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The 6th Plenum of the International Executive Committee which took place from the 9th to the 12th of October 1948, discussed the case of the Irish section.
It condemns the attitude of comrade Armstrong and the others who left Ireland to live in England, without prior notice to, or authorization from the International.
It decides to suspend the membership of these comrades in the International until such time as they furnish satisfactory reasons for their attitude and define the relations which they wish to have in the future towards the International and its discipline.
The next plenum of the IEC will take a final decision on their case, after hearing their explanations.
The IEC mandates the IS to give all possible help to those Irish comrades who continue the Irish section of the 4th International in the carrying out of their tasks.
Carried unanimously.
The Seventh Plenum of the IEC, noting that no explanation has been given by comrade Armstrong and the other members of the Irish Section who have followed him, regarding their departure from Ireland as well as their attitude toward the Fourth International, as was formally requested of them by the Sixth Plenum of the IEC (October, 1948);
Considers all these as having definitively left the Fourth International and expels them from its ranks.
Adopted
with all in favor except for one abstention (Central Europe).
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