Leon
Trotsky: Letter to the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the
Communist International
July
1927
[Leon
Trotsky on China,
New York 1976, p. 251, title “For
a Special Session of the Presidium of the ECCI”.
I tried to use the Pīnyīn
spelling of Chinese names. I use the spelling from the original text
in a hyperlink, if it differs significantly]
To
the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist
International:
The
recent news from China shows that placing our stakes on the Wǔhàn
government as the “organizing center of the revolution” was a
devastating mistake. Within the territory of the Wǔhàn government
the counterrevolution organized with ease at the same time that the
workers’ movement was suppressed. The situation is extremely
serious for both the Chinese revolution and the USSR because a defeat
for the Chinese revolution increases the danger of war tenfold.
In
view of this, we consider it especially necessary to immediately
convene the Presidium of the ECCI along with members and alternates
of the EC who are in Moscow to discuss the situation and correct the
mistaken line that is being carried out by the Comintern in China and
that was approved by the last plenum of the ECCI.
Vujović
Zinoviev
Trotsky
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