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pathising sections. We believe suct reconstruct the Fourth International From the Secretary of the Communist Internationalist League to Socialist Press.

Comrade Editor, We were informed that members of the IMG claim that the CIL has sent a certain letter to the USFI, with unknown content. We would like you to publish this short letter of ours, in order to put an end to every unfounded claim.

if we succeed in this, we will certainly help in the work for the regroupment of the Trotskyist movement, and help Irotskyism, the only revolutionary current of our time, more generally.

The atmosphere of rumours is certainly alien to Trotskyism and is fit only for places where diplomacy prevails.

We never had any correspondence with the USFI or any official delegate from it. On the contrary, we have decisively rejected an informal suggestion, that we should apply to the United Secretariat with unification proposals.

Our stand is determined by our agreement with the Workers Socialist League for a common planning of our position towards the USFI and for common actions as the democratic centralist world on this level. This was and still is our position, without any vacillation.

The members of the IMG possibly refer to some of the many letters we have sent here in Greece to the section of the USFI, the OKDE, or to the sympathising USFI organisation, KEM.

We have many times asked these comrades for discussions because we want to try and agree with them on principles and on a revolutionary programme. An agreement on principles would certainly create the possibility for our unification with the USFI supporters in Greece.

Nevertheless, we repeat now what we have stated in the past: we do not want to proceed to a unilateral unification in Greece, even if there should be agreement-something that is neither simple nor easy, we must add.

We do not plan to move independently of the WL and our American comrades. Not because of any metaphysical respect to our agreements, but for very real and concrete reasons. We are interested in the Fourth International and not in the building of Trotskyism in a Isly, can be of value as a part of the party of socialist revolution.

single country.

Lately we have sent two letters, one to the OKDE (official section) and another to the KEM (sympathising organisation), with the same proposals as before and with the request that they accept a delegation of ours to the national conferences of each of the organisations.

The OKDE informed us in retrospect that they had sent a translation of our letter to the United Secretariat.

They had of course the right to do so. As your readers must well understand, this is somehow different from us having sent a letter to the USFI.

Moreover, let us add here that the section of the USFI, in its conference, rejected our proposals for discussion by a two-thirds majority.

It was impossible for us to understand the arguments of the comrades against an immediate opening of discussions towards the unification of the Trotskyist forces, despite hard efforts on our part. Perhaps the IMG members could give a better explanation to you.

Yours fraternally, Vlam

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