Revisionism and the 4th International

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[p003] ay BSERRSERRER ESR HIS is the last issue of Labour Review. From the autumn of Trees our resources will be devoted to the appearance of a new magazine. Fourth International, which will serve the world Marxist movement on a far wider scale as the organ of the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International. It is 25 years since Trotsky and his comrades founded the Fourth International of revolutionary Marxists. That was in the aftermath of the defeats inflicted by Hitler’s and Franco’s fascists, and at the height of the Stalinist terror in Russia. Those defeats were prepared by the betrayals of the ‘socialist’ and ‘communist’ leaders of the labour movement. It was necessary above all to start on the path of solving this ‘crisis of leadership’. Now, 25 years after, the solution of the crisis of leadership is still the main issue. The conditioris of 1963 are, however, vastly different. Revolutionaries now work in a situation of mounting militancy in the workers’ movement of the advanced countries, from the old industrial centres of Western Europe to the cities of the United States. For many years the workers and peasants of the colonial countries have been on the offensive against imperialism. Since 1953, the states dominated by the Stalinist bureaucracy have been rocked by crisis, highlighted by the Hungarian and Polish workers’ revolutionary struggles in 1956, and now reflected in the open disarray of international Stalinism under the impact of the Sino-Soviet split. The new journal, Fourth International, is a political and theoretical weapon for the building of the Marxist leadership. It will carry on a relentless fight for Marxist theory and revolu- tionary principles, not only against the bureaucratic and oppor- tunist ‘official’ leadership of the working class, but also against all those revisionists who call themselves Marxists and even ‘Trotskyists’. We publish in this last issue of Labour Review the Manifesto