament”, N. Lenin
Page 461 The Present Crisis and the Move Towards War, L. Madyar
Page 470 The Intelligentsia and the War, Hugo Rathbone
Page 486 Modern Aeroplanes and the Next War, T. H. Wintringham
Page 492 “Preparedness” in the Border States, G. Allen Hutt
Page 498 The Attack on the German Workers, F. Heckert
Page 503 World of Labour:—Finland—Spain
Page 507 BOOK REVIEWS:
An Intimate Appreciation of Lenin, Wm. Gallacher
“Wilkes and Liberty”, Reg. Groves

 

 
Vol. 12  September 1930  No. 9
Page 515 Notes of the Month:
THE NEW EMPIRE SOCIALISM, R. Palme Dutt
Page 530 The Empire “Solution” for Unemployment, R. Page Arnot
Page 539 Faked Indian Statistics as Imperialist Propaganda Chattopadhyaya
Page 546 Lessons of the Seamen’s Struggle, Maurice Ferguson
Page 555 “The General Election in Canada, Stewart Smith
Page 558 A Revolutionary Municipal Policy, B. Mcintosh
Page 565 World of Labour:—Australia—A Year of the Labour Movement
Page 569 BOOK REVIEWS:
About a Certain “Experiment in Autobiography”, M. Pokrovsky
The Early Correspondence of Marx and Engels, L.F.W.

 

 
Vol. 12  October 1930  No. 10
Page 579 Notes of the Month:
TOWARDS UNITED WORKERS’ ADVANCE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 592 The Nottingham Trades Union Congress, Harry Pollitt
Page 603 The Meaning of the Labour Party Conference, William Rust
Page 609 Australia Under Orders, Hugo Rathbone
Page 617 The New Theatre in the Soviet Union, Tom Thomas
Page 625 The National Question in the U.S.S.R., J. Stalin
Page 632 World of Labour:—The French Textile Strike—The Mutiny in Meerut Jail—The Labour Movement in Indo-China
Page 638 BOOK REVIEWS:
Building Socialism in Soviet Turkestan, Clemens Dutt
Adventures of a Revolutionary “Hobo”, E.C.R.

 

 
Vol. 12  November 1930  No. 11
Page 643 Notes of the Month:
FASCISM, EMPIRE AND THE LABOUR PARTY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 657 Parties and Policies in Britain, William Rust
Page 663 Danger Ahead, Stewart Purkis
Page 670 Soviet Dumping and the Wheat Pools, Dan Richards
Page 676 Canada and the Empire, A. Morgan
Page 684 Writers on Soviet Russia, Marice H. Dobb
Page 689 The Working Class and the Novel, Harold Heslop
Page 693 World of Labour:—Seamen’s International—Spain—China
Page 699 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Dotage of the Hammonds, Reg. Groves
A Humanitarian Economist, H.R.

 

 
Vol. 12  December 1930  No. 12
Page 707 Notes of the Month:
THE NEW POLITICAL SITUATION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 720 The Indian Round-Table Conference, Shapurji Saklatvala
Page 725 The Soviet Farm-Worker, Joan Beauchamp
Page 733 The Crime of R101, T. H. Wintringham
Page 739 Canada and the Imperial Conference, Leslie Morris
Page 745 The New Wave of Revolt in Egypt, J.B. (Jerusalem)
Page 750 World of Labour:—Palestine
Page 753 BOOK REVIEWS:
Engels as Pioneer of Scientific Socialism, H.C.S.
Militant Materialism, G. A. Hutt


 
Vol. 13  January 1931  No. 1
Page 3 Notes of the Month:
1931 AND WAR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 17 South Wales and the Miners’ Struggle, Garfield Williams
Page 29 The Communist Party and the Whitechapel By-Election, Harry Pollitt
Page 35 The Mosley Manifesto, William Rust
Page 41 Parasitic Decay of British Imperialism, Hugo Rathbone
Page 54 The Meaning of Militant Materialism, N. Lenin
Page 63 World of Labour:—Spain

 

 
Vol. 13  February 1931  No. 2
Page 67 Notes of the Month:
EITHER—OR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 86 The Indian Round-Table Conference, Shapurji Saklatvala
Page 93 Impressions of South Wales, Tom Mann
Page 95 The Fight against Imperialism, R. Bridgeman
Page 100 Crisis—Conflict—Counter Offensive, William Joss
Page 103 British Finance-Capital in West Africa, George Padmore
Page 117 Strike Struggles in Australia, L. Sharkey
Page 123 World of Labour:—International Miners—Germany
Page 126 BOOK REVIEW:
The Workers Plan their Industry, H.C.S.

 

 
Vol. 13  March 1931  No. 3
Page 131 Notes of the Month:
THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 147 We must become Masters of Technique, J. Stalin
Page 155 The Workers’ Counter Offensive, William Rust
Page 162 The Cotton Weavers’ Struggle and Victory, H. Lee
Page 169 Engineering Workers, Be Prepared!, Jack Tanner
Page 175 Lessons of the Strike in South Wales, Ben Francis
Page 183 In Memory of the Paris Commune, V. I. Lenin
Page 187 BOOK REVIEWS:
Boughton on Bach, E.C.R.
The Broadcasting Babble Machine, B.W.

 

 
Vol. 13  April 1931  No. 4
Page 195 Notes of the Month:
LEFT SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM, R. Palme Dutt
Page 215 On the Eve of the Charter Convention, Harry Pollitt
Page 221 Organising “Slave Labour” in Britain, Fred Douglas
Page 228 Social Democracy and War on the Soviet Union, G. Allen Hutt
Page 237 Forced Labour in Africa, George Padmore
Page 248 British Workers and the World “Spartakiade”, Vic Farrant
Page 252 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Up-to-Date Fabian, Reg. Groves
The Anti-War Movement during the World War, R.P.

 

 
Vol. 13  May 1931  No. 5
Page 259 Notes of the Month:
INDIA, R. Palme Dutt
Page 275 The I.L.P. and “Moscow” Methods, Hugo Rathbone
Page 283 The Workers’ Charter Convention, John A. Mahon
Page 287 Revolt on the Railways, “Railworker”
Page 292 “Disarmament” and the Coming War, G. Allen Hutt
Page 300 From Fascism to Communism, Lieut. D. Scheringer
Page 303 The Indian National Congress, V. Chattopadhyaya
Page 308 Labour Imperialism and East Africa, George Padmore
Page 315 BOOK REVIEWS:
Marxism and Military Science, T. B.
“Who will Destroy Whom”—Socialism or Capitalism, G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 13  June 1931  No. 6
Page 323 Notes of the Month:
WAR MANOEUVRES, R. Palme Dutt
Page 339 Which Way Out of the Crisis?, William Rust
Page 344 Indian Mill-Owners Cry Halt!, Bernard Houghton
Page 352 Recent Events in Australia, Dan Richards
Page 358 The Attack on the Engineers, Edmund Frow
Page 366 Labour Imperialism and East Africa, George Padmore
Page 374 Marxism and the National Problem, J. Stalin
Page 381 World of Labour:—Burma
Page 383 BOOK REVIEW:
Population Theory and the Class Struggle, J. R. S.

 

 
Vol. 13  July 1931  No. 7
Frontispiece: The LABOUR MONTHLY in the May Day Demonstration, 1931
Page 387 An Appeal Page
Page 389 Notes of the Month:
1921-1931, R. Palme Dutt
Page 406 Messages of Greeting
Page 412 The Struggle for the Masses in Britain, A. Lozovsky
Page 415 British Economy and the Task of the LABOUR MONTHLY, E. Varga
Page 417 Ten Years, R. Page Arnot
Page 427 Cartoon
Page 428 A Decade of British Workers’ Struggle, William Rust
Page 431 Cartoon
Page 432 Ten Years of Economic Crisis, Hugo Rathbone
Page 440 The Royal Commission on Unemployment, William Gallacher
Page 444 Socialism versus the Labour Government, Joseph Southall
Page 447 Marx on Kautsky (with facsimile of Marx’ letter)
Page 453 Bourgeois History and Historical Materialism, D. S. Mirsky
Page 460 BOOK REVIEWS:
Lessons of the Paris Commune, H. C. S.
The Idealism of Industrial Peace, Rail Group

 

 
Vol. 13  August 1931  No. 8
Page 467 Notes of the Month:
WORLD CRISIS AND WAR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 485 August 1st, 1931, Harry Pollitt
Page 491 The Crisis in Germany, Maurice Dobb
Page 499 World War and Proletarian Revolution, Friedrich Engels
Page 502 The Mining Situation To-day, Ben Francis
Page 509 British Railways and Workers’ Struggle, Geo. Pennington
Page 515 Marxism and the National Problem, J. Stalin
Page 521 BOOK REVIEWS:
British Imperialism in Ireland, S. M.
The Final Stage of Karl Kautsky, G. Allen Hutt
A Typical British Trade Union, Reg. Groves

 

 
Vol. 13  September 1931  No. 9
Page 533 Notes of the Month:
TOWARDS NATIONAL COALITION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 551 The Bankruptcy of German Capitalism, J. L.
Page 558 The Metal Workers Face Fresh Struggles, P. Glading
Page 566 Left Wing Socialism and Communism:
    The I.L.P. and the Labour Party, Thomas Murray
    Where does the I.L.P. stand?, “S.”
Page 573 The Congress of Vienna, G. Allen Hutt
Page 580 Bernard Shaw, A. Lunacharsky
Page 583 Marxism and the National Problem, J. Stalin
Page 588 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Theory of the State, G. Allen Hutt
The Socialisation of Agriculture, H. W. G.

