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Paul Siegel is the co-chair of the U.S. Moscow Trials Campaign Committee.

With the juridical rehabilitation of Zinoviev, Kamenev, Pyatakov, and Radek, Mathieu Thierry represented the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), French section of the Fourth International, at the Aug. 6 rally.

I bring you greetings from the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). This meeting today is one of the better examples of the determination of revolutionary socialists. It is a sign of our optimism and our confidence about the Denmark The following letter Aug. rally.

Dear comrades, We send revolutionary greetings to you from SAP (Socialistisk Arbejderparti), Danish section of the Fourth International. We ourselves celebrated the 50th anniversary of the FI in Copenhagen on May 14 at a rally followed by an anti-racist party sponsored by the Danish and Swedish sections of the International.

The rally gathered some 400 people. The antiracist event—aimed at opposing the growing all of the defendants of the Moscow Trials have finally been exonerated-all, that is, except the chief defendant, Leon Trotsky, and his son and co-worker, Leon Sedov, who, although not physically present at the trials, were declared guilty in absentia.

Trotsky was described in the trials as the mastermind of a criminal conspiracy. This conspiracy has now been officially declared to have been non-existent, but his name remains uncleared. It is as if the foundation of a building were to have been demolished with the building continuing to float in mid-air in defiance of the law of gravity.

The exonerations, nevertheless, are a great victory for Trotskyism, vindicating strength of the working class.

Twenty years ago, in May '68, the working class in France, in a general strike of 11 million workers, showed us that revolution was possible in the developed capitalist countries. All the pessimistic theories about the integration of the working class into capitalist society were defeated.

At the same time, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the upsurge in Czechoslovakia in 1968 confirmed the new period of class struggle in all the sectors of the world. This was-and remains—a new period for the development of the LCR and the Fourth International.

racism directed against immigrants and refugees —was successful too, in spite of the fact that the 500 people in attendance had to leave the hall for a while because of a bomb threat.

Some racist elements have been doing wall paintings with slogans such as "White power— kill SAP." During the week following the rally, an attempt was made to set our party headquarters on fire.

We wish for you a successful rally and look forward to collaboration with you in our common struggle to build strong sections of the Fourth International and a strong International. Long live the Fourth International.

Fraternally, for the Political Bureau of SAP, ciated with his struggle against the counterthe struggle against all odds of the Trotskyists in the Soviet Union in the darkest days of Stalinist terror and the certainty of Trotsky that history would overturn the verdict of the trials.

While the main impetus toward exoneration undoubtedly came from internal developments in the Soviet Union, pressure from abroad, it should be noted, helped. The international campaign for rehabilitation led by the Moscow Trials Campaign Committee obtained the endorsement of 97 representatives of socialist, labor, and radical parties in the parliaments of 19 countries and of leaders in the trade union, cultural, academic, and civil libertarian Susan Caldwell represented Gauche SocialistelSocialist Challenge at the Aug. 6 rally.

I bring you greetings from Gauche Socialiste/Socialist Challenge, a sympathizing organization of the Fourth International in the Canadian state. We are a new organization which resulted from the fusion between Gauche Socialiste in Quebec and the Alliance for Socialist Action groups in English Canada.

At our congress in May, we also commemorated the 50th anniversary of the prominent in various fields, including Ed Asner, Philip Berrigan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Michael Meerpol, Pete Seeger, Studs Terkel, and George Wald.

Now the U.S. Moscow Trials Campaign Committee is calling for the rehabilitation of Trotsky and the publication of the writings of the defendants. The writing of Trotsky, in particular, is feared by the Soviet bureaucracy, for it is at odds with its policy of solving the problems of the Soviet Union at the expense of the workers and of continuing the Stalinist policy of making deals with imperialism at the expense of revolutionary struggles abroad.

However, some intellectuals have already called for the exoneration and publication of Trotsky.

The U.S. Moscow Trials Campaign Committee urges all of you to join them in the struggle for that objective. If you'd like to add your name to the appeal or assist the campaign in any other way, please contact the Campaign c/o P.O. Box No. 318, Gracie Station, New York, N.Y. 10028.

founding of the Fourth International. We also proudly claim as our heritage one of the founding members of the Fourth International, Maurice Spector.

We see our organization as the continuation and the putting into action of their ideas. To give some specific examples from our work: We struggle for the self-determination of the oppressed minorities in the Canadian state, including Quebec and the native peoples. And our organization is actively building opposition to the imposition of a new law that would recriminalize abortion after the Canadian Supreme Court knocked down the old law.

Fundamentally, we feel the need for a revolutionary international and we believe it is both our responsibility and our privilege to be part of the Fourth International.

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