Manifesto of the Fifth World Congress of the Fourth International
TO THE WORKERS AND PEOPLES OF THE ENTIRE WORLD
Comrades:
The structural crisis which has been shaking the capitalist world for the last 40 years is reaching its final phase. Undermined by its economic contradictions, dogged by the colonial revolution which is indefatigably continuing its onward march, faced by the growing power of the workers' states, capitalism has lost all hope of reconquering the globe. Hanging on to the last solid positions it occupies, in North America and in Western Europe, it yet does not propose to abdicate without a struggle to the rising waves of the revolutionary forces. On the contrary, it never ceases preparations for waging a last decisive battle, throwing into the scales the enormous technical and military potential of the United States. Hence arises the danger that still threatens humanity, the danger of a nuclear world war whose consequences for the survival of the human race would be incalculable.
ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Never has capitalism better shown its fundamentally reactionary role in the world of today. given such proof that all human progress urgently requires its destruction.
For ten years now human science and technics have progressed with giant strides. Automation, the multiplicity of new industrial techniques, the productive use of nuclear energy, and even tomorrow the productive use of solar energy, would enable humanity within a relatively short time to bring true its age-old dream of abundance. Rid once and for all of material worries, conquer space and the secrets of life, would put an end to bad weather and and guarantee inhabitants of the planet an existence which would at last be at the level of human greatness.
In the opinion of scientists, there are no longer any insurmountable barriers blocking us from these wonderful goals. The material means and the techniques are no longer wanting. What is lacking is the rational organization of society which conflicts among social groups. What is lacking is the rational distribution of the resources already at the disposal of humanity for the purpose of well-being and progress and not for the purpose of destruction and waste.
Such is the basic paradox of our epoch : at the moment when immense wealth is being used in the production of devices for the suicide of humanity, at the moment when equally colossal wealth is being used to conquer space, one and a half billion human beings cannot satisfy their hunger, can scarcely cover their nakedness, live in dwellings unworthy of human habitation, and remain prey to illness, destitution, and ignorance. At the moment when man is getting ready to become the master of the universe, thousands of human beings, even in advanced capitalist countries, have not yet solved the problem of decent housing.
In order that the acquisitions of science and technics may be put at the service of all humanity, it is necessary to abolish the absurd economic system which subordinates production to profit, and the consumption of broad masses to the income that the masters of the trusts and monopolies feel like It is necessary to abolish the exploitation of man by man, and the system of international exchanges based on market relations. It is necessary to place the means of production in the hands of the community, • the control of the producers over the plants, draw up inventory of the real needs of two and a half billion consumers, and work up a world-wide plan of economic development and well-being which, while improving the living standards of the workers of advanced countries, will in the shortest possibie time enable the inhabitants of colonial and semi-colonial countries at last to live at the level of the XXth century.
Such worldwide planning of the economy is today the most burning task for humanity, else the evolution of the next decades will accentuate the monstrous tendency for the rich countries to become richer and the poor countries to become relatively poorer. This planning is not utopian; it does not demand heavy from the workers of the West. contrary: if we take as a starting-point only the wealth annually wasted on armament goals, that is, destruction, we reach the fantastic sum of one hundred billion dollars a year which could be integrally devoted industrialization and modernization of the
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And even this hypothesis is based only on the mere maintenance of the wealth at present produced by capitalism. But in reality the example of the Soviet Union shows year after year that even a slightly rational organization would enable industrially advanced countries to double, at least, the rhythm of their economic progress, thus aiding a new and substantial rise of the standard of living in the West, while still freeing new resources for an economic and cultural upsurge in the countries which imperialism has until with the dies teac now kept chained to an almost mediaeval economy.
The reign of universal abundance and peace is now within the direct reach of humanity. There is only one serious obstacle : the survival of capitalism. To sweep capitalism off the face of the earth has become a task of public safety for humanity; if this task is not solved, capitalism threatens to mobilize the infinite resources of science and technics for the purpose of frightful destruction.
CAPITALISM MUST BE DISARMED AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE!
Sensing that the relationship of forces has definitely turned against it, American imperialism has rushed into an arms race whose outcome can only be war unless the workers of the entire world and the workers of the United States succeed in time in disarming the masters of Wall Street and the Pentagon by taking power.
