16 of August of 2016

Presentation

New rounds of the world crac in China, Brazil and the BRICS... The telltale deflates of the 'new lungs' of the capitalist economy
Before the bankruptcy of the Europe of the Maastricht Treaty, Great Britain seeks to go alone to the world, while Germany and the U.S. are trying to encircle Russia and China with economic, political and military treaties

The working class engages in hard battles, betrayed here and there by the Union bureaucracies and social-traitor parties

For the working class to live, imperialism must die! 
Under the banner of the Fourth International! Open the way to Socialist Revolution!

The unending crisis and bankruptcy of the imperialist system does not calm. In the past two months there have been new and important events of the class struggle in which the immediate fate of millions of exploited is decided. Revolutionary Marxism should be at the level of these real acid tests raising before the proletariat a program to conquer victory conditions, regroup its ranks internationally and expose the opportunist liquidators of Marxism which lead to defeat and destroy the best of the vanguard of the working class. This edition of the International Worker Organizer is dedicated to this.
Maastricht has started to tear apart. Great Britain, smothered by Germany and the United States, seeks to again go it alone at the world... to the Atlantic World, but also to the Pacific one. The partnership of US-UK imperialism and that of the European imperialist powers is in question.
The powers that came out victorious from the global crash of 2008, as the US and Germany seek to encircle Russia and China to finish semi-colonizing them. The world market has shrunk and imperialist banks only try to hide their bankruptcy by means of false balances and securities without backing in goods.
There is instability in the regime of imperialist domination that prevents this from settling its counter-revolutionary offensive that attacked and encircled the bastions of world revolution, as yesterday, Athens, and today Syria and rebel Donbass. The global working-class is resisting with heavy fighting and, as in France and Bolivia -and more recently in Syria– happen to conquer heroic mass offensives. That is the present International Worker Organizer about.
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We do delivery to our readers a special Dossier dedicated to the Syrian question day to day, because there all the contradictions of the world situation, the revolution and counter-revolution are concentrated and it has been put to the test the Marxist program and the centralized action of the treacherous leaderships of the masses.
The events of early May in Khantoman showed that the resistance, the exploited masses of Syria, could march on Damascus and "cut the head of the Snake", i.e. of genocidal Al-Assad. The insurrections of masses in Aleppo in June/July confirmed this notion categorically. However, manipulation of generals-without-battles of the bourgeois leaderships, mounted over the resistance, prevented this... for the moment.
You will see in the special Dossier an Editorial which defines the current time of the revolution and the counter-revolution in Syria, as well as multiple reports of the correspondents of the Leon Sedov Brigade from the same battlefield. Readers will also find the work of our correspondent in Greece from the heart of the refugees who are under repression of the Government of New Left’s Syriza.
In this very special issue we addressed developments in Turkey. We develop the international conditions that caused seizures in that country. Crossed by all the contradictions of the revolution and the counter-revolution in the Middle East, determined by the Maastricht crisis and the place that the world economy gives to it, Turkey has become an encircled sub-imperialism, seeking a sphere of influence, after an expansive cycle of 10 years, for eluding a new crisis and outburst.
The military coup, which Erdogan allowed to unfold, and the backlash of this are but an evidence that the larger fractions of the Turkish capitalist oligarchy seek to impose centrality manu militari inwards of Turkey, against its own working class, since they try to leave the closure and have new opportunities for their business in Middle East, the Caucasus and Europe.
In our statement on Turkey we are opposed to the fallacy that the Turkish working class would have been which stopped the military coup. The reformist left is unable to distinguish the working class in the processes of civil war and military political clashes. It is a utterly parliamentary left corresponding to the upper layers of the working class.
The Turkish working class was crushed under bombings and brutally repressed in the large actions of this year’s May Day. The Kurdish fraction of the working class of that country is bombarded daily by Erdogan’s troops, while the Syrian working-class there, amounting 3 million refugees, is strangled and working as slaves.
