File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-25.113, message 68


Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 23:37:36    
From: LCMRCI <global-AT-uk.pi.net>
Subject: RE: M-I: Trotskyist groups 


 Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-acnet.pratt.edu> wrote:

>LCMRCI  sent a join declaration on Palestine which was
>signed by the --
>
>"Liason Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist
>International"
>
>"Committee for a Leninist Trotskyist tendency";
>
>"Committee for a Revolutionary Regroupment"
>
>Now, it has been many years since I considered myself a Trotskyist (I was
>a member of the SWP [US] from 1970-80) and I have long since lost track of
>the proliferation of Trotskyist groupings internationally ... but what are
>these groups and what is their relation to other Trotskyist organizations?
>
>Jerry
>

The LCMRCI integrates Poder Obrero (Bolivia), Poder Obrero (Peru), Communist 
Workers Group (New Zealand) and Internationalist Bulletin (Europe). The 
Latin American groups had their origins in the miners strikes (1985-86) and 
in a rupture with Lora's movement. The CWG is the former Communist Left and 
Workers Power group in New Zealand. Poder Obrero (Bolivia) had some 
important role in the miners areas. The LCMRCI is a rupture of the British 
Workers Power's LRCI. The main difference with the LRCI were:
1- The LRCI advocated the defeat of Serbia position when the US bombed 
Yugoslavia and it asked imperialism to send arms and men to support their 
local allies. The LCMRCI called for the defence of the people bombed by 
NATO.
2- The LRCI considers that no capitalist state was reconstruct east of 
Germany. They think that the world period is revolutionary and we consider 
that democratic counter-revolution and reaction is on the offensive.
3- The LRCI is moving towards an hybrid between state capitalism and 
orthodox trotskyism and is in favour of democratic united fronts with 
capitalist parties in the east with the aim to restore parliamentarism.
We will send tomorrow more details of what were the reasons of that 
division.

The LTT is an international current integrated by the British WIL (which 
publishes Workers News), the LTT in Belgium/Germany, the LTG (Canada), the 
CWG (Jamaica), the CWG (South Africa) and WV (Sri Lanka). It is a tendency 
which have groups who splinted from the Healy's International Committee, the 
Lambert-Moreno's Parity Committee, the Spartacists and the WRP (Sri Lanka).

The CRR is a recent split from the United Secretariat in Britain. 


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