Trotsky becomes best-seller in Chile

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The publication by a state publishing house of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution for the first time in Chile has met with an amazing response. The first edition of 8,000 copies was completely sold out within four days, and of a second edition of 15,000 copies now in preparation nearly half have already been sold in advance.

The publication of this work has been made possible by the current political situation in Chile, in particular the rising workers movement and the radicalisation of various social layers that have carried out joint actions with the revolutionary left. Leading members of the Communist Party, including Senator Volodia Teitelboim (guest of honour at the Morning Star birthday rally earlier this year), visited the Chilean state publishing house of Quimantu to demand that the decision to publish the book be revoked since the C.P. was vetoing the spreading of Trotsky's ideas. But an appeal to the rank-and-file workers of the Production Committee, a "workers' participation" group formed by Popular Unity in all state-run companies, won approval of the decision to publish the book.

Following this, the C.P. demanded that the problem be taken up by the central committees of its own party and the Socialist Party. The C.P. pienum resolution of 15 March of this year stated in the section on "the ideological struggle" that there has been a "gross allocation of public resources to publish anti-Soviet works by this selfsame Trotsky". (El Siglo, 16 March)

These charges have now been answered, but from a quarter which the C.P. certainly did not expect since it relies on it tor its own base - from the Chilean workers, who ensured within hours of publication that Trotsky would become a best-selling author in Chile.

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