“Workers – men and women – of the world, unite under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!” - read article...

In the light of the Italian right’s big victory in the April 2008 elections, major debates about strategy are breaking out in the Italian left. Here we publish Cannavò’s speech to the December 2007 conference of Sinistra Critica. - read article...

When revolutionary Marxists engage in complex processes such as building broad left parties, with all the political pressures that entails, it is essential to reaffirm our long-term strategic objective of building a revolutionary party and its meaning for our practice today. - read article...

Sex seems to play a key role in the Dutch politics of belonging. Sex – especially homosexuality – is instrumentalized by the nationalist right who uses it to represent immigrants as ‘strangers’ who threaten tolerant, modern, Dutch society. Tolerance, power, and xenophobia come to be increasingly entwined in the Netherlands. A plea against ‘tolerance’ as the foundation for political and social struggle. - read article...

The crisis of working class representation is a familiar theme in the left internationally, the idea that because of the shift to the right of mass social democratic and Stalinist parties, or because of their collapse, the working class lacks a political force that can defend its interests in the national political domain. - read article...

How is the issue of the united front and the fight for working hegemony posed today - the the era of increased differentiation inside the working class and the existence of dozens of radical social movements? - read article...

The January 2009 meeting of the International Committee of the FI adopted this draft as a basis for a resolution to the next World Congress. - read article...

Adopted by the International Secretariat of the Fourth International

The Fourth International must show that for the Jews as for all other peoples of the earth, the defense or the final winning of their own nationality cannot be achieved by building “closed” states and economies, but that a planned world socialist economy is the only realistic framework within which the free and normal development of a people is possible today. - read article...

Its Character, Present State, and Perspectives

The resolution printed below has been issued in the name of organisations affiliated to the Fourth International. It represents in its broad outlines the positions of revolutionary communists (Trotskyists) on the Arab region. - read article...