The coup was stopped by Erdogan with his majority in the armed forces and the bourgeois fractions and the modern rich middle class, on which he sustains to launch a real backlash against the Turkish working class before this erupts into political mass struggle against the economic crisis that has begun.
The program before the Turkish question and the keys to the time of the world situation in open discussion against reformism, is what closes the special Dossier in this publication.
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On the main body of this IWO we present as Editorial, our letter to the Marxists of the Pacific for their 54th Assembly against the war in Japan. Therein we tackle the core issues of the world situation, Syria, and clashes between revolution and counter-revolution, separating the waters between reform and revolution. There we discuss the issue of the war in the same class struggle.
Our current, the FLTI, is in the middle of a hard match regrouping the internationalist and healthy forces of the world working class. With the Marxists of Japan we have conquered a front of international struggle with regard to the issue, in the battles that we have fought together against treacherous leaderships and also in the internationalist struggle for the freedom of political prisoners in the world.
Our readers may as well see it in this letter, which is presented as editorial in this material.
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The reader will also find a section aimed at responding to the events of the class struggle in the Americas. In the section "from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego: the same class, the same fight", we present two key political issues. One of them is with regard to the decline of the Bolivarians in Latin America, attacking the masses on account of the IMF and Wall Street, supported by the reformist left, in moments in which the American working class engages in battle, yesterday fighting for $15 the hour with marches and strikes across the country and today with the young black workers rebelling slums against Obama murderous police. The American working class, together with Mexican masses is the vanguard of the fight of the workers in the continent. Further to the South, the manufacturing workers of Bolivia have rebelled against the Government of Evo Morales, setting the path to the whole of the exploited of the sub-continent to confront and defeat the Bolivarians in their decline, while the Chilean working class and youth return to combat, thousand times betrayed by Stalinism and small groups of Renegades of Trotskyism, which are trying to legitimize and sustain the former so that they submit the workers and people of Chile to the infamous Pinochetista regime.
We are witnessing extremely harsh struggles of the working class and great betrayals of its leaderships and the reformist left which have subordinated to "Socialist" Sanders in the United States; that is, to Clinton whom all their votes will go to. If yesterday we were facing a left of Obama’s "against fascist Tea Party", today we see a Clinton-Sanders-Bolivarian left "against fascist Trump" that holds the popular front across the continent, as we saw in its full support to Dilma in Brazil including the invention of a so-called "coup" against her to submit the working-class to bourgeois gang when Brazil has already entered into a true economic collapse and the masses are suffering from all the crisis that the capitalists and imperialism have thrown over them. Submitting the working class to one of the bourgeois camps, as the Latin American and world lefts do through the PT in Brazil means to kneel the exploited before one of its torturers, while Temer – Dilma´s former partner- continues the attack on the working class. In Brazil, imperialism selects its agents at the beginning of the economic crash, and the working class must select their leaders for combat, but now at half of the road and under the thick fire of the enemy.
The Renegades of Trotskyism, become into a new neo-Stalinist fraction of the WSF, from friends of the Castroes and U.S. Democratic Party to Sanders´ partners (as ISO, the American SWP) to the Bolivian POR, to the LIT, to the FIT in Argentina, are accompanying the Bolivarians, now in decline -as they did yesterday in the latter’s glory.
The new left -as yesterday the world Social Forum- only seeks disorganizing the left wing of the working class in the Americas. Our readers will be able to see this in articles, statements and correspondents’ reports from USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile that we present in this issue.

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We live in a world marked by capitalist bankruptcy, where a crisis of the regime of imperialist domination has burst that permanently open gaps in the heights and at every step the masses are placed in position of counter-offensive.
