List of Trotskyist internationals

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This is a list of Trotskyist internationals. It includes all of the many political internationals which self-identify as Trotskyist.

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Of the organizations listed, two claim to be the original Fourth International founded in 1938: the reunified Fourth International (USFI) and the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). The Fourth International split into two factions 1953 over the question of historic perspective, with the International Secretariat (ISFI) turning in favour of deep entryism and supporting petty-bourgeois nationalist movements in less developed countries, and the International Committee (ICFI) upholding the need to form revolutionary parties. The factions reunited in 1963 resulting in the formation of reunified Fourth International (USFI), while parts of the ICFI did not. Both the USFI and ICFI went on to fragment further, giving rise to several new internationals.

Certain organizations which claim to be Trotskyist make no attempt to claim any relationship to the Fourth International in an organizational 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".

The various organizations 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.

List of internationals

The largest internationals in terms of membership are indicated in bold.

Active

Internationals that emerged from the Fourth International (USFI)

  • International Workers League – Fourth International (IWL-FI), founded by former members of the USFI in 1982. [1]
  • Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International (TF-FI), founded by expelled members of the IWL-FI in 1988 [2]
  • International Workers' Unity – Fourth International (IWU-FI), split from IWL-FI in 1997. [3]
  • International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction (ILTF), split from the TF-FI in 1998. [4] [5]
  • Tendency for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International, formed by expelled members of the TF-FI in 2006. [6] [7]
  • Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR), founded by groups originating from the USFI and IWL-FI [8]
  • Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (CERCI), founded by the Bolivian party POR which broke off with the original Fourth International in the 1950s.
  • Liaison Committee for a Revolutionary Workers International, founded by former militants of the Argentinian MAS and PO [17] [18]

Internationals that emerged from the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)

  • International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) (ICL-FI), [19] previously the international Spartacist tendency which split from the ICFI in 1966.
  • International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) [20] formed by expelled members of the international Spartacist tendency in 1982.
  • Bolshevik Tendency, split from IBT in 2018. [21]
  • League for the Fourth International (LFI), [22] formed by expelled members of the ICL-FI in 1996.
  • Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International (OCRFI), split from the defunct Fourth International (ICR) in 2016. The latter was formed after a split from the ICFI in 1972. [23]
  • International Trotskyist Committee (ITC), founded by former members of the defunct Trotskyist International Liaison Committee in 1984. The latter was founded by expelled members of the ICFI in 1974. [24]
  • International Trotskyist Opposition, split from the ITC, dissolved into CRCI. Re-established itself in 2022 [25]
  • Liaison Committee for the Fourth International, founded by former members of the ITC. [26] [27]

Others

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Timeline of Trotskyist political Internationals that emerged from the CWI

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