The economic and technical advances achieved by the Soviet Union, far from damping the warlike ardor of Yankee imperialism, only drive it to the pitch of paroxysm. In the present decisive stage of the deathagony of capitalism, imperialism has in fact the choice only between giving up without a fight or making a
87 revolution in the Middle East and a sensational bound forward of Soviet technique and armament for the fictitious nature of this « truce » to become cléar as day. Partial agreements on this or that aspect of the armament race remain, of course, possible. But genuine disarmament would mean imperialism's signing its own death warrant.
Rather than delude the world's peoples with overoptimistic - prognoses, the Fourth International solemnly warns them of the dangers threatening humanity. If the international proletariat does not disarm imperialism, especially American imperialism, in time, it will hurl humanity into a nuclear war rather than give up to the Revolution without a fight.
To defend the mendacious policy of « peaceful coexistence, » some people state that, since a nuclear world war threatens to destroy all civilization, and since any new advance of the revolution threatens to drive imperialism to launch its war, it is better to slow down the advance of the revolution! In this way they excuse the treacherous behavior of the Kremlin and the Communist Parties toward revolutionary movements such as the Algerian revolution. But in reality these supporters of « passive resistance » do not carry through their thinking to its conclusion. The latest events have shown that not only the advance of the Revolution, but also bounds forward of the Soviet economy, technics, or science can « provoke » imperialism. The logic of capitulation to atomic blackmail would therefore require not only stopping the colonial revolution but even stopping the progress of the Soviet economy !
No force in the world, however, is capable today of stopping either of these fundamental tendencies of our time. The task laid on humanity is not to capitulate to Washington's atomic blackmail but to disarm as quickly as possible the nuclear war-makers. The movements which are at present developing around this matter in Great Britain, Norway, Iceland, and elsewhere indicate last desperate struggle in order to push back the deadline.. Each new decisive progress of the revolu-: that the international proletariat, after a moment of tion, each major economic crisis that threatens itself, "each sensational technical advance of the U.S.S.R. drives imperialism to lean over the edge of the abyss, according to the expression of Foster Dulles, the theo. retician and leader of imperialism's war policy.
several years it seemed that imperialism was somewhat slowing down its drive toward war. economic conjuncture was favorable for profits. colonial revolution for a certain period was being canalized by leaderships inclined to conclude compromises with Washington. The Kremlin was exposed to contradictory internal forces within Soviet society. We thus witnessed the Geneva conference and the interminable negotiations of the Disarmament Subcommittee in London. . But it needed only a new advance of the colonial stupefaction, is understanding better and better the life-and-death question posed to humanity.
The Fourth International calls the workers and all the peoples of the world to concerted action against the madness of the nuclear arms race. Let a world conference assemble the representatives of all workers' organizations-political, trade-union, and coo.
perative—with the aim of drawing up a plan of concerted action against A and H bombs! Let May
Day be proclaimed throughout the entire world as a day of common struggle against nuclear arms! Let the voice of the international proletariat ring out powerfully, in thousands of mass-meetings, demonstrations, and strikes, throughout the world :
An immediate end to nuclear tests!
Immediate prohibition of nuclear arms under the
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No farther along the road leading the madmen in power toward the abyss of nuclear war!
At the same time the Fourth International warns the workers and peoples of all countries that there nitively only one effective means of disarming imperialism: that is to wrench its wealth and power from it, to overthrow its states and to build workers' states in the great countries of the world.
FOR THE VICTORY OF THE COLONIAL REVOLUTION!
The main force that has changed the global relationship of forces among the classes was the Chinese revolution and the tremendous wave of the. colonial revolution throughout the world. Inspired by the elementary thirst for freedom and human dignity of masses wakened from a sleep of centuries, fed by an ineffable poverty contrasting with the comfort and luxury insured by the imperialist countries to part of their own inhabitants, encouraged by the successive defeats suffered by imperialism in China, Korea, and Vietnam, the colonial revolution today is setting aflame all the Arab countries from Pakistan to Casablanca is producing a powerful upsurge of the mass movement in many countries of Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba...), is undermining the apparent stability of Nehru's bourgeois regime in Sukarno's in Indonesia, and is beginning to infiltrate through thousands of cracks in the imperialist edifice set up in Central Africa.
