This proposal was posted by ZCommunications (www.zcommunications.org) and originates from the announcement of President Chavez of Venezuela to host a gathering to found a New International this April. If events proceed as announced, there will be a gathering in Caracas in roughly ten weeks implementing whatever plans emerge from the committee in Venezuela that is currently preparing a scenario for how to host and proceed with that gathering. ZCommunications thought it desirable that voices from outside Venezuela be heard as well, and that discussion occur widely before the April gathering convenes.

A purpose of the proposal is as follows. {To view the full and corrected text (and to endorse it if you so wish) please visit the ZNet site.}
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PURPOSE:
Different people could conceivably have different agendas, but what this proposal seeks in the eyes of its very first endorsers is only to:

a) specify a set of features/values/procedures that the endorsers feel are worthy and workable for a new International, and

b) urge that any process to create a new international should discuss, debate, assess, refine, and implement these and other features that emerge from a wide discussion and gain favor among founding members.

The purpose of the proposal, in other words, is to promote discussion and debate and also offer some broad ideas for features that ought to be included in the discussion and debate, and which the endorsers favor.

Put differently: This proposal is not itself a call for a new International much less a map of all attributes a new International could have - nor is it a gathering of people intent on somehow themseleves creating a new International. This proposal is, instead, simply a group of people urging that any efforts to create a new International should involve wide discussion and debate, including considering the points raised here.