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Jacques Birger, one of the leaders of the Parti Communiste Internationaliste (French section of the Fourth International), died at the end of December after a lingering illness at the age of 44, the Januery . issue of La. -suebrieme Internationale reports.
- Born in Lithuania in 1921, ‘Birger: was brought by his: parents » to France at an early age. When he was 12, he joined the Red Falcons, the Socialist youth organization, and then the Red Pioneers. At the age of 16 he became a member of the Trotskyist movement, participating in the founding of the Jeunesse Communiste Internationaliste, which adhered to the Fourth International after that world-wide revolutionary-socialist organization was founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky. no When