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Archive
Standing in the traditions of the first three Internationals, proud to be part of the Fourth International, the ISG has a wealth of theoretical and practical experience to draw from. In this part of our site we have brought together historic texts from our collective past, works by our comrades and other material from the last few years of our activity.
Ernest Mandel - Selected WorksErnest Mandel, Belgian Trotskyist and acclaimed Marxist economist, long term leader of the Fourth International, published a large body of work across his lifetime. While many of his books are still in print we aim to publish here some of his shorter works, often not available elsewhere. Ernest Mandel reminds us that Marxism drew from its very inception on the advances of all the social sciences and emancipation movements of its time.
The Leninist theory of organisation represents, broadly speaking, the deepening of Marxism, applied to the basic problems of the social superstructure.
The decision to found the Fourth International was taken as early as 1933, with the Comintern’s final demise as a revolutionary organisation, in the same way as Lenin’s call for the Third International was made as early as 1914 when the Social Democratic parties capitulated.
The term ‘communism’ was first used in modern times to designate a specific economic doctrine (or regime), and a political creed intending to introduce such a regime, by the French lawyer Etiénne Cabet in the late 1830s.
"Marx is distinct from most important economists of the 19th and 20th centuries - for Marx, there are no economic laws separate and apart from specific relations between human beings."
"If we look at the problem of World War II from a more dialectical, more correct Leninist point of view, we have to say that it was a very complicated business indeed."
Inside CowleyTrade union struggles in the 1970s: Who really opened the door to the Tory onslaught?
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ISG PamphletsThe ISG produces a regular programme of pamphlets on the issues of the day. New Labour in government has implemented policies that it’s Tory predecessors did not even attempt.
We are opposed to European Monetary Union. But we are not anti-Europe. Our aim is not a capitalist Britain outside of the capitalist EU. We want a socialist Britain in a socialist Europe.
Without supporting the call of the Kosovans for independence, socialists have no solution to the conflict other than abstract appeals to a future socialist society or to workers unity across the Balkans. Such appeals have no basis in reality without a solution to the national question in the region.
"In September 1938, I was privileged to attend the Founding Conference of the Fourth International as an observer from the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa."
Socialist Outlook series 3 - monthly newspaperThe ISG monthly newspaper until September 2002. Innocent perish in NATO’s deadly blitz Stop the Bombing NATO out of the Balkans! Special coverage on the war
The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth InternationalThe Transitional Program written by Leon Trotsky and adopted at the founding conference of the Fourth International in September 1938.
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