INTERNATIONAL Marxist
Workers'
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PRT THE CENTRAL committee of the Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT), the Mexican section of the Fourth International, unanimously agreed on May 2 to accept the Marxist Workers' League (LOM) into the party.
The LOM belonged to the international grouping known as the Fourth International—International Center for Reconstruction (CICIR), which underwent a major split in Caracas shortly after. The decision to include the LOM in the PRT was on the basis of the following agreement.
HE FOURTH National Congress 1987, decided to unite with the Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT).
The decision of the LOM congress thus concluded a process of fusion between the two organizations that began more than a year ago. It was based on the accords adopted in the framework of the Eleventh Plenum of the Central Committee of the PRT, which met from February 6-8, in which a delegation from the LOM's Political Bureau partic-
The LOM's fusion with the PRT is a step forward on the road of building a mass revolutionary party in Mexico independent of the state and the bourgeoisie; a centralized internationalist party in solidarity with the struggles of the workers throughout the world against the imperialist order and the bureaucracies that usurped power from the workers; a party standing for socialism and a revolutionary workers' international.
In order to formalize the LOM's fusion with the PRT, the leadership of organizations agreed on the following points:
• The fusion will take effect immediately, so that militants coming from the LOM can participate in the discussion and collective elaboration of the party's political line in the framework of the PRT's Fifth National Congress. To that end, the list of members given by the LOM leadership to the PRT leadership will be included as members [of the PRT], and will have rights and duties set down by the PRT statutes, so that they will be able to participate on an equal basis in the preparations for the congress mentioned above.
• In view of the agreements in principle between the PRT and the LOM, which constitute the political basis of the fusion, the Fourth National Congress of the LOM decided to accept the PRT Central Committee's proposal that it join the party as a national tendency upholding its political these issues where differences or particular political nuances remain. The LOM leadership decided that the name of this tendency should be the Fourth Interna-
It is clearly understood that, as PRT members, those who join and belong to the TCI do so as individuals, and this accord recognizes the right of the ex-LOM members to do so.
• Regarding the LOM's request that its members have the right to remain affiliated to the CICIR, without this meaning that they are any less loyal members of the PRT, the Fourth International Tendency of the PRT accepts the proposal of the Central Committee that this question be left open temporarily during the pre-congress period and during the coming Congress of the PRT. This is to promote a collective experience of the entire party under the strict discipline of the leading bodies of an already unified PRT.
Such collective experience is the guarantee that all the party members will be actively involved in deciding on the request from the LOM that its members be able to affiliate to the CICIR while in the PRT, that they will be able to participate in making this decision on the basis of full knowledge of what is involved and with the experience of members united in the PRT.
• In connection with the preceding point, the members of the Fourth International Tendency accept that nationally and internationally they are under the sole discipline of the PRT, exercised through its leading bodies and on the basis of the decisions democratically adopted by the majority. Likewise, they agree, in accordance with points 2 and 3 of the resolution of the Fourth
MEXICO National Congress of the LOM:
"2. To accept fusion in accordance with the proposal of a national tendency, with the right to defend our political positions — in particular as regards our affiliation to the CICIR - and the proposals for international campaigns, so that they will be discussed in the bodies of the PRT.
"3. We conceive this process of fusion as taking place under the exclusive discipline of the PRT....This means that the Central Committee of the PRT is to provide us with the international internal bulletins of the International Secretariat of the CICIR and the Spanish edition of the magazine Tribune internationale...."
In this way, the members of the TCI will have access to the press and correspondence of the CICIR through the intermediary of the regular leading organs of the PRT, its Central Committee and Political Committee.
Political importance of the fusion
In line with this, the Political Bureau of the LOM will inform the International Secretariat of the CICIR of the agreements accepted by the Fourth National Congress of the LOM.
• In order to assure the LOM members' integration in the PRT and their active participation in building the party, as well as to guarantee the expression of their positions, members of this tendency will be coopted to the national and regional leading bodies in those areas where they are present. Likewise, the CC of the PRT will recommend to the Fifth National Congress to observe a criterion of political representativeness (that is, not strictly proportional representation) in the Central Committee that will be elected by the congress, in order to permit the inclusion of a significant number of leaders of the old LOM in the national leadership of the PRT.
• As a normal result of this principled fusion, all the goods and property of the LOM become the property of the PRT, and this transfer will be done in writing where the need arises. This applies to the central headquarters of the LOM. The General Council of the CICIR will be informed immediately of the transfer of this title, since this headquarters was acquired thanks to a fraternal gift from the CICIR.
• So that the political importance of this fusion for strengthening the PRT, 2 through the contribution of the political capital of the LOM, may be appreciated, it will be publicly reported in the press of the party, as well as in a 7 series of regional activities organized in agreement with the comrades conJune 29, 1987 • International Viewpoint
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