Key Documents
From Resistance to Revolution
At its recent congress the League for the Fifth International passed a new programmatic manifesto. Its policies and slogans are intended to guide revolutionary socialists in the struggles to come, and to act as a proposed manifesto for a new Fifth International
The manifesto is available in Spanish, Norwegian and German.
You can read the manifesto online here. We are happy to discuss and debate our politics with anyone - any comments or criticism can be sent using our online form here
The Manifesto can be purchased online by using our shop
From Protest to Power
The previous programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2003 after our sixth congress.
Also in French, Turkish, Spanish, Swedish, German, Czech, Indonesian
Available to buy online at shop.fifthinternational.org
The Trotskyist Manifesto
Published in 1989, this is the founding programme of our international tendency. It contains the key foundations of our programmatic method, and represented the first attempt by our organisation to re-elaborate the Transitional Programme from 1938.
Theses on Reformism
Printed in the first issue of Permanent Revolution journal. What is reformism and how can revolutionaries win workers and youth away from it? An analysis and an outline of the tactics and strategy that communists apply within the workers movement.
Marxism and the Trade Unions
First published by Workers Power in 1978, our first serious work on the role of trade unions under capitalism, the bureaucracy and the historical lessons of the Militant Minority Movement in the early 1920s
The Degenerated Revolution
First published by Workers Power and the Irish Workers Group in 1982. This book contains a detailed analysis of the origins and nature of the Stalinist states in Russia, Eastern Europe, Cuba and China
Death Agony of the Fourth International
Death Agony of the Fourth International, published by Workers Power and the Irish Workers Group in 1983, analyses the history of the Fourth International and explains why there are so many 'Fourth Internationals' today
Theses on women's oppression
Our pamphlet on the causes and origins of the oppression of women under class society - as well as how to fight it.
Theses on the united front
Our complete theses on the tactics of the united front and how revolutionaries can win support and leadership within workers struggles
Resolution on the Working Class
What makes someone working class? How does the working class fit into capitalism? This resolution provides a political economic analysis of the working class under capitalism.
1983 - Fundamentals of our programme
From Permanent Revolution issue one, a general outline of the political line that was being developed at that time, a prelude to the Trotskyist Manifesto (1989) and From Protest to Power (2003)
Early Stages of Party Building
Passed at the IEC in June 1992, this document outlines our understanding of the early stages of building a revolutionary party
Theses on Electoral Tactics
From Permanent Revolution issue seven, this was passed by the League to guide electoral work, whether for local councils or parliaments
30 Theses in Defence of Trotskyism
A document originally written for a conference in the 1980s which aimed for Trotskyist regroupment. The purpose of this document is to clearly argue what Trotskyism is, as opposed to the wrong ideas that many currents of the Fourth International currently have.