Ĭonflicts between Posadas and the ISFI started to get worse. With Luis Naguill, Posadas directed the 'subversive apparatus' founded according to instructions from the Tri-Continental-the Peasant Workers Alliance. They also differed over the issue of nuclear war with Posadas taking the view that 'War–Revolution' would 'settle the hash of Stalinism and Capitalism' and that nuclear war was inevitable as a socialist society would rise from the ashes. By 1959, however, he and his followers were quarrelling with the leadership of the ISFI accusing them of lacking confidence in the possibility of revolution. When the Fourth International split in 1953, Posadas and his followers sided with Michel Pablo and the International Secretariat of the Fourth International. Under his guidance, the movement gained some influence in the region, particularly among Cuban railway workers, Bolivian tin miners and agricultural workers in Brazil. Posadas did initially organize the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International for the International Secretariat faction of the Fourth International in the 1950s. In 1947, Cristalli and Dante Minazzoli founded the Grupo Cuarta Internacional (GCI) as a small circle of working class militants committed to Trotskyism. He then joined the Partido de la Revolución Socialista, which affiliated to the Fourth International in 1941 but the party quickly declined. In the 1930s, he worked as a shoemaker and organised a shoemakers’ and leather workers’ union in Córdoba, Argentina.ĭuring this period he stood as a candidate for election in Buenos Aires province for the Partido Socialista Obrero ( es). He gained fame playing football for Estudiantes de La Plata in his youth. Malnourishment left him with permanent health problems but also influenced his views of capitalism.

After the death of his mother, he and his brothers and sisters had to beg from neighbours and do odd jobs for pennies in order to survive. Born in Argentina to Italian immigrants from the Southern town of Matera, Cristalli grew up in intense poverty in Buenos Aires with at least nine siblings.

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