Paris, Mexico, January 15th, 2003
Comrades,
We, ICC militants since many years
and even, for some of us, "founders" of it ;
We, who have been forced to constitute
a fraction in order to defend our organization against those who lead it
to its political liquidation and to its posible disappearance as a weapon
of the proletariat ;
We, forbidden of publishing in
the internal bulletins of our organization, and who had been forced to defend
our positions by our own means in the bulletin we send to all the militants
of our organization ;
We, who are forbidden of speaking
in the Public Meetings of our organization while this one has always defended
the proletarian principle following which all the positions can be expressed
in these meetings ;
We, after having suffered systematic
as well as unjustified sanctions for having defended a position contrary
to a minority that finally took the lead of the ICC, and who are named "so-called
fraction without real political basis" ;
We, who have been insulted and
treated as enemies for having acted in accordance to our profound convictions ;
We, who have been excluded by the
new leadership (who has not even the courage to assume its acts) and who
have slandered and insulted in the press of our organization ;
We, to which the central organs
sneakly prohibit our comrades of the ICC to talk to and, worse it seems,
to take knowledge of our arguments and analisis that we develop in our bulletin ;
We, that this same central organs
charge as being a "nazi and stalinist sect", a "camarilla",
"thiefs", "cops", "tattletales", "blackmailers",
etc... ;
We, who are now considered as police
auxiliaries ;
We require to participate to the
next international congress of our organization in accordance to the letter
and the spirit of the statutes.
We require to defend our political
positions in front of our organization gathered in congress in accordance
to the tradition of the workers movement ;
In accordance to the proletarian
practice, it is without any specific condition from your part that our criticisms
and proposals of alternative orientations have to be expressed as an organised
minority.
Consequently, and in order our
presence being real and active, we require to be reintegrated the sooner
within the organization in order to participate also to the preparation of
this congress as complete members regrouped in internal fraction.
In accordance to the historical
experience of the Left Communist, we propose that this congress is organized
by the former IS and that is held under the presidency of comrade Michel.
This means that all the former comrades can participate and that they are
reintegrated. We are ready to discuss all the necesary modalities for the
holding of this congress.
The following texts published in
our bulletins must be considered as our contributions, our analisis, our
activities report for the preparation of the congress :
- our activities report is the
presentation of our bulletin #13 ;
- our contribution on the international
situation is in the last bulletins, in particular in the text A New Period
Is Opening Up ;
- our political and historical
contribution on the organizational problems is in the pamphlet on the International
Communist and the Communist Party degeneration which will be edited soon ,
- our explanation of the present
crisis of the ICC is in our History of the IS whose first part the
militants have already received.
Finally, we require that you send
us your preparation documents for this congress (internal bulletins containing
the activities report and the international situation, etc...).
At last, and to demonstrate that
our request is totally legitimate and can't be opposed, nor seriously refused,
even partially, we join us an historical document [1] from Prometeo #3 (July 15th of 1928) which is
clear in its spirit as well as in its letter, in regards with the attitude
of communist militants in such a situation and which is a reference for us.
The internal fraction of the ICC.
Note:
[1]
Unfortunately, we can't translate this document
into english, at least for the moment. The english reader can already refer
to the French version in our French web pages. Let's just say that the Left
requires its reitegration and its participation to the 6th congress of the
International in order to defend its position within the organization. And
it requires that the congress should be presided by... Trotsky. It's the
same method, the same criterias and almost the same terms, that we use today
for our demand.