DOCUMENT 14b

Agreements reached at London meeting, October 3-4, 1953

Documents 3 to 17 and 19 to 24 originally published in Internal Bulletins of the SWP and the International Bulletins of the International Committee


1. The delegates declare their political agreement on the international perspective on the character of the Soviet bureaucracy and Stalinism. They decide to undertake together the defence of Trotskyism against Pablist revisionism and the struggle against the liquidation of the Fourth International.

2. The English comrades will prepare a counter-document to the resolutions for the Fourth World Congress, which will have to be ready before the tendency conference.

3. The French comrades will edit a history of the struggle of the PCI against Pablism and the conditions of their exclusion.

b. A study on the development of Pablist revisionism since the Third World Congress by means of documents.

4. The different participants will make a public criticism as far as possible in the press of the practice of Pablism, taking account of the specific situation.

5. A meeting of the international tendency will take place at the end of October, in reality at a further date of the meeting on November 1 of the Provisional Committee.

6. A provisional committee is designated for co-ordination composed of the English, Swiss and French sections. Each section will have two members. Its headquarters will be in Paris.

7. Regular international contributions will be sent to the provisional committee. 8. All parties supporting the provisional committee will give a contribution to be fixed by the committee.

9. immediate organization of contacts: Germany, Australia, Italy, Bolivia, Ceylon.

10. The struggle ought to come to a conclusion for the IEC in order to impose the changing of the agenda and the changing of the leadership.

11. The English will prepare a draft of the modification of the statutes.

Signed:

For France -- Renard, Bleibtreu
For England -Jerry
For the Swiss -- Emile
Individually --Jo


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