 

 
Vol. 13  October 1931  No. 10
Page 597 Notes of the Month:
THE GREAT TURNING POINT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 616 The Charter Fight against all Cuts, Harry Pollitt
Page 624 Britain and American Finance-Capital, Karl Radek
Page 629 British Imperialism at Bay, Hugo Rathbone
Page 636 The Second Round-Table Conference, Shapurji Saklatvala
Page 643 Aerial Supremacy, Tom Lincoln (Tom Wintringham)
Page 649 The Philosophical Discussion in the C.P.S.U. in 1930-31, D. S Mirsky

 

 
Vol. 13  November 1931  No. 11
Page 661 Notes of the Month:
THE MASS STRUGGLE AFTER THE ELECTION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 684 The Struggle and the Factories, J. Shields
Page 689 Left Wing Socialism and Communism:
    Money and the I.L.P., Hugo Rathbone
Page 702 Marx and Darwin, E. Kolman
Page 706 Marxism and the National Problem, J. Stalin
Page 713 World of Labour:—Britain—Germany—France—Italy

 

 
Vol. 13  December 1931  No. 12
Page 723 Our Conference
Page 725 Notes of the Month:
NEW PROBLEMS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 739 British Workers and the War in Manchuria, George Hardy
Left Wing Socialism and Communism:
Page 747     The Opposition in the I.L.P., William Rust
Page 756     The I.L.P. Waits to See, B. J. Boothroyd
Page 759 Organising the Fight against the Means Test, B. Woolley
Page 766 Tariffs and the Working Class, A. MacGregor
Page 777 The Workers Welfare League of India, K. S. Bhat
Page 780 Marxism and the National Problem, J. Stalin
Page 785 BOOK REVIEW:
The Anti-Imperialist Review, A. E. H.


 
Vol. 14  January 1932  No. 1
Page 5 Notes of the Month:
1932, R. Palme Dutt
Page 16 Concerning Our Revolution, V. I. Lenin
Page 20 The Government of Hunger and War, William Joss
Page 25 The Cotton Workers’ Fight, Ted Ainley
Page 34 Left Socialism and Communism:
    The I.L.P. is Social-Democracy, N. C. Soderland
Page 40 Growing Revolt in Japan, Nakata
Page 47 Intellectual Freedom and Communism, R. Rolland and A. Lunachaesky
Page 52 Report of Our Conference
Page 60 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Revolutionary Workers’ Struggle in History, H. C. S.
An Old Established Firm, W. R.
The Truth about the I.L.O., G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 14  February 1932  No. 2
Page 69 The Labour Monthly Conference—A Review
Page 83 After the Labour Monthly Conference
    I.  Conference Impressions and Ideas, Len Kaye
    II. R.P. DUTT’S Opening Letter to the Conference
Page 87 The Indian Masses Move Forward D. P. R. Gunawardena
Page 93 The Fourth Year of the Five-Year Plan, N. Ossinsky
Page 98 British Freedom, T. H. Wintringham
Page 103 The Sharpening Struggle in Canada, Sam Carr
Page 113 The Outlook of Bertrand Russell, D. S. Mirsky
Page 120 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Economic Position of Japan, N. N.
Baron Allen of Hurtwood, W. R.
Roy Repudiates his Past, K. A. W.
Another British “Marxist”, J. R. S.
The Shadow and the Reality in China, A. D.
A Lenin Bibliography, G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 14  March 1932  No. 3
Page 133 Notes of the Month:
THE WAR-PHASE OF THE WORLD CRISIS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 158 March 8th, 1932, N. Krupskaya
Page 162 Trade Unions and the Fight, Harry Pollitt
Page 170 Recent Economic Struggles and their Lessons, J. R. Campbell
Page 177 A Chinese Worker’s Letter
Page 180 Medicine in the Service of the Bourgeoisie, David I. Frost
Page 187 A Vital Sphere of Leninist Theory, G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 14  April 1932  No. 4
Page 197 Lenin’s Letter on the Hague Peace Conference
Page 202 The Imperialist War—Is Britain Neutral?, William Rust
Page 208 The Imperialist War-Makers and the Anti-Imperialist Struggle, Clemens Dutt
Page 217 An Interview with Gandhi, Charles Petrasch
Page 225 Imperialism “Tackles” the Indian Problem, K. Milani
Page 235 From Cosgrave to De Valera, Sean Murray
Page 240 Class against Class on May Day, Emile Burns
Page 243 The Second Five-Year Plan, J. R. Shanley
Page 249 BOOK REVIEWS:
A Study of the World’s Negro Toilers, H. R.
The Prince Calls Up the Youth Reserves, M. R.
An Open Conflict Inevitable, R. S.
Flights of Fact, N.W.F.Z.
A Working Class Writer’s Journal from Polish Ukraine, S. I.

 

 
Vol. 14  May 1932  No. 5
Page 261 The War Crisis
R.P. Dutt’s Letter to the Second LABOUR MONTHLY Conference
Page 270 Cartoon
Page 271 The Defence of the Fatherland, N. Lenin
Page 277 The War Front in the West, R. Bridgeman
Page 284 Cartoon
Page 285 The League of War, William Joss
Page 290 The War and the Social Democrats, T. H. Wintringham
Page 296 Cartoon
Page 297 The War and the Pacifists, Gore Graham
Page 306 The War and the Unemployed, Wal Hannington
Page 309 The Tolerant Revolutionaries, H. Lee
Page 313 “Left Imperialism” and the Negro Toilers, George Padmore
Page 320 The Second LABOUR MONTHLY Conference
Page 326 World of Labour:—U.S.A.—Poland
Page 330 BOOK REVIEWS:
Social Democracy Prepares for War, J. R. S.
Aldous Huxley Makes Munitions, J. P. D.
A Corner Store of Bolshevism, G. Allen Hutt
“Industrial Peace”, G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 14  June 1932  No. 6
Page 339 Notes of the Month:
A CRITICAL HOUR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 356 The War Front in the East, J. R. Shanley
Page 362 Ottawa and the Drive to War, Hugo Rathbone
Page 369 The Miners’ Fight for Seven Hours, Ed. Laughlin
Page 377 The First Bolshevik Workers’ Daily, Stephen Garry
Page 383 Mr. Wells Shows His Class, D. S. Mirsky
Page 388 Medicine in the Service of the Bourgeoisie:
    I.  A Further Contribution, E. A. Fidler
    II. A Reply, David I. Frost
Page 395 BOOK REVIEWS:
A Revolutionary Attitude to Religion, J. Y.
An Insoluble Problem—for Capitalism, E. B.
An Italian Traitor Surveys his Handiwork, T. B.
Potemkin and Invergordon, Len Wincott

 

 
Vol. 14  July 1932  No. 7
Page 405 Notes of the Month:
THE BURNING QUESTION OF WORKING-CLASS UNITY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 424 Advancing the Fight of the Unemployed, William Gallacher
Page 430 Germany at the Cross Roads, J. R. Campbell
Page 439 The Economic Situation of the German Peasantry, Paul Massing
Page 450 Kuomintang versus Soviets, A. Y.
Page 459 BOOK REVIEWS:
A Revolutionary Attitude to Religion, J. Y.
An Insoluble Problem—for Capitalism, E. B.
An Italian Traitor Surveys his Handiwork, T. B.

 

 
Vol. 14  August 1932  No. 8
Page 467 Notes of the Month:
ANTI-WAR DAY AND THE UNITED FRONT—LAUSANNE, GENEVA AND THE WAR CRISIS—THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE—THE I.L.P. CONFERENCE AT BRADFORD, R. Palme Dutt
Page 482 The Bradford I.L.P. Conference and After, Harry Pollitt
Page 491 The War on Ireland, William Rust
Page 497 Modern Weapons and Warfare, T. H. Wintringham
Page 505 1914-1932: To War Under Social Democracy!, N. C. Soderland
Page 511 The Struggles of the Cotton Workers, A Cotton Worker
Page 514 Kuomintang versus Soviets, A. Y.
Page 521 World of Labour
    BRITAIN: LABOUR MONTHLY Conference
    BELGIUM: The General Strike in the Mining Area

 

 
Vol. 14  September 1932  No. 9
Page 533 Notes of the Month:
THE I.L.P. AND REVOLUTION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 563 The I.L.P.—Has It Really Changed?, J. R. Campbell
Page 571 The Future of the I.L.P., An Ex-I.L.P.er
Page 577 The Newcastle Congress, W. Allen
Page 583 On Our Strategy and Tactics in Struggle against Fascism, Ernst Thaelmann
Page 591 BOOK REVIEW:
Lenin and the Conquest of Power, G. C. S.

 

 
Vol. 14  October 1932  No. 10
Page 595 Notes of the Month:
NEWCASTLE, LEICESTER AND THE RISING WAVE OF STRUGGLE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 615 Retreating from Communism?, Andrew Rothstein
Page 623 I.L.P. “Revolutionary Policy”—Discussion:
    I.  The Position of the I.L.P., Joesph Southall
    II. Converging Tracks?, W. Graham
Page 627 The Strike of the Belgian Miners, William Zak
Page 633 Theology and Science in the Period of Capitalist Decline, Gore Graham
Page 643 Marx and Engels on Ireland, T. A. Jackson
Page 649 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Hesitant Materialist, Clemens Hutt
The Inventions of Mr. Maxton, G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 14  November 1932  No. 11
Page 659 Notes of the Month:
TERRORISM, MASS STRUGGLE AND MILITANT UNITY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 676 Fifteen Years of Soviet Power, R. W. Robson
Page 681 Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Britain, Bob McIlhone
Page 686 The Strike of the Belgian Miners (concluded), William Zakn
Page 692 “Revolutionary Policy”—Discussion:
    I.   The Revolutionary Policy Committee and its Tasks, Len Marks
    II.  A Definition of “Revolutionary Policy”, Cyril Butler
    III. The I.L.P. and Revolution, A Former Maxtonite
Page 702 British Scientists and the World Crisis, B. Sc.
Page 710 Marx and Engels on Ireland, pt. II.
Page 716 BOOK REVIEWS:
Capitalist Housing and How to Fight it, D. G.
Misleading Humbug, N. C. S.
A Manual of World Revolution, S. G.

 

 
Vol. 14  December 1932  No. 12
Page 723 Notes of the Month:
LESSONS OF THE COMMUNIST CONGRESS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 737 The Communist Party Congress, William Rust
Page 743 Preparing Strike Action on the Railways, E. Woolley
Page 749 The Struggles of the Unemployed, Pat Devine
Page 755 I.L.P. “Revolutionary Policy”—Discussion :
    I.   Revolution and Political Realism, J. Middleton Murray
          Editorial Reply
    II.  Is There a Revolutionary Policy in the I.L.P.?, P. L. Dooley
Page 765 The Communal Award and Gandhi, Bernard Houghton
Page 769 Marx and Engels on Ireland, pt. III.
Page 776 BOOK REVIEW:
A Doctor who does not Diagnose, P. G. B.


