October 30, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Stalin on His Own Frame Ups on The Real Prosecuting Attorney Finally Presents Another Explanation of the Moscow Trials with Arguments That Do Not Discredit Those Fighting Against the Despotism of the Bureaucracy, but Which Are a Merciless Indictment of the Political Regime of the Bureaucrcy Itself By Leon Trotsky With his habitual boastful, al differences but also transi innocent and patriarchal a ring, as liars not Yagoda, Vyshinskytember 12, e. three weeks after cynicism Hitler gives away the tional nuances. Marxism in part to be applied to this moralist, and himself but Zinoviev secret of his political strategy. icular has always opposed the who compelled his victims to give Kamenev whom they had shot. pectedly proclaimed in an editorand Radek article, Pravda unexHe writes: great leader treatment of all political oppo obviously false testimony, mur. But is is precisely here that the ial that the defendants had genius also consists in the fact nents as a single reactionary dered them on an obviously false master of frame ups allows him tried that he always depicts even the mass. The difference between accusation, and then proclaimed self to be caught red handed.
hide the true goal of most widely divergent adversar Marxist and Fascist agitation is their struggle. They circulated the ies as belonging to the same the difference between scientific Why the Prosecution Completely Changed the in reality, they did have a procategory, because an inkling as education and demagogic hypto the difference between the nosis. In its method, Stalinist Charges in the Indictment gram. It is the program of batterenemies very readily becomes for politics, which received its most ing down socialism and restoring The point is that at the first motive of the Trotskyists was capitalism.
weak and unstable characters a finished expression in the judicial trial in January 1935, Zinoviev their striving to seize power. did not offer the slightest fact to Pravda, of course, source of doubt as to their own frame ups, coincides completely together with all the other de. For the sake of this they alleged corroborate these words. What correctness. Mein Kampf. This with Hitler prescription, while Pendants confessed, according to ly resorted to terror.
principle is diametrically opposed in its sweep it leaves Hitler far the official reports, that he and facts could there have been!
to the principle of Marxist politics behind. Anyone who refuse to his friends had been guided in basis of which Zinoviev, Kamenev defendants was not arrived But this new version, on the Thus, the new program of the general, for science begins by ar bow before the Moscow ruling their activity by a secret inten et al, were shot, did not produce the basis of documents, facts or ticulating, counterposing and clique is henceforth a represent tion to restore the capitalist re the expected results. Neither confessions of the accused, nor laying bare not only fundament lative of a single Fascist mass. gime. That is how the goal of workers nor peasants had any even of the logical deductions ot the alleged Trotskyites was special cause to rail against the prosecution. No, it was estabStalin Finally Comes Forward to Explain Away than formulated in the indict Trotskyites for wanting to lished by a pronunciamento from ment. Does his mean that the seize power. In any case, The Moscow Trials the Stalin over Vyshinsky head, ccused told the truth at the time? Trotskyists could not prove after the execution of the accused During the Moscow trials Stalin form. As early as the latter part But sad to say, no one would be worse than the ruling clique. In Evidence? That was to be supwithdrew demonstratively to the of 1927, the linked Trotsky lieve his officially established order to terrify the population, plied after the event by the side lines. It was even reported ists lesser known ones, to be truth. That is why in prepar they found it necessary to add in the sole obtainable that he left for the Caucasus. sure with White Guards and fo ing the second Zinoviev Kame that the Trotskyists wanted to guise the guise of voluntary This is wholly in harmony with reign agents. My exile abroad was nev trial (August, 1986) they return the land to the landlords confessions. Vyshinsky immehis style of