Fourth International's Constituent Congress

The Fourth International’s Constituent Congress was a foundational meeting held in 1938 to establish a new international organization representing Trotskyist groups worldwide. Its purpose was to unite struggling socialist and revolutionary workers' parties around shared principles of anti-Stalinism, revolutionary socialism, and internationalist solidarity. The congress laid out a common platform, elected leadership, and set goals for coordinating efforts to oppose fascism, Stalinism, and capitalism. Overall, it marked the formal creation of the Fourth International as a global platform for revolutionary Marxist politics, emphasizing the importance of international unity in the struggle for workers’ emancipation.