Successful conference in Barcelona: the International Socialist League is born
Friday 24 Sunday 26 of May, in the Catalan capital, the founding conference was held LIS. A new international socialist organization that gathers parties and revolutionary groups in twenty countries on three continents. Here we give a first overview of the important event.
Thursday 23, before the conference LIS, anticapitalist a final meeting was held in Red, that positively rocked the whole journey that brought us to this higher authority that began with the founding of this new international trend.
The conference, convened by the Liaison Committee formed last December between Anticapitalists Network and the Socialist Workers Party (SEP) from Turkey, It was based on a political declaration and an international program where we develop our revolutionary socialist strategy.
The sessions were held in the comfortable facilities of the state hostel Barcelona Xanascat. There were arriving delegates and delegates from different countries of America, Asia and Europe. Fortunately they were able to overcome the obstacles suffered by several references in Colombia, Venezuela and Uruguay, They are confirming the tightening of immigration rules in force in the European Union.
Informes, debates, ratings
With the joy of meeting and collaboration of translators and, The conference opened with reports of fellow Alejandro Bodart (MST de Argentina) y Volkan Arslan (Turkish SEP). Both they developed "a common understanding of events and tasks" 1 facing us today, at the global level, the revolutionary socialist organizations.
The global economic crisis and its prospects; the situation in Western Europe, Latin America, the Maghreb and the Middle East, as well as the countries of the former USSR were the axes of the successive reports, that reflected the reality of the various countries and regions with their similarities and differences. Interventions and questions, the whole debate was very enriching.
Once the program and the strategic framework of the new organization voted the conference also discussed and approved several resolutions and declarations that concretize the positions and tasks of the LIS: economics; climate change; Europe and migrants; Kurdistan; campaigns to the next 8 of March; solidarity with yellow vests France and the Palestinian people against Israeli attacks; in defense of the leaders of our sister organization "The fight, Pakistan repressed " and independent trade unions of Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia; against imperialist presence in Iran and support for Brazilian students face Bolsonaro; on Venezuela and madurista censorship Whack, in solidarity with the Colombian student leaders received death threats from far-right group the Black Eagle and denouncing the government of Ortega in Nicaragua and demand freedom for all political prisoners in that country.
Next Steps
Besides carrying out the resolved internationalists campaigns, It was also resolved quickly put up a website which will be available in 7 languages and perform in August in Turkey training camp for our youth policy in Asia and Europe and one in Argentina early next year for the youth of Latin America. And along with all this coordination was elected mandate to organize the first World Congress of the new organization within a year.
At a time when in most Trotskyist organizations there is stagnation, crisis, divisions or to implosion in the case of ISO American, the HIL to reverse this dynamic, as a qualitative step in the opposite direction, unit of principista, serving more quickly regroup parties and groups from all continents who are now searching for a new revolutionary socialist international reference.
Correspondent, from Barcelona
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network | 28.5.2019