In Europe, under the bankruptcy of Maastricht, the struggle of French exploited was one of the highlights with the working class and youth bidding to launch a new "French May". The road shown by the revolutionary struggle of French workers and young people marked a 180 ° angle with the policy of the reformist left that has underlined its total bankruptcy with a new wave of social-chauvinism. Before the English Brexit, this left told the proletariat its ally was not in the new "French May", in raising the struggle of 35-hour working week for all European workers as demand unifying the whole of working-class from Portugal to the Russian steppes... they told the working class that the alternative was to support their own British bourgeoisie either voting "stay in the EU" or "being independent" under the single command in London.
This is social-chauvinism, the worst form of reformism. This transforms the enemies - the local bourgeois imperialist gang – into “workers’ allies” and the class brothers and sisters from the rest of Europe in their enemies. It is the greatest cynicism of treacherous directions which, as they showed in the two world wars of the 20th century, subjected the working class of the imperialist powers to their own bourgeois gang and led to physical clashes among them while their heads were scrambling for the areas of influence of the colonial and semi-colonial world.
The English SWP is a real center of organization of the forces of the world reformist left. It has transformed the flag of "UK independence" on a matter of principle of its program. We are facing a real focus of enemies of socialism and lackeys of the City of London and the Queen of England.
The London bourgeois gangs treat the British working class equal or worse than Hollande treats the French working class. "Zero hour" contract has been imposed in England. In France the capitalist gang is trying to snatch the 35 hours a week from workers. In the Spanish State and the rest of southern Europe, huge swathes of workers are unemployed and suffer chronic unemployment.
In England, the "zero hour contracts" mean that the worker is 24/7 at the disposal of the company... and is paid only the hours worked. These scoundrels, betrayers of socialism have called for its own working class to vote in favor of the Brexit... the rupture of England with Maastricht. They have submitted it to its imperialist bourgeoisie’s business, rather than call it to join French, German, Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian, workers for finishing with imperialist Maastricht’s Europe and the banditry of the City of London’s looters of the oppressed peoples of the world.
Other "Socialists" in Great Britain called to vote to stay in Maastricht. So did the representatives in that country of the French NPA. These undoubtedly defend the interests of transnational corporations and bankers in Paris. None of the social-imperialist currents has called to break ties with their bourgeois gang and go to a common fight alongside their class brothers and sisters in Europe.
In UK’s Brexit of England the rottenness of this new social-imperialist left was displayed; it picked up the policy and practice of Stalinism, after sustaining for years the World Social Forum in bankruptcy, which promised "socialism of the 21st century" with Chavez, Castro, Morales and the Chinese mandarins... who today handed out broken Nations, with hungry and slave workers... and the conquests of socialism, to US imperialism, as in Cuba.
We publish here statements on the fighting waged by the French working-class to open the road to a new "French May" to stop the offensive of the France Government, great businessmen and bankers, and face vicious betrayals by the bureaucracy of trade unions and the social-traitor parties.
Here we present also the persistence in the struggle of the working class in Ukraine. If in Paris the flags of the Paris Commune returned to wave (although today they want to hide that), the Donbass miners continue to resist to a counter-revolutionary offensive and siege by NATO, Kiev-Fascist forces, plus the Russian-Stalinist fifth column that tries to surrender them from the inside.
However, "besieged" Donbass today receives forces from the uprising of workers and miners in the rest of Ukraine, who take to the streets and openly confront the Government of Poroshenko, IMF and NATO's plans.
The international conditions of new knockouts of the imperialist crac create objectively pre-revolutionary conditions internationally. The treacherous leaderships the masses have at their head are which prevent again a mass offensive internationally widespread.
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Our readers will find in this newspaper we unveiled the infamous politics of the reformist left to betray the revolutionary struggle of the masses, a true "modus operandi" of reformist leaderships of the masses who have put on their shoulders the support of imperialist system in bankruptcy. As we said, in France the masses stormed in pre-revolutionary maneuvers and were on the verge of overthrowing the imperialist Government of Hollande to defeat the anti-worker law; in Bolivia the manufacturing workers headed the fight against the Government of Evo Morales; in these fights we can see trade union bureaucracies and reformism operating centralized while they are mounted at the crucial moment on the struggle of the masses and the most acute processes of their mobilizations - as in France, or in the "indefinite strikes" as in Bolivia- for re legitimizing before their eyes and thus subjecting them to Governments and the trappings of bourgeois infamous regimes.
