Tribute to Leon Trotsky, 80 years since his assassination by Stalinism
From Japan, salute by the JRCL-RMF
“Revolutionary Marxists must fight together internationally for building revolutionary vanguard parties that overcome Stalinism”
Dear comrades,
I am sending a salute to your event on the 80th anniversary of Leon Trotsky's assassination, wishing it to be an occasion for revolutionary advance.
We the JRCL organized the 58th International Antiwar Assemblies in Japan on August 2nd together with Zengakuren and the Antiwar Youths. Revolutionary Japanese workers and students received the letter of solidarity from the FLTI-CI with great internationalist enthusiasm. In these assemblies, we renewed and fortified our resolve: 'Fight to break through the crisis of war erupting amid the US-China cold war!' 'Revolutionize the dark 21st century world covered with wars, poverty and tyrannies by an internationally united struggle of the working class!'
Today US imperialism is revealing its decay in every respect more than ever. The rulers of the neo-Stalinist state of China under the signboard of 'market socialism' are laying bare their nature against the toiling masses, nature as an enemy of the working class. This is the reality that the contemporary world is showing us today, nearly 30 years after the collapse of the Stalinist USSR.
For the winning of a revolutionary overturn of this 'dark 21st century world', the revolutionary spirit of Leon Trotsky who staked his life on the struggle against Stalinism must be revived. His soul as an anti-Stalin revolutionary must be continued to live. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his assassination, most of those who style themselves 'Trotskyists' do nothing and keep silence. They have reduced themselves into groups of civil activists worshipping the flags of 'ecology', 'human rights' and the like. In the middle of such a situation, it is greatly significant that you are organizing this event to commemorate Trotsky.
In his effort to break through 'the crisis of the revolutionary leadership of the working class', Trotsky proposed the 'Transitional Programme'; however, he did not fully develop the pursuit of the construction of a vanguard party organization. While reappraising Trotsky's achievements including what he left unaccomplished, revolutionary Marxists must fight together internationally for building revolutionary vanguard parties that overcome Stalinism. I believe this is the way to revive Trotsky's revolutionary spirit today.
For strengthening the international solidarity of revolutionary Marxists!
