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What we think WE HAVE now entered a most critical stage of the war in Vietnam. On the side of the oppressed all over i the world we have the heroic struggle of the Viet- namese workers and peasants battling it out with the most ferocious and brutal imperialist enemy.

Vietnam is now a major sector of the international class struggle. What happens there is as important for the British working class as what is happening in their trade unions. Indeed, it is impossible to separate them. Consider the position in the following way: As part of the insoluble economic crisis of British capitalism, government over the past year have been the Wilson busy reducing the purchasing power of the wage packet in order to repay interest on the enormous loans still to be paid back to the USA. As a result large sections of the working class have rightly been up in arms defending their standard of living.

the brutal interests and genocidal murdere to vietnam these interest repayments are available to Wilson and company are economically and militarily tied hand and foot to Nixon and the Wall Street imperialists.

The struggle of the Vietnamese people to defend themselves is thus insolubly linked to the struggle of the British of living. working class defending their standard But this is by no means all. Inside the USA the first effects of a major economic recession are now beginning to be felt. In a general sense these are also reflected in the considerable growth of opposition to the Vietnam war, especially inside the US armed forces.

The crisis in the USA lies at the heart of the world crisis of capitalism. Every blow struck by the international working against its own capitalist enemy is therefore a blow class on the side of the workers Vietnam. and peasants ir There is no one more conscious their critical situatio: than the imperialists themselves. Historically, as a class, just a patched-up they know that what is posed is not or that part of the world but the end of peace in this their system. Hence they are fighting with their backs to the wall as it were. Every reactionary bureaucratic force in the international workers' movement is being mobilized for their defence. The Labour leaders are not a misguided bunch of mistaken opportunists, but a counter-revolutionary force who are open the doors for a now working might and main to Tory government in Britain and at the same time providing assistance for Vietnamese all-out Nixon to crush the workers and peasants. This is their job and they perform it with alacrity. The Stalinist bureaucracy works might and main for peaceful co-existence with imperialism in order that they be left to enjoy their bureaucratic privileges in the Soviet Union.

Wilson they damn Like couldn't what happens in Vietnam just sn long as the go on as they are.

Since thea basis of peaceful co-existence is class collaboration it follows that they are absolutely opposed to the overthrow of the capitalist system.

Now we have British Stalinists such as Monty Johnstone supporting Wilson going to Washington in order to 'put pressure' on Nixon. But surely it is the other way around.

When Wilson goes to see Nixon he goes as the representative capitalism head over heels in Wall of British debt to Street. It is Nixon who is cracking the whip for Wilson to dance the imperialist tune.

The Labour government has absolutely no independence from the international bankers. Like social democrats all over the world they are their agents, and Johnstone knows this very well.

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THE WORLD political situation continues to be dominated by the French events of May-June 1968 and the subsequent fall of Gaullist Bonapartism and the deepening crisis of the Kremlin bureau. cracy following its un- successful attempt to crush the Czechoslovak working class by military intervention. On the basis of the General Strike of May-June 1968, with its consequences for all the advanced capitalist coun- tries, and of the entry of the Czech masses on to the road of political revolution, the dominant political trend, concentrated on Europe, can be considered to be a general upsurge of the working class. The revolutionary crisis which followed the Second World War surged through the open breaches in imperial- ism, notably of the old im- perialist powers of Europe, whether in the camp of the 'victors' or the vanquished.

With the aid of the Kremlin bureaucracy, the world bour- geoisie, grouped behind Ameri- can imperialism, was able to revolutionary contain the though not without wave, taking some heavy blows and suffering defeats. It lost eastern Europe, which passed under the control of the Kremlin bureaucracy. It was unable to prevent the victory of the Chinese Revo- lution. Important concessions had to be made to the working class in • western Europe.

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Since then no decisive defeat has been inflicted on the working class anywhere in the world. The limits of the precarious equilibrium established after the Second World War were defined in the Yalta and Pots- dam agreements. It was nevertheless maintained, de- spite being constantly called into question, by the strength and resources of American imperialism and the political power of the bureaucracy.

The character of the efforts needed to maintain this equil- ibrium meanwhile prepared the way for its destruction.

The enormous resources and power of US imperialism made it the pillar of world imper- ialism. The disproportion be- the tween this power and decadence of the imperialist powers of Europe and Japan (victors no less than van- quished) seemed to place on the agenda the need for some form of 'super-imperialism' in which the ruling classes of Europe and Japan would sink the level of comprador to bourgeoisies. But this was not to be. While the European ruling in particular classes were irremediably decadent, the working European class con- stitutes a powerful, organic unity with a rich class tradi- of tion and al high level political consciousness. To reduce the European bourgeoisies to comprador status, dependent upon Ameri- can masters, would require, in the course of terrible class struggles, the destruction of the European working class.

To avoid such struggles, which the European bourgeoisies were incapable of waging successfully, the American imperialists had to restore the European ruling class, help them reconstitute their states and rebuild their economies.

