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Title: Amendments Presented by the Austrian Majority

16-25 August 1951 · The Third World Congress (16–25 August 1951) · 233 words

Machine-assisted translation. No English translation of this document is known to have been published. This one was made from the French text in Prager’s collection with machine assistance and spot-checked, but it has not been edited. The French is the authoritative text: Amendements présentés par la majorité autrichienne.

Issuing body: Third World Congress of the Fourth International (Austrian majority delegation)

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Amendments presented by the Austrian majority

Page 1, first paragraph, last sentence. Replace: "and the new upsurge of the workers' movement in the metropolitan countries" with: "as well as by the fact that the workers' movement of the metropolitan countries has remained intact."

Page 1, third paragraph. Replace "to suppress the powerful movement of mass emancipation in the colonies and the metropolitan countries" with: "to suppress the powerful movement of mass emancipation in the colonies and to destroy the workers' movement of the metropolitan countries."

In the chapter on the situation of the workers' movement, in the section on social democracy, last paragraph before the analysis of Stalinism. Cut the part of the sentence dealing with entrism.

In the chapter on tasks, replace the entire sixth paragraph (except for the last sentence) with the following text: "Among the most important tasks of our movement, mention must be made of the building of autonomous and independent organisations, or the ideological and organisational consolidation of such organisations where they already exist. If we can rely on such organisations, it will be possible for us, even more than in the past, to link our cadres to the real movement of the class. It is only on this basis that a flexible tactic towards the traditional workers' parties and the mass organisations will succeed."

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