Greetings from Britain
1988Dave Hudson 1988-09Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 15 →
Reader report, 22 Oct 2026: the headline, speaker and end of this speech corrected from the scan. Esteban Volkov's speech and the Examiner reprint, which had been run into it, are now their own articles.
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David Hudson represented the International Socialist Group, British affiliate of the Fourth International, at the Aug. 6 rally.
I bring you greetings from the International Socialist Group of Britain. We are a small organization, but we are building an organization that is committed to the program of the Fourth International.
I think it is very fitting that this platform includes comrades from many key areas of the world revolution today. It is the method of the Fourth International to extend unconditional support and build active solidarity with all national-liberation, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist struggles throughout the world.
But we are not just cheerleaders of the revolution as it develops in the different sectors of the world revolution. We also have a program, and as genuine internationalists we engage in dialogue and a discussion around this program with these forces in order to build a genuine, mass revolutionary international. That is our task.
Britain today is not the center of the international class struggle, but it is still a major imperialist power, and Trotskyists in Britain well understand the responsibility we have to the struggle of the comrades in South Africa. We also have a special responsibility to the nationalist struggle in Northern Ireland.
August 1988-89 is a year of action in Britain. It marks the 20th anniversary of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and of the sending in of the British troops. We are engaged in assembling a new withdrawal alliance based in the labor movement.