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Published #OnThisDay 3rd March 1975:

"'Officials' Turn Against Their Own Past"

By Gerry Foley, from Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/562/

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'Officials' Turn Against Their Own Past (1975) — Gerry Foley

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@ila It's more accurate to call that organization the "United Secretariat". The Fourth International didn't survive the war as an organization

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@tfb@functional.cafe True, but as a shorthand I think generally "Fourth International" in a post-1963 context would be assumed to be the USFI.

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@ila Someone familiar with the history of the Trotskyist movement will be able to understand it as the USec, for sure. But they're not the only Fourth-Internationalist grouping, and that could give some readers the wrong idea. I mention it especially in the context of the cited article, where someone more familiar with the Officials may misunderstand the context.

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@tfb@functional.cafe Aye, it's a fair point, probably better to specify.

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