Two omissions from Blas Yoosa's liat are truly telling. The first ia the Fourth International. He does not offer a aingle quotation from the genuine publications of the Fourth International. In all its declarations - md there are many of them - he could not find a single phrase that lent itself to his work! The reason is simple. The Fourth International espoused the cause of the Cuban Reyolution from the very befinning, has sénargetioally participated in its defense, and has pointed - again and again te the Cuban Revolution as One more mighty verification of the validity of Troteky's theory of the permanent revolution. That is why Blas Roca found nothing to say about the mein etream of tha Trotskyist sovement when he sat cut to do his smear job.
The other omission is the Socialist Workers Party. If Trotskyism became a "vulgar instrument of imperislism and reaction" and the Trotakyiats are "very active suxiliary forces" in the efforts of the Yankee impesrisliats to destroy the prestige and authority of tha Cuban Revolution, the moat orushing proof surely ought to be found in the imperialist U-Sea. itself. and this should te all the easier, one should imagine, because there is absolutely no question about who representa Trotskyisan in the United States - it is the Socialist Workers Party:
Did Blas Roos fail to search here for evidence? We douwht it. He or his American co-thinkears combed the pages of The Militant and the International Sooialist Review, the public declarationa of the /merioan Troteskyieta and their pamphlets and their books, looking for something that could be used in the attack against Trotekyiam. They could not find a single sentence:
The truth is that among the radical groupings in the United States, the record of the Socialist Workers Party ia unimpeachable and outatanding; 80 outstanding, in fact, that Blas Hoos hieself has been very oautioua about attacking it even when pinned down on the subject. For instance, in June of 1962, Flas Roce did a shear job on Trotakyism in Hoy, utilising quotations from Fosadas (whom he did mot nama as the source) in the now familiar way- But only a few months before that, in its April 16,1962 isaue, the National Guardian printed an exclusive interview in which Blas Roca wae asked if he weloomed to the ranks of Cuba's friends and partisans in the U-8. "people of any oriantation, for example Trotskyists--."
Blas Rooa equivooated somewhat but chyiously felt that he could not openly attack the American Trotakyists- "T am not well acquainted with those’ who call themselves Trotakylets in the U.8.," he sadd) "We are separated from Trotakyiets in general by fundamental pointe of view, and from some in partittlear by their actions aa enemies. But I think that all in the U-S- wha Sincerely defend and support the Cuban revolution, and the right of aelfdetermination of the Cuban and other Latin Jmerican peoples, do a worthy rev= olutionary job and we value them whatever their idealogical consepta cay be."
The Militant has consistently printed the main declarations of Fidel Castro and the Guevara despite the limited number of pages at ita disposal
and is a well—knewn source of truthful information about the Cuban Revolution. At the big turns lika Plays Giron and the 1962 "Caribbean Crisis," The Militant went all out in defense of the Cuban Revolution and denunciation of american imperialism. It did this, not from outside the country, but inside the imperialist monster iteaslf- .ind its record of activity in defense of Cuba is supericr to that of Blas Rooa's aister organization, the merican Communist Party-
The record of The Militant ia so irreproachable in this respect, that Blas Roca was apparently puzzled as to how to amear it- His solution was the frame-up technique of the smalgam- He took the ultraleft aectariean position of the Socialist Labour League, which the Socialist Workers Party had opposed 60 vigorously as to drive Hasly to split from the Fourth International, and quoted it in close association with references to The Militant. To prove how deliberately thia was done it is only necessary to take the January 31 issue of The Militant in which we first responded to the attack in Castro's Jane15 speech, compare it with the February 5 issue of The Newsletter, which deals with the same subject, including an attack on the Socialist Workera Party, and then check how Blas Roca pasted these opposites together in hia article. it is an example for the text-books on the polemical methods of the Italinista.