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We publish below greetings from other sections of the ICL to the SL/A and B-L Fusion Conference.
Spartacist League/Britain
The Spartacist League/Britain sends revolutionary greetings to the fusion conference of the Australian section with the Bolshevik-Leninist group, which marks a historic step on the way to cohere the forces of Trotskyism in Australia and beyond.
The common work of the SL/A and B-L started as sharp and pointed interventions into the increasing polarisation of Australian society but is now clearly developing into a common fully fledged materialist understanding of Australian society, of its place in the world and of the task of Marxists in it. We welcome the documents submitted to the conference, not only because they are bringing to the fore the urgency of a revolutionary break from liberalism, but because they are bringing this struggle to a new and higher level, which will, without a doubt, contribute to orient the work of many sections and of our entire International.
What is unique in this fusion is that it takes two groups which were both drifting in a sea of sterility and formalism, each in their own way, and under the impulse of political struggles, both internally and in the world itself, wields them together into a nucleus built upon the central task of Leninists in the 21st century. We are confident that the new Australian section of the ICL will become a force to reckon with in the left and labour movement.
Australia has inherited from Britain, both the best and the worst of it. The monarchy, Anglo-chauvinism, liberalism, imperial arrogance and its vulgar hypocrisy, and Laborism, the transmission belt of all this rubbish into the workers movement. But Australia has also been built by Irish, English and Scots rebels, felons and rejects of the Crown, whose defiant spirit has fuelled the powerful Australian workers movement. To free the class which carries the future from these abominable chains is the task of the Fourth Internationalists. The fusion conference of the SL/A and B-L is a modest but clear step in this direction.
We thus say:
Forward to the fusion of the B-L with the SL/A!
Trotskyist Group of Greece
Dear comrades,
The Trotskyist Group of Greece sends revolutionary greetings to your fusion and refounding conference, which is of historical significance. Not only have you jointly struggled to offer a communist path to the Australian proletariat and the oppressed regarding AUKUS and the referendum, but you will now set the basis to ground this program on solid roots. This is of particular importance to the Greek workers, given that hundreds of thousands have migrated to Australia. Your new paper, Red Battler, speaks with its name alone to the hearts of Australian workers, and will be an invaluable tool in the fight to rearm and regroup the world proletariat.
Forward in the fight against imperialism! Forward for the Fourth International!
Our warmest communist greetings,
TOE