The social structure of colonial and semi-colonial countries, the extreme numerical weakness of the proletariat, the betrayal of the colonial revolution by the big metropolitan workers' parties, the Kremlin's opportunist policy of unreserved support accorded to the colonial bourgeoisie to whom the Communist Parties are called on to subordinate themselves in a servile way—all these phenomena, during a first stage of the revolution, help to keep in command bourgeois or petty-bourgeois leaderships, who tween the masses on the one hand and imperialism on the other, port from the side of Washington or of the Kremlin.
American imperialism, realizing the disastrous consefor its regime of an even slightly durable alliance between the colonial bourgeoisies and the Kremlin on the world scale, has tried to buy their sympathy by promising them financial aid and supportthem to a certain extent against European The attitude of the American imperialists at the time of the Suez crisis, when they acted with the colonial bourgeoisies and the bloc of workers' states against Paris and London, marked the culminating point of this manœuvre.
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But this manœuvre runs up against a series of objective obstacles. Where the imperialism against which the masses are rising is precisely American imperialism itself, it has only a limited field of application (for example the support given at present to the right wing of the M.N.R. in Bolivia). By its own social nature and in spite of financial reserves infinitely more extensive than those of the U.S.S.R., American imperialism is incapable of stimulating the genuine industrialization of the colonial countries. Its own wealth, which makes it an exporting country of both agricultural and manufactured products, prevents it from furthering the growth of market production of numerous colonial and semi-colonial countries (for example, of cotton in Egypt). Lastly the very logic of the colonial revolution will cause it to go beyond its present stage of vacillating or treacherous bourgeois or petty-bourgeois leaderships. The more the mass movement broadens, the more plebean staffs, of workers' if not of Marxist inspiration, will struggle with the old leaderships for the control of the colonial revolution. The creation of independent workers parties, arising from the nationalist or trade-union movement, is on the order of the day in all these countries. This will rapidly eliminate the manœuvres of Yankee imperialism.
Of all the manifestations of the colonial revolution produced in the course of these last years since DienBien-Phu, it is the heroic revolutionary uprising of the Algerian people which represents at the present time the most direct threat to world imperialism. Bringing more and more into question the unstable compromises concluded between French imperialism and the Moroccan and Tunisian bourgeoisies, undermining the stability of the economy, the finances, and the state in metropolitan France itself, uncovering the flank of Central Africa to a new extension of the revolution, destroying French imperialism's last hope of « grandeur » based on the oil-bearing sands of the Sahara, the Algerian revolution deserves the respect and admiration of all workers throughout the world for the spirit of sacrifice and unparalleled abnegation of the masses engaged in it, for the audacity and unshakable will to victory of its combatants. Faced with the deep unrest that the outbreak of the Algerian revolution produced in France, faced with refusal of orders and the first mutinies by young recruits in the French army, the French workers' movement could have both given serious help to the Algerian revolution and profited by this unique opportunity to strike a decisive blow against its own N° 1 enemy, French big capital. of so acting, the mass organizations of the workers' movement covered themselves with shame by their cowardice, their hypocrisy, their passivity, if not their open betrayal, toward the Algerian revolution.
The reformist leadership of Guy Mollet, casting its campaign promises to the winds and capitulating before the riots of the colonialists in Algiers, boasts of
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL its having organized the counter-revolutionary repression in Algeria. It has on its conscience massacres that have attained the scope of genocide, terror and tortures that are the equal of Hitler's, the establishment of a concentration-camp regime that the so-called « special powers » law has already transferred to France. As for the Communist Party, ready not so long ago to mobilize its militants against the « American » general Ridgway or against the « German » general Speidel, it has not seen a way to organize a single class action, a single strike, a singie demonstration of any breadth, in order to impose the withdrawal of French troops and imperialism from Algeria. It cannot, to justify itself, invoke the chauvinist wave that has spread över France, for it has fed it if not launched it, in complicity with the S.F.I.O. Neither can it invoke the relative passivity of the workers, for which it is itself responsible because of its past crimes. And yet the much weaker French C.P. of 1925, under infinitely more unfavorable conditions, carried out a campaign of a different dynamism against the war in Morocco.
