Revolutionary Communist International

Trotskyist political international

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Revolutionary Communist International

Abbreviation| RCI
Leader| Alan Woods
Founder| Ted Grant (of CMI/IMT)
Founded| 1992 (as Committee for a Marxist International), 2024 (as Revolutionary Communist International)
Split from| Committee for a Workers' International
Ideology|

* Marxism
* Leninism
* Trotskyism

Political position| Far-left
Colors|  Red
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
* Decentralized economic planning
* Entryism
* Leninism
* Permanent revolution
* Political revolution
* Proletarian internationalism
* Social revolution
* Soviet democracy
* State capitalism
* Substitutionism
* Transitional demand
* Uneven and combined development
* Union democracy
* United front
* Vanguard party
* World communism
* World revolution

Branches

* Orthodox Trotskyism
* Third camp
* Posadism
* Pabloism

People

* Leon Trotsky
* Martin Abern
* Tariq Ali
* Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
* Daniel Bensaïd
* Hugo Blanco
* Alex Callinicos
* James P. Cannon
* Isaac Deutscher
* Ross Dowson
* Hal Draper
* Chen Duxiu
* Tony Cliff
* Pierre Frank
* Ted Grant
* Duncan Hallas
* Joseph Hansen
* Gerry Healy
* C. L. R. James
* Lal Khan
* 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)
* New Course (1924)
* Lessons of October (1924)
* History of the Russian Revolution (1930)
* The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
* Transitional Program (1938)
* 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
* Trotskyism in Vietnam
* 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 (U.S.)
* Socialist Party (England and Wales)
* Socialist Workers Party (UK)
* 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

* * *

Historical

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

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The Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) is a Trotskyist political international. It was founded as the Committee for a Marxist International by British-based South African political theorist Ted Grant and his supporters after they broke with the Committee for a Workers' International in 1992, and was subsequently renamed the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) in 2004 before adopting its current name in June 2024. 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.

## History

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See also: 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.[1][2][3] 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.[4]

Flag of the International Marxist Tendency

At its World Congress in 2004, the organisation was renamed the International Marxist Tendency (IMT).[5]

Logo of the International Marxist Tendency

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).[6][7] Minorities in Venezuela and Spain chose to remain with the IMT and set up new sections.[8] The new IMT Venezuelan section launched their newspaper, Lucha de Clases, in April 2010.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11]

As part of a wider reorganisation of its sections, the International Marxist Tendency renamed itself the Revolutionary Communist International in June 2024. The British, Swiss, Canadian, Swedish and U.S. Sections of the international all relaunched themselves as the revolutionary communist parties of their respective countries with multiple other sections planning to do the same. The launching of these parties coincidences with many organizational and strategical changes, notably including a break with entryism on their part.[12][13][14]

In 2024, two former members of the Swedish section of the international, Revolutionära kommunistiska partiet (RKP), made various allegations in the newspaper ETC, including that they had been sexually abused by a member of the party's executive committee. The former members also accused the party of encouraging them to "give away their savings, distance themselves from their families, drop out of education and engage in sexual relationships with older party comrades."[15] A Malmö-based publication, Magasinet Konkret, while critical of the RKP, noted that the alleged abuser was asked to resign, while the party denied the other claims. Magasinet Konkret also disagreed with some of the characterisations made in the ETC report, such as the RKP having internal disciplinary processes being unusual for a political organisation, as well as noting the lack of substantiation of some of the more serious allegations.[16]

## Active sections

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IMT members in Montreal, 2012

The RCI website maintains a list of claimed national sections.[17] The table below contains those, as of August 2024, that are active:

Country  | Name

|

Argentina | Revolución
Austria | Der Funke
Belgium | Vonk [nl] (Flemish)
Révolution (French)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
North Macedonia
Serbia
Slovenia | Liga Revolucionarnih Komunista
Лига револуционарних комуниста
Brazil | Organização Comunista Internacionalista
Canada

* Quebec

| Revolutionary Communist Party

* Parti communiste révolutionnaire

Colombia | Colombia Marxista
Czech Republic
Slovakia | Komunistická Avantgarda
Denmark | Revolutionært Kommunistisk Parti
El Salvador | Revolución Comunista
Finland | Vallankumous
France | Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire
Germany | Revolutionäre Kommunistische Partei
Greece | Epanastasi (Communist Tendency)
Ireland (incl. Northern Ireland)  | Revolutionary Communists of Ireland
Italy | Partito Comunista Rivoluzionario
Mexico | Organización Comunista Revolucionaria
Netherlands | Revolutie
Nigeria | Marxist Alternative
Pakistan | Lal Salam
Poland | Czerwony Front
Portugal | Coletivo Comunista Revolucionário
South Africa | Revolution
Spain

