Serge (Victor Lvovich Kibalchich), born in Brussels in 1890 of Russian revolutionary émigré parents, led an active and courageous life as an anarchist militant in Belgium, France, and Spain, until 1917, when, interned in France, he managed to get himself exchanged for an officer of the French Military Mission in Petrograd. He joined the Bolshevik Party, fought in the civil war, participated in the First Congress of the Communist International, and became an editor of its organ of the same name. He joined the Left Opposition in 1923. He was
It was to the cause of the workers that Leon Davidovitch devoted his long life of toil, combat, thought, and inflexible resistance to inhumanity. All those who approached him know that he was disinterested and conneited task wicke essentine part at a historic task, which was not his alone, movement of the socialist masses conscious of the perils and possibilities of our period. "These are bitter times, he wrote, "but we have no other country." His character was integral in the full sense of the word: seeing no gap expelled from the party and imprisoned in 1928, banished from the USSR in 1936. He remained active till some years after World War II, then gradually drifted away from Bolshevism and into relative inactivity. He died in exile in Mexico some years ago Trotsky, written in conjunction with Trotsky's companion Natalia Sedova, was published in Paris by Amiot-Dumont in 1947. between behavior and conviction, idea and action; not admitting that higher interests, which give meaning te life, can be sacrificed to what is passing and persor to banal petty egotism. His moral uprightness was to an intelligence that was simultaneously object passionate, and always tended toward depth creative effort, the fight for the right... A simple man. He happened to note in th book whose author alluded to his "wi" was another man who] wanted powr
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Those who hunted him down and killed him, as they killed the Russian Revolution and martyrized the peoples of the US S R, will meet their punishment. Already they have called down on a Soviet Union
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL weakened by the massacres called the "Stalinist purges" the most disastrous invasion. Thev continue on their road to the abyss... A few days after his death, I wrote change nothing in these "Throughout his whole heroic life, Leon Davidovitch ›elieved in the future, in the liberation of men. Far from weakening during the last sombre years, matured still further and was rendered firmer by ordeal. Humanity of the future, freed from all oppression, will eliminate from its life all violence. As he did to many others, he taught me this faith."
FROM "NOTES ON THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION"
By JACQUES SADOUL they are so culogistic that one hesitates to quote them — from fear of falling into the "personality cult." makes them outstanding, however, is the fact that at a later date,