It fell to the French section of the Fourth International, to be the only workers' organization in the country proudly to raise the banner of lenin, the banner of the common struggle of the French workers and the Algerian people for the defeat of French imperialism. By so doing, it saved the honor of the working class in face of the blood-bath of which the Versaillese masters of the Palais-Bourbon had rendered themselves guilty.
In Latin America, the Bolivian revolution has entered its decisive stage. Without a social base of any importance whatever, the reactionary government of Siles, fully backed by Yankee imperialism and encouraged by the cowardice of the official leadership of the Left, the Lechins and other « worker » ex-ministers, is preparing to take away from the masses all the gains of the revolution of April 1952 and to instal a sanguinary military dictatorship.
But the fighting spirit of the heroic Bolivian masses, the miners of Catavi and Siglo XX, the peasants, their organizations and their militias, is as high as ever. Guided by the P.O.R. (Bolivian section of the Fourth International), they will soon find the way to force the calling of a special congress of the C.O.B. which will decide on the formation of a genuine Workers' and Peasants' Government, freeing the masses of the country from the economic nightmare in which they are now living and from the threat of dictatorship.
Any victory in Bolivia will echo throughout all Latin America, through which a révolutionary fever is again running, in face of the extraordinary instability of the weak bourgeois governments and the economic chaos which they maintain. and even to Cuba, the Latin American masses will
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Long live the victory of the colonial revolution! Full and entire independence for all peoples! Withdrawal of the imperialist occupation troops from all colonial and semi-colonial countries!
Glory to the heroic Algerian revolution! For the defeat of French imperialism, common enemy of the French proletariat, of the Algerian people, and of all the oppressed peoples of the
French Union!
FOR A NEW ASSAULT ON THE WESTERN CITADELS OF CAPITAL
Thanks to the betrayal of the reformist and Stalinist ieaderships, who called on the workers to rebuild the dilapidated capitalist economy and states at the end of World War II, when the seizure of power was within their grasp, capitalism has succeeded in passing through a new period of prosperity in most of the countries of Western Europe. True, no structural problem has been solved. Southern Italy is not industrialized; Spain remains bent under the burden of starvation wages and semi-feudal land ownership; the decay of the British economy becomes ever more explicit; France has not succeeded in modernizing its conversion industries or in bringing its finances into balance; Germany has not succeeded in recovering its unity. Nevertheless, during these last years, capitalist industry has unquestionably experienced a remarkable boom and real wages have undergone a modest increase in most countries.
But since it is under the capitalist system that this prosperity has been reached, it has been characterized by all the phenomena which traditionally go along with it. The capacity of production has been developed much more than the capacity of consumption of the broad masses. Rapid fortunes have been made thanks to speculation and shady deals, while millions of wage-earners, especially women and the young, earn less than the strict living minimum while working more intensely than ever. There is a glut of luxury building, while millions of families suffer from a housing crisis, the origin of demoralization and personal catastrophes. In the general race after profits, the conjuncture has grown hotter, inflation has begun to show itself, the dollar deficit has reappeared in Europe, the imbalance in international exchanges is becoming more accéntuated. There have thus been assembled all the elements of a new recession, which has already begun in several countries..
In the United States, where prosperity is maintained essentially thanks to the enormous military expenditures, regional fluctuations have created in that country, the most prosperous in the world, tragic social situations and ever more accentuated economic imbalances.
90 The textile industry has for years been in decline: The recession in the auto industry has lasted two years, creating a mass of unemployed in the most industrialized regions. These unemployed are being added to by workers discharged from the aviation plants as a result of the revision of the arms programmes. Industrialization in the South, far from solving the race question in a harmonious way, has exacerbated the tension between the Negro masses, demanding more and more insistently their emancipation and real equality in rights, and the « hard kernel » of white-supremacists who hang on to their privileges at any price. This has given birth to a political crisis of an exceptional gravity for the equilibrium of the American bourgeois government, a crisis which is only the reflection inside the United States of the advances achieved by the colonial revolution on the world scale.
