May Day
Greetings from the Liaison Committee for
the Fourth International to the International Working Class
the Fourth International to the International Working Class
The Liaison
Committee for the Fourth International sends its warmest revolutionary
greetings to the world’s working class, the poor and oppressed and in
particular to its fighting vanguard, the most class conscious elements who have
now begun to emerge on a global scale to fight its cause under the banner of
the world revolution so shamelessly abandoned by so many international groups
claiming the name of Trotskyism in the past year.
Since the
uprising on 15 February 2011 in Benghazi the ‘Libyan revolution’ has been the
touchstone for revolutionist worldwide. The mass media supplied us with a great
deal of lying propaganda, lies that the majority of the left groups would have
no trouble exposing in an earlier period over Iraq, for example, but they did
not try. They could not find and expose the racism of the ‘rebels’ shown in the
lynchings and summary executions of black people with the transparent excuse
that they were all “Gaddafi’s mercenaries from Chad”. They could not expose the
CIA connections and obvious pro-imperialism of the Transitional National
Council and even those who were eventually forced to acknowledged this told us
that there was a ‘real revolution’ in the ranks of the ‘rebels’ pointing to the
sole pathetic piece of ‘evidence’, the very sophisticated banner that opposed
intervention with six people around it undoubtedly flown in from CIA
headquarters in Langley Virginia to fool the gullible and those who wanted to
be fooled.