The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-24
HOW TO SHORTEN THIS WAR--AND
HOW TO prevent OTHER WARS

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pies will. The fascist barons have
been left lords of the land and thu
peasants still slave for them. Tht
fascist industrialists still hold theil
mines and factories and the worker,
still toll for them The British-Amer
lican military occupation, known al
lAMGOT, is a combination of the three
most reactionary elements in Atlantic
civilization-the military, the old di
plomacy, and the new finance.
No Revolution Allowed
AMGOT tells us what the American
and British governments plan for al
the occupied countries. 1t is no sec
ret that its preparatory organization
has gone very far. Large numbers Of
leading officials both at Whithall and
in Local Government are being taken
into the army given commissions, and
are being prepared to take over. Nc
spontaneous revolution by the peoples
liberated by the Allies will be allowed
The British-American military admin
/ ioll dLlOA Will run thC oiONS POilbiNl
will be prohibited, the economic sys-
| tenn will be maintained, revolts will
be suppressed in the name of law
and order, and everything will be got
ready for the return of safe govern
ments, with American and British fl
nance as the power rehind the scenes.
The hope is that the rule of AMGOT
in the occupied countries may be COM
paratively short, but in the enemy
ountries-Germany certainly, Austria
and Italy perhaps for shorter periods
the American-British dictatorship is
planned to hold over for years.
When one understands this, it is
surprising that the political reaction
against Nazism, working out now for
the benefit of the United Nations,
should have gone so far as it has.
When the AmericanBritish alterna-
tive to Nazism is understood by the
peoples of Europe, the political reac
ton is likely to be less advantageous
to the Allies.
But if the American and British
government were not capitalist--im-
perialist, they could use the political
method in a way which could bring
the war to much earlier end Soviet
Russia has not made a socialist ap-
peal to the peoples in the enemy
countries, but it has at least filled the
political vacuum" left by American
British policy by appealing to the peo-
pies of both Germany and Italy to
unite to establish democratic govern
ments in place of their fascist re-
gimes This is something very diff
ferent from AMGOT and it brushes
aside the folly of prolonged military
occupation.
Socialist Policy
Had we socialist governments in
Britain or America, the appeal, and
action-as soon as possible, could go
much further. We could promise the
peasants the land for which they are
hungry and the workers the posses
sion of their factories. We could give
them an example of this new social |
order in Sicily and assist the change
by technical assistance and by furth-
ering the establishment of a repre- !
authority for economic plan
hing and coordination. Such an ap-
peal, with the example of Sicily as
proof of intention, broadcast to the
Millions of peasants and workers of
europe hour after hour, would do
more to overthrow the Nazi regime
'ring the European Socialist revolu-
ion
We haven't Socialist governments
n Britain and America and our task
must therefore be to prevent the ex-
sting governments from suppressinu
ny immediate political revolution and
he final Socialist revolution. We
1ust insist Immediately upon every
id being given to the political revolu-
ion in Italy. Instead of raining down
ombs on Milan, Genoa, Turin and
rieste and slaughtering the very
-orkers and their families who are |
the end of every vestige !,
fascism in Italy and immediate
eace, we should be raining down
'aflets promising our aid in realizing
lie democratic governments they de- q
re, and we would be making the
ffer of friendly and equal peace =
18th such a government. :
That is our immediate task our
Irther task is to prevent the armed .
rces of the United Nations from be-
g used to prevent the Socialist rev
ution when the time is ripe for it to =
cur. The future of Europe will be :,
Their a resurrected capitalism, highly =
ntralized, with American and Brit
h finance in the background, or =
nited Socialist States of Europe. l
lieve the margin of proba bility be- n
zen these is small, and that the
ale will be turned by the effective
IS of the elft opposition in Britain
d America
dia AS the Key
If this be a true analysis, we So
lists have before us the biggest ;
SIX that ever faced us. 1t is a task .
itch should submerge our differ I
ces. United, the left in Britain :.
lid be strong. In America, too, it ="
lid be Influential if all the many
ments could be co-ordinated. Our W.
'st Imperative duty is to realize a III
lty of the left for the defense of W.
) revolution in Europe. I'll
word about the war in the Far an
st, which threatens to last so long: at