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Arne Swabeck

Arne Swabeck

(1890–1986)


 
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Works:

1922

March 1922: United Labor Front Dodged in Chicago, The Worker, March 16, 1922

August 1922: The Labor Movement in the United States

September 1922: The American Miners’ and Railroad Workers’ Strike

September 1922: The Left Wing Movement in the American Labor Unions

November 1922: The American Question [Writing under the psudonym of “Starr” with James P. Cannon, Max Bedacht et al.]

1923

March 1923: Unity of All Labor, Aim of International, The Worker, March 17, 1923

March 1923: Not Only in Name, But in Actual Life, the International of the World's Working Class, The Worker, March 24, 1923

March 1923: The R.I.L.U. World Congress

March 1923: News of District 8, The Voice of Labor, March 30, 1923

April 1923: The New Economic Policy in Russia, The Voice of Labor, April 6, 1923

April 1923: News of Workers' Party District No. 8, The Voice of Labor, April 27, 1923

May 1923: Past Militancy of American Workers, The Voice of Labor, May 5, 1923

May 1923: News of Workers' Party District No. 8, The Voice of Labor, May 12, 1923

June 1923: The Building Industry in Chicago, The Voice of Labor, June 2, 1923

June 1923: End the "Open Shop", The Worker, June 23, 1923

October 1923: Chicago District is Going Strong for Membership Drive, The Worker, October 6, 1923

November 1923: The Communists Constitute Only Force that Will Fight Militantly for the Working Class, The Worker, November 17, 1923

November 1923: Injunctions Are Not Weapons of "Bad" Judges, But of the Whole Capitalist Class, The Worker, November 24, 1923

1924

March 1924: The Milwaukee Election, The Daily Worker, March 24, 1924

March 1924: Demand Oscar Nelson Raise His Voice Against Thugs, The Daily Worker, March 25, 1924

March 1924: Workers Party Takes Stand on Milwaukee Poll, The Daily Worker, March 31, 1924

April 1924: Workers Party Urges Aldermen to Probe Police, The Daily Worker, April 2, 1924

May 1924: Illinois State Farmer-Labor Party Convention Called for May 18th, The Daily Worker, May 5, 1924

May 1924: Shorten the Work Day!, The Daily Worker, May 21, 1924

May 1924: A Little May Day Experience, The Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, May 24, 1924

June 1924: Political Mummies Headed by Gompers Plan to Block Farmer-Labor Stampede to St. Paul, The Daily Worker, June 20, 1924

September 1924: Communist Clarity and Progressive Horse-Trading, The Daily Worker, September 17, 1924

October 1924: Chicago Organizer Backs 3,000,000 Distribution Campaign, The Daily Worker, October 7, 1924

October 1924: Indiana Courts Fail to Ban Workers Party, The Daily Worker, October 18, 1924

October 1924: Campaign Notes of a District Organizer, The Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, October 25, 1924

November 1924: Chicago Labor Officials Join "Red Baiters", The Daily Worker, November 8, 1924

November 1924: A Party of Shop Nuclei, The Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, November 28, 1924

December 1924: Illinois Experience Substantiates the Majority Position, The Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, December 17, 1924

1925

January 1925: Comrade Ruthenberg's Estimates, The Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, January 3, 1925

January 1925: All in One Issue, The Daily Worker, January 14, 1925

March 1925: Pennsy Miners Fight Wage Cut, The Daily Worker, March 24, 1925

April 1925: Shop Nucleus Finds Hearty Welcome and Fertile Field with Westinghouse Workers, The Daily Worker, April 29, 1925

April 1925: 6000 Pressed Steel Car Workers Strike Against Longer Hours at McKees Rocks The Daily Worker, April 30, 1925

May 1925: Paving the Way for Class Collaboration, The Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, May 9, 1925

May 1925: Coke Miners in Revolt

July 1925: Communists Building Fractions in Amalgamated Steel Union; Plan Drive, The Daily Worker, July 7, 1925

August 1925: The Makers and Masters of Steel

September 1925: Organizing to Fight the Steel Trust

November 1925: Delegates to C.F. of L. Fight Saklatvala Ban, The Daily Worker, November 18, 1925

