Source: Victor Serge & Leon Trotsky, La Lutte Contre le Stalinisme, Maspero, Paris, 1977.
Translated: For marxists.org by Mitch Abidor;
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My dear friend,
I had counted on going to your house today – even though I fear tiring you out on a busy day — but I see that I can’t ... But I’ll come at around 2:30.
In Barcelona on the 6th they – the men of the PSUC – executed Francisco Ferrer, the grandson of the other one. [1] Before Garnik’s suicide [2] I learned of several executions of Stalinist leaders in Central Asia. I think you know about the disappearance of the son of Abramovitch – Gorkin has been accused in Barcelona and they are openly preparing the outlawing of POUM, whose Batalla has been indefinitely suspended ... The anarchists seem disposed to facilitate the strangling of the Spanish revolution and the crushing of the POUM in order to save their own skin (in which they are very much in error ...). This is the balance sheet of the past few days. Until tomorrow, I heartily shake your hand
Victor Serge
1. Mark Rhein, son of the Menshevik leader Rafael Abramovitch, who was arrested in Barcelona in April 1837 and never heard from again
2. Bolshevik party member who committed suicide in 1937 after having been accused of participating in a military plot.
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