Trotsky's 1939 call for Ukrainian independence
Two articles. The first: written April 22, 1939, and published in the US paper Socialist Appeal on May 9, 1939. The Ukrainian question, which many governments and many “socialists” and even “communists” have tried to forget or to relegate to the deep strongbox of history, has once again been placed on the order of the day and this time with redoubled force.