International Marxist Tendency

Trotskyist political international

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International Marxist Tendency

Abbreviation| IMT
Leader| Alan Woods
Founder| Ted Grant
Founded| 1992 (as Committee for a Marxist International)
Split from| Committee for a Workers' International
Ideology|

* Marxism
* Leninism
* Trotskyism

Political position| Far-left
Colors|  Red
Party flag
Website
www.marxist.com
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Trotskyism

Concepts

* Anti-fascism
* Anti-Stalinism
* Bureaucratic collectivism
* Critique of political economy
* Cross-class alliance
* Deformed workers' state
* Degenerated workers' state
* Democratic centralism
* Economic planning
* Entryism
* Leninism
* Permanent revolution
* Political revolution
* Proletarian internationalism
* Social revolution
* Soviet democracy
* State capitalism
* Substitutionism
* Transitional demand
* Uneven and combined development
* United front
* Vanguard party
* World communism
* World revolution

Branches

* Orthodox Trotskyism
* Third camp
* Posadism
* Pabloism

People

* Leon Trotsky
* Martin Abern
* Daniel Bensaïd
* Hugo Blanco
* Alex Callinicos
* James P. Cannon
* Isaac Deutscher
* Chen Duxiu
* Tony Cliff
* Pierre Frank
* Ted Grant
* Duncan Hallas
* Joseph Hansen
* Gerry Healy
* C. L. R. James
* Pierre Lambert
* Livio Maitan
* Ernest Mandel
* Nahuel Moreno
* David North
* George Novack
* Michel Pablo
* J. Posadas
* Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
* Christian Rakovsky
* Lev Sedov
* Max Shachtman
* Ivan Smirnov
* Tạ Thu Thâu
* Peter Taaffe
* Alan Woods

Theoretical works

* Terrorism and Communism (1920)
* Literature and Revolution (1924)
* Lessons of October (1924)
* History of the Russian Revolution (1930)
* The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
* Transitional Program (1938)
* The Stalinist Legacy (1984)
* The Dilemmas of Lenin (2017)

History

* October Revolution
* The Declaration of 46
* Left Opposition
* Lenin's Testament
* Trotskyism in Vietnam
* Bloc of Soviet Oppositions
* French Turn
* Minneapolis general strike of 1934
* Great Purge
* Moscow trials
* May 68
* 1968–1969 Japanese university protests
* 1970s Hong Kong student protests

Parties

Current

* Internationalist Workers' Left (Greece)
* Lanka Sama Samaja Party
* Lutte Ouvrière
* Organisation of Communist Internationalists
* People Before Profit
* Socialist Action (Hong Kong)
* Socialist Alternative (Australia)
* Socialist Alternative (U.S.)
* Socialist Equality Party (U.S.)
* Socialist Party (England and Wales)
* Socialist Workers Party (UK)
* The Struggle Pakistan
* Workers' Cause Party
* Workers' Left Front
* Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)

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Historical

* Communist League of America
* International Marxist Group
* International Socialist Organization
* Militant tendency
* Socialist Appeal (UK, 1992)
* Socialist Workers Party (U.S.)
* Young Socialist Alliance
* Workers Party of the United States

Internationals

Current

* Committee for a Workers' International (refounded)
* Fourth International (post-reunification)
* International Committee of the Fourth International
* International Communist League
* International Marxist Tendency
* International Revolutionary Left
* International Socialist Alternative
* International Socialist Tendency
* International Workers' League
* Internationalist Communist Union
* League for the Fourth International
* Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International

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Historical

* Committee for a Workers' International (1974–2019)
* Fourth International
* Fourth International Posadist
* International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International
* Necessary International Initiative
* Permanent Revolution
* Revolutionary Workers Ferment
* Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

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The International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is a Trotskyist political international founded by British-based South African political theorist Ted Grant and his supporters after they broke with the Committee for a Workers' International in 1992. The organization's website, Marxist.com or In Defence of Marxism, is edited by Alan Woods. The site is multilingual, and publishes international current affairs articles written from a Marxist perspective, as well as many historical and theoretical articles. The IMT has announced it will relaunch itself as the Revolutionary Communist International at its World School of Communism on 10 June 2024.[1]

