"The struggle for socialism is necessarily international.
Right back in the period of the Paris Commune, the movement in Paris found an echo around the world and scared the pants off the capitalist class.
It is from the Paris Commune that the First International emerged. It was superceded by the Second International which developed in a period of growth of capitalism.
As a result the leaders of the International began to believe that capitalism could be reformed. As a result the largest of the Social Democratic Parties, in Germany capitulated to their own ruling class, effectively voting for the first world war.
The third international was a recognition that the Russian revolution needed to develop internationally. Again the German Social democrats betrayed the movement of the workers in Germany and stopped the Russian revolution spreading.
This facilitated the development of Stalinism in the USSR and led to the development of Trotsky's fourth international.
This work is continued by the Committee for a Workers' International."
(Nick Chaffrey at the Southern and South Eastern Regional Conference of the Socialist Party)
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