The International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency was an international

Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

group based in France led by

Michel Pablo Michel Pablo ( el, Μισέλ Πάμπλο; 24 August 1911, Alexandria, Egypt – 17 February 1996, Athens) was the pseudonym of Michalis N. Raptis ( el, Μιχάλης Ν. Ράπτης), a Trotskyist leader of Greek origin. Early activism ...

, also known as Michael Raptis, the former secretary of the Trotskyist

Fourth International The Fourth International (FI) is a revolutionary socialist international organization consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, also known as Trotskyists, whose declared goal is the overthrowing of global capitalism and the establishment of wor ...

. It resulted as a regroupment of activists expelled from the Fourth International over their opposition to the 1962 re-unification process with the so-called "

International Committee of the Fourth International The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is the name of two Trotskyist internationals; one with sections named Socialist Equality Party which publishes the World Socialist Web Site, and another linked to the Workers Revo ...

"(ICFI) which had split from the Fourth International in 1953 over the question of entrism sui generis, a form of

entryism Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, or infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand the ...

which involved eschewing overt organisation building efforts in favour of long term participation in

social democratic Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...

and

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parties. The re-unification process was rushed while Pablo was imprisoned in the Netherlands for illegal activities in support of the Algerian revolution. Once outside the Fourth International, the remaining supporters of Pablo first regrouped under the name "International Revolutionary Marxisty Tendency of the Fourth International" (Tendance marxiste révolutionnaire internationale de la Quatrième Internationale, TMRIQI), who dropped the reference to the Fourth International and "

Trotskyism 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 ...

" at their first conference in 1972 in favour of a policy of Workers self-management. The IRMT sould later be again renamed to "International Revolutionary Marxist Association" (Association Marxiste Révolutionnaire Internationale, AMRI). Most of the national sections rejoined the Reunited Fourth International (USFI) in the early 1990s. According to Livio Maitan, Pablo himself did not rejoin the United Secretariat over "the situation of the revolutionary movement in Greece and important differences of opinion on the approach one should take to the war in former Yugoslavia", while others (N. Loudikis, Al Richardson etc.) claim that the non-admission of Pablo was a condition for the readmission of the Organizations into the USFI. As well as number of English-language publications in the 1960s and 1970, the British section,

Socialist Alternatives Socialist Alternatives was the British section of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT), a formerly Trotskyist Pabloite group based in Paris. Being a small group in the UK, it was best known for the Marxist magazine of the same n ...

, was behind the magazine ''

'' edited by

Keir Starmer Sir Keir Rodney Starmer (; born 2 September 1962) is a British politician and barrister who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras ...

from 1986 to 1989."Keir Starmer: Radical who attacked Kinnock in Marxist journal,"
''The Times'', 18/1/20.

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