This means that, despite prosperity both in Western Europe and in the United States, the workers' movement was again in a position to deliver very hard if not decisive blows against its class adversary. This means that the moments of crisis were not lacking, moments by which the workers' movement could have profited to present boldly to the world's peoples, as an alternate solution to the waste of capitalist disorder and exploitation, the reorganization of society on a socialist basis. If these occasions were not exploited, the fault thereof lies not with « objective conditions » but with the impotence and cowardice of the traditiona: « Socialist » and « Communist » leaderships, more than ever terrified by the idea that they must at some given point go outside the sacrosanct framework of bourgeois democracy.
Today, on the threshold of a new recession whose scope will be determined in the final analysis by the importance of a new wave of military expenditures which will undermine even further the stability of the currencies, the Fourth International calls on the workers of all advanced capiatlist countries to raise themselves to the height of the socialist opportunities opened by the death-agony of capitalism.
Dot not let the employers close down plants built by your labor and pains... Do not let the plague of unemployment spread. Nationalization of the banks and all basic industries and their administraion under workers' control! Automatic expropriation by the state of all businesses closed down by their owners! Establishment of overall plans for economic worked out under the control of the development, trade unions! Against the «Europe» of the trusts, and for the Socialist United States of Europe, which will develop a joint economic plan and offer integration on a socialist basis to the countries of
« People's Democracy » and to the U.S.S.R.! Reduction of the working week to 40 hours in all countries where it is at present 48 or 44 hours, and to 35 hours where it is at present 40 hours, with no correspond-
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FOR THE REESTABLISHMENT OF SOVIET DEMOCRACY IN THE U.S.S.R.
At the moment when the death-agony of capitalism is entering its decisive stage, that of the Soviet bureaucracy is beginning. The same forces that are shaking the world foundations of Capital are blowing up the monolithic dictatorship of the Kremlin. The rise of the colonial revolution and the remarkable advances in Soviet technics and economy are undermining the objective and subjective bases of that dictatorship, viz, the relative weakness of the proletariat and its fear of a reëstablishment of capitalism in the U.S.S.R. Assured of the world victory of socialism, confident of the future, and proud of its incomparable industrial accomplishments, the Soviet working class is raising its head again, is condemning police oppression, growing social inequality, the exorbitant privileges of the bureaucrats and the mediocrity of daily life, in crying contradiction with the enormous advances in the country's economy.
This growing pressure of the masses had already made itself felt before Stalin's death. That event accentuated the tendency. Seized by panic in face of the rising waves of popular discontent, Stalin's. successors threw out ballast, granting successively economic and political concessions to the masses, disowned the Stalin cult, admitted, even though in a mealy-mouthed way, most of the crimes of the hated dictator, and promised to return to the path of Lenin. Far from having calmed the grumbling voicés, the Kremlin's concessions, as well as new successes achieved by Soviet society, have spurred and will stil! further spur the appetite and the aspirations of the people.
In the countries of «People's Democracy,» to all these reasons explaining the growing pressure of the masses on the bureaucratic leaderships in office, there is added their feeling of being the victims of national oppression and of seeing their country exploited by the Kremlin. The strength of these feelings and the intolerable economic situation of the workers caused the great workers' revolts of East Berlin and Poznan. Combining with a current of political opposition inside the Communist movement against the bureaucratic dictatorship, they led to the Polish and Hungarian revolutions.
In Poland, the movement of the masses, victorious over Stalinist resistance thanks to an alliance with. the liberal wing of the bureaucracy, has temporarily
In Hungary, faced with stopped halfway to victory.
fierce resistance of the Stalinist apparatus, mobiliz.
ing the Soviet army to its aid, the revolution rapidly the
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it could not break the heroic resistance of a working class which the workers of all countries, including Communist workers, felt solidarity. The effects of the political revolution in the European « People's Democracies » and in the U.S.S.R. are already being felt also in China and even in Jugoslavia.
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COMRADE WORKERS, COMRADE COMMUNISTS!
The Fifth World Congress of the Fourth International met on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. The Fourth International speaks to you as the legitimate heir of the ideas of that revolution, of the ideas of the Bolshevik Party of Lenin and Trotsky, of the ideas of the early Communist International. Today, when the Kremlin leaders are themselves admitting the crimes of Stalin, they implicitly recognize that the indefatigable struggle carried on by the Old Bolsheviks in the U.S.S.R., by the Russian and International Left Opposition, by the world Trotskyist movement, against the degeneration of the workers' state, was fully justified.
