faithful all his life, up till the last moment. forces - whatever their origin - that For these principles we shall continue to fight in order to achieve the victory for were being increasingly forced by events to adopt clear class-struggle positions in Tom Kerry's generation, as well as the following one, had to fight in extremely difficult circumstances, which were the result of great historical defeats for
Trotsky had learnt this method of par- But they did not fight in vain. The tide has turned. ty building from Lenin. has been on the rise and not receding; the
In building the Third International, proletariat and its allies are advancing, not falling back. Together with its class, the Bolsheviks sought to involve a wide the Fourth International has broken out of isolation and in many countries is
It is already a recognized part of the labor movement, of the range of revolutionary working-class class struggles that are unfolding now. Tomorrow, it will lead revolutions. forces, among them the anarcho-syndical- I am certain that I am expressing Tom Kerry's spirit when I say to you in ist Industrial Workers of the World and the Shop Stewards Movement in Britain. Transitional Program. In fact, this program is the concentrated
"It is true, '" Douglas said, "that when expression of the interests of the world working class. the Fourth International was finally In every new upsurge of the class struggle, in every new advance of the revfounded in 1938 it consisted only of olution, the best, the most conscious fighters come to the same programmatic Trotskyists. But that was not from conclusions on the basis of their own experience. No power on earth can stop that growing convergence. No power on earth can choice. It was the result of the fact that stop the building of the Fourth International.
socialism throughout the world.
the world working class.
For several decades revolution advancing too.
utmost confidence: The future belongs program, to the
These principles to the revolutionary Marxist the massive defeats suffered by working class internationally meant that the pressures bearing down on leftwardmoving currents too to were strong enable them to come all the way over to
Long live the Socialist Workers Party of the United States!
position."
a consistent revolutionary
The position today, however, is
Victory to the American working class!
Victory to the working class of the world!
Long live the Fourth International!
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