THE RETURN OF THE ASHES OF COMRADE LESOIL
The ashes of Comrade Lesoil, founder of the Communist movement and the Trotskyist movement in Belgium, were 1941, together with the majority of the well-known pre-war Communist and Trotskyist militants, Comrade Lesoil had been transported to the concentration camp of Neuennear Hamburg, where he died in 1943.
On the occasion of this return of his ashes, the Charleroi comrades wanted to avoid having Comrade Lesoil's ideas or institutions, against which he fought for 25 years. For this reason they themselves organized a ceremony at Châtelineau, where Comrade Lesoil had been a municipal councillor. Some hundred friends of the old revolutionary leader were present at this cerewas suffused with internationalist and revolutionary Marxist spirit. as would have been wished by our lamented comrade, who was a personal friend of Leon Trotsky, was present at the Founding Congress of the Fourth International, as well as international meetings organized by our movement before the Second World War.