American Commission

[p023] AMERICAN COMMISSION 119 American Commission 1. The Commission believes that the main task before the American Committee for the Fourth International is to work politically along the line of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The Voorhis Act makes impossible any affiliation of a U.S. section to the Fourth International. 2. The American Committee of the Fourth Inter- national must immediately begin work on the drafting of a perspective for the construction of a revolutionary party in the USA. This would in- clude a concretisation of the demand as elaborated by Trotsky for the formation of a Labour Party. It must concretise demands in relation to our work in the anti-war in Vietnam movements, the Trade Union and Negro movements. This per- spectives document would include an economic analysis of U.S. capitalism in relation to world imperialism. This draft must be ready not later than June 30. 3. A national conference of all the members of the American Committee for the Fourth Inter- national should be held towards the end of Septem- ber or early October—a representative of the International Committee to be present. 4. The International Committee will undertake to produce a public statement concerning the attitude of the Robertson delegation towards the Inter- national Conference. This would become the basis for winning over members of the Robertson ten- dency towards the American Committee for the Fourth International. 5. As soon as possible a comrade must become a full-time official of the American Committee for the Fourth International prepared to make a national tour conveying the decisions of the Inter- national Conference. The pre-conference discussion should discuss a change of name for the American Committee for the Fourth International. 6. A serious effort must be made to study dialectical materialism against pragmatism and idealism. The International Committee will request from time to time as to how this work is progressing. Resolution adopted unanimously by the International Conference of the Fourth International 8.4.66