Ernest Mandel

The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International

And Why They Remain Valid Today

1. Conjuncture and structure

2. The basic contradictions of our epoch

3 .There is no perspective for capitalism

4 .Only the working class is capable of overthrowing capitalism and establishing a socialist world

5 .Without anti-capitalist theory and practice no anti-capitalist victory is possible

6 .The bureaucracy cannot introduce institutionalised socialist democracy

7 .Extent and limits of the new revolutionary gains

8 .Extent and limits of the recomposition of the workers’ movement

9 .The challenge of internationalisation

10 .Without international theory, practice and organisation there will be no building of the World Socialist Federation