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The Inventor of Big Things: A Tribute to Livio Maitan

Gregor Benton — 2026-09-16T12:47:00Z

The following tribute was delivered at the launch of Livio Maitan's memoirs by Gregor Benton, the English translator. The launch was the 2019 Historical Materialism conference in London, Greg was speaking via video link from Borneo, where he was engaged in the documentation of a critically endangered indigenous language.

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

Stalinism's Failures Vindicate Trotsky's Critique

Livio Maitan — 2026-09-03T04:24:06Z

On the anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International the publication for the first time in English of this text by Livio Maitan.

- Features / Marxism, Fourth International

“Almounadila socialiste”: Our ecosocialist and feminist alternative to the crisis of capitalist civilization

Al Mounadil-a — 2026-08-01T12:48:17Z

From July 16 to 19, 2026, the headquarters of the newspaper Almounadila socialiste hosted the first edition of “Socialist Days”, a space for political education, strategic reflection and activist exchanges dedicated to the deepening of the revolutionary socialist project.

- News from around the world / Fourth International, Morocco

International Anti-Capitalist Summer Camp

Emil Höllein — 2026-06-04T11:55:17Z

From 18 to 25 July 2026, the Movement for Socialism (BfS/MPS) of Switzerland, in collaboration with the Internationale Sozialistische Organisation (ISO) in Germany, is organising the 41st summer camp of the Fourth International.

- News from around the world / Youth camp, Germany, Fourth International, Switzerland

“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In this previously unpublished interview conducted in June 2012, shortly before the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, historian and former FLN leader Mohammed Harbi traces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