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Letter to the International Secretariat, April 2, 1931
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 2 April 1931 |
National Conferences First
To the International Secretariat of the Left Opposition
Paris
Dear Comrades:
From your minutes I see that you are considering the eventual possibility of an international conference for June 15 next. I must say that the preparation of the international conference for that date seems impossible to me. When we accepted at the end of 1930 the idea of holding a European conference for May, we assumed that the conferences of the most important sections (the German and the French) would be held before this international conference. Now, this prerequisite is far from being realized. To call together an international conference in the midst of a period of national discussion is to put the cart before the horse. I therefore propose that the International Secretariat, in conformity with its first circular letter, in which the central point was not the date of the meeting but the mode of preparation, decide that it be obligatory for the national conferences (at least the German and French conferences) to be held before the international conference and that the interval of time between the national conferences and the international conference must be large enough to allow all the national sections a serious discussion, including analyses and discussions of the differences.
Insofar as I personally am concerned, for the moment I can contribute only to the preparation of the conference with theses on the Russian question, the first part of which I have already sent you and the second part of which I will send you soon.
As to the question of the world crisis, I can only propose an international commission with the leading nucleus at Paris. For my own part, I will be quite ready to participate in the work of this commission by means of correspondence, but I will have to limit my collaboration to this alone.
I hope to be able to send you soon a draft of theses on democratic slogans in the revolutionary struggle of the international proletariat.
With my best communist greetings,
L. Trotsky