Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International

International alliance of Trotskyist political organizations

Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International

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Abbreviation| FT
FT-CI
FT-QI
TF-FI
Formation| 25 April 2004; 20 years ago (2004-04-25)
Type| INGO

Region served

| Worldwide

Membership

| 14 sections[1]

Official language

| Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, Catalan
Website| Trotskyist Fraction

Formerly called

| Internationalist Bolshevik Faction (1988-1993)
Internationalist Faction of the IWL (later simply Internationalist Fraction) (1993-1998)
Trotskyist Fraction - International Strategy (1998-2004)
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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

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

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The Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International is a political international of Trotskyist political organizations that claim to adhere to the political legacy of the Fourth International. It was founded in 1989 by former members of the International Workers League (IWL-FI) who were expelled from the IWL-FI in 1988. It regarded itself initially as an "external fraction" who had been wrongly expelled.

Its militants in Argentina founded the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) in 1988, which from 1988 to 1990, had three splits: first when a number of militants returned to the Argentinian Movement for Socialism (MAS) party, then when another group of militants sympathized with the British Workers Revolutionary Party (Worker Press) and the third when supporters of León Pérez (former member of the International Secretariat of the IWL-FI) decided to follow a mass party perspective (as opposed to a vanguard party).

These splits forced the PTS to make a balance and self-criticism. This resulted in a further development. The PTS questioned the "update" of the Transitional Program that Nahuel Moreno, the leader of the IWL-FI, had made (his so-called theory of "Democratic Revolution").[2] The PTS regarded Moreno's update as an "anti-Trotskyist revision" of Leon Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution.[3] This led to a break with Moreno's and IWL-FI's political tradition and ideology (termed Morenoism).[4]

In 1998 it emerged as the Trotskyist Fraction - International Strategy, founded by the PTS of Argentina, the LTS of Mexico, the LOR of Bolivia[5] and with the endorsements of the Estratégia Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Strategy) group of Brazil and the Clase contra Clase (Class against Class) group of Chile as well as some militant sympathizers in Europe. In 2004, in its second international conference, the TF decided to change the name "International Strategy" to "Fourth International".[6] Following the economic crisis and demonstrations in several countries, the TF-FI has grown in Latin America and Europe and now promotes the formation of a new grouping: An International Movement for a Socialist Revolution - Fourth International,[7] which had its manifesto updated in 2017[8] and 2018[9] due to new developments in the international arena.

## National sections

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Full sections[1][10][11] | Websites

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Argentina  | Socialist Workers' Party
(Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas) (PTS)  | https://pts.org.ar/
https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/
Bolivia  | Revolutionary Workers League for the Fourth International
(Liga Obrera Revolucionaria por la Cuarta Internacional) (LOR-CI)  | https://www.laizquierdadiario.com.bo/Bolivia
Brazil  | Revolutionary Workers' Movement
(Movimento Revolucionário de Trabalhadores) (MRT)  | https://www.esquerdadiario.com.br/
Chile  | Revolutionary Workers Party
(Partido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios) (PTR)  | https://www.laizquierdadiario.cl/Chile
France  | Permanent Revolution
(Révolution Permanente) (RP)  | https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/
Germany  | Revolutionary Internationalist Organisation
(Revolutionäre Internationalistische Organisation) (RIO)  | https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
Mexico  | Socialist Workers' Movement
(Movimiento de los Trabajadores Socialistas) (MTS)  | https://www.laizquierdadiario.mx/Mexico
Spain  | Workers' Revolutionary Current
(Corriente Revolucionaria de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras) (CRT)  | https://crtweb.org/
https://www.izquierdadiario.es/ES
https://www.esquerradiari.cat/
Uruguay  | Current of Workers for Socialism
(Corriente de Trabajadores por el Socialismo) (CTS)  | https://www.laizquierdadiario.com.uy/Uruguay
USA  | Left Voice (LV)  | https://www.leftvoice.org/
Venezuela  | League of Workers for Socialism
(Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo) (LTS)  | https://www.laizquierdadiario.com.ve/Venezuela
Costa Rica  | Socialist Organization
(Organización Socialista) (OS)  | https://www.laizquierdadiario.cr/CR
Italy  | Revolutionary Internationalist Fraction
(Frazione Internazionalista Rivoluzionaria) (FIR)  | https://www.lavocedellelotte.it/
Peru  | Workers' Socialist Current
(Corriente Socialista de las y los Trabajadores) (CST)  | https://www.laizquierdadiario.pe/Peru
Sympathiser sections[1][11] | Websites
South Korea  | March to Socialism  | https://socialism.jinbo.net/