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12.20 p.m. Comics. 12.30 The Flintstones. 12.55 London. 5.15 Cowboy In Africa. 6.10 News followed by Highland League Results. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45 London. 8.00 Main Feature: Desperate Hours'. 10.00 London. 11.40 Adam East German 'workers rise up against the bu These first manifestations of the political crisis of the Soviet bureaucracy and prepa Hungarian Revolution. the crushing of the working class. American imperialism thus drew into itself the contradic- tions of decadent European capitalism and intensified its own. As the price of its own survival, American imperialism nourished the of parasitism the whole of world capitalism.

The crisis of the dollar and of the world monetary system shows that the account is now falling for due payment. Behind the 'crisis of the balance of payments' stand all contradictions of social world capitalism. The historical contradictions of European capitalism remain unresolved: indeed, they are intensified as a result of the way in which it was given new shape on the old basis and aggravated by the division of Europe into two antagonistic social systems and the loss of assured outlets in the colonial empire. There is always a 'solution' to the crises of imperialism. A 'solution' could be found by liquidating part of the fictitious accumulated capital consisting of nothing but book entries, by opening up markets and invest- ment fields in the workers' states or by turning the arms economy into a war economy.

Such 'solutions' would re- quire heavy class war against the working class in the advanced countries of capital- ism and in the workers' states.

A more or less protracted war of extermination would be required against the Soviet Union and China. populations would Whole have to be wiped out in the economically backward coun- tries. European and Japanese capitalism would have to be American subordinated to imperialism. All layers of the bourgeoisie in all countries, including the USA, would have to be sub- ordinated to the 'strong state' 'his- embodying the general toric' interests of monopoly capital. and The present social political equilibrium is in- imperialism. tolerable for Simply to maintain it means in the short term an unprece- dented economic, social and political crisis. The crisis of imperialism is intimately linked to the crisis of the Kremlin bureaucracy whose political power reached its high point at the time of Yalta and Potsdam and has since continuously declined.

These crises interact. The political power of the Kremlin bureaucracy stems from de- finite relations. established before the Second World War and extended by the victory German imperialism over lives, which cost 20 million the real sacrifice of the Soviet working class. It rests on the relations it has established with the Soviet working class, with the inter- national working class through the Communist Party appar- atus and with the victorious Allied powers in stemming the which revolutionary upsurge followed the imperialist war.

The instability of the re- established between lations the bureaucracy and the victor powers was quickly revealed.

The world balance was altered by the assumption of power by the Chinese CP against Stalin's wishes. The split with the Yugoslav Party and the development of the Cold War also indicated how unstable these relations were and how they tended to deteriorate to the detriment of the Kremlin bureaucracy. The purges in the East European countries and in the Soviet Union between 1948 and 1953 marked a worsening of the crisis. It became still more acute on Stalin's death and the revolutionary ex-

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of the political revolution deepened the cracy and prepared the way for the East Berlin in Tune, 1953. It sharpened to a new pitch in 1956 with the denunciation of Stalin by the bureaucracy itself and revolutionary outbreaks in Poland and Hun- gary. The split between the Kremlin and the Chinese bureaucracy carried it to a new paroxysm. Since then the whole inter- national apparatus of Stalinism has been cracking. The crisis rages in the highest now spheres of the bureaucracy which tends to break up into its component parts. At the base of the crisis of the bureaucracy and its inter- national apparatus lies the im- possibility of preserving the equilibrium with imperialism which it thought had been established at Yalta and Pots- dam. In fact imperialism has ceased its pressure- never economic, military and political •on the USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe.

The European working class is in latent conflict with the policies of the Communist Parties as well as with the reformist bureaucracies. The defence of the Chinese Revolution conflicts with the interests of the Chinese bur- well as eaucracy as more directly with those of the Kremlin bureaucracy. The extension of the social relations born of the October Revolution to eastern Europe is in conflict with the retention of the privileges and power enjoyed by the Kremlin bur- eaucracy. The development of the productive forces of the USSR and the countries of eastern Europe becomes incompatible with the bureaucratic admin- istration of economic planning, the 'norms' of the 'con- with struction of socialism in one country'. For the plan to develop the many inter-related sectors of an increasingly complex and diversified economy it must be elaborated, controlled and applied by all the producers.

This can only be done if the working class overthrows the political power of the parasitic bureaucracy and regenerates the workers' state. The Soviet economy must be integrated with the inter- national division of labour, not as it is at present, conditioned by the needs of imperialism, but as part of a planned world economy. This requires the seizure of power by the working class in all the principal countries. But bureaucracies the tied are historically the national to state soil on which they grew and which their up upon existence depends. Following the Second World War the wo of the international working class, suffer Revolution. Above: Strikers in Shanghai

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They are therefore violently opposed to the extension of the proletarian revolution since this would destroy the old social and political relations which gave them birth and provide their sustenance.

Such a revolution would, moreover, immediately find its echo in the countries of eastern Europe and the USSR and enable the working class to overthrow the usurpers. The whole equilibrium de- scribed above has thus become untenable. The post-war period has ended. the working class Neither nor imperialism can continue the existing relative with equilibrium. Each seeks to change it to its own advantage and according radically to opposed class interests. The Kremlin bureaucracy is caught between these fund- opposed social amentally forces and is cracking. All the reformist, trade union and bureaucracies are also other caught in the same vice and are being broken apart. This crisis does not spare the Chinese bureaucracy. It too is being torn apart, as was shown in 'the cultural revo- lution'. The petty-bourgeois Bona- partist leaderships such as Castro, Boumedienne, Nasser, the tor- etc., cannot escape ment. The class struggles of recent years are the prelude to the confrontation of revolu- tion and counter-revolution in all countries. The united struggle against imperialism and the Kremlin world bureaucracy for the revolution and for socialism is at the same time the struggle for the construction of the revolutionary International.

