ROUGE" GOES DAILY! March 15, 1976, marks an important date in the development of the Fourth International. For the first time, one of its sections, the Lique Communiste Révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist League) in France, will begin publication of a daily newspaper. A result of an enormous effort financially through the collection of the equivalent of more than half a million dollars from tem of thousands of sympathizers of the new daily and technically through construction of a modern printshop — the appearance of the Quotidien Rouge is a measure of the progress of the French section of the Fourth International, of its growing proletarianization and of its impact on layers of the vanguard going far beyond those that contributed to launching the weekly Rouge just after May 1968. The birth of the Quotidien Rouge is in the image of the qualitative growth of the Fourth International as a whole. Not only in the sense that the new daily will in part also be the daily of our entire International, but also and above all in the sense that its emergence coincides with the progress that has been under way since the beginning of this year in the press of many sections. To mention only the most important cases:
*Since its extraordinary congress of January 1976, the Liga Comunisia Internacionalista (Internationa list Communist League), sympathizing section of the Fourth International in Partugal, has been regularly publishing a weekly, Luta Proletdria.
* As of March 15, Was Tun, organ of the Gruppe Internationale Marxisten (International Marxiar Group), German section of the Fourth International, also becomes a weekly.
*Since January 1976, Direct Action, organ of the Socialist Workers League, a sympathizing organization in Australia, has been a weekly.
*The comrades of the Liga Comunista Revolucionaria/Euzkadi ta Askatasura- VI (Revolutionary Communist League/Basque Nation and Freedom-VI) in Spain are preparing to istue a large-scale weekly with several regional editions beginning in a few weeks, even if this weekly will not yet be legal, in spite of the progress of the revolution in Spain.
*The comrodes of the Liga Socialista (Socialist League), section of the Fourti, International in Venezuela, are in the process of transforming their organ, Voz Socialista, into a weekly.
*The comrades of the International Marxist Group, British section of the Fourth International, are in the process of expanding their newspaper, Red Weekly, to sixteen pages.
*The comrades of the Ligue Révolutionnaire des Travailleurs/Revolutiondre Arbeiders Liga (Revolutionary Workers Leogue), Belgian section of the Fourth International, are in the process of expanding their two weeklies, La Gouche (in French) and Rood (in Flemish), to twelve pages each. The exparsion of the press of the Fourth International is but the reflection of the expansion of the organization itself, of its numerical strength, its worker and trade-union implantation, its political maturity, and its effective intervention in the class struggle. We are fully conscious of how modest and insufficient this progress remains when compared with the immensity of the tosks involved in the construction of a new revolutionary leodership of the world proletariat in face of the growing crisis of imperialism, capitalism, and Stalinism. The birth of the Quotidien Rouge, like all the progress now being made in the international Trotskyist press, shows that genuine advances are being made toward carrying out these tasks. It also implies an opening toward the revolutionary forces with which a programmatic basis and common action can be established with the aim of strengthening the national organizations and the International. The fact that the Quotidien Rouge is born under the sign of this opening is also a reflection of a process of maturation.
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