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Letter to Max Shachtman, August 22, 1933
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 22 August 1933 |
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Dear Comrade Shachtman:
I was greatly disappointed by your sudden departure, which deprived us of the possibility to see each other and to talk to each other for the last time on European as well as American questions. In the next couple of days we are preparing to make a great jump ahead. The Revolutionary Socialist Party of Holland (Sneevliet) has already now officially joined our organization. This means: 950 members and support in the form of a trade union organization of 23,000 members. Sneevliet was by me [visited me] and we came to an agreement on all the points.
Of no less importance is the fact that the Independent Socialist Party of Holland (over 7,000 members) has come nearer to us. They are now carrying on negotiations with Sneevliet for united work as a preliminary to complete fusion.
With Comrade Walcher of the SAP we have come to a complete agreement on the fusion of their organization with our German section. I hope that Walcher will be able to carry it through in the near future.
According to Walcher and Sneevliet the party of Kilbom in Sweden stands much nearer to us than to Brandler (15,000 members and 7,000 of the youth). At the conference which opens up the 27th of this month in Paris the question of the direction of the party of Kilbom will be subjected to a test as well as the question of the Norwegian group Mot Dag.
A very important process is now going on in the British ILP. I am writing about it to Comrade Cannon. I am enclosing herewith a copy of my letter to him as well as a copy of my letter to you. It is necessary to assist now our British section in protecting the ILP from Stalinism and in gaining it for Marxism. This is perfectly possible, and the American comrades can perform in this direction an important part of the work.
You understand that I am fully preoccupied now with these problems and therefore have not yet read your work on the Negro question. But I shall return to it without fail.
Comradely yours,
L. Trotsky