FALL OF TROTSKY

Southland Times, Issue 19456, 21 January 1925, Page 5

FALL OF TROTSKY

FORMAL SUBMISSION. STATEMENT TO EXECUTIVE. jISCIPLINE THE VALUABLE WEAPON (By Telegraph.—Press Awn.—-Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MOSCOW, January 19. M. Trotsky’s statement was read at the Jcmmunist Party's executive meeting. He jenied that he favoured a revision of or had belittled Far fom being refractory under discipline, he jjd he was ready to accomplish any task Dpoeed by the party, but the recent dis[Misions necessitated his being relieved of be port of President of the War Council The resolution adopted was:—“That this meeting affirms that iron discipline has alr»vs been the most valuable Communist eapon. and Trotsky’s repeated attacks n Bolshevism compelled action to be sken.” It accused Trotsky of making iniself the mouthpiece of the small bourpoise his anti-Leninist views about peafists being especially dangerous, because hey undermined the confidence <jf the easants in the Soviet policy. The resolution concluded by declaring hst Trotsky’ submission was purely formal, bhe did not admit his errors. e LONDON, January 19. (Received January 21, la.m.). The Morning Post, commenting on M. Trotsky’s fall, says: ‘lt cannot be said that the Triumvirate —Kameneff Stalin and Zinoviev —have shown any marked ability since they gained control. There is something wrong, no doubt, and M. Trotsky, for months past, has been aware of this. He s shrewd enough to see that his great days are ended and that the only hope lies in agreements with forces more powerful than those which the Bolshevists let loose on the world. Now he is gone, leaving only a wild incompetent man in his place.” The resolution passed by the Congress of Active Workers of the Communist Party in Moscow concerning M. Trotsky’s book on the history of the Revolution, runs as follows: — This conference cannot but express its indignation, especially as regards M. Trotsky's perversion of the real relations between Comrade Lenin and the Central Conin', tree of the party, not only by the untrue description of actual events, but also by his revolt from the Bolshevik ideas. Thereby he seriously misleads the Committee, the party, and the country. His book is an attempt to replace Leninism by Trotskyism, and Trotskyism is nothing more than a species of Menshevism. M. Trotsky’s articles are the continuation of the winter discussion, the continuation of the battle which Comrade Trotsky has engaged against the chief officers of the party and the Communist International.”