Sun 06, May 2007 @ 18:08
Sun 06, May 2007 @ 17:34
The Split in the League for the Fifth International
Another new group with a new publication? How did it come about? In the statement below we explain the recent history of a political struggle in the LFI and Workers Power Britain that led to the expulsion of 30% of the members of the LFI and nearly half of Workers Power. The political issues discussed here are of interest to all anticapitalists in the world today....write Permanent Revolution....
Sun 27, August 2006 @ 15:09
Letter to L5I members on the eve of its 7th Congress -July 06
By now you will have all received the various statements and letters from the International Secretariat and from Richard B explaining why the International Faction was expelled. Hopefully you will have seen – and read – statements from the faction explaining its political case (go to: www.permanentrevolution.net).
Sun 27, August 2006 @ 15:06
Declaration of an International Faction in the L5I - 6/6/06
We, the undersigned members of the L5I declare ourselves to be an International Faction of Opposition to the current majority leadership, its political perspectives and its proposed tasks.
We commit ourselves to a political fight to create a new leadership in the L5I, shaped by the League's traditions of collectivity and genuine democratic centralism. We believe that by forming a faction in the run up to the 2006 international congress, in order to change the leadership and political orientation of the League, we are making an honest statement of intent to all members of the League. We are also setting out, in a clear, principled and political fashion our points of disagreement with the current leadership.
Thu 24, August 2006 @ 23:23
Background documents
These documents are a selection of some of the many documents produced by International Faction members during their two year fight against the leadership of the L5I, which culminated in our explusion in June 2006.
The documents are roughly divided into two parts, one of which Documents of Politics and Perspective, deals mainly with tactical questions, perspectives and the internal regime, the other Marxist Economics Analysis which includes the refutation of the L5I's stagnation theory of world capitalism.
Necessarily many of these documents overlap and are incomplete. Different comrades took up questions. They reflect the development of the struggle and the various levels of understanding and generalisation which became apparent only over time. What began as a series of fights over concrete misapplication of tactics became generalised into a critique of the L5I's entire catastrophist method, which refused to seriously re-evaluate the increasingly absurd assertion that the world economy was either stagnant or showing a tendency to stagnation or that the class struggle could be characterised as being in a "pre-revolutionary period."
The documents published in this post are are individual contributions of various IF members, not necessarily agreed positions of the IF.
This is a selection see more for a fuller list.
Documents on Politics and Period
- A necessary evil? - Mark H - July 06
- The International Secretariat - a regime in crisis - Mark H - June 2006
- Perspectives and Period a reply to Dave S - by Bill J - June 06
- The International Secretariat and the crisis in the ASt - Mark H - May 2006
- Politics, principles and the faction - Mark H - May 06
- Opposition a problem? - by Bill J -Oct 05
- Why we formed a tendency - Stuart K June 05
- A Reply to Richards defence of the majority - by Bill J - Jun 05
- The Euro elections, the vanguard, critical support and fascism - Mark H & Bill J May 04
Documents on Economic Analysis
- Critique of the Stagnation Theorists - by Bill J 2005
- Does the world economy show an upward trend? - 2005
- Lenin on imperialism; what he got right and what he got wrong - 2005
- Does imperialism have any reserves left? - 2005
- Why Capitalism is not stagnating - 2005
- Marxism and long waves
- Facts and Fantasy: Why Michael's still wrong on the world economy - 2005
- Globalisation and the Long Wave - 2004
- 1992- today: a new upward long wave - 2004
Sat 15, July 2006 @ 01:39
World economy, politics and the class struggle: the international perspectives of the International
This document was first presented to the April 2006 International Executive Commitee of the L5I and subsequently further amended by the international faction in the pre-congress period before its expulsion.Sat 15, July 2006 @ 01:26
