Dear Vivek and other comrades of the WSP,

We read with interest the “Program of WSP”, as well as the following

documents from your website: “Revisiting the politics of Morenoists”, “Our
viewpoint on the Kashmir question and the appraisal by the centrist
Morenoists”, “Our viewpoint on Maoism” (all three by Rajesh Tyagi) and “The
Outcome of the 1st BRIC summit: a derelict zero” by Sushovan Dhar.

As stated to comrade Vivek, we are in full agreement with your program on

the issues of firm opposition to popular-frontism, opposition to all
variants of Stalinist/Maoist stageism, your analysis of the Pabloite
centrism that has dominated the Trotskyist movement since the 1950s and your
defense of a transitional program adapted to each country. Your analysis of
the history of class struggle and imperialist domination in India (aided by
the national bourgeoisie) makes the program a very sophisticated document.

We therefore regard the WSP as a very interesting group and would like to
know it better. We have, however, detected some potential political
differences on the issues of the Marxist program towards national oppression
and your attitude towards the trade-unions. We have no difference with most
of your analysis of the objective situation. But we are not in favor of a
one-sided non-participation/break with trade-unions, since they are still
working class organizations and can play a defensive role against attacks by
the ruling class, as well as provide revolutionaries with access to
organized sections of the working class. On the issue of national
oppression, your program has some contradictory statements and we would be
very interested in a clarification. We too defend the “right of self-
determination, including secession”. And while we would give no political
support to nationalist movements nor defend “balkanization” of any country,
we would defend the right to independence of an oppressed nation that has
already decided so, at the same time we would defend working class unity
against all sections of the bourgeoisie. We are interested in working class
unity for economic and political purposes, but have no intention of
maintaining “unity” under the stronghold of the bourgeois state of an
oppressor nation.

We would also like to ask if you have an opinion about the anti-Pabloite
Trotskyists, since you have a positive attitude towards Cannon, at least in
the first years of his struggle against Pablo’s “International Secretariat”.
We believe it is important to know the trajectory of those Trotskyists who
contributed to a correct program and strategy in the post-WWII. The majority
of the British RCP (before their expulsion by Pablo), the Vern-Ryan tendency
in the American SWP, the International Committee (despite their lateness and
serious errors) and the “Revolutionary Tendency” of the SWP (which later
became the Spartacist League/US) contributed to the struggle for a
consistent Marxist (i.e. Trotskyist) program in our epoch, in our opinion.
The degeneration of the SL/US led to the formation of the (International)
Bolshevik Tendency (BT/IBT), which also made important contributions, but
never broke out of their isolation and fixed leadership, which we now
believe to be degenerated in passivity.

We would like to discuss those issues with you, as well as some other
topics. We still do not know your positions on the events that shook the
Middle East in recent years, the crisis and betrayal of SYRIZA in Greece or
your analysis about the remaining deformed workers’ states such as Cuba,
North Korea, China etc. and the ones which were destroyed by
counterrevolutions between 1989-1991 (the USSR, Eastern Europe). We are
attaching a text file with some comments on the points of your program we
have doubts about or disagreed with. Notice that we were in full agreement
with all the parts we didn’t include.
Revolutionary Regroupment is a small Trotskyist tendency from Brazil. We do
not yet have a formal succinct political program. But we would like to
suggest the reading of some articles that will allow you to have a first
appraisal of our group:

Our document of fraternal relations with “What is to be done?”, another

Trotskyist group from Brazil:
https://rr4i.milharal.org/2016/10/11/declaration-of-fraternal-relations-
between-revolutionary-regroupment-and-o-que-fazer/

A statement on recent international events involving US imperialism:

https://rr4i.milharal.org/2017/05/02/international-statement-in-defense-of-
syria-china-and-north-korea/

An academic article written by one of our members dealing with our position
on the post-WWII Trotskyist movement (link via Sci-hub): http://sci-
hub.bz/http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03017605.2016.1236477

A statement about the recent political situation in Brazil (one of the

things asked by comrade Vivek):
https://rr4i.milharal.org/2013/05/29/statement-on-brasil/

Our analysis of the North Korean deformed workers’ state:

https://rr4i.milharal.org/2017/05/31/2908/

Our analysis of the situation in Syria:

https://rr4i.milharal.org/2016/01/19/syrian-civil-war-the-islamic-state-and-
the-battle-of-kobani/

A criticism of the centrist CWI on their support to Democrat Bernie Sanders

in the US: https://rr4i.milharal.org/2016/09/10/cwisocialist-alternative-
centrists-for-bernie-sanders/

Our criticisms of the centrist FT-CI (Argentinian PTS) on the issues of

their appeals for unity to centrists and on the “Constituent Assembly”
slogan: https://rr4i.milharal.org/2015/11/20/on-the-trotskyist-fractions-
centrist-zigzags/ and https://rr4i.milharal.org/2016/10/11/cats-do-not-lay-
eggs/

We of course have no need or rush to discuss all these documents at once. We

can choose on or two of these documents for a next conversation / Skype
session.

Revolutionary greetings, I. Kaleb (for Revolutionary Regroupment)