Stalin, allied to Hitler, has finally murdered him. But for all his sinister apparatus of repression in the service of imperialism, Stalin cannot destroy the revolution he embodied, or the cry of condemnation of the workers of the world that will accompany in history Stalin’s dark figure of traitor and executioner
Comrade workers,
Once again Stalin’s treacherous hand has risen, this time with success, to silence the inflexible revolutionary voice of Leon Trotsky. In order to finish his work, the strangler of the October Revolution needed to eliminate the last one that represented it. That is why, at the same time that he shakes hands with the bloody Nazi dictator, he has armed the mercenary arm that has just unloaded the blow that will remain in history as a classic example of nauseating cowardice. Stalin, executing orders from his allies, Mussolini and Hitler, wanted to crush the socialist revolution in the person of Leon Trotsky. It was not enough for him to have destroyed, to the extent possible without threatening his own stability, all the conquests achieved in the USSR during the glorious days of Lenin; to have subjected the Russian proletariat to a brutal totalitarian regime where there is only freedom to praise his figure; shot in grotesque trials, or even without them, all the great revolutionary leaders who completed that cast of fighters that laid the foundations of the first triumphant worker state established on earth; destroyed the Chinese revolution and betrayed the German one; entered into spurious alliances with the imperialist countries; crushed the Spanish revolution and assassinated its leaders; having, in short, marked the historical route of the proletariat with the most terrifying succession of tremendous defeats.
Now, to close on a high note his nefarious trajectory of crime and felony, José Stalin has just executed the crime for so long cherished in his deformed bestiality of inferior and obtuse being. Leon Trotsky has been vilely killed in his combat position, when he was pursuing with unparalleled determination his struggle for the emancipation of the working class, for socialism.
The paid arm of an agent unloaded on his brain the treacherous blow that is in itself a symbol of what Stalin sought to destroy in his gigantic revolutionary personality. Stalin has killed him after the longest campaign of persecution, defamation and slander that has been undertaken against any man. Stalin, finally, has killed him. But Stalin’s entire sinister apparatus of repression, put at the service of imperialism, cannot destroy the revolution that Trotsky embodied, can never silence the cry of condemnation of the workers of the world that will accompany in history Stalin’s dark figure of traitor and executioner.
Leon Trotsky has died, comrades! He fell as all those who fight have fallen, as the heroes of the proletariat fall, surrendering their lives for a better humanity. He has fallen in ill-fated hours of the world, when his guiding word and his presence as the undisputed leader of the revolutionary proletariat of all countries were most necessary. Leon Trotsky has died, comrades! May the manly anguish that knots our throat and closes our fists will lead us to take the firm decision to identify with even more of its exceptional virtues and to avenge him by picking up what was in Trotsky that those who so ignominiously murdered him will never be able to destroy: his ideas as a faithful follower of Marx, Engels and Lenin who, together with theirs, will lead the future world proletarian revolution. Leon Trotsky is no longer with us! Let’s pick up the last words that are attributed to him and raise them as a flag along with his imperishable figure of man, leader and revolutionary:
“I am convinced of the triumph of the IV International! Forwards!”
Buenos Aires, August 1940
Revolutionary Worker Group
(4th International)
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