The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) is an international association of

Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...

political parties. The organisation considers itself a continuation of the

Committee for a Workers' International The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) was an international association of Trotskyist political parties. Today, two groups claim to be the continuation of the CWI. History Founding The origins of the CWI can be traced to a group of ...

that was founded in 1974.

History

In 2018 and 2019, a dispute developed in around the questions of socialism and identity politics, the role of the trade unions and the working-class movement, and under what programme and how should Marxists organise internationally and domestically, which ultimately led to multifaceted split. The dispute divided the leading bodies of the CWI with International Secretariat and International Executive Committee taking conflicting positions. One group founded the “In Defence of a Working Class and Trotskyist CWI” (IDWCTCWI)

faction Faction or factionalism may refer to: Politics * Political faction, a group of people with a common political purpose * Free and Independent Faction, a Romanian political party * Faction (''Planescape''), a political faction in the game ''Planes ...

in November 2018 in support of the CWI's International Secretariat. A Special Conference of the

Socialist Party (England and Wales) The Socialist Party ( cy, Plaid Sosialaidd Cymru in Wales) is a Trotskyism, Trotskyist political party in England and Wales. Founded in 1997, it had formerly been Militant tendency, Militant, an Entryism, entryist group in the Labour Party (UK), ...

voted by a margin of 173 to 35 to support the faction and sponsor the international faction conference. This conference was held in July 2019, open only to CWI members who supported the faction, and asserted that they had refounded the CWI. A second group, in support of the majority of the CWI's International Executive Committee, declared itself the CWI Majority in August 2019 and renamed their organisation

International Socialist Alternative International Socialist Alternative is an international association of Trotskyist political parties. The group was founded in 1974 as the Committee for a Workers' International, by supporters of Militant from 12 countries. In August 2019, a f ...

on 1 February 2020. It asserted that the IDWCTCWI had split from the CWI. The CWI has published what it considers to be the main documents which were produced during the debate. The ISA have produced its own analysis which accuses the CWI leadership of being ossified, and embarking on a bureaucratic rampage

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