Former sections:

* France Groupe Communiste Revolutionaire Internationaliste (Revolutionary Internationalist Communist Group) (CRI) - They were admitted in 2008 as sympathiser section,[12] but after the creation of the New Anticapitalist Party they decided to dissolve within the CLAIRE Tendency (acronym for "Tendency for Communism and self-organized, internationalist and revolutionary struggle").[13][14]
* Costa Rica Socialist Revolution League (Liga de la Revolución Socialista) (LRS) - Admitted in 2008 as full section,[12] but they dissolved in 2014.

## See also

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* List of Trotskyist internationals

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Sobre la XII Conferencia de la Fracción Trotskista por la Cuarta Internacional (FT-CI)". laizquierdadiario.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-11-11.
2. ^ Moreno, Nahuel (1980). "The Transitional Program Now, Nahuel Moreno". Marxists Internet Archive.
3. ^ Romano, Manolo. "Polemic with the LIT and the theorical legacy of Nahuel Moreno". www.ft-ci.org. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
4. ^ Manolo Romano. "Polémica con la LIT y el Legado Teórico de Nahuel Moreno" [Controversy with the LIT and the Theoretical Legacy of Nahuel Moreno]. ft.org.ar. Retrieved 31 Dec 2013.
5. ^ "Tesis de la LOR-CI sobre Bolivia. Página 1" (in Spanish). 2009-10-24. Archived from the original on 2009-10-24. Retrieved 2018-07-12. "Reivindicamos y hacemos nuestro por ello el "Manifiesto Programático" de la FT de febrero de 1998 y las principales elaboraciones planteadas en la revista Estrategia Internacional (especialmente desde marzo de 1998 hasta la fecha) sobre la crisis capitalista internacional y el programa necesario para responder a la misma, la situación de los ex estados obreros deformados y degenerados, las potencialidades y límites de la lucha campesina, la reivindicación de la centralidad revolucionaria del proletariado, así como una posición e intervención común ante la guerra de los Balcanes."
6. ^ "Se realizó la Segunda Conferencia de la FT". www.ft.org.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-12. "En este sentido, y dado los avances de los distintos grupos de la FT expresados más arriba, en la conferencia discutimos 'cambiarnos el nombre, llamarnos Fracción Trotskista-Cuarta Internacional (FT-CI) para indicar la relación que hay entre nuestro carácter de tendencia actual y nuestro objetivo de trabajar día a día... hacia la reconstrucción de la Cuarta Internacional'"
7. ^ "Por un Movimiento por una Internacional de la Revolución Socialista -Cuarta Internacional-" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-12.
8. ^ "Let's Build an International Revolutionary Movement". Left Voice. Trotskyist Fraction. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
9. ^ "The Battles of the Trotskyist Fraction". Left Voice. Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
10. ^ "Organizaciones de la FT". ft-ci.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-12.
11. ^ a b "Apoyemos la rebelión del pueblo catalán y su derecho de autodeterminación". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-12.
12. ^ a b "Gran acto de cierre de la V Conferencia Internacionalista" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-17. "A su vez, se anunció la incorporación de la LRS de Costa Rica como sección plena de la FT en ese país centroamericano, y del Grupo CRI como sección simpatizante de la FT-CI en Francia."
13. ^ "Groupe CRI | Lettre publique du Groupe CRI à la LCR concernant son projet de thèses politiques pour le nouveau parti anticapitaliste". groupecri.free.fr. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
14. ^ Francia, FT-CI. "Carta desde Francia". www.ft-ci.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-12. "Ustedes informan especialmente sobre los análisis y el combate llevado adelante por los firmantes del proyecto de Tendencia que defiende el Comunismo, la Revolución y la Autoorganización (convertida el 14 de febrero en Tendance CLAIRE del NPA – Por el Comunismo, la Lucha Autoorganizada, Internacionalista y Revolucionaria). Ustedes mencionan correctamente que el Groupe CRI ha sido quien propuso este proyecto de Tendencia. Pero ustedes omiten aclarar que el Groupe CRI es, en Francia, la sección simpatizante de la FTCI (de la que el PTS es la sección argentina)."

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