Trotsky reveals Comintern bribery of Western labor bureaucrats; publishes and discusses Comintern budget Quotes below from Trotsky's own works: Writings of Leon Trotsky (NY: Merit Publishers, 1969) "Purcell, the well-known leader of the British trade unions, received in return for his 'friendship' to the Soviet Union, i.e., the Kremlin, a secret salary of twenty-five pounds a month. All sorts of material boons were likewise enjoyed by other prominent leaders of the same trade unions. Their wives received 'inoffensive' gifts of gold and platinum. Needless to say all these gentlemen and ladies, who did not formally belong to the Comintern, considered the Trotskyists as 'traitors.'" (p. 101) [MC5: One thing we have to agree with is that labor bureaucrats as a group cannot be taken seriously for what they say about questions of political line. Whenever we see organizations or individuals fail to consider questions in a rank order of importance, we have to suspect bribery. Trotsky could have said so without undermining the Comintern he supposedly favored and once worked in.] Trotsky precedes Joe McCarthy "The Indissoluble Tie between the Comintern and the GPU" "'The American Communist Party ha always argued that it had no connecions whatsoever with the Soviet government, but the fact of the matter is that the American Communist Party is in the same relation to the Soviet government as the paid agents of Nazi Germany in the United States are to the government of the Third Reich.' . . . . Very important although far from complete data concerning the financial dictatorship of the Kremlin over the sections of the Comintern are supplied by Enrique Mattoras. . ." (p. 102) "La Voz de Mexico is an organ of the GPU." (p. 107)