Issuing body: Emergency Conference of the Fourth International
Greetings to Natalia and Leon Trotsky
The Emergency Conference of the Fourth International, having successfully completed its work, sends you its sincere greetings. You have escaped the Stalinist assassins; this is a great victory for the international proletariat and for the oppressed of the whole world. As dying capitalism wages the Second World War, all its reactionary hatred and all the venomous malice of its instruments are turned against the working class, and particularly against its vanguard. An attempt has been made on your life; this is a sign not of the strength of reaction, but of its growing weakness, as it becomes aware that the Fourth International represents a mortal enemy to it. Your boundless devotion and that of comrade Natalia to the cause of the world working class, at the risk of your lives, inspires in all of us increased courage and a spirit of sacrifice for the period ahead. In the name of all the sections of the Fourth International, we pledge to redouble our efforts to put an end to the reign of the traitor Stalin and to extend the October revolution to the whole world.