## History[edit]

Main article: Militant tendency

Militant (also known as the Militant tendency) was an entryist group within the British Labour Party based around the Militant newspaper that was founded in 1964. In 1974, Militant and its allies in Sweden, Ireland, and other countries formed the Committee for a Workers' International. The organisation gained more members during the 1970s and early 1980s and dominated the Labour Party in Liverpool. It became the largest Trotskyist group in Europe. In 1983, the five members of the Militant newspaper's editorial board were expelled for contravening the Labour Party constitution and expulsions of Militant members continued throughout the rest of the decade.[2][3][4]

Ted Grant was a longtime leader of Militant until it split in early 1992 over a number of issues and he was expelled. But he and his supporters were expelled from the tendency and formed Socialist Appeal in Britain.[5]

At its World Congress in 2004, the organisation was renamed the International Marxist Tendency (IMT).[6]

In late 2009 a dispute developed between the IMT leadership and the leaderships of its sections in Spain (El Militante), Venezuela (Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria) and Mexico. In January 2010, these organisations, together with the group in Colombia and part of the section in Mexico, broke with the IMT and established a new international body, the Izquierda Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Left).[7][8] Minorities in Venezuela and Spain chose to remain with the IMT and set up new sections.[9] The new IMT Venezuelan section launched their newspaper, Lucha de Clases, in April 2010.[10]

In 2016, the Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria issued a joint declaration with the Committee for a Workers' International announcing that the organizations are conducting joint work.[11] In the same year, another smaller split occurred. The majority of the Swedish section, factions in Poland and Britain and individuals from several other sections left the IMT to form a new group called Towards a New International Tendency.[12] The Iranian section of the IMT also split away over the international's position on Venezuela's friendly relations with the Iranian government and in 2011 launched Marxist Revival[13] with co-thinkers in Britain. The Pakistani section split, with the majority leaving, while the minority reorganized as "Lal Salaam" (Red Salute)[citation needed]

## Sections of the IMT[edit]

Where the International Marxist Tendency has presence. Country  | Name  | English name  | National affiliation

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Argentina | Revolución  | Revolution  |
Austria | Der Funke  | The Spark  |
Australia | Revolution Australia  |
Bangladesh | IMT বাংলাদেশ

IMT Bānlādēśa

| IMT Bangladesh  |
Belgium

* Flanders
* Wallonia

* Vonk
* Révolution

* The Spark
* Revolution

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

North Macedonia

Serbia

Slovenia

| Crveni

Црвени Rdeči

| Reds  |
Brazil | Organização Comunista Internacionalista  | Internationalist Communist Organisation  |
Canada

* Quebec

| Revolutionary Communist Party[14]

* Parti communiste révolutionnaire

| Revolutionary Communist Party  |
Chile | CMI – Octubre  | IMT – October  |
Czech Republic

Slovakia

| Komunistická Avantgarda  | Communist Vanguard  |
Colombia | Colombia Marxista  | Marxist Colombia  |
Denmark | Revolutionært Kommunistisk Parti  | Revolutionary Communist Party  |
El Salvador | Revolución Comunista[15] | Communist Revolution  |
Finland | Vallankumous  | Revolution  |
France | Révolution  | Revolution
Germany | Revolutionäre Kommunistische Partei  | Revolutionary Communist Party  |
Greece | Επαναστατική Κομμουνιστική Οργάνωση

Epanastatikí Kommounistikí Orgánosi

| Revolutionary Communist Organisation  |
Guatemala | Bloque Popular Juvenil  | Youth Popular Block  |
Honduras | Izquierda Marxista  | Marxist Left  |
Hungary | Fáklya  | Torch  |
India | Bolshevik IMT India  | Bolshevik IMT India  |
Indonesia | Perhimpunan Sosialis Revolusioner  | Revolutionary Socialist Assembly  |
Ireland | Revolutionary Communists of Ireland  |
Italy | Sinistra Classe Rivoluzione | Left, Class, Revolution  |
Malaysia | Ombak Revolusi  | Waves of Revolution  |
Mexico | Organización Comunista Revolucionaria  | Revolutionary Communist Organisation  | National Regeneration Movement
Morocco | رابطة العمل الشيوعي

