Dear Tom,
The International Committee has just concluded its meeting and herewith is a brief report.
a) It endorsed the SWP resolution, and a copy of the letter which has today been mailed to the Pabloites is enclosed.
Comrade Peng abstained on the vote and motivated his reasons by proposing that we should accept Pablo's counterproposal on point one of the JPC proposals. The French voted for the resolution.
b) The International Committee discussed a draft resolution on International Perspectives submitted by the British Section and the political line was unanimously endorsed. Copies of this will be sent out as soon as it is ready, for discussion in all the sections affiliated to the International Committee.
c) The World Congress of orthodox Trotskyists will be held during June 1958. The main documents will be this draft resolution on International Perspectives, a document on 20 years of the world Trotskyist movement (i.e., since the founding congress of 1938) which is to be prepared, and a document dealing with the situation in France. In addition we are planning to produce four international Internal Bulletins which will contain material dealing with experiences from our work in the various sections.
The next meeting of the International Committee which will be held early in December will decide on the size of the delegations as well as a special appeal for funds to cover the cost of the Congress.
With best wishes,
Jerry