The ‪Internationalist Socialist League‬

The ISL is a working class communist group dedicated to the advocacy of Marxist revolutionary ideas in theory and practice, formed in 2007 after its founding members were expelled from the "Trotskyist" organization, the IMT. The ISL is struggling for the establishment of a revolutionary workers' party in Israel, i.e. Occupied Palestine. The goal of this party will be to lead the working and oppressed masses in our region in their struggle against the capitalist mode of production and imperialism. This party will participate in the re-creation of the world workers' revolutionary party known as "The Fourth International."

 

As a group which draws its inspiration from the great theoretician-revolutionaries in history – Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilych Lenin, and Leon Trotsky, we strongly advocate the principle that the working class is the only class which could lead this struggle. We strongly reject all ideas which suggest any other leadership like middle-class intellectuals, military chiefs, religious leaders, or populist politicians. We support and participate in the day-to-day struggles of the workers and oppressed to improve their living standards and fight for their rights against their employers and rulers.

 

The ISL is Anti-Zionist and Anti-imperialist, we support and participate in the struggles of the Palestinian masses to end the Zionist occupation of all Palestinian land and advocate the establishment of a Palestinian workers' state from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan, as part of a Socialist Federation of the Middle East and the entire world. For us the class struggle and the anti-imperialist struggle are one and the same, i.e. both stem from each other and their success is codependent. We reject any attempt to separate them.

 

Although we welcome any partial and therefore temporary accomplishment of these struggles in the imperialist epoch of capitalism, we keep stressing the fact that the only solution was, is and always will be, a world socialist revolution. Thus, we call for active solidarity of the workers in our region with the struggles of their brothers and sisters all over the world. A victorious global socialist revolution will enable human society to evolve into a Communist society, in which there will no longer be neither states, classes and wars, nor any more exploitation and rule of man by man.

 

We are well aware of the fact that in our time the words Socialism and Communism strike fear not only in the hearts of the bourgeoisie and their allies, but unfortunately also in the hearts of the workers and oppressed. For 200 years our class enemies, both open and disguised under red cloaks, have attempted to degrade, defile and empty these words from any positive content left in them. The most "successful" of these enemies was Stalinism, who managed through a bloody counter-revolution to crush the workers' state, which was established as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Russia.

 

The Fourth International was the movement founded by Trotsky to champion the workers' struggle against capitalism and Stalinism and show the way to socialist revolution. After Trotsky's murder by a Stalinist agent, it became increasingly reformist in practice under the pressure of the petty-bourgeois and labor-aristocratic layers in which it found itself. By the early 1950's it was trailing after Social Democracy, Stalinism, imperialism and other class enemies of the workers.

 

Since there cannot be a successful revolutionary struggle without an accurate revolutionary theory, the restoration of authentic Marxism in mass consciousness became one of our major goals. We are aimed at exposing the class character of the USSR, its satellites and imitators, after 1939, as statified capitalism, and reject the opportunist theories of the self-ascribed "Orthodox Trotskyists" regarding the alleged formation of "degenerated" or "deformed" workers' states which were not established by the working class but by external class-enemy forces like the Stalinists and others.

 

Furthermore, we are aimed at exposing the role played in the past and present by the Stalinists and "Orthodox Trotskyists" in failing every revolutionary struggle of the workers all around the world. We intend to win over the most consciously advanced workers in order to build a revolutionary vanguard party, which will act as a leadership to the masses and ensure the victory of the struggle for socialism.

                                      

As a mean to this end, we have contacted in the past two years a Marxist propaganda group in the U.S. known as "The League for the Revolutionary Party" (LRP) which adheres to the international "Communist Organization for the Fourth International". During this period of time we have been conducting numerous and thorough discussions and have reached the conclusion that we agree on most theoretical and practical issues, and that we now see both organizations as walking side by side on the road to re-creating the Fourth International.

 

Today, capitalism faces an unprecedented economic crisis greater than any since 1929. Therefore, the establishment of a revolutionary Marxist party in Palestine is more than ever, a mission of major importance and urgency. Join us:

 

For a Palestinian workers' state from the river to the sea!

For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East!

For the world Socialist revolution!

For the re-creation of the Fourth International!