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The International Committee shall function as an ideological centre of the Trotskyist forces in order to further their political integration and to prepare in this way the reorganization of the Fourth International.
For this purpose, the Conference gives the following tasks to the International Committee:
1. To report the deliberations and decisions of the Conference to all IC sections, to discuss them as necessary with the sections unable to have representatives present, and, where possible, to secure nomination from these sections of representatives to the International Committee.
2. To publish an internal bulletin to print the views of the different sections. The bulletin to be published on a monthly basis if possible. Undertake, so far as may be practicable, to translate discussion material into the various languages.
3. To organize, implement and expedite a democratic political discussion, starting among the IC cadres; to arrange distributions for the guidance of the IC sections, the Conference views on Pabloism and the world capitalist crisis, and, at a later stage, extend to the Pabloite members the opportunity of participating in the construction of orthodox Trotskyist parties throughout the world.
4. Basing itself on the resolutions and general lines of this Conference, to elaborate within three months, a document on the international situation and on the strategy and tactics for the Trotskyist forces which flow from this situation, and to submit the document to the sections.
5. To adopt positions on important political events, and to submit these positions to the sections requesting their approval, amendments or rejection within the shortest possible time.
6. To prepare for the middle of 1959 another world conference and to submit to this conference concrete steps for the formal reorganization of the Fourth International.
7. Until this conference, to represent the Trotskyist forces in all general questions concerning the world movement, e.g., relations with the Pabloites, help with the creation of new sections, etc.
8. The International Committee does not have the right to intervene in the life of the sections. In any discussion on the national policies of the sections it shall act in loyal collaboration with the established national leaderships.
9. The International Committee shall be composed of one representative from each participating section. In carrying out its tasks, the Committee shall organize its functions as required by practical circumstances. To facilitate its political work, and to help in preparing the next World Conference, the Committee shall enlist the support and practical collaboration of the leaderships of the various sections.