ON THE MR-14'S
BREAK WITH POSADAS
[The: following statement on a question concerning primarily. . the Guatemalan guerrilla. movement was issued by the International Executive Committee.of the Fourth International. Between world congresses, this is the most authoritative body of the world party of socialist revolution founded by Leon’ Trotsky in 1938...For other it documents on this question see World Outlook July 15. J ofp Siays
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The attention of the International Executive. Committee: of = the Fourth International has been called to a communiqué issued by a the National Leadership of the Revolutionary Movement of ey November 13. (MR~13) in Guatemala,:-dated. May 13; 1966, making public” the expulsion of ‘three members from this movement and a decision "to break all ties with the Fourth International." The reference is to the group headed by Posadas to which the three belong. They were charged with taking funds belonging to the MR-13 and civerting them ‘in accordance witha preconceived plan for the benefit of . their own organization. :
The MR-13" ‘communiqué states that the decision was taken Dae after a people's revolutionary court, consisting of leaders of the . MR-14:and representatives of the guerrillas, :militia and peasant committes, had been held. The defendants;: according to the communiqué, were able to speak freely. They..admitted the facts, adding that they did not take the money out of selfish personal motives but to help:the organization to which :they belonged. They defended their political -positions before the court although it... had not brought them up. :The communiqué:.attributéd the conduct of ‘the. defendants to théir "séctarianism.:" The MR-14 reaffirmed its... >: “unswerving decisior-to continue armed. struggle . ‘for the program “+ of the socialist revolution. ":The communiqué speaks in a calm tone, : levels no slanderous accusations against. those expelled, and gives the impression that the court functioned in: accordance with the rules of proletarian democracy.
- A declaration’ of: the followers:.of Posadas in. Mexico, which has” just been published, does not deny the facts.
The International Executive Committee of the. ‘Fourth International calls attention to the fact that the Posadas group was b expelled from the Fourth International a few years ago. Its fraudulent use of the name of the Fourth International was publicly denounced in June 1962 as follows:
"The International Executive Committee and the International Secretariat of the Fourth International declare that the news published | by certain Latin-American. newspapers concerning a socalled ‘emergency conference of .the. Fourth International' which reportedly ‘designated a new IEC. and . a new, IS! is. completely false.
The last congress of. the Fourth International took place in January 1961. A new congress is now in preparation. The IEC and the IS likewise declare that the so-called Latin-American Bureau of ‘the Fourth International does not in the least way represent the Fourth International .or its political line and that the positions expressed by the Argentine newspaper Voz Proletaria, particularly on the question of nuclear war and the Second Declaration of Havana, do not correspond. to those of the Fourth International." (This statement, dated June 4, 1962, appeared in the. magazine Quatriéme Internationale, No. 16, July 1962.)
People who resorted to such methods in connection with the organization which they had just left are obviously capable of resorting to methods in connection with other revolutionary ~ organizations that are completely foreign to the tradition of the ‘Fourth International and revolutionary. Marxisn, methods which the International Executive: Committee condemns in the most explicit a way. both Vle | :
Since then : ‘the Posadas group has. hardened its sectarian characteristics, developing political positions ofa more and more: extravagant nature. In addition, the group, which is very small numerically, has kept up its political swindle with regard to the Fourth International, proclaiming the existence of so-called sections. ‘in a certain number of countries where it could not even set up a-single cell, and publishing papers which the.few militants involved could by no means support through their own efforts, no matter how devoted they might be. oo.
Once: again denouncing the activities: of this irresponsible group which played into the attacks launched by Fidel Castro. against the Fourth International a few months ago and which have — given the Guatemalan MR-14 a mistaken picture of the world Trotskyist movement and: its political and organizational concepts, the International Executive Committee: appeals to the militants who may | have been taken in by Posadas to break with him and rejoin the ranks of the Fourth International. : .
The International Executive Committee of the Fourth International: sends warmest revolutionary greetings to the Guatemalan MR-13, expresses solidarity with its program of ‘drmed struggle for the socialist revolution in Guatemala, and appeals to the international revolutionary vanguard to give it unconditzonal support in this’ struggle.” h Pod i
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