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The ICFI concluded that the documents, along with FBI documents suggesting that Hansen had met with a recruiter for the Stalinist GPU two years before Trotsky's assassination, and his refusal to answer questions put, showed that Hansen was a government agent.
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* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 4: The International Committee Against Liquidationism ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-902030-57-4, this volume contains documents from the 1963 reunification of most of the ICFI with the United Secretariat.
* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 5: The Fight for the Continuity of the Fourth International ( 1975 ) ISBN 0-902030-72-8, this volume contains documents from the 1966 World Congress of the ICFI.
* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 6: The Organisation Communiste Internationaliste Breaks with Trotskyism ( 1975 ) ISBN 0-902030-73-6, this volume contains documents relating to the 1971 split by the French Organization Communiste Internationaliste ( OCI ) with the ICFI.
The PCI and SLL maintained the ICFI under their own leadership, opposing key elements in the reunification documents, including the view that the July 26 Movement had created a workers ' state in Cuba.
ICFI and along
In conjunction with a massive growth in membership and preparations for what they believed would be " mass influence ", the SLL renamed itself the Workers Revolutionary Party in 1974 and remained a part of the ICFI along with affiliated sections in Ireland, Greece, Germany, Spain, Australia, the USA, Ceylon and Peru.
ICFI and with
From 1960, a number of ICFI sections started to reunify with the IS.
It continued to participate in the ISFI but argued for a joint congress, for reunification with the ICFI.
This view originated with Lutte Ouvriere and the international Spartacist tendency and is shared by others who diverged from the ICFI.
Two sections of the ICFI, including Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League rejected the merger and turned against the SWP leadership, working with opponents within the party.
After the American, Austrian, Chinese, Latin American and Swiss parties of the ICFI agreed to reunification with the FI in 1963 ( forming the reunified Fourth International ), The Club controlled the ICFI until its fragmentation in 1985.
When, a little later, the WRP disintegrated, an investigation was carried out by the leadership of the ICFI, with the support of Mike Banda and Cliff Slaughter, leading figures in the WRP.
The International Committee of the Fourth International ( ICFI ) is the name of two Trotskyist internationals ; one with sections named Socialist Equality Party which publishes the World Socialist Web Site and another linked to the Workers Revolutionary Party in Britain.
In 1963 the SWP and the smaller Austrian, Canadian, Chinese and New Zealand sections of the ICFI agreed to reunite with the ISFI at the World Congress, to form the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.
When the Fourth International had split in 1953 the Lanka Sama Samaja Party of Sri Lanka ( LSSP ) refused to take any side and maintained contacts with both the ISFI and ICFI while arguing for a joint congress.
It should be noted that almost all of the ICFI in Latin America went to the new pro-OCI international tendency leaving the SLL supporters there with only a handful of members, notably in Bolivia and Peru.
In the middle of the 1970s, two leaders of the ICFI group in the United States, Workers ' League, developed political differences with the majority: Tim Wohlforth and Nancy Fields, his partner.
Intercontinental Press began a campaign denouncing the ICFI for the Wohlforth incident, with its editor Joseph Hansen writing that the concern over security indicated " paranoia " on the part of the IC's central leader, Gerry Healy.
The other ICFI is based on the surviving group that still holds the name of WRP and refers to itself as the British section of an ICFI, with another sections in Russia / Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Greece.
Anticipating an outbreak of US militarism after the collapse of the USSR, the ICFI associated with the SEP prepared for a new radicalization of the working class.
By 1961 the ICFI had split politically, the Internationalist Communist Party ( PCI ) in France and the Socialist Labour League ( SLL ) in Britain arguing that a workers ' state had not been created in Cuba, putting them at odds with the American SWP and the other organisations in the ICFI.
ICFI and had
The International Committee of the Fourth International ( ICFI ) was established by several sections of the International as an alternative centre to the International Secretariat, in which they felt a revisionist faction led by Michel Pablo had taken power.
The split in the WRP also had repercussions in the ICFI and as a result there were two versions of this body, too.
