The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International), unanimously adopted this document at its founding congress on June 13–15, 2025. It traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the principled foundations for the building of the Trotskyist movement in Turkey and throughout the region.

We will publish new sections of the document each day over the coming weeks.

1. The Principled Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal
2. World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Vindication of Permanent Revolution
3. The Foundation of Modern Turkey, the Communist International and the TKP
4. Stalinism and the Left Opposition
5. The 1925-27 Chinese Revolution
6. Trotsky’s Expulsion to Turkey
7. The Victory of Fascism in Germany and the Collapse of the Comintern
8. Turkey Before World War II
9. The Fourth International and World War II
10. The Split in the Socialist Workers Party and Trotsky’s Defense of Materialist Dialectics
11. Trotsky’s Place in History
12. Wartime and Post-War Turkey
13. Stalinism’s Betrayal of the Postwar Revolutionary Upsurge
14. The 1949 Chinese Revolution
15. The Establishment of Israel
16. Pabloite Opportunism and the Founding of the ICFI
17. The Democrat Party Period and the 1960 Military Coup
18. The SLL’s Defense of Trotskyism against the Pabloite “Reunification”
19. The Global Revolutionary Crisis of 1968-75 and the Split in the International Committee
20. Stalinism, Pabloism and Petty-Bourgeois Radicalism in Turkey
21. The Cyprus Issue
22. Security and the Fourth International
23. The Global Capitalist Counteroffensive and the 1980 Military Coup
24. The Kurdish Issue and the PKK
25. The National-Opportunist Degeneration of the WRP and the 1982-86 Split in the International Committee
26. Globalization and the Perspective of Socialism
27. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
28. The Fight for Historical Truth and Socialist Consciousness
29. Globalization and the National Question
30. Globalization and the Trade Unions
31. The Socialist Equality Parties and the World Socialist Web Site
32. The Fight for Trotskyism in Turkey
33. Imperialist War and the Decade of Socialist Revolution