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Resolution on the Minority in the United States

December 26-28, 1953 · After the Third World Congress (1952–1954) · 261 words

United States

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 14th Plenum of the IEC warmly salutes the U.S.A. Trotskyist tendency faithful to the International.

It is convinced that this tendency, drawing the same lessons as the rest of the International from the betrayal and the unprincipled struggle of the Cannonite faction against the concept, the structure and the functioning of the International as a centralized world Party, will be able to root a real section of the Fourth International in the U.S.A.

The IEC therefore decides:

a. To maintain henceforth regular organizational relations with this tendency, and to consider them in practice as the continuators of the U.S.A. section of the Fourth International, with all the rights and duties due, according to the statutes of the International, to each section.

b. To leave the final decision on this question to the Fourth World Congress.

c. To include in the pre-Congress discussion, and on the agenda of the Fourth Congress, the question of the policy to be followed at the present stage by the U.S.A. section of the Fourth International.

d. To ask them to consider as an essential task for an entire period, and at any rate until the World Congress, to keep the members of the Cannonite faction informed of the international pre-Congress discussion and of all the political documents of the International; and finally, to miss no opportunity to let all the Cannonite members know that the U.S.A. section of the Fourth International is fully open to them, with no conditions other than acceptance of the discipline and the rules of functioning of the International.

Adopted unanimously

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