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| Italy
Reflections on the social situationThe social framework of the relations between the classes and fractions within them in Italy today is characterized by deep contradictions. On the one hand there are significant mobilizations around demands and on the other there is an extreme difficulty in resisting the steamroller of an employers’ and governmental offensive which challenges the popular conquests of wage earners won in the second half of the 20th century. -> read article... |
Role and tasks of the Fourth InternationalThe new political cycle in the activity, programmatic and political orientation and organization of the workers’, social and popular movements puts resistance on the agenda, for a whole stage, against the ruling classes’ brutal offensive. -> read article... |
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| 15th World Congress
At the heart of the anti-capitalist combat... Relaunch, opening, regroupment and repositioning
The Fourth International held its 15th congress in early February 2003 in Belgium. Delegates and observers, representing organizations from 40 countries debated and adopted resolutions on the world political situation (which also included a balance sheet of Stalinism and resistances to capitalist globalization), the role and tasks of the Fourth International, a new Preamble to the Statutes as well as a reform of the Statutes, and two programmatic documents: ’Lesbian and Gay Liberation’ and ’Ecology and Socialism’. -> read article... |