BUSINESS and FVITORIAL Address {nmgal eubacri tion, o/o 4, Dame St., Nottinghan 15/=.
Om INTERNATIONALISM
Internationalism rensina the continaing foous of Tarld Politics, \ Tt is a word emasculated by a rhetoric that can deolaim loud and long on the subject and then conveniently forget it. I+ is the email] change of every Labour M.FP.'a May Day apeach, It is alas, beyond the trivia, the muscles and sinewa of any hope for a Socialist future = perhaps any future.
he never before, it ia ome world. Werer before haa if been Bo evident that it is the same enemy that holds Huge Blanco in prison With ome hand and drove napalm on Vietnam with the other. It-is capitrliem thet is our enemy when Sonrttish miners are being put out of work and it is the same capitalism that threatens the peace nf the world in South Hast 4sia,
The capitalists have acheived «» class conscicuaness thet should Sorve 86 Aan exeamplé to the working clase forces and their allies. here they have created nn enviable unity of purpose, we are disunited, The world capitelistes straddle continents, while Socialiste huddle confertably within the prison of "their very oun" netion stetes. The Statutes of the Fourth International make this very point."The politica and the economy of capitelism, ite markets, ita crises, ite ware - all have an international character. Never before has this been so plain as today, The revolutionary party that seeks to awerturn capltalianm must aleo be an international. Just ae sooialiam fannot be realiaed in sone country without a world revolution, &o mo revolutionary netinnal grouping oan develop completely without a world party."
If it ia one enemy , then it must be one struggle. Internationalism only becomes real when the building of on international takes plate, It is the international that unites the movement and pives- it & astratesy., The Second and Third Internationale have become irrelevencies in any world strugzle for sceialiam. The former hea become irreversibly identified as «a supporter rather than an enemy of capitelian, The latter now has as ite wetehwords "perceful coexistence” and “uolyoentrisn". Polycentrian can moat accurately be dosoeribed aa a modern version. of the centrifugal tendencies that destroyed the Second International, Hew far both have degenerated can be judged when their norma ore placed againgt the stated objectives of the Fourth International and ite ' evaluation of what an International should te. " It must have # common international programme which the national parties adapt to the partic~ . ular problems of their country. Neither the temporary adherence of the revolutionary masses, nor material power, whether derived from a measive buresucracy or control of a state,nor a dynamic organisation, nor intense activity, mor the moat detailed statutory saferuards can save an international that has seriously deviated from the principles of revolutionary Marxian,"
The tesk of bellding a real international has to be the major npreocoupation of all serious aocialists, It is the Yourth International that is boilding this international and it is for us to help.