FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANSWERS MOSCOW SLANDER ON OSWALD
When the Dallas police reported that they had found “Communist literature" in the room of Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee H. Oswald, both Pravda and Izvestia, the two main publications of the Khrushchev government, reacted in a not very credible way. They said that if Oswald had any Com~ munist connections they were of the variety espoused by Leon Trotsky.
While the Moscow press had insisted that in all likelihood Oswald was the victim of a frame-up plotted by racists, an imputation such as. the above was already an admission that he mi ght be guilty, but if he was then he was a "Trotskyist."
This, of course, fits in with the new slanderous campaign against Trotskyisi. and the Fourth International launched by Izvestia and Communist in relation: to the Sino-Soviet conflict. [See World GubTook September 27, October 4, November 8 and November 22, ]
In Paris on November 28 the United Secretariat of the Fourth International denounced the attempt by