List of Trotskyist internationals
Encyclopedia
This is a list of Trotskyist internationals. It includes all of the many political international
s which self-identify as Trotskyist
.
Of the tendencies listed, only one claims to be the original Fourth International
founded in 1938: the reunified Fourth International. Certain tendencies which claim to be Trotskyist make no attempt to claim any relationship to the Fourth International in an organisational sense and argue that it no longer exists. Some claim to represent a continuity from the Fourth International or to have re-established it: for example the Fourth International (ICR)
International Centre/Center of Reconstruction, also known as the FI (La Verité), also calls itself the "Fourth International". Others argue that the title "Fourth International" is so discredited that a Fifth International
or another new organization is needed.
The various tendencies listed here range in size from those having thousands of adherents in dozens of countries to tendencies which can barely claim a dozen members in three or four countries.
There are also international groupings around some Trotskyist groups which have no formal international structure:
Political international
A political international is a trans-national organisation of political parties or activists. The international works together on points of agreement to co-ordinate activity....
s which self-identify as Trotskyist
Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
.
Of the tendencies listed, only one claims to be the original Fourth International
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...
founded in 1938: the reunified Fourth International. Certain tendencies which claim to be Trotskyist make no attempt to claim any relationship to the Fourth International in an organisational sense and argue that it no longer exists. Some claim to represent a continuity from the Fourth International or to have re-established it: for example the Fourth International (ICR)
Fourth International (ICR)
The Fourth International was established as an "International Centre of Reconstruction" by co-thinkers of Pierre Lambert, in 1981 who argued that the post-war political evolution of the Fourth International under the leadership of Michel Pablo and Ernest Mandel had taken the FI away from the...
International Centre/Center of Reconstruction, also known as the FI (La Verité), also calls itself the "Fourth International". Others argue that the title "Fourth International" is so discredited that a Fifth International
Fifth International
The phrase Fifth International refers to the efforts made by sections of the far-left to create a new Workers' International.-Previous Internationals:...
or another new organization is needed.
The various tendencies listed here range in size from those having thousands of adherents in dozens of countries to tendencies which can barely claim a dozen members in three or four countries.
Active
- Committee for a Workers' InternationalCommittee for a Workers' InternationalThe Committee for a Workers' International is an international association of Trotskyist parties. Members include the Socialist Party of England and Wales, the Socialist Party , the Socialist Party the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa and Nigeria and groups using the name Socialist...
- Co-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth InternationalCo-ordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth InternationalThe Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International is a Trotskyist international organisation. Its name in Spanish is Coordinadora por la Refundación de la Cuarta Internacional. It was formed in 2004 at a conference in Buenos Aires called by the Movement for the...
- Fourth International
- Fourth International (ICR)Fourth International (ICR)The Fourth International was established as an "International Centre of Reconstruction" by co-thinkers of Pierre Lambert, in 1981 who argued that the post-war political evolution of the Fourth International under the leadership of Michel Pablo and Ernest Mandel had taken the FI away from the...
International Centre/Center of Reconstruction, also called FI (La Verité) or FI (International Secretariat) - Fourth International PosadistFourth International PosadistThe Fourth International Posadist is a Trotskyist political international. It was founded in 1962 by J. Posadas, who had been the leader of the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International in the 1950s, and of the Fourth International's section in Argentina.Posadism as an ideology, supports...
- International Bolshevik Tendency
- International Committee of the Fourth InternationalInternational Committee of the Fourth InternationalThe International Committee of the Fourth International is the name of two Trotskyist internationals; one with sections named Socialist Equality Party which publishes the World Socialist Web Site and another linked to the Workers Revolutionary Party in Britain.-Foundation:The International...
- 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...
- International Current Socialism or Barbarism
- International Marxist TendencyInternational Marxist TendencyThe International Marxist Tendency is an international socialist organisation based on the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky. The late Ted Grant was its chief theoretician and the person who built the organisation since its beginning. Currently, Alan Woods and Lal Khan are its best known...
, previously called Committee for a Marxist International - International Socialist LeagueInternational Socialist LeagueThe International Socialist League is a small Trotskyist organisation in Britain. Its irregular publication, Socialist Voice, was published frequently until 2002. and from 2011....
- International Socialist TendencyInternational Socialist TendencyThe International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations based around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain...
- International Trotskyist Fraction
- Internationalist Communist UnionInternationalist Communist UnionThe Internationalist Communist Union is an international grouping of Trotskyist political parties, centred on Lutte Ouvrière in France....