 
Vol. 15  January 1933  No. 1
Page 3 Notes of the Month:
1933 AND ANGLO-AMERICAN ANTAGONISM, R. Palme Dutt
Page 23 The Manoeuvres of the T.U.C., Harry Pollitt
Page 31 I.L.P. “Revolutionary Policy&#8221—Discussion:
    I.  The Present Position of the I.L.P., Jack Gaster
    II. The Dilemma of I.L.P. Revolutionaries, D. Edwards
Page 40 Materialism and the Concept of Behaviour, L. H.
Page 46 Modern Weapons and Revolution, T. H. Wintringham
Page 53 Marx and Engels on Ireland IV.
Page 61 BOOK REVIEW:
The Philosophic Problem of Science, H. C. S.

 

 
Vol. 15  February 1933  No. 2
Page 67 Notes of the Month:
THE FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM AND THE DAILY STRUGGLE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 84 Dialectical Materialism and Natural Science, Clemens Dutt
Page 96 The Meerut Sentences, R. Page Arnot
Page 102 War and the Partition of China, R. Bridgeman
Page 111 How the League of Nations Works, An Eye-Witness
Page 116 Imperialism and the Split in Socialism, N. Lenin
Page 126 BOOK REVIEWS:
A Typical British Viceroy, S. S.
Trade Unions in the U.S.S.R., D. R.

 

 
Vol. 15  March 1933  No. 3
Page 133 Notes of the Month:
MARXISM AFTER FIFTY YEARS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 163 An Introduction to Marx and Engels, V. Adoratski
Page 170 How Lenin Studied Marx, N. Krupskaya
Page 182 Ideology in General, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Page 189 The Future of the Rank and File Movements, J. R. Campbell
Page 196 I.L.P. “Revolutionary Policy&#8221—Discussion:
    I.   Editorial Statement and LABOUR MONTHLY Conference Announcement
    II.  The Twenty-One Conditions of Admission to the Communist International
    III. The Marxism of the I.L.P., Bob McIlhone

 

 
Vol. 15  April 1933  No. 4
Page 211 Notes of the Month:
UNITED FRONT AND REVOLUTIONARY UNITY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 238 The I.L.P. Conference, William Rust
Page 244 The Belfast Railway Strike, William Cowe
Page 170 The German Situation, R. F. Andrews
Page 257 World of Labour:
BRITAIN:
LABOUR MONTHLY Conference on Revolutionary Policy
    I.  R.P. Dutt’s Letter
    II. Report of Conference
INTERNATIONAL: For the United Front against Fascism!
Page 270 BOOK REVIEW:
Lenin and the Masses, Harry Pollitt

 

 
Vol. 15  May 1933  No. 5
Page 275 Notes of the Month:
THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM, R. Palme Dutt
Page 302 The Ford Strikers Win a Victory, C. Berridge
Page 306 The Struggle in the South African Gold Mines, A South African Worker
Page 314 Medical Research for Hunger and War, D. R. Mortimer
Page 324 A Discussion of Dialectical Materialism, E. F. Carritt
Page 330 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Loot of China—Two Recipes, L. N. R.
“Snobbery with Violence”, J. B.
An Ignorant Account of Soviet Agriculture, J. B.
Who were the Molly Maguires?, A.B.F.W.

 

 
Vol. 15  June 1933  No. 6
Page 339 Notes of the Month:
THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 358 Revision of the Versailles Treaty, Karl Radek
Page 365 The World Economic Conference, Hugo Rathbone
Page 379 Revolutionary Trade Unionism in Action, E. Woolley
Page 383 A Discussion of Dialectical Materialism, E. F. Carritt
Page 392 Marx and Engels on India, pt. I

 

 
Vol. 15  July 1933  No. 7
Page 403 Notes of the Month:
THE INTERNATIONAL UNITED FRONT CAMPAIGN, R. Palme Dutt
Page 422 Towards a United Revolutionary Party, William Rust
Page 431 A Strike under Rank-and-File Leadership, Tom Roberts
Page 436 The German Trade Unions in the “Third Empire”, Max Petersen
Page 441 A Discussion of Dialectical Materialism:
    I., P. A. Sloan
    II., LL. Thomas
    III., Prof. H. Levy
Page 453 Marx and Engels on India, pt. II.
Page 458 World of Labour:
INTERNATIONAL: Documents on the United Front
(Announcement on opposite page)

 

 
Vol. 15  August 1933  No. 8
Page 469 Notes of the Month:
THE WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE AND WAR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 488 From Bernstein to Hitler, Fritz Heckert
Page 494 The I.L.P. and the Comintern, Bob Edwards
Page 498 Unity versus the Manoeuvres of Citrine & Co., John A. Mahon
Page 503 A Discussion of Dialectical Materialism:
    I., J. M. Hay
    II., T. A. Jackson
Page 512 Marx and Engels on India, pt. III.
Page 518 World of Labour:
IRELAND: Manifesto of the Communist Party of Ireland
Page 270 BOOK REVIEWS:
Small Storehouses of Leninism, A London Street Cell
One More Attempt to Patch It Up, “Bill the Busman”
The Rural Background of Socialist Construction, G. Allen Hutt
Who Shall Set Asunder?, Sh. S.

 

 
Vol. 15  September 1933  No. 9
Page 531 The Trades Union Congress, Fascism and War, J. R. Campbell
Page 543 Roosevelt’s New Deal, R. Page Arnot
Page 552 “Social-Credit” and the Petit-Bourgeoisie, Maurice Dobb
Page 558 For German Working-Class Unity!
Page 568 Dialectical Materialism and Communism, Rudas
Page 578 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement
(Announcement on opposite page)

 

 
Vol. 15  October 1933  No. 10
Page 597 Notes of the Month:
THE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND FASCISM, R. Palme Dutt
Page 618 Dictatorship at Brighton and Hastings, J. R. Campbell
Page 627 The Assyrians in Iraq, R. Bridgeman
Page 633 Dialectical Materialism and Communism (concluded), Rudas
Page 645 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement, 1879-95, pt. II.
Page 270 BOOK REVIEWS:
An Approach to Marxist Philosophy, J. G.
Ammunition on the Five Year Plan, Jas. B.

 

 
Vol. 15  November 1933  No. 11
Page 661 Notes of the Month:
THE INTERNATIONAL, R. Palme Dutt
Page 664 To Friends of THE LABOUR MONTHLY
Page 667 The New Attack and the Need for Unity, Harry Pollitt
Page 684 Is Queen Anne Dead?, N. B. Hunter
Page 691 The Gold Rush in Kenya, J. Kenyatta
Page 684 A Decade of China—1922-1932, G.L. Pu
Page 257 World of Labour:
GREAT BRITAIN: Documents on the United Front
Page 270 BOOK REVIEW:
Marxism and Economic Geography, J. R. S.

 

 
Vol. 15  December 1933  No. 12
Page 725 Notes of the Month:
WAR AND THE LABOUR PARTY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 744 Roosevelt Takes Up the Gauntlet, Hugo Rathbone
Page 753 The Events in Bechuanaland, “African”
Page 761 Trotsky on the Russian Revolution, Andrew Rothstein
Page 771 A Note on the Falsification of Engels’ Preface to Marx’s “Class Struggles in France”, R. Palme Dutt


 
Vol. 16  January 1934  No. 1
Page 5 Notes of the Month:
AFTER TEN YEARS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 25 Lenin, J. Stalin
Page 32 Features of the Labour Movement, V. I. Lenin
Page 36 The Meaning of the New Unemployment Bill, Wal Hannington
Page 44 A Robbery of the Public, Barry Dubow
Page 48 The Irish Labour Party and Fascism, Brian O’Neill
Page 53 World of Labour:
GREAT BRITAIN: Documents on the United Front
Page 57 BOOK REVIEWS:
From 1844 to 1934, R. Palme Dutt
Religion and Communism, R. W. B.
A Bolshevik at Work, G. W. M.

 

 
Vol. 16  February 1934  No. 2
Page 69 Notes of the Month:
THE NATIONAL MARCH AND CONGRESS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 85 The Powder Magazine in the Far East, W. M. Holmes
Page 90 Towards the I.L.P. Easter Conference
    I.—Trends in the I.L.P., Eric Whalley
    II.—The International Question, “Observer”
Page 101 Crisis and the Way Forward in Woollens, D. Wilson
Page 109 Strike Struggles in Birmingham, Sam Shelton
Page 114 American Farmers Ride into Action, Josephine Herbst
Page 120 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement, 1879-1895—IV
Page 127 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Youth in Two Worlds, A. J. W.
Dictatorship and the Commune, D. G.

 

 
Vol. 16  March 1934  No. 3
Page 131 Notes of the Month:
THE I.L.P. CHOICE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 144 A Poem—The Test, T. H. Wintringham
Page 145 General Strike and Uprising in Austria, H. Rathbone
Page 153 Stavisky—A Portent, Frank Jellinek
Page 161 Who Fights Against Starvation?, E. Woolley
Page 165 Successes in the Scottish Miners’ Struggles, Abe Moffatt
Page 173 The Background in India, Ben Bradley
Page 178 William Morris versus the Morris Myth, R. Page Arnot
Page 185 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement, 1879-1895—V

 

 
Vol. 16  April 1934  No. 4
Page 195 Notes of the Month:
WITHER 1934?, R. Palme Dutt
Page 220 After the Congress of Action, William Rust
Page 225 The Congress of Action and Youth in Industry, John Gollan
Page 233 Austria and the Art of Insurrection, Thomas Allen
Page 239 China and the Policy of the Kuomintang, Lao Liu
Page 245 The Struggle against Fascism, A. Layne
Page 249 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement, 1879-1895—VI
Page 254 BOOK REVIEWS:
Morris Biographized, R. Palme Dutt
A Very Superficial Survey, G. Allen Hutt
More than a Guide Book, G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 16  May 1934  No. 5
Page 259 Notes of the Month:
MAY DAY, 1934, R. Palme Dutt
Page 273 The Conference of the I.L.P. and After, Eric Whalley
Page 280 Towards the Counter-Offensive, John A. Mahon
Page 287 Speeding Up Engineering To-day, Arthur Edgar Upton
Page 295 Railways and the Struggle Against Fascism, R. Darwen
Page 303 Terror in Cyprus, Evdoros Joannides
Page 308 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement, 1879-1895—VII
(Including Engels on the first May Day in Britain)
Page 314 BOOK REVIEWS:
British Fascism, R. Palme Dutt
Metal Fatigue—or Sabotage?, A. J. W.
The Plaint of a Social Fascist, R. S.

