9. The Fourth International and strategic debates today: Difference between revisions

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The strategic importance of internationalism and the role of an international

Speaker: Penelope Duggan

1. World Capitalism and the need for an international

- today Bolsonaro, Trump, pandemic - an unprecedented situation

- when the FI was founded

- the class nature, the imperialist and oppressive nature of the global system

- resistance

- global justice movement in the 1990s

- return of strategic issues

- socialism in the 21st century

2. The Fourth International today

- The Fourth after three failures

- the difficult road to the foundation

- world war

- transitional programme

- post war

- 1953 split -> different tendencies

- 1963 reunification

- the FI since 1968

- FI sections

- “broad anti-capitalist” or new parties (1995)

Readings

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-[https://fourth.international/en/566/269 - Trump’s defeat interrupts momentum of authoritarian right worldwide]
+[https://fourth.international/en/566/269 Bureau statement: Trump’s defeat interrupts momentum of authoritarian right worldwide]
 [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5748 September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International]