USFI and North America

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Two questions. The USFI is scheduled to have a World Congress next year.
There have been criticisms that the FI was heading down a liquidationist
path with proposals to go as far as remove references from Trotskyism
and the first few FI Conferences from the FI Statutes. I've been told
more recently that the FI is backing away from these proposals.
Meanwhile, Socialist Action members have been saying that recent
successes by the LCR in France and the disasters experienced by the
Mexican section's intervention in the PRD has caused the FI majority to
also back away from the concept of broad left realignments with
non-socialist forces.

Is this just fantasy by the Socialist Action FI minority or has there
been a real adjustment by the FI majority?

Does Socialist Action (US and Canada) have any prospect of being
reintegrated into the FI or are they facing some sort of divorce? The
fate of the Canadian Socialist Action group is especially curious. At
the moment they are neither the official section of the USFI (that
franchise belongs in English Canada  to the Fourth International
Tendency within the New Socialist Group and in Quebec to Gauche
Socialiste) nor are they recognized as a sympathising section of the
USFI. Rather they are acknowledged as "partisans" of the FI with no real
standing. Any relations with the FI are subject to decisions by the
official Canadian section.

On a broader question, is there any prospect for a unification of USFI
groups in Canada and the US or are they irreconcilably split? Similarly,
what's come of the Freedom Socialist Party's overtures for unity with
Socialist Action (US)?

Andy