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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, rise of authoritarian regimes, pandemic, climate catastrophe - 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
       - threat of 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)


- what type of party

transitional nature of these projects

FI framework at the national level

independence from the apparatuses

involvement and priority of self-activity, self-organization of the workers' movement and social movements

               wage political battles  

on these principles - class independence... on politically priority themes: ecosocialism, feminism, anti-racism,

               militant and political practice

internal democracy against the reproduction of oppression

theoretical and programmatic education

renewal through specific work with youth

- Understanding the national situation an orientation, not a tactic to adopt


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