Statement of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, March 20, 1966
Lessons of the Defeat in Indonesia
30 September 2025, by ,Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1965 the Indonesian army set in motion its plans to seize power from president Sukarno and to destroy the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), one of the main forces supporting the president. In the article below, dated November 1965, Mandel criticized the political approach of the PKI in the preceding period.
After the 1973 Coup in Chile
15 September 2025, byPolitical Resolution from the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, Chilean Section of the Fourth International after the coup.
The coup in Chile
15 September 2025, byThe coup in Chile on 11th September 1973 was a chilling example of counter revolution, backed by Western powers. This statement from the Fourth International condemns the military take over. Below is a motion and an article from revolutionary socialists in Chile about the situation.
The Chile Coup and after
15 September 2025, byThe Liga Communiste De Chile, sympathising group of the Fourth International held an underground conference in Chile after the coup. The following is a translation of sections of the main perspectives document discussed at that conference.
The rising class consciousness of the proletariat and the problem of power
15 September 2025In our ’From the Archive’ series we republish this editorial prepared for the September 1973 issue of the Chilean publication Revolución Permanente.
Debate on the counter revolution in Chile (1973)
15 September 2025, by ,Leading member of the Fourth International, Livio Maitan, replies to views expressed by the Marxist philosopher Lucio Colletti in a mass-circulation Italian weekly following the Chilean coup.
The crossroads of the Portuguese left
15 September 2025, byOn the left, there is an urgent need to return to basics, where door-to-door canvassing and grassroots work in factories and schools are not just carried out during election periods, but because they are an effective way of countering misinformation and laying the foundations for changing the material reality and deepening the reality of activism. Toupeira Vermelha – The Red Mole, a collective of militants of the Fourth International
Labour’s Polycrisis
20 August 2025, byA concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was first coined in an earlier era of multiple crises in the 1970s. For Tooze, polycrisis points to “this experience of not a single crisis with a single clearly defined logic…but this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don’t have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other”, and he locates the beginning of the current polycrisis in 2008 at the point of the Great Recession.
The Heavy Legacy of Leon Trotsky
20 August 2025, byFor more than twenty years, revolutionary Marxists have been questioning themselves: was their missed appointment with ecology, in the 60s to 90s of the last century, attributable to Marx and Engels? If so, to what extent? Hundreds of pages have been written on the subject. Although the thesis of a "Marx ecology," defended by J.B. Foster, is somewhat exaggerated, no one dares to seriously maintain anymore that the authors of the Communist Manifesto were productivists who fetishized technology and had no idea of natural limits...
