STATEMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN SECTION OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
A development significant of the viability of the Fourth International took place today, on April 15, 1960, in Australia.
An 8 hour Conference of the Australian Section admitted to membership all members of a rival group formerly associated with the International Committee.
Also admitted to membership were a number of workers, students and professionals of equally fine calibre.
The Australian Section has a history of activity dating
"thirties." An outline of its successes and vicissitudes was given by the chairman.
It contains competent cadres well integrated in the mass movement and its numbers are now greatly strengthened.
on the primacy of the entrist orientation while a secondary orientation Party was agreed on, the latter retaining as it does important position in the trade union movement.
Plans were laid for the production of a regular organ of the Australian Section and of an entrist paper.
Regular membership were set down and a leadership, a Working Bureau of 7 members, established.
The Australian Section expresses its solidarity with the leadership of our World Party and its National Sections and expresses the hope that the sense of responsibility demonstrated here today will be emulated by other groups whose present isolation from the International resulted from their untenable opposition to its well reasoned theses which have been vindicated by world events.
We are confident that the growing strength and attractive power of the International will bring back into its ranks more serious cadres from the dissidents and will make the approaching World Congress the greatest ever.
Brazil