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Terry Fields, Militant MP dies – the workers’ MP on a workers’ wage

By Rob Sewell Monday, 30 June 2008
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We have just received the sad news of the death of Terry Fields, a Militant supporter and Labour MP for Liverpool Broadgreen (1983 -92). He died over the weekend after a long struggle with cancer. Terry is remembered by all the comrades who knew him as a true class fighter and a man who stuck to his socialist principles throughout.
 

A Brief History of the International Marxist Tendency

By In Defence of Marxism Saturday, 12 August 2006
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The following text is a very brief outline of the history of our tendency, in answer to questions we have received from different people around the world.
 

The Character of the European Revolution – A Reply to Some Comrades of the IKD

By Ted Grant Wednesday, 02 February 2005
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We are publishing a 1945 article by Ted Grant’s which was a contribution to the discussion on the national question in Europe then taking place within the Fourth International. The IKD was the German section of the Fourth International, but some of its members had unfortunately drawn some very reactionary conclusions. Instead of the perspective of the socialist revolution they had been thrown back to the idea of the “national democratic” revolution. Ted explained the disastrous consequences this idea would have on the movement and went on to state the classical Marxist position on this question.
   

The Fourth International and the Soviet Union in 1946

By RCP Wednesday, 15 December 2004
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In 1946 the perspectives of the then leadership of the Fourth International were that through “the combined economic, political and diplomatic pressure and the military threats of American and British imperialism” the Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union could collapse. The complete opposite was the truth. Ted Grant, together with the leadership of the RCP, attempted to correct this mistaken prognosis. Here we provide the historical 1946 documentation.
 

The origins of the collapse of the Fourth International

By Fred Weston Tuesday, 26 October 2004
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In 1946 the leaders of the Fourth International were predicting imminent revolutonary upheavals, when in reality capitalism was entering the biggest boom in its history. The leadership of the British Trotskyists, in particular Ted Grant, tried to convince the International that their perspective was false. History has proven Ted to be right. No one can doubt it, and we are proud to continue the tradition that he laid down of serious, meticulous analysis of the real processes taking place in society.
   

Letter: a contribution to the discussion on the 40th anniversary of Militant

By Harry Thursday, 14 October 2004
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A comrade who was actively involved in building the Militant in the 1970s and 1980s recounts his experience, how he became disillusioned by the changes in the internal regime, how the tendency he had joined was transformed into something else. He now sees in In Defence of Marxism the genuine traditions of the Militant at its best.
 

The New Imperialist Peace and the Building of the Parties of the Fourth International – April 1946

By In Defence of Marxism Wednesday, 13 October 2004
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The resolution adopted by the International Pre-Conference of the Fourth International in April 1946, was permeated with the false perspective of the impending revolutionary crisis, the impossibility of a general economic recovery of capitalism and therefore it highlighted the excellent possibilities to develop the forces of the Fourth International. All this of course was false and eventually led to one crisis after another of the organization, and to its final collapse.
   

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