The proletarian revolution and the construction socialism are objectively based on the contradiction between the growth of the productive old forms forces and the within which they are suffocat- ing, i.e., private ownership of the means of production and national boundaries. They are also based on the need for the collective appro- priation of the of means production and the organiz- ation on this basis of produc- tion on a world scale in a rational way working for the of humanity's satisfaction needs. The working class, as a world class, in which each is national proletariat detachment, like a midwife who delivers socialism, by its This struggle as class. struggle culminates in the taking of political power in each country, the destruction of bourgeois states and the workers' construction of states. But the proletarian revolu- tion and the construction of socialism are not automatic processes. On the contrary, they proceed from conscious- ness raised to the highest level; for the first time humanity can control the course of its history and can consciously bring about its historic development. The need for a revolutionary party springs from the charac- ter and from the historic meaning of the proletarian revolution and the construc- tion of socialism. It springs from the position and con- ditions of the proletariat in bourgeois society and from the fact that the proletariat is subjected to the pressure of bourgeois society and the ideologies arising from it, and the fact that, from the on other hand, the proletariat reaches political consciousness in the course of struggle.

Its organization as a class to lead these struggles requires rld War the world bourgeoisie, in its efforts to stifle ing class, suffered its greatest defeat in 1949 with th rs in Shanghai demand an end to poverty and the The May-June general strike in France foll of Czechoslovakia in 1968 created an unpro of class forces. Above left;, Paris strikers c Right: Youth stoning Soviet tanks in Prague the assimilation of the Marxist method. revolutionary The politically party centralizes condenses, the proletariat, develops and puts into action the political consciousness of the proletariat. The revolutionary party of each country is only fully effective, only totally accom- its functions, plishes only attains the necessary level of political consciousness activity, as part of the Inter- national, whose objective must be to become the world of party the proletarian revolution: The construction of the revolutionary party in each country is inseparable from the construction of the revolu- tionary International. All the setbacks of the world proletariat are setbacks for the International. All adaptations to the bourgeoisie in each country and to world imperialism are expressed in the renunciation of proletarian internationalism, which is synonymous with the struggle world proletarian revolution. efforts to stifle the revolutionary movement in 1949 with the victory of the Chinese overty and the civil war.

e in France followed by the Kremlin bureaucracy's i created an unprecedented upset in the international b , Paris strikers confront the brutality of anti-riot poli t tanks in Prague. And likewise, each step forward by the world pro- letariat is a step forward in the struggle for the construc- tion of the Fourth Inter- national. The Second International failed on the outbreak of the imperialist and Lenin war asserted: a Third International must be built. The Bolshevik Party took power and was the impetus behind the construction of the Third International. The rise of the Kremlin bureaucracy accompanied the destruction Third International the before being finally which, dissolved in 1943, had become no more than an instrument of the Kremlin bureaucracy. Trotsky defended the theo- gains of retical and practical proletariat the world by struggling for and founding the Fourth International. The joint crisis of im- perialism and the Kremlin bureaucracy, the imminence of the proletarian revolution, the need to unify the revolutionary struggles against imperialism with revolutionary the struggles against the parasitic bureaucracies; the need to unify the revolutionary strug- gles of the workers under the rule of the Kremlin bureau- cracy; the perspective of the Socialist United States of Europe, of socialism, urgently requires the construction of the revolutionary International.

No revolutionary party can be built and accomplish its tasks without being built as part of the Fourth Inter- national. The International Committee of the Fourth International considers that the whole situation, the course of the class struggle, poses to all organizations and revolution- ary groups the construction of revolutionary parties in every country, in conjunction with the construction of the revo- tionary International. Saturday, December 27, 1969 bureaucracy's invasion • international balance of anti-riot police. The International Committee of the Fourth International considers that the revolution- ary International can only be built on the basis of the pro- gramme of the Fourth Inter- national elaborated in 1938 by - Leon Trotsky. The Second International and social-dem orrerationad social-democratic Stalinist parties, prove more clearly day that every they have failed in their mission. They have definitively passed the side of the over to bourgeois order. The Fourth International was proclaimed in 1938 to organize the international proletariat and for the revolutionary con- of in quest power every country. No organization in the world has suffered as much as the Fourth International from the fierce blows of the bourgeoisie and of Stalinism.

The militants who, with Lenin and Trotsky, had founded the Bolshevik Party and the Third International, the cadres of the international Trotskyist movement and Leon Trotsky himself, were hunted down and assassinated. Stalin tried to destroy the thread of continuity that ties the programme and organiz- ation of the Fourth Inter- national to the Third Inter- national. But Stalin did not succeed.

