Trotskyism Against World Peace by Earl Browder

Author:Earl Browder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workers Library Publishers
Published: 1937-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

There were have a true estimate of values: indemnities for foreign capitalists, concessions to the Catholic Church, asylum for Trotsky. These three things have caused foreign imperialist powers to soften their attitude to Mexico, these things are concessions to imperialist reaction. Perhaps President Cardenas can legitimately believe that it is necessary to retreat before the pressure of imperialism, but that should only make all of us the more keenly aware that Trotsky's entrance into Mexico was a service to reaction, to the fascists and war-makers, a blow against peace and democracy.

A gambler for great stakes is Trotsky; he thinks nothing of staking the lives of millions, the national existence of thirty millions Ukrainian people, the independence of Siberia, the new and flourishing socialist economy of one-sixth of the earth, the Spanish people's government, the French People's Front, the unity of the workers everywhere—all these Trotsky makes chips in his great gamble for power which he pretends he plays with Hitler, but in which Hitler and every reactionary in the world plays Trotsky against peace and democracy.

This ego-maniac firebrand is running through a world full of war-explosives, applying his torch where he may, hoping for nothing so much as a new world war from which alone he sees his hopes of glory and power.

This is the true issue presented by Trotsky and Trotskyism. This is no issue merely between Trotsky and the Communist Party. Is is the choice between war and fascism on the one side, or democracy and peace on the other side. Trotsky is the advance agent of fascism and war throughout the world.

If one wants to fight against fascism and war, the first battle that must be won is to drive out Trotskyism and its influence from the ranks of the workers, farmers, and intellectuals. Without his victory over every Trotskyist influence, unity in the fight against fascism and war—unity which is the condition for any success—is impossible.

Nowhere is this shown with more sharpness and clarity than in Spain today. The Spanish people are in the trenches shedding their blood in torrents against the fascist hordes of Hitler and Mussolini and Franco, who are armed with all the most terrible modern weapons of war. The Spanish people's army has been hastily improvised by the masses themselves, who are moving toward unity and coordination under the people's government headed by Largo Caballero and the parties of the People's Front. And in the midst of this struggle of life and death, the Trotskyists come forward with the slogan of treachery, "Break the People's Front." "Turn your guns also against the government of Caballero." Even the little Trotskyist rats in the United States have the brazen effrontery to come to the halls of meetings held in solidarity with the Spanish people, and distribute their leaflets calling for destruction of the People's Front government of Spain.

The depths of infamy was reached by Trotsky when only the other day he issued the slogan through all the capitalist press that "the Soviet Union has deserted Spain".

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