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Attempts to Revive the Control Commission’s Corpse
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 27 September 1933 |
The Executive Committee at one time appointed an ad hoc control commission, for the sole purpose of investigating slanders against some comrades that were being spread by opponents of the League and had appeared even inside the League. Three comrades who were very familiar with the dishonest character of the insinuations were chosen to sit on the commission. Comrade Witte was designated as the head of the commission. He not only did not censure the actions of the slandered comrades but officially assumed responsibility for these actions as a member of the plenum.
This control commission, however, proved to be incapable of working. Over a period of several months it did not meet a single time. It did not conduct any investigation whatsoever into the slanders and insinuations.
In view of the obvious deficiency of the temporary control commission, the plenum, the highest body of the Bolshevik-Leninists, issued a definitive resolution on the subject of the slanders. By that action the control commission, which in actuality no longer existed, was dissolved formally as well.
However, when it became clear that the members of the commission, and Comrade Witte in particular, were drawn into an unprincipled struggle against the League and against the plenum (IS), they made an attempt to revive the control commission, which had already been abolished, in order to use its name to legitimize the unsavory slanders against their current political adversaries which they themselves had previously denounced.
The Executive Committee condemns this inadmissible conduct with indignation and revulsion and serves notice that it will purge its ranks of all such corrupt petty-bourgeois and lumpen-proletarian morality with a red-hot iron.