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-6-of all basic revolutionary actions, wit. free play tounorthodox as well as orthodox viedo, If your viewewere correct. I argued, it would be a distinct advan-tage to you to have such an opportunity to display theirbrilliance alongside the puny efforts of your critica;(3) to publish orthodox news and views but to reservefor myself the right to comment and criticise.These repeated offers you repeatedly, refused. Youoffered to discuss these questiono 1th me verbally ifin the meanwhile I threw the Porur rur open to your editorialboard. My other proposals were unthinkable! Give theForum'a rendere a chance to hear "counter-revolutionaryviewpointe? Never that I could only dioplay myrevolutionary parity by acceding to your demands. Towould talk things over until spring, when if all sentwell (i.e. if I showed a satisfactory adaptation toyour viewpoint). I could pack up for an educational tripto the Soviet Union where I would certainly become con-vined of the error of my ways. In other words, you wantedmy signature on a promissory note with the amount leftblank for you to fill in. You put this in the form ofan ultimatum and you told me that if I did anything butaccept I would forthwith enter the comp of the "counter-revolution".I had to refuse these terms. I had to refuse toiend myself to a slandercus and baseless struggle againstthe International Left Opposition. I had to refuse toland space to the nauseatingly fawning praise of Stalinand uncritical reception of Stalinist policies whichcharacterize the Communist party press the world over.I had to refuse to take shelter in the cold and draughtyempty spaces which stretch benind the impressive facadeand early traditions of the Communist Intemational.would like to go to the Soviet Union for a visit the day-but I had to refuse your offer on your terme. I had torefuse, in short, to become a hack prostitute in the nameof the revolution.In the end, too, I had to refuse to turn over toyou the printing plant I had built up with so mạch painand struggle because I considered it not your property.but the property of the working class covmant. BecauseI could not carry on the Porun myself, for lack offinancial resources and caciuse of heavy debts contracted,I disposed of the plant and tumed every farthing of theproceeds over to where I now consider the twice interestsof our movement lie. It was with a deep and Abiding.bitterness that I had to see the Forun go down under theblows of those whom I had considered comrades, when for.two yeare it had fought off all its many enemies on theoutside.Yet with it came the realization that we have tobuild anew over the ruins you have wrought. The revolution and the building of our future moves forsard indwhen we trample down, the defenses of our enemies we shallcrush underfoot everything and everybody that stunde inour way. No sycophantis, blind allegiance to a name,an empty facade, a tom and shredded preatige can leadus forward. Only unswerving fidelity to our goal andactive struggle toward this end in th the weapons of acorrect and tested political line will lift as fromdefeat to ultimate vistory. To this struggle I shall con-tinue to dedicate all my energies.Peipins, China, May 20, 1934.Harold R. ISAACS.