10. The Fourth International and strategic debates
1. part – Our goal and starting point:
- What are we fighting for? What kind of society?
- How do we see the actual society
- What task does it leave us, and what kind of strategy?
2. part - Movements:
- How do we understand and define movements?
- What role does movement play in our struggle?
3. part – political party:
- How do we define a political party?
- what is the link between movements, struggle and the party?
- What kind of parties are we building?
4. part – FI, transitional demands, history and strategy
- What is the role of the FI?
- Where do we come from, and what is our historical lessons related to strategy and party building?
- Newest development and experience
- The Fourth International today
Reading material
Fourth International Congress: taking the measure of the crisis of capitalism
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