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American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky. World voices on the Moscow trials - Image 14. 1936?. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. February 16, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3054/show/2999.

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Title	World voices on the Moscow trials
Alternative Title	World voices on the Moscow trials: a compilation from the labor and liberal press of the world
Creator (LCNAF)	American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky
Publisher	Pioneer Publishers
Place of Creation (TGN)	New York, New York
Date	1936?
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich, 1883-1936 Kamenev, Lev Borisovich, 1883-1936
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text Image
Original Item Extent	64 pages: 1 illustration; 20 cm
Original Item Location	DK266.3.A45
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304404~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
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Title	Image 14
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File Name	uhlib_2774257_013.jpg
Transcript	"second" terrorist trial before the same court! There is nothing but malevolent phrases in general terms and, most incredible of all, the most abject of self-vilification and "confessions" on the part of the accused men, once more without any concrete detail of any sort concerning their "crime"; they fairly enter into competition with the State prosecutor in branding themselves, and actually beg for the death penalty. But why is Stalin thus getting rid of the old party leaders on the very eve of the enactment of the new Constitution, with all its democratic flavor? Why is he breaking, at this particular moment, the bonds that still unite him with the old traditions and the past history of the Bolshevik party, the international Communist movement, and the Bolshevik revolution, as Napoleon once broke with the Jacobins from among whom he had risen to power? In spite of all the democratic rights granted to Soviet citizens by the new Constitution Stalin intends to be in a position to make it a serviceable instrument of the consolidation of his personal dictatorship. For there is one right that is still denied the Soviet citizen—the right of free political self-determination and free organization in general, without which all other rights can easily be rendered valueless. The political monopoly and the leadership in all permitted organizations and all State and municipal bodies, and therewith the disposal of the press, of the right of assembly, and so on, remains in the hands of the Communist party which Stalin has politically emasculated; in other words, it remains constitutionally reserved to Stalin himself. But he still has to face the danger that certain provisions of the new Constitution, above all, the secrecy of the ballot, may become buttresses for a legal struggle of the working masses for their rights —above all, for the right of free organization. For that reason he is urgently at work now making "innocuous" all those who are in a position to organize this mass struggle. He is sending Social Democrats wholesale into his concentration camps. And he is hurriedly exterminating the last of the old Bolshevik leaders whose names and whose opposition to him are known to the masses and who could thus become particularly dangerous to him in his peaceful and constitutional struggle for his sole dominance. If the Soviet Union is to be preserved as the nucleus of peace, and the war peril facing all humanity thus exorcised, all friends of the Russian Revolution and of world peace must stand resolutely on the side of the Russian workers and peasants in order to assist them to defend the possibilities of democratic and Socialistic development of the Soviet Union against the nationalistic and Bonapartist policy of Stalin. The Moscow murders are perhaps one of the final warnings.—Yours, etc. Paris, August 28. 12