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3. WORLD MOVEMENT
Report by Dobbs: Pabloites have opened new disunity offensive. Appears precipitated by visit of Italian delegation to Britain. While they were there Pablo opened vicious factional attack on British at a time when they are resisting a heavy assault from the L[abour] P[arty] and union bureaucracy calculated to drive them out of the mass movement. Pablo's aim clearly to break up any tendency within IS ranks toward genuine reunification of the movement. Didn't hesitate to strike the British a hard blow in order to put the Italians on the spot in an attempt. to estrange them from the British and the IC.
First signs of new Pabloite offensive against unity were noted in an "Information Bulletin" which they began to publish at the beginning of the year. First issue described its purpose as providing "highly necessary correctives . . . to various misleading positions" in the orthodox Trotskyist press. Later they published a crooked account of the Marcyite split which had obviously been supplied to them by the Marcyites. The latest issue (May 15) speaks of " the crisis which is raging in the organizations of the 'International Committee'."
Pabloites have published an "open letter" to the IC in which they rewrite history of 1952-53 split and subsequent developments. They purport to describe the orthodox Trotskyist policies in what amounts to a grotesque distortion of facts. The "open letter" winds up with a call for the formation of Pabloite factions in the IC organizations.
The "open letter" is accompanied by a real Moscow-trial type frame-up in the form of alleged "Excerpts from the Minutes" of an IC meeting in Paris last January. Dobbs is alleged to have made a major report to the meeting when he wasn't even there. The remarks attributed to him appear to be a combination of Marcyite gossip and a Pabloite rewrite job to improve on Marcy's fantasies.
The first task in closing ranks against this new attack is to alert the comrades and arm them with the facts. For Trotskyists everywhere who are genuinely interested in a principled reunification, it is necessary once again to clarify the real score on the problem.