We must regroup the forces and unite the exploited internationally in a single struggle!
The time of militant internationalism in the world working class has arrived!
The internationalist Trotskyists of FLTI fight to re-found the Fourth International. We affirm that the program, theory and strategy of the Fourth International passed the test of history; but the "Trotskyists" did not. It has been a while since they sold themselves, handed over their program and moved to the field of reformism, adapting to the bourgeois regime.
They claim to be anti-capitalists, but they refuse to fight for the destruction of the bourgeois state. They say they fight for the demands of the working class, without fighting for the socialist revolution as a present task. They affirm that the working class can raise their standard of living under this rotten decadent capitalist system. They show the working class a flourishing capitalism when it is already decrepit and senile, and it survives with wars, fascism and destroying the planet.
Renegades of Trotskyism long ago took Stalinism up in their shoulders. The latter had surrendered the USSR, China and the workers' states. So the renegades of Trotskyism legitimized Stalinism to play one more time its full counterrevolutionary role leading trade unions and the mass worker organizations.
The Trotskyists of FLTI know that our party, the Fourth International, was dragged into the ranks of the enemies of the working class; just as Stalinism did with the Third International yesterday.
The crisis of leadership of the working class has deepened. It is a part of reality, and the one that still predominates and stains with an enormous crisis to the world working class. Against the working movement and within it institutions, parties and bureaucracies are risen that work for their class enemy.
But we revolutionaries also know that hundreds of thousands of young revolutionary workers in the world need and yearn to conquer the international unity of their struggles. We all took to the streets for the freedom of Palestinian and world prisoners. Large sectors of conscious workers and young people have taken as ours the struggle of the workers and the Syrian people and their revolution.
In Black Africa we demand trial and punishment from the murderers of the Marikana miners and the Congo massacre.
We oppose the massacre of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Anglo-American imperialism, on the Yemeni nation. We condemn the imperialist policy of provoking fratricidal wars between the Arab and Muslim masses in the Middle East, between Shiites and Sunnis, so that slaves are killed among themselves and then rob the wealth of the region. Millions yearned for a single Intifada from Morocco and Tunisia to Jerusalem.
From Europe, hundreds of thousands took care of the tormented Syrian refugees. We took as our own the revolutionary movement of the “indignados” (outraged) against their impostors of Podemos. In the fighting to defend the 35-hour workweek in France, against the CGT union bureaucracy, thousands of us shouted "we hate the police!" We dared to hang in the Republic Square the poster of the Paris Commune. Yesterday there were still in Spain graffitis of the true indignados and their revolutionary uprising: "Immigrants: you are the sea of Madrid". In Paris we can still hear the war cry of "Every night we will make of Paris a Baghdad". From Portugal to Greece, from Madrid to Berlin, a single general strike!
There is still a cry of the Romanian workers of the Renault of "We want to earn as much as you do, workers of Paris; but if we lose, you will lose too." The mining movement that revolted at the war cry of "Let the USSR return!" is still alive and resists in Donbass (Ukraine).
The workers of Eastern Europe and Russia in '89 saw full gondolas of imperialist Europe. Today, they have them emptier than ever in their colonized countries. With Putin's boot on his head, they no longer even collect their salary.
Today both the old generation of Pacific revolutionary workers and the new socialist rebel youth in the region, feel in their flesh and bones the experience of their victory in Vietnam and throughout Indochina against US imperialism.
It is still remembered the brutal beating by Chinese and Korean workers in 1952 to General Mc Arthur's US troops on the Korean peninsula, which Stalinism stopped at the 38th parallel handing over South Korea to imperialism. In the United States people still remember that workers under arms refused to keep fighting in Korea, Vietnam...
The great struggle against US invasion, from England and Spain to Iraq, still lives in the consciousness of the American and European working class. The anti-war movement of Europe and the United States is what still prevents imperialism from intervening militarily and directly in large-scale actions against oppressed peoples.
Militant internationalism of the workers of the world emerges as an imperious necessity of their most minimal and immediate struggles, in spite of and against the treacherous leaderships that subject the working class to their own bourgeoisies.
In the Latin American subcontinent, hundreds of thousands workers and youths wonder why their anti-imperialist struggle was contained and begin to identify the Bolivarian revolution as a scam to the socialist revolution, made up of bourgeois charlatans and Stalinist traitors.
In the United States, militant internationalism in the anti-war movement begins to gain the streets again. They resist Trump's wall. Because among the American working class there are also black and latin workers... In the US, the same working class!
In every serious battle workers seek to join their ranks internationally. Reformism, Stalinism and the renegades of Trotskyism, together with corrupt union bureaucracies, are the determining factor that prevents the unity of the working class internationally. This unit would turn its struggles a million times stronger against capital that centralizes its businesses and its attacks and the counterrevolutionary paid leaderships all over the world.
From the FLTI we struggle to establish a supporting point to unify the struggles of the working class at an international level of those who call to break with the bourgeoisie and expropriate capitalists; those who call to break the siege of revolutionary processes; if those who do not want to live in this capitalist society with the lie of "real democracy" when it actually means cutting of wages, losing conquest, greater slavery and surrender of oppressed peoples.
A new generation arises already under conditions of war, crash and revolutions. There, militant internationalism will reemerge. All our strength lies in it. That is the way to re-found the Fourth International.
Putting up militant internationalism will bring the program of socialist revolution back to the world working class. By defeating those who speak in the name of socialism before the masses, the revolutionaries will return to lead the revolutions to victory.
This will be a collective task for millions of exploited people and not for small circles of scholars. The program of the Fourth International has been written in the blood of the socialist revolution for millions to be taken to victory.
Collective for the Fourth International
