The Fourth International was founded when it was “midnight in the century”. Fascism was on the rampage, the counter-revolution had triumphed in the USSR and Stalinism was suffocating the revolutionary workers' movement all over the world. In contrast with the preceding Internationals, it was not carried forward by waves of workers' struggles and a growth of the working-class movement.

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IV405 - October 2008

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Fourth International,
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