- International Workers League (Fourth International)
- International Workers' Unity (Fourth International)
- League for the Fifth InternationalLeague for the Fifth InternationalThe League for the Fifth International is an international grouping of revolutionary Trotskyist organisations around a common programme and perspectives. The group has sections in Europe, South Asia, and North America as well as supporters in the Middle East.-Early years:L5I was founded as the...
- League for the Fourth InternationalLeague for the Fourth InternationalThe League for the Fourth International is a Trotskyist international organisation, whose most noteworthy section is the Internationalist Group/Grupo Internacionalista in the United States. It has other affiliates in Mexico, Brazil and France. All of these are very small and based in at most one...
- Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth InternationalLiaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth InternationalThe Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International is a Trotskyist international organization, based in Latin America. It was generally known by its Spanish acronym CERCI. CERCI was founded in 1988...
- Permanent Revolution Tendency
- Trotskyist Fraction - International StrategyTrotskyist Fraction - International StrategyThe Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International is a Trotskyist international organization. It was formed by the Argentine PTS and the Mexican LTS which split from the Nahuel Moreno's International Workers League ....
There are also international groupings around some Trotskyist groups which have no formal international structure:
- Alliance for Workers Liberty
- Movement (Movimiento)
- Freedom Socialist PartyFreedom Socialist PartyThe Freedom Socialist Party is a socialist political party with a unique program of revolutionary feminism that emerged from a split in the United States Socialist Workers Party in 1966. It is currently a working class organization that works towards creating social justice and order for all...
Defunct or Inactive
- Bolshevik Current for the Fourth International
- Collective for an International Conference of the Principled Trotskyism
- Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International (LCMRCI), 1995-2004
- Organizing Committee of Principist Trotskyism (Fourth International)
- Committee for the Fourth International, 1940-
- Communist Organisation for a Fourth International, 2003 - 2007, currently inactive
- Coordination Committee for the Construction of the International Workers Party (KoorKom) - dissolved into International Workers' League in 2002
- Fifth International of Communists
- Fourth International (International Committee (FIIC), 1980-1981
- Group of Opposition and Continuity of the Fourth International
- International Centre for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (CIRQI)
- International Centre of Orthodox Trotskyism
- International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth InternationalInternational League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth InternationalThe International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International, usually known as the Fourth International, was a Trotskyist political international led by Michel Varga....
(ILRFI), 1973-1995 - International Liaison Committee of Communists (ILCC)
- International Revolutionary Marxist TendencyInternational Revolutionary Marxist TendencyThe International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency was the international Trotskyist current led by Michel Pablo. It split from the reunified Fourth International in 1965 and rejoined in 1992....
(TMRI), 1965-1992 - rejoined the reunified Fourth InternationalReunified Fourth InternationalThe Fourth International is a Trotskyist international. In 1963, the majorities of the two public factions of the Fourth International, the International Secretariat and the International Committee, reunited, electing a United Secretariat of the Fourth International... - International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International
- International Trotskyist Opposition
- International Workers' Committee
- Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency (LTT)
- International New Course
- Organizing Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (CORQI), 1972-1980
- Organizing Committee of Principist Trotskyism (Fourth International)
- Revolutionary Workers FermentRevolutionary Workers FermentThe Revolutionary Workers Ferment, often know by its Spanish name or initials Fomento Obrero Revolucionario or FOR, was a small left communist international founded by Grandizo Munis, which arose as a split from the Trotskyist Fourth International at its Second Congress in 1948.Though Munis and his...
(Fomento Obrero Revolucionario, FOR) - Trotskyist International Liaison CommitteeTrotskyist International Liaison CommitteeThe Trotskyist International Liaison Committee was the international organisation established by the Workers Socialist League in Britain and its international co-thinkers in Italy, Denmark, the USA and Turkey...
, 1979-1984 - Tendência Quarta Internacionalista
- Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth InternationalWorkers International to Rebuild the Fourth InternationalThe Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International is an Trotskyist international organisation. It is based in the United Kingdom and consists of a remnant of the Workers Revolutionary Party....
(WIRFI) - Workers' VoiceWorkers' Voice-Organisations:*Kamkaru Handa, a former socialist organisation in Sri Lanka.*An alternative name for Workers' Awaaz, a female domestic workers' group in New York.*A former incarnation of Workers' Struggle, a Trotskyist group in France....
(formerly Revolutionary Trotskyist League, formerly Revolutionary Trotskyist Tendency)
See also
- List of left-wing internationals
- Leon TrotskyLeon TrotskyLeon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
- List of Communist Parties
- List of members of the Comintern
- List of left communist internationals