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Abbreviation | CWI |
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Predecessor | Committee for a Workers' International (1974) (IDWCTCWI faction) |
Formation | 25 July 2019 |
Type | Association of Trotskyist political parties |
Headquarters | London |
Region served | Worldwide |
Membership | 13 sections |
Website | www |
The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) is an international association of Trotskyist political parties. The organisation considers itself a continuation of the Committee for a Workers' International that was founded in 1974.
In 2018 and 2019, a dispute developed around the questions of socialism and identity politics, [1] [2] the role of the trade unions and the working-class movement, and under what programme and how should Marxists organise internationally and domestically, which ultimately led to multifaceted split. The dispute divided the leading bodies of the CWI with International Secretariat and International Executive Committee taking conflicting positions.
One group founded the “In Defence of a Working Class and Trotskyist CWI” (IDWCTCWI) faction in November 2018 in support of the CWI's International Secretariat. [3] [4]
A Special Conference of the Socialist Party (England and Wales) voted by a margin of 173 to 35 to support the faction and sponsor the international faction conference. This conference was held in July 2019, open only to CWI members who supported the faction, and asserted that they had refounded the CWI. [5] [3] [4]
A second group, in support of the majority of the CWI's International Executive Committee, declared itself the CWI Majority in August 2019 and renamed their organisation International Socialist Alternative on 1 February 2020. It asserted that the IDWCTCWI had split from the CWI. [5] [6]
The CWI has published what it considers to be the main documents which were produced during the debate. [7] [8] The ISA have produced its own analysis which accuses the CWI leadership of being ossified, and embarking on a bureaucratic rampage [9]
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Section | Name | English Translation |
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Austria | Sozialistische Offensive | Socialist Offensive |
Chile | Socialismo Revolucionario | Revolutionary Socialism |
England and Wales | Socialist Party | |
France | Gauche révolutionnaire | Revolutionary Left |
Germany | Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität - Sol [10] | Organisation Solidarity |
India | New Socialist Alternative | |
Ireland | Militant Left | |
Malaysia | Sosialis Alternatif | Socialist Alternative |
Nigeria | Democratic Socialist Movement | |
South Africa | Marxist Workers Party [11] | |
Sri Lanka | එක්සත් සමාජවාදි පකෂය / ஐக்கிய சோசலிச கட்சி Eksath Samajavadi Pakshaya / Aikkiy Cōcalic Kaṭci | United Socialist Party |
Scotland | Socialist Party Scotland | |
United States | Independent Socialist Group [12] [13] | |
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