We always had a perspective of trying to turn the WSF into a new international, and were much derided for this. Chavez call is welcome, but also a sign that the revolutionaries in the workers movement have dithered too long and so it has fallen to populists like Chavez to make the call for a Fifth International. Now it is a question of struggle over how a new international will be formed, whether it will be a revolutionary and based on the working-class or populist and bound to figures like Chavez and the Venezuelan state.

http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/venezue...

Don’t know if the last post was accepted, apologies if I’m double posting. We have raised the need for a fifth international for several years now, and raised it at the WSF and the European SF, with the perspective of transforming them into a new international. This has not happened, the revolutionary workers movement has dithered and the result is that its been left up to populists like Chavez to make the call. Its now a question of struggle whether this call instigates a process of debate and organisation between forces committed to revolutionary change over how to form a new international, or whether Chavez and his “allies” hijack the project and it becomes an obstacle revolution, an instrument in the service of the Venezuelan state and its bourgeois allies. The project of building a fifth international has the potential to win significant sections of workers around the world to it, the question is whether it becomes a real tool for revolution internationally, or a tool for propping up bourgeois states like Venezuela.

http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/venezue...

and in the case of the caracas event, this: http://marccooper.com/the-not-so-good-the-bad-and...