SPAIN: WITH THE CORTES, AGAINST THE MONARCHY (1977)

In early 1977 it was becoming clear in Spain that the post-Franco regime was to call for elections to the Cortes. The Political Bureau of the Liga Comunista Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Communist League, LCR) published on 14 February a special issue of their journal Combate with the title “For workers’ unity […]

ANGOLA: THE BLACK REVOLUTION UNDERWAY (1977)

In April of 1975, a popular revolution finished with the dictatorship of Caetano in Portugal. One of its immediate consequences was the end of its colonial rule in Africa. In the case of Angola, it was agreed that on 11 November 1975, the formal act of independence would take place, […]

THE REVOLUTIONARY DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT (1979)

This work is a polemic against Ernest Mandel’s work “Socialist Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. Moreno denounced Mandel’s capitulation to bourgeois democracy, to which the leadership of the American SWP had joined, and his abandonment of the Marxist conception of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

EARLY CRITICISM OF BRUNELLO’S AND ROBLES’S DRAFT (1980)

In 1979, there was an important discussion in the leadership of the PST (A), which operated in total clandestinity, with some Argentine and Uruguayan leaders. Among other topics, the policy and activity of the PST (A) were discussed in the last period of the Peronist government of Isabel and the […]

THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM TODAY (1980)

Nahuel Moreno wrote the theses we present today in order to serve as a basis to develop the program of the Fourth International – International Committee (CI-CI), organization created in 1980 as a merger of the current led by Nahuel Moreno — at that time called Bolshevik Faction (FB) — […]

ORAL REPORT TO THE EXPANDED CC OF THE PERUVIAN PST (1980)

In 1980, great opportunities opened up to get the Peruvian party to achieve mass influence. At the same time there were great challenges of internal organisation. Nahuel Moreno gives details of the internal organisation of the Bolshevik party, without which there is no possibility of becoming a party of masses […]

ON THE POLISH POLITICAL REVOLUTION (1980-1982)

Four papers by Nahuel Moreno from 1981/1982 about the development of the political revolution in Poland began in the 1970s that gave birth to solidarity and which was crushed by the military coup of Jaruzelski in December 1981, its links to the workers’ revolution in Europe and the slogans and […]

THE MITTERRAND GOVERNMENT, ITS PERSPECTIVES AND OUR POLICY (1981)

In 1981, after the electoral victory in France of the popular front lead by Francois Mitterrand and the support to it by the OCI(u) led by Pierre Lambert, the Fourth International (International Committee) was in a process of splitting. This article deals with the policies for the popular front left […]