Trotsky Final Message: Go Forward. Socialist Appeal SOCIALISM WILL BE TROTSKY MONUMENT Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International VOL. IV No. 34.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1940 FIVE (5) CENTS WE BRAND STALIN AS THE MURDERER OF TROTSKY Trotsky Fight Goes On Under The Banner Of The Fourth International Death Follows Fight Now As Never Brutal Attack Before, Comrades!
Statement Of The National Committee Leon Trotsky 1879 1940 Leon Trotsky, co leader with Lenin of the Russian Revolution, died in Mexico City on August 21 at 7:30 victim of a brutal assault by a GPU assassin.
He fought for life for 26 hours after Stalin hired murderer had driven a pickaxe into his brain.
It was his last battle.
But he did not surrender until he had indicted the monster in the Kremlin as the organizer of his murder. He did not surrender until, in his very last words which he insisted upon dictating before he lost consciousness, he had handed on the banner of the Fourth International to the men and women throughout the world whom he had gathered together in the World Party of Socialist Revolution. Please say to our friends, he concluded, that am sure of the victory of the Fourth International. Go forward!
It was characteristic of his great genius that, certain he was dying immediately after the attack he told Joseph Hansen that will not survive this attack. he devoted his last moments of consciousness to urging forward the activities of the Fourth International Equally characteristic was his conduct as he fell under the mortal blows of the GPU assassin and Trotsky secretary guards rushed in, arms in hand, and flung themselves upon the assassin Let him live! cried Trotsky repeatedly. Not out of kindness! But to assure the possibility that from the assassin might be wrested additional confirmation which would help to damn the Kremlin Cain in the eyes of the working class of the world.
The Hand of the GPU Thanks to Trotsky dissection of every available bit of evidence, key participants in the May 24 attempt to murder him are now in prison formally charged with that crime, a number of them having confessed their complicity. Having learned from the unfolding of that crime how Stalin GPU works, the federal police authorities were quick to recog.
nize its trademark in the successful follow up to the May 24 attempt.
Col. Leandro Sanchez Salazar, chief of the detective bureau, told reporters yesterday that he is convinced the assassin real name is Monrod, that he is a Belgian, and that he came to this continent as an agent of the GPU, the Stalinist secret police.
General Juse Nunez, Mexico chief of police, also said yesterday We are working on the theory that Monrod had accomplices and we are making a minute investigation. Continued on page 3)
Just after he was attacked on the evening of August 20, Trotsky said. will not survive this attack. Stalin has finally accomplished the task he attempted unsuccessfully before.
Later at the hospital, just before he lapsed into the coma from which he never revived, Trotsky called Joseph Hansen to his bedside and dictated his final message. am close to death from the blow of a political assassin. Please say to our friends am sure of the victory of the Fourth International. Go forward.
Leon Trotsky, organizer of the Russian genius are preserved in his writings. They conRevolution and its true representative, has stitute both a faultless analysis of the decay finalay been done to death by Stalin, the be of capitalism and a clear program of struggle trayer of the Revolution and the mass murs for the socialist future of humanity.
Aderer while heroic gangration that Armed with these weapons the oppressed made it of all the world will arise out of the bloody Trotsky was murdered in cold blood by welter of the present society and fight their an agent of the Kremlin Borgia. With his last way to freedom. They have been deprived of words Trotsky accused Stalin of the crime, the physical presence of Trotsky. But no and the whole civilized world proclaims him power on earth can destroy the mighty inguilty. To all his unspeakable murders and heritance he has left behind the gift of his betrayals Stalin has now added the crowning incomparable genius to the cause of humanity.
infamy, the assassination of Trotsky.
Trotsky, conscious that the ring of assasSTALIN HORRIBLE sination was drawing ever closer around him, MOTIVE CLEAR worked indefatigably up to the last hour to add to this inheritance. The last big product The motive of the murder is as clear as the off his labor was the Manifesto of the Fourth guilt of the murderer: insatiable hatred of the International on the War and the Proletarian man whose truth and loyalty to the cause of Revolution. This Manifesto constitutes the the workers contrasted so sharply to Stalin program and the banner of the impending own falsifications and treachery; mad thirst revolution against the civilization devouring for revenge against the fearless and incorrupy war and the decaying social system that protible fighter who had exposed and pilloried duced it. No Stalin, no Hitler can destroy that Stalin before the world; ruthless determinaprogram!
tion to silence the voice of his accuser on the eve of new abominations and betrayals of the NOT ONLY LEADER BUT working class of Russia and of the world. ARCHITECT OF REVOLUTION Unable to refute the penetrating analyses Comrade Trotsky was not only the teacher of Trotsky, or to answer his devastating cri of the vanguard of the proletariat. He was alticism, Stalin in desperation finally drove a pick axe through his brain. In the incredibly Fourth International, the new international so its organizer. He was the architect of the horrible manner of the murder itself there is association of revolutionary workers. It is contained a deep symbol of its meaning and arising on firm foundations in all countries of its motives: be struck at Trotsky brain!
the world. The Fourth International will be Stalin has struck a terrible blow at the the greatest monument to the memory of whole movement for the liberation of humanTrotsky. It will be the instrument for the final ity. The heaviest disaster that has befallen the realization of the aim to which he devoted his workers and all the oppressed, in this time of entire life the liberation of all humanity world calamity, is this destruction of its from slavery, exploitation and war.
strongest heart, its greatest brain. The van We, his disciples, are overcome with grief guard of progressive humanity is deprived at the loss of our beloved teacher, comrade forever of Trotsky indefatigable labor, his and friend. But we shall not give way to this incorruptible devotion. Lost is his wise coun grief. We shall transmute it into fighting ensel, the inspiration of his dauntless courage. ergy. Comrade Trotsky last testament shall TROTSKY IDEAS ENDURE not be forgotten: Please say to our friendsAND WILL PREV AIL am sure of the victory of the Fourth International. Go forward!
But the great fruit of Trotsky more than Today we stand with clenched fists at the forty years of dauntless work and struggle re grave of our martyred leader. Tomorrow we mains imperishable. For Trotsky, who stands take up the forward march with firmer ceteron a historical eminence by the side of Marx mination and greater energy. Trotsky is dead!
and Lenin, worked like them not for a day, But the party of Trotskyism will live and but for eternity. The richest products of his conquer!
The Socialist Workers Party is planning to hold the funeral of Leon Trotsky in New York City. We plan to hold the funeral here, James Cannon, National Secretary of the party announced, to give the working class of New York an opportunity to show their reverence for the memory of this great leader and their hatred and contempt for Stalinism, the gangster machine that murdered him.
Arrangements for the funeral are still in process as we go to press.
Leon Trotsky Memorial Meeting Wednesday, August 28, 1940 8:00 Hotel Diplomat 108 43rd St.
Hear Trotsky last recorded speech.
SPEAKERS James Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Antoinette Konikow, Murry Weiss,