From International Internal Discussion Bulletin, Vol.10 No.4, April 1973, pp.3-53.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
Since the 9th World Congress (3rd Congress since reunification) the discussion inside the Fourth International has widened and deepened. After emerging initially around the issue of the place of armed struggle in revolutionary politics in Latin America, it has now spread to the issue of the relationship between armed struggle and revolutionary mass struggles in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary situations in general, the present orientation towards building revolutionary parties in capitalist Europe, the evaluation of the present period and our tasks as precised by the political resolution of the 9th World Congress. While answering Comrade Hansen's arguments developed in his document In Defense of the Leninist Strategy of Party-Building, as well as the arguments presented by the minority document to the December 1972 IEC Argentina and Bolivia – The Balance Sheet, we shall try to clarify what is, in our opinion the contents and the origins of the present differences.
I. Party Building And Armed Struggle:
The Wrong And The Correct Approach
1. A Wrong Method
2. Restating Our Case
3. The Bolivian Test
4. The Strategy of Armed Struggle Under the Torres Regime
5. Comrade Moreno, Advisor of the POR
6. The Alleged Political Mistakes of the Bolivian Section
7. The Test of Argentina
8. Our Differences With the PRT
9. The Forgotten Peruvian Example
10. A Second Forgotten Example; China 1925-27
11. Third Forgotten Example, or How Comrade Camejo
Rewrites the History of the Cuban Revolution
12. The Experience of the Struggle Against Fascism
II. The Danger of Opportunist Tail-Ending
13. Is Ultraleftism Today the “Main Danger”
Inside the Fourth International?
14. Tail-Ending Reformism
15. Tail-Ending Electoralism
16. Tail-Ending a New “Stage-Theory” of the Revolution
17. Tail-Ending Petty-Bourgeois Nationalism
18. Tail-Ending Imperialist Nationalism
19. Tail-Ending Elevated to the Level of Principle
III. The Significance of the Present Discussion
in the Fourth International
20. Caught in an Objective Dialectic
21. The Turn of the Ninth World Congress
22. Uneven Development of World Revolution Catches Up
with the Fourth International
23. The Struggle for a Proletarian Party
24. The Meaning of the Transitional Programme
25. The Need to Build an International Leadership
26. The Present Discussion and the Building
of the Fourth International
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