It is in this bureaucratic degeneration, in the presence
With its inevitable ups and downs, undergoing stop- at the head of the workers' state of a powerful privipages and even temporary retreats, the political revolution against the Soviet bureaucracy in the U.S.S.R. itself and in the « People's Democracies » is already one of the driving forces of the world revolution. It will spread in close interaction with the latter, spurred by the reconstruction of a new Bolshevik-Leninist vanquard, a reconstruction which the international revolutionary movement must help with all its strength. Putting itself boldly, at the head of the masses, the Bolshevik-Leninists of the U.S.S.R. and of Eastern Europe will avoid the intermediate stages of confusion and reduce to a minimum the needless costs of the political revolution, as well as the temporary profits that the counter-revolution may be able, here and there, to derive from it.
Long live the Hungarian revolution, which will arise again, invincible, until the power belongs to the democratic committees of the toiling people !
Down with the bloody counter-revolutionary intervention of the Kremlin in Hungary!
Long live the Polish October which will end by winning out over all the hesitations, retreats, and betrayals of the Gomulkist centrists!
Long live the political revolution in the U.S.S.R., which will reëstablish soviet democracy there, reorganize the planned economy, freeing it from the bureaucratic grip, stimulate the creative enthusiasm of the proletarians and the intellectuals, and make of the U.S.S.R. the invincible bastion of socialism in the world!
impossible.
Long live soviet democracy, which will mark for all humanity an enormous stride forward compared to the most advanced forms of bourgeois democracy!
Long live the alliance of all workers' states on a basis of equality!
leged caste, that it is necessary to seek the secret of all the failures and all the defeats undergone by the, international movement during the last 30 years. If today the Communist Parties are in crisis, in full retreat if not in decomposition in many a country in the West, it is not due to a strengthening of capitalism, whose death-agony is completely visible to everyone. It is due to the fact of the false, criminal, treacherous policy imposed on the Communist Parties by the Kremlin. This policy has not contributed to the defense of the Soviet Union. It has on the contrary contributed to arousing against it an alliance of countries several of which might today have been workers'
When the Kremlin leaders say that they want to return to the path of Lenin, hold them to it! Demand a total and opposite revision of the Stalinist policy of these last years. Demand that freedom of discussion and freedom for tendencies be reëstablished within the Communist Parties. Demand the reconstitution of a communist International within which, on a basis of strict equality, all communist parties would work out together the joint line that would lead to the world triumph of communism!
By formulating these demands, you would once. more run up against the resistance, the obstruction if not the repression, of your bureaucratic leaders. will soon see that, though they have thrown out ballast, they are still prepared to fight hard for their positions and privileges.
Organize against them, for the straightening out of the Communist movement, a left opposition on a national and international scale. Study the writings of Lenin, of the Old Bolsheviks, of Trotsky and the international Trotskyist movement : you will there find the only revolutionary Marxist explanation of the crimes of Stalin and the mistakes of your parties.
Make contact with the sections of the Fourth International. They are patiently and tenaciously preparing the construction of a new leadership of the
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92 international proletariat within which you have an essential place to fill.
What made possible the victory of October will tomorrow make possible the victory of the world-wide October: a revolution pushed to its logical extreme; the power of councils of workers and poor peasants; a party at the unselfish service of the proletariat, armed by all the teachings of that science of society and revolution, revolutionary Marxism.
Met together in this World Congress which reflects the considerable strengthening of their movement, the 100 delegates and observers from the revolutionary organizations of nearly 30 nations, represent a cohort of vanguard militants who are already in action, each in his own country and all together on the world scale, as educators, coördinators, unifiers, and driving forces real movement of the masses in which they are definitively integrated. With them, around them, the proletarians will build the world Le Directeur-Gérant: P. FRANK.
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Long live the programme of Lenin and Trotsky, the shining guide of the international proletariat!
Down with the Stalinist bureaucracy, which stained with mud and blood that banner dear to the workers, and led astray an important part of the international proletariat!
Long live the Fourth International, which saved the honor of communism and which will tomorrow reassemble all honest communists in the final combat or the defeat of capitalism, for the victory of the vorld socialist revolution!
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