James Partsch-Galvan for Houston City Council 2005

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Socialist Equality Party <sep@socialistequality.com> Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 8:48 PM <br /> <br /> Reply-To: Socialist Equality Party <sep@socialistequality.com><br /> <br /> To: "mayorgalvan@gmail.com" <mayorgalvan@gmail.com> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Why and How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky - WSWS online interviews with David North October 3 and 10 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> October 3 and October 10, 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Seventy-five years ago, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Soviet secret police, the GPU, in Coyoacán, a suburb of Mexico City, where he was living in exile. Thus ended the life of the great Marxist theoretician of world socialist revolution and one of the towering figures of modern political history.<br /> <br /> The assassination of Leon Trotsky ranks among the most politically consequential crimes of the twentieth century, with far-reaching and long-enduring consequences for the development of the international working class and the world socialist movement. And yet for decades the circumstances surrounding Trotsky’s assassination remained shrouded in secrecy. The massive scale of the Stalinist conspiracy against Trotsky—in particular, the extent of the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by the GPU—was the subject of a carefully orchestrated cover-up.<br /> <br /> In 1975 the International Committee of the Fourth International launched the first intensive and systematic investigation by the Trotskyist movement into the 1940 assassination. This investigation, known as Security and the Fourth International, led to the exposure of the network of GPU agents within the Fourth International—especially in Paris, Mexico City and New York—which ensured the success of Stalin’s conspiracy against Trotsky’s life. The International Committee’s investigation was bitterly opposed by Pabloite and pseudo-left organizations, which denounced the exposure of spies placed inside the Trotskyist movement as “agent-baiting.” This has remained their position, despite the fact that state intelligence documents released following the dissolution of the Soviet Union confirmed the findings of the International Committee and vindicated Security and the Fourth International.<br /> <br /> David North, the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, has been a major figure in the international Trotskyist movement for forty years. He played a central role in the Security and the Fourth International investigation. In these international on-line interviews, WSWS correspondent Andrea Peters will speak with North about the significance of Trotsky’s assassination, the origins and development of the International Committee’s investigation, and its key findings.<br /> <br /> The interviews will take place on Saturday, October 3 and Saturday, October 10 at 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (Time zone conversions). For information on how to listen in and participate, please register by using the button below. We urge our readers to make a donation to help cover the costs of this important event.<br /> <br /> Register now<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Copyright © 1998-2015 World Socialist Web Site - All rights reserved <br /> <br /> About the WSWS | Contact Us <br /> <br />

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