List of Trotskyist internationals

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People

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* Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
* Christian Rakovsky
* Lev Sedov
* Max Shachtman
* Ivan Smirnov
* Tạ Thu Thâu
* Peter Taaffe
* Alan Woods

Theoretical works

* 1905 (1908)
* Terrorism and Communism (1920)
* Trotsky's Military Writings (1923-1925)
* Literature and Revolution (1924)
* New Course (1924)
* Lessons of October (1924)
* Towards Socialism or Capitalism? (1925)
* Leon Trotsky on China (1925)
* History of the Russian Revolution (1930)
* The Spanish Revolution, 1931-1939 (1931-1939)
* The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (1931-40)
* The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
* Their Morals and Ours (1938)
* Transitional Program (1938)
* In Defence of Marxism (1942)
* Thesis of Pulacayo (1946)
* The Stalinist Legacy (1984)
* The Dilemmas of Lenin (2017)

History

* Russian Revolution
* October Revolution
* Joseph Stalin's rise to power
* The Declaration of 46
* Left Opposition
* Lenin's Testament
* Bloc of Soviet Oppositions
* French Turn
* Minneapolis general strike of 1934
* Great Purge
* Moscow trials
* Proletarian Military Policy
* New York Intellectuals
* May 68
* 1968–1969 Japanese university protests
* 1970s Hong Kong student protests
* Militant in Liverpool

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
* Socialist Party (England and Wales)
* Socialist Workers Party (UK)
* Solidarity
* The Struggle Pakistan
* Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
* Workers' Cause Party
* Workers' Left Front
* Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)

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Historical

* Bolshevik–Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma
* Communist League of America
* International Marxist Group
* International Socialist Organization
* League for Socialist Action (Canada)
* Militant tendency
* Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944)
* 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 Revolutionary Left
* International Socialist Alternative
* International Socialist Tendency
* International Workers' League
* Internationalist Communist Union
* League for the Fourth International
* Revolutionary Communist International
* Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International

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Historical

* Committee for a Workers' International (1974–2019)
* Fourth International
* Fourth International–Posadist
* Permanent Revolution
* Revolutionary Workers Ferment

By country

* Argentina
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* Denmark
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* Ireland
* Japan
* Pakistan
* Russia
* South Africa
* Soviet Union
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Vietnam

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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

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

### Active

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#### Internationals that emerged from the Fourth International (USFI)

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* Revolutionary Communist International, split from CWI in 1992. Previously named International Marxist Tendency (IMT) (2004–2024), and the Committee for a Marxist International (1992–2004)[1]
* Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) – claims to be refoundation of the defunct Committee for a Workers' International (1974), which was formed by former members of the USFI, after 2019 split.[2]
* International Socialist Tendency (IST), founded by expelled members of the original Fourth International in the 1950s[3]
* International Socialist Alternative, claims to be successor to the defunct Committee for a Workers' International (1974) after 2019 split.[4]
* International Socialist League, founded in 2019
* Internationalist Standpoint (IS), split from International Socialist Alternative in 2022.[5]
* Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International (TF-FI), founded by expelled members of the IWL-FI in 1988[6]
* International Workers League – Fourth International (IWL-FI), founded by former members of the USFI in 1982.[7]
* Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), founded by former members of the IST and L5I.[8]
* International Workers' Unity – Fourth International (IWU-FI), split from IWL-FI in 1997.[9]
* International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction (ILTF), split from the TF-FI in 1998.[10][11]
* Tendency for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International, formed by expelled members of the TF-FI in 2006.[12][13]
* Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR), founded by groups originating from the USFI and IWL-FI[14]
* International Revolutionary Left, split from IMT in 2009 and the CWI in 2019
* League for the Fifth International (L5I), founded by expelled members of the IST.[15]
* 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.[16]
* Pathfinder Tendency, based on USA SWP
* Fourth International Posadist[17]

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

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* International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)[18]
* International Committee of the Fourth International (Workers Revolutionary Party)[19]
* International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) (ICL-FI),[20] previously the international Spartacist tendency which split from the ICFI in 1966.
* International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT)[21] formed by expelled members of the international Spartacist tendency in 1982.
* Bolshevik Tendency, split from IBT in 2018.[22]
* League for the Fourth International (LFI),[23] 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.[24]
* 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.[25]
* International Trotskyist Opposition, split from the ITC, dissolved into CRCI. Re-established itself in 2022[26]
* Liaison Committee for the Fourth International, founded by former members of the ITC.[27][28]

