in new areas, and, most moorant or am, an expansion into the working class. After initial gains in smaller unions such as the woodworkers, the organ isation has in the last three months begun for the first time to receive sizeable votes for its proposals in the big bastions of the working class. has the perspective of emerging as the most significant force on une extreme lett outside or ene very large Maoist-inclined UDP.
but such an expansion or torces in such circum stances is not carried through without errors. As Lenin put it, the test of an organisation is not whether it commits errors - they all do - but whether it seeks out the roots of these errors and At une second congress orine collastsummer June working class.
IT noW the actual political project of the Government. While the LCI verbally dissociated itself from this aspect, tus sionature must nave spoken louder man woras to Ine united secretariat or the rourth internation al immediately attacked this signature publicly and internally opened up a discussion within the LCI on the analysis which led to it.
The culmination of this discussion was that in October last year it was decided to have an emerg ency congress of the LCI. A section of the theses ap proved at the congress was printed in the last issue of Red Weekly. The following self-criticism voted by the congress deals with its line in the summer which led to its error in signing the accords of 25 August and its line in the FUR.