procedure. Vyshinsky officially motivated by the alleg decided to discard the program nd the factories to the capitalists. diately proceeded to execute the and Pravda received their instruc ed fact that was engaged in of restoration of capitalism as Moreover, the bare accusation of latest instruction to alter Radek tions from behind the scenes. preparations for an armed up something too absurd, and to boil terrorism in the absence of ter formulation from the hysterical However, the miscarriage of the rising. It is also true that Stalin the whole matter down to a lust rorist acts placed too great res into the juridical, from the pattrials in the eyes of world public did not then dare to make public for power. philistine would trictions on future possibilities hetic into the criminal. But the opinion, and the growth of alarm the fantastic decision of the be more readily inclined to be of annihilating adversaries of the new schema and this Radek did and doubt within the Already in 1929, to justify lieve this. The new indictment was regime. To widen the circle of the not foresee! was applied by forced Stalin to come out into the shooting of Blumkin, Silov made to read that it was estab accused it become necessary to Vyshinsky not to the sixteen dethe open. On March 3, at a plenary and Rabinovich, Pravda printed lished beyond doubt that the only include saboatge, wrecking and fendants (Zinoviev et al) they session of the Central Committee, reports of train wrecks organized motive for organizing the Trots espionage in the case. But sabo were no longer among the living he delivered a speech, which after by Trotskyists. In 1930 a number kyite Zinovievite bloc wag their tage and espionage could be in but to the seventeen defendants, painstaking correction was pub of exiled oppositionists were striving to seize power at all vested with even a semblance of and therewith the author of the lished in Pravda. It is beyond charged with espionage because costs. The existence of any meaning only by establishing a schema, Radek, proved one of the human prowess to speak of the they were corresponding with me. kind of special platform among connection between the Trotsky first victims.
theoretical level of this speech. In 1930 1932, the made the Trotskyists was at the time ists and the enemies of the It is beyond not only theory but several attempts to extort from denied by the State Prosecutor Neither Germany nor Sinister Reality also politics in any serious sense Oppositionists, again little known himself. The especial degeneracy Japan, however, would give nightmare? No, this is the than a fiat on the utilization of preparing terrorist attempts. Do cisely in this fact! It is immate sake of their lust for power. the new trial resemble those pious of the term. It is nothing more ones, voluntary confessions of of the Trotskyists consisted pre Trotskyists support solely for the reality. The chief defendants in frame ups already perpetrated and cuments pertaining to these early ants had lied or not. The Stalin but to order a new group of derial whether the hapless defend Nothing else remained therefore collaborators of Inquisition the preparation of new ones.
Stalin begins with a definition amalgams were presented by me ist judiciary itself had established fendants to return to the program who went about zealously digging graves, making coffins and preto the American Commission of beyond doubt that the only of restoration of capitalism.
of Trotskyism: From a political Inquire. However, the thing is Stalin Sets the Pace and the Comintern Follows others and then discovered that paring maledictory epitaphs for tendency in the working class, that seven to eight years ago which it was seven to eight years Stalin had not as yet smashed All His Zig Zags their own names into the text of ago, Trotskyism has become the resistance of the party or transformed into an avowed and even of the bureaucratic tops and This supplementary frame up is zig zags of the Comintern only the epitaphs and to measure the unprincipled gang of wreckers, was therefore compelled to con instructive that it is worth reflected the gyrations of Vysh coffins for them. Once this proconcluded, Stalin diversionists, spies and assas fine himself to intrigues, poison while dwelling on. Any literate insky who, in his turn, aligned cedure sins.