 

 
Vol. 16  June 1934  No. 6
Page 325 Notes of the Month:
THE RACE TO WAR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 341 The May Day Strike at Lucas, E. Woolley
Page 346 The Struggle of the Indian Textile Workers, M. Singh
Page 353 Letter to the Austrian Workers, Georgi Dimitrov
Page 365 The Bankruptcy of Trotskyism, L. Magyar
Page 373 Now They are Madmen, Ilya Ehrenbourg
Page 380 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement, 1879-1895—VIII

 

 
Vol. 16  July 1934  No. 7
Page 387 Notes of the Month:
THE ANTI-FASCIST FRONT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 403 The Meaning of the Sedition Bill, “Barrister-at-Law”
Page 413 The Hays Wharf Strike, John A. Mahon
Page 418 The “New Deal” Swindle, Harry Gannes
Page 428 Japanese Imperialism and the Open Door in China, Yu-Sun
Page 432 “Marxism” in Caricature, R. Palme Dutt
Page 440 BOOK REVIEWS:
R.P.D. on Fascism and Social Revolution, George Allison
Two Views of Roosevelt, John Strachey
World Communists in Session, B. W.

 

 
Vol. 16  August 1934  No. 8
Page 451 Notes of the Month:
THE FIGHT AGAINST WAR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 465 A Questionnaire on War:
    I.—Report and Analysis
    II.—Representative Replies
    III.—Extracts from other Replies
Page 488 1914 and 1934, R. Page Arnot
Page 497 War from the Air, T. H. Wintringham
Page 502 The 30th of June and the Revolutionary Development in Germany, Ernst Henri

 

 
Vol. 16  September 1934  No. 9
Page 515 The Financial Position of the Labour Monthly
Page 519 Notes of the Month:
NEW ISSUES, R. Palme Dutt
Page 536 The Trades Union Congress and the United Front, John A. Mahon
Page 545 The New Political Perspectives in Germany, Ernst Henri
Page 555 A Questionnaire on War (concluded):
    I.—Introductory Note
    II.—Representative Replies
    III.—Extracts from other Replies
Page 563 Dialectical Materialism and Communism—A Postscript, L. Rudas
Page 573 World of Labour:
The United Front Pact between the French Socialist and Communist Parties

 

 
Vol. 16  October 1934  No. 10
Page 579 The Labour Monthly Debt Fund and Guarantee Fund Page
Page 583 Notes of the Month:
THE ANTI-FASCIST FRONT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 599 The T.U.C., Labour Party and Fascism, J. Shields
Page 607 The Prospects of the Anti-Fascist Struggle, John Strachey
Page 613 The Progress of the Sedition Bill, Ronald Kidd
Page 621 World of Labour:
Documents on the United Front in France and Italy
Page 627 War and the Fighting Instinct, Havelock Ellis
Page 629 Marx and Engels on the British Working-Class Movement, 1879-1895—IX
Page 633 BOOK REVIEWS:
Lenin on Britain, W. R.
Co-operation in the U.S.S.R., G. F.
Problems of Socialist Evasion, P. A. T.

 

 
Vol. 16  November 1934  No. 11
Page 643 Our Financial Appeal
Page 647 Notes of the Month:
THE UNITED FRONT AND THE LABOUR PARTY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 662 A Threat to Ban the Labour Monthly in South Africa
Page 663 The Labour Party prepares for War, R. F. Andrews
Page 675 The Socialist League. What next?, William Rust
Page 680 The Spanish Civil War, R. Page Arnot
Page 686 The Republican Congress and Ireland’s Fight, J. Shields
Page 692 Dialectical Materialism and Communism—A Postscript
    I.—A Reply to Rudas, E. Conze
    II.—Conze Answered, L. Rudas
Page 696 BOOK REVIEWS:
Politics of the Socialist League, R. Palme Dutt
How not to Fight War, T. H. Wintringham
A Partial Exposure of Idealism, P. A. S.

 

 
Vol. 16  December 1934  No. 12
Page 705 Our Financial Appeal
Page 711 Notes of the Month:
THE FIGHT FOR THE UNITED FRONT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 728 The Next Steps in the Fight against Fascism, George Allison
Page 735 Muzzling the League of Youth, John Gollan
Page 739 Councils of Action in Spain, “Special Correspondent”
Page 744 Agriculture and Industry in Ireland, George Gilmore
Page 749 Marx and Engels on the British Working Class Movement, 1879-1895—X
Page 757 BOOK REVIEW:
Towards the Misunderstanding of Marx, P. A. S.


 
Vol. 17  January 1935  No. 1
Page 5 Notes of the Month:
DANGERS AND HOPES FOR 1935, R. Palme Dutt
Page 20 The New Deal for India, Reginald Bridgeman
Page 30 A Voice from the Labour Party, H. Brierley
Page 32 Dr. Schacht to the Rescue, R. Brown
Page 39 Agriculture and Industry in Ireland, George Gilmore
Page 47 On the Junius Pamphlet, V. I. Lenin
Page 54 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Letters of Marx and Engels, R. Page Arnot
At Once a Thinker and a Man of Action, W. R.
India as in Fact it is, Sh. Saklatvala
A Useful Study of Hitlerism, J. Gunther
Page 62 Our Financial Appeal

 

 
Vol. 17  February 1935  No. 2
Page 67 Our Financial Appeal
Page 69 Notes of the Month:
THE COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 88 The Naval Conversations, R. Page Arnot
Page 95 What I Saw in Spain (an interview), Leah Manning
Page 99 Brussels, Leeds and Transport House, E.D. Hunt
Page 107 The New Imperialist Strategy in India, Lester Hutchinson
Page 114 On the Junius Pamphlet (concluded), V.I. Lenin
Page 120 BOOK REVIEWS:
The War God’s Mercury, Dorothy Woodman
Where They are Curing Crime, D.N. Pritt, K.C.
A Useful Series to all Friends of the U.S.S.R., P. A. S.
Page 127 List of Past Issues of the LABOUR MONTHLY, containing articles by Marx, Engels and Lenin

 

 
Vol. 17  March 1935  No. 3
A Discussion of Trade Union Problems and Policy (see opposite)
Page 133 The Financial Position of the LABOUR MONTHLY
Page 137 Notes of the Month:
NEXT STEPS OF THE UNITED FRONT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 153 The National Government in Retreat, Wal Hannington
Page 159 The Communist Party in Congress, Bob McIlhone
Page 165 Fascism Drives to War, Bernard Schultz
Page 171 The Sixty-Six Per Cent. Background to the India Bill, Joan Beauchamp
Page 177 The Meaning of Sydney Hook, L. Rudas
Page 185 BOOK REVIEW:
A Critical Appraisal of the Left Review, Alick West
Page 188 Special Supplement:
The Labour Monthly United Front Conference:
    I. Introductory Analysis
    II. Report of Conference
    III. Summary of Conclusions

 

 
Vol. 17  April 1935  No. 4
A Second United Front Conference (announcement). (See inside Cover)
Page 203 A Warning
Page 205 Notes of the Month:
WAR MOVES, R. Palme Dutt
Page 221 Revolution or Reformism Faces the I.L.P. at Derby, R.F. Andrews
Page 227 The United Front in South Wales, W. Paynter
Page 232 The Cotton Industry and the Fascist Offensive in Lancashire, R. Palme Dutt
Page 243 A Discussion on Trade Union Problems and Policy
    I. A Union President
    II. A Miners’ Lodge Chairman
    III. A Railway Branch Secretary
    IV. A Durham Lodge Delegate
Page 249 The Meaning of Sydney Hook (cont.), L. Rudas
Page 257 BOOK REVIEWS:
Dimitrov, Storm Jameson
How it is Done, Bob McLennan
Whitewashing the Disarmament Conference, A. W.
Soviet Drama, Ivor Montagu
Toiler as a Workers’ Playwright, V. W.

 

 
Vol. 17  May 1935  No. 5
Page 267 How to Help the LABOUR MONTHLY
Page 269 Notes of the Month:
MAY DAY—BE PREPARED!, R. Palme Dutt
Page 285 British Imperialism’s War, “Observer”
Page 291 Mosley and Lancashire, William Rust
Page 300 India’s Fight against the India Bill, M. Muzaffar
Page 306 A Discussion on Trade Union Problems and Policy—II
    I. A Patternmakers’ Trades Council Delegate
    II. A Kent Miners’ Branch President
    III. A Yorkshire Miner
    IV. A Durham Lodge Chairman
Page 312 The Meaning of Sydney Hook (concluded), L. Rudas
Page 321 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Achievements of Chapayev, Tom Mann
Organised Confusion, W. G.
The Obituary of the Times, R. Palme Dutt
Back to “Homecrofting”!, P. G.

 

 
Vol. 17  June 1935  No. 6
Page 331 The LABOUR MONTHLY Appeals to You
Page 333 Notes of the Month:
WAR PREPAREDNESS AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 347 The I.L.P. at Derby, William Rust
Page 353 Lancashire—A “Desperate” Area, “A Group of Lanchaster Readers”
Page 359 Abyssinia—Italy’s Manchukuo?, J. W. Smith
Page 365 A Discussion on Trade Union Problems and Policy—III
    I. A Yorkshire Miner
    II. A London Labour Councillor
    III. A Scottish Pit Inspector
    IV. A Clerks Union Branch
    V. A National Committee Member
    VI. An Engineer’s Branch Secretary
Page 373 The Second Labour Monthly United Front Conference:
    I. Introductory Analysis
    II. Report of Conference
    III. Resolutions
Page 387 BOOK REVIEWS:
“Mens Sana in Corpore Sano”, Dr. Somerville Hastings
An Invigorating Interpretation of the Two Worlds, A. W.
A Useful Study of the Jewish Question, H. F.
A Landmark of Marxism, G. Allen Hutt

 

 
Vol. 17  July 1935  No. 7
Page 395 Stabilisation Means—Retreat
Page 397 Notes of the Month:
THE GENERAL ELECTION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 411 Present Phase of the Arms Race, T. H. Wintringham
Page 417 The Surrender of the Labour Party, John Strachey
Page 422 Manchester and War by W. BLACKBURN (Manchester District Committee, A.E.U.)
Page 425 The T.U.C. and Cotton (An Interview), “A Weavers’ Official”
Page 428 A Discussion on Trade Union Problems and Policy—IV
    I. An Announcement of a Discussion Conference
    II. Contributions to The Discussion
    III. A Woman Trade Union Staff Worker
    IV. A Tramwayman
    V. A Yorkshire Miner
    VI. A Railway Clerk’s Delegate
    VII. Tom Mann
    VIII. A Builders’ Divisional Council Member
    IX. A Durham Checkweigher
    X. A Trade Union Organiser
Page 440 Towards the People’s Front in France, “An Observer”
Page 445 BOOK REVIEWS:
A Valuable Study of the Capitalist Crisis, Emile Burns
Women in the Irish Struggle, V. S.
True to Type, W. R.
Japan on the Road to Fascism, M. B.
History Through Russell’s Spectacles, David Guest

