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)

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 - “broad anti-capitalist” or new parties (1995)
+[http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5748 September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International]
+[http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?rubrique305 Role and party-building tasks of the Fourth International]
+Additional reading: [https://www.iire.org/index.php/node/665 Daniel Bensaïd: The formative years of the Fourth International (1933-1938)]
+[https://intercoll.net/THE-NEW-WORLD-STRUGGLES-TO-BE-BORN Gus Massiah: The new world struggles to be born]
+[http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5828 Michael Löwy: The Fourth International is 80 years old!]
+[http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article4979 Pierre Rousset: Reflections on the “party question” (expanded version) – an overview]