ELECTION RESULTS SHOW BIG SW P ADVANCE :
Official figures on the vote for the candidates of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the November 1960 elections, which were not known in time to appear in our last issue, are now in hand, and are most encouraging: 40,174 votes. These, compared with figures in previo as elections 1948: 13,613; 1952: 10,312; 1956: 7.233 -represent a big advance, both in number and, especially, in percentage. The results are particularly creditable when it is remembered: 1) that before engaging in the election campaign itself, the S W P had to fight long and exhausting battles to get put on (or keep from being illegally thrown off) the ballot in numerous states; and 2) that in unnumbered cases the votes for the SWP candidates were simply not counted (as was proved in many election
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districts where S WP party members voted yet not a single vote was reported).
But perhaps even more important than the number of votes was the fact that the election campaign permitted the S WP to carry the message of socialism to literally millions of hearers by radio and television - despite the adoption of new and illegal measures to limit to a minimum the air-time of all candidates save those of the two main capitalist parties. As a result, letters have flooded in to S W P national headquarters from every part of the U SA expressing approval of the party's programme, including all-out support for revolutionary Cuba, and asking for further information about the socialist cause.
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TO APPEAR IN PAMPHLET FORM
THIRTY QUESTIONS AND THIRTY ANSWERS about the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
By ERNEST GERMAIN
Since the XXth Congress, the crisis within the Communist Parties all over the world has never ceased, sometimes simmering, sometimes boiling when the fuel of new revelations or disputes is added. Rank-and-file
Communist militants are repeatedly asking the question, recent Sino-Soviet polemics have started a new outburst of such questions.
Many of the answers, clear, principled, and mercilessly documented, are given by Comrade Ernest Germain in his "Thirty Questions and Thirty Answers about the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,"
which appeared in the Summer and Autumn 1960 issues of FoUrTH INTERNATIONAL. We are now preparing to
Whathe formal il limuitorand ithehra Reophies Of Comrade Michel Pablo: The Fourth Internatonal:
SOME PUBLICATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
OTHER THEORETICAL ORGANS
Quatrième Internationale (French)
Die Internationale (German)
Revista Marxista Latinoamericana (Spanish)
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
Léon Trotsky: Ecrits, 1928-1940, romes I, II, et IIl
Les Bolcheviks contre Staline
La Guerre qui vient (Capitalisme ou Socialisme)
Dictature du prolétariat, démocratie, socialisme
Michel Pablo: The Fourth International — What It Is: What It Aims At
Michel Pablo: The Arab Revolution
Ernest Germain: Les Problèmes économiques de l'URSS
Orders to: PIERRE FRaNK. 64 rue de Richelieu, Paris 2 publish this as a pamphlet.
Léon Trotsky:
Michel Pablo:
Michel Pablo:
"But what happened? What are the real facts?" The