1926

January 1926: Chicago Party School Making Good Advance, The Daily Worker, January 13, 1926

January 1926: Opportunities for Shop Nuclei Work, Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V, The Daily Worker, January 20-24, 26, 1926

February 1926: The Chicago Lenin Memorial and Our Tasks, The Daily Worker, February 3, 1926

February 1926: Rewarding Friends, Punishing "Enemies" Policy Aids the Union-Hating Bosses; Form Labor Party!, The Daily Worker, February 16, 1926

April 1926: Chicago Labor Unions Must Launch United Front Ticket in Elections, Workers (Communist) Party Points Out, The Daily Worker, April 4, 1926

July 1926: Labor Day Parades and Injunctions, The Daily Worker, July 22, 1926

September 1926: Jensen's Vote Juggling Waits for Hutcheson, The Daily Worker, September 12, 1926

September 1926: Will Labor Break with Sam Insull?, The Daily Worker, September 14, 1926

September 1926: Chicago Federation of Labor – Past and Present, The Daily Worker, September 16, 1926

September 1926: Building Trades Unions Need United Action to Fight the Renewed Open Shop Campaign, The Daily Worker, September 17, 1926

September 1926: Keep It and Build It!, [on the The Daily Worker], The Daily Worker, September 26, 1926

October 1926: Problems of Illinois Labor, Part I; Part II, The Daily Worker, Octobr 30-31, 1926

November 1926: New Pact is a Step Forward for Chi. Labor, The Daily Worker, November 25, 1926

1927

April 1927: Chicago Election Proves Failure of Theory Labor Should "Reward or Punish" Old Parties, The Daily Worker, April 12, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter I: Organization of the Nucleus, The Daily Worker, June 8, 1927

Cover

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter II: Shop Nucleus Function, The Daily Worker, June 9, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter II (cont.): Assignment of Work in the Shop, The Daily Worker, June 10, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter III: Publishing Shop Bulletins, The Daily Worker, June 11, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter IV, The Daily Worker, June 13, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter V: Special Tasks of Street Nuclei, The Daily Worker, June 14, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter V (cont.): Shop Activities by Street Nuclei; Chapter VI: Work in Mass Organizations, The Daily Worker, June 15, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter VI: (cont.), The Daily Worker, June 16, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter VI: (cont.), The Daily Worker, June 17, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter VII, The Daily Worker, June 23, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter VIII: Duties of Leading Committees, The Daily Worker, June 24, 1927

June 1927: “Organizational Problems” pamphlet, Chapter VIII (cont.), The Daily Worker, June 25, 1927

June 1927: Illinois Legislature Grinds Out Anti-Labor Bills, The Daily Worker, June 29, 1927

November 1927: "Efficiency Unionism" in Illinois Mines; Some Ways to Fight It, The Daily Worker, November 2, 1927

December 1927: Chicago Gangster Syndicates Part of Capitalist System

1928

February 1928: The Chicago Federation of Labor Fights Labor Party Despite Militants, The Daily Worker, February 9, 1928

March 1928: Company Organizing the Traction Workers, Labor Unity, March 1928

April 1928: Militancy of Illinois Miners is Rising, The Daily Worker, April 10, 1928

April 1928: Labor Fakers Aid Anti-Labor Politicians, The Daily Worker, April 17, 1928

April 1928: Strike Closes Illinois Mines Despite Fishwick Machine, The Daily Worker, April 24, 1928

May 1928: Illinois Miners to Oust Officialdom, The Daily Worker, May 14, 1928

May 1928: Illinois Miners to Fight Fishwick to the End, The Daily Worker, May 25, 1928

July 1928 Letter on the Textile Situation

August 1928 Report on the Mining Situation by Arne Swabeck and Motions on the Mining Situation [With Alfred Wagenknecht]

August 1928: Eyes Toward Pittsburgh!, Labor Defender, August 1928

September 1928: New Unionism in the Mines, Labor Unity, September 1928

September 1928: The Presidential Election of 1928, The Communist, September 1928

October 1928: The "National Miners' Union" A New Conception of Unionism, The Communist, October 1928

November 1928: Men and Steel, Labor Defender, November 1928

1929

February 1929: Platform of the Communist Opposition [together with Martin Abern, James P. Cannon & Max Shachtman]

February 1929: The Struggle in the Coal Fields

April 1929: The Illinois Miners Convention

August 1929: The New Progressive Movement

September 1929: The Industrial Situation

October 1929: Briand’s Plan for a United States of Europe

December 1929: Is the A.F. of L. Becoming Progressive?

