TROTSKYISM IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCO FACTS AND DOCUMENTS The judgement found the POUM to be true socialists, and absolved them of treason and espionage.”įorty years later, in a work about the Spanish civil war ( Guerra y revolución en España 1936-1939, III, 78-79), Soria himself stated – without mentioning anything about his own role in disseminating the accusation – that “the charge that the POUM leaders were ‘agents of the Gestapo and Franco’ was no more than a fabrication, because it was impossible to adduce the slightest evidence” and the whole story was “an extension into the international arena of the methods that constituted the most somber aspect of what has since been called Stalinism”. A real representative of Trotsky, Grandizo Munis, declared that the POUM were in no way Trotskyists. Arguer caused difficulties by insisting on testifying in Catalan. Gironella, the young leader who had organized the POUM militia in July 1936 (as well as the POUM cavalry, barracks, anthem and band), addressed the prosecutor, to the general scandal, as Vishinsky. Republican ministers and ex-ministers, headed by Largo Caballero and Zugazagoitia, gave evidence in the POUM's favour. “When the POUM leaders came to the tribunal, however, the case against them collapsed. In his “classic book” The Spanish Civil, the historian Hugh Thomas writes: The POUM trial didn’t turn out as the Stalinists had planned. The pamphlet was part of the Stalinist campaign to prepare the POUM trial which was held in Barcelona in October 1938. He also wrote articles in the Comintern organ International Press Correspondence. The author of this booklet, published in several languages in 1938, was the representative in Spain of the French Communist daily, L'Humanité. London Lawrence and Wishart Editor’s note Trotskyism in the Service of Franco Trotskyism in the Service of Franco A documented Record of TREACHERY by the P.O.U.M in SPAIN Georges Soria
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