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In their “Appeal to Revolutionary Workers”, the founders of La Vérité (n° 1, August 15, 1929) proclaimed the principles on which they intended to develop their weekly newspaper: those of the historical continuity of Marxism and Leninism. This initiative saw the light of day in a difficult context, summed up by Leon Trotsky in “An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of La Vérité”, dated August 5, 1929:

"Those ideas which you represent – the ideas of Marxism, enriched by the practice of Lenin’s party and the entire postwar revolutionary struggle of the international proletariat – will cut a path for themselves. There can be no doubt of this. All that is necessary is that these ideas be intimately tied to the facts of life, geared to actual events and fructified by the living experience of the masses. Your weekly will serve this end. (…)

Your paper bears the name Verité (Truth). This name, like all others, has been amply abused. Nevertheless, it is a good and honorable name. The truth is always revolutionary. To lay bare the truth of their position before the oppressed is to lead them to the highroad of revolution. To tell the truth about the rulers is to undermine the foundations of their rule. To tell the truth about the reformist bureaucracy is to condemn it in the consciousness of the masses. To tell the truth about the centrists is to help the workers assure a correct leadership of the Communist International."

Since November 1990, La Vérité had been the “theoretical review of the Fourth International”. At the 10th World Congress of the Fourth International, an open congress, held at Barcelona on December 5, 6 and 7, 2023, the discussion focused on the new situation which has opened. The political landscape of all countries is in upheaval. Forces free themselves from the tutelage of old organizations; they demand that the revolutionaries overcome the routine inevitably produced by years of fighting for the construction of a revolutionary party in a situation of relative stability. Hence the open character of the 10th World Congress of the Fourth International: open to activists who are not members, open to discussion, open to elaboration.

Associating all the activists, those of the Fourth International and those of a different origin but who fight for the defense of workers, it is now a matter of elaborating the new responses that this new situation demands. La Vérité, taking into account such an assessment, has become a review of political news and forum of international discussion, a review of debate for action. We must collectively, activists of the Fourth International and those of another political origin who fight together, shoulder to shoulder, to seek together the means to act in this new situation. This new formula of La Vérité intends to fully contribute to this.