December 1929: The Thieves Fall Out in the Miners Union

December 1929: Illinois Miners on the March!

December 1929: Miners of Illinois Fought Big Odds

January 1930: The Depression and Labor – Prospects for the Approaching Struggles in the United States

February 1930: Can Monopoly Capitalism Be Organized?

February 1930: City of Chicago Goes Bankrupt

February 1930: Leadership in the Coming Struggles

February 1930: The New Industrial Unions

March 1930: Imperialist Development and Its Inevitable Doom

March 1930: The Labor Party and the Tasks of the Communists

March 1930: Next Steps of the American Workers

April 1930: The A.F. of L. in the South

April 1930: The Situation Among the Coal Miners

May 1930: The Socialist Party and the Prospects for Communism

June 1930: Back to Lenin! Manifesto to the Rank and File and Seventh National Convention of the C.P.U.S.A. (with James P. Cannon & 5 others)

June 1930: Operators Prey Upon Passivity of the Coal Miners

July 1930: The Constituent Assembly and Soviets

July 1930: The Unemployed Gather

December 1930: The Railroad Brotherhoods Meet

February 1931: The Communists and the Unemployment Crisis

February 1931: Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy

March 1931: Lawrence on Strike!

March 1931: Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy 2

March 1931: The Strike Strategy of the Left Wing

April 1931: Illinois Mine Workers in Revolt

April 1931: The Slogan of the Six-Hour Working-Day

May 1931: Results of the Illinois Miners’ Revolt

June 1931: The A.F. of L. and the Wage-Cut Drive

June 1931: Miners on the March!

June 1931: Two Criticisms of the 6-Hour Day Slogan

July 1931: England’s Economic Plight

July 1931: MacDonald and Rationalization

July 1931: MacDonald’s ‘Victories’

July 1931: 23,000 West Virginia Miners Are Out in New Strike Wave

July 1931: Where Does British Labor Stand?

August 1931: The Bankruptcy of British Stalinism

August 1931: The Danger of Left Reformism

August 1931: The Unemployment Problem

August 1931: The Wage-Cut Offensive

September 1931: Labor’s Perspective in the Struggle for a Respite

September 1931: Mooney Appeals!

September 1931: Problems of Our Perspectives

October 1931: C.P. Policy in England

October 1931: Green and Co. at Vancouver

October 1931: Jurisdictional Disputes Disrupt A.F.L. Building Trades Dept.

October 1931: Reply of the Steel Workers

October 1931: Second National Conference Marks Step Forward

October 1931: Unite Employed and Unemployed in Relief Struggle

November 1931: After the British Elections

November 1931: Rail Bosses Drive for Wage Cuts

November 1931: The Tom Mooney Case

November 1931: What Laval Achieved by His Visit

January 1932: A Review of the Recent National Tour

January 1932: Utilize Feb. 4 Meets to Build Jobless Movement

February 1932: Labor Fakers Before Congress

February 1932: N.Y. Dressmakers Strike

February 1932: Pay Reduction in the Building Trades

February 1932: Proletarian Party Opposition

February 1932: The Railroad Wage Cut

March 1932: The Dress Strike Settlement

March 1932: Rebel Miners in Action!

March 1932: Sunday’s Elections in Germany

March 1932: Uphold Our Revolutionary Classics!

April 1932: Trade Relations with the U.S.S.R.

