This is a list of Trotskyist internationals. It includes all of the many political internationals which self-identify as Trotskyist.
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)
- Revolutionary Communist International, split from CWI in 1992. Previously named International Marxist Tendency (IMT) (2004âÂÂ2024), and the Committee for a Marxist International (1992âÂÂ2004)
- Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) â is refounded with the same name Committee for a Workers' International after the 2019 split.
- International Socialist Tendency (IST), founded by expelled members of the original Fourth International in the 1950s
- International Socialist Alternative, claims to be successor to CWI Committee for a Workers' International (1974) after the 2019 split.
- International Socialist League (LIS-ISL), founded in 2019
- Internationalist Standpoint (IS), split from International Socialist Alternative in 2022.
- Current for the Permanent Revolution - Fourth International (CPR-FI). Previously named Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International. Founded by expelled members of the IWL-FI in 1988
- International Workers League â Fourth International (IWL-FI), founded by former members of the USFI in 1982.
- Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), founded by former members of the IST and L5I.
- International Workers' Unity â Fourth International (IWU-FI), split from IWL-FI in 1997.
- International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction (ILTF), split from the TF-FI in 1998.
- Tendency for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International, formed by expelled members of the TF-FI in 2006.
- Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR), founded by groups originating from the USFI and IWL-FI
- International Revolutionary Left, split from IMT in 2009 and the CWI in 2019
- 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.
- Pathfinder Tendency, based on USA SWP
- Fourth International Posadist
- International Revolutionary Workers' Current â Fourth International (CORI-QI)
- International Committee for the Reconstruction of the LIT of Nahuel Moreno (CIR).
Internationals that emerged from the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)
Others
Defunct
See also
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