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Fourth International: International Bulletins Library

1946 through 1950

Fourth International

The file naming for these documents can be confusing. The SWP in producing these bulletins for the Fourth International, went through several purmutations in naming them. Thus, the 1946 and 1947 bulletins use a Volume and Issue number along with month and year. Then in 1949 they printed them only the month and year without volume and issue number. The order in which they are presented here is the order of the publication of these bulletins, regardless of the volume and issue numbers.

Volume 1, No. 1, September, 1946 International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

Discussion on the French Referendum

The Position of the French Party on the Referendum by E. Germain page 3

“Nonsense” and the Referendum by Pierre Frank page 10

The Meaning of the Referendum in the Present Situation by Soudran page 15

Sources of Errors by G. Hirt page 16

Report to the CC of the PCI by Lambert page 20

Why We Must Answer “Yes” by S. Rochal page 22

Report 011 Germany and Austria page 23

Report on Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia page 25

Letter on Geman Work page 27

Extract from a Report by the Canadian Comrades page 29

Letter of the Spanish Group in Mexico page 30

Reply of the IS to the Spanish Group in Mexico page 31

Volume 1, No. 2, March, 1947 International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

The Soviet Union after the War And the Policy of the Communist Parties

The Soviet Union after the War, by E. Germain page 2

The USSR and Stalinism, by Laurent Schwartz page 21

The Bureaucratic Defense of the USSR, by Marcoux, Mestre, Renan, Dural, Houdon, Lime page 40

Thp Dual Character of the USSR, by Jock Haston page 46

In Defemte of Revisionism, by R. Armstrong and M. Merri gan, Ireland page 55

Some Remarks on the Russian Question, by G. Healy page 59

Extracts from Draft of a Thesis on the USSR, by Lucien Magneux, R. Guerin, M. Darbout page 62

June, 1949 International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

Political Resolutions of the Seventh Plenum of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth Internatonal (April 1949)

The War Danger and Our Tasks

The Evolution of the Buffer Countries

“The Third Chinese Revolution”

December, 1949 International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

On the Class Nature of Yugoslavia by M. Pablo

January, 1950 International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

The Yugoslav Question, The Question of the Soviet Buffer Zone, and Their Implications for Marxist Theory by Ernest Germain (E. Mandel)

May, 1950 International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

Yugoslavia and the Rest of the Soviet Buffer Zone,by Michel Pablo

September, 1950 [part a] International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

1. Report on The Turn in the World Situation and the Tasks of the Fourth International

2. Resolution on the Developments of the Colonial Revolutions in Asia
(Adopted by the Eighth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Fourth International, April 1950).
Note: This material is reprinted from the May-July, 1950, issue of Quatrieme Internationale for the information of our readers.

September, 1950 [part b] International Information Bulletin
Published by the Socialist Workers Party for the FI:

The Yugoslav Question

1. Resolution on the Crisis of Stalinism and the Developments of the Yugoslav Revolution

2. Resolutions on the Class Nature of Yugoslavia

3. Draft Resolutions on the Development of the Yugoslav Revolution
Note: This material is reprinted from the May-July, 1950, issue of Quatrieme Internationale for the information of our readers.