ABSTRACT
Few words have created more hope and wreaked more havoc in the labor movement than the words "united front" have done. The germinal idea of the united front was contained in a suggestion to the British Communists in V. I. Lenin's "Left Wing" Communism. Though the united front could take different forms in different countries, it was admittedly only a new "tactic" to an old end, a more roundabout way of convincing the workers of "the inevitability of revolution and the importance of Communism." While the Comintern was moving toward the united front in 1921, the American Communists were still too deeply embroiled in the struggle over the legal versus the illegal organization to care about anything else. In April, the "Committee for the Third International" began to publish a new biweekly magazine, The Workers' Council, edited by Benjamin Glassberg.