May 1932: Congress Talks Unemployment Relief

May 1932: On the Anniversary of Marx’s Birth

May 1932: The Party and the May Day Demonstration

May 1932: The “Socialists” and Their Line of Action

May 1932: The Strike in the N.Y. Building Trades

June 1932: The Communist Party’s Election Platform

June 1932: The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the Working Class

June 1932: The Unemployment Situation, the Economic Crisis and the American Working Class

July 1932: The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the American Working Class

July 1932: Organizing the Jobless

July 1932: Problems of the Unemployed

July 1932: Unemployment and the Working Class [PDF] (pamphlet)

August 1932: Illinois Miners Revolt Spreads Thru State

September 1932: Frame-Up Challenge Stays Unanswered by Party

September 1932: A Reply to Comrade Allard

September 1932: Some Experiences of the Illinois Miner’s Struggle and the Policy of the Communists

October 1932: In the Elections – ‘Labor’ or C.P. Ticket?

October 1932: The Miners’ Convention

October 1932: Miners Face Big Tasks

October 1932: One Road for Miners!

October 1932: Right Wing Wins at Gillespie Mine Workers Conference

November 1932: 4 Years of The Militant

November 1932: Marchers Advance to Demand Relief

November 1932: The 1932 Elections and the American Working Class

December 1932: A.F.L. Convention Talks “Radical”

December 1932: A.F.L. and 6-Hour Day

December 1932: A.F.L. and Union Unity

January 1933: Save The Militant

February 1933: Militant Correspondent on the Spot in German Crisis

February 1933: Report Shows Fate of Germany Hangs in Balance; United Front Is Urgent (series)

March 1933: Victory or Defeat in Germany?

April 1933: The Crisis in German Communism (series)

April 1933: Fascist Terror Rages Against German Masses

April 1933: Labor Writhes Under Nazi Whip (series)

July 1933: On Some Misconceptions of Fascism and State Capitalism (as Simmons)

July 1933: Perspectives for American Labor (series, as Simmons)

July 1933: Stalinism Weakens the U.S.S.R. (series, as Simmons)

August 1933: Background of the New Deal

August 1933: Discussion on the German Defeat

August 1933: Impressions of Fascist Germany

August 1933: N.R.A. and the Trade Unions

August 1933: 35,000 Pa. Mine Workers Strike for Right of Union Organization

September 1933: Before the A.F. of L. Convention

September 1933: Brandler International Makes Overtures to Stalin

September 1933: Left Socialists Meet – Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward

September 1933: Rising Militancy Shown in Growing Strike Wave

September 1933: U.S. Prepares Assault on Europe

October 1933: Perspectives for Revolution in U.S.

December 1933: Impressions on a National Tour

December 1933: A Picture of the League Today

January 1934: An Open Letter to the American Workers Party

January 1934: War Sparks Fly in Far East; Powers Arm

February 1934: Heading Straight for Another World War

February 1934: Lewis Triumphs at Mine Convention

March/April 1934: One Year of Roosevelt’s New Deal (series)

April/May 1934: Cleveland Convention of the C.P. (series)

May 1934: New Trends in the Trade Union Movement

May 1934: Second Strike Wave Under the N.R.A.

June 1934: A Criticism of the Draft Program of the American Workers Party

June 1934: Steel Workers Union in Meeting to Decide Action

June 1934: Steel Workers Union Retreats – Strike Plans Deferred

June 1934: What Is Happening in Fascist Germany?

July 1934: The Decay of the Stalinist Party

August 1934: The Stalinists and Pacifism

September 1934: The A.F. of L. at the Crossroads

November 1934: The A.F. of L. at San Francisco

December 1934: The Second Roosevelt Election

December 1934: W.P. and Trade Unions

January 1935: American Trade Union Problems – I

January 1935: National Progressive Movement in Trade Union Is Party Task

January 1935: Steel Election Called

February 1935: Roosevelt Kicks Bill Green Downstairs

March 1935: American Trade Union Problems – II

March 1935: Roosevelt Gives A.F. of L. Cold Shoulder on Auto Board, Codes, Relief

April 1935: Huey Long – Workers’ Enemy

May 1935: ‘In the Name of God’

May 1935: The Long and Coughlin Movements

July 1935: The Passing of the NRA

August 1935: Is a Third Party Coming?

August 1935: President Roosevelt – Strikebreaker No. 1

September 1935: Burning Problems Face 55th A.F.L. Convention

September 1935: Progressive Issues Confront the A.F.L.