In 1938, in a period of severe proletarian defeats, the Fourth International, as a programme and as an organ- ization, was founded. 'In all countries', say the statutes of the Fourth Inter- national adopted in 1938, 'the members of the Fourth Inter- national are organized into parties leagues, or which constitute the national sections of the Fourth International (World Party of the Socialist Revolution). "The national sections are formed on the platform and in accordance with the organ- izational structure defined and established by the Founding Congress of the Fourth Inter- national (September 1938). In its platform the Fourth Inter-

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e in France followed by the Kremlin bureaucracy's i created an unprecedented upset in the international b Paris strikers confront the brutality of anti-riot poli tanks in Prague. And likewise, each step forward by the world pro- letariat is a step forward in the struggle for the construc- tion of the Fourth Inter- national. The Second International failed on the outbreak of the imperialist and Lenin war asserted: a Third International must be built. The Bolshevik Party took power and was the impetus behind the construction of the Third International. The rise of the Kremlin bureaucracy accompanied • the destruction of the Third International being finally which, before dissolved in 1943, had become no more than an instrument of the Kremlin bureaucracy. Trotsky defended the theo- retical and practical gains of the world proletariat struggling for and founding the Fourth International. The joint crisis of im- perialism and the Kremlin bureaucracy, the imminence of the proletarian revolution, the need to unify the revolutionary struggles against imperialism with the revolutionary struggles against the parasitic bureaucracies; the need to unify the revolutionary strug- gles of the workers under the rule of the Kremlin bureau- cracy; the perspective of the Socialist United States of Europe, of socialism, urgently requires the construction the revolutionary International.

No revolutionary party can be built and accomplish its tasks without being • built as part of the Fourth Inter- national. The International Committee of the Fourth International considers that the whole course of the situation, the class struggle, poses to all organizations and revolution- ary groups the construction of revolutionary parties in every country, in conjunction with the construction of the revo- tionary International. Saturday, December 27, 1969 bureaucracy's invasion e international balance of anti-riot police. The International Committee of the Fourth International considers that the revolution- ary International can only be built on the basis of the pro- gramme of the Fourth Inter- national elaborated in 1938 by Leon Trotsky. The Second International and the Third International, and the social-democratic Stalinist parties, prove more day clearly every that they have failed in their mission. Ther have detentively passed over side bourgeois order. The Fourth International was proclaimed in 1938 to organize international the proletariat and for the revolutionary con- of power in quest every country. No organization in the world has suffered as much as the Fourth International from the fierce blows of the bourgeoisie and of Stalinism.

The militants who, with Lenin and Trotsky, had founded the Bolshevik Party and the Third International, the cadres of the international Trotskyist movement and Leon Trotsky himself, were hunted down and assassinated. Stalin tried to destroy the thread of continuity that ties the programme and organiz- ation of the Fourth Inter- national to the Third Inter- national. But Stalin did not succeed.

In 1938, in a period of International, programme and as an organ- ization, was founded. 'In all countries', say the statutes of the Fourth Inter ational adopted in 1938, 'th nembers of the Fourth Inte Fourth in accordance with the organ- national (September 1938). Ir its platform the Fourth Inter- Saturday, December 27, 1969 7 concentrated the national international experience of the Marxist move- revolutionary ment, and especially that which of the socialist rises out conquests of the October 1917 in It Revolution Russia. and bases itself assimilates upon all of humanity's pro- experiences, social gressive lead to the expropria- which tion of the capitalist class and of ultimate abolition to the classes.' But we do not wish and do not intend to conceal from the vanguard of the world proletariat or from the workers that the pressure of the forces and bourgeoisie of the Stalinism has had devastating the organization of effects on the Fourth International.

In both the ranks and in of the Fourth the leadership International the Trotskyists had fight against have to liquidationist tendencies who abandoned the battlefield of the class struggle and capit- and Stalinism ulated they tried to reformism; the Fourth Inter- destroy national, betraying its pro- gramme and its organization.

The Trotskyist organizations adhering to the International of the Fourth Committee that International proclaim the Fourth International has not failed. Its programme, adopted in 1938, and completely verified by the subsequent course of history, gives the only answers to the problems of the class struggle raised in our epoch.

The present events in the the class struggle place heaviest responsibilities on the Committee and International its sections. The time has come to in- tensify, simultaneously with the fight for the construction of revolutionary parties in each of country, the reconstruction the Fourth International.

the Inter- To this end, national Committee presents the perspective of a Conference open to all militant groups and organizations, whatever their political origins, which are the product of the workers' move- ment and which, engaged in the class struggle, feel the pressing need for the construc- tion of revolutionary parties and the International, the indispensable instruments for the victory of the proletariat in all countries and the inter- national victory of the world working class. The preparation of this Conference will be a political linked struggle, organically with that of each section, so on the basis of their that militants and experience, cadres still grouped around the revisionist and centrist organ- izations of the 'Unified Secretariat', young militants battle in coming into context of present struggles in the advanced capitalist coun in the countries sub- tries, to the dictatorship of jected the bureaucracy and in the colonial and semi-colonial countries will organize around the International Committee for the reconstruction of the Fourth International. one orieneated to the highest level, that of the International, of the construction of revolu- leadership of the tionary proletariat, of the international unity of the class struggle, of in capitalist social revolution countries and political revolu- tion in the USSR, China, and European the eastern coun- tries, requires preparation.

