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the Fourth International

 

Introduction: The Fourth International, also known as the World Party of Socialist Revolution, was founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and other revolutionaries trying to defend the revolutionary heart and soul of Marxism against Stalinism. Today it is a world-wide network of revolutionary socialist groups in over 40 countries.


Socialist Action is barred by reactionary
U.S. legislation from formal membership in the Fourth International.  However, we maintain fraternal relations with the FI and its sections, and consider ourselves a sympathizing section.  We participate in FI World Congresses and other meetings, and work closely with our FI comrades around the world on a number of projects.  Within the FI we fight to defend its original revolutionary, Trotskyist program.  We urge, and support the building of sections of the Fourth International in every country.  We urge our readers and supporters in other countries to get involved in the Fourth Internationalist group in their country.

 
For a thorough history of the Fourth International check out Pierre Frank's The Long March of the Trotskyists.

 

Groups Associated With the FI:

 

- Algeria - Socialist Workers Party

- Australia - Socialist Democracy

- Austria - Socialist Alternative

- Belgium - Socialist Workers' Party / Revolutionary Communist League

- Bolivia – Revolutionary Workers Party - Combat

- Brazil - Enlace (IV International Collective)

- Brazil - Socialist Democracy

- Canada - Socialist Action

- Canada - Fourth International Caucus of the New Socialist Group

- Chile - Revolutionary Socialist Tendency

- China/Hong Kong - Revolutionary Communist Party/October Review Group

- Columbia- Present for Socialism

- Corsica - Movement of the National Left (a current within)

- Denmark - Socialist Workers Party

- Ecuador - Socialist Democracy Current

- Egypt - Section of the Fourth International

- France - Revolutionary Communist League

- Germany - Revolutionary Socialist League

- Germany - International Socialist Left

- Great Britain - International Socialist Group

- Greece - Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece-Spartacus

- Guadeloupe & Martinique - Socialist Revolution Group

- Iceland - Left-Green Movement (a current within)

- India - Revolutionary Communist Organization

- Ireland - Socialist Democracy

- Italy - Red Banner Association

- Japan - Revolutionary Communist League

- Japan - National Council of Internationalist Workers

- Japan - Fourth International Women's Liberation Group

- Lebanon - Revolutionary Communist Group

- Luxemburg - Revolutionary Socialist Party

- Mexico - Socialist Unity League

- Mexico - Socialist Convergence

- Morocco - Militant

- Netherlands - Socialist Alternative Politics

- Norway - Internationalist League of Norway

- Pakistan - Labor Party Pakistan

- Palestine - Alternative Information Center

- Paraguay - Section of USFI (inside Socialist Popular Convergence Party)

- Philippines - Revolutionary Workers Party - Mindanao

- Poland - Revolutionary Left Current

- Portugal - Revolutionary Socialist Politics

- Puerto Rico - Political Education Workshop

- Quebec - Socialist Left

- Reunion - Movement for a Reunionese Alternative to the Neoliberal Order

- Russia - Socialist League/Forward

- Senegal - African Party of Democracy & Socialism (a current within)

- South Africa - Workers Organization for Socialist Action

- South Korea - Power of the Working Class

- Spain - Alternative Left

- Spain - Alternative Space

- Spain/Murcia - Rainbow

- Spain/Valencia - Alternative Space

- Spain/Catalonia - Global Revolt

- Spain/Galicia - Alternative Galicia

- Spain/Andalusia - Andalusian Revolutionary Space

- Spain/Basque Country Stand Up

- Sri Lanka - New Sama Samaja Party

- Sweden - Socialist Party

- Switzerland - Solidarity

- Switzerland - Anti-Capitalist Left

- Switzerland - Movement for Socialism

- Syria - Anti-Globalization Activists of Syria (a current within)

- Tunisia - Revolutionary Communist Organization

- Turkey - New Way

- Uruguay - Socialist Workers' Party

- USA - Socialist Action

- USA - Fourth International Caucus of Solidarity

 

Fourth International Publications:

 

- International Viewpoint (English language magazine)
- Inprekorr
(German language magazine)
- Inprecor
(French language magazine)
- Inprecor América Latina
(Spanish & Portuguese language magazine)
- International Institute for Research & Education Notebooks

 

FI Resolutions & Documents:

 

- Resolution on Climate Change

- Against the Columbian government’s military intervention in Ecuador

- On the Tamil National Question

- Resolution on Brazil - February 2006

- Resolution on Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Resolution on Gay/Lesbian Liberation
- Resolution on Women's Liberation
- Resolution on the Ecological Crisis
 

- International Committee Reports

- International Bureau Statements

- Statutes of the Fourth International

- The Transitional Program

 

World Congresses of the FI:

 

- Founding Conference of the Fourth International

- First (Emergency) Conference of the Fourth International

- Second World Congress Documents

- Third World Congress Documents

- The First “Reunification” Congress of the United Secretariat (Seventh World Congress)

- The Second Congress of the United Secretariat (Eight World Congress)

- The Third Congress of the United Secretariat (Ninth World Congress)

- 12th World Congress - 1985

- 13th World Congress - 1991

- 14th World Congress - 1995

- 15th World Congress - 2003

 

History of the Fourth International:

 

- 60 Years of the Fourth International
- The French Trotskyists During WWII
- How the Fourth International was Conceived

- Founding Congress of the Fourth International (1938)

- Toward a History of the Fourth International

- Yugoslavia & the Tito-Stalin Split

- The Split Between the International Committee and the International Secretariat

- The Leninist Trotskyist and the International Majority tendencies within the FI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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