* Catalonia

| Organización Comunista Revolucionaria

* Organització Comunista Revolucionària

Sweden | Revolutionära Kommunistiska Partiet
Switzerland | Revolutionäre Kommunistische Partei (German)
Parti communiste révolutionnaire (French)
Taiwan | The Spark (火花)
Ukraine | Комуна
United Kingdom (excl. Northern Ireland)  | Revolutionary Communist Party
United States | Revolutionary Communists of America
Venezuela | Lucha de Clases

## References

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1. ^ "Who, What, Why: What was Militant?". BBC News. 28 May 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. ^ Wintour, Patrick (16 July 2014). "Labour Picks Fight With Militant Tendency". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
3. ^ "Kinnock Moves Against Militant". BBC News. 27 November 1985. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
4. ^ Wade, Bob (27 July 2006). "Obituary: Ted Grant". The Guardian.
5. ^ "Conference of the international Marxist tendency: An historic meeting". In Defence of Marxism. 10 September 2004. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
6. ^ "Oil-slick divisions". Weekly Worker. No. 804\. CPGB PCC. 11 February 2010. Archived from the original on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
7. ^ "Revolutionary Marxist Current". Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
8. ^ "Corriente Marxista Internacional – Venezuela". Lucha de Clases. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
9. ^ "New Venezuelan IMT website and paper launched". In Defence of Marxism. 12 April 2010.
10. ^ "Towards A New International Tendency". Tanit.co. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
11. ^ "Committee for Marxist Revival". Marxist Revival. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
12. ^ Switzerland, RKP/PCR-IMT in (29 May 2024). "Switzerland: founding congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party – communism is back!". In Defence of Marxism. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
13. ^ board, The Communist editorial (15 May 2024). "Britain: the launch of the Revolutionary Communist Party – a historic step". In Defence of Marxism. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
14. ^ Party (Sweden), Revolutionary Communist (1 May 2024). "Sweden: the Revolutionary Communist Party has arrived!". In Defence of Marxism. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
15. ^ "Kommunistparti med egen domstol mörkar sexuella övergrepp: "Genuint farlig grupp"". Dagens ETC (in Swedish). 26 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
16. ^ Bergmark, Stefan (11 August 2024). "Vänstercirkusen: Låt högern behålla sin kommunistskräck". Magasinet Konkret. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
17. ^ Marxism, In Defence of (6 January 2005). "National sections of the RCI". In Defence of Marxism. Retrieved 18 August 2024.

## External links

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Media related to International Marxist Tendency at Wikimedia Commons

* Official website
* U.S. Website Archived 1 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine
* Publishing (UK)
* Publishing (US)

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Political internationals

Active|

| Conservative|

* Centrist Democrat International
* International Democracy Union

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Progressive|

* Progressive Alliance

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 Communist League
* International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations
* International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations
* International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties

Trotskyist|

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

Other|

* Atheist Alliance International
* COPPPAL
* International League of Peoples' Struggle
* International People's Assembly
* International Workers' Association
* Progressive International
* São Paulo Forum
* Socialist International
* Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
* World Anti-Imperialist Platform
* World Socialist Movement

Other|

* Global Greens
* Humanist International
* Humanists International
* International Alliance of Libertarian Parties
* International Monarchist League
* Liberal International
* Muslim Brotherhood
* Pirate Parties International
* World Ecological Parties
* World Union of National Socialists

Historical|

* Alliance of Democrats
* Anarchist St. Imier International
* Black International
* Communist Correspondence Committee
* Communist League
* Communist Workers' International
* Committee for a Workers' International (1974)
* E2D International
* Fascist International
* First International
* Fourth International
* International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam
* International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
* International Working People's Association
* Second International
* Third International
* International Agrarian Bureau
* International Communist Seminar
* ICMPLO (Maoist)
* International Entente of Radical and Similar Democratic Parties
* International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
* Krestintern
* Labour and Socialist International
* Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
* Situationist International
* Vienna International
* West Indies Democratic Labour Party
* West Indies Federal Labour Party
* Young Europe

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