Dear friends, dear comrades,
We, the 119 delegates gathered at the 8th Congress of the Parti des Travailleurs on 30 and 31 May 2026, send you our warmest fraternal greetings.
And in particular to you, who will read this letter amidst the ruins of Gaza, in the besieged villages and refugee camps of the West Bank;
To you who will be reading this under Israeli bombardment in Lebanon;
To you in Sudan, the DRC and Burundi, where a war of plunder fuelled by multinationals is raging;
To you who are suffering under the murderous blockade in Cuba, and the US protectorate imposed on Haiti;
To you who, in Ukraine and Russia alike, are fighting against the oligarchs and NATO, responsible for what journalists have called “the greatest bloodbath in Europe since 1945”;
And to you who, in the United States, have demonstrated by the millions against Trump and his war, against his anti-immigrant terror and against his military budget adopted with the help of the Democratic Party.
Please know that the activists of the Parti des Travailleurs are working tirelessly to prepare for the rally we have organised together “against war and exploitation, for the Workers’ International”.
With five months to go, we can report that more than 1,200 workers, young people and labour activists of all political persuasions have already registered. That more than 20,000 workers and young people in France have signed our party’s call for the immediate return of the aircraft carrier that Macron sent to come to Trump’s aid in the Strait of Hormuz. That many have contributed – euro by euro – to the self-financing of this internationalist rally, understanding that no one other than the workers themselves will fund a genuine initiative to fight against war.
Please be aware that the members of the Parti des Travailleurs and those of the Federation of Young Revolutionaries – Fourth International, whilst preparing this rally, are helping to mobilise workers and young people against the Macron government.
A French government that has just added 36 billion euros to the war budget and, to do so, is plundering between six and twelve billion euros from the budget for public services and the National Insurance Scheme, the greatest achievement of the working class in our country.
And on this occasion, we have seen these “social-chauvinists” at work in Parliament “who pay lip service to socialism but, in practice, support their own government’s war policy”, as stated in the call for our 8 November rally.
In contrast to this policy of supporting the warmongering government, the Parti des Travailleurs asserts: the struggle against war and the struggle against exploitation are inseparable. To fight against war is to fight against the workers’ main enemy: the imperialist, warmongering governments—here, that of Macron; elsewhere, those of Trump (and his ally Netanyahu), Merz, Starmer, Putin, etc.
Fighting against war means helping workers to unite through their organisations, to formulate their demands and to decide for themselves on the best forms of struggle to win them. It means rejecting the arguments of those who claim that, under the pretext of war or the threat from the most reactionary forces, there is no longer any place for workers’ demands, nor for class organisations themselves.
This May 30th and 31st, our congress hailed the revolutionary uprising of the working class, the peasant masses and the youth of Bolivia who, for the past month, have been rising up to oust the Rodrigo Paz government, subservient to imperialism and the IMF. A government that is attempting to impose privatisations and the expropriation of small farmers’ land.
Our congress expressed its solidarity with the workers of Bolivia, the Bolivian Workers’ Confederation (COB) and the peasant organisations, which the Paz government is attempting to repress, with the criminal assistance of the Trump administration and Milei in Argentina.
For in Bolivia, workers in both the cities and the countryside are once again demonstrating that there is an alternative to the dead end of supporting capitalist governments, as advocated by many so-called “left-wing” leaders.
This alternative is the path of class struggle, of workers’ unity with their organisations to oust capitalist governments, their anti-worker policies and anti-democratic institutions.
This alternative path is the one that will, in the future, bring about governments of workers’ revolution that will not hesitate to challenge private ownership of the means of production in order to save workers and young people from war, unemployment, poverty, and the devastation caused by epidemics and climate change – all of which are consequences of the decaying capitalist system.
Dear friends, dear comrades,
In the meantime, as we look forward to welcoming you to Paris on 8 November, we invite you to continue contributing to the international correspondence section of our weekly newspaper La Tribune des travailleurs.
In this way, we shall contribute together to forging the international unity of workers and peoples, across borders, and to the struggle for the reconstitution of the Workers’ International, of which Karl Marx wrote in 1871 that it “is, in fact, nothing other than the international bond uniting the most advanced workers of the various countries of the world”.
With fraternal greetings,
The delegates to the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party (France)
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