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== Reading material ==
1. Our strategic goal - a dream we have - society without oppression and exploitation


* [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article176 World Congress 2003 "Role and tasks of the Fourth Internatonal" (excerpt: The Fourth International Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow")]
• Different ways of expressing it:


* [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1836 World Congress 2010 “Role and tasks of the Fourth International”]
- overthrow capitalism


* [http://infokiosques.net/lire.php?id_article=2 Extraits de Jo Freeman, "La tyrannie de l'absence de structure", Ms. Magazine, 1973]
- make the revolution


* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/bensaid/2005/11/party-period.htm "The party and the period"] Daniel Bensaïd (Interview)
- transform society and install the dictatorship of the proletariat


* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/bensaid/2001/11/leninism.htm "Leninism in the 21st century"] Daniel Bensaïd (interview)
- dictatorship = rule of the majority
 
- the proletariat? = the exploited and oppressed
 
• How to get there : the emancipation of the workers the act of the workers themselves (Marx 1st International)
 
- “those on top can’t rule any more and those below won’t stand for it any more”
 
- mass mobilization -> different forms
 
- no schemas, anything can be a spark
 
2. The need for a party
 
• What is a party - has a political programme - attempt at synthesis of interests of exploited and oppressed
 
- different parties can be authentically “revolutionary”
 
- collective decisions, acts together, balance sheets
 
- memory and education
 
- the party, its relationship to the movements of exploited and oppressed
 
3. The FI's orientation today to party building - a bridge between where we are now and what we want
 
• The founding of the Fl as a minority current, Trotsky's approach, shaped history
 
• The 1995 World Congress:
 
- the period opened by 1968
 
- fall of the wall in 1989
 
- the political consequences : old political divisions could be overcome
 
• The development of this orientation in 2003, 2010 continued in 2018
 
- lessons learnt from national experience
 
- towards a balance sheet, the discussion in the FI - 17th World Congress
 
• What sort of parties?
 
- activist, which intervene, which have an effect
 
- build the struggles and movements of the exploited and oppressed
 
- democratic
 
- aim to ensure a non-oppressive internal climate through policies which prefigure the society we want
 
•  The forces and the situation of the FI today
 
- overview of where we are present
 
- some elements on particular national experiences
 
- a conclusion: necessity to build FI today
 
[http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article4979 Pierre Rousset - Reflections on the “party question” (expanded version) – an overview]
 
[http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5454 FI: Role and party-building tasks of the Fourth International]

Latest revision as of 08:34, 14 August 2018

1. Our strategic goal - a dream we have - society without oppression and exploitation

• Different ways of expressing it:

- overthrow capitalism

- make the revolution

- transform society and install the dictatorship of the proletariat

- dictatorship = rule of the majority

- the proletariat? = the exploited and oppressed

• How to get there : the emancipation of the workers the act of the workers themselves (Marx 1st International)

- “those on top can’t rule any more and those below won’t stand for it any more”

- mass mobilization -> different forms

- no schemas, anything can be a spark

2. The need for a party

• What is a party - has a political programme - attempt at synthesis of interests of exploited and oppressed

- different parties can be authentically “revolutionary”

- collective decisions, acts together, balance sheets

- memory and education

- the party, its relationship to the movements of exploited and oppressed

3. The FI's orientation today to party building - a bridge between where we are now and what we want

• The founding of the Fl as a minority current, Trotsky's approach, shaped history

• The 1995 World Congress:

- the period opened by 1968

- fall of the wall in 1989

- the political consequences : old political divisions could be overcome

• The development of this orientation in 2003, 2010 continued in 2018

- lessons learnt from national experience

- towards a balance sheet, the discussion in the FI - 17th World Congress

• What sort of parties?

- activist, which intervene, which have an effect

- build the struggles and movements of the exploited and oppressed

- democratic

- aim to ensure a non-oppressive internal climate through policies which prefigure the society we want

• The forces and the situation of the FI today

- overview of where we are present

- some elements on particular national experiences

- a conclusion: necessity to build FI today

Pierre Rousset - Reflections on the “party question” (expanded version) – an overview

FI: Role and party-building tasks of the Fourth International