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Written by International Secretariat of the FI
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 Several days have been
enough for the situation to become apparent in all its clarity : in the
unfolding events, it isn’t only Greece that is in question, but also
the fate of all the peoples of Europe.
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Written by Daniel Gluckstein
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The fall of the Soviet Union both verified the
“restorationist” character of the Stalinist bureaucracy in power and
accentuated the crisis of the world workers’ movement. This crisis has
taken the most tragic forms in the countries that came out of the fall
of the USSR and Central and Eastern Europe and in the Balkans. In all
countries, activists ask themselves: “How has all this happened?”
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Written by The Organizer
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These two countries are among the poorest in the world,
but both have nuclear weapons at their disposal. They are two major
powers in the continental and global balance under the protection of
the United States, two governments that have competed in licking the
boots of American imperialism in its global war.
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Written by Andreu Camps
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More than ever, in historical conditions which are totally different
but which results from the survival of a system founded upon the
private ownership of the means of production and its decay, the
quotation made at the beginning of this text remains true: ""It would
be a radical mistake to think that the struggle for democracy is
capable of diverting the proletariat from the socialist revolution".
"An all-round, consistent and revolutionary struggle for democracy" is
more than ever necessary for the working class to defend its interests,
and assert concretely its class independence.
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Written by Jean-Jacques Marie
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According to the multifaceted propaganda which
identifies the USSR with socialism, the October Revolution was simply a
coup d’etat carried out by a daring minority, and the idea of world
revolution promoted by the Bolsheviks was simply a utopian dream which
they used to manipulate the Russian people.
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Written by La Verite
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Only the working class could assume the
struggle for national liberation in a consistent manner. “Only the
victory of this class will guarantee the development of the people, the
indisputable recognition of their rights, the end of all oppression and
the establishment of a Union of Free Republics.”
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Written by L Gonzalez, B Ortega, J A Pozo
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Between 3 and 7 May 1937, a workers’ insurrection took
place in Barcelona and other Catalan towns, which ended in failure. One
week after those “May Days”, Leon Trotsky gave his precise analysis of
their significance: the working class wanted to take the Revolution
that had begun in July 1936 through to its conclusion by taking power
in order to fight fascism, but the leaderships of the workers’
organisations, including the POUM, did not want to take that step,
thus leading the uprising into a dead-end.
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Written by La Verite
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All Trotskyist militants, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere, deserve a balance
sheet of the destruction of the LSSP. This discussion is not simply
about an historical problem, but is aimed at understanding the current
role of the International. Nothing is closed to this discussion. The
unfolding of the Fourth International’s role on the Indian
subcontinent, as elsewhere, implies a discussion not only about the
degeneration of the LSSP, but also of the relationship between the LSSP
and the International Secretariat-United Secretariat.
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Written by OST (Mexico)
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Is it possible to meet the demands of the indigenous
peoples of Mexico -- and of all who are oppressed and exploited --
within the framework of the current corrupt, country-selling regime,
and without severing the bonds of servitude to imperialism?
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Written by General Council of the FI
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The sub-prime crisis is a new major episode of the
decaying process of the capitalist regime based on the private
ownership of the means of production. This stage brings all the
contradictions of the capitalist system to an unprecedented level.
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Written by Daniel Gluckstein
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By placing on the agenda the commemoration of October
1917, not as a revolution of the past but as the leverage-point for the
tasks to come, the Fourth International poses the following question:
Is the proletarian revolution on the agenda today?
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Written by Francois Forgue
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South Africa is at the crossroads. The preservation of
the capitalist system of exploitation is inseparable from the
particular form represented by what the Black liberation movements have
dubbed “apartheid capitalism”. Maintaining this system in the
conditions of capitalism’s decay at the world level can only result in
the worst possible catastrophe for the people of South Africa.
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Written by Daniel Gluckstein
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The Baker-Hamilton Plan is another way of attempting to bring about a "new Middle East". The words it uses speak of respect for the unity and integrity of Iraq
and for the sovereignty of all nations. The policy it advocates leads
to their dismantling.
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Written by Francois Forgue
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Isn't it necessary to open an international discussion to take stock of the Chinese revolution? Should one give up on the immense
hope the Chinese revolution in 1949 brought all peoples of Asia and
beyond?
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Written by Daniel Gluckstein
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The whole of humankind has been struck by an illness
that threatens its very existence. The good doctors of the world
economy are leaning over its bed. All of them observe a strong fever.
Some of them recommend a strong dose of aspirin, others antibiotics,
others other medication. But the fever is just a symptom. The fever is
the financial crisis and the bursting of the speculative bubbles. The
root-cause, the cancer that is eating away at humankind, is the failed
capitalist system, based on private ownership of the means of
production.
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