government for his revolutionary activity against the war; hundreds of English Socialists are in jail for the same offense. They are the only real internationalists. In the United States, the Socialist Labor Party and certain elements of the opportunistic Socialist Party which began in 1917 to publish the paper The Internationalist.[1]
In Holland, the party of the "Tribunists," publishing the daily paper The Tribune (Anton Pannekoek, Herman Gorter, Weinkopp, and Henriette Roland-Holst, who, a centrist at Zimmerwald, now has, however, joined our ranks). In Sweden, the section of the younger men and of the left with such representatives as Lindhagen, Ture, Nerman, Karlston, Strom and Z. Heglund, who at Zimmerwald was personally active in .the organization of the Zimmerwald Left, and who is now serving a jail term for his activity against the war. In Denmark, Trier and his friends who have left the purely bourgeois Social Democratic Party headed by Minister Stauning. In Bulgaria, the simon-pure. In Italy, Constantino Lazzari, secretary of the Socialist Party, and Serrati, editor of the central organ Avanti. In Poland, Karl Radek, Ganetzky and other leaders of the Social Democracy, forming the Kraev group, Rosa Luxemburg, Tyshka and others forming the "main group" of the Social Democracy. In Switzerland, the "left," which put through the referendum of January, 1917, in order to fight the social-patriots and the center, and which at the session of the Socialist Party in the canton of Zurich on February 11, 1917, carried a revolutionary resolution against the war. In Austria, the youthful friends of Friedrich Adler, whose, activity manifested itself partly through the "Karl Marx Club," now closed by the reactionary Austrian government, which imprisoned Adler for his heroic but ill-considered attempt upon the life of Premier Stuergh.
We shall not bother with the slight differences of opinion among the members of the "left." We are only interested in the general tendency as such. It is by no means easy to remain a real internationalist during a ruthless imperialistic war. Those who can
- ↑ Since April, 1917, The New International, edited by Louis C. Fraina, succeeded The Internationalist. It is the official organ of the Socialist Propaganda League, the American organization of the Sociaism of the "left." The New International favored the cause of the Bolsheviki months before their triumph, at a time when the Socialist Party paper, the New York Call, was editorially stigmatizing the Bolsheviki and Lenin as "anarchists" while the Socialist Propaganda League was the only American Socialist organization to approve and agitate for the armistice proposal issued by the Soviet government in November, 1917.—L. C. F.