accordance with emerged from the shadow and in The author of this defini ous slanders, arrests, exiles and person, by equipping himself himself the character of an infallible tion has forgotten, however, that occasional experimental shoot with a file of any of the Comin Stalin successive orders. seven to eight years ago he ings. Thus he gradually educated tern newspapers, could without The pattern of the final syn judge issued a declaration about raised the very same accusation his agents and himself. For is difficulty trace three stages in thesized indictment was suggest Zinoviev and Kamenev: They against Trotskyism as he is doing a mistake to think that this man the evolution of the accusation. ed by Radek, unwittingly. On both lied. Nothing more sinister today, only in a more cautious was born an accomplished Cain. Hegelian triad of frame up August 21, 1936 his article against has yet been conceived by human sui generis, with its thesis, anti the Trotskyite Zinevievite Fas fancy Accusations That Discredit the Regime and Not thesis, and synthesis! In the peri cist Gang appeared. The hapless (Concluded in the next issue. od after January 1985, the author set himself the task of Those Who Fight It hirelings of Moscow the world digging between himself and the ELECTION RALLY The principal method of Trot people to sacrifice their lives for over ascribed to the executed defendants as deep a moat as posUpper West Side Branch kyite work nowadays, continues the sake of these views. The chairman of the Comintern, onsible. In his attempt to draw from the most 912 NINTH AVE. 2nd Floor Stalin, is not an open and honest speech together with its author the basis of his own confession. the alleged crimes propaganda of its views among rests completely on the plane of a program or restoration of cap fearsome internal and interna Friday Oct. 29. 8:00 the working class but the camou the reactionary press which has italism. Pravda, the private tional consequencec, Radek had come and Bring Your Friends flage of its views a perfidious always insisted that Stalin organ of Stalin, set the pace. he following to say about the detrampling in the mud of its own struggle against Trotskyism But upon command issued by endants, especially myself: They INGERSOLL FORUM views. Already ten years ago, was of a spurious nature; that in Pravda itself, the press of the cow that. by undermining the Pythian Temple those who were initiated avoided reality the confidence in the Stalin leaderwere mutually bound Comintern jumped from 70th St. of Broadway to the anti thesis ship they bring. only grist to looking at each other when Stalin by a secret conspiracy, against the and during the trial of the sixteen, the mill of German, Japanese, indict his opponents capitalist order, and that my exSundays P. All Welcome the grounds of a lack of sincer le cabroad, wolna poreon. Indeed, Trotskyists as murderers, bereft Fascism. All the more so tare. Admission. 25 cents October 31. Have the Mosdays the sublime principles of is it not really true that Stalin of any kind of program. Pravda they aware that the assassination COW Trials Discredited the morality were being grafted by executed Trotskyists and geeks to and the Comintern kept to this of the gifted leader of the Soviet Soviet Government?
Yagoda Stalin refrains, how trample their views in the mud new version for only about a peoples, Stalin, implies working RICHARD BOYAJIAN ever, from explaining how open in order better to hide his month, up to September 12. The directly for a war.
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propaganda could be carried on in complete solidarity with them?
Radek Fails to Foresee MOTTIS TALPALAR a country where criticism of the The orator exposes himself most Fuehrer is punished far more glaringly on the question of the Send for season program card.
Later on, Redek went one step juridical accusation but only pobeastially than in Fascist Ger: program of the Opposition. He farther along the same road. He litical rhetoric. Heaping horror many. The urgent need to hide says: You will recall that in the wrote: It is not a question of on horror, Radek did not foresee, The Newark Yipsels from the and carry on pro 1936 trial, Kamenev and Zinoviev destroying ambitious men who of course, that he would have to HALLOWEEN raganda secretely compromised flatly denied having any kind of stooped to the greatest of crimes. pay for them himself. In the selft the revolutionists but rather political platform. There can be It is a question of destroying same spirit and with the selfMASQUERADE Bonapartist regime.
no doubt that they both lied in agents of Fascism, prepared to same consequences Piatakov and Saturday, Oct. 30, On the other hand, Stalin like denying that they had a plaform. set ablaze the conflagration of Rakovsky wrote.
at 248 Market Street wise refrain from explaining how In point of fact they had a plat war and facilitate victory for In preparing the new trial Games Refreshments Prizes is possible to trample one form. It was the platform of Fascism even if to receive from Stalin seized upon the journalistic Admission: 25 cents Hews in the mud and at the the restoration of capitalism. its hands only a wraith of power. productions of the mortally (Unemployed free)
same time inspire thousands of The word cynicism has far too These lines constitute not a Ifrightened capitulators. On Sepwas in over used