assassination of reports.
My Testimony by Valentin Cinna is Hardy the hirst book to present the well-known facts Trotsky, nor is it the most CUmACHCHE But it is the first account by a CP leader involved in the events and it includes an acknowledgement that David Siquieros, the Mexican painter and member, led the firsi assassina. tion attempt on Trotsky.
One of the book's most interesting features is Campa's: self-portrait. As in autobiographies the hero Is meant to be the book's most engaging character, but Campa Emerges as a spincless creature.
national approached the Mexi can pany to city our tne Campa Laborde, another leader, were opposed BILLE consideration simply because of the bad light this might cast on the party and the Soviet Union. And anyway Trotsky was politically finished, so why bother?
WRONG Not the slightest hint that there could something wrong in principle with bumping off your opponents — particularty when most important living leader of Campa's startlingly laced Tamiliar old Stalinist slanders about the simposed links cl Trotsky and Mexican painter Diego Rivera (incorrectly identified as a leader of the Fourth right-wing political forces in the United States Campa's refusal to sanction the murder — naray a grea moral gesture on the evidence of this book - led to his A FORMER leader of the Mexican Communist Party has written a book detailing that party's role in the Trotsky. RICHARD CARVER expulsion from the party on the grounds of... Trotskyism.
Campa says he waited nearly forty years before revealing threat of war against the Soviet undermining the Soviet leader ship.
CP TEST It is no coincidence that such revelations should surface now. even if the rest of the world has known the facts for decades. most First, Eurocommunism is SPICHOERE Western CPs. The Freach CP reprinted the relevant extracts trom Camoa sbook It is the casiest thing in the world these days to take your and distance from Moscow.
crucial test — which Campa fails — is whether there is a full political balance Stalinism and Trotsky and a political rehabilitation of the Jathe second factor is the changing relation between the Communist and Trotskyist parties. In Mexicc there have been OLLWECE CP Revolutionary Workers Party Fourth International PREMATURE When a PRT leader was recently murdered the CP 1o0k a leading place in the funeral cortege. In oncE Trotskyism can no longer he ignorea as a current anen to the workers movement.
of Trotsky as a spent political premature. And, ironically, the appearance book strength of Trotskyism. And there is a built-in quotu
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