For this reason, the Inter- national Committee is con- voking a preparatory con- ference reserved its to sections in February 1970 which, resting the upon decisions of the Third Con- ference of April 1966, and drawing up the balance sheet of its activity and that of its since that date, sections confronting its orientations with the development of the class struggle, places the strategic problems of the con- revolutionary struction of parties in each country, within the context of the reconstruc- the Fourth Inter- tion of national at the centre of its debate. 'The essential unity of the struggle, international class flowing from the international character of the joint crisis of imperialism and the bureau- implies the direct cracy, of the necessity consequence of building Trotskyist parties in every country. 'As against the liquidationist conclusions flowing from the "division of the revisionist this world into sectors", perspective emphasizes the urgency of building indepen- dent revolutionary proletarian parties in the countries of

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eastern Europe, and China, and in the colonial and semi-colonial countries. 'This central task of build- ing independent revolutionary parties stresses yet again the struggle for the essential political independence of the working against class, the politics of the Stalinist bur- eaucracy and reformist leader- ships. This fight for the Party implies a determined struggle against syndicalism all and ideas that a revolutionary party can be spontaneously produced from the working class. "The International Confer- that the ence stresses Trotskyist movement, in the of the course struggle to build the International, works towards the creation of a centralized leadership of the world revolutionary party, in a struggle organically linked to the fight in each country to rebuild revolutionary cen- tralized parties leading the struggles of the masses. "This building of parties and of the International must be

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'The proceedings of this Third Conference emphasize necessity for the International Committee to politically prepare within 18 months the Fourth International Confer- ence, whose aim will be to rally all Trotskyist organiz- ations fighting for the pro- gramme of the Fourth Inter- national. 'This will include a struggle by the International Com- mittee to rally to the ranks of the Fourth International the groups who are militants and misled revisionist by the leaders of the United Secretariat. the In order to achieve tasks before, such Confer- the International Com- ence, mittee must organize an inter- national discussion on the following subjects: 'a) The building of revolu- tionary parties on the basis of the Programme in the context of the concrete struggle for the rebuilding of the International.

"Trotskyists, organized as sections of the Fourth Inter- national, must struggle for the construction of revolution- based on ary parties the Transitional Programme of the They Fourth International. carry the fight for this and for the con- programme of the Party as the struction main basis of their work into the mass organizations and trade unions of the working class, and in particular towards the working-class youth, as the principal source of new for the Fourth Inter- forces national. All such work is subordinated to the main task of constructing the Party.

"The building of the Party necessitates the production of newspaper able to fight for the constantly overall programme of the Party, to raise the consciousness of the working class in all spheres of the class struggle. This fight for the independent party is the only basis for the defence of the positions won in the past by the working class, and all tactical considerations are subordinated to it. In con- ditions where the tactic of entry into existing working- class parties is necessary, this tactic conducted a manner which subordinates it to the main task of the construction of the indepen- dent party. 'b) The unity of the inter- national class struggle. 'b) Defence by revolution- ary methods of the conquests the international working of class, in the capitalist countries, in the USSR, China and all the countries which have been removed from the sphere of imperialism. This discussion will be carried out framework of on the agreed the unconditional defence of these states' The International Committee the following has decided agenda for this Conference: 1) The construction of revolutionary parties on the basis of the Transitional Programme in the context of the practical struggle for the reconstruction of the Fourth International. 2) The task to be accom- plished in the period of immi- nent revolution opened up by the French General Strike of May-June 1968 and the rise of the political revolution Czechoslovakia. This Conference will be prepared at the end of January, -1970 by the publication of political documents in the organs of each section and by the publication of an internal bulletin reserved to members of the sections. With Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. Rogers and Hammerstein. News and Weather. 10.20 10.30 Omnibus: The Unashamed Accom- panist- Gerald Moore. Monty Python's Flying 11.25 Circus. Weatherman. 11.55 film All regions as BBC-I except at the following times: Midlands and East Anglia: 11.57 p.m.

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Saturday, December 27, 1969 concentrated the national international experience of the revolutionary Marxist move- ment, and especially that which socialist out of the rises conquests of the October 1917 Russia. It in Revolution itself assimilates and bases upon all of humanity's pro- experiences, gressive social which lead to the expropria- tion of the capitalist class and ultimate abolition of to the classes.' But we do not wish and do to conceal from not intend the vanguard of the world proletariat or from the workers that the pressure of the forces bourgeoisie and of the Stalinism has had devastating effects on the organization of the Fourth International.

In both the ranks and in the leadership of the Fourth International the Trotskyists to fight against have had liquidationist tendencies who the battlefield of abandoned and capit- the class struggle and Stalinism ulated they tried reformism; to the Fourth Inter- destroy its national, betraying pro- gramme and its organization.

The Trotskyist organizations adhering to the International of the Fourth Committee International proclaim that the Fourth International has not failed. Its programme, adopted in 1938, and completely verified by the subsequent course of history, gives the only answers problems of the class to the struggle raised in our epoch.

The present events in the the struggle place class heaviest responsibilities on the International Committee and its sections. The time has come to in- with tensify, simultaneously the fight for the construction of revolutionary parties in each country, the reconstruction of the Fourth International.

