International Communist League
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The International Communist League can refer to several Trotskyist political parties:
- The Left OppositionLeft OppositionThe Left Opposition was a faction within the Bolshevik Party from 1923 to 1927, headed de facto by Leon Trotsky. The Left Opposition formed as part of the power struggle within the party leadership that began with the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin's illness and intensified with his death in January...
, led by Trotsky from 1933 until 1936 - The International-Communist League, a short-lived alliance of British groups in the mid-1970s
- The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)The International Communist League , earlier known as the international Spartacist tendency is a Trotskyist international. Its largest constituent party is the Spartacist League...
, also known as the Spartacist League - The International Communist League (Mexico), which joined the Workers Revolutionary Party (Mexico) in 1976
- The International Communist League (Vietnam)International Communist League (Vietnam)The International Communist League was a Trotskyist political party in Vietnam. It was founded as the October Group in 1932, by a split in the Indochinese Bolshevik-Leninist Group, which also produced the Struggle Group...
, active from 1944 until about 1946 - The Pathfinder tendencyPathfinder tendencyThe Pathfinder tendency is the unofficial name of a group of historically Trotskyist organizations that are politically and organizationally allied with the Socialist Workers Party of the United States and its perspective of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Communist Party.The...
, formed by the Communist Leagues and the Socialist Workers Party, sometimes referred to as the International Communist League