XIVth CONGRESS OF THE PCI
At the end of March the Parti Communiste Internationaliste, French Section of the Fourth International, held its XIVth Congress. The main political points agenda were: the situation in France; the building of the revolutionary party.
On the first point, the congress stressed; the Bonaartist character of the de Gaulle regime, ready to usc force against the masses but itself lacking a broad mass base; and the feeble policies of the traditional leaderships of the working class.
The second point had as its object to reaffirm the correct revolutionary Marxist solutions in the face of manifold revisionist currents produced by the 1958 defeat of the French workers and the continued crisis in Stalinism, opportunist toward the bourgeoisie and sectarian toward the Various solutions of despair — ranging from a complete non-Communist workers' movement. revision of Marxism and its replacement by impressionistic ad hoc theories about a "new" capitalism, the disappearance of the working class as such, etc, to the wishful thinking of certain oppositional Communists that the CP was finished and a genuine revolutionary party could quickly be built outside it — though largely so far only the clucubrations of isolated intellectuals, threaten to seep down into the ranks of the French workers, many of them disheartened and disoriented by Gaullism's easy victory. The PCI's XIVth Congress reaffirmed the orientation, adopted seven years ago, of concentrating in France aiding the formation within the CP of a left opposition through its experiences and our guidance arrive at the positions of revolutionary Marxism defended by the Fourth International.
The congress also recorded the formal disappearance, at long last, of the organization that had been using the party's name, and thus creating repeated confusion, since the 1952 split of the Lambert group. It may be added the sincess on herce Dupalembered in havor up th reformist leadership and of a resolution hostile to a united front with the main labor federation, the CG T.
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