TROTSKY'S COPENHAGEN SPEECH AVAILABLE IN FRENCH
Montréal
La Iutte Ouvriére [Workers Struggle], official organ of the Ligue Socialiste Ouvriére, has announced publication of two new French-language pamphlets -- Marx et Engels sur le Parti Ouvrier and La Révolution Russe, by Leon Trotsky.
These follow the recent publication of Dialectique de la Révolution Mondiale [Dynamics of World Revolution].
The first pamphlet consists of excerpts from the writings of Marx and Engels over a thirty-year period. They begin with statements about the struggle between capital andlabour, explaining why every trade-union struggle is, in the final analysis, a political struggle, and how the issues at stake in the struggle can only be definitively resolved in a battle for power.
They go on to project how the struggle must progress from the conserva~ tive slogan of "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work" to the slogan of abolition of the capitalist system.
Marx and Engels give great emphasis’ to the critical necessity of independent class political action, explaining why the workers should run their own candidates even where "there is no prospect at all for their election."
In outlining his views on what the attitude of socialists should be to an emerging labour party formation, Engels, in a letter to an American socialist argues against those socialists who set themselves above the real working-class movement by adopting sectarian and doctrinaire positions.
He talks about how, instead, socialists must in the words of the Communist Manifesto "represent the future of the movement in the present of the movement."
The pamphlet is timely in presentday Québec, where the Parti Socialiste du Québec shows serious misunderstanding of the labour party concept and where the New Democratic party has not yet entered the provincial political arena.
la Révolution Russe, which appeared originally in the Quatriéme Internationale, offers the text of Trotsky's speech to a io audience in Copenhagen in November 1932.
In this inspiring address, the coleader of the Bolshevik Revolution and its greatest historian and defender, tells why the first breakthrough in the international working-class struggle took place in backward Russia, contrary to the classical Marxist projections.
He explains the roots of the degen-
eration of the revolution and the rise of the Stalinist bureaucracy. He analyzes the place of the revolution in our historical epoch and explains the groundwork for its revival, a forecast borne out in recent years by mounting antibureaucratic struggle in the workers states, exemplified most notably by the Hungarian Revolution.
The pamphlets cost 30 cents each and can be ordered from La _Iutte Ouvriére, 66 rue Guilbault 0., Montreal 18, Québec, Canada.