 

 
Vol. 17  August 1935  No. 8
Page 459 The LABOUR MONTHLY Fund
Page 461 Twenty-one Years After, William Rust
Page 469 A Discussion on Trade Union Problems and Policy—V
    I. Contributions to the Discussion
      1. A Durham Lodge Chairman
      2. A Woodworker
      3. A Distributive Worker
      4. A Postal Worker
      5. A Railway Clerk
      6. A Youth Member of the Clerks
      7. An Upholsterers’ Organiser
      8. A Working Farmer
Page 481     II. A Preliminary Survey, John Mahon
Page 489 The Fourteenth of July in France—A Documentation
Page 493 West Africa and the Sedition Ordinances, S. R. Wood
Page 498 Frederick Engels, V. I. Lenin
Page 506 Engels and Science, J. D. Bernal
Page 514 BOOK REVIEW:
Engels’ Housing Question, E. Regan
Page 517 Report of the LABOUR MONTHLY Lancashire Conference

 

 
Vol. 17  September 1935  No. 9
Page 525 The Issues before the Trades Union Congress, William Rust
Page 532 Hands Off Abyssinia, J. M. Kenyatta
Page 537 Abyssinia—The Thieves Fall Out, Lester Hutchinson
Page 545 The Strike Movement in Road Passenger Transport, A. J. S.
Page 553 Towards French Trade Union Unity, Ralph Fox
Page 558 Marxism and Education, S. Bodington
Page 562 The I.L.P. and International Socialist Unity, J. Hanson
Page 569 BOOK REVIEWS:
Arms and Men, T. H. Wintringham
Rationalisation and its Effects, C. Hoyle
A Cheap Edition of Dutt’s “Fascism”, W. R.
Story Books for Workers’ Children, Joan Beauchamp
Plekhanov on Dialectical Materialism, O. E. B.
Page 581 A Reply to Emile Burns, John Strachey
Page 587 Stop Press Report of T.U. Policy Conference

 

 
Vol. 17  October 1935  No. 10
Page 587 A Warning—and the Way Out
Page 589 Notes of the Month:
THE NEW EMERGENCY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 610 Henri Barbusse: An Obituary
Page 611 The Seventh Congress of the Communist International, Harry Pollitt
Page 620 Abyssinia, Fascist War and the Labour Movement, John Mahon
Page 629 The Margate Trades Union Congress, J. B. Figgins
Page 637 Trade Union Conferences of the Labour Monthly: Report of the Discussions on War and Fascism
Page 647 BOOK REVIEW:
The Volcano of the Balkans, Doros Alastos

 

 
Vol. 17  November 1935  No. 11
Page 651 Our Financial Appeal
Page 653 Notes of the Month:
THE WAR ELECTION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 668 The Socialists, the War and the General Election, J. R. Campbell
Page 678 The Seventh Congress of the Communist International (concluded), Harry Pollitt
Page 685 A Decisive Step to World Trade Union Unity, W. Zak
Page 691 Cotton and the Left: A Reply to the Fascist Quarterly, William Rust
Page 697 The Background to the Canadian Elections, “Canadian Observer”
Page 703 Correspondence:
On the Nature of the Capitalist Crisis, “Interested”
Page 707 BOOK REVIEWS:
An Indictment of the Government’s Health Policy, “M.D.”
Enthusiastic but Still Lacking Understanding, Alick West
Housing in Manchester, E.R.
A Study of African Dancing, W.F.

 

 
Vol. 17  December 1935  No. 12
Page 715 Notes of the Month:
AFTER THE ELECTION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 732 British Foreign Policy, R. Page Arnot
Page 741 Why We Broke with the I.L.P., C.K. Cullen
Page 747 Why Rank and File Movements, E.D. Sheehan
Page 750 Henri Barbusse, Andre Marty
Page 762 Correspondence:
On the Application of Sanctions
Page 765 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Politics of the Fascist War, M.H. Dolph
American Capitalism Analysed, F.M.R
Page 775 Financial Appeal


 
Vol. 18  January 1936  No. 1
Page 3 Notes of the Month:
A LANDMARK OF THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 27 The Labour Party’s Future, William Rust
Page 34 The Miners’ Struggle in Notts., W.L. Ellis
Page 40 Thieves’ Cant, R. Page Arnot
Page 45 Iceland and British Imperialism, Einar Olgeirsson
Page 50 Backward Europe and Progressive Asia, V.I. Lenin
Page 52 Correspondence:
On Cotton and the Left
Page 53 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Three Great Crises, John Strachey
The Cotton Industry, H.S.
An Education Contrast, A.F.B.
The Man at the Wheel, W. Zak
“They Might Be Us”, Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Background to the Sino-Japanese Conflict, W. Chang
Page 63 The Financial Position

 

 
Vol. 18  February 1936  No. 2
Page 68 Shapurji Saklatvala: A Portrait and an Appreciation by the Editor
Page 69 Notes of the Month:
THE NEW INTERATATIONAL SITUATION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 82 The Fight for Unity in Parliament, William Gallacher, M.P.
Page 87 Problems of Labour Policy, David Freeman, R.F. St. John Reade, E. Shearer, Prof. G.E.G. Catlin
Page 97 The Communist Party and Unity, Harry Pollitt
Page 101 A. A. Purcell: A Champion of Working-Class Unity, John A. Mahon
Page 110 Notes on British Foreign Policy, George Graham
Page 120 The Miners’ Two Bob: A Review, Arthur Horner
Page 124 BOOK REVIEWS:
Breaking New Ground, P. Zinkin
How a Liberal turned to Revolution, P.B.
Social Implications of Modern Genetics, K.
Page 127 The Financial Appeal: A Record Print to Celebrate!

 

 
Vol. 18  March 1936  No. 3
Page 131 Problems of Labour Policy, Prof. Harold Laski, John Lewis, B. Sc., W. H. Bennett, and the editor of THE ROTHERHITHE LABOUR NEWS
Page 140 Unity in Lancashire, William Rust
Page 144 Some Questions of Unity in France, Maurice Thorez
Page 149 The Anti-Imperialist People’s Front in India, R. Palme Dutt and Ben Bradley
Page 161 The Problem of African Independence, H. Rathbone
Page 173 The Menace to World Peace in Mongolia, “Observer”
Page 177 The Stakhanov Movement, Andrew Rothstein
Page 184 BOOK REVIEWS:
An Indian on “The October Revolution”, V.D. Chitale
World Unemployment, F.W.B.
Two Working Class Novels, Alick West
Page 191 A Warning on Finance

 

 
Vol. 18  April 1936  No. 4
Page 195 Notes of the Month:
THE LABOUR PARTY DISCUSSION, R. Palme Dutt
Page 206 Problems of Labour Policy, R. McKinnon Wood, T.D. Smith, John Morris, and Leonard Wells
Page 214 On the Knife Edge, Aitken Ferguson
Page 221 Tom Mann, G. Allen Hutt
Page 227 Easter Week, 1916, Pat Devine
Page 237 The Problem of African Independence, (concluded)H. Rathbone
Page 250 BOOK REVIEWS:
Revolution and Freedom of Ideas, Montagu Slater
A Human Reforging, Tamara Rust
Wanted a Signpost, D.G.
Page 255 The Appeal Fund

 

 
Vol. 18  May 1936  No. 5
Page 259 Notes of the Month:
BRITAIN AND EUROPE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 269 Problems of Labour Policy, George Hicks, M.P.
Page 277 Problems of Trade Unionism in 1936, Arthur Horner
Page 282 Presidential Address to the Indian National Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru
Page 295 A Working-Class Peace Policy, Harry Pollitt
Page 316 BOOK REVIEWS:
Seeking the Cure for Mental Illness, Jonathan Kemp
Unravelling the Tangle, E.B.
Page 319 The Financial Appeal

 

 
Vol. 18  June 1936  No. 6
Page 323 The Financial Position of the Labour Monthly for 1936
Page 327 Notes of the Month:
THE PEOPLE’S FRONT, R. Palme Dutt
Page 340 Problems of Labour Policy, Aneurin Bevan, M.P., Rev. Richard Lee, Councillor A. E. Turpin, G. D. Miller and B. J. Chaplin
Page 353 Problems of Trade Unionism in 1936
      I. Rationalisation Problems, J. R. Campbell
      II. Printing Trade Questions, Gordon Hicks
Page 364 The Demand for Colonies, Gore Graham
Page 374 The Significance of the Stakhanov Movement, E. Woolley
Page 379 BOOK REVIEWS:
A Great Revolutionary Fighter, Tom Quelch
The Oldest British Colony—“A Study of Poverty”, P.G.
Behind the Scenes at Leipzig, W.R.
Facts on the Soviet Union, W.R.

