7. Conclusion

The turmoil in the contemporary world, from Venezuela and Latin America to Palestine and the Middle East, from France and Europe to Central Asia, Russia and China clearly marks a transition from a previous period dominated by the direct effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Stalinism through a new rise of social and national struggles internationally at the end of the 20^th century and the first years of the 21^st, to a polarization of social forces climaxing into major historical confrontations all over the world.

On the 90^th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution, the first act of the world revolution, as Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks stressed, the world enters a new stage of the world socialist revolution. To lead this new upsurge to victory, to complete the work of revolutionary transformation started by the breaking of the weakest link of world imperialism in Russia in 1917, we need now more than ever a workers' revolutionary International: the Fourth International refounded.

The International Secretariat of the

Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International

Istanbul, 18-25 June 2007