1. (p. 198.) See J.T. Murphy, "The First Years of the Lenin School,11
Communist International, September 30, 1927, pp. 267-69.
2. (p. 201.) Bom in 1862 in Staten Island, New York, Ella Reeve Bloor (Mother Bloor) joined the Socialist Labor Party during the 1890s. She quickly became a leading activist and organizer, participating in many important la bor struggles of the time, including the 1914 miners' strike in Ludlow, Colorado. In 1921, she became a founding member of the Communist Party and continued her activity in the revolutionary movement until her death in the fifties. See Mother Bloor'a autobiography, We Are Many (New York: International Publishers, 1940).
3. (p. 202.) Lenin returned to Petrograd from exile on April 3, 1917. The next day he delivered his theses, "The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution," Co/lected Works, Vol. 24, pp. 19-26. These"April Theses" outlined a comprehensive program of transition from the bourgeois-democratic to the proletarian-socialist revolution, includin1
nationalization of land and banks, workers' control of industry and a Soviet republic. Lenin's line of "No support for the Provisional Government" was resisted by many in the Party who had been calling for a policy of pressuring the Provisional Government. But at the Petrograd City Conference of Bolsheviks, two weeks later, Lenin's theses won the day. The all-Russian Conference of Bolsheviks, over the opposition of Kamenev and Rykov, also adopted the line of the April Theses and put forward the slogan, "All Power to the Soviets."
4. (p. 203.) The foliowing are some of the most outstanding of Fox'ø works: The C/ass Strugg/e in Britain in the Epoch of lmperialism
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li .11111100: M. Lawrence, 1932); Genghis Khan (London: John Lane, IIJ 1(1); /,enin: A Biography (London: V. Gollancz, 1933); Marx, Engels 1111d I.min on the Irish Revolution (New York: Workers Library l'uhlishers, 1944); The Novel and the People(New York: International l'11hlishers, 1937).
I\. ( p. 203.) See "The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nntions to Self-Determination,"Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 21, pp.
,1117·14, and "The Irish Rebellion of 1916," vol. 22, pp. 353-58.
ft ( p. 204). The German government allowed Lenin and other Russian fllill�s to pass through Germany on their way back to Russia in the spring 111 1917. They were required to travel in a "sealed coach," cut off from all dln·ct contact with the outside.
1, (p. 204.) By the late thirties, the Moscow Trials had exposed the
, 11 INtcnce of the ''Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites." This bloc was actually a IIIIIJt, which, from within the CPSU(B) and organized into illegal, 11'1 rnristic cells, sought to overthrow the dictatorship of the proletariat in lhl' Soviet Union. lts membership included followers of Trotsky's
"ultrnlcft" theory of permanent revolution, as well as the followers of 1111k hnrin's right opportunist line. In the final analysis, it was proven that I hlN hloc actually conspired with agents of German and I talian fascism, as Wl"II ns with agents of other imperialist powers, to open the doors for a fml'iJtn invasion of the Soviet Union. This plot was smashed by the lfovicts and the bloc's members were either executed or sent to prison for lllr. I >uring my stay in the Soviet Union (which ended a good five years hrlorc this conspiracy was fully exposed), I was acquainted with a 1111111hcr of people who were later proven to be members of the bloc. Most wrn· not major figures, but played a minor role in the conspiracy.
ltr1trctl"ully, my good friend, Nasanov, was among them. See Michael N11vcrs and Albert E. Kahn, The Great Conspiracy (London: Red Star l'rr-NN, 1975).
N. (p, 205.) James Connolly (1868-1916) was a great Irish labor leader, 111d11list and a revolutionary nationalist who was executed by the British
•llr, playing a leading part in the unsuccessful Easter uprising against
'111l11ni11l rule. He lived in the U.S. from 1903-10, and was a founding llll'lllhcr of the IWW. Connolly was active in many mass labor and Jllllitical struggles in this country, including the fight against the Hl'lnrianism of the SLP and Daniel DeLeon's leadership of it.
U, (p. 205.) Murray later became general secretary of the Irish Party.
Ill. (p. 206.) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Correspondence 1846-l�UJ (New York: International Publishers, 1936), p. 281.
11. (J'I. 206.) Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 21, pp. 104, 293.
Il, (p. 206.) Ibid., p. 357.
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13. (p. 208.) A.M. Simons, Social Forces in American History (New York: Macmillan, 1911), p. 274.
14. (p. 209.) Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Civil War in the
United States (New York: International Publishers, 1937).
15. (p. 210.) Ibid., vol. 25, pp. 274-82.
16. (p. 210.) Ibid., vol. 24, p. 169.
17. (p. 210.) Ibid., vol. 26, p. 258.
18. (p. 211.) Ibid., vol. 26; p. 258.
19. (p. 211.) Ibid., vol. 30, p. 165.
20. (p. 214.) The African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912
to oppose the color bar in South Africa.
21. (p. 217.) H. J. and R. E. Simons, Class and Colour in South Africa
(Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 402.