 

 
Vol. 18  July 1936  No. 7
Page 387 Notes of the Month:
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 397 Fifteen Years of THE LABOUR MONTHLY, John Strachey
Page 400 The Congress of the International Federation of Trade Unions in London, John A. Mahon
Page 409 The Events in Palestine, “British Resident”
Page 418 Problems of Trade Unionism in 1936
      I., Bernard Sullivan (Tailors and Garment Workers
      II., James Barr (Patternmakers)
      III., Ted Hill (Boilermakers)
      VI., Norman Wiseman (Typographical Association)
Page 428 Problems of Labour Policy, Councillor H. Eastwood, Councillor R. Bland, Councillor Gilbert Treacher and L. Franklin-Vaile
Page 437 Engels and Darwin: Letter to Lavrov
Page 443 BOOK REVIEWS:
Living Marxism in Britain, R. Palme Dutt
The Problems of Nutrition, “A Doctor”
Page 454 The Result of the Special Birthday Appeal

 

 
Vol. 18  August 1936  No. 8
Special Peace Campaign Articles
Page 459 Notes of the Month:
THE WORLD PEACE CONGRESS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 471 British Labour and the Congress A Message from GEORGE HICKS, M.P.
Page 472 World Trade Unionists and the Struggle for Peace, John A. Mahon
Page 476 British Pro-Fascists at Montreux, Gore Graham
Page 481 For Peace or For Hitler?, Clemens Dutt
Page 488 Problems of Labour Policy, G. R. Strauss, M.P., L.C.C., Councillor Toni Regan, J. C. Daniels and William Rust
Page 504 Problems of Trade Unionism in 1936
      I., J. D. Lawrence (Amalgamated Engineering Union)
      II., Councillor W. Monslow (Assoc. Society of Engineers and Firemen)
      III., A Member of the Railway Clerks’ Association
      VI., J. Jacobs (Furnishing Trades Assoc.)
Page 519 The Financial Appeal

 

 
Vol. 18  September 1936  No. 9
Page 523 Notes of the Month:
BRITAIN AND SPAIN, R. Palme Dutt
Page 533 Spain Fights for Democracy, “U.H.P.”
Page 542 The First Six Days, “An Eye Witness”
Page 547 The World Congress for Peace at Brussels, Sir Norman Angell
Page 554 Problems of Trade Unionism
      I., Percy Allott (Shop Assistants’ Union)
      II., “N.U.J.” (National Union of Journalists)
      III., Eva Regan (Burnley Weavers’ Association)
Page 564 Problems of Labour Policy, E. A. Gower and Councillor George Hindle
Page 569 The Political Background of the Antikainen Trial, Harry Pollitt
Page 574 BOOK REVIEWS:
“World Politics”, Wm. Paul
A Worm’s Eye View of Russia, T. A. Jackson
A Forceful Record of Leadership, J.B.
Pre-Marxist Materialism, Jonathan Kemp
Pares on the New Russia, Tamara Rust
Page 583 The Financial Appeal

 

 
Vol. 18  October 1936  No. 10
Page 587 Notes of the Month:
TO THE DELEGATES OF THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 596 Before The Labour Party Conference, Will Lawther, M.P.
Page 600 The Situation in Spain, Senator Georg Branting
Page 605 The Results of the Plymouth Congress, Arthur Horner
Page 614 The Soviet Trial, R. Page Arnot
Page 619 The Strategy of the Foreign Office, Walter Scobell
Page 625 The Brussels Peace Congress
      I. A Message to the Congress, Romain Rolland
      II. Impressions of the Congress, J. Rowan (General Secretary, Electrical Trades Union)
      III. The Achievements of the Congress, Pat Sloan
Page 635 BOOK REVIEWS:
Left Nationalism in India, R. Palme Dutt
Diderot, J. Lough
A New League of Nations?, Clemens Dutt
Whose Law?, W.H.T.
A Marchers’ Novel, Aitken Ferguson
A Real “Fantasy”, Jonathan Kemp
Page 647 The Financial Appeal

 

 
Vol. 18  November 1936  No. 11
Page 651 Notes of the Month:
AFTER EDINBURGH, R. Palme Dutt
Page 665 The Labour Party Conference at Edinburgh, Harold J. Laski
Page 672 Labour and Rearmament, J. R. Campbell
Page 683 Is Palestine Prosperous?, “British Resident”
Page 693 The English Tradition, R. Page Arnot
Page 701 BOOK REVIEWS:
“Steel Battalion”, A. J. Cummings
A Liberal Exposes Italian Fascism, L.W.
Lenin the Pathfinder, Wm. Paul
The Health of the Mother, Dr. Janet Vaughan
A Still Dominant Type, W.R.
A Challenge to Prison Reformers, George Allison
Scrap the “Smaller House” System, H. R.
Page 711 The Financial Position

 

 
Vol. 18  December 1936  No. 12
Page 715 Notes of the Month:
THE FUTURE OF BRITISH POLITICS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 726 What Next after Edinburgh?, H. N. Brailsford
Page 731 A Discussion on Edinburgh, Harold J. Laski
Page 736 Spain and the Struggle for Peace, Clemens Dutt
Page 744 Lessons of the National March, Alfred M. Wall
Page 746 Greater London’s Industries—A Problem for Trade Unionism, J. R. Scott
Page 754 The All-People’s Front in China, Chen Ming Chu
Page 760 BOOK REVIEWS:
The Unemployed and their Marches, Aneurin Bevan, M.P.
Hitler and Eastern Europe, W.R.
Class Bias and History, H.E.P.
A Good Introduction to Marxian Socialism, J. R. Campbell
Page 769 The Financial Position—A Special Appeal to New and Old Readers


 
Vol. 19  January 1937  No. 1
Page 3 Notes of the Month:
WHICH WAY, R. Palme Dutt
Page 14 The United Front—and the People’s Front, G.D.H. Cole
Page 20 The Economics for a People’s Front, J. A. Hobson
Page 24 The Problem of the Distressed Areas, Wal Hannington
Page 31 The L.C.C. Elections, G.R. Strauss, M.P., L.C.C.
Page 38 Organising the Clothing Trades, Bernard Sullivan
Page 43 The New Soviet Constitution, Pat Sloan
Page 51 Shapurji Saklatvala, 1874-1936, Wm. Gallacher, M.P.
Page 54 Selected Letters, V. I. Lenin
Page 60 BOOK REVIEW:
Spain on our Doorstep, I. M.
Page 63 Financial Position—A New Year’s Suggestion

 

 
Vol. 19  February 1937  No. 2
Page 66 In Memory of Ralph Fox, R. Palme Dutt
Page 67 Notes of the Month:
THE UNITY CAMPAIGN, R. Palme Dutt
Page 78 Problems of Unity and the People’s Front:
United Front, Sir Stafford Cripps
Page 83 Towards Unity, W. J. R. Squance
Page 89 The People’s Front, Margery Corbett Ashby
Page 93 The Problem of the Distressed Areas (Concluded), Wal Hannington
Page 98 Presidential Address to the Indian National Congress at Faizpur, Jawaharlal Nehru
Page 108 Selected Letters, II., V. I. Lenin
Page 117 BOOK REVIEWS:
Mutiny in History, T. C.
A Faulty Study of De Valera, Brian O’Neill
Zionism and its Friends, Leslie Hutchinson
Ancient Greek Materialism, George Thomson
The Countryside Speaks, A. J. W.
Page 127 Financial Appeal

 

 
Vol. 19  March 1937  No. 3
Page 131 Notes of the Month:
UNITY OF WAR, R. Palme Dutt
Unity and the People’s Front:
Page 141       I.Unity and the Labour Party, Harold J. Laski
Page 147       II. Trade Unions and Unity, Harry Adams
Page 149       III. The People’s Front, G.D.H. Cole
Page 158 War Loans, Rearmament and Labour Policy, A.F. Papworth
Page 165 Hitler and Europe, Robert Dell
Page 169 Spain and the People’s Front, U.H.P.
Page 179 The Trotskyist Trial, R. Page Arnot
Page 187 BOOK REVIEWS:
Liberalism and Communism, Harry Pollitt
Lenin “Translated”, S. H.
Page 193 Report of LABOUR MONTHLY Conference on Problems of Unity and the People’s Front
Page 199 The Financial Appeal

 

 
Vol. 19  April 1937  No. 4
Page 203 Notes of the Month:
THE ARMS PLAN, R. Palme Dutt
Page 213 The Labour Party and the Arms Stampede, D. N. Pritt, K.C., M.P.
Page 217 Next Steps for a United Front, J. R. Campbell
Page 225 Towards the First of May, John A. Hamon
Page 229 The Indian Elections, Ben Bradley
Page 241 James Connolly: Some Reminiscences, Thomas Bell
Page 248 Selected Letters, V. I. Lenin
Page 253 BOOK REVIEWS:
Storming Heaven, Wm. Paul
The City of Moscow, C. H.
Hitler over the Balkans, Doros Alastos
The Ideas of Auguste Comte, J. Lough
Page 263 An Organ of Unity

 

 
Vol. 19  May 1937  No. 5
Page 267 Notes of the Month:
THE NEW ADVANCE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 277 Rearmament and the Labour Party, E. Shinwell, M.P.
Page 283 The Monarchy Fetish, T. A. Jackson
Page 287 Spain: The Record of Transport House, “U.H.P.”
Page 296 Civil Liberty, G.H.C. Bing
Page 302 “Left” Socialism and the People’s Front, J. R. Campbell
Page 313 Fascism in South Africa, Reginald Bridgeman
Page 317 BOOK REVIEWS:
Facing the Facts, G. Allen Hutt
Durham Miners, W. Allen
Heroism Victorious, Julius Jacobs
Eugene Pottier et “l’Internationale”, William Zak
Page 327 Students’ Fund

 

 
Vol. 19  June 1937  No. 6
Page 331 A Year of Progress
Page 335 Notes of the Month:
EMPIRE TALKS AND WAR, R. Palme Dutt
Page 348 Labour’s “Short Programme” and the Unity Campaign, G. R. Strauss, M.P.
Page 353 The Financial Consequences of Re-armament, John Knight
Page 359 Industry’s War Front Widens, H. S. Gordon
Page 363 The Fight of the Engineers, Arthur Edgar Upton
Page 366 Church “Unity”: With or Against the People?, “A Clergyman”
Page 375 New Zealand’s First Labour Government, C. G. Watson
Page 382 BOOK REVIEWS:
How Not to Write Communist History, G. Allen Hutt
Ireland’s Fight for Freedom, Pat Devine
Crisis-Curers, T. Campbell
Men of Goodwill, Jonathan Kemp

 

 
Vol. 19  July 1937  No. 7
Page 395 The Communist Party Congress:
THE NEXT STAGE IN THE FIGHT FOR UNITY, Harry Pollitt
Page 402 The Eden-Hitler Axis, Ivor Montagu
Page 411 Rearmament and Overproduction, John Knight
Page 416 The Industrial Advance and its Urgent Problems, John A. Mahon
Page 424 The Biennial Conference of the T. and G.W.U., A.F. Papworth
Page 426 Anglo-German Interests in Spain, Conrad Suden
Page 433 Psycho-Analysis and Marxism, J.D. Bernal
Page 438 For Socialism in Ceylon
Page 444 Lenin and Gorky. Letters
Page 448 BOOK REVIEWS:
Our Movement Since the War, John Strachey
Palestine: The Imperialist View, “British Resident”
The Novel To-day, Alick West
History of the C.P.G.B.—A Statement
Page 455 A Flying Start

 

