SPEECHES IN THE FIRST CONGRESS OF THE IWL-FI (1985)

In March 1985, in Buenos Aires, the first world congress of the international organisation headed by Moreno was held, and at that time it was called the IWL-FI (founded in 1982 in Bogotá, Colombia). The three central themes to which Moreno spoke about — among others — were about the […]

INTERNATIONAL MANIFESTO (1985)

This work was written by Nahuel Moreno and collaborators. Its guidelines were approved in 1985 by the First World Congress of the IWL-FI, the last one held during Moreno’s life The International Workers Unity- Fourth International (IWU-FI), which promotes this page, considers it a fundamental part of its programmatic heritage.

TO BE A TROTSKYST TODAY (1985)

In an interview conducted in August 1985 and first published in 1988 (Esbozo biográfico. Cuadernos de Correo Internacional), Moreno defined the meaning of being a Trotskyist.

THE REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT (1985-1986)

In 1985–1986 a sector of the Colombian PST leadership began to promote an orientation of political unity with a union organization, A Luchar, linked to the guerrillas. This resulted in an important internal discussion. Moreno warned it was not correct and that agreements should be kept in the field of […]

THESES ON THE GUERRILLA (1986)

These theses were written as part of the debate was developed in 1986 within orthodox Trotskyism, with a sector of Colombian comrades who were for an approach to a trade union sector influenced by the ELN guerrilla, in the perspective of forming a common party. In its pages, it is […]

ELEMENTARY POLITICAL CONCEPTS (1986)

This paper intended to bring in a simple and easy manner to the whole of the militancy, particularly to the new litters, the central tools of political elaboration that Moreno had been developing and defending in his polemics within and without Trotskyism (in particular with Comrade Ernest Mandel).

CONVERSATIONS WITH NAHUEL MORENO (1986)

Conversations was the last book published by Nahuel Moreno, before his death on January 25, 1987. Since 1986, this text has been circulating among new and old members of Trotskyism, and also has served as pleasant reading for many people curious about socialist ideas.

SANDINISM AND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION (1986)

A few months before his death, Nahuel Moreno received a letter from one of the greatest Argentine intellectuals, the writer, dramatist, actor, and psychotherapist Eduardo Pavlovsky. Pavlovsky, who for fifteen years had been part of the current that Moreno founded, reflects very important concerns about the role of Sandinism and […]

FOUR TIPS BY LENIN (1986)

The article “Four tips by Lenin” was published in 1986 in Contraprensa, the magazine of the Socialist Youth of the MAS. In brief pages, Moreno contrasts the Leninist conceptions and practice with the monolithic and vertical bureaucratism characteristic of the communist parties.

OUR EXPERIENCE WITH LAMBERTISM (1986)

The split of the FI (IC) was anticipated by the divergences around another great fact of the world class struggle, the Polish revolution. And it was precipitated by a key political fact, the triumph of Mitterrand in France. The program and the policy on the face of his government originated […]