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"Conditions and Guarantees for Reunification," proposed by James P. Cannon to Sherry Mangan

James P. Cannon · April 27, 1957 · 227 words

From Towards a History of the Fourth International, Second series, vol. 3: How Healy and Pablo Blocked Reunification (Documents, 1956-58), Plus Documents on Algeria and Ceylon (Education for Socialists, Socialist Workers Party, New York, July 1978), pp. 21. Reproduced with the permission of Pathfinder Press. Scan: Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line.

1. The situation is not one of the Fourth International versus a small split-off therefrom, but of two equal halves of the International split right down the middle; and any solution must take this as its starting point.

2. Parity on the new IEC by prior arrangement to be jointly recommended to the coming World Congress.

3. Agreement, also to be jointly recommended to the coming World Congress, that no disciplinary action will be taken against any section until the following World Congress, except by general agreement (a more exact formula for the last phrase to be worked out).

4. In France the two parties to be given the alternative of fusion by agreement or of functioning as two official sections, with a coordinating committee acting in an advisory capacity to avoid conflicts and friction.

5. In other countries fusions to be recommended and attempted.

6. No group anywhere which has remained true to the principles of Trotskyism, as determined by a World Congress, to be excluded therefrom.

7. The IS shall be changed into an administrative body to conduct daily work and prepare political decisions for the IEC (it shall also have the right to issue declarations on historical events, such as those in Hungary).

8. The IEC and the International Committee create a joint subcommission on a parity basis to arrange the Fourth Unification Congress.

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