The International Socialist Left (german: internationale sozialistische linke, ''isl'') was a

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group in

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. The ''isl'' was an organizational descendant of the

International Marxist Group :''See also the International Marxist Group (Germany). The International Marxist Group (IMG) was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It had around 1,000 members and supporte ...

(GIM). It was one of two factions that form the German section of the

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was affiliated with the Association for Solidarity Perspectives (VsP). Along with co-producing the VsP's newspaper ''Sozialistische Zeitung'', the ''isl'' worked with the Revolutionary Socialist League (the other part of the German section) and groups in Austria and Switzerland to produce ''Inprekorr'', the German-language magazine of the Fourth International. In December 2016, the ISL and the RSB announced that they had merged to form the new International Socialist Organisation.

References

External links

''isl'' website

''Sozialistische Zeitung'' website

''Inprekorr'' website

ISO website
Defunct organisations based in Germany Fourth International (post-reunification) Trotskyist organisations in Germany {{Germany-party-stub