party-building which unambiguously approved the turn to industry decided at the XI World Congress of the Fourth International in 1979. This question had opened a major political and organisational crisis in the LRT/RAL at the time of its fifth congress in 1980. At the same time the congress gave an important role to the building of a revolutionary youth organisation, Jeune Garde socialiste/Socialistische Jonge Wacht.
The congress aiso approved a resolution on the former Belgian colony of Zaire, as a result of anti-imperialist work on this very sensitive question which, as the Third International said before its degeneration, must be the 'point of honour of a revolutionary organisation.•