Leon Trotsky: Greetings to the Chilean Opposition

April 15, 1933

[Writing of Leon Trotsky, Vol. 5, 1932-33, New York 1972, p. 202]

Dear Comrades,

I cannot but cordially welcome the adherence of your party to the International Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists). I received the documents you sent, and with the help of a French comrade who can read Spanish I shall attempt to acquaint myself with the internal life of your organization. I think that the trade-union question plays a very great part, for you as everywhere else, in your struggle against Stalinism. I am sending you a proposed declaration on the topic of the antifascist congress being initiated by the Stalinists. The declaration does not examine the problem as a whole, but merely proclaims the most elementary principles of Marxist policy in the trade-union field. It may be of some use to you. Are there comrades among you who know foreign languages? If so, who? We could send you documentation in French, German, and Russian, but unfortunately not in Spanish.

With best communist greetings,

Leon Trotsky