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Report on the 14th Plenum of the International Executive Committee

December 26-28, 1953 · After the Third World Congress (1952–1954) · 123 words

Published English text: Towards a History of the Fourth International, Part 4, vol. 4: Struggle in the Fourth International: International Secretariat Documents, 1951-1954, Volume 4 of 4 volumes (Education for Socialists, Socialist Workers Party, New York, March 1974), pp. 168-171 · International Executive Committee of the Fourth International (14th Plenum). Read from the scan and corrected against the page image. Reproduced with the permission of Pathfinder Press.

The December 25-28 meeting of the IEC approved these decisions. It ordered the suspension from membership of anyone who solidarized with the "open letter." Sections which aligned themselves with the "open letter" were informed that this constituted a "split" on their part. The Cochran grouping in the United States and the Lawrence grouping in Britain were recognized as "continuators" of Trotskyism in their respective countries.

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The 14th Plenum of the International Executive Committee was held December 26, 27, 28, 1953.

The agenda was as follows:

a. The crisis in the International.

b. Preparation of the 4th World Congress.

c. Reports on the summer trips.

d. Changes and enlargement of the IS.

The following members did not attend, though they were duly informed: United States majority, Burns and Jacques.

We publish herewith the principal resolutions and documents adopted by the 14th Plenum of the IEC.

A reply both to the Open Letter published in *The Militant* of November 16, 1953 and to the split appeal of the "Committee of the Fourth International" was adopted unanimously by the Plenum and will reach the sections in a few days.

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