To this end, the Inter- national Committee presents the perspective of a Conference open to all militant groups and organizations, whatever their political origins, which are the product of the workers' move- ment and which, engaged in the class struggle, feel the pressing need for the construc- tion of revolutionary parties and the International, the indispensable instruments for the victory of the proletariat in all countries and the inter- national victory of the world working class. The preparation of this Conference will be a political linked struggle, organically that of each section, so with that on the basis of their experience, militants and cadres still grouped around the revisionist and centrist organ- izations of the Unified Secretariat', young militants into battle in coming the context of present struggles in the advanced capitalist coun sub- tries, in the countries jected to the dictatorship of the bureaucracy and in semi-colonial colonial and countries will organize around Committee the International for the reconstruction of the Fourth International. This perspective, the only one orientated to the highest level, that of the International, of the construction of revolu- leadership tionary of the proletariat, of the international unity of the class struggle, of social revolution in capitalist countries and political revolu- tion in the USSR, China, and eastern European coun- tries, requires preparation.

For this reason, the Inter- national Committee is con- voking a preparatory con- ference reserved to its sections in February 1970 resting which, the upon decisions of the Third Con- ference of April 1966, and drawing up the balance sheet of its activity and that of its since that date, sections confronting its orientations with the development of the struggle, places the class strategic problems of the con- revolutionary struction parties in each country, within the context of the reconstruc- Inter- tion of the Fourth national at the centre of its debate. essential unity of the 'The international class struggle, flowing from the international character of the joint crisis of imperialism and the bureau- implies the direct cracy, of the necessity consequence of building Trotskyist parties in every country. 'As against the liquidationist flowing from the conclusions "division of the revisionist world into sectors" this perspective emphasizes the urgency of building indepen- dent revolutionary proletarian parties in the countries of eastern Europe,

USSR,

and China, and in the colonial and semi-colonial countries. 'This central task of build- ing independent revolutionary parties stresses yet again the essential the struggle for political independence of the working class, against the Stalinist bur- politics of the eaucracy and reformist leader- ships. This fight for the Party implies a determined struggle syndicalism and against all ideas that a revolutionary be spontaneously party can produced from the working class. "The International Confer- that the ence stresses Trotskyist movement, in the struggle to course build the International, works towards the creation of a centralized leadership of the world revolutionary party, in a struggle organically linked to the fight in each country to rebuild revolutionary cen- tralized parties leading the struggles of the masses. 'This building of parties and of the International must be

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"The proceedings of this Third Conference emphasize the necessity for the International Committee to politically prepare within 18 months the Fourth International Confer- ence, whose aim will be to rally all Trotskyist organiz- ations fighting for the pro- gramme of the Fourth Inter- national. 'This will include a struggle by the International Com- mittee to rally to the ranks of the Fourth International the militants and groups who are misled by the revisionist leaders of the United Secretariat. 'In order achieve the to tasks before. such a Confer- the International Com- ence, mittee must organize an inter- national discussion on the following subjects: 'a) The building of revolu- tionary parties on the basis of the Programme in the context of the concrete struggle for the rebuilding of the International.

"Trotskyists, organized as sections of the Fourth Inter- national, must struggle for the construction of revolution- ary parties based on the Transitional Programme of the International. They Fourth carry the fight for this programme and for the con- struction of the Party as the main basis of their work into the mass organizations and trade unions of the working class, and in particular towards working-class youth, as the principal source of new forces for the Fourth Inter- national. All such work is subordinated to the main task of constructing the Party.

'The building of the Party necessitates the production of able to fight newspaper constantly for the overall programme of the Party, to raise the consciousness of the working class in all spheres of the class struggle. This fight for the independent party is the only basis for the defence of the positions won in the past by the working class, and all tactical considerations are subordinated to it. In con- the tactic of ditions where entry into existing working- class parties is necessary, this conducted tactic manner which subordinates it to the main task of the construction of the indepen- dent party. 'b) The unity of the inter- national class struggle. 'b) Defence by revolution- ary methods of the conquests of the international working class, in the capitalist countries, in the USSR, China and all the countries which have been removed from the sphere of imperialism. This discussion will be carried out on the agreed framework of the unconditional defence of these states' The International Committee the following has decided agenda for this Conference: 1) The construction of revolutionary parties the on basis of the Transitional Programme in the context of the practical struggle for the reconstruction of the Fourth International. 2) The task to be accom- plished in the period of immi- nent revolution opened up by the French General Strike of May-June 1968 and the rise of political the revolution in Czechoslovakia. This Conference will be prepared at the end of January, 1970 by the publication of political documents in the organs of each section and by the publication of an internal bulletin reserved to members of the sections. With Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. Rogers and Hammerstein. News and Weather. 10.20 10.30 Omnibus: The Unashamed Accom- panist-Gerald Moore. 11.25 Monty Python's Flying Circus. 11.55 Weatherman. All regions as BBC-l except at the following times: Midlands and East Anglia: 11.57 p.m.

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YOUR TASK in replying to my letter which you published under the title 'Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union' was made easier by your misprinting of the quotation from Menahem Begin. What he wrote, course, was: "The Soviet gov- anti-anti-Semitic'. ernment is Please get it right this time!

