Documents of the Fourth International. The Formative Years (1933-40).

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE

THE INTERNATIONAL PRECONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT OPPOSITION

Editorial Note, Part One

The International Preconference of the International Left Opposition

The International Left Opposition, Its Tasks and Methods

Telegram to the Communist International

Appeal of the Preconference of the International Left Opposition to all Members of the Communist Party of Germany, to all Social Democratic Workers, to the entire Proletariat of Germany

PART TWO

SELECTED DOCUMENTS, 1933-35

Editorial Note, Part Two

On the Need for a New German Party

The Declaration of the Four

The Present Situation in the Labor Movement and the Tasks of the Bolshevik-Leninists

An Open Letter to All Revolutionary Proletarian Organizations and Groupings

PART THREE

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Editorial Note, Part Three

Introduction The New Revolutionary Upsurge and the Tasks of the Fourth International

The International Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity («London Bureau») and the Fourth International

Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau

The Fourth International and the Soviet Union

Youth and the Fourth International

The Evolution of the Comintern

The Situation in the United States of America

Resolution on the Situation of the Movement for the Fourth International in the USA

To the Public Opinion of the Workers of the Whole World

To the Workers of Spain and the Workers of the Entire World

For an International Campaign of Support for the Vanguard of the Fourth International in France, Spain, and Belgium

To the Enslaved People of Morocco

Note on the Subject of a Trade Union Thesis

Rules Governing the Leading International Bodies

Decision on the Case of R. Molinier

PART FOUR

THE FOUNDING CONFERENCE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Editorial Note, Part Four

A Review of the Conference

A Salute to Our Living Martyrs and Our Heroic Dead

Greetings to the Fighters in Spain

Greetings to Leon Trotsky

Against Imperialist War!

Statutes of the Fourth International

The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International (The Transitional Program)

The War in the Far East and the Revolutionary Perspectives

Thesis on the World Role of American Imperialism

Resolution on the Tasks of the French Section

On the Molinier Group

Resolution on the Work of the Canadian Section

On Unification of the British Section

On the Greek Question

Resolution on the Situation in Poland

On the Mexican Question

On Organizing Defense and Relief for Persecuted Revolutionists

Resolution on Youth

Minutes of the Founding Conference of the Fourth International

PART FIVE

THE EMERGENCY CONFERENCE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Editorial Note, Part Five

The Emergency Conference of the Fourth International

Imperialist War and the Proletarian World Revolution

Declaration on the Status of the Resident International Executive Committee

Supplementary Statement on the IEC

Resolution of Greetings to Natalia and Leon Trotsky

Resolution of Solidarity with Class War Prisoners

Resolution on Unification of the British Section

Resolution on the Internal Struggle in the Socialist Workers Party

Correspondence with the Workers Party

Resolution on the French Section

On the Situation in Spain and the Tasks of the Bolshevik- Leninists

Organizational Report of the International Communists of Germany (IKD)

Political Report of the Central Committee of the French Section

On the movement of the Fourth International in Latin America

The Canadian Section and the War

The Colonial World and the Second Imperialist War