Meeting in Wellington to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
Meeting details:
Eighty Years of the Fourth International (1938-2018):
The class struggle, revolution and socialism in the 21st century
Wellington
Sunday, December 9, 3:00 p.m.
Lecture Theatre 2, Rutherford House
Victoria University of Wellington, Pipitea Campus
Tickets: $7/$5 concession
The 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, will be celebrated in
December with meetings in Australia and New Zealand. These events will follow powerful rallies that have already taken
place in Sri Lanka, and meetings in major cities across the United States.
The keynote speaker will be David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US), who, for over 40 years, has been at the forefront of the theoretical, political
and practical struggle for Trotskyism waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
The commemoration meetings will take place in Sydney on Sunday December 2, in Melbourne on Thursday December 6, and in
Wellington, New Zealand on Sunday December 9. They will enable workers, youth and professionals opposed to social
inequality, authoritarianism and war, all products of decaying capitalism, to learn about and discuss the critical
political lessons drawn by the Trotskyist movement in the course of eight decades of struggle for socialist
internationalism—against Stalinism, Laborism, and every form of nationalist opportunism.
Under conditions of the deepening crisis of global capitalism, the impoverishment of hundreds of millions of people
around the world, and the rapidly intensifying US-led preparations for war against China, there is no more important
task.
As David North explained in Colombo, Sri Lanka:
“ … it is impossible to fight for socialism in the twenty-first century without studying and assimilating the lessons of
Trotsky’s struggle against Stalinism in the twentieth century. This remains the fundamental theoretical and political
struggle of the last century, of the most profound and immediate significance to every critical issue of political
strategy that confronts workers and all those seeking seriously the correct path of struggle against capitalism in the
contemporary world.”
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia, the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand and the International Youth and
Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) urge our members and supporters, and all readers of the WSWS in both countries, to
attend the meetings and advertise them as widely as possible.