In the case of Syria, amid the civil war, the rebel masses of Aleppo and Idlib were which in Khantoman defeated the forces of Al-Assad; they were which took the center of Aleppo and had in their hands the possibility to expropriate the big banks of the bankers of Al-Assad and imperialism... a real insurrection, to which the generals of the ESL and Al Nusra imposed the withdrawal. This led to the imposition of the siege of Al-Assad to Aleppo. The masses returned to erupt against this siege, and before these could empty arsenals of the bourgeois generals and ended up defeating the forces of Al-Assad, Turkey and Qatar, under the orders of imperialism, the false bourgeois leaderships pooled their forces to "launch a counter-offensive", and break the siege with a corridor of 21km in Aleppo.
This modus operandi of imperialism and the treacherous leaderships of the masses - as evidenced by France, Bolivia, the civil war in Syria- is just looking for re-legitimizing those same treacherous leaderships when they are surpassed by the masses, so that they come again to control and disrupt the latter’s offensive. A modus operandi that works when the masses break the fences with which the bastions of revolution are besieged... fences like that you see in Ukraine, or around the masses of Syria, Libya, Palestine, Athens.
This is the great obstacle that the working class has in its way to open the path to victory: the overabundance of treacherous leaderships.
It is in moments of greatest offensive of masses when they break the control of treacherous leaderships. But to seize that moment, which is what the manufacturing workers of Bolivia tenaciously sought, what Paris young and workers vanguard and the rebel young workers of Syria conquered, it is necessary to set up, in the previous processes, bodies of direct democracy and self-determination and coordination of the masses in struggle. Without this, the bourgeois opposition and the bureaucracy can return to take the control of the masses, both with demagoguery and manu militari.
For this end we Trotskyists promote tirelessly a fight for setting up bodies of direct democracy of the masses in struggle, where they enforce their weight, where all currents and organizations that say to speak on their behalf have to submit. Struggles for workers councils, for militias with direct democracy is what guarantees, along with a fierce revolutionary leadership conquered in combat, that nobody will expropriate the struggle of the exploited.
The present IWO and its Dossier are dedicated to this fight, to draw lessons and raise a sharp program to defeat reformism and help the masses conquer victory conditions. The statements on Syria, Turkey, France, Ukraine, USA, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina that here we present the reader are about this.
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As we can see, the imperialist world system is used to utilize as squeezed lemons, the leaderships of the masses that it buys and corrupts. After destroying, betray and expropriating huge struggles of the first years of the 21st century, the old WSF leaderships are falling in the swamp of history. 
The "New Left", composed of the old Stalinist leaderships and the Renegades of Trotskyism, comes to take its turn to prevent Socialist Revolution. Trotskyists declare all-out war both to the old and to the "new” reformist left!
A cynical revisionism has raised its head in the old ankylosed parties of the Renegades of Trotskyism, who "now" have "discovered" that "Trotsky and Gramsci were the greatest revolutionaries in the 1930s". This revision of equating Trotsky and Gramsci is a cynicism similar to Leninism counterfeiting Stalin carried out to show himself as Lenin’s successor.
This is a cruel and infamous review. Trotsky and the left opposition leaders were the leaders --until 1924 / 1925 - of the Third International. From the start Gramsci and the entire Italian Stalinism joined the gang of Stalin against Trotskyism and the Bolshevik Leninists. In a letter sent to Moscow, Gramsci said: "all our comments are directed against the oppositions (he refers to Trotsky and Zinoviev)."
Moreover, in his texts from prison after 1932, Gramsci reads as follows: "given the general approach of all the problems associated with his trend (Trotsky´s), it had to lead necessarily to a form of Bonapartism. Here the inexorable need to crush his trend."
