36-37, October 1933, and was translated for The Militant October 21, 1933. Trotsky had received a visa to live in France, and this article was written on the Bulgaria, an Italian ship, en route from Turkey to Marseilles. It is time to break with the Moscow caricature of an International. It is impossible to bear even a shadow of political responsibility for the Stalinists. A. One must not be deceived by general phrases.
Control is in the hands of the Stalinist clique.
For six years now there has been no congress. By the right of usurpation. Not one section, not one local organization, not one paper has dared to breathe a word about the necessity for an International Congress. That is not how the matter stood. A year ago, one still could hope to salvage the situation in Germany.