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Resolution Suspending Members of the International Committee

December 26-28, 1953 · After the Third World Congress (1952–1954) · 113 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.

[p. 171]

The 14th Plenum of the IEC decides:

a. To suspend from membership in the International all members of the IEC who signed the split appeal which appeared in *The Militant* of November 16, 1953, or the appeal of the "Committee of the Fourth International," or who support the appeal and endeavor to rally the sections of the International on this basis.

b. To suspend from their posts in the leadership of the sections all those who signed these appeals, or who support them and endeavor to rally the sections of the International on this basis.

c. To leave the final decision on these cases to the Fourth World Congress.

Adopted unanimously

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