Farrell Dobbs 1907-1983 Farrell Dobbs represented as few have the understanding of the best working-class leaders of the necessity of building a revolutionary socialist party to liberate the working people.
More than forty years ago, although he had gained a historic stature as a trade-unionist, he left trade-union work to head a small revolutionary Marxist
Farrell Dobbs led the Socialist Workers Party through the 1950s, the most difficult period in the history of the American socialist movement, symbolising the determination of the Trotskyist cadres in the United States to persevere at any cost in the work of building the revolutionary party in the central country of modern capitalism and imperialism.
Farrell Dobbs' stature and his total dedication to the aim of building the instrument necessary for liberating the working class and all of humanity is a testithe quality of the small group of revolutionists who rallied around Leon Trotsky to rebuild the international revolutionary party and to continue to develop revolutionary Marxism as a scientific tool.
The Fourth International honors the memory of Farrell Dobbs as an example of the dedication of the cadres educated by Trotsky to the task of building the world party of the socialist revolution.
from the bourgeoisie to the proletariat are sick of military rule. For this reason, the struggle of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo will continue to gain strength. THE HUMAN RIGHTS CANDIDATES
In fact, in Buenos Aires, as soon as people found out what the vote for the Radicals and the Peronists was, their attention turned to the vote for the human-rights candidates. Augusto Conte ran on the Christian Democrat ticket, although he is not a member of that party. He is the most outstanding fighter for human rights, having risked his life to defend the political prisoners and the "missing persons." His whole campaign was focused on human rights, and he was elected a deputy.
A new period is now opening in the political history of Argentina. for a time, there will be a flowering of
United Secretariat of the Fourth International November 2, 1983
Veteran American Trotskyist With the death of Farrell Dobbs, the world Trotskyist movement loses one of its veteran leaders, a symbol of the unity of a worker militant and a builder of the revolutionary party. Farrell embodied for us all the leadership of the 1934 Minneapolis teamsters strike, with which, after the Charleroi miners strike of 1932, the young movement for the Fourth International demonstrated its initial capacity to successfully conduct important working class struggles. scious decision to abandon his position as a trade-union leader to become one of the key leaders of the Socialist Workers Party reflected for us the central understanding which lies at the basis of our Transitional Programme, the cornerstone of the Fourth International since its founding conference in 1938. The dramatic problems with which humankind is confronted in the 20th century - the very problem of the physical survival of the human race through the building of revolutionary parties and a revolutionary mass International, through the fusion of the real struggles of the proletariat in the three sectors of the world revolution with revolutionary vanguard cadre.
To remain faithful to the meaning of Farrell's life taken in its totality, more than ever means today to build the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth International in the continuity of Marx and Lenin, of Trotsky and of James P. 3 November 1983
- cannot be solved but human rights, because the people are hungry for them and anxious-to exercise problems. One is internal divisions. They will be sharpened by the defeat and will continue to give rise to conflicts. The one is that the bureaucracy has to reestablish its domination and control over the trade-union movement. These two problems interact, each making the other worse.
What is more, the conditions exist for the development of a new movement of self-organization among the rank-and-file workers. The Groupings are spreading and beginning to assume new forms of exercising power within the unions and not outside of them.
Finally, the conditions also exist for building a political leadership, if this is done based on the rich experience that is accumulating in the broad mass movement. The election results show that calls from outside the movement to support the building of such a leadership have failed.
International Viewpoint 14 November 1983