Pretending to search - cynically as a leadership of charlatans and con artists of Trotskyism as the PTS of Argentina do- for a “convergence" between Trotsky and Gramsci is like wanting to seek convergence between a victim and his executioner: a pickaxe.

Under the banners of the fourth international!
The documents that we present in this OOI and its Dossier are part of the next Congress of the Collective for the Re-Foundation of the IV International-FLTI. The combat and the fundamental obligation that this Congress has before it is the fight against revisionism and forgery to Trotskyism which the reformist left has relentlessly peaked.
The destroyers of the IV International have centralized and unified under a brutal campaign of falsification and amalgam around the "unity of Gramsci and Trotsky". In 2007 the leader and "theoretician" of the English SWP, Chris Harman wrote an article entitled "Gramsci, Prison notebooks and Philosophy" under the thesis that "Trotsky and Gramsci are complementary revolutionaries and theoreticians"... This campaign has been taken by all the Renegades of Trotskyism, from the LIT with its Corriente Roja (Red Current) in Spain -which is looking for a "lost notebook" that would be one of Gramsci's prison notebooks, in which supposedly he would have admitted Trotsky was right- to the PTS of Argentina that has theorized about the "huge contributions of Gramsci in the fight against the bourgeois democracies imperialism expands in the West"... All of this is amalgams, inconsistencies, fabrications to lure hundreds and thousands of young people who are looking for a way to the proletarian revolution to enter a supposedly Trotskyist party, but actually making them enter a Stalinist one.
Neo-Stalinist revisionists, hands off Trotskyism! Gramsci was a militant soldier of the Stalinist fraction, the bureaucracy choking the conquests of the October revolution and the Third International. He consciously proclaimed himself anti-Trotskyist. He fought for the Stalinist theory of socialism in one country. And it completed the Stalinist program to support the "democratic stage" in support of the bourgeoisie with which Stalinism and its popular fronts strangled hundreds of proletarian revolutions in the world.
The Renegades of Trotskyism, with their open passage to a neo-Stalinism and its national-socialist program for sinking the proletarian revolution, are looking for the "progressive Stalinist" with whom hundreds of thousands of revolutionary workers and young people are fooled.
Already we could see in the aftermath of World War II those who spoke on behalf of the IV International subordinating to Tito and Mao, who were sexed up to be the new "revolutionary"; later in the 1960s and ' 70s Yalta "Trotskyists" supported," Castro and Ho Chi Minh... as "new Jacobins of the Socialist Revolution. Today, the liquidators of Trotskyism are still looking for their 'good' Stalinist... but all of them have already handed out the worker States to imperialism. Therefore the Renegades of Trotskyism have dusted a dead Stalinist, Gramsci, and want to “merge” him with Trotsky.
Trotsky faced Stalinism by grouping and organizing all the revolutionary resistance forces in the world, to combat the degeneration of the Soviet Union and treason to the III International. Trotskyism, in the ' 30, travelled all across the world organizing revolutionary forces left in the III International and then working on the centrist forces of the Socialist movement worldwide that were turning to the left to found a new revolutionary International, i.e., the Fourth International, before the open passage of Stalinism to the camp of world bourgeoisie after the defeat of the German revolution in 1933.
Trotskyists founded the IV International and provided it with the theory - program of permanent revolution, i.e., of the international character of proletarian revolution. And the program of the political revolution, whose central point was: Down with the clique of Cain-Stalin! Out of the soviets with the bureaucracy and the worker aristocracy! Civil war to crush the scourge of bureaucracy, regain the Worker State as a bastion of World Socialist Revolution!
With this program the Trotskyists intervened and drew lessons from the events in Italy and in the troubled Europe of the interwar years. The Transitional Program was held by thousands of revolutionaries in the world, where Trotskyism sought to regroup them, from Nazi Germany - where he organized revolutionary cells – up to Stalin’s Soviet Union, where the Russian section of the IV fought in concentration camps and in the resistance against Stalinism.