 
Vol. 19  August 1937  No. 8
Page 459 A New Advance to Unity, William Rust
Page 465 The Palestine Report, “British Resident”
Page 473 The Poisoned Peace, Richard Goodman
Page 480 Purge or Progress in the Trade Unions, G. Allen Hutt
Page 487 The Rising Cost of Living, Rose Smith
Page 491 Rearmament, Capitalist Planning and the Deformation of Capitalist Economy, John Knight
Page 497 The Soviet Union and the World To-day, Gore Graham
Page 503 Immigrant Plantation Labour in Ceylon
Page 507 Lenin and Gorky. Letters
Page 512 BOOK REVIEWS:
Towards a Marxist Philosophy, T. A. Jackson
The American Labour Scene, Pat Devine
The Condition of Britain, W. Joss

 

 
Vol. 19  September 1937  No. 9
Page 523 The Norwich Trade Union Congress, John A. MAhon
Page 534 The Abdication of the Labour Party, John Strachey
Page 541 China—The Second Phase, Richard Goodman
Page 548 Catalonia & Communism, Juan Comorera
Page 560 Holidays with Pay: A Vital Issue, H. S. Gordon
Page 564 Rearmament & Labour Conditions, John Knight
Page 570 Lenin and Gorky. Letters
Page 577 BOOK REVIEWS:
Africa: A Confused Argument, Reginald Bridgeman
Forerunner of Dialectical Materialism, R. Pascal
Women To-day, Tamara Rust
A Book with a Purpose, T. Campbell
The Struggle for Peace, Gore Graham

 

 
Vol. 19  October 1937  No. 10
Page 587 Notes of the Month:
NORWICH, BOURNEMOUTH & AFTER, R. Palme Dutt
Page 602 What Next in Britain, Harry Pollitt
Page 609 The Struggle for Anti-Fascist Unity in Spain, John Langdon-Davies
Page 621 Norwich and the National Government, J. R. Shanley
Page 624 Labour and Armaments, M.P.
Page 634 International Consequences of Rearmament, John Knight
Page 639 Correspondence: New Zealand’s First Labour Government
Page 642 BOOK REVIEWS:
Lenin’s Selected Works, William Rust
Mathematics, David Guest
The War on Truth, Edward Charles
A Newspaper Man in Italy, L. W.

 

 
Vol. 19  November 1937  No. 11
Page 651 Notes of the Month:
THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY AND THE BOURNEMOUTH LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE, R. Palme Dutt
Page 665 Twenty Years of Soviet Power, R. Page Arnot
Page 670 1917-1937: Anniversary Greetings, Harry Pollitt, Ebby Edwards, G.D.H. Cole, Norman Angell, George Hicks, M.P., Luke Fawcett, D.N. Pritt, K.C., M.P., Alex Gossip, Alfred M. Wall, John Dagger, M.P., William Gallacher, M.P.
Page 677 Bournemouth and After, Professor Shelly Wang
Page 682 Labour and Armaments, M.P.
Page 690 Gymnastics at Geneva, “A League Observer”
Page 699 Lenin and Gorky. Letters
Page 704 BOOK REVIEWS:
Background to China’s Unity, Marjorie Pollitt
Cromwell and the English Middle Class Revolution, Christopher Hill
Theories of Low Wages, S. Bodington

 

 
Vol. 19  December 1937  No. 12
Page 714 Towards 1938
Page 715 Notes of the Month:
DANGER SIGNALS IN BRITISH POLITICS, R. Palme Dutt
Page 728 Agree and Die: Fight and Live, John Strachey
Page 733 The End of the Up-Swing?, John Knight
Page 739 The New “Holy Alliance”, Richard Goodman
Page 746 The Labour Movement and the Countryside, Maurice Cornforth
Page 752 Women Workers in a Wireless Factory, Dorothy Jacques
Page 759 Lenin and Gorky. Letters
Page 765 BOOK REVIEWS:
In Europe, Reginald Bridgeman
Youth in Industry, J. R. Shanley


 
Vol. 20  January 1938  No. 1
Page 3 Notes of the Month:
OUTLOOK FOR 1938 by R.P.D
Page 18 British Labour and the World by ARTHUR HORNER
Page 22 These Enemies of the People by FRANK PITCAIRN
Page 20 Years After: Seeing Socialism by Tom MANN Mighty Democracy by BEN TILLETT
Page 31 Food Price Ramp: How to Beat It by W.H. WILLIAMS and MARGOT C. HEINEMANN
Page 39 Soviet Stage: 1917-1937 by HUNTLEY CARTER
Page 44 Colonies and War: To-day’s Big Issue by REGINALD BRIDGEMAN
Page 54 Lenin and Gorky. More Letters
Book Reviews
The Distressed Areasby Marjorie Pollitt
Socialised Medicine By Dr. Edith. Summerskill
 
Vol. 20 February, 1938 No. 2
Page 67 Our Debt Wiped Out!
Page 69 Notes of the Month:
ELECTION PROSPECTS by R.P.D
Page 81 Spain Fights on to Victory By JOSÉ DIAZ
Page 95 World Trade Union Unity
Views of W. LAWTHER, ARTHUR HORNER, W.T. BROWN, ALEX GOSSIP, W.H. STOKES, W. WARD.
Page 100 Angles on Air Raid Precautions by COUNCILLOR A.N. SILVER
Page 104 Trade Unionism: a Policy for 1938 By FINLAY HART
Page 110 Catholics and Communists by MAURICE THOREZ
Page 122 Book Reviews
A Welcome Periodical by R.P.D.
Labour Statistics By J.K.
Economic Theory By S.B.
   
Vol. 20 MARCH, 1938 No. 3
Page 131 Notes of the Month
EUROPE’S CRISIS by R.P.D
Page 141 Hitler Means War by Richard Goodman
Page 148 The Far Eastern Crisis by W. Monslow
Page 151 The New Monopolies and the Slump by John Austin
Page 159 Agricultural Problems in Britain by Maurice Cornforth
Page 165 The Youth Charter by John Gollan
Page 173 The “Parliament” of a Classless Society by Pat Sloan
Page 184 On the Eve of the Indian National Congress By Ben Bradley, R. Palme Dutt and Harry Pollitt
Page 188 Book Reviews
The Workers’ Front by J. R. Campbell Three Soviet Plays by Huntly Carter
   
Vol. 20 April, 1938 No. 4
Page 195 Notes of the Month:
BRITAIN’S WAR PLANby R.P.D
Page 220 Eden and Chamberlain By Robert Dell
Page 227 The Invasion of Austria by Dorothy Woodman
Page 231 Food, Prices and Poverty by F. Le Gros Clark
Page 237 India: the Haripura Session by Ben Bradley
Page 245 Open Letter to a Zionist-Socialist by “British Resident”
Page 254 Philosophy of a Natural Scientist by Clemens Dutt
Page 261 Book Reviews:
Europe In Arms by Major Vernon
Consumers’ Co-operation by R.G. Gosling Carter
   
Vol. 20 May, 1938 No. 5
Page 267 Notes of the Month:
MAY DAY’S CALL FOR UNITY by R.P.D
Page 284 Trade Unions and Rearmament by G. D. H. Cole
Page 291 The Charge of France’s Two Hundredby Neil Hunter
Page 298 The Soviet Trial byR. Page Arnot
Page 307 Mongolia and the Far East War by G.D.R. Phillips
Page 313 Letters from Lenin to Gorky
Page 318 The Philosophy of a Natural Scientist: A Reply by Professor H. Levy
Page 324 Correspondence
Page 325 Book Reviews
A Strange Case by Geoffrey Wilson
America’s Exampleby John Mahon
   
Vol. 20 June, 1938 No. 6
Page 330 Reporting Further Progress
Page 331 Notes of the Month:
LABOUR AND THE PEOPLE’S FRONT by R.P.D
Page 347 Peace Alliance and the Future by Sydney R. Elliott
Page 352 The Trade Unions and Unity by John Mahon
Page 357 The Swastika over the Balkans by Doros Alastos
Page 365 Labour and Van Zeeland by A LEAGUE OBSERVER
Page 375 India and World Peace by V. K. Krishna Menon
Page 379 Mongolia and the Far East War by G.D.R. Phillips
Page 384 Peace and the Colonial Question
Page 390 The Philosophy of a Natural Scientist. A Rejoinder by Clemens Dutt
   
Vol. 20 July, 1938 No. 7
Page 395 Notes of the Month:
PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT by R.P.D
Page 408 Unity and the People’s Front by Harry Pollitt
Page 415 Peace Alliance Holds the Field by John Strachey
Page 420 Engineers versus the Government by Claude Berridge
Page 424 Co-operators in Congress by J. J. Mcshane
Page 429 Czechoslovakia and World Peace by Richard Goodman
Page 437 Mexico on the March by Ivor Montagu
Page 443 The Advance of. Socialism by Samuel Meekin
Page 447 Book Reviews
Lenin on Trotsky and Bukharin by Allen Hutt
English History by Christopher Hill
Soviet East Awakes by Joan Beauchamp
The Workless by Wal Hannington
   
Vol. 20 August, 1938 No. 8
Page 459 Notes of the Month:
MORE PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT by R.P.D
Page 476 Nationalism and the Mass Struggle in India by Jawaharlal Nehru
Page 483 Britain the Centre of Gravity by R. Page Arnot
Page 489 The Present International Situation by Maxim Litvinov
Page 498 Labour and Peace by W.J.R. Squance
Page 502 A National Food Policy by John Marrack
Page 508 The Spanish People’s Army by William Rust
Page 516 Book Reviews:
The Best Edition of “Capital” in English by R.P.D.
One Law for the Rich by Another Barrister
   
Vol. 20 September, 1938 No. 9
Page 523 Notes of the Month:
AFTER SEVENTY YEARS by R.P.D
Page 537 International Trade Union Unity by Arthur Horner
Page 548 The Dock Strike of 1889 and After by Tom Mann
Page 552 The Economic Crisis in Britain by John Knight
Page 555 Youth and the Trade Unions by Cecil Thomson
Page 559 The Soviet Union and Japanese Aggression by Hugh Dickering
Page 564 Economics at Geneva by A League Observer
Page 576 A Two-Edged Sword by L.G.P.
Page 580 Book Reviews:
Michael Bakunin, Arch-Anarchist by Dona Tore
Czechoslovakia Fights for Democracy by Roger Roughton
   
