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Sep 13, 2026
Keir MilburnHOST
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Jeremy GilbertHOST
I would argue in the street with Trotskyists b- based on the same thing.
Jeremy GilbertHOST
But I think also, it ...
Jeremy GilbertHOST
I also think one reason all that's not so important these days, 'cause I think the most recent, all the most recent historiography on the Spanish Civil War has come to th- draws the conclusion that the answer to the question, like, would the Republic have won if it had all been organized along ardo- along anarcho-syndicalist lines and, and the Stalinist Communist Party had not intervened, is, is categorically [laughs] no.
PillsHOST
I, I don't mind looking at the argument 'cause it's funny, but I don't speak for the left, and I don't wanna be so annoying as others I have seen to decide that I personally am the left, and now it's the burden has fallen onto me to decide who should shut up, 'cause I'm not gonna make them shut up.
EricHOST
The conference itself has such a weird background because it used to be the flagship conference of a Trotskyist organization called the International Socialist Organization.
EricHOST
Uh, and they got a reputation for being kind of, uh, controlling of the message, the messages that they send out.
EricHOST
You know, they would, they would make sure, you know, as, as a Trotskyist group, they would ensure kind of ideological conformity behind closed doors before they went out into the public.
EricHOST
But they collapsed in 2019 when allegations that there was, uh, some kind of suppression of, um, sexual assault charges within the organization.
EricHOST
The leadership, like, suppressed these charges, and then it all came out, and the organization quickly lost, like, a third of its membership and collapsed.
EricHOST
But then Haymarket Books took over, which was, like, their publishing wing.
EricHOST
So they were somewhat separate from this Trotskyist organization, but, uh, shared some of the membership.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
This struck me as a good way of putting in the time and keeping out of sight.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Unfortunately, the same idea occurred to a lot of people, and a few days later, after I left Barcelona, the police raided one of the public baths and arrested a number of Trotskyists in a state of nature.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Halfway up the ramblers, I ran into one of the wounded men from the sanatorium, Moran.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
We exchanged the sort of invisible wink that people were exchanging at that time, and managed, in an unobtrusive way, to meet in a café farther up the street.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
My wife and I visited COP that afternoon.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
You were allowed to visit prisoners who were not incommunicado, though it was not safe to do so more than once or twice.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
The police watched the people who came and went, and if you visited the jails too often, you stamped yourself as a friend of Trotskyists and probably ended in jail yourself.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
This had already happened to a number of people.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
There is a fairly obvious reason for this.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Not everyone in England has heard of Trotskyism.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Whereas every English-speaking person shudders at the name of anarchist, let it once be known that anarchists are implicated and the right atmosphere of prejudice is established.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
After that, the blame can safely be transferred to the Trotskyists.
16 MINS LATER
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
In addition, I must say something about the general charge that the POUM was a secret fascist organisation in the pay of Franco and Hitler.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
This charge was repeated over and over in the communist press, especially from the beginning of 1937 onwards.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
It was part of the worldwide drive of the official Communist Party against Trotskyism, of which the POUM was supposed to be representative in Spain.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Trotskyism, according to Frante Rojo, the Valencia Communist paper, is not a political doctrine.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
It seemed only too natural in Barcelona.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
The Stalinists were in the saddle, and therefore it was a matter of course that every Trotskyist was in danger.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
The thing everyone feared was a thing which, after all, did not happen, a fresh outbreak of street fighting, which, as before, would be blamed on the POUM and the anarchists.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
There were times when I caught my ears listening for the first shots.
27 MINS LATER
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Before leaving Spain, you had to have your passport stamped in three separate places, by the chief of police, by the French consul, and by the Catalan immigration authorities.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
The chief of police was the danger, of course, but perhaps the British consul could fix things up without letting it be known that we had anything to do with the POUM.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Obviously, there must be a list of foreign Trotskyist suspects, and very likely our names were on it.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
But with luck we might get to the frontier before the list.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Between the anarchists and the socialists, there were ancient jealousies.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
The POUM, as Marxists, was sceptical of anarchism, while from the pure anarchist standpoint, The Trotskyism of the POUM was not much preferable to the Stalinism of the Communists.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Nevertheless, the Communist tactics tended to drive the two parties together.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
When the POUM joined in the disastrous fighting in Barcelona in May, it was mainly from an instinct to stand by the CNT, and later, when the POUM was suppressed, the anarchists were the only people who dared to raise a voice in its defence.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Inside the hotel, among the heterogeneous mob who for the most part had not dared to put their noses out of doors, a horrible atmosphere of suspicion had grown up.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Various people were infected with spy mania and were creeping round whispering that everyone else was a spy of the communists, or the Trotskyists, or the anarchists, or what not.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an anarchist plot.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies, unless one counts journalists.
Justin PodurHOST
And the internet tells me that Pierre Bruet is, he died in 2005, around age 80.
Justin PodurHOST
And apparently he was a Trotskyist revolutionary whose work covers the history of the Bolshevik, Spanish Revolution, and biographies of Trotsky.
Justin PodurHOST
The only biography of Trotsky I've read was by Deutscher, but Bruet wrote a lot of biographies of Trotsky.
Justin PodurHOST
But this one is the German Revolution.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
The DSA is a faction of that party, and the line laid down in Chicago's breakout rooms is the line of the party that funded the war.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
The DSA is the political descendant of Max Schachman, who broke with Trotskyism in order to make his peace with American imperialism.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
In 1940, with Europe at war, Shackman and James Burnham led a minority out of the Socialist Workers' Party, the American Trotskyist Party, refusing to defend the Soviet Union against imperialist attack.
Paul FullerNARRATOR
Leon Trotsky answered them in defense of Marxism, writing that the minority is leading a typical petty bourgeois tendency that had capitulated to bourgeois public opinion.
CannConHOST
vacuum.
CannConHOST
World War II, or excuse me, World War I created a vacuum in Russia and left it completely vulnerable to somebody like the Trotsky, you know, and the Leninists, Trotskyites.
CannConHOST
I was
Ashe in AmericaHOST
just going to say that their assignment from Wall Street was to overthrow the revolution.
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