Re: [Marxism] Caracas discusses Leon Trotsky

["Jorge Martin" <jorge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your kind comments which I am sure the editorial board of
marxist.com will take fully on board

Just one small detail:

- the article by Jorge Martín (
http://www.marxist.com/caracas-leon-trotsky-assassination200807.htm  ) talks
about a TV programme in VTV on Friday 17th

- the article by Tom Rollings (
http://www.marxist.com/trotsky-official-meeting-caracas.htm) contains a
description of the actual meeting to commemorate Trotsky's assassination on
August 20th. Some of the speakers are the same (Seva Volvok, Celia Hart and
Ricardo Napurí) and they say basically the same things, there is an
additional speaker at the meeting, Ydalberto Ferrera, a veteran of Cuban
Trotskyism who is now in his 90s.

This is the reason why I posted the article (there is really no need for two
articles on the same TV programme or meeting)

comradely

Jorge

With all due respect to Jorge, whose done major work in publicizing
the gains of the Venezuelan Revolution, I think this article rather
> sucked. The article was written by Tom Rollins. It's more of a CMR/IMT 
> rah-rah article, something almost akin to what you might read in
> The Militant newspaper from the US SWP.
>
> Marxist.com does have a really fascinating article on this meeting, or one of 
> them, that Watler Lippman posted the link to here:
>
> http://www.marxist.com/caracas-leon-trotsky-assassination200807.htm
>
> This article, written by...Jorge himself, is an excellent, well rounded 
> article with imbedded clips of TV interveiws, a fine analysis, etc. It was
> in fact, quite moving. The Tom Rollings piece was mostly aimed, it seems, at 
> IMT members and doesn't really serve much of a purspose
> other than to puff up the IMT.
>
> Jorge, more of the former, less of the latter :)
> David
>
>
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