Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today, Woman Worker, Class Fighter and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

[draw an objective balance sheet of the post-war…]

Socialist Press no. 116, 13 September 1978 · scan pp. 9–10 · about 200 words

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draw an objective balance sheet of the post-war history of the Trotskyist International, and analyse the roots of its current crisis. Adopted by the Founding Published as three supplements to Socthe WSL 1977 Summer School, this article attempts to examine in more detail the departure from the Marxist method carried out by Michel Pablo and the majority of the International Secretariat of the Fl in the period following the Yugoslavian 'break' with Stalin in 1948. The article shows the methodological connection between the positions which led to the 1953 split in the International, and those which opened the door for the opportunist Socialist League for submission to the pre-conference discussion of the USFI XIth World Congress - exposing the political bankruptcy and opportunism of both of the previous main factions within the USFI. Pointing out that the common factor of each of the self-styled 'Fourth Internationals' is their departure from the method and principles on which the Fl. was founded, this article calls for serious steps towards the reconstruction Published in Trotskyism Today No 3, July 1978. Price 60p plus 15p p&p.

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← Contents of Socialist Press no. 116, 13 September 1978

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