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Pay Tribute to Comrade Leon Trotsky 80 Years After His Murder at the Hands of Stalinism SPECIAL International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction SUPPLEMENT Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International /e-mail: fltinternational@ymail.com • www.flti-ci.org September 2020 Accompanied by the support, the solidarity and the greetings of hundreds of revolutionary workers and dozens of currents and organizations of the revolutionary vanguard of the world proletariat... We, Trotskyists of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International/ FLTI Pay tribute to comrade Leon Trotsky 80 years after his murder at the hands of Stalinism ∙ Revisionism and opportunism liquidated the Fourth International ∙ Our fight for its Re-foundation under the Program 2 | Special Supplement Presentation ast August 22 and 23, from the Collective for bankruptcy in 2019-2020, and Lthe Refoundation of the Fourth International / the consequent deepening of FLTI we paid our tribute to León Trotsky and the the terrible sufferings of the founders of the Fourth International. masses, here and there, under these objective conditions, the In this tribute, promoted by “El Organizador exploited are waging enormous Obrero Internacional” (International Workers battles, uprisings, and revo- Organizer) the FLTI newspaper, we were sur- lutionary offensives. At times rounded by dozens of currents, internationalist class clashes are diverted and organizations of the world working class and hun- betrayed by reformist lead- dreds of Trotskyist militants who participated in it. erships. Other times, these Together with all of them, we fight daily against fights resurface with greater this rotten world capitalist system and the treach- momentum. erous leaderships that support it. This tribute was The mechanisms of deception of the bour- paid via teleconference and in it dozens of inter- The “siren songs” of reformism and its per- geois regimes and the “siren songs” of class col- ventions, greetings and messages from all the fidious policy of class collaboration are followed laboration are overcome by strong blows from the organizations that accompanied us in these days by hard blows from fascism, whether generalized left of the masses. This has happened in the USA, were expressed. They were also present to pay as in Bolivia or by winning the streets against where renegades of Trotskyism, Stalinists and tribute to Trotsky 80 years after his assassination. the rising workers, as in the United States or various social-imperialists were hanging on the Lebanon, where the bourgeoisie of Hezbollah coattails of Sanders (who was trying to bring the We were accompanied by organizations and tries to crush the revolution that started there. martyred exploited to the feet of the Democratic militants from currents that are in the forefront of Imperialism threatens to bring “new Syrias” and Party) when they were surprised by the uprising huge battles of the world proletariat. This shows bloody massacres to the revolutionary process- of the black people and the whole of the American that Trotskyism and Trotskyists have begun to es that are underway. Here and there the “social working class. The masses are attacking the po- break our isolation, imposed by the successive peace” is exhausted. Class reconciliation is al- lice stations and begin to organize themselves and cruel partial defeats to which the treacher- ready unbearable. “Reformism without reforms” in combats against fascism in the fire streets of ous leaderships led the various assaults that the accompanies the crises of parliamentarism as Portland, Wisconsin, etc. This clearly paints the masses have been leading since 2008 in the face soul to body. Decisive clashes are underway that crisis of reformism. of the catastrophe of the world capitalist system. will be defined in the streets and in the civil war With this second outbreak of capitalism manifest among classes. None of the revolutionary actions of the mass- es that are underway, whether in the Middle East Table of Contents * Main speeches of the Trotksyists of the FLTI - From France, salute by Claude Marill, member of the Unitary - Presentation of the tribute days, by comrade Martín ..................... 6 Intersindical Tendency, Emancipation (education branch)...........27 - Speech from Madrid by Paula Medrano, leader of the Spanish - Speech by James Sakala, leader of WIL of Zimbabwe and the FLTI ..28 State Workers’ Democracy and the FLTI ................................................. 