9. The Fourth International and strategic debates today
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
Bureau statement: Trump’s defeat interrupts momentum of authoritarian right worldwide
September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International
Role and party-building tasks of the Fourth International
Additional reading: Daniel Bensaïd: The formative years of the Fourth International (1933-1938)
Gus Massiah: The new world struggles to be born
Michael Löwy: The Fourth International is 80 years old!
Pierre Rousset: Reflections on the “party question” (expanded version) – an overview