October 1935: The Real Meaning of the United Front

November 1935: What Are Sanctions?

November 1935: Who Are the New “Progressive” Leaders in the A.F. of L.?

December 1935: The A.F. of L. Begins to Face Issues

December 1935: The Significance of the Browder-Thomas Debate for the Revolutionary Movement

January 1936: Morgan Coined Gold out of Workers’ Blood in 1917–18 – with Wilson’s Aid

January 1936: Progressives Gain in AFL Union Meets

February 1936: Does the A.F. of L. Face a Split?

February 1936: Green Urged to Organize Steel Plants

February 1936: Miners Convention Hurls Defi at Green Ultimatum

February 1936: Will the A.F. of L. Split on the Issue of Industrial Unionism?

April 1936: Seamen’s Struggle Settled

April 1936: What Is this Business Revival?

May 1936: C.I.O. Faces Challenge of Steel

May 1936: 1914–1936: The Same Social Patriotic Tune

May 1936: Olson’s Confab a Roosevelt Rally

May 1936: The Roosevelt-Lewis Coalition and the Farmer-Labor Party

May 1936: Roosevelt Steals Labor Party Thunder

November 1936: After the A.F. of L. Split – What?

January 1937: The Strike Movement Begins

March 1938: The Trade Unions in Politics

April 1938: T.U. Unity Needed in Coming Class Battles

September 1939: Packinghouse Workers Want Action Policy (as William Simmons)

December 1939: Packinghouse Workers Win NLRB Election (as Wm. Simmons)

April 1940: Norway’s Officers Preferred Hitler to Labor Government (letter) (as Wm. Simmons)

May 1940: Union-Busting Drive Underway in Chicago (as William Simmons)

March 1941: Hitler’s “New Order” (as William F. Simmons)

December 1943: World Role of US Capitalism (as William Simmons)

June 1944: US Capitalism Heads for Bankruptcy (as William Simmons)

August 1944: Trotsky on America’s Role in Europe (as William Simmons)

November 1944: The Coming Upsurge of American Labor (as William Simmons)

February 1945: The Outlook for a Labor Party (as William Simmons)

April 1945: European Perspectives (as William Simmons)

July 1945: Trotskyist Tasks in Europe (as William Simmons)

December 1945: Lessons of the 1919 Seattle General Strike (as William Simmons)

May 1946: American Imperialism at Home and Abroad (as William Simmons)

August 1946: Demonstrations in Denmark Mark Rising Labor Militancy (as William Simmons)

February 1947: The Housing Shortage

September 1947: Two Pages from American Labor History

February 1948: Three Years of the British Labor Government

September 1949: Dynamics of Revolutionary Change

November 1949: Some Comments on Falling Rate of Profit

March 1951: Economic Roots of the Labor Crisis

March 1952: Inflation and the Arms Economy

November 1953: Social Relations in US Today

Winter 1954: Social Relations in US Today

Winter 1957: American Prosperity Undermines Itself

Spring 1957: The Soviet Challenge to Capitalist Economy

June 1957: Why Beck Is Not Their Real Target

Winter 1958: A World in Crisis

Spring 1958: The “Recession” Deepens

Summer 1957: What Price Depression?

August 1958: The Split in the AFL-CIO

Winter 1959: Production, Profits and Inflation

Spring 1959: Who Is Ahead?

1962: On Evaluating the Chinese Revolution, Revolutionary Age, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1972

Fall 1962: In Defense of Dialectics

1965: The Minority Position on China and Related Questions, SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1965

June 1967: Letter to Gerry Healy, SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 4, August 1967

July 1967: Statement by Arne Swabeck on his Expulsion from the SWP, SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 4, August 1967

August 1967: From Trotskyism to Maoism: A Review of the Swabeck Case, SWP Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 4, August 1967

September 1967: An Answer to the SWP Political Committee's "From Trotskyism to Maoism: A Review of the Swabeck Case", Hildegarde Swabeck, SWP N.C. Information Bulletin, September 1967

1974: Fascism, Black Workers and Unions, Revolutionary Age, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1974

Date unknown: Why Did the Socialist Party Decline?

 


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