The BF and the LTT had full rights to present their views on Nicaragua and other point on the Congress. A section of the LTT which rejected the split course has in fact leaderships of the BF and LTT make the same excuse that there wasn't enough time to begin the discussion on Nicaragua at this Wörld Congress since the overthrow of Somoza four months ago. On the contrary, a fevolutionary organisation such as the Fourth International has the duty to react rapidly to events of such importance as the Nicaraguan revolution...
The right of the LTT and BF to present their views inside the International was not and is not challenged. Their split justified and was therefore unprincipled.
The origins of the split go back before the Nicarazuan revolution.
Bolshevik Faction has been functiogina.as a more or less open public faction, without regard to the decisions or norms of the Fourth International. Increasingly, it sets itself up as a parallel formation. to the organising splits of our forces in country atter apparatus and financial system in competition with those of the international, and moving their comrades from country without regard to the interests of the sections involved and not under the control of or even in consultation with the regular bodies of the Public Before the Nicaraguan events, they warned that this World Congress would take ine necessary measures to put a halt to this public factional operation.
functioning reached a criminal culmination in the operations of the 'Simon Bolivar Brigade' in Nicaragua (see statement by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International on the Simon Bolivar Brigade in the 22 October 1979 issue of Intercontinental Press/Inprecor]...
'Ine criminal adventure of Bolivar Brigade was bound to end in disaster, and it did. At that point, the Bolshevik Faction leadership switched its attempting to cover prestige of the FSLN, to public attack on the FSLN as the instrument of consolidation of a bourgeois state in Nicaragua. This set the stage for their bloc the Tendency and the Organising Committee for This week's fund drive got off to ar xeren crı ver tar cme m. Cadwallader sent £3 saying: benefit. The only way to fight the cuts is to tell beoole what is napoening Wish could afford Thatcher and Co keep on putting up prices. Keep the good. work.
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