![]() The right to strike, basic to the freedom of the labor movement, has been virtually outlawed. The conviction and imprisonment of the 18 was accompanied by a whole series of measures designed to throttle the unions and paralyze labor’s resistance to the onslaught of Big Business. They were convicted under the anti-labor Smith “Gag” Act for their uncompromising and outspoken opposition to the war program and because of their firm adherence to the principles of revolutionary Socialism. On the very day war was declared, December 8, 1941, sentence was passed on the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party. The capitalist government logically began its reactionary campaign by striking its first blows at the class-conscious vanguard of the American working class. The pledges to take the profits out of war to prevent a new crop of wartime millionaires, are proved a monstrous hoax. ![]() The slogans of “national unity” and “equality of sacrifice” are a snare. Democracy and freedom are among the first casualties of the war. The labor bureaucrats, recruiting sergeants for the war machine, volunteered their services to sell the war as a conflict between “free labor” and “slave labor.”Īfter three years of America’s participation in the war, the demagogic slogans under which the people were dragooned into the slaughter have been stripped bare. When the United States entered the second World War, Roosevelt, chief spokesman of American capitalism proclaimed that this war was a crusade for democracy, for the “Four Freedoms,” for the destruction of fascism and totalitarianism. Transcribed, marked up & formatted by Ted Crawford & David Walters in 2008 for ETOL. ![]() The US and the Second World War Resolution unanimously adopted by theĮleventh Convention of the American Trotskyist Movementįrom Fourth International, vol.6 No.1, January 1945, pp.3-4. SWP: The US and the Second World War (January 1945)Įncyclopedia of Trotskyism | Marxists’ Internet Archive ![]()
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