40 years of the IWL

In January 1982 the IWL-FI was founded. Its Foundational Theses defined that: “…the most urgent and deepest need of humanity today is the world socialist revolution. Even the most elementary daily needs, which are more and more difficult to satisfy -from having a job. Food and housing, to the enjoyment of freedoms – are summed […]

Capitalism, a decadent and destructive system, throws all its crises and horrors on the workers and the majority of the population of the planet. Unemployment, hunger, violence, wars, mass imprisonment and genocide of the black and poor youth of the periphery, femicides and LGBTQ-phobic crimes, persecution of immigrants, expropriation of native peoples…. This is what […]

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the IWL-FI, we are republishing this text by Francesco Ricci, written in 2016, on the internal regimes of revolutionary parties. The history of the revolutionary workers’ movement since the days of the First International is an uninterrupted chronicle of petty-bourgeois groups and tendencies, of all kinds, launching furious attacks […]

The IWL-FI (International Workers League – Fourth International) was founded 40 years ago, although it is the continuation of a movement that was first built in Argentina in the 1940s. By Martin Hernández In fighting the battle for the International, those of us who form part of the IWL, with many weaknesses and mistakes, do […]