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CONGRESS OF THE 4th INTERNATIONAL

Red Weekly No. 43, 15 March 1974 · p. 2 of the scan · 408 words

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F declared tendencies.

unification| was held in Sweden during the last woek in Februs The delegates to the Congress paid tribute to the memory of those militants of our masement who had died since the Bih World Congress, in particular: Tomas Chanti, a momber of the Central Committee of the Bolivian section, who fall at thr head of a peasant column in La Par while resisting the Banzer coup on 21 August 1971; Lur Mamani Limachi, murdarad by the Bolivian military dictatorship: Estands Meriino, murderod by the Brailian military dictateship: Luts Puials, Petro Bornes, the other Trotskyist leaders of the PRT-Combatiente and thair comrades including those killed at Trelew, murdered by the Argentinian military dectatorship: Merer Granam Iralandi, murdered; Jose Zumiga, peasant leadar of the FIR in Cuzco, Paru, murdered.

The Congress elected as its honorary presidium the Trotskyist comrade imprisoned in Spain, Chila, China, Bolivis and Uruguay, and as its honorary president Lu's Vitale, held prisoner by the junts in Chile and a symbol of the revolutionary victims of repression throughout the world.

The following questions ware discused by the Congress: a general solution on the international situation; a resolution on "Bolivia: balanca-sheet and way forwand': a resolution on The political crisis and revolutionary perspectives in Argentina": a resolution on the question of armed struggle in Latin America, a resplution on the question of bulleling revalutionery parties in Western Europe On all these questions, the resolutions put forward by the majority of the outgning EC were adopted by a majority. The Congress then elected a now Intarnational Exeutive Committée with proportional representation for various The Congres also voled unanimously to adopt the draft statutes of the Fourth Intarnational; anti unanimously called for solidarity with the straking British miners with the Chilean workers in struggle against the military dictatorship, and with the Greek workers and students, It sho carried unanimously a doclaration of solidarity with Rohan Wijeweera and the comrades of the VP imprisoned by the Government of Sri Lanka (Crylan).

The 10th World Congress of the Fourth International took nata of the important progress made by numerous sectione since 1969, as well as the increase in the number of sections and sympathising groups. It marked the conclusion of a long period o animated intarnal discussion, involving the publication of 150 discussion documents, with the unanimous acceptance of organisational decisions which confirmed the unity of the Fourth international and its adherence to the principles of damderatic

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