Building broad parties and the Fourth International

Readings

• Excerpts from Daniel Bensaïd, The Formative Years of the Fourth International (1933-1938), Amsterdam: IIRE available as download Notebook from IIRE site

• Excerpt from Ernest Mandel, The Leninist Theory of Organization, London, 1972. Available on the site of International Viewpoint

• Excerpt from Jo Freeman, 'The tyranny of structurelessness' (Ms. Magazine, 1973) on http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html

• Excerpt from the ICS (FI Indian section) 'Code of Conduct'

• Excerpt from FI 12th World Congress, 'Dictatorship of the proletariat and socialist democracy' (IVP, 1985) on IVP

• Excerpt from FI 15th World Congress, 'Role and tasks of the Fourth International' (IVP no. 351/2, summer 2003): on IVP

• Section 1 of Statutes of the Fourth International (1974) and Preamble to Statutes of the Fourth International (2003)

• Excerpt from FI IEC, 'Building revolutionary youth organisations in the imperialist countries' (May 1982)

• Excerpts from Gabriel, 'Report on the balance sheet and problems of building our youth organisations in Europe' (March 1988)

• Should be used also/as well the role and tasks document from the 2010 World Congress and the document "Youth a central sector for the anti-capitalists". Both of thesee are on the IVP site.