celebration of the centenary of the First International would be a mere formality if it were not done with the aim of reviving and strengthening proletarian internationalism, Let us recognize that the forces opposed to that kind of internationalism are still strong and that this resistance is rooted in the bureaucracies of workers organizations, This conservative, reactionary tendency must be fought, The world proletariat, as the founders of the First International taught, needs its own world organization to fight a world enemy.
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After the Third International was corrupted by the Soviet bureaucracy and then finally dissolved by Stalin, the program laid ~ down in the first four congresses of the Third International was preserved by Leon Trotsky. It became part of the basic program of the Fourth International, founded: in (1958. i
This is the organization that has assured the. ‘continuation of the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism first advanoed in an organized way.by the First International. -
Whatever your views may be, whatever your differences may be with other working-class organizations, on this day let us join in celebrating the great historic beginning made by the First International, And let us pledge to seek ways of uniting in common struggle against capitalism and imperialism, in the spirit. of inter~ national proletarian unity.
Proletarians of all the world, unitel
JAPANESE TROTSKYISTS