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The Transitional Programme in It can become a , reformist through the factory committees, farmers-exploited farmers and ditions of cal Lundberg writes a book, agricultural workers.

Alonment Hara tha nuasiinn of [America's/ Sixtv Families. The Wa •an tho AHar tha limite It can become a, reformist party- it depends upon the dev- party- it depends upon the development. Here the quesiion of programme comes in. mentioned yesterday and I will underline it today-we must have a programme of transitional demands, the most complete of them being a workers' and farmers' government. We are for a party, for an independent party of the toiling masses who will take power in the state.

We must concretize it-we are for the creation of factory committees, for workers' control of industry through the factory committees. All these questions are now hanging in tre air. They speak of technocracy, and put forward the dagan of "production for use".

• oppose this charlatan and advance the ts control of production Annalist claims that his figures are false. We say, the factory committees should see the books. This programme we must develop parallel with the idea of a labour party in the unions, and workers' militia. Otherwise it is an abstraction, and an abstraction is a weapon in the hands of the opposing class.

The criticism of the Minneapolis comrades is that they have not concretized a programme. In this fight we must underline that we are for the bloc of workers and farmers, but not such farmers as Roosevelt. (I do not know whether you noted that in the official ticket he gave his profession as farmer). We are for a bloc only with the exploited farmers, not exploiter • Call LIC champions of this movement but on the basis of a concrete programme of demands... Then we have to introduce five or six demands, very concrete, adapted to the mind of the workers and farmers and incutcated into the brain of every comrade-workers' factory comnittees, and then workers' and farmers' government. That's the genuine sense of the movement...

... Naturally we must make our first step in such a way as to accumulate experience practical work-not to engage in abstract formulas, but to develop a concrete programme of action and demands in the sense that this transitional programme issues from the conditions of capitalist society today, but imi today, but immediately leads over the limits of capitalism. It is not the reformist minimum programme, which never included workers' militia, workers' control of production. '. These demands are transitory because they lead from the capitalist society to the proletarian revolution, a consequence insofar as they become the demands of the massos as the proletarian government. We can't stop only with the day-to-day demands of the proletariat. We must give to the most backward workers some concrete slogan that corresponds to their needs and that leads dialectically to the conquest of power .:.

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