The FIS leadership has been unable to stop the coup, but after a few months, when the regime's inability to deal with the country's economic problems becomes apparent, who else but the fundamentalists are in a position to step forward as the representative of the disinherited people? * *Chawki Salhi is a leader of the Algerian Socialist Workers Party (PST) which is in political sympathy with the Fourth International. The articles on "What is fundamentalism?" and "How to fight fundamentalism?" were originally written before the coup d'etat of January 11/12.
The following resolution was passed by the January 1992 meeting of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International