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Between 1918 and 1968, the forces of revolution and
counter-revolution fought a ceaseless battle over Europe's history.
In Germany and Spain, the Moscow-led communist parties led the
revolutionary movements to disaster. In the decades after the
Second World War, democracy was regularly threatened by right-wing
movements which aimed to dramatically constrict democratic rights.
This 'Bonapartism' continually threatened democracy in France until
the 1968 worker- and student-revolt destroyed the foundations of
Gaullism.In this book a participant and political leader within the
revolutionary movement gives his perspectives on those struggles. A
biographical note by Ernest Mandel, which introduces this volume,
explains how over six decades in the workers movement Pierre Frank
became perhaps the best-known anti-Stalinist revolutionary in
France. He was one of the first to be arrested during the crisis of
1968, when the French section of the Fourth International was
banned.Frank was secretary to Leon Trotsky in the 1930s, a central
leader of the Fourth International from the 1940s and, until his
death in 1984, editor of its French-language theoretical journal,
"Quatri me Internationale." His best-known books are "The Long
March of the Trotskyists" and "Histoire de l'Internationale
Communiste," a chapter of which has been specially translated for
this volume.
We live in an age where everything has been internationalised.
Imperialism brought in its wake world politics and world economics.
In this book, Pierre Frank explains how the Fourth International,
founded in 1938 by Revolutionary Marxist militants, nuclei,
currents and organizations, answered the problem of the
construction of anti-capitalist, revolutionary political
formations. As Ernest Mandel's biographical essay explains, Frank
was secretary to Leon Trotsky in 1932-1933. This book draws on
Frank's experience as a central leader of the Fourth International
through to 1979. Daniel Bensaid's appendix explains the following
30 years of the Fourth International life. Two contributions
develop its perspective of establishing a new independent political
representation of the working class that takes into account the
diversity of the working class in defending a resolutely
class-based programme: a statement by founders of the French LCR
explaining its decision to dissolve into the NPA; and the key
resolution adopted by the Fourth International's 2009 world
congress.
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