About the L5I
The League for the Fifth International is a revolutionary, communist organization. Our goal is to build a new world party of socialist revolution fighting across the world for an end to capitalism and for socialism. We base our program – From Protest to Power – and our day-to-day policies on the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, on the revolutionary documents of the first four congresses of the Third International, and on the Transitional Program of the Fourth International.
The working class has had four previous international parties. We are not the Fifth International; we are an international revolutionary tendency of groups fighting for it. The struggle against capitalism is an international struggle, and as Marx and Engels wrote in 1848, “the working class has no country.” The fight against capitalism must be an international one, uniting communists across the world in resistance to the system.
The League has other sections in Austria, Britain, the Czech Republic, Germany, Pakistan, France, Sri Lanka, and Sweden. We work with socialists in Russia to publish a bulletin, and have supporters in many other countries across the world.
We stand for working-class independence and consistent revolutionary politics. Within the social movements which have emerged against capitalism, war, and poverty, the League for the Fifth International has argued for a clear socialist perspective. We support all progressive steps forward for the working class and oppressed people in their fight against capitalism and imperialism.
We work alongside REVOLUTION, the socialist youth movement, who organizes young people in countries as diverse as the U.S. and Nepal against capitalism.
This program of action was drawn up by Workers Power (US) to act as a unifying guide to all workers and, with them, their organizations in the United States struggling to resist attempts by the bosses to make them pay the costs of a crisis they did nothing to commit. The battle cry of the working class can only be at this point in time, "from resistance to revolution!"
The current program of the League for the Fifth International, adopted at the sixth congress and published in 2003. This program is essential reading for revolutionaries across the world in the fight for socialism
U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below by Kim Moody, Verso 2007. Reviewed by Andy Yorke.
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