May 27 2022

Before the war and the capitalist catastrophe…

The task of the moment: to recover the flags of the Fourth International and regroup revolutionary cadres to go out and meet the new and future struggles of the world working class*

Very cunningly, Big capital gave survival and protected Stalinism so that it can play its counterrevolutionary role at the head of the unions and mass organizations throughout the world, while it has culminated its consolidation as the new ruling class in the former workers' states, allied to all the imperialist powers, from Vietnam to Cuba, from China to Korea, and from the former USSR to the European East.
But this would not have worked without the legitimacy that the parties that claimed for decades the Fourth International gave the Stalinists from the left, the only place from where you could speak to the working class with clean flags and looking the exploited eye to eye.
After decades of opportunism and adaptations, the revolutionary movement broke down and, as we see it today, ended up betraying the entire programmatic, theoretical and organizational legacy of the Fourth International, to deploy an open policy of class collaboration.

That is what the battle in which we are engaged in today is about: giving continuity to that program and theory of the Fourth International, which have proven to pass the test of history, while those who once supported it openly betrayed, as they continue doing now.
A new base of careerists and opportunists entered the ex-Trotskyist parties, imbued with a fierce revisionism of Marxism in  their leaderships, so that they continue the old work and the policy of Stalinism that led to the cruelest defeats of the world proletariat.
Cadres, militants or currents like the FLTI, now sailing again against the current, but firmly supported by the most advanced combats of the working class, which has not given up, we seek at the international level to recover those flags from the mud of opprobrium and betrayal to re-found the Fourth International expurgated from traitors and lackeys of Stalinism who handed it over a long time ago

In this catastrophe of the capitalist system, which does not find another way out to recover its profits other than piracy, parasitism, looting and war, we revolutionary Marxists know how to move in our environment and habitat, which is to march to prepare and organize new revolutionary parties under the banners of the Fourth International and for the socialist revolution. Our call is to prepare the class civil war against the war that the capitalists declared to the international proletariat.

We Marxists know what it is about. Here and there reformism proclaims that the working class and the exploited can improve their current living conditions without a victorious socialist revolution at the international level and without crushing the bourgeois parasites and their regimes. The opportunist practice of the "New Left" is based on this thoroughly reformist thesis. That is why they clash themselves more and more with the masses, because their apothegm is not possible.
Without revolutionary struggles of the armed masses, without putting their foot on the chest of the bourgeoisie, without forcing it to surrender, without concentrated international combats of the world working class, the working class and the exploited will not be able to even partially improve their conditions of existence. As the Marxist strategy proposes, without fighting for everything and this with revolutionary methods, it is already impossible for the proletariat to achieve the slightest of its conquests. And if it gets them and doesn't take power, it will lose them. This is the apothegm of revolutionary Marxism today.

Our strengths lie in the fact that if the working class does not want to die, it must try again and find the way to once more conquer a period of victorious revolutions.
So are we doing, the members of the FLTI and its revolutionary groups. We have to try again. It is not the time to sound the trumpets of withdrawal from the revolutionary movement, but rather the time to prepare new offensives to refound the Fourth International and regroup the best cadres that the working class is detaching in the front lines of each combat at international level.

They, the traitors of the Fourth International, are no more capable. They are the expression of decades of capitulations to the class enemy and betrayals to the legacy of our world party. They are supported by states, regimes and governments. A while ago they stopped relying on the best of the revolutionary struggles of the proletariat. They now openly act to hand them over and betray them.

We revolutionaries, the same as the vanguard of the working class and the advanced workers have done, have selected our cadres. We are not starting from scrap. In two decades of existence, some of our people have deserted from combat. They are obfuscated with the revolutionary movement because it has not given them victories. They hoped that these would fall from the sky and happen in a simple way in moments of brutal crisis of the Fourth International. As Trotsky said, these currents of disgruntled and vengeful elements must be left to their fate. They are of no use to the working class and its decisive struggles.

Every revolutionary current must dedicate all its attention to the new layer of perceptive workers and youth that emerge from the most advanced combats of the mass movement, who begin to see and distinguish that those who spoke in the name of Trotskyism are vulgar reformists; nothing different from those who had betrayed them in previous fights.
These insightful youth and workers are bringing the Trotskyists back to the heart of the revolutionary hotbeds, to their most active battalions.
Arrogant petty bourgeois from the regimes' leftist apparatuses have long since given up Trotskyism for dead. But before this happens, their chiefs of the general staff of the bourgeoisie will get rid of reformism after using their services. They are an anomaly in history, while revolutionary Marxism is the future of the working class. Once again it is time for 10 intelligent men who, as Lenin would say, are worth more than 10,000 idiots.

The working class needs to know who are its allies and who are its enemies; how the leaderships that have led it to the impasse of class collaboration act while the bourgeoisie prepares the counterrevolution and fascism to crush the masses.

The Fourth International is not dead. It lives in this sharpening of the conditions of crisis, wars and revolutions. It is now about living in new revolutionary combat organizations. The time has come to put this task into action again. All our forces as a Trotskyist nucleus for the international socialist revolution are committed to it.

* Taken from the Presentation of “The International Workers Organizer” #35