8 * Salutes from sectors of the vanguard who are - Speech by Carlos Munzer, leader of the FLTI and director of the facing the attack of the murderous states paper The International Workers’ Organizer .......................................10 - Salute by Mario Gonzalez, father of Cesar Gonzalez (one of the - Speech by Alejandro Villarruel, leader of Avanzada Obrera - Black List 43 students disappeared by the state) representing the parents of of the Río Santiago Shipyard in Argentina, adherent to the FLTI .......21 Ayotzinapa .......................................................................................................29 - Message from Claudia Pafundi, member of the “Commission of * Salutes and speeches of Trotskyists and internationalist Condemned Workers, Relatives and Friends of Las Heras” (Argentina) .29 organizations from all over the world - From Bolivia, salutations of the Association of Dead, Wounded and - From Idlib, Syria, intervention by Steif Abu Izen, correspondent for Victims of the Senkata Massacre, El Alto - South Zone, La Paz ........30 the paper “The Truth of the Oppressed” ..............................................23 - Speech by Abu Muad, from the editorial committee of the paper * From Latin America, homage to Leon Trotsky “The Truth of the Oppressed” ...................................................................24 by the internationalist workers - From Japan, salute by the JRCL-RMF ..................................................25 - Israel Cervantes, a worker fired from GM Silao (Mexico) .............31 - Speech by Shiva Mahbobi, spokesperson of the organization - Greetings from Grupo Comuneros of Cali, Colombia ...................32 “Campaign for the Freedom for the Political Prisoners in Iran” .........26 - Speech by Milenka López, by the LSTI of Bolivia ............................32 2 | Special Supplement Tribute to Leon TrotskyPaís I 3 or in Africa, in Europe, in the Pacific, or in the tribute we paid to Comrade Trotsky, 80 years after Americas, were prepared or organized by this his assassination. Special Dossier “New Left” made of Stalinists, bourgeois political swindlers and former Trotskyists tied to their fate. *** International An enormous process of radicalization is Workers Organizer opening up within the world proletariat and in it We present below the different interventions Bolshevism is fighting and living, and also the and greetings that were part of these intense possibility of regeneration of the revolutionary days, grouped by blocks and not necessarily the movement, on the condition that they fight hand order they had in the tribute to Trotsky, for a better in hand to reconstitute militant internationalism in organization of the concepts expressed there and the ranks of the world working class. to highlight the valuable messages of the partic- ipants who accompanied us. How can we then forget to mention here, the greeting sent by comrades from the “Association The Trotskyists of the Collective for the of Victims, Dead and Wounded of the Senkata Refoundation of the Fourth International / FLTI Massacre” who accompanied us, raising their pay our tribute to Leon Trotsky reaffirming that demands for justice and fighting against the mur- the program, the theory and the strategy of derous Bolivian state. Trotskyism have passed the test of history, but the Trotskyists have not. Comrade Claude Marill from the We defined the moment and our struggle “Emancipation” Unitary Inter-union Tendency to recover and refound the Fourth International. of France also sent his greetings, he who for We made a historical balance sheet of the great decades has been fighting in the heart of the battles of Trotskyism and also of the thousand French proletariat. attempts of entire generations that from 1940 on, sought to retake the course of the founders of the On the day of tribute to Trotsky we read the Fourth International. letter sent by the comrades of the JRCL-RMF, We reaffirm, however, speaking to the new the revolutionary Marxists of Japan. generations of the international revolutionary Download PDF movement, that these attempts failed as a re- The Trotskyists of the FLTI were not alone in sult of revisionism, opportunism and adap- tations to Stalinism and other treacherous this tribute. From the heart of the civil war, from leaderships. garding the fight of Trotskyism in the 1930s and encircled Idlib and divided Syria, comrades of the founding of the Fourth International. the revolutionary and internationalist fraction This led the forces that speak in the name of of the partisans of the Syrian revolution took Trotskyism today, 80 years after his assassination, Comrade Carlos Munzer, leader of the part in our tribute. to be paying tribute to Trotsky, as happened in São FLTI and director of the newspaper “El Orga- Paulo, along with his executioners, with opportun- nizador Obrero Internacional” closed the first From the Iranian resistance, one of the tough- ist wings of Cuban Stalinism that try to “dress in day, making a historical balance of 80 years of struggle and attempts to resume the fight of the est class
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