International Committee Reports

Report on climate change Daniel Tanuro The February 2009 meeting of the International Committee of the FI adopted this draft as a basis for a resolution to the next World Congress. - read article...

Role and Tasks of the Fourth International Draft Resolution from the International Committee Fourth International The preparation of the next World Congress is underway in a context marked by an unprecedented combination of a global economic crisis and a worldwide ecological crisis. This is a major turning point. This dual crisis shows the failure of the capitalist system and puts on the agenda the reorganisation and reconstruction of an anti-capitalist workers’ movement. - read article...

Solidarity with progressive activists fighting repression Fourth International The Fourth International demands an immediate end to repression, the release of all detainees and a halt to all legal pursuit. - read article...

The crisis overdetermines all of world politics Taking the measure of the crisis (2) François Sabado Report given at the meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International in February 2009. This report is situated within the framework of and in continuity with the report submitted at the Executive Bureau meeting in November 2008, which was published in International Viewpoint, issue 406, November 2008, under the title “Taking the measure of the crisis”. - read article...

Urgently reinforce the solidarity movement Resolution from the International Committee on the Israeli offensive against Gaza Fourth International The recent offensive conducted by the Israeli army against the Gaza Strip is set in the continuity of the Zionist politics of destruction of the Palestinian resistance. The dramatic balance sheet of three weeks of intensive bombing (more than 1300 deaths and more than 5000 wounded) shows the violence of the Israeli army, who used devastating weapons and are guilty of many war crimes. - read article...

Report on the International Situation François Sabado This is the written version of the report that he presented at the meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International, as introduction to the debate on the international situation, on March 1, 2008. - read article...

Against the Columbian government’s military intervention in Ecuador In solidarity with the Ecuadorian and Colombian people Fourth International We express our solidarity with the mobilization for peace and sovereignty on 6th March called in solidarity with the Colombian people by social and human rights movements in various parts of the world, demanding peace and an investigation into the deaths and disappearances of all those affected by paramilitary activities and the war in Colombia. - read article...

The WSF at the crossroads Report by Hubert to the Fourth International’s International Committee Fourth International Created in 2001, after two consecutive years of big mobilisations against the institutions symbolising neoliberal globalisation, the WSF began modestly (15,000 participants) at the first WSF in late January 2001 in Porto Alegre. The process then consolidated itself very rapidly, first in Latin America and in Europe (1st ESF in November 2002 in Florence) and reached South Asia in 2003 (1st Asian Social Forum in 2003 in Hyderabad). - read article...

International Committee meets Leaders from 28 countries gather The plenary meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International took place in the Netherlands in February. - read article...

On the Middle East International Committee resolution - Feburary 2007 The bipartisan consensus with which the US ruling class had approved of the military campaign of the Bush administration after September 11, 2001, including the invasion of Iraq, has crumbled in the face of the setbacks suffered during the occupation of that country. - read article...

On the Tamil National Question International Committee resolution - Feburary 2007 “Noting the petition campaign launched by the British section of the FI on the Tamil National Question in Sri Lanka as most appropriate and valuable, this assembly agrees to carry out similar action in all countries where sections of the FI are present.” - read article...

Report on the international situation François Sabado We reproduce here the written version of the report which François Sabado presented to the International Committee in February 2006 to introduce the debate on the international situation. - read article...

Resolution on Climate Change - February 2006 The International Committee passed a detailed resolution on climate change. - read article...

Resolution on Brazil - February 2006 The IC adopted a further resolution on the development of the Lula government and changes on the Left. - read article...

Notes on the situation in Latin America A continent veers left François Sabado Document discussed at the recent meeting of the Fourth International’s International Committee (IC). - read article...

Solidarity with dismissed SEAT workers International Committee Statement The management of the VW Group has moved against the workforce of SEAT in Barcelona, one of the brands belonging to the Group, with the dismissal of 660 workers. This aggression forms part of an offensive against the jobs and working rights of all the workers of this multinational, as it heralds new anti-worker measures that will affect other workplaces in Europe. - read article...

The World Imperialist Offensive and the Occupation of Iraq February 2005 The offensive that US imperialism and its allies have been waging on a world scale since 11 September 2001 is consistent with the strategic choices that the world imperialist system has been implementing continuously since the collapse of the USSR. - read article...

On the Brazilian situation February 2005 The experience of two years of the Lula government clearly demonstrates this government’s orientation and the policies it is carrying out. This is a coalition government with representatives of capital, dependent on the parliamentary right. These two years also show that the internal dynamic of its policies cannot be changed. - read article...

Letter from FI leaders to the Brazilian DS February 2005 Daniel Bensaïd, Francisco Louçã, Michael Löwy This letter was sent to the the Brazilian DS at the end of January and subsequently endorsed by the FIs International Committee. - read article...

Appeal - Extend international solidarity to Filipino left February 2005 All sections of the independent, progressive and revolutionary left are today under military threat from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the NPA. - read article...

On Venezuela February 2005 Venezuela is experiencing a revolutionary process characterized by partial break with the former regime in the political, economic and social spheres, as well as a partial break with imperialism. Venezuela is on the path towards social transformation. - read article...

International situation February 2004 François Ollivier This report deals with the key points of the international conjuncture, which can have effects on the big questions facing us concerning orientation. - read article...

The present moment of the movement in Europe February 2004 The main fact to be noted in the current phase in imperialist Europe is the wave of self-activity in society over the last two years (since the outburst in Genoa in July 2001) in opposition to war and neoliberal policies. - read article...

European Social Forum Statement by the Assembly of Social Movements July 2010 We, the participants at the Istanbul ESF, affirming that we have a strong engagement aganist all war and occupation and that we are for a politial resolution of the Kurdish issue, have made the following resolution : - read article...

Morocco In Morocco as elsewhere repression won’t stop the revolt against anti-social policies The FSE demands the release of the imprisoned students June 2010 Under the impulse of the World Bank and international capitalist institutions, the Moroccan regime started a privatization process of the universities and attacks against the right to studiy. The announcement of the “Emergency plan” to the university at beginning of the academic year, i.e. of the brutal aggravation of these attacks, put a spark to the powder. The class-struggle trade unionists of fight, organised within the UNEM, are at the forefront of the mobilization against the “Emergency plan”. - read article...

Obituary Denise Comanne 1949-2010 May 2010 We have learned with immense sadness of the death of our comrade Denise Comanne, last Friday May 28, following a mild heart attack, just after she had participated in a solidarity activity with the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. - read article...

Kazakhstan Solidarity against repression in Kazakhstan May 2010 On April 27th, Ainur Kurmanov, journalist and political militant, was sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment for having reported on a strike picket. The picket was organized by the oppositional social movement "Kazakhstan 2012" to protest against the eviction of the poor from their homes. - read article...

Fourth International Neither martial law, nor state of emergency, nor coup d’etat! Democracy and social justice. April 2010 Declaration of the Fourth International on Thailand: There must be an end to repression, the censure of the media and the denial of democratic freedoms. The rights to organise, freely associate, strike and demonstrate must be respected. - read article...