Comrades,
The Fifth World Congress takes cognizance of the fact that the organizations of the "International Committee," since even before the Fourth World Congress, have placed themselves in practice and voluntarily outside the Fourth International.
It entirely approves the campaign for reunification of the world Trotskyist movement tirelessly carried out by the IEC and the IS since the Sixteenth Plenum of the IEC, which took note of the factual drawing together of the line of the International and that of the SWP on the question of the USSR and of Stalinism.
It takes cognizance of the fact that the "International Committee" has for the moment rejected the unification proposals formulated by the IEC and the IS.
Nevertheless, the Fifth World Congress instructs the leading organisms of the International to continue the line concerning reunification on the basis of the proposals contained in the last letter of the IS, August 25, 1957, restating the International's desire to grant the broadest organizational guarantees to the organizations affiliated to the "International Committee" within the framework of the democratic-centralist structure of the International.
The Fifth World Congress issues a solemn appeal to all Trotskyists who accept the programmatic bases and the organization of the Fourth International and who find themselves in fact outside the international organization, to rejoin it in order that the world Trotskyist movement, which has already been considerably strengthened during these last years, may be able to exploit even further the exceptionally favorable conjuncture created by the aggravation of the crisis of Stalinism and the new leaps forward of the colonial revolution, so that it may be able in the shortest time to build the new revolutionary leadership which the international proletariat lacks.