Issuing body: Delegates of the majority of the French section (PCI), Third World Congress of the Fourth International
Declaration of the Delegates of the French Majority (Bleibtreu, Marin)
The Seventh Congress of the PCI rejected the resolution of the Ninth Plenum not because it was wholly mistaken, but because of its inadequacies, its contradictions, and the numerous confusions it introduces. It was in particular the inclusion of correct amendments alongside false ideas maintained in contradiction with these amendments that compelled our party's congress to present a complete text for discussion at the world congress. The eclectic character of the resolution imposed this method for the sake of political clarification, particularly after the publication in the International's press of the article "Where Are We Going?", which explicitly develops the erroneous ideas that are only hinted at in the resolution of the Plenum. We do not renounce, within the world congress, the fight for the adoption of a correct orientation on the part of the whole of the delegations, a majority of which have taken a position in favour of the line of the resolution of the Plenum.
The conditions for a correct orientation are, for us: the adoption, not piecemeal but in their entirety, of the ten theses written by comrade Germain and adopted by our congress; the abandonment of every equivocal formula on the role of the Soviet bureaucracy and on its relations with the Communist Parties and the masses; a serious analysis of the present situation and of the prospects for the development of the mass movement throughout the world, including in the countries controlled by the bureaucracy of the USSR, which stands directly opposed to the idea of dividing the world into a "capitalist regime and a Stalinist world"; a clear definition of the revolutionary prospects in the two to four years that separate us from the war; the reaffirmation of the Trotskyist analysis of the role of the Soviet bureaucracy as a caste in the course of a third world war, whose outcome can only be the victory of the world revolution or that of imperialist barbarism; the definition of the International's tasks in the USSR along the line laid down by the Second World Congress; a clear analysis of the lessons of the Yugoslav revolution and the Chinese revolution, and a clear definition of the International's tasks in the revolutionary struggle of the masses.