Leon Trotsky: Letter to the National Committee, CLA

February 10, 1932

[Writing of Leon Trotsky, Vol. 13. Supplement (1929-1933), New York 1979, p. 106 f., title: “The Weekly Comes First”]

To the National Committee, CLA

Dear Comrades:

I acknowledge receipt of your letter with the enclosed. I am sending you herewith a copy of my letter to Comrade Shachtman.

I notice from your decision that you are planning to make a theoretical organ a reality. In order to eliminate possible misunderstandings, I consider it necessary to state that you should not at all consider yourselves bound in this question, because at the time when I wrote you about a subsidy for a theoretical organ, we did not yet have the terrible crisis and the existence of The Militant was not yet threatened. Please dispose of the sum as you yourselves see fit. It would be very regrettable to establish a theoretical organ at the cost of the weekly Militant.

With best comradely greetings,

L. Trotsky