Last year, Princeton Univer- sity Press published a study by T. H. Rigby of 'Communist membership in Party the USSR, 1917-1967'. In this work he notes that the Jews are still probably 'the most Party-saturated nationality in the country'-in other words, the national group with the highest number of Communist Party members in relation to the total numbers of the group.

If there has been a decline since the 1920s in the propor- tion of Jews in the total Party membership, this does not prove discrimination: "The extraordinary • Party membership rate among the Jews was partly a result of their high level of urbanization, and the doubling of the Soviet Alter, ...and a reply by the edit WHAT is Comrade Pearce trying to prove? That there is no anti-Semitism in the USSR or that the manifestation of anti-Semitism is only episodic within the bureaucracy and has nothing to do with the nature and function of the bureau- cracy? I have tried to show that discrimination against national minorities is not accidental but flows from the reactionary character of this parasitic caste. To say otherwise is to imply that either socialism has been achieved in the USSR or that the bureaucracy is not as re- actionary as it seems. In either case it is false. Erlich and Alter, we are in- formed, ( were executed by Jewish members of the NKVD and the persecution of Jewish authors conducted by was Jewish members of the bur- eaucracy. So what? By the same laws of formal logic it could be argued that since Stalin, Djerjhinsky and Ordzhonikidze were members of oppressed nations there was no substance in Lenin's accus- ations of Great Russian Chau- vinism. It is not my intention to prove that Jews must have a national status or not. That is a diversion which does not attract me. What interests me is that Comrade Pearce in his zeal to track down the crimes of Zionism closes his eyes to the evils of Stalinism. The logic of his fallacious method means that anybody who accuses the Stalinist bur- eaucracy of anti-Semitism is a Zionist provocateur. I l afraid the Jewish am question is much too complex to be dismissed in this sub- jective way. In concluding, I would like to try and clarify this problem by quoting once again from Levy's booklet. 'The Soviet Union, not based a commodity view of on beings, legitimately human boasts of the fact that its arts are very liberally supported by and its artists, grants-in-aid, writers, teachers, scientists and cultural workers are cor- respondingly highly paid.

'What then are we to make of the excuse that has been offered for its lack of encour- agement of Tewish art forms?

'Why is a Yiddish theatre expected to be self-support-

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urban population since World War II has reduced their ad- vantage in this respect.'

In other eastern countries besides Russia, economic and social progress has resulted similarly in the ousting of cer- tain national groups-Greeks, Armenians, etc. — from the quasi-monopoly position they held in many trades and pro- fessions when the bulk of the population were still extremely backward Indeed, this same process occurred in western countries during the course of the Middle Ages. There exists an account of the last days of Erlich and Alter, the Polish Jewish leaders ing? Can the Soviet Union not afford publish Yiddish to poetry in the original language?

*The suggestion is ridiculous, and there is no escape from the conclusion that it is of set and deliberate policy. I have tried to indicate what would appear to be that policy, but since the Soviet Union does not deign to ex- plain itself-and yet expects the outside world and other governments to accept its bona fides much more vital on matters, it must not complain if a sinister interpretation is placed on its actions.' I agree with Levy's con- clusion. DEMONSTRATIONS which are not the expression of mass opinion and conscious- ness are a waste of time.

Marches in support of sec- tional demands and which ig- nore the relationship between the subject of the protest and capitalism as a whole are use- less. The bomb, Vietnam, Biafra, apartheid - these apparently disparate problems are inex- tricably linked as the logical consequences of capitalism and imperialism. Only socialism can deal with any of these issues separately because only socialism goes to the root of the trouble and in destroying capitalism automati- cally clears up all these prob- lems together. And socialism will be achieved only on the basis of united action by the workers against the oppressing class.

It will be achieved only on the basis of revolution by the masses led by the party of socialism. Not through so-called 'demo- cratic processes' which are a means of heading off the revo- lution and preserving the capi- talist system. Peaceful demonstrations can be looked at in the same light as democratic processes. They more than a amount to no policy of containment of dissi- dent elements by the bour- geoisie. Ultimately - it must be stressed not immediately--the revolution will be brought about only through the violent overthrow of the capitalist state and all those institutions which uphold it.

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2.00 3.25 Parkin's Patch. 3.55 Match Of 4.45 London. 5.30 The The Week. London. 1.25 Ow! Service. 6.00 6.35 л Our Time. 6.40 London. •Dangerous Moonlight' with Movie: you mention who were mur- dered by Stalin, written by Lucjan Blit, who was with them at this time. What cannot be overlooked is that the NKVD men who were in charge of these two victims themselves had Jewish names. The presence of a large Jew- ish element in the bureaucracy cannot be brushed aside. So far back as 1923, Trotsky pointed out that this circum- stance (particularly, in the Ukraine) was bound to rein- force traditional anti-Semi- tism, unless the bureaucrats in question took care to be- have less arrogantly, towards their "subjects'—e.g. by deign- ing to learn the Ukrainian language. In the Ukraine, of course, Henryk Erlich (right) and Victor Alter: 1 arrested in Poland in 1939 during the oc in 194l only to be shot by the NKVD a : 'Nazi agents'. All those who decry the use of violence under any circum- stances are siding with the liberal-bourgeois elements who know full well that violence is the only thing their system need fear. Revolutionaries must not be taken in by their sweet-talk or civilized behaviour. Revolutionary fighters must live in total opposition to the capitalist system of immorality and exploitation. The difference between the revolutionary and the reformer is that the former must be pre- pared and willing to suffer any penalty in the furtherance of his socialist objectives.

