Document Archive:

Documents of the Second International Conference of the International Trotskyist Opposition (1998)

Revolutionary Perspectives at the End of the Twentieth Century (1998).

Crisis of the Fourth International and the Tasks of Consistent Trotskyists (1998).

Declaration of Principles of the International Trotskyist Opposition (1998).

Rules of the International Trotskyist Opposition (1998)

Documents of the Founding Conference of the International Trotskyist Opposition (1992)

1) Declaration of Principles of the International Trotskyist Opposition (1992)

2) Declaration of Tasks of the International Trotskyist Opposition (1992)

3) Organisational Resolution of the International Trotskyist Opposition (1992)

Documents of the Left Tendency for the XIVth World Congress of the USFI (1995)

1) Declaration of a Left Tendency in the Fourth International for the IX World Congress (1995)

2) Building the Fourth International and Mass Trotskyist Parties in Every Country (1995)

3) Building the International Today?: What International? (1993)

4) Oppose the International Majority and ISG/Mathieu/SA Lines on ex-Yugoslavia: Imperialism Out of the Balkans! (1995)

Documents of the Left Tendency for the XIII World Congress of the USFI (1991)

1) Appeal for the Establishment of a Left Tendency in the Fourth International for the XIII World Congress (1991)

2) Amendments to the Draft "Manifesto of the Fourth International".

3) Draft Resolution on Capitalist Europe and our Party-Building Tasks

4) Stalinist Retreat, Imperialist War and the Tasks of the Fourth International

5) Gorbachevism and the Proletarian Revolution

6) Trotskyism and the Defense of the Nicarguan Revolution

Documents of the Faction for the Trotskyist International (FTI)

1) The Crisis of the Fourth International and the Tasks of Consistent Trotskyists (1992)

2) For a Workers’ Emergency Plan to Combat the Crisis of the Soviet Union (1992)

3) The Programmatic Principles of the Faction for the Trotskyist International (1992)

4) Rules of the Faction for the Trotskyist International (1992)

5) The Split in the International Trotskyist Committee (1992)

6)The Tactical Orientation of the Faction for the Trotskyist International (1992)

Documents of the International Trotskyist Committee (ITC)

1) Special Oppression and the Proletarian Vanguard (1981, revised 1987)

Documents of the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee (TILC)

1) Martial Law in Poland (1981)

Origins of the ITO/ILT: Some Documents

1) "What Happened to the Workers Socialist League?" from Trotskyist History No 1. 1994. Published by Faction B of the International Socialist Group/Britain (ISG). It is also be downloaded in pdf format

This is a long, very detailed, blow by blow, account of a tendency struggle in the British Workers Socialist League (WSL), whose leader was Alan Thornett. It helps to explain the origins of the ILT. Essentially, the Malvinas War created a crisis in the WSL after its fusion with "Socialist Organiser" (now the "Alliance for Workers Liberty"). Socialist Organiser leader, Sean Matgamna, refused to defend Argentina against British imperialism and called for "self-determination for the Falkland Islanders". The proto-ILT comrades opposed this line and called for defence of Argentina and for recognition of Argentine sovereignty over the Islands. It can be seen from this document, and the ones below, that the Matgamnaites' drift towards bureaucratic collectivism was noted and exposed by our tendency long before it emerged into the open.

2) Comments on the above document (2004) - Pete F.

3) "Against Unprincipled Revisionism, Against National Trotskyism" (1983). From the Internal Bulletin of the Workers Socialist League, January 1983. This was a key document of the tendency which opposed Matgamna’s reactionary line on the Malvinas/Falklands War, Ireland, Bennism and Stalinism.