Vol. 20 October, 1938 No. 10
Page 587 Notes of the Month:
THE CRISIS AND THE COMMUNIST CONGRESS by R.P.D
Page 604 The People’s Movement by Harry Pollitt
Page 611 Chamberlain over the T.U.C. by J.R. Campbell
Page 620 World Economic Crisis—1929 and To-day by John Knight
Towards the Municipal Elections:
Page 625 Chamberlain and the November Elections by Idris Cox
Page 628 Local Government Finance by A Labour Councillor
Page 638 Labour Authorities and A.R.P. By Councillor H. D. Hughes
Page 641 Documents of the Month
Page 644 Book Reviews
The American Civil War as a “People’s War” by Clemens Dutt.
What British Workers Earn by John Strachey
   
Vol. 20 November, 1938 No. 11
Page 651 Notes of the Month:
THE NEW WORLD SITUATION by R.P.D
Page 674 Hitler’s Europe by Ivor Montagu
Page 686 The Labour Party and the Munich Betrayal by W. Gallacher, M.P.
Page 690 “Left” Socialism and the Crisis by J.R. Campbell
Page 699 No “Munich” for Spain by F. Jackson
Page 703 The General Election in New Zealand by S.W. Scott
Page 711 Book Review:
Air Raid Protection by Ted Bramley
   
Vol. 20 DECEMBER, 1938 No. 12
Page 715 Notes of the Month:
The Crisis Of Democracy by R.P.D
Page 732 The Munich Policy—Continued By Frank Pitcairn
Page 736 After the Fifteenth Communist Congress: A Programme of Economic Security By John Knight
Page 741 The Trade Unions and the Peoples’ Movement By George Rude
Housing Rents in Scotland By Bernard Mccourt
Page 754 The History of the Nineteenth Century By Professor E. Tarle
Page 762 Documents of the Month
Page 768 Book Review:
The Peasants’ Revolt by E.M.
Page 771 Index to Volume XX


   
Vol. 21 January, 1939 No. 1
Page 2 A New Year message to Labour Monthly Readers
Page 4 Notes of the Month:
Outlook For 1939 by R.P.D.
Page 20 Crusade for Defence of the British People by R. Page Arnot
Page 26 The Men behind Munich by Edmund H. Fetter
Page 35 The Peoples’ Front and the Class Struggle in France by Clemens Dutt
Page 46 Indian Workers’ Great One-Day Strike by Ben Bradley
Page 53 The Arab Jewish Conference by I. Rennap
Page 59 The Itch By V.I. Lenin
Page 63 Book Review
Wage Studies by John Knight
   
Vol. 21 February, 1939 No. 2
Page 67 The Communist Crusade by Harry Pollitt
Page 80 Germany After Six Years of Hitler by Teutonicus
Page 95 The Revolt of the Farmers by Maurice Cornforth
Page 102 Let Capital Clear the Lines by J.H. Hope
Page 108 A Letter of Engels
Page 111 A Powerful Weapon of Bolshevism
Page 116 Documents of the Month
Page 122 Book Reviews
A Classic of Marxism by Walter Cramer
A Mixed Bag by A.L. Morton
Our England. by Christopher Hill
   
Vol. 21 March, 1939 No. 3
Page 131 Jitter-Bugs and Confidence Tricksters by William Rust
Page 141 Who is for Liberty? by Cecil Poole, M.P.
Page 145 Hitler and Colonies by R.F. Andrews
Page 152 What Next in the Trade Unions? by George Rude
Page 158 Austria a Nation by Anton Hart
Page 167 Greece Under the Nazi Shadow by Odysseus Androutsos
Page 171 Mexico and Oil by Jose Jorge March
Page 178 Documents:
Twenty Years of the Communist International
Page 180 Book Reviews:
Britons in Spain by P.A.
Understand the Enemy by Allen Hutt
Vindicating Marxism by Clemens Dutt
Labour’s Land Policy by Maurice Cornforth
The Unconquerable Living by Hugh Duckering
Co-operative Story by Esther Henrottte
   
Vol. 21 April, 1939 No. 4
Page 195 Notes of the Month:
THE HOUR OF AWAKENING by R.P.D
Page 217 Appeasement and Armageddon by K. ZILLIACUS
Page 229 Labour and the Cripps Campaign by ALLEN HUTT
Page 239 Karl Marx by HARRY POLLITT
Page 247 Documents of the Month
Stalin’s Report to the XVIII. Congress, C.P.S.U.
Page 253 Book Reviews:
Rescuing the Classics by F. D. KLINGENDER
A Frenchman Interprets Heine by WALTER CRAMER
   
Vol. 21 May, 1939 No. 5
Page 259 Notes of the Month:
Urgent Alternatives by R.P.D
Page 275 May Day 1939 by John A. MAHON
Page 278 Mr. Chamberlain’s Anti-Americanism by John Strachey
Page 284 Socialism and the People’s Front by Councillor J. Silverman
Page 287 Trade Unions and National Service by A.W. Brady
Page 290 Economic Crisis and Armaments by John Knight
Page 297 Indian Nationalism After Tripuri by Ben Bradley
Page 305 The Position in Palestine and the Path to Peace by I. RENNAP
Page 314 Documents of the Month:
President Roosevelt’s Message
Page 316 Book Reviews
Spanish Lessons by George Garwood
A Critique of Critics by Elizabeth Wilkinson
Science and Society by Allen Hutt
   
Vol. 21 June, 1939 No. 6
Page 323 Notes of the Month
LABOUR’S LAST CHANCE by R.P.D
Page 340 A Personal Appeal by Tom Mann
Page 342 The Supreme Issue at Southport by Arthur Horner
Page 347 Conscription and Democracy by William Rust
Page 352 Armaments, the Budget and Unemployment by John Knight
Page 362 Anglo-Nazi Co-operation in South America by E. Tuckfield
Page 367 Chartism and the Fight for Peace by SALME A. Dutt
Page 375 Documents of the Month:
The Paris International Peace Conference
Page 377 Correspondence
Page 379 Book Reviews
A Marxist Classic by Maurice Dobb
An American Symposium by Marjorie Pollitt
An Important History by A.L. Morton
An Enlightened Democracy? by C.H. Formison
   
Vol. 21 July, 1939 No. 7
Page 387 Notes of the Month
Illusions And Realities by R.P.D
Page 402 After Southport by Harry Pollitt
Page 417 The Anglo-Soviet Negotiations by R. F. Andrews
Page 425 The Great French Revolution by Allen Hutt
Page 433 The Causes of Crisis by Emile Burns
Page 437 The New Situation in China:
1. The Protracted War by Mao Tse-Tung
Page 445 Book Reviews
The New Russian Theatre by Huntly Carter
Chartism by R.P.A.
   
Vol. 21 August, 1939 No. 8 Editor: R. Palme Dutt.
Editorial Board: Louis B. Boud In (U.S.A.)
George Findlay (South Africa)
George Seldes (U.S.A.)
Gordon Crane (Australia)
Stanley B. Ryerson (Canada)
Angus Mclagan (New Zealand)
Page 451 Will it be War? by J.R. Campbell
Page 463 Twenty Five Years Since 1914 by R. Page Arnot
Page 465 Colonies and Fascism
Page 476 Anglo-Nazi Economic Co-operation by John Austin
Page 483 Dilution and the Unions by John Fowler
Page 488 Air Raid Precautions by S.C. Saunders
Page 494 The Heritage of the French Revolution by Walter Cramer
Page 504 Controversy
A Reply to Emile Burns by John Knight
Page 507 Book Reviews:
Marxism and Science by J.B.S. Haldane
Democracy by Allen Hutt
Soviet Statistics by John Knight
   
Vol. 21 SEPTEMBER, 1939 No. 9
Page 515 Plain Words on the Crisis by R.P.D.
Page 518 The Fiasco of Chamberlain’s Policy by William Rust
Page 527 No Quiet on the Spanish Front by Ernest Brown
Page 532 French Revolutionaries and English Democrats by A.L. Morton
Page 539 Australian Scene, 1939 by Gordon Crane
Page 544 New Dangers in the Field of Unemployment by Wal Hannington
Page 548 Women in Nazi Germany by Irene. Gaertner
Page 553 The New Situation in China:
2. The Anti-Japanese United Front by Mao Tse-Tung
Page 561 Controversy
A Note on the Causes of Crises by M.H. Dobb
Page 566 Documents
International Trade Union Congress
Page 569 Book Reviews:
Munich Still by Roger Roughton
A Miner’s Autobiography by Idris Cox
Capitalism in Crisis by M.H. Dobb
Millions for Liberty by Hugh Duckering
A Disappointing Book By E. Tuckfield
The Unemployed By Pat Devine
   
Vol. 21 OCTOBER, 1939 No. 11
Editor: R. Palme DuttContributing Editors:Louis B. Boud In (U.S.A.)George Findlay (South Africa)George Seldes (U.S.A.)Gordon Crane (Australia)Stanley B. Ryerson (Canada)Angus Mclagan (New Zealand)
Page 579 Notes of the Month:
Marxism And The War by R.P.D.
Page 597 Strategic Aspects of the War By “Strategist”
Page 606 The Soviet Union and the War By ***
Page 619 The Labour Movement and the War By J. R. Campbell and Finlay Hart
Page 626 India and the War
Page 629 The New Situation in China:
3. The Role of the Communist Party By Mao Tse-tung
Page 637 The Working Men’s International Association By R. Page Arnot
   
Vol. 21 November, 1939 No. 11
Page 643 Notes of the Month:
The War Behind The War by R.P.D.
Page 655 The War on the Home Front by Arthur Horner
Page 666 Strategic Aspects of the War—II by Strategist
Page 677 War on the Soviet Union? by Stephen Razin
Page 687 France on the Road to Fascism by Richard Goodman
Page 696 Documents:
British Communists on the War:
“No Hope in Chamberlain’s Bayonets”
Page 700 Book Reviews
Austria a Nation by Andreas Hofer
Vital Statistics by Margot Heinemann
   
Vol. 21 December, 1939 No. 12
Page 707 Notes of the Month:
THE PEACE AIMS SWINDLE by R.P.D.
Page 721 Wages, Prices and Unemployment by John Knight
Page 727 The Bombay Strike by S.S. Batliwala
Page 737 The Political Black-out by R. Page Arnot
Page 743 Strategic Aspects of the War II. by Strategist
Page 751 The Colonies and War
Page 759 Document of the Month
The Communist Party and the Labour Party
Page 761 Book Review:
Fighter for Freedom by R. Pascal
Page 763 Index to Volume XXI.

 


 

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