Some of the Latin American sections of the ICFI also left the ICFI to join the USFI, allowing the SWP and its allies to claim that a majority of the sections of the ICFI had joined the USFI.
In the eyes of the ICFI, the Latin American sections had adopted Pabloism and were dependent on their connections to the SWP.
* The OCI had sought to bring the Bolivian POR into the ICFI.
The ICFI thought this reaction was surprising, given the role that state infiltration had played in the Trotskyist movement, including in the assassination of Trotsky.
The ICFI also wanted to investigate infiltration by the USSR, considering the resources that the Stalinists had devoted to infiltrating and physically destroying the Fourth International culminating in the murders of Erwin Wolfe in Spain, Lev Sedov in France, and Leon Trotsky in Mexico.
The investigation of the ICFI later revealed that Cannon's secretary, Sylvia Callen, had been a Stalinist informer working through the CPUSA, and had been formerly married to a KGB agent, a fact that was confirmed by Grand Jury testimony.
Both sides claimed that the other had no factual detail to support its charges: The ICFI argues that the defense of the SWP leadership, and the charge that the ICFI's campaign was a ' frame up ,' are slanders against Workers ' League without factual backing.
The WRP had gained members and prominence in Great Britain, but the leadership increasingly went its own way against the ICFI as a whole.
These tensions developed into a split, leading to the suspension of those parties which had formed the International Committee of the Fourth International ( ICFI ) late in November 1953.
Among ICFI and ISFI groups, only the PCI and the SLL refused to attend ; the supporters of Posadas had left in 1962.
They saw the course of the SWP towards a regrouping with the ISFI, which had long been called " Pabloite " by members of the ICFI, as breaking with basic Trotskyist principles.
In 1974, the ICFI discovered that Wohforth's partner, Nancy Fields, an active member of the Workers League, was raised by a relative who had worked for the CIA's computer division and had ties to top-ranking agency officials.
ICFI and for
However, Pablo aimed for the FI to implement entryism more deeply than the leaders of the ICFI felt wise: They were also concerned by Pablo preparedness to enforce entrism, if necessary by splitting sections or appointing new leadership teams.
The ICFI saw this as an abandonment of the principles that Trotsky fought for since the rise of Hitler and the consequent establishment of the Fourth International.
The Congress did not attempt to present the ICFI as ' the Fourth International ', rather it positioned the IC as a force that defended what it saw as the political continuity of Trotskyism and called for the ' rebuilding and reconstruction of the Fourth International '.
* The SLL claims, on the other hand were looking to bring newer forces into the ICFI that shared its approach: in the shape of the League for a Workers Republic in Ireland and the Revolutionary Communist League of Ceylon, in addition to the Workers League in the USA.
The contest between the two political lines could not last and in 1971 the OCI and its allies would leave the ICFI to form their own international tendency, which later became known as the Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International.
It was joined shortly afterward by the above mentioned League for a Workers Republic in Ireland, further depleting the ICFI ranks.
Membership of the ICFI fell, and the WRP leadership was not prepared for this.
After its expulsion from the SWP both the Spartacists and the American Committee for the Fourth International were considered affiliates of the ICFI.
In 1962, the political convergence between the majorities on both sides was strong enough for the ISFI and ICFI to establish a Parity Commission to prepare a joint World Congress.
The ICFI unsuccessfully repeated its appeal for a deep discussion with the reunified Fourth International at the end of 1963, and on later occasions.
After the Lambert's current left the ICFI in 1971, its Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International ( OCRFI ) opened discussion with the International.
The ICFI traced the SWP's support for Cuba to their " regroupment " policy, in which, according to the ICFI, they attempted to gain the support of the middle-class radical supporters of Cuba.
In 1971 the OCI left the ICFI to form the Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International and in 1973 and 1974 proposed discussions to the USFI.
The group entered into a period in which its press became the focus of debate on the history of the WRP / ICFI for the members of the WRP and other Trotskyists in Britain and abroad.
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