International Tendencies

International Tendencies

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• Workers' International Liason Committee This is an organization operated by the International Secretariat of the Fourth International led by Pierre Lambert
  
• International Socialist Tendency Includes publications and periodicals of the International Socialist groups and the Socialist Workers Party (UK) including the International Socialism Journal and Socialist Review. Founded by Tony Cliff.
  
• The World Socialist Movement Comprehensive site offers analysis of historical, encomomic and current political events. WSM's idea of socialism accepts Marxism but rejects Leninism, Trotskysim and reformism. WSM has "companion parties" in several countries.
  
• United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) The Fourth International was founded by Trotsky in 1938. In 1953 it suffered a major split the majority was known as the International Secretariat and the minority, the International Committee. In 1964 the SWP rejoined the majority to form the United Secretariat (USFI).
  
• International Socialist Tendency Documents Internal documents from the conflict between the Socialist Workers Party and the International Socialist Organization as well as from various internal conflicts within the SWP and other IS tendency groups.
  
• International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party An anti-Stalinist but non-Trotskyist international formation centred in Italy and with a British section, the Communist Workers' Organisation. The IBRP is descended from Bourdigaist tradition which was expelled from the Third International in the 1920s.
  
• League for a Revolutionary Communist International/Workers Power This is a Trotskyist organisation dedicated to building a new world party of socialist revolution. The LRCI Website provides news from the press of the LRCI's press in 8 countries, Marxist theory, an online version of the Workers Power bulletin. The leading Section of LRCI is Workers' Power in Britain.
  
• Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International The LCMRCI (or CEMICOR in Spanish) has sections in Peru, Bolivia, Britain and New Zealand.
  
• International Committee of the Fourth International Led by David North of the (US) Socialist Equality Party, the ICFI is a small remnant of the original ICFI formed in the 1950s. Various groups such as the Lambertists (ISFI), the Spartacists, the Healyites and various others have split from it. Site contains daily news updates and analysis.
  
• International Communist Union The ICU is the international tendency led by the French Marxist group Union Communiste which is better known by the name of its publication Lutte Ouvriere. LO has been around since the 1930s but split with Trotsky by opposing the creation of the Fourth International.
  
• Agora An association founded by socialist activists from Belgium to promote international relations between left and progressive people.
  
• International Bolshevik Tendency The IBT's journal is 1917, providing a bolshevik analysis of current and historical events of interest to the worker's movement. The IBT split from the Spartacist League/International Communist League in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
  
• International Communist League Publishers of Workers' Vanguard and The Spartacist, the ICL is organised as the Spartacist League in several countries and the Trotskyist League/Lige Trotskyiste in Canada and France. The original group split from the (US) Socialist Workers Party in the 1960s in opposition to the SWP's decision to rejoin the Fourth International and form the United Secretariat.
  
• Committee for a Workers' International - CWI International democratic Marxist tendency operating in over 35 countries worldwide. Founded by the former Militant Tendency in Britain (now the Socialist Party) in 1974.