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. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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