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“In Algeria, what is fundamental is the state”

Masis Kürkçügil, Mohammed Harbi — 2026-05-01T07:16:21Z

In this previously unpublished interview conducted in June 2012, shortly before the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, historian and former FLN leader Mohammed Harbi traces Algeria's political trajectory from colonial formation to post-independence bureaucratic rule.

- Features / Fourth International, Algeria, Historical events and figures, Features

Daniel Bensaïd and permanent revolution, old and new questions

Pierre Rousset — 2026-04-24T09:39:53Z

Expanded and revised version of the contribution presented at the Bensaïd Seminar organised in Amsterdam by the Fourth International on 3, 14 and 15 January 2012, at the premises of the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE)

- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Fourth International, Daniel Bensaid, Features

The contribution of the Fourth International to ecosocialism

Daniel Tanuro, Michael Löwy — 2026-04-21T09:31:21Z

This document traces the path taken by the International, from Trotsky's modernist concerns to the adoption of the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution and the campaign waged around it by the sections.

- Features / Fourth International, Ecosocialism

Ecosocialism or barbarism

Paul Murphy — 2026-04-21T09:31:07Z

“The danger of a great catastrophe … is imminent. All the newspapers have written about this time and again. Everybody says this. Everybody admits it. Everybody has decided it is so. Yet nothing is being done.”

This isn't Greta Thunberg speaking truth to power. This was Lenin.

- Features / Fourth International, Ecosocialism

8 March: Long Live Women in Struggle Against the Far Right

Fourth International International Committee — 2026-03-07T15:12:22Z

All over the world, women are promoting networks of solidarity, forms of protection and denunciation against all violence, whether domestic, imperialist military or fascist. Women are building forms of resistance in their territories against hunger, poverty, wars, extractivism, climate collapse and deprivation of rights.

- International Committee / Fourth International, Women

Socialism or Barbarism - On the Eve of the 21st Century

United Secretariat of the Fourth International — 2026-02-01T13:18:40Z

This document was adopted by a meeting of the United Secretariat of the Fourth lntematlonal (FI) in 1992. It is the product of months of discussion within that world organization and an extensive pro-cess of rewriting and revision from an original draft proposed before the FI's World Congress in 1991.

- 13th World Congress - 1991 / Marxism, Fourth International, 13th World Congress - 1991, Features

Ruptures: The New Manifesto of the Fourth International

Michael Löwy — 2026-01-22T11:48:11Z

The new Manifesto of the Fourth International is available in English from Resistance Books London or the IIRE, Amsterdam. This “Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution - Break with capitalist growth”, is a document that marks a new stage in the history of the movement founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his comrades.
Since Babeuf's Manifesto of the Equals (1796) and the Communist Manifesto (1848), many documents of this kind have emerged throughout the history of the workers' movement. (…)

- Features / Fourth International, Features, Ecosocialism

One of ours: Eleni Varika (1949-2026)

Fourth International Programmatic Tendency — 2026-01-19T21:54:08Z

“We will miss Eleni very much, because what emanated from her was her deep appreciation of human connections, friendship and life.”

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Greece, Obituary, Fourth International

On Ernest Mandel's Contributions

Paul Le Blanc — 2026-01-15T13:52:32Z

“Kellner offers the following critical appreciation: “One hopes that many more people will be inspired by Mandel's verve and let themselves be motivated to live his kind of life, yet without succumbing to ungrounded political confidence or to some of his more questionable ideas.””

- Reviews section / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Reviews

Eleni Varikas: the years with the FI in Greece

Kostas Skordoulis, OKDE-Spartakos — 2026-01-13T08:40:09Z

Further to the appreciation by Alan Wald “Eleni Varikas (1949-2026)”, contributions from Greek Fourth Internationalists.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Greece, Obituary, Fourth International