The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.