#### Others

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* Internationalist Communist Union (ICU)[29]
* Permanent Revolution Collective[30]

Timeline of Trotskyist political Internationals that emerged from the CWI

### Defunct

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* Liaison Committee for a Revolutionary Workers International, founded by former militants of the Argentinian MAS and PO[31][32]
* Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), 1974–2019 – split into Committee for a Workers' International (Refounded) and International Socialist Alternative
* Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International (CRCI)
* International League for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (ILRFI), 1976–1995[citation needed]
* Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International (WIRFI)[33]
* International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (TMRI), 1965–1992[34]
* Permanent Revolution
* Revolutionary Workers Ferment (Fomento Obrero Revolucionario, FOR)[34]
* Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1979–1984[34][35]
* Tendencia Cuartainternacionalista[36][37][38][39]
* Fourth International (ICR), also called FI (La Verité) or FI (International Secretariat)[40] 1981–2015
* Socialist Network[41] (Post-Trotskyist, split from IMT)
* International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO) 2022–2025 (Dissolved into LIS)

## See also

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* List of Trotskyist organizations by country
* List of left-wing internationals
* List of communist parties
* List of members of the Comintern

## References

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1. ^ "In Defense of Marxism". 12 February 2024.
2. ^ "Refounding the Committee for a Workers' International on the basis of a Trotskyist programme and method". socialistworld.net. Committee for a Workers' International. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
3. ^ "International Socialist Tendency". internationalsocialists.org.
4. ^ INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE EDITORIAL BOARD (8 February 2020). "International Socialist Alternative Launched". International Socialist Alternative. International Socialist Alternative. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
5. ^ "Launching Internationalist Standpoint". internationaliststandpoint.org. 31 January 2022.
6. ^ "Trotskyist Fraction Fourth International". Ft-ci.org. Archived from the original on 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
7. ^ "IWL – FI – International Workers League – Fourth International – IWL – FI". www.litci.org. 14 September 2017.
8. ^ "Sections and Activists of the RCIT". thecommunists.net.
9. ^ "Home". Uit-Ci (in European Spanish). 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
10. ^ "1998 Platform of the Internationalist Bolshevik Tendency (TBI) against a current that liquidates Trotskyism – Our split with the PTS" (PDF). www.flti-ci.org.
11. ^ ".::: FLTI :::". www.flti-ci.org. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
12. ^ "Quienes somos".
13. ^ "Home – TRCI". trci-web.org. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
14. ^ "Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment (CRIR)". Freedom Socialist Party. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
15. ^ "League for the Fifth International – Fighting for a new world party of socialist revolution". www.fifthinternational.org.
16. ^ "Partido Obrero Revolucionario". Partido Obrero Revolucionario (in Spanish). 2025-05-09. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
17. ^ Kelly, John (2018). Contemporary Trotskyism. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317368946.
18. ^ "World Socialist Web Site – Marxist analysis, international working class struggles & the fight for socialism". www.wsws.org.
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20. ^ "International Communist League". www.icl-fi.org.
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23. ^ "Internationalist Group – Reforge the Fourth International!". www.internationalist.org.
24. ^ "OCRFI-Fourth International". Socialist Organizer. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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26. ^ "Rules of the International Trotskyist Opposition – ITO-OTI". Retrieved 2024-12-11.
27. ^ "The Degeneration of the Revolutionary Internationalist League/ITC". Socialist Fight. 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2025-01-18.
28. ^ LCFI Draft Programme, en inglés, consultado el 12/08/2023.
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30. ^ "Permanent Revolution Collective". www.revolucionpermanente.com. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
31. ^ admin (2021-05-03). "Se realizó el V Congreso del PCO" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-12.
32. ^ ntici1938 (2023-07-17). "INTERCAMBIO DE CORRESPONDENCIA CON LA LCT". NTI-CI (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-21.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
33. ^ "wirfi – Workers International to rebuild the 4th International". Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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35. ^ M, Rob (2017-10-11). "The Workers Socialist League". Splits and Fusions. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
36. ^ Revisitas Internacionalismo Publicadas por la TCI, in Spanish, consulted on 4/8/2023.
37. ^ O marxismo depois de Marx e Engels, in portuguese, consulted on 4/8/2023.
38. ^ Boletim do Comitê de Enlace pela Reconstrução da IV Internacional Publicação trimestral do Comitê de Enlace pela Reconstrução da IV Internacional – Versão em Português – Outubro de 2010, in portuguese, consulted on 4/8/2023.
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40. ^ "Fourth International". Archived from the original on 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
41. ^ "The Socialist Network". The Socialist Network. Retrieved 2021-08-21.