The IV International organized their forces in China -occupied by Japan and English imperialism. He organized Trotskyist groups, under conditions of harsh Bonapartist regimes, in Latin America in the 1930s, and founded in the U.S. its strongest party in the workers vanguard, the American SWP.
Having started the Second World War, he organized the resistance in France occupied by Hitler. Trotsky discussed with and struggled to organize Italian internationalists, followers of Bordiga and the Prometheus Group. He knew perfectly who Gramsci was. Never had Trotsky left him abandoned to the falsification and the siege of Stalinism in jail, if he had had even 1% of expectations about the possibility to converge with him. Enough of forgeries and lies! Enough of passing Stalinism fractions as revolutionary and allies of the Marxist program!
If you have defined for Gramsci and Stalinism, then go with them!
The battle against revisionism, which threatens not to leave stone on stone of Marxism, becomes crucial. To do this we are preparing a brochure which will be released in the coming days. Our battle cry is: "Stalinists, get out of the Fourth international! Out with the revisionists and their falsifications of Marxism"!
The III Congress of the collective by the Re-Foundation of the IV International/FLTI is all about this; in it also various organizations and currents will feature that promote with us a front of international struggle to face treacherous leaderships and break the fences around revolutionary processes that are underway. A debate inside the internationalist currents of the world working class - even with those that have with us enormous theoretical and programmatic - differences becomes decisive. An international grouping of the cream of the cream of the vanguard workers and the youth around the world becomes essential. For us, who are confident in the program of the fourth international and its historical validity, it becomes necessary to face this perfidious policy of national-socialism of treacherous new and old left currents that submit the proletarians to their own bourgeoisies.
A new Kienthal- Zimmerwald of the internationalist forces of the world working class becomes again necessary. Breaking the siege of imperialist attacks on the bastions of revolution and confronting those who betray the latter would be the starting points for this international grouping.
The implementation of the "International Network for the Freedom of World Political Prisoners and Justice for our Martyrs", the joint defense of the Leon Sedov Brigade of Syria by fractions of internationalist anarchist currents that openly confront Stalinism, and the JRCL of Japan, as well as Trotskyist groups from Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain , etc. , open the historic opportunity to step forward to help break the chains of the treacherous leaderships tying the hands of the workers and preventing them from advancing in their fighting.
The workers vanguard and future generations deserve a healthy and open debate of the internationalist working class forces. That would be a serious blow against revisionism in Marxism, a trend which is settled in the worst decomposition with which capitalism corrupts autocracies and worker bureaucracies.
Combatting the latter is a decisive condition that we Trotskyists raise to advance to a fight-front and a debate among all currents that promote it.
Towards the III Congress of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the IV International / FLTI we will make public all debates and discussions in our own ranks, because without this there is not and will never be life in a revolutionary movement. Let Stalinist and Social-Democrats parties suffocate the critical thinking of their militants and their revolutionary personalities. The revolutionary program must pass the test of life and of criticism. If it does not pass the first it won't ever the second. That's the history of Bolshevism about, a history that is nothing but - as Trotsky said- the struggle of its tendencies and fractions.
We affirm - and that strengthens and unifies our forces – both theory and program of the Fourth International have passed the test of history. It is necessary to group forces and the men who lead them to victory.
The working class has given one and a thousand opportunities to the revolutionary movement. As the manifesto “The Fourth International and the War” held in 1940, it is not about preparing for only one revolution, but for a whole period of wars, crises and revolutions. This historical period will give revolutionary Marxism one and a thousand opportunities, as already it has been given and has wasted. It is necessary that this does not happen again. It is necessary to group 10 smart men, said Lenin, and not 10 thousand morons, though he apologized for calling the latter as such.
The working class doesn’t have the leadership it deserves. It is necessary to conquer that leadership. Open the way to the fourth International! Open the way to Socialist revolution!

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