International Group
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The International Group was the name taken by two groups of British supporters of the Fourth International
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In both cases, the Group was formed as a public faction by members loyal to the International who felt that the then-current leadership of the British section of the Fourth International had broken with its political continuity.
Fourth International
The Fourth International is the communist international organisation consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky , with the declared dedicated goal of helping the working class bring about socialism...
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In both cases, the Group was formed as a public faction by members loyal to the International who felt that the then-current leadership of the British section of the Fourth International had broken with its political continuity.
- In 1961, a small group in Nottingham split from the Revolutionary Socialist LeagueRevolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957)The Revolutionary Socialist League was a Trotskyist group in Britain which existed from 1956 to 1964.-Formation:After the dissolution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Ted Grant and his supporters were expelled from the RCP's successor The Club in 1950 and formed the International Socialist...
to form the International Group. It published The Internationalist and was led by Pat JordanPat JordanPat Jordan was a British Trotskyist who was central to founding the International Marxist Group. He had been a full time organiser of the Communist Party of Great Britain in Nottingham who had left the party with Ken Coates after the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary...
and Ken CoatesKen CoatesKenneth Sidney Coates was a British politician and writer. He chaired the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and edited The Spokesman, the BRPF magazine launched in March 1970. He was a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999...
. In 1964, it co-organised a unsuccessful fusion conference with the RSL, from which RSL members walked out. The International Group changed its name to the International Marxist GroupInternational Marxist GroupThe International Marxist Group was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It and its youth organisation had had around 1,000 members and supporters in the late 1970s...
in 1968 and became the British section of the Fourth International in 1969.
- In 1985, a group split from the International Marxist GroupInternational Marxist GroupThe International Marxist Group was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It and its youth organisation had had around 1,000 members and supporters in the late 1970s...
which also called itself the International Group. In May 1987 it merged with the Socialist GroupSocialist GroupThe Socialist Group is a primarily social-democratic political grouping in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The group comprises of 180 members from 45 states of the Council of Europe. The Group is chaired by Andreas Gross of Switzerland....
as the International Socialist GroupInternational Socialist GroupThe International Socialist Group was a Trotskyist organisation in Britain. It was the British section of the Fourth International until July 2009 when it dissolved into Socialist Resistance.- Origin :...
and became the British section of the Fourth International in 1995.