PRESENTATION

The Internationalist Bolshevik League (LBI) is a Trotskyist organization that appeared in Brazil in 1995 as result from a split of Causa Operária (Worker Cause) current internationally linked to Partido Obrero (Worker Party) from Argentina led by Jorge Altamira.

In this brief period of existence, we have sought to break with the political tradition from Latin American "Trotskyism", namely, national Trotskyism ever based on "mother-party" that, as a rule, decreed that its own country is the epicentre of the world revolution.

We have also sought to do a deep self-criticism in political positions that we had advocated publicly when we followed the Altamirist orientation, particularly as regards the characterisation of political processes that resulted in the liquidation of bureaucratised worker’s states from European East as deep defeats of the world proletariat. When we identify the downfall of Stalinism as a counterrevolutionary process guided by restorationist leaderships connected to imperialism, we believe that, both theoretically and in practise, cut the umbilical cord that used to connect us with the main lines of contemporary revisionism that impregnate the majority of organizations that claim to be from political legacy of Leon Trotsky.

In order to be consistent with its new political course, the LBI would have also to break with the way trodden by national Trotskyism. Starting from observation of the existence of a great political and organisational dispersal between revolutionary organisations that broken with the great trunks of the world revisionism, we have sought to establish since our first day of life contacts in international level, which ended up by resulting in the political closeness with the Argentinean PBCI (Bolshevik Party For The Fourth International), a split of Morenism (MAS — Movimiento al Socialismo, "Movement Towards Socialism"), giving later origin to a new international tendency, the CBQI (Bolshevik Current For The Fourth International — BCFI). Instead of we considerate the CBQI as a full stop in the pressing task of rebuild the Fourth International, we believe that this movement paves the way for that will be able to break out a new world revolutionary articulation based on the Transitional Program and the best from Bolshevism-Leninism legacy.

With this purpose, we dare to publish in English a digest of some articles from Marxismo Revolucionário, hoping to enlarge our political relations with a range of Trotskyist organisations from the Old World that experience some difficulty in understanding Portuguese language. This first edition is enough limited in its number of articles due to our first incursion in English language. From now we apologise for fortuitous grammar, style, punctuation, diction, spell errors. We hope to give continuity to this editorial project, enlarging it in the next issues. For this, the continuity of uncompromising defence of principist positions in the main facts of world class struggle will be the distinctive element of our political success, as genuine revolutionary internationalist organization.

The Publishers.

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