There have been few revo- among those lutionaries in Britain who have marched in futile attempts to convince suc- cessive capitalist governments that they should change their policies on specific questions.

But there are many reform- ists and opportunists and these, by their arguments and ac- tions, are diverting attention and energies from the real issue the destruction which is capitalism. This will only be achieved by patiently building a revolu- tionary party to heighten poli- tical consciousness among the working class and capable of leading it to victory at the proper time and in the proper way. Dilettante demonstrations on individual issues are not the way to achieve either true con- sciousness or revolution.

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So Hyman Levy wrote in 1958 that there was 'no Jew in any high position' He could not have written that even one year earlier, for it was only in 1957 that Kaganovich removed. was Would it have been better if this arch-criminal had been allowed to remain in his 'high position' just for representative purposes, so to speak ? Yes indeed, there was period when the Yiddish language and literature were in the Soviet persecuted Union. (They are not exactly encouraged in Israel either!) The men most zealous in this persecution were those con- nected with the 'Yevsektsia', the Jewish department of the

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d Victor Alter: Polish labour leaders 39 during the occupation, were set free by the NKVD a year later as Here we have a perfect ex- ample of fumbling after the demonstrations truth about against things like the bomb, Vietnam or apartheid. In themselves they are value- less and incapable of leading to anything else. Editorial comn COMBINED in this letter are formally correct statements with others which are mis- leading or positively dangerous.

What it says is: no demon- strations until there is a re- volutionary situation in which a 'politically-conscious working class' comes into action.

The question of how we get from the present situation to that stage is ignored. Demonstrations of the type organized by CND, Anti-Apar- theid and the Vietnam Soli- darity Campaign are merely radical protests characteristic of the middle class. The fights with the police have merely expressed the frustrations of the kind of people involved.

This does not mean that demonstrations in general 'use- should be condemned as less' and 'a waste of time' and form part of 'a policy of con- tainment. The demonstrations organ- ized by the Socialist Labour League and the Young Social-.

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Yiddish was repressed along with many other national lan- guages, as part of a general move towards Russification.

It would take too long to pursue here the implications of your remarks about Birobid- jan, "forcible assimilation', , and so on. must be said: Only this when no such thing as Jewish nationality was officially re- cognized in the Soviet Union, there were complaints that this of affairs meant state official anti-Semitism; but then, nationality was when Jewish gıven recognition, and Soviet Tews had 'Tewish' entered on their identity cards (instead of 'Russian' or 'Ukrainian' or whatever), that was also said to be proof of official anti- Semitism. ... The simple fact is that, for the Zionists, there is no satis- factory solution of the Jewish ineastern Europe question short of all the Jews leaving for Israel. Until that happens, they will always find something to point to as evidence of persecution, discrimination and the like.

Undoubtedly, the bureau- cracy of Stalinism from time brings dishonest to time charges against certain in- dividuals 'Zionist of being agents'. This should not cause us to forget that there is real and dangerous Zionist activity.

Trotsky was falsely accused of being an agent of the Ges- tapo; that the charge was false did not mean that the Gestapo had no agents-some of them probably among the very men who slandered Trotsky in this way! Brian Pearce. The only valid demonstra- tion is that which is supported by a politically-conscious work- ing class, or a section of it, and which has the potential to turn from a demonstration into an insurrection. Ian Yeats rial comment thought and organization and are disciplined expressions of the strength of the revolution- ary movement, however small the numbers may appear to be.

To wait for the masses to appear spontaneously on the streets can be simply an alibi to do nothing in the meantime.

This conception is the pro- duct of idealist thinking which tries to substitute for the real processes going on in the con- sciousness of the working class a false, impressionistic and en- tirely subjective viewpoint.

The advocates of this view- point doom themselves to iso- lation and defeat because their method and outlook ignores the complex and contradictory development of the British labour movement. Without an understanding of dialectical materialism it is impossible to grasp the logic of its slow yet inexorable development. The right to demonstrate, • like the rights to organize, hold meetings and vote in elections, have all been won in struggle.

We have seen in many coun- such rights have tries how been taken away. Revolutionaries who are serious in their intention to win the leadership of the work- ing class make use of all these rights. We fight for power through the means which have been wrested from the bour- geoisie in struggle, but with- out tying ourselves to these means alone. Of course, we agree with Yates that the October 27 demonstration led nowhere and was followed by the demorali- zation of many of those who took part in it with great en- thusiasm. He knows that the SLL had already broken with the VSC principled question and on al would have nothing to do with that demonstration. Demonstrations for us are subordinate to the aim of building a revolutionary party to lead the working class.

But our demonstrations are quite different in character and intention from those of other movements. The demonstration called for January 11 against Wilson's visit to Washington is one which all those angered by the betrayals of the Labour govern- ment should support. It will be an important step in preparing for the class struggles coming up in 1970.

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