Rābita al-'amal al-shuyu'ī

| Communist League  |
Netherlands | Revolutie  | Revolution  |
New Zealand | Socialist Appeal  |
Nigeria | Workers' Alternative  |
Norway | Revolusjon  | Revolution  |
Latvia | Starptautiskā Marksista Tendence – Latviešu Sekcija  | International Marxist Tendency – Latvian Section  |
Pakistan | لال سلام

Lal Salaam

| Red Salute  |
Peru | CMI Perù  | IMT Perù  |
Poland | Czerwony front  | Red Front  |
Portugal | Colectivo Marxista  | Marxist Collective  |
Russia | Организация коммунистов-интернационалистов[16]

Organizatsiya Kommunistov Internatsionalistov

| Organisation of Communist Internationalists |
Sri Lanka | සමාජවාදී දියුණුව

Samājavādī Diyuṇuva

| Forward Socialist  |
South Africa | Revolution  |
Spain

* Catalonia

| Organización Comunista Revolucionaria[17]

* Organització Comunista Revolucionària

| Revolutionary Communist Organization  |
Sweden | Revolutionära Kommunistiska Partiet  | Revolutionary Communist Party |
Switzerland | In German Switzerland: Revolutionäre Kommunistische Partei

In Romandy: Parti communiste révolutionnaire

| Revolutionary Communist Party  |
Syria | البديل الماركسي – سوريا

ِAl-Badīl al-Marksī – Sūriyā

| Marxist Alternative – Syria  |
Singapore | Marxist League Singapore  |
Taiwan | 火花

Huǒhuā

| The Spark  |
Thailand | IMT ประเทศไทย

IMT Pratheṣ̄thịy

| IMT Thailand  |
Timor-Leste | Marxista Revolusionariu  | Revolutionary Marxist  |
Turkey | Sosyalist Devrim  | Socialist Revolution  |
United Kingdom | Revolutionary Communist Party |
United States | Revolutionary Communists of America  |
Ukraine | Комуна

Komuna

| Commune  |
Venezuela | Lucha de Clases  | Class Struggle  | Popular Revolutionary Alternative[18]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "It is time to launch a Revolutionary Communist International". In Defence of Marxism. International Marxist Tendency. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
2. ^ "Who, What, Why: What was Militant?". BBC News. 28 May 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
3. ^ Wintour, Patrick (16 July 2014). "Labour Picks Fight With Militant Tendency". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
4. ^ "Kinnock Moves Against Militant". BBC News. 27 November 1985. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
5. ^ Wade, Bob (27 July 2006). "Obituary: Ted Grant". The Guardian.
6. ^ "Conference of the international Marxist tendency: An historic meeting". In Defence of Marxism. 10 September 2004. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
7. ^ "Oil-slick divisions". Weekly Worker. No. 804\. CPGB PCC. 11 February 2010. Archived from the original on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
8. ^ "Revolutionary Marxist Current". Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
9. ^ "Corriente Marxista Internacional – Venezuela". Lucha de Clases. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
10. ^ "New Venezuelan IMT website and paper launched". In Defence of Marxism. 12 April 2010.
11. ^ "Committee for a Workers' International". Socialistworld.net. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
12. ^ "Towards A New International Tendency". Tanit.co. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
13. ^ "Committee for Marxist Revival". Marxist Revival. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
14. ^ "Montreal Marxist Winter School 2024: The Revolutionary Communist Party has arrived!".
15. ^ Comunista, Revolución (8 April 2024). "Successful launch of the organisation Revolución Comunista in El Salvador". In Defence of Marxism. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
16. ^ "Организация коммунистов-интернационалистов (ОКИ)". Telegram. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
17. ^ Revolucionaria, Organización Comunista (25 March 2024). "Spain: communists found a new Revolutionary Communist Organisation!". In Defence of Marxism. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
18. ^ Vásquez, Paola (25 September 2020). "Venezuela: faced with the attacks against the Popular Revolutionary Alternative – class and revolutionary solidarity!". Marxist.com. In Defence of Marxism. Retrieved 2 November 2020.

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