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Political internationals

Active|

| Conservative|

* International Democracy Union
* Centrist Democrat International

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Progressive|

* Progressive Alliance
* Progressive International

Socialist|

| Left communist|

* International Communist Current
* International Communist Party

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Marxist–Leninist|

* Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia
* European Communist Action
* International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties

Trotskyist|

* CWI
* CRFI
* FI (USFI)
* ICFI
* ICL-FI
* ICU
* IRL
* ISA
* IST
* IWL-FI
* LFI
* L5I
* RCI
* TF-FI
* WIRFI

Other|

* COPPPAL
* International League of Peoples' Struggle
* International Peoples' Assembly
* International Workers' Association
* São Paulo Forum
* Socialist International
* World Socialist Movement

Other|

* Global Greens (Green)
* Humanist International (Universal Humanist)
* Humanists International (Secular humanist)
* International Alliance of Libertarian Parties (Libertarian)
* International Monarchist League (Monarchist)
* Liberal International (Liberal)
* Muslim Brotherhood (Islamist)
* Pirate Parties International (Pirate)
* World Ecological Parties (Ecologist)
* World Union of National Socialists (Neo-Nazi)

Historical|

* Alliance of Democrats
* Anarchist St. Imier International
* Black International
* Committee for a Workers' International (1974)
* Communist Workers' International
* First International
* Second International
* Third International
* Vienna International
* International Agrarian Bureau
* International Entente of Radical and Similar Democratic Parties
* ILO
* International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
* International Secretariat of Democratic Parties of Christian Inspiration
* Labour and Socialist International
* Krestintern
* Fascist International
* Fourth International
* Situationist International
* Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
* International Communist Seminar
* E2D International
* West Indies Democratic Labour Party
* West Indies Federal Labour Party
* Young Europe

Pan-European political parties

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Leon Trotsky

* Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
* Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union

Works|

* Leon Trotsky bibliography
* Our Political Tasks (1904)
* Our Revolution (1906)
* 1905 (1908)
* The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects (1919)
* Terrorism and Communism (1920)
* Trotsky's Military Writings (1923-1925)
* Problems of Everyday Life (1924-1939)
* Literature and Revolution (1924)
* New Course (1924)
* Lessons of October (1925)
* Towards Socialism or Capitalism? (1925)
* Leon Trotsky on China (1925-1940)
* My Life (1930)
* The Permanent Revolution (1930)
* History of the Russian Revolution (1932)
* The Revolution Betrayed (1937)
* The Stalin School of Falsification (1937)
* Their Morals and Ours: The class foundations of moral practice (1938)
* The Transitional Program (1938)
* Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence (1938–1940)
* Writings of Leon Trotsky
* The Spanish Revolution, 1931-1939 (1931-1939)
* The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (1931-1940)
* In Defence of Marxism (book) (1942)

Life|

* First exile of Trotsky
* Saint Petersburg Soviet
* Russian Revolution of 1905
* 1917 Russian Revolution
* Trade union debate
* Kronstadt rebellion
* Fourth International
* Assassination of Leon Trotsky

Related|

* Anti-Stalinist Left
* Left Opposition
* Bulletin of the Opposition
* American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky
* List of Trotskyist internationals
* Permanent revolution
* Trotskyism
* International Left Opposition

Miscellaneous|

* Trotsky's train
* Lenin's Testament
* The Blue House
* Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky
* Leon Trotsky House Museum
* The Ballad of Trotsky

Family|

* Lev Kamenev (brother-in-law)
* Olga Kameneva (sister)
* Lev Sedov (son)
* Sergei Sedov (son)
* Natalia Sedova (second wife)
* Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (first wife)
* Zinaida Volkova (daughter)

Biographies|

* Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life by Joshua Rubenstein (2011).
* The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher (1954–1963).
* The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879–1921 by Isaac Deutscher (1954).
* The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky, 1921–1929 by Isaac Deutscher (1959).
* The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929–1940 by Isaac Deutscher (1963).
* Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service (2009).

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