International Workers' League (Belgium)

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International Workers' League
Ideology Trotskyism
Marxism
Socialism
Morenism

International Workers' League (Dutch : Internationale Arbeidersliga; French : Ligue Internationale des Travailleurs) is a small Belgian Trotskyist party of Morenist tradition.

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