IRREPRESSIBLE INTEREST IN TROTSKY INCREASES
Interest in what Trotskyism really is continues to rise in the Soviet Union. Beside the cases reported by Comrade Richards on pages 18-20, several items of news this last quarter confirm this promising phenomenon.
In the August 16th London Observer, its correspondent George Sherman reports concerning the Us Exhibition in
The Americans and Russians have also reached a compromise about the 100-odd books on Russia and political science which were removed from the open shelf at the instigation of the Ministry of Culture.
Back from the American warehouse, they are enshrined in glass cases — forbidden fruit to be seen but not touched.
### Stalin and Trotsky
But the encyclopaedias alongside them on the open shelves are touched — and often. Young people with notebooks openly copy facts about Stalin previously unknown to the Russian citizen. I saw a young man intently taking notes about a man whose name few
Soviet citizens still dare to speak in public — Leon
In an article of his series "Khrushchev's Russia," H E Salisbury, who recently spent four months in the
Union, writes in the September 11th New York Times:
Russians used to blanch at mention of the name in pron di do be it
Trotsky's name into a discussion of books on Russia.
Another joked about his physical resemblance to
Trotsky, and a third said, "We have begun to talk about Trotsky a little, but we still don't write about him."
We have also been informed that articles on the US SR from our French equivalent, Quatrième Internationale, were translated with polemic commentaries and officially distributed at Moscow tion of the Trotskyists. This break through the spiracy of silence about Trotskyism's real ideas is immensely encouraging, for the truth that we present need fear no Kremlinite commentaries. We shall be happy to provide the Soviet educational authorities with many more articles for them to contradict; indeed, if they would assure us of i 6,000 to 7,000 circulation among Soviet university youth, we should be delighted to ourth International Russian edition.
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THE ARAB REVOLUTION
By MICHEL PABLO
Especially at the moment of de Gaulle's new proposals concerning Algeria and the critical vote on the question of the Algerian war and Algerian independence at the United Nations, this 72-page pamphlet is particularly timely. But its value transcends any particular component, however important or timely, for it constitutes a complete survey of the whole subject of the entire Arab revolution. One section provides the necessary historical background of liberation movements, another analyzes the economic structures of the whole vast region extending from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and a third explains, as against the fatal errors of unprincipled
Stalinist zigzags, what should be the policy of revolutionary Marxists on the steadily unfolding Arab revolution.
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