Pierre Frank, was adopted unanimously. The report made by Ernest Germain on the tasks and perspec-— tives in Western Europe was adopted with one abstention. Livio Maitan's report on Latin America was similarly adopted with one vote against.
A report was made on preparations for the next world congress of the Fourth International. It was decided to open a discussion period in preparation for the congress. All members of the Fourth International are entitled to participate in the discussion and to contribute articles expressing their views.
The agenda includes the present political situation in the world, developments in China (particularly in relation to the "cultural revolution"), problems of tactics and strategy in the Latin-American revolution, tasks and perspectives in Western Europe (especially as they relate to the new vanguard movement of the youth), and the Algerian revolution as it stands today.
Discussion had already been opened in the international Trotskyist movement on developments in China and on projected new statutes for the organization.
The IEC also agreed unanimously on a series of measures to strengthen solidarity with revolutionists suffering persecution in Bolivia and Greece.
This was the third meeting of the International Executive Committee since 1965. It was elected at the Second Congress of the Fourth International following the Reunification Congress in 1963 which healed a ten-year split.
The work of the gathering, as well as the preparations for the Third Congress since the reunification (the ninth congress of the movement since its founding in 1938), testified to the solidity of the Trotskyist movement and the success with which the wounds of the old split have been healed.