Marxist Bulletin No. 4
Expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party
Document 30
Letter Refusing Appeal to World Congress By Pierre Frank
May 28, 1965
Spartacist Resident Editorial Board Box
1377, G.P.O. New York, N.Y. 10001
Etats-Unis
Dear Comrade Turner:
In reply to your letter of May 18, we call your attention first of
all to the fact that the Fourth International has no organizational connection
with the Socialist Workers party and consequently has no jurisdiction in a
problem such as you raise; namely, the application of democratic centralism as
it affects the organization either as a whole or in individual instances.
Therefore, we limit ourselves merely to an observation of
fraternal nature: the SWP provides for appeals to higher bodies; the proper
place to direct your request is, consequently, to the next convention of the
SWP.
As for the projected World Congress of the Fourth International,
we should like to correct the misinformation you have received. The date is not
at all in June.
Fraternally, United Secretariat of the Fourth International
Pierre Frank
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