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Struggle Sharpens Inside Belgian Socialist Party

The Internationalist No. 7, 27 March 1963 · pp 4-6 · 867 words

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STRUGGLE SHARFENS DNS IDC BELGTAY SOCIALIST PARTY

BRUSSELS, Harei 20 -~ The struccle inside the elgian: Social~ ist porty between tho rirht.and left wings reached new levels of: sharpness: when all.the socialist dailies in the” country published an editorial | larch 13.signed by party chairnan, Leo Collard, Piatiaten dine DB. Kandel, editor of the left-wing woekly La Gauche ond E, Glinne, the nain spokesman of tho left Socialists in pariianent, with expulsion. :

Handel and Glinne — played a veda in the struggle against ‘proposed new antistrike ct ae a t.a recent emergency oongress of tho Socialist party, liandel, in open defiance of party leader Spaak, said that the tendency he represented would fient to the end against such repressive legislation.

On Horeh 1G La Gauche responded to the attack on liandel and Glinne by publishing an gditor 1 si¢ned by Jacques Yerna, secre~ tary of the important Lier:o Trade Union Federation. Yerna told Collard that if he. wanted to expel liandel and Glinne, he would cAlieante.. to: expel him and the majority of the Walleon tepcerenion m1 aNUTB.

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Articles ineludo. "he New Fhase of the. Sino-Soviet Conflict: and the International Crisis of Stalinism" by Livio Naitany. "Yhither the Algerian Revolution?" by Il. Pablo; "Independence: in - Jenaica”. 7 Ben ilonroe; "Five Years of Coonomic Upheavalg in China" i “The masses and the Intellectuals on the Ilove in e Secae’ a **Arabd Sooialism’ and the Nasserite Tationel -‘Hovement" by A; Shas, "The Coming Independence of Kenya" “Rising: Revolution in South Africa" by D,. Anderson; and revolutions ' edepted by the Internnotional Seeretarint of the Fourth International en the Sino-Sevist conflict, tho situation in the yang’ and a” banning of ths A&lcorian Communist party. :

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NAY TURN TROTSKY fH 0?

‘Dateban Volkov, grendson of Leon Txt » ap jared before a Judge of a oivil court in Mexico City, tpcether with his lawyer, Harch 16 to file the will of Natalia rest Trotsky, widow of the

mortyred founder of the Soviet Union who won assassinated. twentythree years aro by Stalin.

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Hatalie frotely requested in her will that her hone tn Coyoacan, where Trotsky wos murdered and where she lived until a yeor before her own doath should be turned into: a museun.

Esteban’ Volkev had alroady reveolod this wish of his’ grandmother when public ceremonies were held in Coyoaoan at the tine her ashes were broucht to Ilexico. Natalia Trotaky died in Paris - January 23 names of cancer. She was aigney years old. | NEW PAORS_ ON FRAME-UP Or agacuienes

The popular weekly magazine Oronyek (Little Plane), which went..on the. newsstands in i:osco feset 24, contains an article. sicned by IHikeuline which reveols inportant:. new facts about the frame-up of. iarshal Hilchail Tukhechevsky, the Red aces, apet, out~ stending general,: in 1937.

Seer ‘confirms reperts published te other ewneteal that on Hitler's orders, German Army intelligence chief Reinhard © Heydrioch.forged Tukhachevsky's name to incriminating documents which were then successfully planted on the Csech intelligence - service. These wore turned over to Cseoh President duand . Benes who passed them on to Stalin in the fall of 1936. : "Stelin used then Ps order tho itil to sentence Tukhsohevaky

‘the sacasiné does not dincuso the apeculation that the doocue ments were first manufactured by the GFU under Stalin's orders . and then planted on tho Gestape. It thus leaves open the: possi- . bility that. Stalin was cenuinely taken in by Hitler® 8 y Bet to have Stalin hinself decapitate the Red Arny. . } “(he Kremlin ‘announced. Juno 12, 1937, that Tukhachevaky had | been shet together with seven other tor sommonders of the Red — | Arny. These. perpen narked the beginning of a bleed bath that . Pee pag the Army officer staff in the face of. Hitler's preperetions to. attack the Soviet Union. .

At the tine, ‘Leon Trotsky denounced the secret trials as

.and accused Stalin of opening up the defenses of the “ Sevact Inien and facilitating an on by German imperialisn. For. suoti’ wornincs, the Stalinistsa denounced 7 as a "traitor" working ina "pact" with litler.

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Of the Sitne judges who acted on Stalin's oxters to condemn SoRhechers) 7) six were later murdored by Stalin. .

Oron: yok reveals that Stalin porsonally ordercd the wubter of Tukhoe evely's ared mother, his. sister Sophie ‘and hie brothers Aloxonéer and Hicholas, Three other sistors wero sent to sleve= labor camps, When Tuklachevaky's dauchter reached the ace of sixteon, she too was deported. Jhat happened to 7 ore wife is unimown. Sho “disappeared ."

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