Greetings from F.I

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Claudio Mangani represented the United Secretariat of the Fourth International at the Aug. 6 rally.

Comrades, the Fourth International was founded 50 years ago. But the fight to build the Fourth International started even before, in the early 1930s.

Two dramatic events led Trotsky to conclude that it was necessary to launch the Fourth International. One was the victory of the bureaucracy in Soviet Russia; the other was the defeat of the German working class and the rise of Hitler's Nazi regime in 1933. The effects of these two big tragedies, of these two working-class defeats, have not yet been overcome.

Today what is happening in the Soviet Union is a complete vindication of the ideas and struggle of the Trotskyist movement. Of course, the bureaucracy will try to maneuver. We have no illusion that the fight of the Russian proletariat will be an easy one.

Comrades have mentioned the recent struggle in Poland. But in Poland, the workers were unable to succeed in overthrowing the bureaucracy because they didn't build a revolutionary party. In the Soviet Union, as well, if the working class does not succeed in building a revolutionary party in time, it will be impossible to carry out the political revolution.

Our movement exists in 50 countries of the world, and we are struggling. The parties of the Fourth International are combat parties. The Fourth International is a combat organization.

The Fourth International was founded by the generation of the 1930s. The struggle to build the Fourth International is being continued today by a new generation. Just last week 700 youth from around the world came together at the summer camp of the Fourth International in France. This is the new generation that will guarantee the continuity of the Fourth International.

struggles throughout the world.